ARRL 10 Soapbox built 1-15-2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4U1WB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 532 Participated in the contest from the World Bank Amateur Radio Club in DC. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Masa, AJ3M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7J1AQH Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,140 A lot of work for few QSOs! Over the weekend, amazingly, never heard a single station from: VE, W/K, KH6, B, HL, R, anything in SE Asia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5MT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 13,224 FT950 7el QUAD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4FU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 12,096 First contest with a beam instead of my vertical. It seemed to help quite a bit as I didn't feel like I had the weakest signal on the band. It was nice not to have to repeat my call three or four times. I heard one French station on Saturday, but he faded fast and I didn't work anyone outside North and South America. The next step is to get the beam up higher than 25 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,888 Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 Ameritron AL-80A running about 600 watts Antennas: Cushcraft A3S tribander at 15m Comments: Just a token effort jumping in and out on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Conditions were horrible. 17 of my 35 contacts were with stations in Georgia! I never even heard and South American stations. Tried calling CQ on both CW and SSB, and managed a few local contacts Definitely a bit of meteor scatter Friday night and early Saturday. You'd hear about 2 seconds of signal and then it would be gone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4NC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4 Worked the only station I heard! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5VU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,080 51 CW QSO's x 4 = 204 QSO Points x 20 States = 4,080 Total Score ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 97,416 Conditions were absolutely horrible Friday night, and chasing one second echoes off cosmic vapor trails was about all there was available. Saturday was just as bad (except no meteor scatter), but the band perked up nicely on Sunday. It was kind of fun working the country in localized batches as the propagation moved around. 600 watts to Optibeam OB16-3 (8 elements on 10m) at 73 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0DS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 23,548 Very slow day Saturday, so used time for puttering around the shack and house. Enough activity today to keep things interesting for a few hours. Spradic E openings to the midwest, northwest and Texas areas. Only DX was XE, PY, CX and LU. Equipment was a single K3, a BuddiPole-based Delta Loop at 15 ft and a 5/8 WL vertical. 73 & see you in the Stew ... Craig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0W Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 43,456 ugh!, about sums it up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6VN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 12,800 Big improvement over last year so we must have passed the solar minimum. However, we still have a long way to go before 10M becomes popular again 73 de Harm, AC6VN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 13,320 Radio: ICOM 756 Pro III (100W) Antenna: half-G5RV in attic Software: DX4WIN 7.0x Hardware: microHAM microKEYER (CW) I hadn't planned to operate at all (hence, used DX4WIN for logging instead of WriteLog), but Sunday morning I got curious and headed to the shack about 1545z. First I worked a few loud CO stations, then MN, WI, AB, and BC. I heard a couple of IL but could not make a contact. I started calling CQ and a big string of WA stations came back. Tried to see what was happening on phone (not as busy as CW), so went back to CW, then stations from CA and OR started calling in. Found a few in TN, AL and GA, then lots more CA stations (did I say LOTS?). Also worked several NV stations. Came back to shack during New England Patriots half-time and worked into TX, OK, AR, LA and NM. I'd say at least half of my log is CA stations. Apologies to KI0J. I either called him or was CQing. When I tried to send his report, the transceiver shut down. I had this problem last week working PSK-31, I thought it was RF, so moved the power supply line away from the coax. In the process, I noticed the fuse holders were rather warm to the touch. I tried reseating the fuses, but a couple more cycles, and one of the fuses just died (only when it got warm enough). The SS-30 power supply says I'm drawing 20 amps, and the fuses are rated for 20 amps. Hmmmmm. I have to look into this. After I replaced the blown fuse, no more problems. KI0J and I did eventually connect about 10 minutes later. It was fun, and I got to practice my VHF techniques of short CQs and short calls. Also picked up at least a dozen new counties on 10 meters. I found it easier to work station on 10m with my attic antenna that weren't 59(9)+. I had fairly good runs when CQing, so people were obviously hearing me OK. 73 - Jim AD1C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 21,080 Considering no beam and only a vertical with 100W to work with, I am happy with the outcome. Perhaps next year we will have a beam to work with. Family obligations kept me from working the contest as much as I would have liked to as well as the band closeing for a while on SAT. But family comes first, so there you go :0) Sunday was the best day of all from here. I was really pleasantly surprised to get IA and the DX stations I got. Thanks to all for all the great contacts and the patience with the QSB, good to work 10 meters again. Bob AD5VJ http://www.ad5vj.com/ dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6RF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 88 Turned on 10m everytime I sat down in the shack. Worked everybody I heard. Sunspots, PLEASE! 73 de Donald ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE8M Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 4,464 K3 AT 5 watts. The desired antenna was a rotating trapped dipole at 50 feet, but this antenna had a bad 10M trap (discovered Friday afternoon). So I alternated between the bad dipole and a 45 foot top-loaded vertical normally used on 160M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CV5K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 222,640 Team of RGSur Operated cw only on saturday. Thank's for contacts best wishes see on CV5A Isla de Flores DX-pedition IOTA SA-030 22-26 Jan-09 QSL VIA CX2ABC Dan CX9AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CW5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 418,320 Thanks to all for each QSO, really was hard. And special thanks to my wife Carolina for her incredible patience and support!. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009!!! 73, Jorge CX6VM by CW5W Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 540 Did not expect to work much with my inv L for 80 meters. Sure enough no sigs were moving the S-meter except 1 or 2 EAs. And then suddenly CW5W comes up out of the noise for maybe 5 minutes and is wkd on the first call - amazing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EC1KR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 17,608 A nice contest, low signals and litle esporadics, big part of my contacts with EU, litle AF and SA. Waiting best conditions to work a ARRL 10m SSB with many NA stations. See you in the next Contest. Your friend Jesus EC1KR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F/TU5KG Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 6,136 Just for fun. I have to participate only in the contest on Saturdays. TNX for you participation !! See you on next year. RIG: ICOM: 7800 ACOM: 2000A STEPPIR 4 ELE at +- 90ft. F/TU5KG GILDAS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 27,824 Powered by Win-Test 3.23.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in kenwod TS-940S + SB220 6 ele monob beam (dxbeam.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5RD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 12 Not at home Saturday and just 3 weak stations Sunday morning. 2008 is not a good year for 10 m. Too bad !! Thanks to all who worked me. See you again in 2009 with better propagation F5RD Bernard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3CCP Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 1,128 TX ALL STATION CONTACT TO HI3CCP......GOOD PROPAGATION ...... MERY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 SEE YOU NEXT YEAR.... CONSTANTINO CARLO PICHARDO (TINO)..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HP1WW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 17,292 Right now heading to: Enchantment Of The Seas Día 1 Colon, Panama 7:30 PM - 14 de diciembre de 2008 Día 2 Cartagena, Colombia 11:00 AM 10:00 PM En puerto Día 3 Santa Marta, Colombia 8:00 AM 5:00 PM Auxiliar Día 4 Oranjestad, Aruba 11:00 AM 10:00 PM En puerto Día 5 Willemstad, Curacao 7:00 AM 6:00 PM En puerto Día 6 Kralendijk, Bonaire 7:00 AM 3:30 PM En puerto Día 7 Navegando Día 8 Colon, Panama 6:00 AM - 21 de diciembre de 2008 73, Olli HP1WW/MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ4DPV Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 2,880 .....very very poor conditions. cu the next contest 73 iz4dpv max ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JH3PRR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 784 Just a parttime casual participation. I heard South American stations and called but could not work. I hope the condition on 10m will surge by the next event! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0CL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 90,316 rig FT1000MP, Alpha 91B, 6 el KLM @50 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0GAS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 72,468 SORRY THIS IS LATE - I FORGOT WAS DELIGHTED TO HAVE THE BAND OPEN UP ON SUNDAY AFTER THE DRAG ON SAT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HW Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 5,724 WOW, QRP is tough again, I though I might end with just 2 dozen contacts after I only had 12 as of Sunday morning. It was goo that we had good propagation on Sunday. I appreciate all the good ears that were able to pull my QRP signal out of the mud. It was nice to finally get New Mexico at the end of the contest. I had wanted to exceed 2,000 points and it looks like it worked out this time, I came up way short last year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 54,516 Was in and out of the shack when I was home this weekend. Friday was ruff as the band was not really open. The signals would pop out of the noise and then fade back out before an exchange could be recieved. Then during the days the band was open only to specific locations. I believe I worked all Florida Saturday. On Sunday I followed the band from the east coast to Florida, to TX, then AZ and NM, ending up with short skip to CO. Made for some fun on a "dead" band. TNX for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 10,300 In five years we will all look back on this and smile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 19,964 Very few workable signals up here until late Sunday morning. Then had a good run for about an hour and by mid-afternoon signals were back to sporadic bursts. Then a little run to NM, TX & OK in the last half hour and that was it. Managed to catch a bit of DX (CX,KP4,LU,PY) but it wasn't easy. The TH3MK4 x 2 stack aimed SE was clearly the best antenna here. Looking forward to the Stew Perry. QRP on 160 will be far less painful! Thanks for the Q's! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 17,920 Fun on 10mtrs...PTL bill UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 14,960 Pipeline to Florida helped with the QSO count. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 129,360 Fun! 73 Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LOG Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,468 just 2-3 hours of operating time, but Sunday morning was good propagation from my home in Maine. Could hear stations from Uruguay and Brazil very loudly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 6,696 One antenna: 66-foot end-fed wire 15 feet above ground. Ten-Tec Jupiter, 75 watts output. 23 states plus LU, CX, P4, J3. No W1, no New York. Many Florida. Jim Cain Near Atlantic City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 390,784 Our Florida Contest Group 10M Test motto is "Be the Band". Apparently that worked, judging from the comments so far! Very happy to have no noise problems and no storms. Started ominously as the first 21 Qs were FL and the first non-FL was not until 0037Z. Had just over 500 QSOs the first day and figured that even reaching last year's total of 900 was futile. Then came 3+ hours of good E-skip and more on Sunday. Peak 60-minute rate was just 99. Finished with a flurry. Was beaming south, hoping for even one QSO from SA when K6NR called in from CA! Quickly, the beam spun around to the west and the last 10 mins was a blur of CA/AZ. Had worked just 2 CA up until then. Never heard activity above about 28.055, but the activity level was still very good. Quite a few unfinished QSOs, thanks to the often rapid QSB and weak signals. Found the upper antenna and "spray" stack to both be vastly inferior all weekend to the stalwart 6L at 50' (converted CB beam). Completely missed the Pacific NW (WA/OR/ID/MT/UT). Did hear VY2SS CQing and CO8TW S&P on Saturday and I heard PY0FF being worked on Sunday, but all other mults heard were worked. Lots of activity from normally rare ones like VT, RI, DC and DE. Only one QSO with CO and a handful from MN. One lone EU - thanks to F5IN for calling in. No AF. 2 VKs and 2 ZLs near the end. Neatest was a 001 from a TG9. Have to laugh at the automatic doubled transmissions. MAMA and PAPA are popular states. OHOH conjures up images. ;<) Since I missed the Northwest, I'm crying - WAhWAh. Fun to have Lefty, K1TOL venture down from 6M and call in for our first QSO ever. Sorry to read about, and see pictures of, the ice damage in northern W1. Thanks for all the QSOs and Happy Holidays to everyone! vy 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 218,304 Caught a brief European opening Saturday morning for 32 QSOs and 10 countries. Feel bad for the guys north of here who got clobbered by ice. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DBK Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 2,436 I just had a few hours to play around on Sunday afternoon. Aside from a pipeline between NJ and Florida, there was very little else that wasn't local scatter. I did work one station in California, but no DX at all, not even VE. A sunspot or two probably would have helped! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 10,100 Just turned on to see if I can hear ANYTHING at this noisy location woth no antennas.. surprising lots of activity! Never heard anything farther west than MN, but VE1s were loud for an hour; nothing from from NH-VT-RI-ME buried under the weight of the ice storm. 30 % of all contacts were from FL - boring! Wish I had more time and a decent antenna.. Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 194,304 Always love this contest! As Forrest Gump says, "It's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Friday was the usual locals and a few of the bigger stations to the tune of 123 Qs over five hours. Saturday started about 7A local time, and the activity expanded out to a few more states, and by 1030A local had 210 Qs with 30CW and 18 SSB mults. At that time the Central and South Americans started to be heard and worked. Swung the beam around a few times to the east to see if any EUs popped through, but nothing heard. Knocked off for dinner out with the XYL and friends at 6P and hoped I wouldn't miss some huge opening. Back by 930p and the band is wide open to FL (narrowly open)? I knocked off by 1030p with 376 and 43+27 mults. As is typical in this contest, Sunday wasn't like the day before. The 1030A change this time was to the midwest, and NE, MO, OK, KS, and even AB7E in AZ started barreling through. But the real fun started when I switched over to SSB and started to run 'em. Had the rate meter up close to 300 for a short time, and it was a blast! After the FL opening the night before, I had thought I'd milked the state pretty well, but was I ever wrong! Ultimately, I put 199 pipelined FL stations into the log (compared with 88 NJ). Many were clearly retirees with New Yawk and New Joisey accents, who would have been much tougher to work in their original QTHs. Had the beam pointed west for the smattering of midwesterners that called in, and the FL stations were so loud it didn't matter that they were off to the side. Turned out to be a good strategy when W6YX called in from CA. Ended up with nearly double last year's score, and soooo looking forward to sunspots and EUs. A memorable moment: I'm tuning around and find a guy running some stations, but not identifying. So I threw in a "What's your call?" The response was, "QRZ the guy who said, 'What's your call?'" I had to laugh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 18,560 What strange conditions. Worked only 3 EU stns and all were French stns. About 10% of all my QSOs were with VE1s. I didn't know there were that many VE1s on during a contest. On Sunday, I worked more VT stns than I knew existed. And, only one QSO out west - called by VE7CC but never heard a 6 or 6 other than him. Interesting contest but it would be nice if the band opened a bit more than this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TTT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 41,984 Seems the weekends are to short with to much to do. But had some fun whan I could get on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ZC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 5,248 ic-746pro running 100w to G5RV up 30 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3IVO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 92,550 More activity than anticipated. What a pipeline into FL from Md. Good to see the band get utilized with plenty of activity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 101,616 Was like playing in a vhf contest. It was another weekend of radio contesting and golf. Got 18 in with my son on Sunday. Life is good. 73, Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 6,534 Inverted L 30'H x 75'L IC-756ProII N1MM Part time low power M/S with Dave, W3TD who was visiting from PA. Nice to finally get some E-skip on Saturday and Sunday. 73, Tad, K3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3VOA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 73,128 Nice to be able to put the VOA club station on for the contest. We're slowly rebuilding/upgrading the station. This summer we purchased a K3. A bunch of junk was hauled from the shack and new carpet was installed on July 4th. Afterwards we watched fireworks in the nation's capital from the roof, 2 blocks from the Capital! I'm hoping this spring we can replace a very beat up tribander and flaky rotator. We don't get any agency funds so everything is dependant upon member dues & donations. We have about 15 members. I thought about getting some of our new members to join me but the idea of them sitting here, spinning the VFO on a dead band, was enough to decide to wait until another time. Ken K4ZW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 159,732 Short bursts of operating, sometimes had to leave when things were going OK. 2 EURO, ZS, some SA, nothing west of SD. Packet, skimmer, just to be sure there were folks out there much of the time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4AB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 10,730 Yuck! If you did this contest full-time,you're a better man than I! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 155,196 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 600W, TH6DXX. Saturday was miserable with no QSOs west of TX and very little DX. Sunday was much better with QSOs to the west coast (but not the far north west) and more DX in Caribbean, South America, and Central America. Score a bit better than last year. Hope for sunspots and much better conditions next time. Thanks for all QSOs. Happy holidays to all. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CIA Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 31,868 A single sunspot would have helped..and two even better. Tough sledding for QRP and my thanks to those who stuck with me during the QSB episodes. Never heard a single 7-land station; some SA, CA and Caribbean DX...one Eu, but did not work him. Rig: K3 or TS-480 Ant: TH-11 at 105' 73 Bill, K4CIA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 337,920 I have been active in this contest since the very first one, through cycle troughs and peaks, from DX (KH6 & ZP) and both coasts; yet I am always amazed at how this band can surprise you. Never bored (what never! well, hardly every), always fun! Scatter was excellent both evenings and mornings. Saturday morning I heard ZS6JCY. He had a lot of trouble getting my call right and after he finally got it, he faded into oblivion and I never got my number. Argh! Looks like the northeast guys got an E's opening into Europe, not a peep here. Mostly scatter and some weak E's during the day. Very little from the Caribbean and South America and except for HI3CCP all the signals were weak. I had to take three hours off to go to a client's XMAS party (they always schedule it the same weekend as this contest). When I got back, the band seemed quite dead, but a few CQ's, and it was non-stop until 0630z when I quit to get some Z's. VE7CC was one of the last contacts before shutting down and was my only BC contact. Sunday started out with good scatter and soon there was a strong E's opening to Florida followed by single hop openings in all directions. During a run to the northeast which included strong signals from the VE1's, I was pleasantly surprised by a call from CT3FQ. This was my only QSO outside of the western hemisphere! The band was good until about 2200z when the bottom just dropped out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EDI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 880 Did not play this one that much...Left the radio on the bottom part of the band late Saturday night and I went down to turn everything off and go to bed and lo and behold I heard FL rolling in. I ended up working several ops in FL and a few local TN ops . Maybe next year I will play with this one a little more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 330,344 Better than last year, but a bunch more sunspots would have been nice. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 14,796 FT-897D 3 el Yagi at 45 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4QO Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 39,780 10 meters really showed its "VHF side" in this contest. I'm relatively new to 10 and have seen plenty of openings that made it seem more like 20 meters at the greyline, but this was something else! This was more like 6 meters with fast QSB and waves of stations on the same frequency. What a wild ride. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 836 Operated off/on CW only this weekend. Total time about 3 hrs at the rig. Great fun hearing signals on 10m this weekend. The short openings reminded me of 6m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 231,200 Well that was about as much fun as having one of my wisdom teeth extracted through my ear... I hadn't planned to do anything even remotely serious for this one. For some reason, I just kept sitting down behind the rig and calling CQ... It felt somewhat like I imagine it would be for a wild dog trying to gnaw its way through an electric fence. I had planned to do this one as CW only, but I got very bored and ventured up the band to work some "alternate mode." Thanks very much for all the QSO's on both modes. Friday evening felt more like an Alabama QSO party with all of us here working each other pretty early on. Not much else to write home about for that evening. Very interesting conditions Saturday evening. The guys from FL all had crushing signals. K1TO was the Energizer Bunny on this one, and his S9+50dB signal always made him look like a spotlight in the dark. I also listened to another FL station (on SSB) running a pileup, and it seemed that he was getting calls from all over the country. I had a nice little opening into the Pacific Northwest myself around 0630Z. Worked a VE7, MT and many WA during that opening but never heard any OR during that time. Interestingly, all my significant CW activity came after sunset. After looking at the demographics of the stations I worked, all I can say is thank goodness for the guys in MN, FL, TX and CO. Without their participation, this would have been an even more boring event here at my station... :-) Hope to see many of you in the Stew Perry 160 event later this month. 