NAQP CW - January Soapbox built 2-4-2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA2NA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,560 Thanks to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,500 Antennas: Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m (40-10m) Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m, 160m)) Doublet at 10m (80m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 Comments: Just a casual entry in the NAQP CW. I couldn't put in a full effort due to honey-dos and m eldest daughters birthday dinner. Still, managed to have a lot of fun. When I started at 1920z, 10 and 15m were completely dead. There weren't even any west-coast stations on 15m, which means conditions must have really been bad. By 2000z, however, 15m was starting to open up. Managed to get K1ZZI to call me on 10m -- thanks Ralph. Worked down through 20 and 40m just briefly before having to QRT at 2250z. At this point, I had worked about 130 Qs, a modest effort. Back on at 0220z, I picked up where I left off by CQing on 40m. However, after LU4MHQ called in, I decided the band must be way too long, so I shifted down to 80m. After working a few stations, I found a nice place to CQ at 0230z Initially, I used the shunt-fed tower, which generally works well. But I wasn't getting any responses. I figured I'd try the doublet for a bit, before continuing on to S & P. The doublet has two problems. First, it is only 10m high, so it tends to be very high angle. Second, it's not resonant in the band, and the 80m CW segment is pretty much at the limit of the auto-tuner. Much to my surprise, I started getting answers. Lots of answers. In the next hour and a half, I would work 158 Qs, although that includes a couple of dupes. That's an aggregate rate of 105 / hr! Thanks to everyone for calling in. I had a blast working all the Qs. Worked more stations in that 1.5 hours than I did in the previous 4 hours. High point was working W1YM -- my friend and DX mentor Mike in MA, just as the rate meter hit it's peak of 237 / hr. I rarely hear Mike on the air, so it was an unexpected pleasure. Thanks for the Qs, see you in the Phone portion for another limited effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 129,584 What a fun contest!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0E Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,413 Great time with lots of stations on the air. Thanks to all who called me and especially those patient with fills when multiple stations answered my CQ. Only worked 3.5 hrs and had a nice run of 75 Qs the first hour! ~ 73 Jim ACØE ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 106,743 First time using the K3 in a contest. Where was all the activity on 40m? Seemed like the band was open but abandoned early. Last January had much better propagation in general. Not a peep on 10m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,412 Radio: ICOM 756 Pro III (100W) Antenna: half-G5RV in attic Software: WriteLog 10.69D Hardware: microHAM microKEYER (CW) States missed: ME, WY, NE, ND, SD Non-USA worked: QC, ON, AB, BC, KP2, XE (+LU) I wasn't going to operate, but decided to put in a couple (few) hours at the start to work on the CW part of the Triple Play WAS award. I stopped at 2146z with 224 QSOs in the log, then got on from 0256-0342z, but 40 was mostly done, and I tried sprayed a little RF in all random directions trying to work a handful of guys on 80 (I was happy to work Pat N9RV in MT for a new state there). I did hear W7RM on 15m but not loud enough for a QSO. I worked only one CO station there, but heard a couple others. I'm still getting used to this CO thing. W0s were hard to find, I only heard a few of the local CO stations. Not having an 80m antenna really hurts. I didn't hear that many stations from W1, even on 20m, I suspect many were on 40m meters working the population centers before the band went long. This turned out to be a fun contest for me because a) everyone is running 100W or less, so I can guess how I might sound on the other end, and b) I can call CQ and get answers because I'm not so far down it the pack. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! I already have 39 states confirmed on CW. 73 - Jim AD1C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6WL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 50,901 I think the east coast moved to 40 meters too soon. By the time I went there they had worked everyone and moved on to 80 meters. Great contest, lots of activity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6RF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,700 This was a "learning experience" day. I'd planned on spending most of the day with my kids and operating the last 2 hours, but the family plans got chaotic, allowing me to spend a couple hours on and off during the day. Pick up the "cheap and easy" multipliers on 15m and 20m... So, I'd planned on operating using my "new to me" FT-1000MP Mark V. But it has had filter alignment issues. No worries, I'll drop in the FT-1000MP Mark V Field... But I couldn't get it to key. Frantic troubleshooting. Looks like a bad keying connection in the cable. PUNT back to my stand-by IC-756ProII. It works. But it's a NICE sunny day. The noisy solar inverters across the street start getting LOTS of juice about 13:00 local time. "Turn off the radio in disgust" levels of noise. Take the time to swap in a new FT-1000 keying cable. CW keying is back. No worries. Hm, both radios and computers are on the same network. Figure out how to use N1MM in multi-user mode so I can share the log without having to export/import it. Futz for a while and get it working. Until I "rescore" the contest. Then all my "single user" contacts disappeared. Fortunately I'd had bad luck with this before and had saved ADIF and Cabrillo files before futzing. Finally got everything working, the kids to bed, and in the groove about 5:00Z. Fortunately 80m was quiet and long. The Field was working well and I got to enjoy myself for about 45 minutes. After the contest I learned about N1MM's "Recover QSOs from a Transaction Log..." feature. Thank goodness! I was able to stitch everything back together again. (And in the mean time discover how we could have recovered from a major, similar QLF last year.) So, did some troubleshooting, got some points, made some Q's, spent time with kids, and learned something cool about the logger. All to the plus, right? Nah. Frustrating as HECK! 73 de Donald ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6Y Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,800 Could only get on for a short time, but had lots of fun and great SO2R practice. 73, andy, ae6y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE8M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 65,712 K3 at 100W. Rotating dipole at 50 feet on 40, 20, 15 and 10. 45 foot vertical on 80 and 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AF6EV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 23,236 I had a blast. I had planned on only operating 5 hours, but managed to squeeze out another 2.5. My goal was 150 Qs in 5 hours or 30 Qs per hour. I was close to this rate. I'm still struggling with some names at the higher CW speeds, but I did much better than the August version. Station details: FT-450 @100W 40/20 Fan dipole @25 Ft 80M Loop @20Ft MFJ-949E Tuner N1MM Logger Thanks for the Qs. Dave AF6EV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK4K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 49,504 FCG Team: The Morse Marauders Arrgh, Avast, Maties, AK4K is the Callsign of "Gaspar's Pirates Contest Consortium", a joint venture of contest afficionados from St Petersburg Amateur Radio Club and Tampa Amateur Radio Club. Jose Gaspar is a West Central Florida Pirate legend. He and his Krew will take over Tampa in a few weeks, so Jose is warming up with a little radiosport... Gaspar did his Piratey best working this one around things at home. Jose's wench was not feeling too well, so he had to take care of her and work the contest around her needs, such are the realities of life ashore. Regardless, the callsign is fun to send on CW, but I got lots of fills for "Section?" and "State?" Good solid runs on 20 and 40 added to the fun. Not a peep out of 10, although spent a total of 30 minutes at three different times calling CQ there, once during the time N4EEB said the band was open. Never opened this far south! 15 was loaded with the usual bevy of Californians. No HI was heard, nor ND or AK either. Gave up on 15 fast. 40 and 80 were either extremely long or my new low band antenna "is that much better" than my old one. Many CA, WA, OR, NV, UT, ID worked on both, way too early, to my amazement. The lucky seven additional multipliers for seven QSO's on 160, first use of that band in combat from this QTH! HK2Q and J39BS called me in succession on 40, both were really loud. Worked fellow Gaspar Buccaneer Tom W4CU for first FL Mult on 40 plus many others friends that probably didnt know who I was :) Decided to work the whole thing on my new "secondary" radio and see how it performs in contest conditions. Glad that I at least had the foresight to purchase an InRad 400Hz filter before attempting this! The new to me TS-570D(G)held its own in the piles and the QRM thanks to the filter, the built in tuner was incredibly fast and wide, the DSP works quite well, but you cant use Slope Tuning on CW, only IF shift! Bummer! And NR2 makes CW sound like R2D2 is sending it. I really like having automatic RIT cancel after logging a QSO. Not a bad rig for the money, but I did miss my TS-850's RX performance. Needless to say I will be using the TS-850/Timewave DSP on Phone weekend (!) The wench feels much beter this morning... Lu-W4LT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK9F Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,264 Got a late start, so only part time. Antenna a single 80 meter dipole at 24' with open wire feed. You can have a lot of fun with the most modest setup in this contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL9A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,357 Fun, but I'm tired! Finally managed to work K9MMS in a CW contest - twice! Obviously mults are harder to come by on 40 and 80 up here. I am down to my last piece of wire for 80M - a double bazooka sloper from my 70 ft tower with no radials. Not very efficient! Lost my 80M full wave loop in mid Dec. just before we left for HI for Xmas. My neighbors 60 ft. spruce that was the center support for the loop went down for the count in a wind storm. Since getting back from HI temps here have been anywhere from 10 to 30 below zero most days. Not really interested in trying to hang wire under those conditions. Hope to do better next weekend in the SSB event. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DXC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 103,934 Rig - Icom IC-756PROIII (100 watts) Antenna(s) Hustler 6BTV vertical, Alpha Delta DX-B sloper at 35 feet, SBOG (RX antenna, I never used it) I had a GREAT time in the NAQP CW this time around! I recently moved into my new QTH in Ohio, so I have been longing for an opportunity to test out my new and improved antennas. This morning at about 10:00 eastern (3 hours before the contest started) I went outside in pouring rain to put down even more radials for my 6BTV vertical. Because of the bad weather conditions, it took me about an hour - an hour and a half to get them put down. (I had to make sure none of the stripped wire got wet, I didn't want my radial plate under the 6BTV getting wet when I removed it's plastic cover, it was so cold outside that I would have to run inside every 10 minutes to warm up my hands....) I was also looking forward to using the new IC-756PROIII in another contest outing. It performed spectacularly in the ARRL 160 meter contest and the W1BB Distance Challenge but I really wanted to test it out in an all band contest. Before the contest started I was planning on running my version of "SO2R" (Sometimes 14 year olds get crazy ideas about making things work without proper equipment.) but I could not get N1MM logger to cope with two radios hooked up to the computer without an SO2R box to configure them. It was fun trying... At Dayton this year I'll have to keep an eye out for an SO2R box so I can start really improving my score! Before this January I had never even scored 30,000 points before in an NAQP; neither CW nor SSB. I had always operated with one antenna, a 6BTV vertical; mounted right up against the house with a handful of radials all thrown out in one direction. That was good for about 270 QSOs but nothing more. I could never hold a run frequency with it either. However, this NAQP is different. Since my dad got a job promotion we had to move out to Jackson, OH this August. The shack has changed a LOT since then. I started the contest thinking that I would be happy if I made 500 QSOs and 70,000 points. I was ready/pumped up for the contest. Knowing that it was coming up soon was the only thing that helped me get through school this last month (HIHI). 