73, Rick K4TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ZJ Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 3,520 QRP at the bottom of the cycle? Turned out to be a lot of fun. had a big opening into Florida Sunday monring followed by upper Midwest activity. Ran an IC-706MKIIG with 5 watts into a Hustler 6-BTV. Thanks to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5DU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 80 I operated mobile while I did some errands. Sending CW mobile is not difficult, logging is impossible. The notebook fell on the floor and I couldn't reach it, the pen dropped in the other direction. Next year I'll buy a tiny recorder. Susan K5DU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5EK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 90,144 Very limited propogation to 1,6 and 7 land. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5EWJ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 22,200 There were signals on the band almost all the time that I operated, but there was only propagation to a few areas at a time. There was a nice South American opening Saturday morning and another shorter one Sunday afternoon but not a lot of stations were heard. My score is less than half last years score, but still had a great time. Ten meters is always fun and this year I got to use my new K3. I got my SteppIR back up and working just in time with a climb to change the rotor on Thursday. Hurricane Ike hit us dead center and did a number on my antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KG Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 145,760 Cluster assisted this year, but only a part-time effort due to other committmets. Condx on Saturday were petty slow, but Sunday was another story. Had a reasonable run of South Americans late Saturday. Got on after church on Sunday, and had a strong opening to the northeast! Had an excellent SSB run, and another one on CW. No DX other than the South Americans. Interesting condx as the "cloud" drifted from one area to another. Lots of heavy QSB at times, causing very loud sigs one minute, and into the mud the next. (There must have been some meteors at work.) Made QSOs as far west as KS. New England was devoid of NH, VT and ME on Saturday, no doubt due to their ice storm. It must have melted somewhat on Sunday, as I worked several NH stations and one in ME. No VT heard at all. HI3CCP had a bodacious SSB signal the entire weekend! Lets hope for continued improvements next year. 73, Geo...K5KG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5LH Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 27,552 Minimalist effort (Omni V, 90 W, wire dipole in Pecan tree, Aetherlog). Saturday was terrible. Sunday better, but nothing out of hemishere. Nice to work ND, SD and SK in last hour of contest. Pray for sunspots! Chris, K5LH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 175,392 We had poor conditions here in Central Texas. The only time the band showed some life was on Sunday morning when I had three good hours with good rates, then the band went bad again. The Saturday conditions were very spotty with signals being loud and then dropping to nothing in a second or two. Very strange and I missed two mults that I know of because of this. I had an AR station call me but after I sent the report, I never heard him again. The same with a VE2 station and I ended up not working either multiplier. One second they were there with a good signal and the next second they were gone. I missed all of New England except for VT. Other USA missed were NJ, DE, AR, and AK. I missed all of Canada except for VE3 and VE5. This was a very poor showing for me in this contest. Congratulations to K1TO and K1ZZ who both had great scores. I am sure there are other good scores I haven't seen yet. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5PI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 292,260 I was on intermittently from home with my C-4E at 40 feet and WM5R's K2. Saturday was tough, but Sunday was pretty fun. Bring back the sunspots! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 116,050 Station K5TR: http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html Kenwood TS-850SAT Elecraft K3 Ameritron AL-1500 Alpha 76 24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 60' rotatable 24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 30' fixed NE 4-element Yagi @ 40' fixed SE 3-element Yagi @ 20' fixed W Half wave vertical, base @ 20' Ameritron RCS-8V antenna switches Heil Proset HC-4 W9XT contest card TR Log 6.78 I was over 27 hours into the contest before I had a QSO total that equaled what I worked in the first hour of the 2007 contest. The only good Eskip I had all weekend was on Sunday, when I managed three 100+ hours in a row. I never did work Oregon or Washington, and I missed New Jersey, Delaware, and all of New England in the northeast. I only worked two provinces in Canada - Ontario and Quebec. All of my DX multipliers were from North or South America this year, the first time I've failed to find at least one Africa or Oceania station on the band to work. I struggled both mornings with the wind. The rotator on the 10 meter tower has a broken brake, and the strong southerly winds kept me from pointing the high yagi at South America as consistently as I would have liked. I don't know that that really impacted my totals that much, as the band was not in great shape either morning, but it was frustrating at the time. I borrowed an Elecraft K3 from K5PI for the second radio, but it never really got a good workout. When the band was closed, the vertical it was using could not hear anything, and when the band was open, I was generally too busy to work the second radio much. It was nice to work 10 different stations from Mexico. The contest activity from there has been increasing for several years. HR HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ------ --------- ----- 0 10/2 10/2 0.00M 1 9/4 19/6 0.00M 2 14/6 33/12 0.00M 3 18/2 51/14 0.00M 4 12/6 63/20 0.00M 5 5/1 68/21 0.00M 6 --- 68/21 0.00M 7 --- 68/21 0.00M 8 --- 68/21 0.00M 9 --- 68/21 0.00M 10 --- 68/21 0.00M 11 --- 68/21 0.00M 12 6/1 74/22 0.00M 13 14/1 88/23 0.00M 14 15/1 103/24 0.00M 15 25/6 128/30 0.01M 16 38/2 166/32 0.01M 17 14/1 180/33 0.01M 18 5/0 185/33 0.01M 19 6/0 191/33 0.01M 20 4/2 195/35 0.01M 21 7/1 202/36 0.01M 22 2/0 204/36 0.01M 23 3/0 207/36 0.01M 0 3/1 210/37 0.02M 1 3/0 213/37 0.02M 2 31/0 244/37 0.02M 3 46/0 290/37 0.02M 4 8/0 298/37 0.02M 5 2/0 300/37 0.02M 6 --- 300/37 0.02M 7 --- 300/37 0.02M 8 --- 300/37 0.02M 9 --- 300/37 0.02M 10 --- 300/37 0.02M 11 --- 300/37 0.02M 12 --- 300/37 0.02M 13 4/0 304/37 0.02M 14 4/0 308/37 0.02M 15 18/1 326/38 0.02M 16 83/5 409/43 0.04M 17 144/2 553/45 0.05M 18 134/2 687/47 0.06M 19 160/1 847/48 0.08M 20 85/2 932/50 0.09M 21 43/2 975/52 0.10M 22 46/3 1021/55 0.11M 23 34/0 1055/55 0.12M D1 207/36 D2 848/19 TO 1055/55 The best 60 minute rate was 166/hour from 1855 to 1954 The best 30 minute rate was 192/hour from 1908 to 1937 The best 10 minute rate was 234/hour from 1915 to 1924 The best 1 minute rates were: 6 QSOs/minute 2 times. 5 QSOs/minute 15 times. 4 QSOs/minute 25 times. 3 QSOs/minute 69 times. 2 QSOs/minute 142 times. 1 QSOs/minute 377 times. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 4 296 5 450 6 305 7 1 8 3 Multiplier Distribution Mult QSOs -------------- 1. Oh 96 2. Fl 76 3. Il 74 4. Tx 73 5. Mi 55 6. Ca 54 7. Mo 48 8. In 46 9. Nc 38 10. Az 37 11. Ga 33 12. Ia 33 13. Co 31 14. Tn 31 15. Ky 29 16. Mn 28 17. On 26 18. Sc 19 19. Va 19 20. Ne 19 21. LU 17 22. Pa 16 23. Ks 15 24. Wi 13 25. XE 10 26. Ms 10 27. Nv 10 28. Sd 8 29. Md 8 30. La 7 31. Ar 7 32. Ny 7 33. Al 6 34. CE 6 35. PY 6 36. Wv 6 37. Wy 5 38. CX 4 39. Ut 4 40. Nm 4 41. HK 2 42. HR 2 43. Nd 2 44. Dc 2 45. Id 2 46. KP4 1 47. VP5 1 48. KP2 1 49. HI 1 50. TG 1 51. ZF 1 52. Qc 1 53. Mt 1 54. Ok 1 55. OA 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 51,336 Long stretches of boredom punctuated by short bursts of activity. We got the black hole this year. We would just sit and watch the East coast and Texans running away while the band was dead here. One good opening to the Northwest Sunday morning and a good run to the far South in the last hour on Sunday. Never heard the Midwest or Northeast. Some very interesting meteor scatter propagation. Stations would just pop in for a second a dissappear again. Thanks to all for the mode QSY's John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,062 Conditions were terrible for a small station with only wire antennas. I sure hope conditions improve next year. TNX to all the KB'ers I worked. 73's to all. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CTA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 14,976 UGH! I spent waaay too much time at this. Only made a few contacts on Saturday, and only had 1 mult! Thought I would CQ for a few minutes Sunday morning to see what would happen. Wound up with little run. The band was open, as I worked the East Coast. But, it was very sporadic. Signal strengths were all over the place. I had the gain (AF/RF) wide open.....would be barely able to copy a weak station, and then I'd get blasted by on that was S-9. One operating note: with conditions as marginal as they were, why on earth would you set your CW speed to 35-40 wpm? And then never slow down, even when the guy on the other side (me) keeps sending ??? or agn. Impossible to copy with the QSB and odd propagation. There were a number of stations that never made it into the log due to that. I found that I needed to slow down to 25 wpm or so to have a good chance of having people come back to me. In any event, thanks to those who got on handed out Q's. Maybe in a few years 10 will be back. I hope...... 73, Ed K6CTA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 6,720 This was my 30th anniversary of my first entry in this contest, when I entered in 1978 as WB6OWD. (I looked it up, and I made 172 QSO's!) John, KQ6ES was generous enough to lend me his extra Cushcraft Ten-3 beam for the contest, so that we would duke it out for the AB class of the Orange section. Unfortunately, Murphy struck me early with a flat tire on Thursday night on the way home from work, causing me to get the tire fixed on Friday morning, when I had planned to set up the antenna. We had wind whip up on Saturday, and it looked like it was going to rain. Unfortunately, I didn't get the beam up until the last 4 hours of the contest, and at least worked a CO multiplier that I wouldn't have on my vertical. Great short skip on Sunday morning. I had seen those conditions before, but I had never known it to be meteor scatter. Quite educational. Nice participation from ID, MT and WY. Didn't hear all the Coloradans that the Northern Calif stations worked. Longest distance was N4BP in FL. Heard LU1HF Saturday but didn't work. Had a lot of fun talking to the locals, some of which were just a mile away. Good to hear my friend from high school, Rich AE6RS. I want to give a special thanks to John David in the Cushcraft parts dept for getting a necessary part out to me just in time. Terrific customer service. Congrats to John KQ6ES for his apparent win of AB in the Orange section. He beat me in QSO's, not mults. All in all, it was a fun weekend, and was a great way to spend my birthday on the 13th. This year definitely did NOT deserve the "Stink Stank Stunk" label that I gave last years contest: http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2007-December/146792.html Rig: FT-990 Ant: Cushcraft Ringo Ranger Vertical Cushcraft Ten-3 (2000z on the 14th) 6 feet off roof Software: N3FJP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 9,432 Mults; CA,CO,NV,AZ,HI,OK,NC,WA,OR,BC,WY,MT,AL,AR,TN,LU,PY & CX. Some choice!! Either watch Raiders get beat...again or slog out to the shack & listen to or send endless CQs into an almost dead band. Should have got on a little earlier Sunday AM. We are getting snow here & temp outdoors has been about 28-29 all day with a good breeze. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 26,670 Wow. That's was tough -- especially the deep QSB causing flutterring. Lots of Colorado stations -- never heard New England. Sure hope we get some sunspots soon. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 12,144 Very interesting to see how a "dead band" can produce QSOs out of nowhere. Best "DX" was either WV, Ontario or Florida. Only non-USA/Canada station was an HR9; worked XE2S but could never pull out his number with the QSB. Many thanks to Texas, Washington, and California Ops who accounted for the grand majority of my QSOs. Worked the contest remotely using a Elecraft K3 from my home, about 80 miles from my station. Dana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RIM Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 18,290 Considering the absence of sunspots, conditions were somewhat better than expected, but that's not saying much. Lots of Colorado and VE3 and, surprisingly, some East Coast. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RM Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 760 K3 at 100W to a G5RV at 35 ft. A few minutes here and there between social events and football. Mostly locals and a bunch of CO stations Sunday AM - a sporadic E cloud, maybe? This is the contest that first got me interested in contesting back in 1999 - I sure miss the sunspots from those days. Thanks for the Qs. 73, Barry, K6RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 8,120 500w and a vertical dipole do not a big gun make! Band seemed to not be very good in central Texas. Did work 4 DX countries - all south america. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6WSC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,160 That was a lot more fun than I thought it would be given the solar minimum. Very surprising! Ten seemed more open on Sunday than Saturday. The sporadic-E contacts (or so I believe) on Saturday were very interesting in their brevity. 73, Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ZH Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,120 Well, Saturday was totally boring. Some life on Sunday, but my operating time was limited. Best "DX": KH7Y on Saturday, N4KK (Freddie K9VV) in FL on Sunday. Equipment: IC-746 4-el SteppIR at 60 feet We'll keep waiting for the sunspots! 73 - Jim, K6ZH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 3,458 again tuff going, short openings called for fast cw and qsb would take the signal right out of the picture...better score than last year, our wx got very cold and while turning the beam, she quit, so when it gets nicer gotta go up and check cable out see what went wrong..oh well..cu next year, maybe ole man sun will help... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 31,220 Minus 22 deg F here right now at the end of contest. We were away at a high school basketball tournament 100 miles from home when the contest started. We managed to beat the nastiest blizzard we've had in a long time getting home just as it hit with full force. White out conditions and strong winds all night and Saturday. A few sheets of the barn roof disapeared, but only one antenna is in need of repair on the tower from the look of things. Saturday had some good meteor activity and a nice Es opening to the midwest later in the evening. Even worked a few east coast stations. K4EA and K4TD were the only stations heard out that way most of the time. Sunday morning had a little Es to CA and AZ. I worked 62 CA stations for 28 percent of my total Qs. Heard PY and CX, but they couldn't hear my KW and 5 elements. Worked one LU and one XE for the only DX in the log. It's crazy how this band is alive even though it's dead what with 31 states worked. Worked 6 MT stations which was nice. Top QSO states:CA-62; AZ-25; TX-16; CO-13; MN-12; WA-10; IL-10. Thanks for the Qs and nice to say hi to old friends. Matt--K7BG IC-765 to KW 105CA at 65' fixed ESE and TH3 at 23' pointed SW most of the time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RSM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 736 ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2008-12-13 CallSign Used : K7RSM Operator(s) : K7RSM Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED Band : 10M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : AZ Gridsquare : DM33XP Name : Bobby McDonald Address : 19654 N 35 Place City/State/Zip : Phoenix AZ 85050 Country : USA ARRL Section : AZ Club/Team : Centrial Arizona DX Association Software : N1MM Logger V8.10.6 Band QSOs Pts Cty 28 23 92 8 Total 23 92 8 Score : 736 Rig : IC756pro3 Antennas : Simple 80M Dipole fed with 450 ohm ladder line. Soapbox : I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2008-12-14 Signature : Bobby McDonald ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7SV Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 32,680 Interesting condx! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7UP Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 4,350 K3, Tribander @35' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 6,048 Built the 3 element broadband antenna from W4RNL's design in the October QST - worked like a champ on my 20 ft TV mast in the bonsai antenna garden. Enjoyed the little propagation we had, a taste of things to come! K3, 100 watts 3 elements at 20 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZO Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 756 Got the three element beam out of mothballs for this one. Friends said "boy you are an optimist". I certainly made more QSO's than I thought I would. Mostly a QSO here and a QSO there when I visited the radio. The only real opening was a nice 20 minute period Sunday into AZ. Heard nothing east of CO -- except the one DX QSO with LU1HF. I easily could have missed openings as I just couldn't bring myself to sit in front of the radio listening to white noise for hours on end. Only way to go from here is up. We just need to stretch those 10 second 59+ signal bursts into ones lasting 12 hours. Scott/K7ZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZS Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 24,412 Always fun, conditions not very good, no east west openings, hence no call area 1,2,3 or 4 calls in the log! A little trans-equatorial, and some meteor scatter to make things interesting. Happy Holidays, and PLEASE hurry up sunspots! 73 Kevin K7ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 29,184 Conditions were abysmal, and by noon on Saturday I had all I wanted, and then some. The contest ended for me when I worked 8 Florida stations in a row, followed by 5 Ohio stations. Enough is enough. Rig: FT-1000MP + ALS-600 amp 500 watts Ant: 4 element quad Software: WriteLog 10.69d ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8CC Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 97,020 Rig: FT-1000D, Ten-Tec Titan Antennas: 5L/5L/5L @ 90'/60'/30' 45 W/VE states/provinces worked, 10 DXCC countries The good news is nothing broke, and only occasional precip static was suffered. High point: 122 QSOs in the 16Z hour Sunday morning Low point: Zero QSOs from 2150Z to 2243Z despite persistent CQing. Yes, the logging program dinged Doug with an off-time :-) but the 53 minutes is included in the operating time shown above. Ahh, such are the joys of 10M contesting during low sunspots... On Saturday there was no propagation out to the west but condx were much better on Sunday with all of W5 and the occasional W6 coming through, but Doug only worked two of the W7 states. Come on Cycle 24!!! 73, Dave/K8CC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MAD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 266 The Maryland segement of my Cleveland - DC drive (see my K8NCC post). Conditions were fading by late afternoon, but still some FL and South American stations left to work. Not an official entry, as ARRL does not allow mobile scores, but still a good way to pass the miles on a nice December day. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8NCC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 952 For official purposes, this is a check log. I operated mobile en route from Cleveland to Arlington, VA, to do an intrafamily car swap with my daughter. To pass the miles, I put the HamStick on the roof, the IC-746 on the front seat, and a 24AH battery in the back seat. But the ARRL does not allow mobile entries in the HF contests, so this was for fun only (as if there is any other reason). I used a different call for each state - K8NCC in PA, K8MAD in MD, and W3USA in DC. No qsos in VA, as I was busy enough dealing with the traffic in Northern VA. Fortunately, the band was much better than I had any reason to expect. Surprised to work several CA stations. PA is challenging from a mobile... several instances of topographic QSB as I went behind hills in the desired direction. 73 -- Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 1,820 Almost thought it was a VHF contest, hah! It was fun to do QRP...made it even more challenging! Worked IL, IN, SK, FL, ND, SC, LA, GA, MS, TX, AZ, NM, and CO. Maybe Santa will bring some sunspots for Christmas this year? Not a good sign when I can't work Wisconsin! FT-817 and Cushcraft R-8 at 11 feet above ground. Happy Holidays, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 12,136 Very part-time effort. Popped in the shack once in awhile to check the band conditions. Saturday was flat. Sunday brought some decent Sporadic Es to AL/GA area in the afternoon and OK/NM area in the evening. Even worked a few on 6m. DX worked: HI3CCP, HQ2W, HR9/WQ7R, HQ2GL, VP5JM, CV5K, LU1HF, CX5BW, and PY5QW. Antenna: 1/2 wave vertical @ 10' strapped to a pine tree Rig: IC-746 100w Loggin' software: Win-test ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 18,304 A few dits here. A few dahs there. 3 DX: LU, PY, CX Pipeline from W9 to FL late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB9OWD Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 57,660 As of late in the day on Thursday, I had no plans to be half way serious in this one. Bottom of the cycle, living in the clutches of the black hole and no real ability to go high power, I planned on making a casual qso or two throughout the weekend. I decided late Thursday to talk to Duane, W9BCV, who again had no issues with the use of his station. It would be low power category, which I am used to and enjoy and at least a TH7 at 50 feet, a far cry from the wires at home. Once the decision was made to make the couple mile trip to Duane's, I decided to go half way serious in the low power category. I decided that a good goal was 120 qso's and 35 - 40 mults, which I thought would be a good weekend giving all obstacles present. Friday night and Saturday were dismal at best! Absolutely horrible conditions all night Friday and all day Saturday. I worked the first 6 hours, minus one hour for dinner. The first night for 6 hours, I racked in a total of 29 qso's. Every qso was a challenge, with everyone right at the noise level and about a 5 to 10 second span to work it before they were totally gone! I called it a night just prior to midnight local time and drove home to sleep. As I passed the local Kohl's store, I was not suprised to see my wife's car in the lot doing late night Christmas shopping. This worked well, as I am not much of a shopper and my evening activities gave her some free time to finish this up! I got back on at 8 A.M. local Saturday. Saturday was a nightmare for the most part, radio wise. I worked the band for 5 1/2 hours to start, making a whopping 18 qso's. I did make the most of a virtually dead band and about 1600Z I decided to keep my sanity and ran down to 20 meters, point the beam at Europe and run some DX. I was growing impatient, not having alot of fun and this proved to be a great asset to the day as I put a good run together, working some good DX while scanning 10 for any signs of life in the other VFO. Even worked EL2DX in Liberia who called me for an all time new one! The dead band proved alright as it gave me time to take a bit off and meet my wife for an hour lunch. I then came back for one hour, scanned the band non stop and made no qso's. This was again alright as I departed at about 2130Z and was able to attend the birthday party for my god daughters. We left there and took one of the little ones to a Christmas light show about 10 miles down the road followed by a visit with my family. When we got back to town about 0330Z Sunday, my instinct said go to bed however my gut was telling me to go back and check the bands for a bit. I decided to and was it a great choice. Some great openings out west!!! Picked up mults including UT, MT, NC, SC and CO. Worked a good deal of other qso's and packed it in when the band went out about 1 A.M. local Sunday morning. I came back on at 8 A.M. Sunday morning and in hind sight, I should have come back sooner. The band was already in good shape and I quickly added mults such as RI, NH, QC among others in the first 1/2 hour. Sunday was dreary, rainy and what not in WI and I was having a hard time waking up. This cost me the ME mult as I fumbled with the wrong button when calling the only ME I heard all weekend. I got beat in the pile, he faded and never heard another ME again! That being said, I was in the chair for 10 hours Sunday, from 8 A.M. local til the end! Coming into Sunday morning, I had 80 qso's in the first 38 hours. The last 10 would bring some great openings and a total of 210 qso's, almost 2 1/2 times the first 38 hours! I was able to run at times and put some good strings together. The band died out for the better part of 2 hours Sunday afternoon, but came back with some good openings out west. For the last 2 hours, I thought I may have accidentally stumbled upon the NM qso party. I think I worked more NM stations in that 2 hour period than in the last 2 years combined! Then in the last hour, the CO stations jumped on board, all strong and with no end to them in sight. During these last 2 hours, I started to actively move stations. Looking back, I should have done more of this, if not for mults, just for the double qso. First off, it kept it active and made it alot more fun! Secondly, I have to give it up to the guys from NM, willing to ablidge and move on request. I was on 28030 and would move stations to around 28500, most with success! Many thanks to K9UA, N5PR, AJ9K, W9XQ, N7KA and W6RQR, all moves that worked after I started keeping track of them for something else to keep my mind occupied. W6RQR was not instant but he found me later on SSB and made it work. Thanks also to K7BG for the try Saturday evening. Matt was loud on CW however NIL on SSB (although the entire SSB band was NIL at the time so it wasn't just Matt). Thanks for the effort. Only mults I can think of that I would have liked to add were MI on CW and AZ on PH. I tried to move a couple of MI stations I worked to CW who were loud with no interest or category restrictions. I also worked several AZ stations Sunday afternoon on CW however no luck in getting a move (most I believe were CW only) and never heard an AZ on phone. Considering some of the dread I brought to the weekend thinking how 10 may likely be, this was actually one of my more enjoyable events in a good while. Sunday's good conditions left a great taste in my mouth and the finish bell coming too soon. That being said, I got to play radio, put up better numbers than anticipated along with taking my wife out for friday fish fry, making a birthday party and lunch with my wife on Saturday and visiting family, all in between putting up some good numbers from this part of the world at this part of the cycle. Even awake enough to enjoy dinner Sunday evening with family! Congrats to all the good scores out there. Scott, NE9U up at W0AIH was a beacon most of the time down here as was Gary, W9XT about 30 miles down the road. Both were in there about all the time, a great commitment noting conditions from our part of the world. I talked to Scott about midnight Sat. night/Sun. morning. If he kept adding to it, he is going to have an absolutely impressive score noting our conditions! W9XT was adding folks I could not hear even 30 miles away! Good work Gary! 73 and a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. See you all in January! Ryan KB9OWD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 11,408 I haven't had so much fun on 10 meters in ages. I wasn't around much on Saturday and mostly worked locals. Heard only one DX, LU1HF and worked him easily. He was there again today and that was it for DX for me. But the band was pretty lively much of today and I spent more time on the radio than I had planned. Obviously, 10 meters is a lot more lively than we give credit for and we should all make an effort to give this poor misunderstood and mostly ignored band (at this point of the cycle) more of a chance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,560 This contest renewed my appreciation for sunspots. Given that, LU, PY, and CX seemed like rare DX! 100W to dipoles at 45' and 35'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG6D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 28,314 This was casual effort from a husband and wife team. Wish conditions would have been better, but Sunday morning was good to the east coast for a while. We could not put in a full effort because we had other commitments, and I also made a visit to N6RO's station to visit with JT1CO on Saturday, but it was worth the break from the radio to meet with him and see Ken's set up and antenna farm. Thanks to everyone for the Q's and also for the many postings, especially K6III, K9YC, N6ML, AB6WM. CU you all in the next contest Best 73 KB, Kevin KG6D & Tiny KT6YL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG7E Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 504 Good opening to CA and AZ between 1700 - 1800 Sunday morning. Honest 59(9) reports!! Heard some east coast but very weak. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7Y Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 6,300 To bad the mainland stations did not turn their antennas out here into the Pacific. The band was open to Co,Ne only one QSO with N0KE on Sunday!!!!!!! 7800, pair 3cx800s and 8el LP at 72 feet. Thanks for the Q's, Aloha Fred KH7Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI5XP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 9,048 Just put the antenna back up from Gustav yesterday. Still works! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI6KOI Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 36 My first contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 19,800 When the band was good, it was good. When the band was bad, it was no good. A fun contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 103,224 What a difference from last year when we had an almost constant pipeline into Texas. Saturday was very poor. When LU1HF is barely audible in the afternoon you know conditions are really bad. Sunday was much better with some nice openings. Even worked Wyoming on both modes for a change. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4KE Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 1,500 REAL BAD candicions in PR. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ6ES Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 7,632 I heard 6 stations farther away than Texas, and only got one of them. My contacts were about 60% CA and 20% TX. Sunday mid-morning 7th Area opening created some interest and kept me going. I really enjoy being able to work stations that are barely there, and 10m is the best band for that. We had some rain near the start of the contest and that probably helped. Five states on phone is pretty grim though. I have to get the habit of asking stations to QSY for the new multipliers. It would have boosted my score quite a lot. John kq6es FT-1000MP 100W A3 at 20ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 640 Rig: IC-756ProIII Ant: MQ-26 2 element mini hybrid beam 40M vertical doublet Pwr: 5 Watts Abysmal conditions! I only caught a few marginal Es openings. The TE opening I caught on Sunday afternoon was useless for me for some reason. I know, I know, 5 Watts... However, that never has really been a problem for me. I sure hope others did better than me. See you next time! 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com http://www.airlinkexpress.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 3,304 Was having some good fun with spotlight, 50 second openings when the telephone rang. 30 minutes later was in the ER with her...for several hours. Luckily, nothing serious, but not resolved...and won't be for a while. That ended the contest for me. de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: M/S LP Total Score = 48,852 Low power was a poor choice for the miserable propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4OW Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 107,598 It was a blast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS2G Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 2,370 Nearly a year into the new cycle and it's still the dregs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 11,948 IC756 Pro2 with Force12 Flagpole (Vertical). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4Q Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 6,336 Just operated when I have a free moment. Was definitely a challenge to make many quick contacts. Seemed a narrow path would open and would last for 20-30 minutes and away it went. Enjoyed still what little time I could put to it this weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 113,560 Part time effort this year. Also my first attempt at mixed category operation. Really skating on thin ice for the CW operation this weekend. Hope I didn't disrupt the cosmos with my effort. Band played like 6mtrs for the most part which isn't a bad thing if your used to the propagation modes etc. Had a good time for what effort I put forth. Hope the ACG op's put AL in everybody's log this weekend. Merry CHristmas and Happy New Years to all from the "heart of Dixie" and to all a good night.......... Tim, KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LQ0F Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 135,468 thank you all for the QSO. I could not be full time during the competition but we were .. The conditions very bad signal very low, a small opening europe with stations in the west. A hug for everyone and happy Christmas and New Year Javi - LU5FF (LQ0F) QSL via EA5KB and LOTW www.lu5ff.com.ar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LR2F Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 72,670 thank you all for the QSO. happy Christmas and New Year BOB - LU2FA (LR2F) QSL via LU2FA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LS1D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 233,640 terrible condx. Thanks to who called us. CU Next contest. 73 Team LS1D (LU3CT - LW9EOC) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU8EOT Class: M/S LP Total Score = 7,808 Hi to all... Absolutely bad conditions all weekend, After few minutes starting the contest the CW electronic keyer of Yaesu FT-920 shutdown. We spend a couple of hours trying to fix the rig or find the exactly problem. So, with CW off only we make some SSB qso´s Antenna Yagi 4el 6Mts. boom @ 12 Mh Rig Yaesu FT-920 (LU9ESD) Thanks to Manu LU9ESD/6Y9S for the 1400 Km trip to work another contest together. Manu, this is not 6Y1V but we have fun everytime. :-) Vy 73 Mark LU8EOT.- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MM0ERK Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 48 CONDITIONS WERE VERY BAD BUT ALL GOOD FUN TRYING TO GET CONTACTS.HPE BETTER LUCK NEXT YEAR. RIG FT1000MP 100 WATTS ANT 3 ELE BEAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0JK Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 19,968 Used the same 100 ft. long wire antenna taped to the house that had served well in the 160M contest. Actually had not gotten around to taking it down. It loaded up and heard well on 10. I ran QRP to avoid getting RFI into the XYL's PC. I could work most stations heard on Es and even a few on meteors if I timed my calls on over-dense bursts. Nice Es opening Saturday evening to Florida. Nice to say "Hi" to K1TO. Sunday all day Es starting at 1500 UTC to northeast, with K1ZZ CT starting things off. Later Es to Atlantic seaboard and southeast states. Best DX was PJ2T and LU1HF! They sounded like an Es to F2 type link. I had strong Es to LA and Florida the same time they were in. I almost logged PY3MHZ, he heard me but faded as he gave his exchange. Thanks also to XE2S and XE2/N7DD for Mexico. Very loud Es to Colorado at the end of the contest. K0FX, K0MF, W0ETT, etc 599 + 60! Ran off 11 Colorado Qs in 5 minutes. Like shooting ducks in a barrel for a flea power station. Picked up KD0S SD and K0PK MN in the last few minutes for new mults. Lotsa radio fun for 5 watts and a $4 wire antenna. Happy Holidays to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 5,376 Little heard, none worked Friday evening. Did hear K5NA quite a bit, maybe via scatter, worked Sunday afternoon. Thanks to all who participated! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0QO Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 88,690 This was my first 10m contest and I had a great time. I wish I could have operated the entire time but previous obligations prevented that. Jim's (W0UR) station again demonstrated amazing performance. 73, Ken, N0QO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: M/S LP Total Score = 32,405 This was the first effort of my wife and and I doing Multi-Op contesting. Unfortunately, we were more active than the sunspots. We enjoyed the fun but not the conditions. Christine finished reading a book while hitting the F1 button on SSB. I combed the bands on CW. We alternated CQing on both modes. We had a few brief runs of 5 mins but other than that it was drudgery from here in Northern Vermont. We will be A LOT more involved on the bands in NAQP SSB in January! Antennas: 6 el at 80 feet, 3 el south at 50 feet, 5 el NE at 30 feet (worked 6 EU stations) 73 Ed N1UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 43,020 Lots of FL, MN and ON. I expect there to be many NIL in the UBN's due to rapid fading into oblivion. FT1000MP, L7, TH6DXX, N1MM. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 233,478 Highlights: Having CT3, Z29, KP4 call me, pipeline to Florida (about 200) First almost full time effort Lowlights: Too many- only 2 eu (both F),only CA, NV, AZ, UT out west, Nothing from VE4,5,6,7, no pacific, missed too many sections worked on CW that were not worked on SSB. Mistakes: Took 4 hours off Saturday night (2300z-0300z) to go out to dinner, not enough cw qsos, quitting at 2300z Sunday night to teach a college class. Probably cost me over 100 qsos. Icom 756pro Alpha 76PA 5 el monoband yagi at 108 ft Tnx for the qsos! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 8,160 Limited time to play in this one and it looks like I may have missed a few interesting openings. 10M is interesting to listen to, particularly after ARRL 160. The propagation can be so fickle and so overwhelming. There were more than a few times stations sounded like one was tuning across an AM radio dial into a loud station, yet that station was running and I wasn't tuning. Some of the stations (K1ZZ comes to mind) would peg my meter, and be gone inside of an exchange. Florida was the place to be, logged 37 stations from there. A few stations lost QSOs as they felt it necessary to repeat "5NN" or "5 9 9" repeatedly and would disappear before a section or callsign clarification could be heard. No, most of these are not "seasoned" contesters and maybe only play in this event (probably don't read this reflector or CQ Contest either), but it would be nice to find a way to get the word out. Elecraft K3 (the NB did wonders for some loud local noise) 4 element Steppir n1mm 73, Julius ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 460 I got on Saturday to look for the locals. My first five contacts were K5NA, NX5M, N5ZK, W5ZL, K5GM, and W5ESE, the last pounding out lonely CQs QRP from Dripping Springs. So N5TW and W5GAI are not the only "almost certified lunatics" in the world!! Sunday I came back at 1800Z and found a band that was alive. I started tuning at the bottom and then settled in and indulged my favorite contest activity of calling CQ and "hearing the world turn." In this case, hearing the ten meter spotlight move around. I made 55 contacts in the next half hour, then came back on in another half hour and made another 55 in the following twenty minutes. I was fresh meat, so that was not difficult. Looking at the state multipliers, I got nothing as far as W1, but got one NY, so it was close. The band was open to W6 and W7 nicely. I heard no South Americans. Running around in the mobile this weekend, I listened to an unusual radio station: K5NA, the "new voice of Texas," as Richard worked stations which made nary a peep on my set in the car. Every once in a while, while his rate was bad, I would pop on the frequency like a lid and say "hi" or "BB" or some nonsense just to interrupt his reading material. Nice numbers from K5NA and NX5M as usual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 23,828 6 meters is the "Magic Band", but on Saturday night 10 meters was the "Florida Band". FL's sounded like they were next door and in line to work VA. 23 FL Q's in a row. Sunday morning, FL, LA, MS, AR and OK were booming into VA. The high lite of the contest for me was working ZS6JPY on Saturday. A true 599. Very cool! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,920 The only beam here is a 10M monobander so I figured I'd have some fun with this one, hopefully with some good band conditions. Ended up QRL most of the weekend with various things (a blown tire on our trailer, etc.) so only managed a few minutes here and there throughout both days. 73 de Greg N3ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZZ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,648 Mostly CO and CA stations. DX was K1ZZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ARR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 302,736 N4ARR, Dixie Radio Pirates, multi-op effort. We went into this contest weekend, not expecting much activity, recent contest had little 10M activity. Since we are at the bottom of sunspot cycle, we thought our 2007 success was a blip on the radar, and darn if we werent surprised again. The Dixie Radio Pirates (www.dixieradiopirates.com)is a club that mostly does VHF contesting. We are trying to help our members become better contesters and besides Field Day, this is the only other HF contest we work. Saying that, this reminded us of a VHF contest, with the Meteor burst, and wildly changing conditions. We improved our score from 2007, and had several new operators participate, so was a big success. Hope to work everyone again in 2009.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 287,496 K3, AL-1500, A4S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 7,120 Pleasantly surprised by occasional openings here and there. Good seeing old friends in there. Happy Holidays. Bert, N4CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EK Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 11,400 well, this was not my week. it started on thursday afternoon. i was headed out to split some wood for the next cold snap when my wife said we have no water. i went out to the submersible pump and smelled something burnt in the control box. the run capacitor had exploded. i called the only motor shop in town and he said a new one was $30. looked it up on line $10, but i needed it now. got the new and got the water back on. friday morning i turn on the computer i use for logging and the mouse was frozen. rebooted, same thing. tried another mouse, no change. so i brought up ct in dos, filled out the info screens. it would change modes. that's ok, i was coming down with a bad head cold. i get on for the test and only worked 14 qso's with 190 cq's in the first hour. decided to go watch a movie with the wife in the family room where we had a fire going. five minutes into the movie the tv goes pop and goes out. won't turn back on. then i smelled something burning. unplugged the tv and took out to the shop and took one off the porch to finish the movie. now on cold meds to try and clear my head. next morning wanted to sleep all day. got a few qso's on saturday and a little better on sunday. so hope the ss appears by next year. 73, ed N4EK ps: i fixed the tv on tuesday!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,052 Not much time for this one...and missed any decent openings as a result - or did I miss any openings??? Surprised to not even hear LU/PY and other trans-equatorial skip..things are bad when you can't work an LU from the SE US. M/S = N4GG + packett. FT-1KMP, ACOM 2000A, Writelog, Dipole at 40 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4IJ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 69,080 Saturday - South America pretty good Sunday - New England and West ok. Rig: IC746 to TH-5 tribander @ 62 FT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 22,618 I kept the rig on most of the weekend and did a quick listen every once in awhile. If I heard activity, I shot for a few qso's. After what seemed to be a pretty slow start at my qth, I was surprised at the activity level Saturday night and most of Sunday (during the times I wandered by the rig). Great fun, as usual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,458 Wish I had more time to operate! Had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OGW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 90,048 44 US/VE mults, 12 DX (all Central/South America). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 260,590 What a trip....no sunspots and Solar Flux at 69...but who needs all that stuff? Not much DX and almost nothing in the Caribbean from here.... However, opening on Sunday afternoon was really something...about five states involved - had the rate meter at 334 - don't think this ole dude ever saw it that high before - ever...from 1632 to 1641 UTC logged 44 stations...on SSB. Run lasted about 30 minutes... DX missed - way too many to even list after looking at the results and spots this evening....All the VO1's on and I missed 'em all. DX worked: PY/39 - LU/16 - CX/4 - CE/3 - CO8TW (called me early in test on CW...never heard him again.......Did manage to catch a few DX stns, HI3CCP, HK3O, FM5AN, XE2SPM, HR9/WQ7R, VP5JM, and J39BS. Nice to get called late in the day Sunday by ZP6CW who gave me 001... Thanks to VE4EAR for finding me for MB once again...tks agn..and to Alan, KO7X, for WY on CW and SSB...back home after his XYL broke her knee cap while they were in Hawaii...tks Alan..Nice to have KB0JSH/T call me on CW....nice operator...see you again for sure. Also to Bob, W0BH, LS1D, and several more for moving to catch the other mode... Thanks to all who called and know I missed a few that just faded away after I had your call or most of it....can't seem to remember what this contest is about when it's open around the clock and stations everywhere. Happy Holidays!! 73, Paul FT1000MP/AL1200 - 1KW TH-5 @ 70' (4 el on 10m) Logging with CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4QX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 216 Oh, but for more time and more antenna. Or, alternately, more sunspots. Two Qs outside of Connecticut--both stations were gone right after I called them. But condx should gradually get better in the coming 5 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4UC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 8,216 Not many Q's, but I worked hard for almost every one of 'em! Felt like I was working into the dummy load all weekend.....73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 63,512 Pro III @ 100 watts. A3S at 75 ft. 73, Larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 70,176 I operated more than anticipated. Not much going on for me Saturday night, so I decided to play around. I didn't expect much, but it was a lot of fun from 1-5 UTC for me. Several SA stations came in, as well as a variety of other stuff from the east coast of USA. Always amazed at how weak a signal can be and contact can still be made. Antenna: Dipole at 40 feet (N/S) Rig: ICOM 765 Amp: SB 200 (600 watts out) Software: Writelog 73, Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 116,112 I actually got to run some this contest. The local buzz to the NE stayed off long enough so I could hear OK most of the time without having to use the blanker. The band was pretty good Sunday morning on Es. N4ARR was +40db at times. Many other very loud signals as well. It was amazing how the band suddenly went completely "dead" again at 2400Z Sunday. Contests are wonderful things. Antennas: NE stack: 4 over 4 M2 yagis at 100 over 70. Rotary: 7L M2 yagi at 70 SE: 5L Telrex yagi at 50 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 26,600 Always enjoy getting on for a few hours in this contest since it can produce some really high rates (low ones too though). Saturday morning I was pleasantly surprised with an opening to the Caribbean and South America. However only US signals were FL and TX. Sunday morning was much better with US signals from all call areas except W1. Had a 107 QSO hour and ZL1AIZ even called in off the back of my beam. Multipliers: 7 DX countries, 24 states, one VE province. Surely next year we will begin to get some decent F2??? Orion 100 watts, 3L SteppIR @ 41m, 4L SteppIR @ 23m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 20,384 I had work related activities so I could only operate for about an hour Friday night and the last four hours on Sunday. I worked a large number of Colorado and Minnesota stations, thanks to them for being on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5TW Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 25,776 Friday evening and Saturday morning were quite challenging. Saturday morning was the first time I was able to work beyond the vast Texas border. The band was mostly open to Florida but did manage to work one Georgia station. My rig was an Elecraft K3 and I was using an N8LP Panadapter. That panadapter was my secret weapon. By watching it occasionally, I could see when more than the locals were coming in. My operating time actually listening was 13.5 hours but the higher 20 hour posting reflects the intervals of looking at that panadapter. Things opened up a little Saturday evening but I had pretty much decided to do something else on Sunday based on results. Sunday was a very different animal with lots of signals on the panadapter! I was in the chair running a frequency for about 9 hours Sunday. Never heard anyone in the 1 and 2 call areas and never got Oregon or Washington in the 7 area and missed SD. Worked 3 DX stations - heard more but could not raise them with my 5W. Working 32 states and one Canadian provence with 5W at the bottom of the cycle is just way cool. Thanks for all the stations with good ears that called in! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 12,896 Thanks for the QSO's. Best wishes of the Season and a Happy New Year! 73, Chas - N5UL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UWY Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 3,000 Nada Friday, not much Saturday, Sunday the Sporadic E gods smiled on us ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5WR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 35,916 Casual entry for a few hours on Sunday. Must have turned the rig on at the right time...called CQ and had a 140 Q-hr to east coast. Many thanks to all who called. 73, Erik N5WR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 6,664 Operation consisted mostly of running CQ machine while reading newspapers and magazines, and periodically tuning the band. Nominations for Deaf Amateur Award have been received. Admit assistance from Southern California Edison Company for this one. SCE has located sources of power line noise, but has not fixed them yet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 36,750 This year the ten meter contest was just like a six meter contest...work all the locals and wait for a band opening to who knows where. How frustrating to only work a handful of stations east of the Mississippi river (FL, GA). About half the time I ran barefoot (100 watts) and only turned the amplifier on when I couldn't raise a station that I could copy; I only ran about 400 watts with the amplifier and no neighbors complained about RFI. Tranequatorial propagation was present for part of the time. I managed to find LU, HK, CX and HP but no XE, PY, TI, HR, YN, and no Caribbean stations! I'm looking forward to the return of our beloved ten meter band in five years..when we can make over 1K QSOs without breaking a sweat and work WAS, WAC and DXCC in a single weekend using QRP and a "wet noodle" antenna. Thanks to all the usual suspects who gave of their time on this second weekend of December to toil in the contest. Best wishes for a happy holiday season and a prosperous new year. See you in the pile-ups. Arnie N6HC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 5,430 I had pretty low expectations going into this contest, especially after reviewing my log from last year. It took me the first three hous just to catch up with and pull ahead of my wretched rate from last year. Finally, in the 1700 hour Sunday morning, I passed my score from last year and pulled ahead. In the 2100 hour, I finally broke 100 QSOs. Darn, that was a lot of seat hours for a measly 100 QSOs. Many of these QSOs came thanks to the Sunday morning opening. I finished up with 109 really hard earned QSOs. I worked 13 different sections, six of them more than once. CA(72) was the most frequent, followed by CO(18). MT and UT tied at (4), and WA and WY tied at (2). All the others were single contacts. This was my first contest using a 10m beam, a Force-12 EF-510 5 element yagi. It was up only 25 feet, so I didn't get the full benefit of it. However, it did help me work five east coast mults that I couldn't have caught otherwise. It sits just below my 40m dipole, and I discovered I had to have it aimed with the elements at right angles to the dipole for the lowest noise level. Apparently the 40m dipole was reradiating noise into the beam. Maybe I can find a way to detune the 40m dipole before the next time I want to work 10m seriously. I took Friday and Saturday evenings off, as I have a high noise level in the evening hours, for some reason. It was pretty much gone in the early morning hours though. At least. when the dust had settled, I had beaten my 2007 score by over 5.5 times. That I can live with. Now if we could just get some sun spots back, maybe I could duplicate some of my earlier scores that right now seem unobtainable. Thanks to all for the QSOs. Hope to see you in the next contest. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 52,920 My first contest using the call N6WM. Thanks to Ken for the use of N6RO and expert cw operation. Always and absolute pleasure to work with you and such a fabulous station. Not a full effort but almost. There was some local QRN but Elecraft took care of it most of the time. I am admittedly weak at CW, but thanks to Ken for jumping in and making it more that just a few Q's!!! Friday... CM97/CM98 QSO Party Saturday... Pretty much the same except for VE/AZ/CO Sunday.. Holy Guacamole!!!! Did I spell that right? That was the most fun I have had on a ham radio since working an off the hook Es opening on 6 last summer. Picked up several South America stations as well. Thanks to everyone out there for the qso's, W6YX and KG6D for the casual Qso when it was dead, and the ever vigilant K6III and other kb'ers for the spots. 73/KB N6WM@N6RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,116 T-T Orion II, 100w 3 el SteppIR at 78' Bencher Skyhawk at 45' I originally planned another Multiop with XYL N7RQ. After reviewing last years "non-busy" hours, and there were many, we opted to schedule other activities for this weekend. Hearing cndx, and reading reports from the others out here in AZ, we made the right choice. I did get on for an hour, in two separate 30 minute periods. One near the contest start and the other early Saturday morning. Neither of these short periods were blessed with any real propagation, just some ground wave, meteor scatter and some minor E-skip. See you in 2010, probably our next serious go at this contest. 73, Bob K8IA Trustee: Signal Butte Contesters - N7AT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 4,620 Gave the K3 a spin on ten. Nice to hear some activity from out of state. 10 meters has that interesting mix of propagation modes that combines HF and VHF at different times in the sunspot cycle. This time it was behaving like 6 meters. Looking forward to running stations in a few years instead of searching for them. 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ON Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 760 Furthest QSO: Vermont ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7RK Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,792 Dismal cndx. Only spent 2 hours. Rig: FT-1000MP Antenna: 3 element Tribander at 28 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 233,600 Bottom line, no matter how low the solar flux, there's always life in good old 10 meters! Sporadic E and meteor scatter saved the day along with suprisingly good F2 + Es linked to F2 and TE to deep SA. The SA openings were better than last year, I made 28 Q's with PY and 23 with LU. I knew going into the contest that with Xmas on the doorstep, I didn't have a free pass to play radio for the weekend. Also expecting dismal condx, I didn't plan on spending much time in the test. Firday evening validated my decision with the poorest start I can ever remember. The locals weren't on in big numbers and there were only a few brief meteor scatter bursts to the west. Saturday morning was much the same with better MS, and seem to remember Es to VE1/9, QRT'ed from 1340-2100Z to chauffer wife around shopping, mainly for groceries, lot's of toting around, you know the drill. I turned on the radio at 21Z to find Es in to Atlantic Canada and mucho grande strength PY's and LU's. I even ran a few and added PJ2, P4, and VP5, KP2, KP4 via probably double hop Es as the band was open to south FL on Es(rate was 69/hr). By 23Z, things were pretty slow and the band nearly dead, I returned at 24Z to find some Es to what appeared to be only south FL and still some PY's and LU's; they continued being logged very slowly until around 0215Z! Around 01Z, the opening expanded to all of FL, GA, AL, TN, LA, MS and a few 0's; I got a serious run going on phone working mostly FL and finished up the 02Z hour with 77 Q's. Sunday morning was a struggle early with almost no activity at 1215Z, fired up in earnest around 13Z to find only some meteor scatter and locals. Just as I was heeding the breakfast call, there was an Es opening into VE1/VE9/VY2 which expanded to VE2; I started feeling a decent score coming on and moved first station a VE2 on CW to phone. A CT3 called in for only AF. Then, just as things started to get slow, the meteor scatter seemed to improve to the west You gotta be fast guys to make a QSO; and sonetimes that doesn't help, barely missed VE3UTT, sorry! Then some Es developed into MN (38 Q's total) and IA at first, expanding into all of 0-land (just 1 ND Q and 3 VE4's, moved 1 to CW) except CO eventually with many AR (worked about 18 total), east TX (33 Q's), IL (22 Q's, WB9Z never made the Es opening). 16Z rate was 95. Around 17Z, I started alternating CQ's between west working MN/IA and south (have 2 el Force 12 fixed south) working FL. MN died down around 1730 and swung the "mighty" 5 el yagi around to FL and considering the already large number of FL stations logged, had an incredible run into there for 20-25 minutes. I was guessing the Es footprint on this end was small, but K2PS was runnin' them same time, so guess it was just loud sig + rare state on my end that brought them in (rate was 117!). Total FL Q's were 151! I operated thru until about 1845Z working 74 in the 3/4 hour, and the opening to AZ/CA kept me going. The only decent strength AZ was WA7NB who popped out of the noise to S7 1/2 kHz below my run freq. K6NR was first CA (I think he has been first before) on CW; I stuck around about 4-5 minutes on CW catching UT, 2 weak AZ, and a few CA, then QSY'ed to phone to seek my left coast fortune, but most signals were weak and after I quit getting CA answers around 1840Z, a quick sweep from 28435 down to 28400 found no CA and very few sigs. Total CA Q's were 27, I suspect via double hop Es as NE and KS were booming in at the same time. Just a couple of CO were added during the same period. After that it was QRT for Xmas tree and visit to mom's, I made about 14 more Q's in 22Z hour including N5PR in NM, the band died around 2230Z. Again, as evidenced by the large turnouts from FL, locals VA (90 Q's and could have milked out more), MD-68, and AL-20 and AR-18, contest activity seems to be on the rise; 2000-3000 Q's are just around the upturn of the cycle corner for this one! I had dumb luck taking Saturday daytime off and operating Sunday when condx were better. New England activity seemed to be down and condx were never open to there while I was on; I hope you all are warm and cozy again after the ice storm. Try operating sometime with 3/4 inch of ice on the yagi, 10M yagis become a CB band antenna. Running on phone was more fun than S&P and running on CW, so I stuck to phone whenever rates were good; phone activity was very poor compared to CW during the "lean" hours. Compared to last year, my score was up about 50K; FL and SA and a few more good hours made the difference. Many thanks for all of the Q's; this fall season turned out not to be the bummer I was guessing it would be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8MR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 16,416 This was my way of adding to my 10-Meter WAS, hence the unusual (for me) High Power and Assisted categories. The meteor and backscatter sure helped with the "local" states. In the end, I added 15 more. It was a lot more fun than the previous two years. Mike, N8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,240 Had Some Fun in this one. Just giving points out and trying for some New ones. I Did Find the Super-Station, So I was done.. Copied most By Ear and trying to get my CW better. I used CocoaModem and did have a few problems but think I got it fixed. Worked a few in the club, and I'm sure I'm at the bottom of Score on this one, but someone has to do it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9SF Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 11,440 Rig : Elecraft K3 Antennas : SteppIR 4 element at 55 feet. Soapbox : Some pretty tough conditions this year. The K3 was super on receive. Everyone should get one before next year so you can hear me. HI HI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9TF Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 7,644 WOW! for a while there I thought I was in a VHF contest! Felt like I should be exchanging grid squares for as many IL stations I worked, but I'm glad they were there. Popped in and out of the shack for 30 minutes here and 60 minutes there. The longest chair time was Sunday morning when conditions woke up some to the east, southeast and south. I actually had a mini run going from NC! Not bad for Qrp. I wanted to stay in the chair longer, but at 11:30AM local time, the outside temp hit 45 degrees, and I needed to get out and get a 5 mile run in. (My other hobby) By the time I got back in the shack, signals were quite a bit more attenuated, and I only made a couple of more runs to the shack after that. It was nice to hear a few stations booming in from CO the last 15 minutes of the contest for me. Bettered my Qrp score from last year by almost double. Lets see if that holds up for another IL certificate! Lets hope we get some more sun spots before next years event! 73 Gene N9TF Station conditions: TS-2000 at 5 watts, MA5B at 37 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 30,634 Very spotty conditions with lots of QSB. Missed reports because station faded out before completing exchange. High light was QSO with ZS4U. Heard F5IN for few minutes before he faded. Station: FT-1000MP, Ten-Tec Titan 500W Antennas: 40M Delta Loop Cushcraft R5 Vertical Most QSOs were made with the 40M Loop. Log uploaded to LoTW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 7,550 Favorable sign was several locals worked that I have never heard before. Outside of the local area it sounded like a zero land qso party with a few large signals around 1700z on Sunday. 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 35,844 With these conditions the dipole worked better that the beam. Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5Q Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,604 Tough Conditions to USA, nice signals from SA and Caribbean. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5TR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 14,016 Very part time. Glad I was on the last couple of hours for the Sun PM opening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NB7V Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,176 Tough conditions! everywhere I pointed my antenna AZ came back to me no east coast heard. I was amazed that the Rotor turned as it was 23 degrees below 0 sunday morning without the wind. One guy did interupt my CQing to tell me that I was splatering his Pro3 16 KCs up the band- He must of had all the Propagation! Hope things improve next year or I will be forced to do a DXpedition to Arizona! MK 5 TL922A Kt34xa @52ft on top of a mountain Dave NB7V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 5,148 Never intended a full bore effort due to anticipated poor propagation. - Most of the time was just checking the band sporadically on Saturday - not much doing here. Sunday afternoon was a pleasant surprise - don't know what I missed that morning due to church and family dinner. Nice to hear some signals on 10 and even when it is slightly open, it is the band for QRP! - Really had a VHF feel to it. I'm confident (and optimistic) that things will be much better next year! Yaesu FT-897D at 5 watts out with Wilson SY-3 3 element tribander at 50 feet. 73, Randy, ND0C QRP: You don't have to be crazy - but it helps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1RD Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 304 Fewer QSOs than last year, but to more interesting places. Somehow FL and MS made the trip all the way up here to MA. I was only able to work one FL station though several others were heard. The MS station, well, at QRP I know I was very weak. Maybe I'm not in his log... On the other hand, he gave me a 599, right? {grin} I guess we'll see. My K2 has problems. K1YA told me on the air that the K2 sounded awful (and that's not right!). So, I switched to the IC-703 sometime on Saturday. I guess I can at least claim that I got one honest signal report! The K2 will need to go on the bench over the holidays. My G5RV, hidden in the trees from the dreaded condo association, will likely need some attention after the severe wind storm this week. I didn't even try to use it. Instead, I set up the TW-2010 vertical dipole in the woods behind my unit and use that for most of the contest. The other antenna used was a PAR end-fed for 40/20/10 suspended off my deck into some trees (used mostly to gauge the relative performance of the TW-2010). Overall, I believe the Traveler performed well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2L Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,216 A little here, a little there on a busy family weekend. Thanks for all the GA QSOs from SECC, SEDX folks and my County Hunter friends around the country. My operation was a little more sporadic than the E propagation, but it was a lot fun. The band was dead and then an E cloud would pass by somewhere and you had to make hay while the sun was shining. I hear I went to bed too early Saturday night! 73 de Greg NM2L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,330 Part time effort of exactly 2 hours on Sunday morning, and a nice opening to the north (IL/IN/WI/CT/MA)for about 50 mins and to the south for about 15 mins, only DX worked was HI3CCP and HR9/WQ7R. Can't wait for next year when hopefully the bands will start to come alive. Paul - NN4F Equipment: FTDX9000D, HF2500DX, 7el Monobander at 70ft, Antron99 Vertical at 25ft, N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7ZZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 69,372 The going was tough at times, but the meteor scatter Friday night and Saturday helped me log every mult west of the Mississippi. And thanks for the good Sunday Es openings to the Midwest and Texas to get the QSO numbers up (97 Texas Q’s .. thanks guys!). Managed to get most of the southeastern states, but only OH and NJ in the northeast. Nothing else other than four South American mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3CW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 56,224 Poor propagation in general. First 2 hours of contest made only 8 QSO's mostly locals with 2 PY and one LU.After that silence and went QRT for sleep.Next day started with FL stations. Later some from eastern USA. During the second day had some TX,NV,SD,WI,IN and some from VE including ON and QC. The only station from the Caribbean heard were 2 from XE. No Europe or Africa stations herd this time.Few from SA including PY,LU,CX,OA,CE among others. About 75% of score was in CW. Hope to have better conditions for 2009 contest. Thanks for all stations that made contact with me. Merry XMAS. Julio Medina M.D. NP3CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR5M Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 158,474 Thank goodness for Sunday! For example: Sat 1600-1900z (3hours) made 64 Q's Sun 1600-1900z (also 3 hours) made 509 Q's What a difference a day makes! During this contest I went from falling asleep in the chair 6-7 times on Saturday to not being able to leave the chair and wishing I had a relief tube available on Sunday ( I didn't and I didn't!!) I definately will be back next year and, hopefully, without the cold! George NR5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 33,558 Can I just enter this log in the Florida QSO Party?? Seriously, thanks to all the Florida stations that were on, because they made things somewhat enjoyable. Maybe I'll see how many counties I worked... At one point when no one was answering my CQ's, I went back and pulled out my ARRL 10 log from 2002 and saw that I made 400 QSO's, with 50+ mults from W/VE and 50+ DX Mults, just on CW. I made the best of it that I could this weekend. Luckily, things opened to the Midwest a bit on Sunday when I was actually on the air, so that added a bunch of mults. Best moment came with 10 minutes to go in the contest. I decided to call CQ on SSB, and VP5JM answered me on an otherwise dead band. Very exciting. Then a minute later I thought - Why didn't I move her to CW??? Arrrgh. At least I had a few DX stations this weekend, unlike 2007. Thanks to everyone for all the Q's. I had a nice SSB run into Florida on Sunday morning, which was very enjoyable. Happy Holidays to everyone and see you in the RAC Winter and Stew Perry for a few QSO's. 73 Jamie NS3T http://www.radio-sport.net Your home for ham radio contest news ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NU4SC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 105,600 Saturday was like a VHF/UHF contest, but we did manage to work one France station. It was so boring that we switched operators every hour. On Sunday conditions improved and it was more like a HF contest for several hours in the morning and early afternoon. However, in mid-afternoon the only new stations worked were in S&P and we found them by S&P. The rig was a K3, ETO 91B, and a HexBeam at 45 feet. The software was N1MM Logger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 456,240 We got a lot of practice at weak signal work. Last year we logged over 800 qsos in the first 6 hours. This year there were only 141 qsos in the log by the time we called it quits the first night but did have a little DX in the log as several ZL's gave us a call. Saturday turned out to be a very long day. Since KU5B and I overslept we did not get back on the air when we intended to but I can pretty much guess what we missed; nothing. A snails pace all day long and into the end of Saturday night left us with only 482 raw qsos in the log before shutting down and getting some rest for whatever Sunday had in store for us. The band was still open at 0700z Sunday but about the only signals left were the major participants. I would like to say thanks to that the person that turned on the switch Sunday morning. Although it was not really close to the best of times it was very much improved over what everyone had been dealing with. Never thought we would break the signal shield to points in the northwest and far north but we did manage to get ID, MT, ND and VE5. Never heard a sound from NH, VT or ME and I think we were not in the right place at the right time to work RI. Arkansas must have been blocked also. Usually we work it but this year we worked every state around it. This was not fun for many hours but I believe in finishing what is started. It did get better so I figure the fruits of the labor came on Sunday. The operating crew had a new member this year. KJ5T joined us for his first 10m contest and I think he left Sunday afternoon having learned a great deal. As usual, not all of the operators are here the whole time...but that is fine as long as we have a capable body in the chair. This HAS to be the end of the worst. The only way it could have been any worse would have been if the band were the same on Sunday as it was on Saturday. Appreciate all the patience while we tried to pull calls out of the ether. This was indeed hard work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 23,120 Wow...what a nice surprise. I was only able to operate 5 hours due to numerous family activities (hockey game, Christmas parade, church, church Christmas musical, etc) but the time I was on was active and lots of fun! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, 73- Jeff NX9T www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY3A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 45,760 Always a surprise. EU, SA and propagation to lots of US. Many signals were white noise weak! My guess is scores, at least from East Coast USA, will be higher this year than last. Orion II, Alpha 91B 5L at 60ft 73; Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ1U Class: M/S HP Total Score = 26,988 Not really planning a full effort we let our group know the station would be set up for a M/S effort and anyone stopping by could sit in the seat and QSOs. Little did I know my wife had planned a surprise 60th birthday party for me. I thought everyone was showing up to operate who had responded to my email. I also was upset when late Saturday afternoon noone had showed up yet! Well our score is weak but we had one heck of a party! I even had friends from Canada drive 8 hours through the storm that took many an antenna down in northern and western New England. No damage here except my my head Sunday morning. Thanks to the few we did contact and maybe next year we will give it a harder effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL5M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 30,080 Conditions better than last year but I expected more DX stations. Saturday: ZS, V5, Z2, PY, Sunday: CX and only one NA station - N1EU (came to CQ) Equipment here: SW: TR4W tcvr: FT-1000MP MARK-V PA: KVZ1AP 600W ant: 3el Yagi at 30m (fortunatelly I saved my 6el OWA for better weather) I lost that antene because of strong wind and ice formation on Sunday in the afternoon and I had to finnish. It must be nice to enjoy this contest somewhere on the beach... Thanks to all who called me! 73, Vojta - OL5M (OK1GI) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40K Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 50,078 Thanks to Andy AE6Y/P49Y and John W6LD/P40L for use of their great station. Thanks for the QSO's. Logs will be loaded to LOTW. QSL cards direct or bureau via WM6A. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PE7T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,720 A real search (mostly) & pounce fest. Everything that moved was logged...I even worked a couple of beacons for good measure. Equipment: IC-725/QRO to a sloping ZS6BKW @ 13 m. A directional antenna would have helped a lot with the intercontinental DX....only 2x South America were worked. The only NA was K1ZZ, heard briefly and faintly...but not worked. The Organising Committee must be a strictly purist bunch to deny all single ops the benefit of Cluster assistance. At an SFI of 69, on 10 m in the middle of winter, perhaps we should be using elevating moonbounce arrays. Anyway, thanks for the Q's. Next year's event has to be better than this...see you then! Wilbert, PE7T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 105,280 Other than a magnificent U.S. opening in the 1500Z hour on Saturday, this was all pain. Biggest thrill was a call from VE4RA at 20 over 9 on what sounded like a totally dead band. Lots of searchlight propagation to very small areas, including a string of Tennessee stations, but nobody else around them, and three Idaho QSOs in rapid succession, but nothing at that time from WA, MT, OR, VE6, VE7.... Go figure. 10 is nothing if not fascinatingly unpredictable. Now I can go back to trying to repair the mountain of equipment we have lost to corrosion and humidity in the past three weeks. Keeping this callsign on the air is a sometimes overwhelming chore. But it's just a hobby, right?! :) 73 from Geoff, PJ2DX (W0CG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PU2WDX Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 504 504 points on arrl 10m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2BN Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 1,148 Club is Cantareira dx Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2LSM Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 78,144 Thanks all for qso´s and I am thankful for people called me on cw mode so slow, I am learning cw and need patience hihiihi, really thanks!!! We did have good condutions on saturday evening...nice to see 10 meters with many people calling contest :-)) 73 see you in the next contest Alan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2MTV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 28,100 Rig: FT1000MP Mark Field, Drake L4, Antenna 3 ele 14/21/28 @ 24m Hi, N1MM Vs 8.11.3. Tnx fer all qso. Andre-PY2MTV Guaruja/SP PW2D Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 21,056 Last year score (2007): Mode QSOs Mults ------------------- CW: 0032 0017 SSB: 0056 0018 ------------------- Total: 0088 0035 Total Score = 8,400 Like you can see, much better luck than last year, with I, F, OK, S5, EA and DL station on log. S&P all the time, because nobody can ear me with 5 watts, calling CQ. Lost some multipliers due lack of power, but KT34XA is still showing its potencial on 10 meters band. Amazing... Totally surprise... Op Time is something wrong because I did nothing Friday and Saturday early night - also, is reflecting a lot of RX time hi hi. I am happy to close this contest season with 120 QSOs using QRP and hope to listen all of you next year. Best 73 - PY2NY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2SEX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 72,744 The propagation was so bad, but a good opening on saturday and Sunday afternoon made the conteSt great! I could test my new antenna and instead 40m, Low power in 10m is awesome!!! All station that I heard, I have worked!! :) This is my favorite band and now with my new setup and my neighbor claims about his PC's Speaker interference, I need to find out what is happening. Thanks to all that called me and answer my calls. See you again on the next one. PY2SEX - Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2WC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 104,192 HI TO ALL, I LOVE THIS CONTEST, BUT LOST THE OPENING TO USA ON SATURDAY, SPORADIC OPENING TO EUROPE, LU1HF THE BIG DOG STATION MAKE UP 1000 QSO'S, GOOD SURPRISE MY BIG FRIEND PEDRO CX5BW BACK AFTER HEART CIRURGY. EQUIPAMET: YAESU FT 1000MP MARK V FIELD ALPHA 99 - ONLY 600 WATTS - ANTENA 8 ELEM. LOGPERIÓDIC ACOM LAPTOP DELL - BUT MANUAL TRANSMISSION, INTERFACE IS BROKEN CUL, PY2WC - WAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2ZY Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 4,316 Band QSOs Pts Cty 28 83 166 26 Total 83 166 26 Score: 4.316 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY3DX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 44,748 It's been hard trying to find dits and dats inside of nothing. No signal traces, at all. 10m has been a dead band, or at least it was in this particular contest. Bad prop all the time. Almost no Europeans in my log. The same to the other continents, except the Americas, where I could work a little harder during some little band openings. Hope next year the things could be a bit better, in the beggining of the upcoming cicle. Thanks to all those guys that worked me, in spite of these conditions. We're gonna mingle in the next year's contest season, for sure. Seasons greetings to everyone and may Santa brings to us a better propagation and many DX in 2009. God bless you all! Paul - PY3DX py3dx@globo.com TS 850 SAT FL 2100z (500W) 5 elem monoband yagi (long boom) @ 30mh. MIC PRO II by PY2HCD (voice equalizer device) Blaster Head Set by PY3YY N1MM software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY3MHZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 175,824 Setup Antenna : 7el Homebrew @ 18m (12m boom) by PY3IOD Rig: TS950SD Amp: Ciclone 2000 2x 4-400 73, Miguel PY3MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY4FQ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,720 Propagation Very bad! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52ZW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 13,268 Rig: TS-950SDX 1500W 6el Yagi @ 15m. Just for fun.Nice to see North American station on 10m. Saturday:W0YR,N1EU,WX3B,KA1VMG,WN1M,N1UR,K2FU on CQ....K1ZZ S&P Sunday:VE1ZA,VE1OP on CQ 73 Fredi S52ZW,9A2ZW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 46,332 ARRL 10M WITHOUT USA! HEARD K1ZZ JUST FOR 5 SECONDS SECOND DAY. JUST FEW DX WORKED ALL OTHER CONTACTS IS EUROPE. FIRST DAY BETTER CONDITIONS THAN SECOND DAY. HP WITH 5/5/5 AND 4/4 YAGIS. 73 SLAVKO S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 24,300 Better condx. than I expected! As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 4,828 Last 2 Q's were LU1HF and CX5BW, go figure. Thanks for the Q's. Harry VA3EC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3KA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 32,154 Just a few hours here and there, all S&P. Interesting meteor scatter QSO's on Saturday, sure gotta be quick! Only 1 west coast QSO. Was nice to work a handful of Carribean and South America. Look forward to nest year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3WR/W4 Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 3,082 Got on for a few hours down here in St. Petersburg Florida Saturday conditions were only Florida and Texas being heard. Sunday worked various parts of the US. Only heard VE3KZ working others. Was nice to see 10mtrs open up a little bit for this contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 616 It is better to give than to receive, but on 10M this weekend I didn't do much of either. Missed 'em all except AZ, CA, CO, MT, NV, OR and UT. Had aimed to blast through last year's total Qs but fell short by one -- with 22. It can't be any worse than this next year. Let's go Cycle 24! Heard many S9 pings -- meteor scatter, I believe, lasting long enough for a dit or dah and gone again. Those I managed to work were usually pretty strong, but there were a couple of ESP contacts, too. Blinding snowstorm had the yagi nicely loaded Friday night and all day Saturday, but thankfully wind knocked it all away as it piled up. Beats the heck out of ice, which we don't get much of. My thoughts are with K1TTT and everyone else struck by ice this weekend. 73, and all the best as the holidays approach. -- Bud VA7ST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1DT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,816 Saturday was better than expected, the band was actually open from time to time. First QSO was from Florida. Unfortunately, also the last station heard that far south. Sunday was moreorless a wipeout, only a small opening between 1315Z and 1430Z here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1NB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 11,004 Rig: Yaesu FT1000MP Antenna: Butternut HF6V (3/4 wavelength on 10 M) Soapbox: from rates of 170+/hr, to nil for hours; the tease of sunspots !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 65,232 All CW at 100 watts, but Telnet makes me M/S... Lots of W1, W2, W3, W4, W8 and W9...No propogation to W0, W5, W6 or W7 at all...Very little EU, very litte Carib/SA... In the last 2 months, I think I've worked every station in VA at least twice... Had some good runs when prop was there...It was feast or famine... Merry Christmas all... Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2DWA Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 154 All reports sent were 59 QC, unless otherwise noted. Equipment Description: Kenwood TS-930 Heathkit SB-200 dipole for 80 meter w/ant tuner Comments: I haven't antenna for 10 meter I use my 80 meter dipole to make some QSO, very surprinsing on work several very loud PYs stations Merry Xmas and HNY to all the HAM around the world See you in CQ 160 CW. 73, Claudio VE2DWA-LU7DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2TZT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 93,636 Many of us, including me, had underestimated the propagation for this contest and started it casually or did not participate at all. Too bad, because the conditions were far better that last year. There where interesting openings and a diversity in propagation modes. At several occasions, operators were missing at the other side while the band was opened, as for example between FL and QC two hours before the end. Of course, it was far from top of cycle, but the band was alive, proving that pessimism is contributing to create bad conditions. The propagation was mostly North-South, but I had an interesting East-West opening on Sunday to CA and NV, thinking that perhaps I missed an opening to Europe earlier. Of course, we had dead hours, including those when signal was very strong for a few seconds, just the time to answer to a call, and then disappeared for a full minute just to prevent from completing the QSO. Very frustrating, many contacts where lost like that. I guess that those who switched on the station during those hours concluded a little too fast that this was the conditions for the whole weekend. Happily, it was not the case, and finally, I spent more time that forecasted. Thank for the calls and will try to be here for the Canadian Winter Contest. Gilles, VE2TZT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 14,000 Nice that we finally had some sunspots! Thanks for the QSO's, and hope to see you all in the RAC contest in a few weeks. 73, Tom - VE3CX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 12,880 Usual struggle - pulling weak signal out of power line noise... Not much fun. Few minutes here, few minutes there. Busy weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GSI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 16,320 Quite poor propagation here with many unanswered CQ's between contacts. I had to give up part of Friday evening due to RFI noise from my neighbour's large screen(Plasma?)TV. One good thing they go to bed early, but so did 10 meters. Look for my log in LoTW real soon and it goes without saying all cards are QSLed %100 if you need one. TNX to all for your Q's, Eric. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KF Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 48,450 There was a terrible noise up to S7 during the contest in ssb mode. It looks like 1.8 Mc but not 28. Thanks to all who called me. 73! Alex. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 82,992 Discovered some gremlins in the 10m yagi and feeder after such a long time of lack of use. My apologies to those I couldn't copy because of intermittent noise somewhere between the antenna and the receiver. Something was letting in a bunch of birdies that could be controlled from time to time by sending a dit or tripping the VOX. This was also accompanied by a major change in the background noise. I suspect that the radiated power wasn't up to par either. The SWR and loading were a little wonky. Needs a little TLC before we get sunspots again! 73 Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 83,400 Latitude challenged here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3ZIN Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 304 Very limited effort this year - condx were horrible. Perhaps next year? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,372 Listened for a while Saturday afternoon and nothing but static. Saturday night there was a bit of an E's opening to the IL, IN, OH and also down to FL and GA. Sunday morning some more E's and picked up a few more states and a few surprises like ON and UT. Actually heard plenty of weak signals but not enough to decode any. Being a busy time of year it was hard to dedicate any serious time to this one. Hopefully in a couple of years this will be a real fun event. Being -25degs outside with a windchill of -45, makes listening to 10m static sound attractive! Seasons greeting to everyone! Ed VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 4,080 The condx were infinitely better than last year as last year I didn't hear a single signal. Not that things were good! In order to describe conditions this far north, it is necessary to describe two different kinds of "band openings". The first is that condx are favorable for a band opening, and this appeared to occur for about a 2 hour period in the morning (about 9AM to 11AM local time or 1600 to 1800 UTC). Within this two hour window, the second kind of band opening occurred - and these lasted anywhere from less than a second to about five minutes. Suddenly there would be signals and sometimes they would be loud. Like a switch got turned on. Then, just as quickly, they would be gone. Quite frequently the switch got turned off in the middle of the QSO. So for those who are attempting to work stations in the great white north, please understand that you cannot afford to repeat your call or my call. I must have lost a dozen QSOs this way. Most successful QSOs were less than 10 seconds. The exception was the one QSO with Mexico, which lasted about 30 seconds, until we both got the exchange correct. And this was my best (and only) DX contact! Keep in mind that the calculated MUF never got abot 28 MHZ for this latitude, and on top of this, most U.S. stations within range have their beams pointed anywhere but at VE6. So making any contacts was a challenge. I'm hoping that next year will see some real propagation - not the Sporadic E or whatever it is that we have to rely on right now. But at temperatures averaging -28C for the past few days (and with -40C windchills), there's not a whole lot else to do. Thanks and hope to see you next year. Jerry VE6CNU Rig: FT-1000MP and FL-7000 amp (about 500W) Ant: TH6-DXX at 40' Software: N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7CC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 44,856 Conditions poor. Every once in a while a W4 was workable. No other USA east of SD heard. Worked 18 states/provinces plus 5 countries. CE -1, CX -3, LU - 9, PY - 3, XE -4 States/Provinces - QSOs CA - 135 WA - 94 AZ - 38 CO - 32 BC - 17 NV - 9 MT - 7 OR - 7 UT - 7 NM - 6 ID - 4 SD - 4 TN - 3 AG4V W4DAN AD4EB AB - 2 AL - 1 K4TD GA - 1 K4EA SC - 1 K2SX WY - 1 K3 + TL922 stacked yagis 4/5/5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9CEH Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 5,928 Thanks and 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK8AA Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 11,800 David Burger VK2CZ operating as VK8AA in Darwin, NT. (k3hz@ieee.org) The 2008 ARRL 10m event was yet another milestone for the ongoing challenge of keeping up a log and appearances in this event. This year the planning was left to a much later stage, with heavy work commitments, other significant international travel with the IEEE, holiday season pressures and this year the event being somehow closer to Christmas made it all the more challenging. Looking at Darwin weather and keeping an eye on what the locals were saying about the tropical weather build up , i.e. the wet season, meant that my plan was to simply re-cycle the big 9 element yagi from 2007, with some minor adjustments to stretch a little more gain. The antenna grew in size to approx 85' (that's 26m in metric). Many of the local Darwinites suggested this was the worst uncomfortable hot wet season in many years, something you’d find hard to argue against. This year I operated from a very different part of Darwin nowhere near the cooling effects of water. While there are no hills in Darwin, there is a slightly higher part located in the industrial area around Hidden Valley and Berrimah. The GPS showed approx 80m above sea level.. a vast improvement over the past years locations which were just 2 to 3m above sea level. Being in luck with a lull in some of the building activity, the opportunity to utilise a 60 ton crane to lift my antenna up around 43m above ground. The tip of the crane jib was around 57m.. There are some photo’s to be published. Looking to the USA and central Pacific yielded only a handful of KH6 stations, who reported they had not heard anything of mainland USA either. Pointing the big yagi down to east coast VK and to ZL had pileups on day 1, something not often heard in these parts, especially on 10m. Pointing north yielded patchy paths to JA/DU/KH2 and HL when it was clear east coast VK was enjoying some major openings. Later, paths to India and to Africa opened, and surprise contacts with 3B8, ZS6, FR. Nothing was heard from Europe or central Asia, despite persistent attempts and beaming into those areas. Figuring that day 2 may be an improvement, turned out to be grossly incorrect. The number of day 2 QSO's was well down from day 1, and only 4 additional multipliers were added. Midway through day 2, my operation was to be curtailed around 0930z on day 2 - while this sounds pretty serious, it meant that I would only miss the very last 3 hours of the event. You can get an idea of the feeling when some else pulls your operation before a contest is due to finish !. With no choice here, I was fully de-mobilised almost a full day earlier than planned. Needless to say, the tropical heat of 34C and 85%+ humidity also played a major factor in this event. Here are some of the odd things that happened: - I assembled the yagi boom back to front, and with an incorrect tubing segment. The yagi just looked a bit weird, so no electrical compromise. - The soft-start controller fitted to by linear amp failed at turn-on, so a hurried fix to secure close replacement parts and bypass the triac made everything work after 45 minutes of mild panic. - Major electrical storm went through, setting off all the storm warning alarms in the crane electronics, and a direct hit just 200m away.. everything was fully unplugged at the time, so no damage. - Had a very close slow fly-by with both a helo and a couple of F/A-18’s, as I’m sure the nearby Air Force were curious about an antenna so close to controlled airspace. - I forgot to pickup and pack the driven element, realising that as I was waiting at the airport to fly home.. ! a few hurried phone calls and hopefully all will be sorted. In summary, many more stations activated this year compared to last, but no stations heard or worked past 9,000km (5,600mi) in any direction, meaning a drop in multipliers from last year. My expectation is a lower final score to 2007. All up, 348 QSO’s with 17 Mults, prelim score around 11,800. JA 155 VK 142 ZL 10 9M2 8 B 7 DU 3 HI 3 YB 3 ZS 3 9M6 2 HL 2 HS 2 KH2 2 3B8 1 FR1 1 VR 1 VU 1 Many thanks again to Mark VK8MS for logistical support over the past 7 years and also to Greg VK8HLF without whom this years trip would have been a flop. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,456 I didn't expect to get too many but I figured teh band would open a bit to South America. No go. Strongest signal I heard was VO1MP... who's 5 miles away :) More listening than operating. Gave me a bit of time to sort some QSL cards. Come on sunspots! Don't forget the RAC Winter Contest on Dec 27th. CU then. 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 3,444 Reports relative to the arrival of a new solar cycle have been grossly exagerated !!!!!!!!!!!!! C'y'all next one GLWCDR 73 Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2PTT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 12 Wow, what a contest - I am lucky I did one QSO on each mode :) Three EU stns heard but very weak for a few minutes. Hopefully will be better next year. 73 de Prasad VU2PTT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 280 A few points for MCC.With yagi fixed NNW, any signals I heard were pretty weak,and never heard any SSB signals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 32,656 Wow! This is 10 times the QSOs I expected. Thanks to the ops that worked me and ARRL for this contest. -Robby VY2SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 384,770 Thanks to everyone for another fun 10 meter contest! As everyone has said, conditions werent the best....I beat my brains in for 34 hours with all of Pauls hardware for 387K points. In 2002 from my home qth and a little A4 tribander and low power, I had 1.1M points. hi Lets hope for some sunspots! I took the afternoon off from work, went for a 5 mile run in the cold, and then drove the 100 miles from Stevens Point to Eau Claire. When I arrived at 2200Z I found Paul laying on the floor underneath the 10 meter position pulling on wires. Oh Oh! Apparently when he fired up the power in "The Chalet", all the computers came on except the 10 meter computer. After we fiddle with it for 15 minutes, we decided to just replace it with one of Pauls spares. Paul ran down to his house to get one and I unhooked all the com ports, dvp cables, etc from the computer. Before Paul got back I put the computer on the work bench and gave it one more try. And of course it worked. So since all my TR files were on this machine, we hooked everything back up and used it. The only other hardware excitement came 1/2 hour into the contest when none of the rotors worked! I fiddled with them while working stations for the next half hour and then it dawned on me....I had plugged a 1500 watt space heater (for my feet...it gets chilly in "The chalet" in the winter!)into the power strip most of the rotors were on and blew a circuit breaker. Paul has a wide variety of 10 meter antennas to choose from:(http://www.qth.com/w0aih/10m.htm Last year I used the 4X5 stack almost exclusively. Paul got a couple more in line that were out of commission last year (The 5L at 200 and the 4X3 stack). The 5L at 200 worked great and thats the antenna i kept pointed SW most of the time. The 4X5 again was the best and kept it pointed SE most of the time. The 4X3 didnt perform very well and we think it has some coax or connector problems. When working, it should be a very good scatter antenna. The contest started our fairly good with 253 qso's in the log by 0600 when i pulled the switch. Saturdasy morning started out good with 3 hours and 150 qso's in the log before the band decided to die. The next 8 hours netted 75 qso's. Luckily Saturday evening got better and I went to bed with 600 qsos in the log. Sunday was pretty good all day long with rates of 40-60. Hour 1500Z peaked at 92 and 2100z was the low point at 9. The last 2 hours were a nice opening to Oklahoma, New Mexico and West Texas. Again, thanks to everyone for the qso's and thanks to Paul for letting me use his fine station. Its always a fun time and Paul and Mary are great hosts! 