20 meters and up was junk for me. I couldn't even manage 50 Q's on 20! I checked 15 meters right off the bat and that was totally dead. Then I spent the first hour of the contest S&P on 20. That got me about 15 multipliers. Then when I couldn't run on 20, I decided to go to 40 meters. Right when I got to 40 meters I had a 100/hour running. Propagation on 40 was obviously a lot better than propagation on 20 meters! Soon afterwards I checked 15 meters to find it open; I took advantage of the situation and picked up some more mults. I then went down to 20 meters to make a few more QSO's and 5 more multipliers. N2NT had me QSY to 10 meters but I could not hear anything. That was the end of the high bands for me. 40 and 80 meters were the workhorse bands for me. To be honest with you, I felt like I was running a big gun station most of the time! I had the keyer set at 35-40 wpm the whole contest when running! The only time I dropped the speed was when someone couldn't copy my name (I used "KID" as my name) or when I was searching and pouncing. It felt GREAT to be able to run stations! Looking back at my decision to spend so little time on the higher bands has frusterated me. If I would have spent at least another hour on 15 and 20 that would have meant probably at least 10-20 more multipliers for me which I now know is REALLY important at the end of the contest! I certainly won't make the same mistake next time. I worked a lot of fellow MWA and SMC members. It would be impossible to list them all. I had a great time in the contest, it was a lot of fun to hear all of the familiar callsigns coming back to me in the pileups! HIGHLIGHTS: - While I was running on 40 meters, I actually had a bunch of European stations come back to me! Why won't this happen in the DX contests when they count as multipliers? :) :) - I always send the name "KID" when a name is required. It was funny when I got a few "HI" or TU KID GL OM HIHI sent back to me. - I worked Al, N5UM on 40 meters. - I could NOT find Indiana! I spent a good portion of my S&P time looking for Mike, W9RE. He was no where to be found! Then, with only 45 seconds left in the NAQP I finally found him for a last minute multiplier on 160! - I was happy to break 100,000 points. THAT HAPPENED?! - I busted up Al, K0AD's callsign! WOW! On 160 meters Al called me along with a few other stations and I heard "0AD". I then typed "W0AD" into the callsign field. Upon sending "W0AD KID OH" I realized my mistake and had it fixed before Al had to correct me. (I had only worked Al on 3 other bands.) :) - ARRRGGGGHHH! I missed a LOT of easy multipliers on 15 and 20 meters! I NEED to spend more time on the high bands next time! I would like to say thank you to everyone for all the QSOs. I hope to hear all of you again in the NAQP SSB next weekend! 73, Cal (KID), K0DXC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,250 a few hours of fun. FT1000MP->80M loop/160M "L" 73 es HNY, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 209,484 Strong winds tried to ruin things for me the week before the contest but I was able to replace a rotor, fix a tic ring, and repair a bad coax connector. Things went pretty well in the contest, but I've still got a ways to go in getting rid of interference between the SO2R radios, especially on 160 and 80 meters. 10 meters was useless except for 1 local QSO. 15 was almost as bad. 20 was long and many close in states were missed. Heard a VE6 once and a VE4 once, but no QSO's with VE6/VE5/VE4 here. Couldn't quite get to the magic 200 mark in mults. Had great rates most of the contest. Not many other NA countries QRV. Only worked J3 and XE from here. Still learning how to find mults and didn't do a very good job again this year. But, there's always next year. The great thing about this contest is that you can work people on multiple bands, so the rate always stays up there. 73 Randy K0EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0LUZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 125,850 Guess I need to get an antenna for 160 to really be effective in this contest. Skip was long throughout the contest on all bands. VE3's were really banging in here! Never heard ND, SD or WY. Probably outside shoveling snow! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 136,290 High bands were poor. Got a couple of locals to go to 10, and 15 was very selective (only open to the NW). So stayed on 20 too long when JA's started answering my CQ's. 40 was fun and 80 was my best band. 160 was a plus. Thanks to all for the Q's and to NCJ for the fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 88,480 Spotty conditions up here didn't help the score. Local noise on 80 kept me away until it was too late to do much good. A short opening on 15 was workable only by beaming WSW, even to work stations to the S and SE. They could not be heard beaming SE. W6 signals would briefly peg the meter and then disappear into the noise. 10 was totally dead. Still had fun, though! Highlight was quickly QSYing down the bands from 15 thru 160 with K4RO. That was neat....thanks, Kirk! Setup: FT2000/TS940, TH3-TA33-TH3 stack, 20/15/10 sloper, CCD40, 80m 1/2-sloper, CF Zepp, 160m TLSF vert. Thanks for the Q's! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,320 I was planning on 4-6 hours and was able to get 4:17 in. We had a "thing" to go to in the evening and I was hoping to get back for the last hour, but that did not work out. There sure were a lot of stations using the name Val. Not sure who that was for. Cal (Kid) K0DXC. Those extra radials were working fine. You had a nice signal when I worked you on 80. Great job too! There were comments about QSB on 80. I noticed that too. I did not make specific note about it, but it may have been more of an issue for signals to the west of us, but not consistently all of them. Some would take quick deep fades on 80. Generally the band was in pretty good shape it seemed. I was working S&P on 80 and had just worked a station. He said TU with my call wrong so I called to correct him. Well Dan, K0TI was calling him then. Sure made for a confusing moment. I hope he got that changed. I think he did. The bright spot was that I found a spot up a couple KHz and called CQ. Dan found me so grabbed another QSO out of that. It turned out to be a good run freq too! I think I worked another 40 stations or so there. It was just no good CQing on 20 and 15. I could work stuff just fine, but no takers on those bands. Seems to be the norm these days. TNX for the QSO's. 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0XI Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 101,234 active amateur radio society ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 99,067 Too much time on the high bands. Not enough time on the low bands. Misused the breaks. Ran out of time at the end. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1HI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 9,338 20M and 80M only, thanks to December ice storm! Lots of fun - practiced with N1MM logger - great SW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 81,104 K3, A3S and wires. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 132,396 With some of the antennas destroyed by the recent New England ice storm, managed to get on with the remining ones. Strong signals from the west coast on 15 m. for an hour, then silence..40 m. went long early in the evening, but the activity on 80 and 160 was amazing. Lots of fun. Never heard ME, ND, WY, MS and VE5. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 72,002 What ever happened to Sun Spots ???? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ZR/4 Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 972 K2 @ 5 watts to 40 meter Windom at 15' - 25' Condx appeared to be fair at best. QTH: Key West, IOTA NA-062 73, Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 65,390 Leaving everything to chance, I discovered at the last moment that my 40M wire beam had broken in the last ice storm. I tried loading all my other wires and made a few Q's, but it wasnt worth the struggle. Hopefully can fix something up for phone. 73, Ty K3MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,316 I forgot how rusty I had gotten on CW until this contest! It helped, though. I only spent a little time playing, but I had fun! I need some decent antennas at the cabin! The Butternut vertical just doesn't cut it that well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 169,388 Pretty busy but still missed MT ND and SD on all bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 135,180 FT1000MP, 100W, 88' CF zepp up 45' for 10, 15, 20, 40, and 80. 1/2 wave dipole up 40' for 40. "t" vertical for 160. This was a very interesting experience. I have had at least a triband yagi to use for every prior NAQP. My TH6DXX "died" last Sunday. My score from last January is only one more QSO, but 13 more multipliers than this year. 20M seemed terrible here. I know I missed a lot of backscatter QSOs and mults that I could hear, but could not work that I could have worked with the beam. 15M was dead except for NP4Z at the start, but later had a very good opening to the west coast and a marginal opening to the NE USA and Canada. On 10 worked only the two local states, GA and AL. 40M seemed very good. Some long skip, but not bad. 80M was better than I had expected using my short zepp. The usual 80M inverted vee was dedicated to the 160M "t" vertical so that QSYs from 80 to 160 and vice versa wouldn't take so long. Probably my best showing on 160, which seemed very good here. Was able to work ME to OR and NM to SC. Miscalculated my off time and went over by 10 minutes. There are 9 QSOs and one mult at the end that are in the log, but are not included in the claimed score. Thanks for all the QSOs. Hope to see you all next weekend. I'll be the one much weaker than usual on the high bands. Nice to work the DX station OH2XX, who called me on 40. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 38,841 One of my favorite contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 113,760 I need to put up a 160M ant if I plan to do this again! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4NO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 157,356 RIP Dan W4NTI Lots of fun in this one. Thanks for the QSO's and the QSY'S Greg "Dan" K4NO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,467 RIG: YAESU FT-897D 100 WATTS BEAM: TRI-BANDER AT 45 FT 80/40 ALPHA-DELTA DIPOLE AT 43 FT And we even got a small opening on 10 for heaven sakes even though the sunspots showed up too late. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 182,039 My main 40M antenna is broken. A half-dozen trips up the tower have not been successful in fixing it. I put up some dipoles to try to make up for it , but nothing works like the loaded boom used to. My first 40M CA QSO was 0408z, which was really surprising. These were my lowest 40M numbers for Jan NAQP CW in a long time. I had frustrating software troubles throughout the contest. Even after doing the NCCC test run, my computer keying failed at the start of the contest. I missed the opening 14 minutes trying desperately to get the keying working again. I may have to abandon Winkey and go back to parallel port keying. I could not log some S&P QSOs on the second radio without a lot of trouble. Certain sections would not log at all, and some had to be typed twice. I had same trouble in the RTTY RU contest, so I need to figure out what's happening. Ten and fifteen meters were dead at the start, but both bands opened well at 2030z. There were strong openings to the east coast, but no one was home. N2NT was 20/9 at one point on 10 meters. W1UE was quite loud as well. Lots of folks laughed when I asked them to move to ten meters, but several moves worked. Congrats to KL9A and N5KO for some super scores. The west coast seems to rule the January edition, while the south east does better in the August running. Congrats to K0DXC on a great job breaking 100k for the first time. Great to hear my old friend Walt K3DQB in the contest. Excellent turn out from the TCG once again - 5 full teams of operators hit the bands from TN. It looks like SMC had a boat load of teams on for the party also. Congrats to N4ZZ on the top TN score. It looks like QSOs trumped mults, once again. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 435,174 First, I'm glad we had such a good effort in honor of Dan (W4NTI). RIP, OM... Second, thanks for all the QSO's. Doug and I had a great time this year. We decided to start the contest on 40 and 20, and Doug got off to a terrific start on 40 and kept it up till he switched to 160. I pulled the 20/15/10 shift till 80 opened up. It seemed to take forever berfore 80 opened up... :-) We had a terrific time watching the Live Scores on the web. We both think it contribuited to keeping our butts in the seats... We had some rain static from some showers that moved through the area, but thankfully that didn't last too long. Both Doug and I really enjoyed this version of NAQP and the good low band conditions this time around. Hopefully we will be able to do the NAQP RTTY as a multi-2 team as well... 73, Rick and Doug K4TD and KY4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 108,630 missed ME, SD, ND for WAS. Worked 4 RI and 3 DE. Can't predict what will be scarce from one test to the next. 73, Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ZW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 109,968 Put more time in this one than anticipated. Spent the beginning of the contest replacing the back door on my garage, something I've been meaning to do for a long time. Two hours and 2 beers later it was in so after a shower I plopped down in the shack for a few hours. Took some time off to watch football, Caps hockey, and play with my new laptop that showed up on Saturday. Couldn't get the wireless connection to work so I logged into Dell support while running on 80. I was #56 in que so I kept my self occupied running during that time. Only operated one radio this weekend but for awhile I was SO2W (Single op 2 Windows). As others have commented, the lowbands were great! Ken K4ZW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5DU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 77,715 What I learned this weekend: - I need more CW practice - 10 hours is a long time to practice - Most hams are very patient, a few are not - S & P for multipliers in CQWW CW is easier than this contest - This is fun and difficult - CW is harder than RTTY Thanks to everyone who worked me. Now please upload your log to LoTW so that I can get your state CW credit for the ARRL Triple Play. Thanks, Susan K5DU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5END Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 180 NEWBIE, yes. New to CW, new to contesting. Had some antenna issues getting set up on Saturday aftenoon, but I took my time to get everything right before getting on the air. My goal was to participate and log my first contest more than to rack up points. As I was not "competing" but just a participant, I did more listening than sending. The 40 m band got less active by the time I was ready at 0200Z, so I had to re-rig for 80--in the dark. Abandoned the tuned radials and went for an earth groundplane. It seemed to work fine. It was my first time to work Canada, and I added a dozen or so states to those I have now worked. Thanks very much to N05W for his help, advice and encouragement, which was invaluable to me in getting set up for this. 73 all, K5END Larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,796 Found new broadband pulsed noise, S6-S8 on all HF bands. Wasn't there before Christmas. Made copying more challenging. Still not good @ CW, but trying. 