73 Scott NE9U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 182,448 My main goal this weekend was to work MT, WY, and AK on 10m SSB to almost finish out 6BWAS on both CW and SSB using LOTW. K07X came through for me in WY, and K7BG called back in on CW for a second QSY to SSB to finally get through after the first attempt faded into the background (true of many Saturday Qs!). Heard nothing further northwest than WA and SK (and only a few), so AK will have to wait for another day. I'd already LOTW confirmed 10m MS on both modes, but when WQ5L called in, he was kind enough to try 15m SSB to catch another one for me. Down to 9 contacts left (four on 160m SSB). Saturday was really hard work .. 8 hours / 81 Qs and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss an opening. Sunday morning started out with actual signals to be worked and suddenly exploded with 5 hours of fun as I went from 200 to 650 Qs. Even the last two hours added another 100 Qs (compared to 8 Qs total in 2005-2007 combined. It was also fun to follow the band around with most of the action east until a nice run of TX, NM, MN, and CO on Sunday evening. I didn't turn my antennas much because we had furious 35-40mph winds both days with up to 50mph gusts. I was often surprised by a VA or GA coming in loud off the back of the beam, but the few times I turned back that direction on Sunday evening, I got no further Qs until I turned back west. My only DX stations were a lone PY and several XE. Overall, missed AK, HI, ND, SD, IA, AR, and all of 1-land except CT. Only VEs worked were SK, ON, QC. Hope everyone has a happy holiday season. THANKS to all for the Qs in 2008! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 85,680 Contest started out Friday evening with what seemed to be meteor scatter to CA. Saturday things got better in the morning to Pacific NW with Sporadic Es. Sunday was good for the balance of the contest with Sporadic Es which took turns going in different directions so contestants could get some new mults and QSOs. Even worked a few DX stations in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. 73 Ken, W0ETT Rig: FT1000mp MkV with 150w to hf yagis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,200 Thanks for the Qs. Friday night had some interesting Meteor Scatter Qs. Look for you on the next one... 73 de W0PC (Rick) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0SD Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 127,200 "IT IS ALL ABOUT Pride" First the multipliers and rates are at the end. W0SD has been blessed to be in the top 10 of the 10 meter contest every year staring in 1997 with the exception of 2003. I have been operating it myself most of the time, mostly SSB but Joe W0DB did a mixed and CW entry as well. Here are are results: 1997 3rd 1998 10th 1999 7th 2000 op W0DB 10th 2001 op w0DB 7th 2002 op W0DB 5th 2004 4th 2005 3rd 2006 1st 2007 3rd 2008 ? I have always said to make the top 10 five years in row is very hard to do. We had a 6 year run from 1997-2002 between Joe W0DB and myself. I have a 4 year run going and had great hopes of making it 5 this year. The challenge began on November 15th when Joe who was here for SS spotted 4 elements broken on the 10 meter beam on the 195 foot tower. This is not a good thing this late in the year. I got the aluminum ordered on Nov 17th and we had a nice day on Nov 26th the day before Thanksgiving and Bill N0ARU and Edith W0OE my XYL were the ground crew and we got the 4 broken elements fixed. WOW! That was a blessing. That is the nicest WX I ever remember being on a tower that late in the year. Earlier this summer I got the rotor fixed on the 5 el 10 meter at 105 feet. I had a rotor plug problem that did not want to make a connection sometimes. During SS we discovered SWR on the 10 meter phasing lines. I checked the antennas and found they were OK. Early last week i got that all fixed and we got the K3 with the "SUB" rcv going just in time for the 160 contest so I spent this past week learning how to use the "SUB" rcv and more importantly set the audio up on the K3 on transmit with the help of N0ARU and WD0T. When Friday night of the contest came I was ready to roll. Things started about as normal and the line noise was low and the 195 foot 5 element played well with the least noise but the other antennas did not have a lot of noise. The one sporadic "E" opening on Friday night was to the NW otherwise it was meterors and likely very, very spotty Sproradic E. Anyway we ended up with 152 Q's and 34 states. The Q's were very low as we have been getting a good Sporadic "E" opening the first night for several years but given only the opening to the NW where there is not a lot of activity I was OK with it and 33 states/provinces is good by bed time. Saturday started out OK and by noon we had 290 and 38 states and provinces. Not very good but again we really did not have what I would call a real Sproradic "E" opening yet so things looked reasonably OK. THEN IT HAPPENED! I think is was a big solar wind blast that hit. Anyway I though last year on Sunday afternoon was bad but that was nothing. Look at these totals: 1800 12 Q's 1900 2 Q's 2000 1 Q 2100 1 Q 2200 1 Q 2300 0 Q 0000 2 Q Can you believe it in 7 hours I made 19 QSO's. From 1 pm until 7pm local I only made 7 qso's. I sure could of used some local QSO's but they did not happen then. WHAT A GRIND!!!! Pride says you do not quit! Finally at 0124z I slowly started making QSO's and ended up at 360 Q's and 40 states and provinces but zero DX. I went to bed late but the Meteror shower was not what I had hoped for and thought the top 10 five years in a row is "NOT GOING TO HAPPEN". I really had done all I could but there just was not any sporadic "E". Maybe there is a "SLIM" chance the same has been true for others. However with the terrible DX I really don't see any hope. There was absolutely no DX in the log which has never happened, ever!!!!. The 40 states and Provinces is pretty good and was the only bright spot. I rolled out of bed before 7 am and looked out at the raging blizzard in the dark and I knew what I was going to hear would not be good. Well it was even worse!!!! I had S-6 snow static on the 195 ft. high antenna and S-9 on all the others. With the K3 NB sometimes I could get it down to S-3-4 on the high antenna. I hooked up the 40 meter quad and tried the 80 loop and they all had worse noise than the high beam. Even the low beam at 55 feet was horrible. I listened to NOAA WX and it was supposed to blow 40 mph at times and snow on and off and never be much below 20 mph winds all day! The temperature was -2 and going to drop. "WELL IT IS OVER" The smart thing would be to just quit and go back to bed and watch the Vikings in the afternoon. However we have a saying around here about contesting and that is no matter what happens we finish the contest if it is a serious effort. Well this was a serious effort so I am going to finish. I knew I could not work hardly anything I had been working the day before as they would all be well below the snow static but I could call CQ moving the high antenna in different directions "IF" I could get it to move in the wind and hope to catch a Sporadic "E" opening sometime during the day where signals might be over S-4. I remember during the night laying in bed when I should be sleeping and if I averaged 1 minute a QSO all day I might come close to last year but I would be short on DX. Well 1 QSO a minute on 10 meters is a "DREAM" during this part of the cycle for all day long, roughly 10 hours straight so there is just no way I would catch last year. Now it looked like I would be fortunate to work anyone more. I really could only hear a couple of signals on the band and they were distored with the noise and NB. I started calling CQ and I was able to copy a station coming back so after awhile I had a fairly good rate going on with a Sporadic "E" opening out east and picked up some new states. I found out when ever possible if I could leave the NB off and the Pre-amp off the snow static did not mess things up. Something was really distorting the audio.(late in the day I am nearly positive the problem is a loose connection on the high antenna with the horrible wind). Anyway in about a hour it apparently stopped snowing and the high antenna was above a lot of the blowing snow so most of the time it was not to bad for noise. The rest of the antennas were totally un-useable! I thought to myself you know another advantage to TX and other places to the south is they don't have to put up with blizzards, ice and fixing antennas in the winter and getting rotors to turn a sub zero and SNOW STATIC!!! They do have to deal with hurricanes which we don't. I plugged away and was really fighting what sounded like terrible distortion on some signals but not on others. It caused me to have to ask for repeats more than I cared to. I thought it was the SNOW STATic messing up the signals. As I said late in the day I am pretty sure it is a loose connecton on the antenna. Today I confirmed this. As the day wore on there was less snow flying around and it appeared to not be snowing at all, just blowing like crazy. Well the opening moved south and I got all be Maine up north and then I think I worked every ham in NC and eventually I started working DX and the opening just kept going and going and going. A few times I got splatter but by moving a little I was able to keep a good frequency. The K3 really is good and the NB is good and the Pre-amp really helped when the snow static was down. It is the best radio I have ever used on 10M. The amount of time having a clear frequency I would call way above average from previous contests. A station who IDed as 3 Broken Arrow tried to work me. I asked for an amateur call and he said he was a CBer. That was a first for me in the 10M contest. Anyway by mid morning the noise on the high antenna was quite low and the rate meter was looking good. The distorted signals often came at the worst time but I dealt with it as best I could. By noon hour I had 684 Q's and 49 Multipliers. I thought WOW! At least I am working people way above yesterday but it typically is about as long as an opening runs so I just won't be able to work as many as last year. The good news is the band never did close and I worked AR, NM, AZ, CA and NV and late in the contest OK so I worked all 48 other than ND and ME. I also worked 10 dx stations. The QSO rate started to slow down but I got into the 900 range and I thought I might have a chance at last year as impossible as that had seemed around noon. The opening hung in there to the south and I kept working stations on the average of about 1 a minute. Here is where I discovered how good the high antenna is. It just "KICKs BUTT" I would go to the 105 ft. high antenna because it did not have the loose connection and the resulting distortion(breaking up of the signal) but much of the time I could not even hear the station on the 105 foot antenna. People all day long were wondering how I was so much louder than anyone else! I know I seen the rate meter over 200 QSO's an hour for awhile. I really never had much of a pile up thank goodness. It would of been tough with all the weak signals to do with a pileup. I probably heard 200 + stations that were just to weak to copy and also many others I would get a meteror burst but they never were heard again. It is extremely tiring and takes huge concentration with things like they were Sunday but that is a 100 times better than the disaster Saturday afternoon!!! I hope I never experience anything like Saturday again. When it was all over I ended up with 1060 Qs, 50 states and provinces and 10 DX for a score of 127,200 which betters last years score of 105,788. I have no idea if this will make the top 10 but it goes to show the importance of pride and not quiting!!!. I need to see what the deal with the loose connection on the high antenna is and what I can do to prevent that from happening again. I will say this recovery would of been "TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE" without the high antenna. It gets above the small amount of power line noise I get sometime and now I find if it is not snowing real hard it gets above the snow static of blowing snow. As you know when it is ZERO or colder snow is very dry and the snow static is fierce. To those that worked me thanks so much!!! What music to the ears to hear you calling in!!! It is the toughest contest I have ever done. I will confess to thinking about quiting when I listened to the snow static on Sunday morning but then I said to myself. I did not call CQ for 7 hours and work just a handful of stations just to quit. It is "ALL ABOUT PRIDE"! 73, Ed W0SD 10M CW 10M PHO Total CX 1 1 HI 1 1 HK 2 2 K 988 988 KP4 2 2 LU 6 6 PY 17 17 TG 1 1 VE 35 35 VP5 1 1 XE 5 5 ZF 1 1 QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band Hour 10M CW 10M PHO Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 22/11 22/11 22/11 D1-0100Z - 31/11 31/11 53/22 D1-0200Z - 27/1 27/1 80/23 D1-0300Z - 24/2 24/2 104/25 D1-0400Z - 26/8 26/8 130/33 D1-0500Z - 21/1 21/1 151/34 14 D1-0600Z - - 0/0 151/34 60 D1-0700Z - - 0/0 151/34 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 151/34 60 D1-0900Z - - 0/0 151/34 60 D1-1000Z - - 0/0 151/34 60 D1-1100Z - - 0/0 151/34 60 D1-1200Z - - 0/0 151/34 60 D1-1300Z - 15/1 15/1 166/35 17 D1-1400Z - 43/1 43/1 209/36 D1-1500Z - 27/0 27/0 236/36 D1-1600Z --+-- 22/1 22/1 258/37 D1-1700Z - 30/0 30/0 288/37 D1-1800Z - 11/2 11/2 299/39 D1-1900Z - 2/0 2/0 301/39 D1-2000Z - 1/0 1/0 302/39 D1-2100Z - 1/0 1/0 303/39 D1-2200Z - 1/0 1/0 304/39 D1-2300Z - - 0/0 304/39 D2-0000Z --+-- 2/0 2/0 306/39 D2-0100Z - 6/0 6/0 312/39 D2-0200Z - 13/1 13/1 325/40 D2-0300Z - 17/0 17/0 342/40 D2-0400Z - 12/0 12/0 354/40 D2-0500Z - 3/0 3/0 357/40 44 D2-0600Z - - 0/0 357/40 60 D2-0700Z - - 0/0 357/40 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 357/40 60 D2-0900Z - - 0/0 357/40 60 D2-1000Z - - 0/0 357/40 60 D2-1100Z - - 0/0 357/40 60 D2-1200Z - - 0/0 357/40 60 D2-1300Z - - 0/0 357/40 60 D2-1400Z - 31/1 31/1 388/41 13 D2-1500Z - 61/0 61/0 449/41 D2-1600Z --+-- 85/4 85/4 534/45 D2-1700Z - 145/4 145/4 679/49 D2-1800Z - 105/2 105/2 784/51 D2-1900Z - 91/3 91/3 875/54 D2-2000Z - 53/2 53/2 928/56 D2-2100Z - 51/2 51/2 979/58 D2-2200Z - 36/0 36/0 1015/58 D2-2300Z - 45/2 45/2 1060/60 Total: 0/0 1060/60 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0YK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 21,840 Maybe ten meters really is dead. There were so few contacts that each one was a joyous occasion, many resulting in a sip of wine, keeping me stone sober throughout the contest. Never have I appreciated each QSO as much as this weekend. Thank you all, especially those who struggled through my noise floor. Missed many of the (very short) spotlight openings as I just got on sporadically. Worked mostly CA, a few from each of the 7-area states, VE5-7 plus CO & ND. Saturday morning there was a direct connection into Montana and VE5 with seemingly every licensed ham in Montana. Also, three ZLs called in, one quite strong. Sunday morning a few VE3s, the mid-west and east coast made it through and a very loud KD0S was heard S&Ping but not caught by me. Heard other locals working call areas that were completely inaudible for me. Then around 18z a pile-up actually developed for a while with stations calling in from coast to coast except for the south. Unfortunately I had to shut down for a work engagement ... of course. Pre-amp on, both RF and AF Gains at maximum and most signals were in the noise floor except for local LOS stations. Dual receivers worked great for S&Ping simultaneous with running, perfect for single-band contesting. Most of the time I drove two Yagis, one NE and one SE. 35 years ago, 2500-3000 QSOs and a million points were available in the 10-Meter Contest from Colorado. Hope those conditions return some day. Ed - W0YK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 16,236 Saturday was dead (only 2 Qs). Much more activity on 2nd day. DX was LU, PJ2, P43, CX. Worked ND which was missing in ARRL 160! Need more sun spots. Ten Tec Omni VII Ten Tec Titan 425 TH3 Mk III HF6V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AMF Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 3,672 FT-817ND @ 5 Watts into either a 20-10 Meter fan dipole at 30 feet (N-S) or a 80-40-20 Meter fan dipole at 50 feet (E-W) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EQ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 8,900 Worked 1 european - F5IN Worked 23 Florida stations Bands getting better. Maybe next year..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 8,964 10m band sounded crappy except during occasional short openings. Lots and lots of QSB. Would liked to have been down at LU or PY as they were having serial numbers in the 7 and 8 hundreds. Ran the FT-1000D mostly at 200 watts and then 400 watts (+3 dB) with AL-811H later on. No ice storm related damage or power outage at my location but brought my 7.5KW generator to work (HRO-NH) Friday night. Would like to have been on more but had to work on Sat. [power was back up in Salem]. Had company Christmas dinner during the last five hours of the contest on Sunday. This effort was CW only...Am becoming a CW addict it seems. Very fine mode. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 50,764 Nice to see the folks on the band...even with the low spot count. Had a NICE opening this morning from about 03 to 05Z...almost 200 stations worked. 73, Marty W1MD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TJL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 81,120 This was a case of 10 meters being 10 meters - at least off peak. There were some opening but mostly short-lived and not all that strong. We did have a few openings to Florida - in fact I thought for a bit I had the Florida express! The score would have been better but on Saturday evening I went out to Dick's KB1H for his 60th Birthday arty missing an opening to, where else, Florida! :-) Happy Birthday Dick! (or is it Methuselah??) Overall a fun contest, not too stressful and you don't feel too guilty about actually sleeping late night... Looking forward to next years contest! 73, Tom W1TJL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2LHL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 10,680 100w, 4BTV, dipole, 10m Moxon. Nothing worked. Shooda stood in bed. Can't wait for sunspots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2NO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 13,640 SO w/packet. Lousy conditions. Come on sunspots! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2RE Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 31,164 5/5/5 Cushcraft XM 510's 75/55/35 Ray W2RE http://www.w2re.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2UP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 139,776 This isn't my kind of contest - 10m with no sunspots. I like DX contests with big rates, not stateside snorefests. However, once I got started, I put in more time than I expected. The band was so quiet, with plenty of room for everyone, so it wasn't hard to stay on. During slow periods, I set the Auto-CQ and caught up on some reading. It's always interesting how propagation changes from minute to minute on 10m. Pipeline to MN one minute, FL the next (actually FL a lot), and so on. In the last hour was surprised to pick up NM (N2IC where were you?) and AZ for 2 new mults. Other than a 20 minute opening to CA, during which I also worked UT and NV, but nothing in the Pac NW. Just about everything else was east of the Rockies, including no CO (or ND) contact. Only state I missed in the east was ME, which is not surprising after the ice storm. I was surprised to work a couple of NH guys. Only EU worked was F5IN, who was my first QSO in the contest on Sat. morning. In AF, I worked an EA8 and Z29KM (answered my CQ!). No ZS. A few SA and Caribbs, and also had VP8NO answer my CQ. After having Writelog malfunction in CQWW CW with random periods of garbage CW, I switched to N1MM for this one, which worked great. Only problem I had was when in the smart-Enter key mode, and using the paddle, I tried to save the QSOs without transmitting with Shift-Enter, which is the way it's done in WL. Unfortunately, I probably lost 10-15 QSOs before I realized they weren't being saved (and read the Help file to find Alt-Enter is the correct way.) Some guys I worked again, and some refused (QSO B4.) Unfortunately, some will get dinged with a N-I-L. Sorry guys. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3ADC Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 10,512 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's ARRL 10 Meter Contest Log 2.9 ARRL-SECTION: MDC CONTEST: ARRL-10 CALLSIGN: W3ADC CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M LOW SSB CLAIMED-SCORE: 10512 OPERATORS: W3ADC CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club NAME: John King ADDRESS: P.O.Box 64 ADDRESS: Hampstead, MD 21074 ADDRESS: (e-mail) w3adc@hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3KB Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 58,558 I have never worked meteor scatter, but now I can imagine what it may be like. Stations simply burst in and then disappeared into the noise even during a contest exchange! It was that fast in some cases. Still a lot of fun. After all, it is 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3KL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 36,260 Couldn't invest the time I wanted in this contest. Not withstanding, I had a great time. I wanted to spend more time on sideband, but running in CW was so much fun, I stuck with it most of the time. 73, and see you in the SP Test. Jeff, W3KL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 27,950 A pipeline into FL Saturday evening and Sunday. Nice working a ZS6. Could only operate the last three hours on Sunday due to other committments and so missed the reported Sunday afternoon coast to coast opening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3USA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 125 The last part of my Cleveland - DC trip on Sunday (see my K8NCC post). I've thought it would be cool to operate from DC with the W3USA club call... it sounds like I'd be there loading up the Washington Monument or the like. But it was just as I mobiled into town from the Cabin John Parkway, down M Street through Georgetown, down Pennsylvania Avenue until it dead ended into the White House, down Constitution Avenue along the the Mall where I parked for 10 minutes, and then headed out to VA where my daughter lives. Not surprising how noisy the city can be. I hope the Feds didn't do too much listening while I was a block from the White House. Traffic was slow, but that made for easy logging (on paper). Fortunately the band was still open to FL. I heard and worked KE3VV in DC on CW, but the guys on phone seemed quite excited to get the DC mult there. This could be a lot of fun in a couple of years when we could work somewhere other than FL and MD. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ARM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 27,608 Weak Signals, lot's of noise and no dx. Better than last year though!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 153,750 TS-440S N1MM logger C3S Tnx for the Q's. Great turn-out for FCG and PVRC. Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4GKF Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 30,996 Thought on Friday night and Saturday that this was going to be a gigantic bust. But the 10M came through on Sunday and I was able to make nearly 10x the number of Qs. Nice opening to South America was a surprise. Hope I'm competitive this year! Chaz W4GKF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KW Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 6,900 Fair openings. Low antennas resulted in much less noise. Several of the TCG were very active.One GREAT contact was with 9 year old WB4CSK (Will). This hobby needs more young folks to be involved. C U in the pileups and contests. 73's Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4LT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 204,768 Fun time in the limited amount of operating time alloted by family responsibility... Put up the Christmas Tree work some Q's. Add the outside lights... Work some Q's - I felt "wanted" with the pileups on both Phone and CW. Thanks for the trills, folks! Lots of activity, at least here in Florida, from east of the MS. Farthest west contact was VE5, mostly Carib as DX, never heard EU at all. Band went west at last 5 minutes with multiple 5-landers popping up from nowhere with loud signals. Great thrill to work Ellen W1YL/4 on CW for the first time - Thanks Ellen! Look for y'all in the Florida QSO Party - Coming your way in April 09! - Go FCG! -lu- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 39,668 Had fun, at a leasurely pace as usual. Lots of wierd propagation, stations actually stronger when the Steppir beam was flipped 180 degrees on several occasions, especially for those stations from the northeast. Also saw a lot of FL stations stronger to the west rather than from the south. Caught some neat openings to South America and to the west coast. Otherwise a lot of signals would be loud for only a few seconds and then disappear, which I presume to be due to meteor scatter. Thanks to all who gave me a contact! 73, Sam W4PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 33,440 Rig: Omni VII, ALS-600 400W Ant: 176' CF at 60 ft. When is ARRL going to join the rest of us in the 21st century and have single operator assisted categories? Putting a single operator, single mode station using DX cluster assistance into the multi-op category is ridiculous. Oh well, my station wouldn't be competitive in a single op category anyway but having no single op assisted categories is still nuts! Actually using the DX cluster information was of little use. At least 90 percent of the spots were not readable here! We're still at the bottom on the solar cycle and this weekend really brought that fact home. Compared with 1999-2002 when I could work 70 or 80 countries and all of the states with low power and an even smaller wire antenna this weekend was a real bust. I didn't have a lot of time this year, was suffering from a bad head cold, and the long periods of searching the band for new stations to work provided little incentive to stay in the chair. Calling CQ didn't yield very good results. A number of stations replied that I could almost hear but not copy. In S&P mode I could work most that I could hear but many appeared for a few seconds and then faded away and I missed them. The most consistent path from here was from VA to FL. Almost as many FL stations were worked as locals. There were also some very big signals coming in from NS, NB, PEI and QC. Too bad there aren't as many stations up there as there are down in FL! The band did open to W6 on Sunday for a while but I never heard even one W7 area station. No DX other than some SA countries and the Carribean area were heard or worked. Of my 44 multipliers 30 were states, 5 were Canadian Provinces and the other 9 were DXCC entities. CU next year in this one. Let's hope for some sun spots! 73, Puck, W4PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PVC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 3,950 This was our first real operation from school with kids who were licensed last week. I was frankly amazed at how well our 10M hamsticks (one vertical and one horizontal) mounted on a 7' photo light tripod worked! Thankfully we had propagation and the kids had a ball. They were high fiving when they worked their first DX (TKS HI3CCP!) and had fun looking up the prefixes on the world map we used. More high fives with the SA stations. It was humbling to remember when I had to figure out where the coax and mike cable went! Not to mention what all those knobs do! We have some potential contesters. To heck with that "hunting and pouncing", these kids wanted to CQ! They made 35 SSB contacts in 14 states/countries and from their point of view they won this contest! Our 8th grader did most of the mike work. We only had the school classroom for about three hours and they didn't want to quit when it came time to lock up. They were almost as excited as they walked away jabbering about all the "DX" they worked as they were when they were setting up the antennas in anticipation of operating. Now they're talking about the NAQP in January and the School Club Contest in February! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 72,912 First day up untill 8PM had only 76 QSO's. Then the band exploded! By 11PM Sat. night had over 300 QSO's. Then Sunday morning the band opened nicely again. Then another 300 QSO's. Only worked one 7 station- W7RN. No 6's at all! Other than that only missed NM and ND. Only worked Ont in Canada and no other VE's. Anyway I used packet at the beginng of the contest, so claimed MS, but all SSB contacts. Cu in the 160 contest from NQ4I. Happy Holidays, Mark W4SVO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TAA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 251,940 WOW WILD WEEKEND..SOME GREAT RUNS.. MOST SHORT LIVED, BUT, THAT IS OKAY FOR AND OLD MAN HAS TIME TO REST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 34,122 My usual part time effort. I spent Friday night sorting out N1MM software problems, so that was a loss. I had to video tape a concert Saturday but did wake up to a wide open 10 meters! Hated to leave when the band's like that. Sunday AM was also good, but spent time preparing the station equipment for the school kids at our first Pine View School Amateur Radio Club contest operation. For that matter, the first operation period!. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5FO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 70,500 Crazy band. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5GAI Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 22,620 Almost 10k points more than last year when ran QRP all modes. Actually got a slow run going Sunday afternoon. Still sore in chest from 5 bypass open heart surgery Thursday Dec 4. Keyboard/N1MM came in handy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5PR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 132,354 I was lucky to be able to get some antenna work done before the contest to repair Hurricand Ike damage. I lost my big antenna, but was able to replace it before the contest. No antennas below 75 feet which hurt. I compared notes with NR5M Saturday evening and he had all the close in mults while I had none of them! I got all but OK later on Sunday though. This was a long weekend except for a few hours on Sunday. Highlite was a couple of ZLs calling. No EU, AF or Asia. Only Ontario in Canada, but 21 of them! Go figure. No First Call Area worked. No WA, OR. Congrats to George, NR5M for his great score. Chuck, W5PR DX worked: 10M CW 10M PHO Total CE 5 5 CX 3 3 HC 1 1 HI 2 2 HK 1 1 HR 3 3 K 1079 1079 KP2 1 1 KP4 3 3 LU 27 27 OA 1 1 P4 1 1 PY 2 2 TG 1 1 VE 21 21 VP5 1 1 XE 7 7 ZL 2 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5RU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 305,800 I thought this was going to be a washout of a contest. 10M band conditions were really crummy here starting Friday night into Saturday.. They were so bad that at midnight I pulled the switch - had enough of copying scatter and sporadic E signals in the mud - my ears ached - enough is enough. Dallas, K1DW joined me Saturday. It was so bad during the day, he fell asleep in the chair listening to me as we took turns. It clearly was a struggle for most of the time. Even took a 2 hour lunch break - nothing to do except call CQ on what appeared to be a dead band - it was exciting as watching paint dry - reminded me of my early 6M contest days, which helped me learn patience. Then by early evening Saturday, things picked up, but still not great. Had enough by midnight and pulled the plug again. Dallas called it a contest Saturday afternoon and said 73, GL OM. So got up about 5:30AM Sunday, and gee, the bandscope was looking like there was activity. And from there, that was it. Stayed in my PJs the rest of the contest. Boy, the path openned to Florida and I thought, "Geez, where are all these guys coming from?" I never heard so many 4's. We had a pipeline. And from there as the day progressed you could track the propagation from the Southeast to the mid-Atlantic, to the Northeast, to the mid-west to the Rockies. However, seems as though trying to get over the Rockies was tough. Never did hear anything from WA, OR, MT, ID, ND, or the Canadian Provinces west of Ontario - or east of Quebec - or even North (wishful thinking). So as it turns out, ultimately it was great for us - finally I felt like we had a good run. And for this contest, you gotta LOVE the bandscope - what a savior. So many thanks to all for the Q's and for copying us in the QRN. We look forward to the next contest, so we'll see you in the pileups. 73, Ted, KN5O and Dallas, K1DW Delta DX Association Members, Louisiana Contest Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5SV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 572 Regreted my limited time on, but had fun anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5TAF Class: M/S LP Total Score = 9,048 This weekend was the first time I have operated in the ARRL 10M contest. I decided to build a 10M yagi for the contest and spent all day Friday and part of Saturday constructing it. I used YagiCAD to optimize the antenna and had it up in the air on Saturday night. Problem was, the band was dead and static noise was S7 and above. This morning around 7am, same thing but then around 10am, things got interesting. The band opened up to the Northeast (which was the direction I pointed thte beam) and I worked all of 2-land, 3-land and many from Connecticut. Then, the band went dead again for about 20 minutes. Well, from what I can tell from this weekend's ops, 10M is an exciting band, even without good propagation. As a plus, I also heard and worked LU1HF, my only DX. I hope to operate again next year and use my new yagi to its full extent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5WP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 55,188 Rough! More rough Sunday AM when the primary lift cable on my crank up monoband tower snapped! Lots of aluminum on the ground, Finished the 'test with a TH6DX at 45 feet and a Telrex TB6EM at 85 feet fixed on Asia! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6QU Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 1,440 Xcvr: Elecraft K-2 with output set to 5 watts. Antenna: 3 el SteppIR up 32 feet. ___________________________________________________________ By Sat night, after 20 hours of operating, I had only 3 QSOs outside of Southern California and things were looking pretty bad. But at 17:00 Z on Sunday, the band finally opened for some E-skip, and I was able to get outside California and work some single hop stuff for a few hours. Wow! The last Q I had was with Robert, W5AJ, who had just visited my shack here in San Diego a couple weeks ago! I'll bet we all have higher scores next year!! 73, Bill Parker W6QU - W8QZA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,220 K3, AL-1200, 80-meter dipole at 46 feet with Matchbox, TR4W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 139,832 After slogging through Friday evening and Saturday working almost exclusively the 6 and 7 areas of the US and Canada plus Colorado it was nice to have the band open up on Sunday morning. The opening started with VE2, VE3 and NY then spread to W1 and went south to TN and NC and east to MI. Usually we work many FL and TX Q's here, but this year I only worked one FL on phone and a total of 3 TX. No W9's except for WB9Z who called me on phone and said I was his first CA. On Saturday I briefly heard W0AIH working K0MPH around 2100Z but he was working midwest stations only and didn't hear me calling before he faded out. I missed GA on phone - heard K4BAI on Sunday but he was underneath a loud local and was working other east coast stations. I called N4BP a bunch of times on CW but he continued CQing or worked other closer stations, so I missed FL on CW. After working KH7Y on CW I suggested a QSY to SSB, but he said later - never heard him on phone. I also missed the ZL's and FO that were worked by others local to me. I must have been CQing in that direction at the wrong times. Thanks for all the Q's. Hopefully next year has some sunspots. -Mike, N7MH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7GKF Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 15,884 Horrible conditions. Few (very short)openings. Like a 6M contest. Got to know the locals very well. The supreme test of patience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7MD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 50,520 Friday night and Saturday was a difficult but interesting exercise. At the start on Friday evening there was Multihop to South America but this rapidly faded and the band was apparently dead except for short bursts of propagation possibly related to the Geminid meteor shower. Only CW was possible and then you had to be quick or the opportunity was gone. The rest was Sporadic E Propagation mainly North to South. The farthest East I could work until daylight on Sunday was MS. Saturday daytime was almost all CW. On Sunday, in daylight, Sporadic E gave good Phone openings to the North in the morning and to the Central US and a few East coast states in the afternoon. I could never raise a FL contact but MT, SD and ID were plentiful. Friday and Saturday were ugly days but Sunday was fun. My Station: Yaesu FT-1000MP Henry 3K-Ultra Amplifier Antenna: Force12 4BA at 95 feet Microham micro Keyer 2 N1MM Logger Heil Headset with HC5 cartridge IBM Thinkpad T42p5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 62,238 Would have been agony without the Es opening on Sunday morning and a quick SA opening around noon. Never anticipated working 33 states. Guess activity breeds openings. K5RC + Packet FT1000MP Emtron Amp 6 el @20' 7 el @45' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: M/S LP Total Score = 240 Didn't hear anyone Saturday except for N0KE. Tried to work him, but he never heard me. Sunday morning there were some signals on, but thought I was in the Colorado QSO Party because 8 out of 12 stations were in Colorado. Maybe next year??? 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 12,056 There must have been another 5 to 10 partial QSOs that were victims of too short meteor bursts. Majority of QSOs in 2 hour period Sunday 1720-1920Z. Furthest east NA contact W0AIH WI. DX: 2-CX, 9-LU, 1-PJ2, 1-P4, 3-PY, 3-XE 73, Bob W7YAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 14,400 Just way too much fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8RU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 20,736 Had some nice openings to New England, Florida, and Texas. Thanks to all for the QSOs and Happy Holidays! 73, Ron (W8RU). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9ILY Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 25,428 What an experience! Condx similar to 6M for a lot of the time. Very fast QSB and very slow as well. Worked K5NA and N5NA within 5 minutes of each other-had to check my ears! Thanks to all for a fun time. I wish more would use the on-line Live Scores. Makes a slow day much more interesting! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 77,000 Never thought the band would have been this good and now wished I could have put in a serious effort. Friday night all signals S2 or below. Operated off and on Friday night, Saturday morning and afteroon and Sunday. Missed most of Saturday nights good opening. Speed was essential because the quick contacts lasted just about the time of signal readability so 32WPM seemed appropriate and worked for 96% of the q's. Worked all continential states execept for OR, NV, WA and ID. DX worked-CT3, PY, LU, YV, KP2 and CX. Seems like I was able to work 1 stations in about 10 states. Merry Christmas and hope to see all in the SPTBC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9XT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 168,714 Pretty spotty again this year. About the same number of QSOs, but mults were up. One good run Sunday morning to SC/GA/FL. Most of Friday night and Saturday morning was meteor scatter. A lot of ops need to learn you have to be fast on that. I don't know how many QSOs were lost because the guy at the other end said things like "QSL your WI, please copy my..." and the ionization was gone before he gave his report. Had lots of line noise that came and went. It was S7 at times. Not a lot of signals were better than S7! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6L Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 1,600 The 4 hours does not count the many, many times that I checked the band to see if there was any action. Except for a few short openings, the only station to be heard was K6AM. There was a brief opening to the Southeast on Sunday morning. Other than that, it was all West Coast, the Northwest, and Texas. Luckily the Straight Key Century Club was having a 24-hour sprint. When 10m was dead, I dropped down to the lower bands and had a great time working the straight keys and bugs. It was a far cry from the frenetic pace of the ARRL contest, but there were plenty of contacts to be had and some good ops. I had hoped for better band conditions on 10 this weekend, but you have to play the cards you were dealt. I am sure next year will be better. 73, John, WA6L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7LNW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 294 Sunday was by far the better day for propagation. On air for 28 minutes but worked everyone I could hear. Looking forward to when the higher frequencies bands are populated with DX signals! 73's de Jack, WA7LNW New Harmony, UT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ABD Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 19,728 TT O2 CL33 @45 ft N1MM/MK ABD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 15,180 Nothing like a contest to wake up a "dead" band, eh? My 160 meter inverted L loaded decently enough on 10 meters to allow me to join in the fun. With FL representing 30% of my QSO total, at times, this seemed like the Florida QSO party. Thanks to all for the QSOs. Hope to see you all later this month in the RAC Winter Contest and The Stew Perry Topband Challenge. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 270,756 My score is just slightly better than last year. Best DX: ZL1AIH called me on cw! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 134,460 FT1000mp 100w TH7DX @ 50' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE3C Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 449,624 It always amazes me how the 10M band comes alive in this contest. CW Q's SSB Q's Total Q's 2007 2008 2007 2008 2007 2008 Friday 136 128 67 77 203 205 Saturday 253 325 246 183 499 508 Sunday 128 177 40 289 168 466 Total 517 630 353 549 870 1179 Mults 55 71 32 53 87 124 Hours 26.9 30.5 Friday night and Saturday were almost identical comparing 2007 & 2008. The big change was Sunday. In 2007, Sunday was very poor with difficult conditions. This year, Sunday was much more productive than Saturday. I missed the opportunity to move several easy multipliers to the other mode expecting to work that mult on the second mode, which never happened. Saturday's EU opening yielded 6 new mults. Lots of new mults moved to SSB for a new one. There were very few, if any, moves from SSB to CW. Made many run frequency changes to keep the frequency clear for weak station copy. Also, if there was any hint of another station on or near the frequency, I moved. This seems to have helped. Many callers disappeared during the exchanges. I hope we still worked later on. Thanks to all the callers, great competitors and to the ARRL for sponsoring this event. Vy 73, John www.we3c.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF4W Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 26,048 And, I thought it couldn't get any worse than last year! That was painful. I was beginning to wonder if I was gonna break 100 Q's....grin. Conditions were pitiful at best. I'd hear a station calling CQ and then he would fade completely away. Did get a couple of very small runs going to TX, MN and FL. Worked a handful of South American stations and one Honduras station. Ontario was in my log a lot as well. Thanks to all whom gave me a contact. Hopefully it willget better soon! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WG5J Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 9,240 Only have a vertical right now. I did manage to get the Alpha fired up on Sunday. It was still a lot of fun, D. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WH2D Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 3,300 I couldn't operate on Saturday and I missed what little conditions we had over the weekend. Day two was just a slog with no conditions, no runs, and a constant flip back-and-forth between CW and SSB. No NA heard or worked for the second year in a row. In fact, nothing at all beyond Asia and Oceania heard or worked. Better days are coming. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 134,160 I missed some of the action but had a great time...lots of good cw! I was able to repair a piece of gear when things were slow, and clean up the shack a bit as well. I had high swr on one of the antennas but got that fixed lated Friday. We will appreciae 10 meters when it opens to Europe! 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK0P Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 39,984 Wow...Conditions on Saturday were pretty brutal. Conditions on Sundey were much better. Actually had a little East-West propagation for a while...You have to love the way 10 meters can play with a signal...loud one second, gone the next. Highlight was working a few South American stations. Even they have been absent as of late on ten meters. Can't wait until next year...I think conditions will be even better...Thanks to all with whom I made contact. See you all on the bands. David, WK0P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 4,980 On and off a couple of times for this one. Read the paper a lot. This is a great contest when the spots are back... but until then. WN6K, Paul www.WN6K.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO4O Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 120,712 SATURDAY WAS DRUDGERY... LAST YEAR PROPAGATION WAS PATHETIC AND THIS YEAR NOT MUCH DIFFERENT... SUNDAY CONDX BETTER... HOWEVER, HAD I NOT BEEN READING AN INTERESTING BOOK WHILE CQING ON CW, I WOULD HAVE BEEN BORED TO TEARS. NO/LOW SUNSPOTS = NO/LOW FUN... REGARDLESS, ENDED UP WITH NEARLY THE SAME SCORE AS PREVIOUS YEAR, SHY 4K. 73 RiC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WS4Y Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,160 Mostly weak sigs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 90,396 This contest turned out to be a LOT more fun than I thought it would. I enjoyed working a pretty loud F5IN and S52ZU on Saturday morning. Heard OL5M on Sunday but couldn't work him. Lots of good 'spotlight' propagation to the mid-west...some neat openings to New England, canada and northern NY, and of course 'ole faithful N/S skip to Florida. I missed the Sunday afternoon coast to coast opening. Overall, lots of fun considering our sunspot situation... 73, Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX7G Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,872 The contest was fun and quite a learnng experience. I had never operated 10 meters during the solar minium and with definitely no F-layer. I think that was meteor scatter both mornings with many sub 1-seconds bursts of loud signal and some 'burns' to several seconds. Now to give 6 meter meteor scatter a try! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2AUB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 156 Few time,poor conditions, very very small score. See you next year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV7QP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 7,076 RIG: ICOM 735 PWR: 100 W Antena: R7/yagi 3 ele Logger: SD 14:15 Location: Margarita Is Grid: fk81ab One of the contest difficult for me. The spread was erratic in most cases had to wait for the return to copy the number or condition, but the friends of southern LU, PY etc had direct contacts with USA, and I could not hear them. Thanks for all the friends who were forced to complete my QSOs ... VIC, YV7QP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL1AIH Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,688 Best DX K2AXX - he's got good ears. Signals from TX, Il, CA sometimes briefly rose above the noise floor for a good QSO. Even the usual big JA signals needed two or three calls on S&P. QSO Countries States 48 7 7 Score 2688 points K3 + amp 500w, 2-el quad @ 60', 2-el quad @ 35' 73, Ken ZL1AIH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL1BYZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,968 I knew it was going to be a challenge to stay interested in this contest at this stage of the sunspot cycle so even though having the DX cluster running put me in the M/S catagory I thought it better to keep me interested than being concerned about what catagory I was in. Even so I soon folded. Some other station Ops deserve a medal for determination, CQing for hours for little reward. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZV2C Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 17,034 SETUP ANTENNA: YAGI 6 ELEM MONOBAND RXTX: ICOM IC 706 MK2G HEADSET HEIL PROSET PLUS - IC (HC4 + HC5) SOFTWARE: N1MM V 8.11.3 Index of Calls Call: 4U1WB Class: M/S HP Call: 7J1AQH Class: SO Mixed LP Call: 9A5MT Class: SO CW LP Call: AA3B Class: SO CW HP Call: AA4FU Class: SO CW LP Call: AA4LR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AA4NC Class: SO CW LP Call: AA5AM Class: SO CW LP Call: AA5VU Class: SO CW LP Call: AA6YX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AB7E Class: SO CW HP Call: AC0DS Class: SO CW LP Call: AC0W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AC6VN Class: SO CW LP Call: AC8G Class: SO SSB HP Call: AD1C Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AD4EB Class: SO CW HP Call: AD5LU Class: SO SSB LP Call: AD5VJ Class: SO CW LP Call: AD6WL Class: SO CW LP Call: AE6RF Class: SO CW LP Call: AE8M Class: SO CW QRP Call: AJ3G Class: SO CW HP Call: CE3DNP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: CV5K Class: M/S HP Call: CW5W Class: M/S HP Call: DL3YM Class: SO CW LP Call: EA1DR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: EA7HFI Class: SO SSB LP Call: EC1KR Class: SO SSB HP Call: F/TU5KG Class: SO SSB HP Call: F5IN Class: SO CW HP Call: F5RD Class: SO SSB LP Call: HI3CCP Class: SO SSB LP Call: HK6P Class: SO SSB LP Call: HP1WW Class: SO CW HP Call: IQ4AX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: IZ4DPV Class: SO SSB LP Call: J39BS Class: SO CW LP Call: JH3PRR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0ADX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K0CL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0GAS Class: M/S HP Call: K0HW Class: SO SSB QRP Call: K0KX Class: M/S HP Call: K0OU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K0PC Class: SO CW LP Call: K0PK Class: SO CW LP Call: K0RH Class: SO SSB HP Call: K0TI Class: M/S LP Call: K0UK Class: SO CW HP Call: K0UU Class: SO CW LP Call: K0WHV Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K1BV Class: SO CW LP Call: K1EP Class: SO CW LP Call: K1GU Class: SO CW HP Call: K1KI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K1LOG Class: SO CW LP Call: K1SE Class: M/S HP Call: K1TN Class: SO CW LP Call: K1TO Class: SO CW HP Call: K1ZZ Class: SO CW HP Call: K2DBK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K2LE Class: SO CW HP Call: K2PS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K2SX Class: SO CW HP Call: K2TTT Class: SO CW HP Call: K2XC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K2ZC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K3IVO Class: M/S HP Call: K3OO Class: M/S HP Call: K3TD Class: M/S LP Call: K3VOA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K3WI Class: SO CW HP Call: K3WW Class: M/S HP Call: K3ZO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4AB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4BAI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4CIA Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K4CX Class: SO SSB LP Call: K4EA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4EDI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K4FJ Class: M/S HP Call: K4GMH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4IU Class: SO CW LP Call: K4JAF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K4LQ Class: SO CW HP Call: K4OD Class: SO CW LP Call: K4PG Class: SO CW LP Call: K4QO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K4RW Class: SO CW LP Call: K4TD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4WI Class: SO SSB HP Call: K4ZGB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4ZJ Class: SO CW QRP Call: K5AM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K5DU Class: SO CW LP Call: K5EK Class: M/S HP Call: K5EWJ Class: SO CW LP Call: K5KG Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K5LH Class: SO CW LP Call: K5NA Class: SO CW HP Call: K5NZ Class: M/S HP Call: K5PI Class: SO CW LP Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Call: K6AM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6CSL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6CTA Class: SO CW HP Call: K6GEP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6III Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6LRN Class: SO CW HP Call: K6MM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6NR Class: SO CW HP Call: K6RIM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6RM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6RV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6WSC Class: SO CW LP Call: K6XT Class: SO CW LP Call: K6ZH Class: SO CW LP Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7BG Class: SO CW HP Call: K7HBN Class: SO CW LP Call: K7LAZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7RSM Class: SO CW LP Call: K7SV Class: SO CW LP Call: K7UP Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K7WA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7ZO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7ZS Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K8AJS Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K8CC Class: SO SSB HP Call: K8FH Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K8IR Class: SO CW LP Call: K8MAD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K8NCC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K8SM Class: SO CW LP Call: K9BGL Class: SO CW HP Call: K9CT Class: SO CW LP Call: K9GY Class: SO CW QRP Call: K9MU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K9NW Class: SO CW HP Call: KA1VMG Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KA9MOM Class: SO SSB LP Call: KB9OWD Class: SO CW LP Call: KC7V Class: SO CW HP Call: KD2MX Class: SO CW LP Call: KE2DX Class: SO SSB HP Call: KE3D Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KG4CUY Class: SO CW LP Call: KG6D Class: M/S HP Call: KG7E Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KH7Y Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KI0F Class: SO CW LP Call: KI5XP Class: SO CW HP Call: KI6KOI Class: SO SSB LP Call: KN0V Class: SO CW LP Call: KN4Y Class: SO CW LP Call: KO7X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KP4KE Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KQ6ES Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KR1ST Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KR2Q Class: SO CW QRP Call: KR4F Class: M/S LP Call: KR4OW Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: KS0T Class: M/S LP Call: KS2G Class: SO SSB LP Call: KS4X Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KS5A Class: SO CW LP Call: KT4PD Class: SO CW LP Call: KT4Q Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KU4A Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: KU4BP Class: SO SSB LP Call: KU8E Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KY5R Class: SO Mixed HP Call: LQ0F Class: SO Mixed LP Call: LQ5H Class: SO SSB LP Call: LR2F Class: SO SSB HP Call: LR4E Class: M/S LP Call: LS1D Class: M/S HP Call: LT1K Class: SO SSB LP Call: LU8EOT Class: M/S LP Call: LV6D Class: SO SSB QRP Call: LW4HBR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: LY6A Class: SO CW HP Call: LZ8A Class: SO CW HP Call: MM0ERK Class: SO SSB LP Call: N0JK Class: SO CW QRP Call: N0KE Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N0KK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N0KM Class: SO CW LP Call: N0NI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N0QO Class: SO SSB HP Call: N0UNL Class: SO SSB LP Call: N0UR Class: SO CW QRP Call: N0XR Class: M/S HP Call: N1SZ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N1TM Class: SO CW QRP Call: N1UR Class: M/S LP Call: N2CU Class: SO CW HP Call: N2MM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2MTG Class: SO SSB LP Call: N2MUN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N2SQW Class: SO CW HP Call: N2WN Class: SO CW LP Call: N3BB Class: SO CW HP Call: N3BM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N3ZL Class: SO CW LP Call: N3ZZ Class: SO CW LP Call: N4ARR Class: M/S HP Call: N4BP Class: SO CW HP Call: N4CW Class: SO CW LP Call: N4DL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4DW Class: M/S HP Call: N4EEB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4EK Class: SO CW LP Call: N4GG Class: M/S HP Call: N4IJ Class: SO CW LP Call: N4LF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4LZ Class: M/S HP Call: N4NM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4OGW Class: SO CW HP Call: N4PN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4QX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4UC Class: SO CW LP Call: N4VA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4YDU Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N5AU Class: SO CW HP Call: N5AW Class: SO CW LP Call: N5DO Class: SO CW LP Call: N5NA Class: SO CW HP Call: N5OE Class: SO CW LP Call: N5TW Class: SO CW QRP Call: N5UL Class: SO CW LP Call: N5UWY Class: SO SSB LP Call: N5WR Class: SO CW HP Call: N5ZK Class: SO CW HP Call: N6AA Class: SO CW HP Call: N6HC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6NF Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6WG Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: N6WM Class: M/S HP Call: N7AT Class: SO CW LP Call: N7FO Class: SO CW HP Call: N7IR Class: SO CW QRP Call: N7MAL Class: SO CW LP Call: N7ON Class: SO CW LP Call: N7RK Class: SO CW LP Call: N8EA Class: SO CW HP Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N8MR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N8NOE Class: SO CW HP Call: N8RA Class: SO SSB HP Call: N8VV Class: M/S LP Call: N9SF Class: SO CW QRP Call: N9TF Class: SO CW QRP Call: NA2M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NA4BW Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: NA4K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NA5Q Class: SO CW LP Call: NA5TR Class: SO SSB HP Call: NB4M Class: SO CW HP Call: NB7V Class: SO SSB HP Call: ND0C Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: NE1RD Class: SO CW QRP Call: NK6A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NM2L Class: SO CW LP Call: NN4F Class: M/S HP Call: NN7ZZ Class: SO CW HP Call: NP3CW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NR5M Class: SO SSB HP Call: NS3T Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NT0F Class: SO SSB LP Call: NT6X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NU4SC Class: M/S HP Call: NV4B Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NX5M Class: M/S HP Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Call: NY3A Class: SO CW HP Call: NZ1U Class: M/S HP Call: OL5M Class: SO CW HP Call: OM3AG Class: SO CW HP Call: P40K Class: SO SSB HP Call: PE7T Class: M/S HP Call: PJ2T Class: SO CW LP Call: PP5JAK Class: SO SSB LP Call: PP5MS Class: M/S HP Call: PU1KGG Class: SO SSB LP Call: PU2LEP Class: SO SSB LP Call: PU2WDX Class: SO SSB QRP Call: PU4HUD Class: SO SSB LP Call: PW2P Class: SO SSB HP Call: PY1NB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: PY1NX Class: SO CW LP Call: PY1ZV Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY2BN Class: SO SSB QRP Call: PY2DU Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY2IQ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY2LSM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY2MTV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: PY2NY Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: PY2SEX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY2WC Class: SO CW HP Call: PY2ZY Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY3DX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: PY3MHZ Class: M/S HP Call: PY4FQ Class: SO CW LP Call: PY4XX Class: SO CW LP Call: PY6HD Class: SO SSB LP Call: S52ZW Class: M/S HP Call: S57DX Class: SO CW HP Call: VA3DF Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: VA3DX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VA3EC Class: SO CW HP Call: VA3KA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VA3RJ Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3WR/W4 Class: SO SSB LP Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW LP Call: VE1DT Class: M/S HP Call: VE1NB Class: SO CW LP Call: VE1OP Class: M/S HP Call: VE1SKY Class: M/S LP Call: VE2DWA Class: SO SSB HP Call: VE2TZT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3AD Class: M/S LP Call: VE3CW Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: VE3CX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3DZ Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3EJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3GSI Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3JI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3KF Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3KZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3MIS Class: M/S HP Call: VE3UTT Class: M/S HP Call: VE3XD Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3ZIN Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE4EAR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE5MX Class: SO CW HP Call: VE5UF Class: SO CW LP Call: VE6CNU Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7CC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE9CEH Class: SO SSB LP Call: VK8AA Class: SO SSB HP Call: VO1HE Class: SO CW HP Call: VO1MP Class: SO CW HP Call: VO1TA Class: SO CW LP Call: VU2PTT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VY2LI Class: SO CW LP Call: VY2SS Class: SO CW HP Call: W0AIH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W0ETT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W0PC Class: SO CW LP Call: W0RIC Class: SO SSB HP Call: W0SD Class: SO SSB HP Call: W0YK Class: SO CW HP Call: W0ZW Class: SO CW HP Call: W1AMF Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W1EQ Class: SO CW LP Call: W1KQ Class: SO CW HP Call: W1MD Class: M/S HP Call: W1TJL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W1TO Class: SO CW LP Call: W1YRC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W1ZA Class: M/S HP Call: W2LHL Class: SO CW LP Call: W2MN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W2NO Class: SO CW LP Call: W2OO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W2RE Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W2UP Class: SO CW HP Call: W2YC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W3ADC Class: SO SSB LP Call: W3BP Class: SO CW HP Call: W3GH Class: SO CW HP Call: W3KB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W3KL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB LP Call: W3USA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4ARM Class: SO CW LP Call: W4EE Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4FI Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4GKF Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4HRC Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4KW Class: SO SSB HP Call: W4LT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4NZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4PK Class: SO CW HP Call: W4PM Class: M/S HP Call: W4PVC Class: M/S LP Call: W4RK Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4SVO Class: M/S HP Call: W4TAA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4UH Class: M/S HP Call: W4ZW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5FO Class: SO CW HP Call: W5GAI Class: SO CW QRP Call: W5PR Class: SO SSB HP Call: W5RU Class: M/S HP Call: W5SL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W5SV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5TAF Class: M/S LP Call: W5WP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W5YAA Class: M/S HP Call: W6AAN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W6OAT Class: M/S HP Call: W6QU Class: SO SSB QRP Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Call: W6TK Class: SO CW HP Call: W6YX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W7GKF Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W7MD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Call: W7TMT Class: SO CW LP Call: W7WHY Class: M/S LP Call: W7YAQ Class: SO CW LP Call: W7ZR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W8RU Class: SO CW LP Call: W9ILY Class: SO CW LP Call: W9JA Class: SO SSB HP Call: W9LHG Class: SO CW LP Call: W9RE Class: SO CW HP Call: W9WI Class: SO CW HP Call: W9XT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA0MHJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA2JQK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WA2MCR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WA4SM Class: SO CW LP Call: WA6L Class: SO CW QRP Call: WA7LNW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WB2ABD Class: SO CW LP Call: WB2RHM Class: SO SSB LP Call: WB4MSG Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: WB4TDH Class: SO CW LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Call: WB9Z Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WC6H Class: SO CW HP Call: WD4IXD Class: SO SSB LP Call: WD5K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WE3C Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WE7K Class: SO CW LP Call: WF4W Class: SO CW LP Call: WF7T Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WG5J Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WH2D Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WI2E Class: SO CW LP Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW HP Call: WK0P Class: SO CW HP Call: WN6K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WO4D Class: M/S HP Call: WO4O Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WS4Y Class: SO CW LP Call: WX3B Class: M/S HP Call: WX4MM Class: SO SSB LP Call: WX4TM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WX7G Class: SO CW LP Call: WZ8P Class: SO SSB LP Call: XE2AUB Class: SO CW LP Call: XE2YBG Class: SO SSB LP Call: YL2KL Class: SO CW HP Call: YL2LY Class: SO Mixed HP Call: YV1JGT Class: SO SSB LP Call: YV7QP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: Z35X Class: SO CW HP Call: Z36W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: ZL1AIH Class: SO CW HP Call: ZL1BYZ Class: M/S HP Call: ZV2C Class: SO SSB LP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/S HP Call: 4U1WB Call: CV5K Call: CW5W Call: K0GAS Call: K0KX Call: K1SE Call: K3IVO Call: K3OO Call: K3WW Call: K4FJ Call: K5EK Call: K5NZ Call: KG6D Call: LS1D Call: N0XR Call: N4ARR Call: N4DW Call: N4GG Call: N4LZ Call: N6WM Call: NN4F Call: NU4SC Call: NX5M Call: NZ1U Call: PE7T Call: PP5MS Call: PY3MHZ Call: S52ZW Call: VE1DT Call: VE1OP Call: VE3MIS Call: VE3UTT Call: W1MD Call: W1ZA Call: W4PM Call: W4SVO Call: W4UH Call: W5RU Call: W5YAA Call: W6OAT Call: W6SX Call: W7RN Call: WO4D Call: WX3B Call: ZL1BYZ Class: M/S LP Call: K0TI Call: K3TD Call: KR4F Call: KS0T Call: LR4E Call: LU8EOT Call: N1UR Call: N8VV Call: VE1SKY Call: VE3AD Call: W4PVC Call: W5TAF Call: W7WHY Class: SO CW HP Call: AA3B Call: AB7E Call: AD4EB Call: AJ3G Call: F5IN Call: HP1WW Call: K0UK Call: K1GU Call: K1TO Call: K1ZZ Call: K2LE Call: K2SX Call: K2TTT Call: K3WI Call: K4LQ Call: K5NA Call: K6CTA Call: K6LRN Call: K6NR Call: K7BG Call: K9BGL Call: K9NW Call: KC7V Call: KI5XP Call: LY6A Call: LZ8A Call: N2CU Call: N2SQW Call: N3BB Call: N4BP Call: N4OGW Call: N5AU Call: N5NA Call: N5WR Call: N5ZK Call: N6AA Call: N7FO Call: N8EA Call: N8NOE Call: NB4M Call: NN7ZZ Call: NY3A Call: OL5M Call: OM3AG Call: PY2WC Call: S57DX Call: VA3EC Call: VE5MX Call: VO1HE Call: VO1MP Call: VY2SS Call: W0YK Call: W0ZW Call: W1KQ Call: W2UP Call: W3BP Call: W3GH Call: W4PK Call: W5FO Call: W6TK Call: W9RE Call: W9WI Call: WC6H Call: WJ9B Call: WK0P Call: YL2KL Call: Z35X Call: ZL1AIH Class: SO CW LP Call: 9A5MT Call: AA4FU Call: AA4NC Call: AA5AM Call: AA5VU Call: AC0DS Call: AC6VN Call: AD5VJ Call: AD6WL Call: AE6RF Call: DL3YM Call: J39BS Call: K0PC Call: K0PK Call: K0UU Call: K1BV Call: K1EP Call: K1LOG Call: K1TN Call: K4IU Call: K4OD Call: K4PG Call: K4RW Call: K5DU Call: K5EWJ Call: K5LH Call: K5PI Call: K6WSC Call: K6XT Call: K6ZH Call: K7HBN Call: K7RSM Call: K7SV Call: K8IR Call: K8SM Call: K9CT Call: KB9OWD Call: KD2MX Call: KG4CUY Call: KI0F Call: KN0V Call: KN4Y Call: KS5A Call: KT4PD Call: N0KM Call: N2WN Call: N3ZL Call: N3ZZ Call: N4CW Call: N4EK Call: N4IJ Call: N4UC Call: N5AW Call: N5DO Call: N5OE Call: N5UL Call: N7AT Call: N7MAL Call: N7ON Call: N7RK Call: NA5Q Call: NM2L Call: PJ2T Call: PY1NX Call: PY4FQ Call: PY4XX Call: VA3RJ Call: VA7ST Call: VE1NB Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3GSI Call: VE3XD Call: VE5UF Call: VO1TA Call: VY2LI Call: W0PC Call: W1EQ Call: W1TO Call: W2LHL Call: W2NO Call: W4ARM Call: W7TMT Call: W7YAQ Call: W8RU Call: W9ILY Call: W9LHG Call: WA4SM Call: WB2ABD Call: WB4TDH Call: WB8JUI Call: WE7K Call: WF4W Call: WI2E Call: WS4Y Call: WX7G Call: XE2AUB Class: SO CW QRP Call: AE8M Call: K4ZJ Call: K9GY Call: KR2Q Call: N0JK Call: N0UR Call: N1TM Call: N5TW Call: N7IR Call: N9SF Call: N9TF Call: NE1RD Call: W5GAI Call: WA6L Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AA4LR Call: IQ4AX Call: JH3PRR Call: K0CL Call: K1KI Call: K3VOA Call: K3ZO Call: K4AB Call: K4BAI Call: K4EA Call: K4GMH Call: K4TD Call: K4ZGB Call: K5AM Call: K5KG Call: K6MM Call: K6RV Call: K7ABV Call: K7LAZ Call: K7ZO Call: K7ZS Call: K8AJS Call: KA1VMG Call: KE3D Call: KH7Y Call: KO7X Call: KY5R Call: N0KE Call: N2MM Call: N3BM Call: N4EEB Call: N4NM Call: N4PN Call: N4YDU Call: N6HC Call: N6NF Call: N8II Call: N8MR Call: NA2M Call: NK6A Call: NT6X Call: PY1NB Call: PY2MTV Call: PY3DX Call: VA3DX Call: VA3KA Call: VE2TZT Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3KF Call: VE3KZ Call: VE6CNU Call: VE7CC Call: W0AIH Call: W0BH Call: W2OO Call: W2RE Call: W2YC Call: W3KL Call: W4LT Call: W4NZ Call: W4RK Call: W4ZW Call: W5SV Call: W6AAN Call: W6YX Call: W7GKF Call: W7MD Call: W7ZR Call: W9XT Call: WA0MHJ Call: WB9Z Call: WE3C Call: WG5J Call: WO4O Call: YL2LY Class: SO Mixed LP Call: 7J1AQH Call: AA6YX Call: AC0W Call: AD1C Call: CE3DNP Call: EA1DR Call: K0ADX Call: K0OU Call: K0WHV Call: K2DBK Call: K2PS Call: K2XC Call: K2ZC Call: K4EDI Call: K4JAF Call: K4QO Call: K6AM Call: K6CSL Call: K6GEP Call: K6III Call: K6RIM Call: K6RM Call: K7WA Call: K8FH Call: K8MAD Call: K8NCC Call: K9MU Call: KG7E Call: KQ6ES Call: KS4X Call: KT4Q Call: KU8E Call: LQ0F Call: LW4HBR Call: N0KK Call: N0NI Call: N1SZ Call: N2MUN Call: N4DL Call: N4LF Call: N4QX Call: N4VA Call: NA4K Call: NP3CW Call: NS3T Call: NV4B Call: PY2IQ Call: PY2LSM Call: PY2SEX Call: VE3CX Call: VE3JI Call: VE4EAR Call: VU2PTT Call: W0ETT Call: W1TJL Call: W1YRC Call: W2MN Call: W3KB Call: W3USA Call: W4EE Call: W4TAA Call: W5SL Call: W5WP Call: WA2JQK Call: WA2MCR Call: WA7LNW Call: WD5K Call: WF7T Call: WH2D Call: WN6K Call: WX4TM Call: YV7QP Call: Z36W Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K4CIA Call: K7UP Call: KR4OW Call: KU4A Call: N6WG Call: NA4BW Call: ND0C Call: PY2NY Call: VA3DF Call: VE3CW Call: W1AMF Call: WB4MSG Class: SO SSB HP Call: AC8G Call: EC1KR Call: F/TU5KG Call: K0RH Call: K4WI Call: K5TR Call: K8CC Call: KE2DX Call: LR2F Call: N0QO Call: N8RA Call: NA5TR Call: NB7V Call: NR5M Call: NX9T Call: P40K Call: PW2P Call: VE2DWA Call: VK8AA Call: W0RIC Call: W0SD Call: W4KW Call: W5PR Call: W9JA Class: SO SSB LP Call: AD5LU Call: EA7HFI Call: F5RD Call: HI3CCP Call: HK6P Call: IZ4DPV Call: K4CX Call: KA9MOM Call: KI6KOI Call: KS2G Call: KU4BP Call: LQ5H Call: LT1K Call: MM0ERK Call: N0UNL Call: N2MTG Call: N5UWY Call: NT0F Call: PP5JAK Call: PU1KGG Call: PU2LEP Call: PU4HUD Call: PY1ZV Call: PY2DU Call: PY2ZY Call: PY6HD Call: VA3WR/W4 Call: VE3ZIN Call: VE9CEH Call: W3ADC Call: W3LL Call: W4FI Call: W4GKF Call: W4HRC Call: WB2RHM Call: WD4IXD Call: WX4MM Call: WZ8P Call: XE2YBG Call: YV1JGT Call: ZV2C Class: SO SSB QRP Call: K0HW Call: KP4KE Call: KR1ST Call: LV6D Call: PU2WDX Call: PY2BN Call: W6QU