73, Mark, K5ER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 524,628 Great fun! Perhaps the best contest of all. No worries about amplifiers blowing up and a lot of contacts in a short time period. Special thanks to N5RR for all the help with computer stuff and to Kevin and everyone else for doing most of the work to get ready. 15M was a diaappointment for us and the multiplier is low compared to last year but pleased with the number of contacts. Used N1MM for the first time in a multi-operator environment and it worked well. Station information at www.k5go.com Thanks for the QSOs. Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5JX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,224 This was my very first effort at NAQP, and it was great fun! I'm looking forward to the SSB contest. Rig: Icom IC-746 (Non-Pro) Antenna: Ground-mounted Hustler 6BTV Software: N3JFP Contesting Log 2.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KA Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 480,654 Great contest! Participation was high and the low bands were quiet. Now if we could get 15 meters to cooperate. Thanks to Bruce, AA5B and Steve, K6AW for traveling to join us. We all had a really good time. And about 6 hours into the contest we had a surprise drop-in visit from Tim, K3LR. He is a true gentleman. Congrats to all the other M/2's for the awesome scores. This category has become very competitive. 73, Ken K5KA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5LH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 47,481 S&P effort. Long skip on all bands. 15 meter opening to West Coast. Equipment: Omni V, wire dipoles, Aetherlog. Glad to hear so many Vals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 224 I made a few QSOs while driving to the post office and back. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,788 Had a commitment with XYL so only got a few hours to test out my new "SO2R desk". Hadn't quite finished setting up N1MM and forgot to NOT use the serial port for keying because the ESC doesn't work when K3 and N1MM are used with serial keying. Oh well, I still had fun and earned more brownie points from the XYL so I can play in the CQ 160 contest. Nice to see so many BIG scores! Bob K5WA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 103,994 Was extremely happy to be able to play in this one after a couple years away. My sincere tnx to Bob and Kay for a fine weekend. The new QTH is fantastic! The results on 15m weren't too bad, either. Thinking seriously about the RTTY gig next month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 131,560 I hear that condx were good on the low bands. I wouldn't know. The dry winds here set off an S9 plus power line noise on all bands. Made for some tough digging to pull some of you guys out. Nice to hear a decent opening on 15 after a disappointing start. 40 seemed to go into a slump at about sundown and then came back later, but everyone was gone. Congrats for the nice scores on the SCCC teams. We had a FB turnout again. CU next week, John K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,940 Conditions not the best, but still lots of fun. Where were AK and HI, I never heard any. I was really surprized to find DE and RI. I didn't hear any VE, other than the 2 VE3's I worked. TNX to the KB'ers who gave me CA. CU all for SSB. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6DBG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 1,530 K1 (40/30/20/15) to inverted L cut for 160m. The K1 really isn't a contest rig, but that's where and what I had to use this weekend. I heard lots more stations than I could work - no real surprise there. Not hearing, much less working, any California stations ... now *that* was a surprise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 187,488 Post is late because I left for Peru the Sunday morning after the contest. Had some fun using dueling CQs on 15 & 20 for a while. 73, Ken, K6LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 196,084 80 was the best I've ever seen it from here. 15 was totally dead at the start, which was scary, but it got better as the afternoon wore on. There were lots of new calls, probably folks trying for the Triple Play WAS Award. I'll put my log on LOTW within a couple days. I was just in a mood to have fun, so no so2r, and only a couple of moves, one of which was W7WW across town, for Arizona on six bands. Thanks for all the Q's Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 71,300 Thanks for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 96,450 Great fun. Decent conditions today. Seems like the bands were busy -- good energy everywhere. Would like to have worked the whole 12 hours instead of 10. Thanks for the Qs. 73 John K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 139,320 15 meters was dead at the beginning but opened up a few hours into the contest for a short period of time. 160 and 80 seemed to be in good shape, as did 20. I worked F5IN on 80; Mike was just as strong as the stateside guys. 40 seemed to have weak propagation. Overall, plenty of stations to work, great contest as always. Thanks for the Qs. Dana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6SRZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 168,300 As far as I could tell, nobody from ND was on for this event. 80 and 160 were in good shape and 15 meters was there for a few hours. This is my best ever score for this contest. I credit a new QTH with room for antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 110,722 This was a 60% 'Field Day' activity via generator at my fledgling Locust Peak remote site due to insufficient solar/battery power to operate the full contest. I came home before dark and mostly ran 50 watts via remote control while keeping my fingers crossed that I had enough battery juice to finish. Sometimes I did crank back up to 100w in order to make a few Q's when I couldn't get through with 50w. Fortunately the WX was clear yesterday and no new unwanted road surprises to get up on the mountain and back before dark. The Carolina Windom problems didn't get resolved before the NAQP, however, so only made a few Q's on 160m with about 25w to a very high SWR that the tuner wouldn't work. Some folks sure have good ears! The little TH3, Jr. at 27 feet had no problems, except only one signal was heard and worked on 10m {SIGH}. Apologies to W5SG when the generator pooped out during our first QSO attempt. It turned out that I QLF'd when putting the gas cap back on after refueling, and inadvertenly flipped the ON lever to OFF on the top cap breather cap. It did seem strange that the Honda would quit so soon after refilling ;0( I still don't have automatic software rig control via remote control and forgot several times to manually change the band in WriteLog. Double apologies to K4TD for trying to Dupe him on two bands due to my QLF. The software audio delays when operating via remote (even with a 1ms latency link) are still not good especially for CW Contesting. My quest for a low-latency A/D processing direct Ethernet connection hardware audio solution continues. It never ceases to amaze me when some folks come back with a 'Tnx, Eric' (my legal name which I have never used on the air), after I have actually sent my name as 'Rick' --- apparently QRZ.COM gets polled for pre-fill purposes these days. I think the following N0AX 3830 post comment deserves to be put on a nice plaque and hung in a prominent place on a (virtual) wall in the Contesting Hall of Fame: 'Folks, turn off the pre-fill. Hear the signal, copy the signal - that's how it works.' Right ON, Mr. Wardster !!! 73 & Tnx for all the Q's... Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,631 Didn't have much time this Jan. The rates were there whenever I was on. 80 started out poor then developed really well. That was fun! Its just like DX pileups. Send W2? and all sorts of calls reply, only one of which contains W2. 73 Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ZH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 146,544 Well, that was fun! Since all I have is a barefoot Xcvr, this contest is my chance for a level playing field. Radio: IC-746 Antennas: 4-el SteppIR for 10-15-20 40-2CD on 40 Inv. Vee on 80 all at 60 feet or so. 15 meters - it was very nice to have it open - at least to some extent. I did not make a single contact west of the Mississippi River - go figure! 20 was great, but it closed up early here on the West Coast. 40 was great. And I was surprised at being able to have runs on 80. Did not work any VE1/9/VY2, VY1/VE8/VY0, VO1/VO2, VE4, or North Dakota. Got all the other W/VE mults on one band or the other, or multiple in many cases. Tnx for all the Qs! Cheers / 73 - Jim, K6ZH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 227,484 Managed to get in almost the full 10 hours around the basketball schedule. Took all my off time in one big wad so I could get to the ball game and back. Low bands were great. The highlight was getting called by K7LUH 20 miles away and we moved through all 6 bands for a nice clump of mults near the end. Lynn was my only 10 meter Q. Thanks for the great time, Matt--K7BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ON Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 29,232 Ran QRP and really needed the practice! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RAT Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 8,010 This was a single band - multi-operator affair. Single band because I can only setup my station for one band under remote control currently - and I was in Taiwan on a business trip during the contest. Multi-op - because SM5EDX was patched into the audio on Skype and helped me with a few calls. Great conditions and good activity. Never imagined I could work this much on 160 in this contest. See you in the CQ 160 (hopefully, I will be home by then). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RSM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,716 NAQPCW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2009-01-10 CallSign Used : K7RSM Operator(s) : K7RSM Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED Band : ALL Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : BOBBY AZ Gridsquare : DM33XP Name : Bobby McDonald Address : 19654 N 35th Place City/State/Zip : Phoenix AZ 85050 Country : USA ARRL Section : AZ Club/Team : Centrial Arizona DX Association Software : N1MM Logger V8.11.0 Band QSOs Pts Sec 3.5 54 54 32 7 45 45 30 14 73 73 41 Total 172 172 103 Score : 17,716 Rig : Antennas : 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 : 2009-01-10 Signature : Bobby McDonald ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7SV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 212,762 It goes without saying that NAQP CW was more fun with the antennas at NR4M as opposed to the A3 and wires at home! This was certainly my best score in this contest. Didn't have time to get the rotators in the 15M stack connected before the contest and none were pointed in a good direction. There's a problem between the feed and the balun on the KT36XA, so it was a bit flaky. We'll have a good means to quickly connect and disconnect all cables come summer. We'll also have some 10M antennas up and the tribander fixed as well. Thanks to Steve and Carolyn for the hospitality and allowing me to enjoy the fruit of our labors! CY'all in CQ 160CW and then the CW sprint. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,652 Just don't have enough antennas to do this contest justice! Poor conditions, good activity - it can only get better! K3 - 100W 20m: Hamstick Dipole 40m: Low Dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 76,320 Interesting contest. 80 meters was much worse than I expected, and 160 was better. Conditions for the most part seemed not bad, bands were relatively quiet. I've had bigger scores in previous NAQPs, but this one was as much fun as any I've done. Picked up 44 states on CW; hoping for good percentages on LotW for WAS Triple Play. Thanks for all the contacts! See you all on (yecchhhh) SSB next weekend. Rigs: FT1000MP, FT2000 Antennas: 3 ele quad on 20 and 15, 204-foot G5RV on 80 and 40, Inverted L on 160. Software: WriteLog 10.69d ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8FC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 144,848 No 10 meter contacts, I must confess only checked the band once. Could have spent more time on 15 but felt it was a waste. It was a good time. Thanks everyone for the qso's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MAD Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 265,411 Rigs: FT-1000D and FT-1000MP Antennas: 160 - Shunt Fed Tower and K9AY Loop array 80 - Dipole @ 65', four-square 40 - 3L @ 120', N/S dipole @ 80', E/W dipole @ 40' 20 - 5L/5L @ 120'/60', 4L SE @ 80' 15 - 5L/5L/5L @ 141'/94'/47', 4L SE @ 60' 10 - 5L/5L/5L @ 90'/60'/30' We used the Mad River Radio Club call (K8MAD) as part of a club effort to log QSOs for the ARRL WAS Triple Play award. K8SIA used it last weekend in the ARRL RTTY roundup and got us 46 states on RTTY. This weekend we got 49 states (never found North Dakota) on CW so we're off to a decent start. We'll be on phone next weekend in NAQP SSB to further the effort. Our team, as well as most of the other MRRC/NCC NAQPers used the name "Val" to honor MRRC/NCC founding member Robert "Val" Valentine, W8KIC who passed away last month due to cancer. Conditions from here in MI were not very good. We could work people on 20M through the daylight hours, but 15M and 10M were empty. We'd chase 15M West Coast packet spots with nary a hint of signal. 40M had good signals during the day, and late in the afternoon 15M started producing answers to CQs. Unfortunately our skip zone on the high bands beaming west is a lot less densely populated than for stations out west beaming east :-( 20M died with the sunset, and 40M became unusable shortly thereafter. So we were down on 80M and 160M shortly after 0000Z. However, we saw a spot for N2NT on 160M in the 00Z hour, so we knew were weren't alone. Our experience in NAQP usually is that the low bands are where we can make up some ground. However, this time 80M was the worst we've ever seen it. The band was very quiet, but we knew we were in trouble when three out of the first four QSOs were WA, ID and OR and W6s were easier to work than W3s! The proble appeared to be latitude-related, as we could hear stations to the south having better success. For the 00Z and 01Z hours we could not get answers to CQs on 80M no matter what we did, so it was all S&P to keep the rate from being zero. Eventually 80M improved to the point where CQs were answered, but even then it was a struggle to work stations within 500 miles (which is a LOT of stations). 160M was decent during the night-time hours, and it eventually caught and passed 80M for our best band QSO-wise. Still, the contest was a lot of fun. Depressing to be 1000 QSOs behind the leaders, but still fun. Dave/K8CC Uli/KK8I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 85,680 I had to put my 40M dipole and 80M verticals back in the air after the wind we had last week took them down. I also had to replace a transistor in my homebrew SO2R box, so I got a late start. I ended up sitting in the chair a lot longer than I had planned. Lots of activity made it an easy thing to do. N8EA called me and I asked him to move to 10, 15, and 160 for a sweep of MI mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 79,404 "Val" was in memory of W8KIC, who passed away in early December. I agree fully with others, the first part was crummy, the second half pretty good. Not much short propagation, so worked very few OH, MI, WV, IN. The weekend snow left lots of power line noise to add to the challenge. While technically SO2R, I don't do that much of it because 10,15,20, and the main 40 meter antenna is one antenna, a PRO-67A. Had I planned ahead I could have set up 80 or 160 on the second radio, but I didn't. However with one radio I am becoming good at multitasking, doing both the contest and reading the news online. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 90,302 Only PT. Left for BB game in the middle of the contest. So poor choice of operating times. First couple of hours were a struggle. Last couple were a blast...high rates. Goal was to boost the SMC participation and work on the Triple Play Award. Missed three states...ND, SD and NE. Thanks for all of the fun. 73, Craig K9CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 1,050 Used "BLAGO" for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (a Democrat) which the Illinois House voted to impeach on Friday. Another Democrat bites the dust, hah! How long before Illinois politics catches up with P-E Obama? Just S+Ping while working on CQWW CW QSLs and home snow removal. Is it just me or does filling out QSLs take an extremely long time! Of course when you are working a stack of 300+ cards I guess it does take a long time... Wish I had more time to dedicate to this one but as Chicago CUBS fans say around here "Wait until next year". Best of health to all, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MMS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 108,667 Had to use TS-940S for most of the contest (75%). Problems with new radio on 40 meters. High noise levels on most bands made for difficult copy much of the time -- especially without good receive and NR filters available. Always one of my favorite contests. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 145,250 I never got anything going on 15 or 20. 20 was very noisy here, so I went to 40 very early. I was beginning to be very concerned about this contest when the big wire antennas kicked in. In spite of the rain, 40, especially 80, and 160 were like magic. Thanks to all for the Q's 73 and good luck in 2009! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 136,721 Great fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 58,194 IC-746 20m dipole @ 10' 40m dipole @ 20' Wasn't too keen on driving 3 hours in ice and snow so I decided to op from home. Managed to force about 30w out of the radio on 80 into the 40m dipole....condx must have been quiet for 90 guys to hear me! Thanks to N8AA for QSOs on 160 and 10 - my only 6 bander. :-) Helps to be local....had to be mere milliwatts going out from here on 160! 73, Mike K9NW aka "Val" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,090 NAQP START. I focused on calling CQ for this event and gained an insight into the priority of antennas. If power is king on the chess table of RadioSport then one's antenna is the rook, for me in the end game, the rook adds strategic value. And life on the wire in NAQP CW 2009 presented a new set of strategic challenges eg. antenna and the effect of winter propagation. HIGH BANDS. Twenty meters is a match-up of an antenna systems. One's antenna gain compensates for the 100-watt rule and creates a fun operating challenge for wire driven operators like myself. My learning benefit is timing and persistence. Propagation is another great teacher. Local conditions such as QRN resulting from storm activity and absorption is another factor to consider. The number of variables acting on one's signal is really amazing. My overall production on 20m resulted from search and pounce. I have learned, if more than one Level-1 station sends a question mark then, conditions are not necessarily ideal for calling CQ, for a Level-4 sub-optimal antenna system running low-power within suburban geography. My strategy shifted to search and pounce. Fifteen meters, on the other hand, did not produce any Qs perhaps as a result of propagation even with sunspot number 1010 on the face of Helios. Both A and K-index suggested a decent opportunity, if, 15m opened sometime in the afternoon. I alternated between 15 and 20m on the half-hour. And winter propagation closed 20m an hour before sunset. LOW BANDS. The effect of winter played a significant role with bands going long earlier. Optimal antenna systems on the low bands really make a difference although my doublet plays on 40 meters. I missed my short skip advantage into San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego on both bands at this time of year. CONCLUSION. My three band vertical project is back on the drawing board. We are going to build a harness for ease of deployment without provoking the home owners association. I'm building an RFI ground at my operating position next weekend and taking rudimentary steps toward that solution. One knows when RadioSport is a passion. I enjoyed myself throughout NAQP CW 2009 with 24 states in the log across three bands, working KP2M on 40m, fumbling at the keyboard a few times, and logging a few Qs after calling CQ. 73 Scot, KA3DRR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 179,224 Nice spread of multipliers/bands. I ran the whole time and kept the rate up there. What could be more fun?! Gene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB9AX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 76,514 Couldn't spend full time, but this is a great contest. Had fun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB9OWD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 57,288 Had a tough start... planned on taking a half hour off time right off the bat as we had some family over here early for my wife's grandma's funeral early next week! When I got on, the computer would not talk with the radio. I had everything hooked up from the last test. Pulled up a few old logs and everything was fine, so I knew it was all in line o.k. Still would not work with the NAQP software... Tried to re-download the NAQP software and still had the same bug. Rather than lose more time, everything was hand sent and I also had to manually make band switches. Daylight hours were tough. Most 40 meter qso's were during daylight. Only 2 10 meter qso's were with WI locals. 15 opened nice to the west coast and a few scatter into IL, MN and surrounding states. 20 from my QTH was horrible. I missed numerous usually given mults on the east coast. I just could not hear anything out east with a few exceptions and some FL. 40 produced some decent results early however got nosier as the time went on. 80 and 160 were both decent from here. Had a problem with the 160 vertical, tunes great but no receive. The 1/4 wave for 80 tuned up nice and had decent receive and that is what I used there. Anything on 160 is always a bonus from here. After I had worked out what I could hear on 40 and 80, could always go there and pick up some new mults. Only one VE2 that kept CQin as I called, otherwise worked all I heard there which is rare!! 80 had fairly low noise as well and was able to work several there, some earlier than expected. Overall had a good time admist log troubles which I will sort out before next weekend and other obligations going on! See you all next weekend! 73 Ryan KB9OWD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 21,520 Used Dan in memory of W4NTI who became a silent key last month! "Rest in peace" old buddy! Had some switching problems. Finally wound up just working the coax around the switch which kind of was a pain, because it was raining most of the afternoon. Oh well! Used a 40m delta loop and 160m dipole at 65'. Both seemed to play pretty good. Used the 160m dipole on 80m and it worked OK. No receiving antennas, but the noise was pretty low. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! See you next time! 73s and HNY! Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC9FAV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 70 Due to work issues I could only work the last 4 hours of this contest. Lots of QRN on my end of the antenna and I had a very hard time hearing stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,384 A limited effort. High QRN here made life unpleasant. Bands kind of blah during the afternoon. Missed the Saturday night fun on 80/160. Did much better last time w/QRP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4HXT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,890 40/80 not doing normal paths tonight. Effert made on Mults this time with a last few minutes on 160 (a first) GL team 6! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 168 Was only able to get on for the last hour. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1FO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,389 Fun time. Wish I could have put more time in during the day on 15 and 20, but still had a great time. I really like this contest - no amps to bother the wife and neighbors, and yet I'm still relatively loud! Thanks everyone and see you in NAQP RTTY in a few weeks. 73 de Al, KE1FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,248 80m and 160m were great! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG6D Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,629 Over all I had have a good time in the contest and made a few points for the NCCC. I had a severe RF problem in the shack when I was on 80 meters with just a 100 watts that made the computer go crazy, so it was not a fun time on 80 meters with the logging program going wild on me. Something to work on before the next contest. Thanks to everyone that answered my call. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,112 Only worked 20 meters as my weak signal would get stomped on 40 or lower. Lots of good propagation back east hampered only by QSB. I had a few requests to head to 15 meters and each time I checked it, NADA. Thanks for the QSO's! 100 watts from this far north can sure be a challenge. Good news is, it warmed up this weekend to -18! Phil KL8DX Denali National Park, AK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,208 Should have left my nyquil-head out of this one... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 44,730 Good conditions on all bands, plenty of CW stations on all bands,, a fun QSO party. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 168,360 It would be more fun if S/O could operate the whole 12 hours, the rate was actually picking up when my 10 hours was done.... 20M completely shut down at 2330Z, still total daylight here! That's REALLY early to make a move to 40M when you're in AZ.... My 80M 1/4 wave vertical project is still sitting on the ground, so I was stuck with 25 KHZ of bandwidth on 80. And only 15 KHZ on 160.... CU in the CW Sprint! 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 86,010 Never heard Me, ND, NE, RI or SD. Another casual, part time effort on my part. Went to bed early. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 203,000 Rig: FT-1000MP Antennas: Force12 4BA (10/15), Force12 Magnum 620/340 (20/40), 2el wire beam (80), 1/2 wave sloper (160) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 98,118 I need to improve my break strategy. 160m was hot when my time ran out. 73 Johnny, KR4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU0G Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,488 Spent the first 5.25 hours trying to get new RFI out of computer! YUCK! Finally ran it down to a USB port. Changed ports and was able to get going finally at 2315z. Mainly shooting for TP-WAS state this evening but started getting a rhythm going around 02z... Still, I'm a phone operator first (and it SHOWS!). Had a ball regardless! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 452,556 NX5M approached me about doing this the week before and I just plain feel like doing a Single-Op effort. So, I emailed N5XJ and a M/2 was born. Our main objective of the weekend was to get some good practice and putting in a decent score was just a bonus. This was also the first time to use Win-Test in NAQP and we were very pleased (except for the NL/NF mult discrepancy). NX5M had everything set station-wise the previous Wednesday but we were still deciding which call to use. When I arrived Saturday, Bob told me I had drawn the short straw and he'd changed WT to my call. Mike and I operated while Bob brought us sandwiches in-between family obligations. I think we may have gone from 20 to 80 a little later than maybe would have been beneficial but we've got a good target and strategy for next weekend. About 0300Z, NX5M walked in and sat down on 160 for a good hour yielding close to 100q's and 30 mults. We made a sked with NR5M the last minute so we could at least post 1 q on 10; that worked out well. It was fun watching GetScores and helped keep us motivated as we watched both N0NI and K4TD overtake us at one point. Sarah, NX5M's youngest daughter, rang the mult bell when she saw one worked and even put on headphones for a while on 20m! So, I've listed her as an op. Thanks for the fun and see y'all next weekend. Log will be uploaded to LOTW when I get home. 73, Colin (Bob) KU5B for NX5M Crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,424 Got on for awhile in memory of SK,Dan, W4NTI. ACG types where using his name in memorial to Dan who was one of our most loyal supporters when we 1st organized our group. May you RIP Dan. Having said that activity was primo from N. AL at the end of the test. Bounced around 40/80/160 for a few Q's and hoping my score will be the "tie breaker" if needed. Look for ya'll on SSB with a little more presence from this station for sure. CU all next weekend. Tim,KY5R obtw - SK Dan if you have some influence how about some "spots" for us on this miserable planet eh? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ5D Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 166,848 Unbelievable! I was amazed at the conditioins during the evening hours. This is the first contest I've ever operated that I had a higher QSO count on 80 than on 20. In fact my best hours were runs on 80 with a half sloper on my one tower. The 0100 Z hour was 114 and then 0200 hour was 137. Of course, I believed that 15 and even 10 would magically spring to life so I took off only 45 minutes during daylight. What a mistake. I had a lousy second hour of only 59 Qs and was thinking about throwing in the towel. So I took a break but returned thinking and hoping for that opening. When I realized I had another 1 hr 15 minutes to take off at 0245, I had to leave the best band openings. Overall, I think this contest is all about off times and propagation. I'll be better prepared in August. Thanks to all for the Qs and the handful of guys who moved and we were able to communicate. Many of the guys who moved to 15 and 10 with me listened to silence. 73 de Art KZ5D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0AX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 81,934 80 meters - it's the new 20! I just can't get over how good 80 has been over the past few contests - opens early, stays late, wide coverage. Gimme, gimme, gimme! All this with really minimal antenna, the ol' straight piece o' wahr comes through again. Even though the tuned bandwidth of the system was about +/-5 kHz on 160, enough power bounced back and forth in the feed line to eventually leak out and get the job done - from the Atlantic to the Pacific, gee, the Q-rate was terrific! Rig: FT-100D (no, not missing a zero) Antenna system: 105' dipole at 30', fed with open-wire, MFJ-974HB tuner Software: N1MM Nothing heard from either of the Dakoties...I think signals must have been too cold to hear. Maybe the thermal shock caused them to break apart when reaching warmer climes? Along with no (N,S)D, the rarer of the VE province-like-objects remained elusive; no VE6, VO1/2 or VY0/1. And from the lower latitudes, KH6 was missed, but probably because I took off time to work out in the afternoon instead of prowling for KH6 on 15 or 20. Had a spot (sporadic-F?) run of WA/BC/OR on 15 in the afternoon, but that was about it. If I had bigger, pointier antennas, that might have changed, but, hey... Glad to work lots of friends and confuse them mightily. It was pretty easy to tell who was using pre-fill databases because of the pause and "what did you say your call was?" Folks, turn off the pre-fill. Hear the signal, copy the signal - that's how it works. Lots of new calls in this one. Maybe the triple-play brought out some new participants. Welcome! I hope to see you in the next one, too! These 6-band contests are a lot of fun, huh? Funniest moment (in retrospect) was the cat insisting that the power supply was the best place to nap and that the power cable to the radio had to be moved. Even if it did cause the radio to go off - what is more important than the cat's nap, I ask you? There were some high-speed negotiations. The cat stayed and the power cable was moved and the contest went on. 73, Ward N0AX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 50,096 It was fun again. Thanks for all the Qso's. Hope to see you in the SSB contest. 73, Mike N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0OCT Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 7,812 Haven't run this contest in many years. Fun to do QRP, and 80n was really the money band from the midwest. Where was 15m? Kept a radio on there for awhile, never heard a thing. Working California to New Hampster, Washington to Florida on 80m QRP is a gas, though! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1BAA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 234,498 Where was ND???? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1RR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,720 Got on after Arizona was up 30-to-7 over the Panthers .... Operated 160M only from 0422Z to the end on 1809Khz. 5 Mults called-in during the last 6 minutes: OK MB MT CA AZ ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1SNB Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 47,779 Fun contest. Dale, WC7S invited me to join his team in the 11th hour. I hadn't planned on running QRP, but what the heck? I don't know how QRP'ers do it and I would be remiss without thanking the many great ops that copied my small signal. I really blew it with my off time - as I breaked for 2 hours right in the middle of the contest and surely missed many easy mults on 40. When I finally got to 40 everybody was weak and the band was long - California was loud while PA was inaudible. Pretty strange. Some highlights: working CA QRP on 80 meters. Having NS, NB, PEI call in on 15. I was also able to do a little running on 20 and 80 with the qrp setup - although when challenged, of course, I could not hold a frequency. Low lights: No 15m? I could work everyone I could hear, but it seemed most folks didn't try 15 at all. I don't think I had any 6 band or 5 band QSOs. K4TD and K1DG on four bands each. I've been on and off active for the last 14 years and one observation I have is that a significant proportion of the calls I worked I remember working back when I first started, not to many new "big gun" stations on the air. 73 jeff n1snb jdemers@wakefly.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 85,158 IC756proIII 10-40 fan dipole @35' 80+160 80mtr dipole @35' My first fulltime effort in an NAQP. It was a lot of fun and there is a lot of room for improvement. I should have spent more time on 40 and 80 while they were short. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 457,312 Last year, after we finished the NAQP, I told the team "This will be great next year, when we have some sunspots". Well, a year has come and gone, and still,no sunspots ! 15 meters was the poorest I have ever heard it in an NAQP. From the border of NM, AZ and XE, we can't be competitive without good high band conditions. Nevertheless, I'm very proud of how our all-SW New Mexico team did. Our QSO numbers on 160, 80, 40, and 20 all exceeded last year's numbers. However, 15 meters is down almost 200 QSO's, and 10 meters, well, just wasn't there at all. The M/2 category seems to go through waves of competitiveness. Some years, merely "good" stations fight to be at the top, while this year brought out the megastations. Congratulations to them on setting the high bar this year, and I'm sure, for future years. 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 59,200 The first 5 or 6 hours were a slogfest here, couldn't get a real run going so mostly S&P. Whole sections of the country seemed to have gone missing on some bands. 160 and 80 were the easiest for QSOs. The multiplier distribution was very even, which seems kinda strange. My first 160 run frequency was topped by an E7 calling "CQ DX", was tempted to crank up the power and try to land him! We had storms in the area and closed down once for a short while, but it seemed to blow by quickly. Better luck next time... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2ZN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 107,709 Great contest-personal best score. Thanks for all the Q's and for all the moves. Ken N2ZN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 221,942 With the weather forecast cold and dry and windy, I figured it would be curtains for me from a line noise standpoint. In fact, at nine-thirty Saturday morning, I had S7 noise on all bands, and spent a half hour sitting in the shack rotating the antennas to try and find some directions which would be less noisy, even if I was pointed at lower Slobovia. Then, for some miraculous reason, the noise gods looked kindly on me and the noise abated, until at eleven AM, it was the best I have heard in a long time, certainly outside of our rare still and moist weather. So when the bell rang at noon, I was able to use all my antennas and point them at directions where there are a lot of US hams! Glory day! There is always noise on 15 and 10, but it was a manageable S3 to S5 and with the 500 Hz CW filters, that is tolerable. For the first time, I was able to use the new three-stack on twenty meters, which now has a third five element yagi fixed on Washington DC, roughly, mounted to the side of the twenty meter tower at eighty feet. This height has one S-unit more gain than the high yagi. I have been telling K5NA and others that if I could ever use the three stack, I thought it would play better on twenty meters and even, if I could entertain the thought, be "K5TR-esq" on twenty meters. Wow! So I could and I did. I had two yagis on the NE USA and one yagi on northern W6, and let me tell you, it really played. No noise, no anything, but a constant stream of callers on twenty meters. I had no trouble getting very good pileups and no trouble with encroachers. I decided to take more off time in the daylight, betting that the afternoon rates would slacken off from times to times, and that 15 and 10 would not open much if any. That bet turned out to be correct. My off times were: 2003-2033Z 31 mins 2200-2229Z 30 mins 0248-0317Z 30 mins 0531-0559Z 29 mins I took two breaks in the daylight, both approximately a half hour. Both times, the rate meter was sagging on 20 meters, and I found the well refreshed and full again when I came back. But in general, I spent most of the contest with the rate meter between 120 and 135 for the last ten minutes. I used both radios all the time, always CQing somewhere and S&Ping on the second radio. There were a few times when I lost my run frequency when trying (unsuccessfully) to move people. It was hard to find a new run frequency at times, since everyone was bunched on twenty meters. The decision to take off the last (almost) half hour was dicey, depending on how late 160 got good, and how many people would be on then. It's only ten PM when the contest ends on the west coast, and so 160 is not fully open. I suppose it was a good bet, but I felt that 160 was getting better all the time when I had to stop. My goal in the NAQP is to make at least 200K points, and I exceeded that, and probably set a PR. I just now looked at the 3830 claims. It looks like scores are better the farther west it goes. The Winter NAQP and Springs are better for the west coast. My strategy was to run more and to move less frequently. Other than some local moves, there were only a handful of successful moves, and they all were late between 40/80/160 in various combinations. I tried several times to move known good stations to 15 meters in the afternoon, but none were successful. I kept listening to ten meters and never heard a station outside of the local folks who kindly QSYed for me. I ran on 20, then on 40, and some on 80 and 160 at the end. Fifteen had two tiny spotlight openings-both long: one to MA (only MA, no other W1 or W2 states!) and VE1, and one to extreme W6-W7-VE7. That latter one was centered on WA and VE7 but expanded to northern CA and OR as well. I also had a scratchy QSO with a QRP VE6 who came up out of the noise and called me when I tried to move someone to 15. But all in all, 15 never did open. Or at least I missed it. Note, it is clear I did miss some stuff based on K5PI's numbers at W5KFT. The bands all went through some "hot" and "not hot" periods. There were times I was not able to get VE3s on 80, and later, I got most everyone on one call. Ditto on 160. The great west coast scores blow me away. Congrats to some amazing S/O scores!! Here are some numbers: BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults __________________________________________________ 160CW 81 81 81 30 80CW 189 189 187 47 40CW 400 400 397 52 20CW 459 459 456 50 15CW 37 37 37 11 10CW 4 4 4 1 __________________________________________________ Totals 1170 1170 1162 191 Final Score = 221942 points. Rate: HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 18 0 0 0 132 3 0 135 135 19 0 0 0 103 7 0 110 245 20 0 0 0 38 9 1 48 293 21 0 0 0 118 16 0 134 427 22 0 0 12 44 0 0 56 483 23 0 0 111 23 0 1 135 618 0 0 5 126 0 0 0 131 749 1 1 36 80 1 1 1 120 869 2 0 25 70 0 0 0 95 964 3 29 46 0 0 0 0 75 1039 4 42 37 1 0 0 0 80 1119 5 9 40 0 0 1 1 51 1170 TOTAL 81 189 400 459 37 4 160CW Tx Nm Mo Il Va Fl Nc Ca Ia Nh Al Md Wi Ar Mi In Sc Ok Nj Mt Pa Oh Ga Mn Tn Co Ms Or Nv Ma 80CW Sc Nc Nm Ar Ks Va Ky De Mt Mo Pa Tn Fl Mn Tx KP4 vE7 Or Mi Wy vE3 Ok Nh Wi Co La In Md Wa Al Ga Il Ia Ca Ms Az Ct Ut vE2 Ma Oh Ny Nv Nj Ne Vt Sd 40CW Il Md Pa vE3 Me Oh vE1 Or Ne Mi Nc Tn La Vt Ca Ky Mo Nh vE5 Mn Al Va Ny Sc J3 Wy Wv Ar Fl Nm Co Nj Wi Wa vE7 Ms Ma vY2 Tx Ks Ia In Nv KP2 Ct Ga Ok De Ut Az Ri Ak 20CW Al Nj In Wi Wv Wy Ma Ia La vE6 Or vE3 Sc Mi Pa Ny Md Tx Nh Nv Nc Oh Fl Ok vE1 Ga Mt Ky Me Vt Il Mn Wa Va De Ct Co vE5 Az vE2 Mo Tn Ks Ca Ms Id Sd Ut Ak vE4 15CW Tn Ma vE1 Wa KP2 Ca KP4 Tx vE6 vE7 Or 10CW Tx I have seen no scores other than K5PI's, and Robert did his usual great job. Thanks to all the CTDXCCers who got on, and a special "tip of the hat" to Susan, who did a nice effort from the K5NA/K5DU station. I know she has CW ringing in her head this morning. Jim George N3BB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3LL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,920 Got on late in the contest but enjoyed the time we had. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3XLS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,757 Snow duties, Problems with the station setup and just lack of time to operate hampered my efforts. Good contest, bands sounded great though! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,653 Started out the day of the contest by getting access to the Clemson ARC ham shack and then getting an 80m inverted vee up about 25-30 feet, that was all the wire there was available, but at least it got me on one band, and barely on a few more with no tuner. By the time the antenna was up the contest had already started, but I hadn't eaten yet so I grabbed lunch before going back to the shack to see what I could do. 10m was silent, 15m was nearly silent, so I spent about an hour and a half on 20m starting only putting out roughly 30 watts with a high SWR on the 80m dipole. I knew 80m would be my best band so I decided to get dinner early and planned on an hour or two on 40m after I got back, then the rest of the contest on 80m. By the time I got back, I didn't hear anything on 40m.. ouch! Went straight to 80m and spent a couple hours S&P, finally decided to run and was happy when I was able to keep a rather respectable rate for the last couple hours of the contest. Some bad planning on my part when I forgot the power chord for my laptop and had to make a trip back across campus in the pouring rain to grab it so I could keep my computer logging, though I sent everything by hand. Once I the tribander and 40m yagi feedlines and rotor cable fixed (who knows when that will be..) this will be a pretty decent station here. If anyone wants to make any sort of wire, coax, general antenna supply donations to the Clemson ARC, sent me an email, hihi.. 73 de Greg N3ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4AF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 200,376 High winds had taken down a lot of wires and was just planning to do a part time- but ended up doing the 10hrs after missing the first hour. NAQP is always a blast ! 73/HNY, Howie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 148,544 Really tough first few hours. Bands all went long early in the scheme of things, and my 160M inverted vee really didn't work all that well on 160, but couldn't get a run going there! What a delight running into old friends unexpectedly. Excellent operating by most who took their turns and stood by in pileups while others worked me. I got passed to 10M only once and couldn't hear anything...band wasn't open to me! Looking forward to improved conditions. 73, Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,890 Another beautiful day in paradise kept me outside for much of the daylight hours. But, I managed to get in almost four hours in the QP. For the first time maybe ever from this qth, I had more QSO's and a better rate on 80 than on 20. It was great. I even had a couple of runs. Thanks for all the contacts! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 131,600 Antenna problems on 20 meters and 40 meters. Conditions on 80/160 meters were great.......several west coast stations were S9 plus on 160 meters. Tried to round up some Q's on 10 meters, but no luck.....band was open to W2/W3, but only a few stations checked the evening pipeline. See ya'll next weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 178,602 To honor our friend in Alabama who became a silent-key last month. members of the ACG used "Dan" for W4NTI...hope you're smiling up there. Didn't have to worry about screwing up the "off time." Was out of town until Saturday afternoon....made first contact at 2007 UTC, so only missed 10 full hours by seven minutes.... Score better than last year with more Q's and Mults...final score up by 39K... Moved all around with John, VE3EJ and when we went to 10m at 0003z, the band was open NE...worked K1DG, WQ2N, K3CT, K4OD, WF3M, N4XU, and K2MO....nobody else around... Nice having Derek, J39BS show up several times...also a few EU on 80m. And, as always, Ed, VE4EAR found me once again....only VE4... Thanks for all the Q's....this is a fun contest... 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 46,805 Well the contest got better as it progressed. I got a very late start as high winds over the last month had caused much more damage to various wire antennas than I expected. Also experienced a number of issues in getting the 746 running smoothly with TR (this is the first time I've used it in contest operation). In retrospect none of the issues were TR's fault, but I wasn't a happy camper for the first couple of hours. TR was jumping from Run mode to S&P and various other issues. These were all fixed when the computer crashed and I booted directly into DOS. I apologize to all for some of the LID operating that took place, there's one VE3 in particular that must have wondered what the heck was going on! For awhile I had both the 746 and TR manual open at the operating position, not to mention attempting to operate. Not a pretty picture or one of operating success. ;-) With the late start I did the best I could with 20m. 40m was pretty good with a few high rate runs, but there seemed to be more noise than expected. 80m was even noiser but there was lots of activity and mults. I don't believe 80m has ever been the band with the most mults before. I didn't feel that strong on 80m, and didn't expect to with a 36' tall inverted L with 12 44' radials. Still eventually I resorted to calling CW on 80m just to see what would happen. A fairly steady stream of responses was quite a shock. When the contest was over, I tuned up to 3830 to hear what others reported. The QRN was so bad, if there was any activity I couldn't hear it. This lead to a 30 minute post contest search for the source. In the past I have always believed the culprit was the light dimmers. Not this time. We have some low voltage lights that are positioned below the cabinets in the kitchen. They are the source of the problem (actually I assume the transformer/power source is the culprit). So while not being pleased with my score, I learned a lot from this contest. I'd say the 80m results were the highlight, especially considering the QRN, followed by some good high rate runs on 40m. Thanks for the QSO's and hopefully I'll have the station working more smoothly for the SSB version. Rig: Icom 746 Antennas: 160m: 80m inverted-L 80m: 36' high inverted-L 40m: 35' high wire dipole 20/15/10: Cushcraft D-3 dipole fixed E/W 73 n4vi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 140,602 Decided to do this contest an hour before it started. I had lost my 80 mtr inverted vee earlier this week to ice, but was able to use lower phone inverted vee with alligator clips for CW, it worked fairly well for low height (28 ft). Lower Bands were on fairly good shape, 20 meters was long and didn't bring many mults. Had lots of fun working everyone, hope we get some sunspots for next year! Thanks for all the Q's - 73 to all de Bill N4ZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW/0 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 18,656 Returned from a party 5 minutes before NAQP was over - just time for a few 160 meter contacts. NOT a good idea. RF got into alarm system and the cops showed up a few minutes later. Fortunately they didn't think we looked like burglars and didn't arrest us. Enjoy this contest - fun even with the poor antennas I have here at our vacation home. Too bad I couldn't operate more. Radio: K3 @ 100 watts, Antennas: G5RV at 8 meters, 20 meter ground plane. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 156,060 Despite Murphy striking (twice) I had lots of fun. Three hours in a row with great rate when I moved to 40M. I started as SO2R, but had to switch to SO1R when Murphy visited the first time. I was using my new K3 as the run radio, and when I noticed 15M open I decided to move the K3 to 15 to begin trying to run there. As soon as I moved the K3 it put out 0 watts. I wasn't particularly worried since I figured that I pressed the wrong button somewhere. I should have stopped operating and taken my first break at that point to try to figure things out, but instead I kept operating and trying to fix the K3 at the same time. Eventually I discovered that if I lowered the power below 12 watts it worked fine, so I think I blew up the 100W module. I'll talk to K3 tomorrow to see about getting it fixed (or maybe I did press the wrong button). Anyway my rate dropped during the two hours I was messing with the K3 and they were my slowest hours of the whole contest; after I made the mental switch to SO1R and used my FT1000MP as the run radio everything was fine again. Murphy next struck when I went to 160M. I use a shortened half-sloper on 160M and I spent several hours last weekend laying down some additional radials. When I tried it out during the week using the K3 everything worked fine. When I went to 160M last night I found that I locked up the keying circuit on the computer, and consequently the rig. I discovered that everything worked fine if I kept the power below 40W, so that's what I did. I was lucky in one respect in that unlike N5AW/0 I don't have an alarm system to be triggered and bring the police to my house in the middle of the night! (Sorry Marv, but the image of that did a lot to cheer up my mood -- misery does love company!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5OT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 201,372 First half was terrible; second half was great! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5PO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 102,557 Great contest.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,792 Wire out the apartment window to a tree seems to work well. It's 1/4 wave long on 40, so it works best there. Forced RF into it on 80, and lots of RF back in the shack on that band - could only work at about 30 watts on 80 before the computer freaked out. 73, Al N5UM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6ML Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,525 Just playin' around in spare time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 220,881 Big disappointment compared to last year. Down 200 Qs, 35 mults, 85,000 points from Jan 2008. Only improvement was on 160m. S7 Line noise on 15/20 came on 30 minutes into contest. Despite NR in the K3s, rate really suffered. Was looking forward to the low bands, but: 40m pooped out about 02Z, 80m was not very good, could only S&P. Congrats to N5KO, N6TV........ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 26,076 SOAPBOX: I had a fine time, but as in the recent past, my score SOAPBOX: is lower than before. It seems to track the soar cycle SOAPBOX: curve rather well. Too well, in fact. :-) SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: I got a slightly late start but I don't think it would SOAPBOX: have changed much. Spent most of my time in the first SOAPBOX: half doing S&P. When the low bands woke up, I did more SOAPBOX: CQing on 80 and 160. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: I was really pleased with conditions on 80m, being able SOAPBOX: to call and work stations on the east coast with my 5w. SOAPBOX: The 160m top-loaded vertical works like a charm on 80m SOAPBOX: as a top-loaded half-wave vertical. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: Running and QRP don't usually go together, but I did SOAPBOX: actually have some short runs of maybe 4 or 5 calls before SOAPBOX: they dried up again. It was fun, though. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: For VE, just BC and ON were all I could find. I did work SOAPBOX: my old standbys, though--HI and AK. Also KP4. Heard one SOAPBOX: XE station, but could never catch his attention. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: When the dust settled, I had worked 46 states (including SOAPBOX: HI and AK). Missed ND, SD, RI and ME. So I guess I shouldn't SOAPBOX: complain so loudly :-) SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: Thanks to all for the Qs. Hope to see you again in the SSB SOAPBOX: NAQP. SOAPBOX: 73, Bob N6WG SOAPBOX: The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 165,788 Thanks to Chuck and Karen for the patience and the good food ! Had a great time and looking forward to the next one as usual. 73 and thanks for the Q's kq7w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 131,859 I'd been stressing over this test for the past two weeks. If I didn't get the Tic Ring motor back up on the tower, the C31XR and 3 el 40M were going to be off line and the weather was doing every thing it could to keep me on the ground (very cold and/or wet). Lets not even talk about the 6" of water in the crawl space. :>) Then, the wife planned this as Christmas "Makeup" Day for those who couldn't cross the mountains in December. Finally, I said, this is supposed to be fun, so I threw up a 40M dipole, rerouted the TH6 at 60' to be the main beam, and configured for SO1R. And...., I had lots of fun (as usual). This is a enjoyable test and never fails to amaze me how much activity there is. This year, I added Live Scores to the mix and was able to watch Chris run at NK7U's. Simply amazing! My numbers dropped across the board 40M and up due to backup antennas plus an hour off during a great 20M run for the Christmas "gathering". Made up a bit of it by increasing the effort on 160M. But, to reiterate, it was fun. I noticed a lot of aggressive calling this year. Would get two/three stations calling and couldn't make out either or just a partial call. If I asked for a fill, the other(s) didn't hold back. Waste of time for all of us. Also, I don't use a database of names so even if I know you, I'll ask for repeat if I didn't copy the info. (I make it a habit to change my own name.) Things to work on - I need to ask more people to QSY for mults. Did I say I had fun? :>) Just wish the August version of this test didn't always seem to fall on some important activity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,080 Had about 2 Hrs. to play today. Got some REAL Snow and need to get it off the drive and clean up. Did Remember working Jim N3BB with a big signal in Michigan today. Sorry I didn't make better but have limited time today. Had to retype Log Entries, as the Exchange didn't come out in Cabrillo, So Some Troubles there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8XX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,680 Part time effort, think I made a personal best for recent history. California was most frequently worked, with 28 contacts on all bands. 80 metres went long before I showed up, so didn't work Michigan, Indian, nor West Virginia. MUST get some sort of antenna for 160 metres with current lack of sunspots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 209,496 It was fun! cu all next weekend on ssb. Steve N9CK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 118,535 I made a bone-headed off-time error. I planned to take my first 30 minute break in the last half of the 1900 hour. I looked at the 2nd to last qso in the log instead of the last qso in the log to calculate the off-time. Instead of a 30 minute break, I had a 29 minute lapse in operating. Ouch. Correctly took a 30 minute break (and them some) during the 2100 hour. Took the remaining 90 minutes in one chunk around supper time, and hung out with the family, played Wii with the kids, etc. Never heard much on 10 and 15. Started off on 10m and it was nice to put Steve, N9CK, in the log for the first qso. Nothing much else heard... spent a few minutes tuning around and then scampered for a fertile 20m run frequency. I scanned 15 a few times, but heard very little. It was fun moving John, K9QVB through all 6 bands early in the test. I had a few moves later, of some western states, from 80 to 40. Always fun when these work out like they should, and you come right back to your run frequency. 40 and 80 were in great shape here. The recent snowfall has buried my 160m inverted-L series-C box, and changed the tuning. Probably got some snow in there somewhere. Changed the tuning enough so that the TS-930 had to decrease power on that band. Maybe 50w out max. I could hear well, but got pushed around a lot. Lots of fills needed. What's the deal with the digital stuff on 40m? I was running, with good rate, around 7038 kHz and a bunch of chirping crap kept coming on, trying to run me off. Seemed like the 14230 kHz SSTV mentality. Is there some new "accepted" mode arrangement on 40m that I'm not aware of? Excuse me, but I *was* there first. Lids. Mults way down this time. I need a better 15m antenna. The KT34-A, fixed east at 37', doesn't quite cut it. This is a great contest. Right up there with CW SS. 73 es tnx for the Q's.... Charlie N9CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9ID Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 29,376 Was on SMC Team 11, but was not allowedto choose that. It doesn't exist in the pull down list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9RV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 29,920 Glad to hear that MT was well represented in this one. Had a conference on Saturday that I couldn't skip. By the time I sat down at the radio 20 was dead. Short skip was nonexistent. Not a problem for us up here, but I did want to work NK7U, since Chris now lives in Missoula and there would be hell to pay if he missed MT anyplace. But after tuning for quite a while I never found him. But it looks like whole bunches of other folks did. :-) Nice job OM! - Pat N9RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9TF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 7,704 Well, I guess I'm paying my own way to Dayton this year! I thought I would have had the time to put in a full effort, but when my XYL starts referring to my shack as "THE CAVE", in that, you know, tone, it's time to take care of those projects that have been dropped due to contesting!! It's too bad to, because the bands were pretty favorable for Qrp, except for 20m, I worked everyone I called. Could not for the life of me work one single CA on 20m, but snagged two on 80m. 80m ended up being my best band. I did break the pile up on KL8DX on 20m, boy did Phil have a nice signal. Stronger then the CA's on the band at the time. Just wish I had more time to play in this one. I'm sure I could have easily broken 175 Q's. Oh well, back to painting kitchen and bathroom walls tomorrow! Station conditions: TS-2000 set to 5 watts, MA5B mini beam at 37', Alpha Delta dipoles at 35' sloping and sagging all over the place. 73 Gene N9TF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 40,125 Rig : Yaesu FT-1000MP Antennas : 80/160M Inverted "L" 40M Delta Loop (40-20-15) Soapbox : First NAQP-cw for me. I look forward to next year. Didn't hear SD, ND, NE, AK, HI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 54,730 We had a front blow thru here last night and while there was minimal lightning whatever it was seemed to bee line across this QTH for a couple of hours. I had to unplug for quite a while and that was likely the best move of the day as we had 2 really really close hits. Of course all this happened just as the rate began to climb. When I fianlly got back in - 80 was really sweet and I was able to make a few q's on 160 with the 80 wire. 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 29,380 SO1R - Worked all stations S & P. Not my favorite contest mode, but I do try hard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA7QP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,040 15, 20 and 40 were not too good...160 was outstanding! Limited time available but had fun. A serious effort next week in the SSB NAQP from W7RN. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NC4KW Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 375,755 First, thanks to Jack, Nate and Jim for making Saturday afternoon and evening a totally enjoyable time. The Qs were not always available at the rate we wanted, but that is not the only goal of a multi-op entry. We had a great time. Second, thanks to my wife, N1YXU - Laurie for keeping us well fed! We started on 40 and 20 and expected the rate meter to just take off. That was not to be. The first 4 hours of the contest were much less than we expected and actually very slow. By 2200 UTC we only had 424 Qs in the log. 40 was steady, but nothing to be very pleased about and 20 was so slow it was easy to move between 20 and 15 in an attempt to maximize the Q count before 15 was gone. Then like a faucet just opened up, in hour 5 our 20 meter rate tripled and our 40 meter rate doubled. There was hope yet. The remaining 7 hours were much much better. The 10 minute rate meter had many occasions to bounce off the 400 per hour mark. That is what we expected in the beginning. Those rates continued when we moved to 80 and 160. Low band conditions were so quiet we rarely had to use the beverages. In the end we were all satisfied with our east coast Q count, but knew we lacked multipliers, especially on 20 and 40. Maybe next time? This is one of my favorite contests, especially in the M2 class. I am not a QSK CW op, but Jack and Jim convinced me to give it a try. That was even fun with the K3s. The K3 receivers seem to make open frequencies much more plentiful and weak ones stronger. Another atta-boy for Elecraft. We will be back next week in NAQP-SSB with a slightly different team. See you there. 73 for now, Bruce - N1LN (aka: NC4KW, Pat) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE9U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 102,080 Finally have an SO2R box and bandpass filters....made it interesting! Now I need better antennas for radio #2 (well...i need better antennas for radio #1 too! hi) Scott NE9U 20/15/10 Cushcraft A4 @56 ft. 40/80 Sloper 160 Imverted L (40 vert) 80/40/20/15/10 fan dipole at 15 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 303,045 Great to be on this year, after missing last years contest. First time getting OR on all bands! Thanks to local N7WR for moving around the bands for me. First NAQP from Joe's new QTH. Seems to work FB! 80m was not that great, and 160 never got runable. Was really hoping for some big nrs there. Nice to see 15m open. Was afraid of getting smoked on mults, but guess I did OK. 10m: 7/7 15m: 5/5 20m: 5/5 + C31XR to KL7 40m: 4 el 80m: 4sq 160m: 4 sloper array Thanks to Joe and Sharon as always! Great hospitality here in Baker. Thanks also to everyone who moved, and to The Boyz for creating some great competition. -Chris KL9A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 100,762 IC706MKII Beamless in Atlanta. Horizontal loop (350') for 10-80 @ 40 ft. Inv L (40/80/160) with 36 ft. vertical. Ten meter surprise with early evening propagation to the North East. Thanks to those who asked for the QSY. When 10 opened to New England, 15 meters opened to New England as well. This was a blast! Actually was able to spend more op time than I planned originally! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 237,181 Thanks to N3HBX as always for letting me run the Poolesville station. I guessed off times right on this one. 160 and 80 were absolutely insane - great openings to the midwest and west coast. Did not spend a lot of time S&P in the afternoon owing to a glitch with one of the Tentec Orions, so I feel like my mult scores on 15 and 20 are low... Oh well. Where was ND????? Where was WV (on anything above 80)????? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NO5W Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 59,436 The NAQP-CW is great fun -- even more so with a new K3 and the addition of an 80M antenna even though its only at about 20 feet and half of one leg runs at about 5 feet along the rails of my privacy fence. This was one of my better efforts in NAQP with 80/40/20 all contributing. I was doing a good bit of S&P and expecting to be asked to QSY but only got that request a couple of times and neither resulted in a QSO. It was also interesting, on 80M in particular, that I was able to S&P most stations with a single call and even break a few pileups but attempts at running proved mostly fruitless. Thanks to all for the QSOs and hope to see you in the CW sprint in February. CQ/X, K3 @100W, Navigator by US Interface, 80/40/20 dipoles at 20ft 73/Chuck/NO5W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP0FU Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 274,985 Ten meters sucked. Duh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP4Z Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 227,014 Great fun.. missed kh6's and kl7's due to large pileups.. loudest signals from the west coast that I can remember. w6 and w7 hitting 20 over constantly. Felipe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR5M Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 547,624 Thanks to all for a great time! Multiplier "Bell" still ringing in my ears. Will issue ear plugs for next contest! Just missing the rubber chicken and the station will be fully equipped (per its former incarnation in the 80's). George NR5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 18,200 Played for a little while on Saturday afternoon and Saturday night while waiting for the XYL to issue the red alert for the run to the hospital as NS3T Harmonic #3 waits to make its debut. Hope everyone had fun. I was going to use the name "GATOR" to celebrate my team's win last week in the BCS, but figured that would bring about eight million repeats, just like I heard lots of guys giving ???? with all those Val's, when it didn't match their name database. 73 Jamie NS3T http://www.radio-sport.net Your home for ham radio contest news ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ1U Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 221,354 The threat of the "Big" snow storm reduced our crew by one operator. K1EBY and NB1U operated practically the whole contest with short relief by KB1H and also about a 45 minute break for a great pasta and meatball supper. The snow did start about 7PM local time but it looks like we will get much less than predicted. QSYing to 160 really produced some rate. We really didn't band change much and asked for no QSYs. This is always a great contest to practice running which is a talent you need for the big contest. Antenna-wise the station is not configured for a domestic contest. 40M is mainly a 4-sq. with a sloper strung for the Caribbean. 80M is also a 4-sq and recently one of the verticals fell over. The 20M beam is stuck at about 200 degrees. It looks like a busy Summer of repairs and improvements. On to the VHF contest next weekend where we will be M/L and using the callsign KB1DFB. Thanks for all the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3ATT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 36,252 FT-767GX ant GP 7-28, LW 1.8-3.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 40,560 Disappointed in propagation on 20 m. - I expected to do a lot better on that band.40 m. treated me well and after a rough start on 80 m., things started to get better real fast! As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, Doug, VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 36,612 Good fun. Visitors pulled me off for most of the evening. Harry VA3EC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 3,520 K2, 5w, verticals and wires. With 80 and 40m fairly long, 160m was a good band for QRP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 117,447 This year: Flux: 71 | Ap: 2 | Kp: 0 Last year: Flux: 76 | Ap: 4 | Kp: 2 SO1R Gear: * FT-2000 + N1MM Logger * Tribander at 30' * 40M half-squares - phased * 80M phased verticals * Inv-L 160M (70' high, 65' horizontal) Went into this one with just one goal: beat last year's 96,000 score. Managed to break 100,000 for only the second time in NAQP and came within 1 mult of tying my best-ever mult total, though still a bit shy of my best-ever score of 126,700 points. More Qs on 15 would have put me there. Glued myself to the chair for almost 10 hours -- ended up with 9:49 on-time. Took all my off-time at once -- from 1:41 to 3:50 p.m. Pacific. 20M was losing its sea legs by 1:30 p.m. and I was already tired, so lunch and a nap filled the off hours. Took 9 extra minutes before getting back on for a walkabout to make sure all the low-band wires were still in the air, as the wind kicked up all day. Due to the wind, all 20M and 15M Qs were conducted with a three-element yagi at 30' with the tower cranked down -- fortunately, terrain analysis at this steep-slope ridge-line QTH indicates that for domestic contests the low tribander doesn't really hurt much. ( http://www3.telus.net/va7st/terrain_analysis.htm ) Was disappointed with 15M -- band was definitely open to all of NA but just not many heard or worked. I did run 90 stations from 1937z to 2041z. QSO count was down by 55 on this band vs. 2008. Must congratulate Yaesu on the FT-2000 PEP (performance enhancement project) firmware update released on Jan. 1. This upgrade turns an already good radio into something beyond great. They didn't give CW operators the Curtis Mode B keying we NEED in all built-in keyers, but the newly designed and outstanding DSP tools made NAQP CW and RTTY RU an exceptional operating experience. http://www3.telus.net/va7st/ft2000.htm 20M was pretty good but I couldn't land the close-in mults I needed -- ID, WA, MT, OR, etc. Best runs there were 148 Qs (1807z to 1920z) and 107 stations (2048z to 2137z). During solarmin -- I think we're in year 3 of it now -- running just one radio after about 1 p.m. Pacific (2100z) can be a real challenge. Around that time: * 15M is dead. * 20M gets punky, and stations are already sparse as those out east head to the 40M happy hunting grounds. * From up here in the northwest, 40M doesn't play well to the east until closer to dark at 4 p.m. (there's a knife-edge somewhere there, between not playing to the east and working like gang-busters to the east) * 80M isn't rolling, and won't offer much until well after dark. The only logical choices are to be an early adopter on 40M and suffer abyssmal rate for a while, or take a break and hit 40M hard once it is open. That was the thinking behind taking 2 hours off from 2140z to 2340z. Yep, it hurt to walk away from 20M when rates were still around 100/hr, but had to do it to give myself any chance of raking in low-band mults later. I perennially make the mistake of going to 40M too late to cash in on the action. I reminded myself 40M has a useful lifespan of about two hours (from 0000z to 0200z), and it's a ghost town after that, so it was important to get my off-time finished and get on 40M just as it got perking up here, then ride the low bands through till 0600z. Had fun on 40M for a change -- lately it has been my worst band but this time I had no trouble running, even as early as 4 p.m. local. I suspected my 40M phased verticals hanging in the bush, about 45' from the nearest half-square, were killing my 40M twin half-square array into the US and VE. I took down the verticals for this test, and all of a sudden stateside stations heard me. Had a nice run of 93 stations from 0000z to 0100z. Quite steady 40M performance by year says more about 40M in January than about antenna experiments: * 120 for 33 mults in 2009 with twin phased half-squares * 112 for 30 mults in 2008 with E-W and N-S half-squares * 137 for 34 mults in 2007 with 18AVQ/WB vertical and phased delta loops East * 91 for 31 mults in 2006 with twin delta loops to East Also think the 40M bush verticals (situated mid-way between the 80M wire verticals) may have been affecting the nearby 80M vertical array, as I did better on 80M than I have in previous years: * 150 for 44 mults in 2009 with phased elevated verticals * 76 for 27 mults in 2008 with a full-size delta loop * 143 for 43 mults in 2007 with 80M inverted-V at 60' * 146 for 39 mults in 2006 with twin delta loops to East Surprised myself with the 160M mults -- figured on maybe 10 or so with the inverted-L connected only to the chainlink fence, but ended up with 27 mults from 56 Qs (last year it was 15 mults, 48 Qs). Entirely missed ND, SD, WV and HI but still fell just one short of my best-ever mult count of 172. All in all, this was a good outing for me. All the antennas played well -- and my off-time worked out perfectly. Although the final four hours were much slower than 20M had been, there were multipliers aplenty to be found on the low bands. Special tough-mult thanks to Ed VE7EAR (40M and 160M) and Kelly VE4XT (20M) for MB, and Paul VE1DX (20M) and Al VA1MM (80M) for NS! Year Qs Mults Score January NAQP CW ======================== 2009: 687 171 117,477 2008: 646 149 96,254 2007: 587 143 83,941 2006: 737 172 126,764 2005: -- -- -- 2004: 206 62 12,772 2003: 412 147 60,564 73 es tnx fer all the fun. No Triple Play CW sweep from this one, but it's a great start! -- Bud VA7ST http://www3.telus.net/va7st ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,804 Turned on the radio, heard great signals on 15 so jumped in for a couple hours...Even made some contacts on 10...Spent more time moving to other bands for the guys than operating, but that's part of the fun... Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3EJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 143,521 Snow static and power line noise made this one tough. Utility company coming on Tuesday to fix .... I hope. Thanks to all that moved for me. John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 705 Not having any antennas for the low bands, and not sure how much time I could commit, I didn't join any of the Contest Club Ontario teams. Between my kids hockey games I tried to get an 80m dipole up between my two towers. I managed to get one end at the top of one tower but there were too many trees in the way to get the other end up. I tied the other end to a tree, left it as a sloping dipole and decided that I would get the other end up some time later. When I went inside to check the 80m dipole it wouldn't resonate anywhere. I didn't have time to fix it so I got on 20m at the start and worked the first 15 minutes before I had to leave for another hockey game. When I came home I tried to find the problem and found that braid side was open. While trying to fix it I thought my dog was chewing on a branch - instead she chewed right through the coax! I made a few more QSOs before the bands died and everyone (except me :=) went to the low bands. Thanks for the QSOs! 73, Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3IAE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,320 Due to some unexpected commitments there were 2 substantial breaks cutting my activity time substantially. Sorry to affect the team score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 76,066 Missed the first hour and never really got comfortable on 15 or 20. Hope all had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 16,000 Another part time effort between family chores. Thanks for the patience and great ears out there! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7FO Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 71,377 Another fun contest. For I think the first time, I managed to set up two fully functional op positions in my 107 sq ft shack so Phil, VE7YBH (ex G3YBH), and I could do a M/2. Position 2 consisted of an IC 706 MkIIG radio and an old IBM Thinkpad laptop because the computer which is supposed to be used at that position won't boot. The position is pretty funny to look at as the two analogue monitors for it are still on the op table, along with a flat screen LCD which doesn't work and I don't know where else to put it. Also, there's a breadboard socket with the parallel keying interface components on it lying on the bench along with another one with the components for the CIV serial interface required by the 706. Fortunately none of the wires or components came adrift. Amazingly, I had everything done and was ready for the start at 1800Z. I was on my own at this point as Phil wasn't going to be here until about 2130. This was probably my best ever contest start from this station. After picking off a few mults on 20 I easily found a spot to run at 1815, I guess because of the 100W power limit. The run lasted until 2115 (1315 local) and netted 282 Qs which, for my station, is phenomenal. I didn't get enough sleep last night and was grousing at myself for all the mistakes I was making. Then I noticed the short term rate at that point was a bit over 160 and felt somewhat better. The run could have lasted longer but I thought I'd better move to 15 and harvest mults while it was still open. Phil arrived about this time so he took over Position #1 on 15 and I moved to #2 with the 706. At my station, I connect the TH3 tribander to the Ant A input of the MkV and the rest of the antennas through a 5 position rotary switch to the Ant B input. This made it very easy to share antennas between the two positions. The TH3 was left connected to the MkV and the output of the rotary switch was connected to the 706. So the MkV had access to 10, 15 and 20 via the TH3 and the 706 had access to 10, 15 and 20 via the CC R5 vertical mounted above the beam as well as dipoles on 40 and 80 and a crappy inverted L on 160, all on a 120 x 33 ft city lot. (Well, I shouldn't knock the inv L too much as it did give me 4 Qs and 4 mults in spite of an S9 noise level.) So Phil is running on 15 and I'm trying to make Qs on the 706. Tried 20 but the poor old 706 wasn't doing a very good job of keeping out the 15m RF from Phil. (Time to haul out W2VJN's stub filters book). So I checked out 40, not expecting to hear much at 2 pm local. Good heavens, all kinds of signals, 5 or 6 at any particular point on the dial coming through the 706 which doesn't have a cw filter. I'm used to the MkV with a full complement of cw filters (except no 250 Hz at the 455 If) plus the ability to get the BW down to 60 Hz with the DSP if needed. What a shock! Well, I can copy signals in the presence of others as long as there are significant differences among them such as speed, pitch, strength and timing but it sure slows things down. Oddly, the biggest difficulty I had was knowing when I was tuned close enough to the station I was calling in S&P that I would be in his filter bandwidth. With the MkV it simply isn't an issue. If I'm using the 250 Hz filter, which I usually am, if I can hear him I'm on the right frequency. Well, it took a long time for me to get to the point where I was reasonably confident that I was on the right frequency when I called someone. Lots of fruitless looking through the 706 manual for a means of zero beating the incoming signal or some other way of getting it right. When you actually send something, you can try to listen for a difference in frequency between the monitored tone and the incoming signal. However, there's a lot of distortion in the monitored tone which makes it difficult to compare them (well, for me it does). It didn't help when I discovered the IF shift control and set it to the middle of the passband instead of one edge or the other. Now, whenever I tried to match the monitor pitch to that of the incoming signal, half the time I was on the wrong side of zero beat and got no response. OK, next time I'll have stub filters and a cw filter in the 706. (A K3 would be a better solution. I'll check with the XYL.) I did finally get to the point where, when I called someone, I'd get a response. While all this is going on, VE7YBH is making Qs on 15. Well, he was until it died at 1415 local and he switched to 20. We're at 314 Qs at this point and it's obvious that the glory days of long runs are behind us. Bad precipitation static didn't help while it was doing its best to snow here in lotus land (where one can often golf on Xmas day.) While Phil is making Qs on 20 I'm actually doing not too badly S&Ping on 40 on the 706 until he notices that I'm making 3 Qs to his 1. We take that as a signal that 20 is dying and Phil moves to 40 at 1600 local with 403 Qs in the bag. Given that the 40 and 80 dipoles are only a few feet apart, I didn't want to risk putting the 706 on 80 and, as all I could hear on 20 was a VR2 and a couple of UA0's, that was the end of op position 2's contribution. Phil had to leave at 1700 local with 425 Qs and left me with the dregs. And the dregs they were. Couldn't get any runs going, high noise level, every Q is a struggle. Five hours for the last 100 Qs! Oh well, as the soccer folks are prone to say, it builds character. I sure must have a lot of it by now. It's actually quite amazing that we're able to communicate anything at all in these kinds of conditions. A tribute to the great ops out there. So, great cndx at the start, crappy at the end, good fun sharing with Phil, have learned that it's possible to do a M/2 from here and hope to be on next week with Phil (and stub philters) for the NAQP SSB on my 74th birthday. However, my family might have other plans. Hmm.. it's also possible that I might have a bunch of newbies here. Just imagine, a M/2 operation with a bunch of folks who've never been on the air! Don't know if I'm ready for this. How much did the 2nd op position contribute? It was manned during hours 21 to 00 inclusive, i.e. 4 hours max. How many Qs? 20. Was it worth it? Sure. I learned a lot. Wait 'til next time!! Interestingly, the 706 didn't affect the MkV at all even though some point of every antenna is within 20 ft of some point on every other antenna. The MkV did bother the 706 quite a bit. Stubs should take care of most of that. They'll make antenna switching more of a bother, though. Thanks for the Qs everyone and your patience in pulling me out of the mud on the low bands. 73, Jim VE7FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 101,475 Two weeks in a row now, its all about Minnesota. Worked more MN stations than any other state. Late afternoon QRN came way up. Made it almost impossible to hear anyone for a while. As a result lost out on any possible early evening run on 40. 10 was open, not many on. I stuck on 10 rather than get involved in a run on a lower band. Lost 2 mults on 20 due to guys just not listening to who I was going back to and would not stop calling. As a result, I never did work them. Oh well. Made ever Band change requested and only had 2 failures as the bands had already closed. Nice to work some west coast on 160... Bit hard going with low low power (30 wts) and a vertical Thanks to all who called. Got a good start on the Tripple Play Award as a result of last weekends RTTY contest and NAQP. Logs will be uploaded to LOTW shortly. 73 Andy (VE9DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 6,262 STRICTLY s&p ..... bands were terrible from here especially 40 ...not an entrant just delivering a mult or 2 to the players. C'Yall Next One GLWCDR Gus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 130,944 I started out like a house on fire. 200Q in the first 100 min. Then my beam quit and I finished the contest on verticals. 40M was crappy again and I see other results from the far NE that indicate the same for others. I did a lot of QSYs and most were good but some to 40M were not. Thanks VY2LI for PEI mult. I almost froze repairing my 160M inverted L on Saturday morning but it was worth it for the 32 mults and some nice west coast QSOs. Lost a ME mult on 20M because of internal QRN(messages not making it from the brain to the fingers). I beat my last year score by 20,000 and had a ton of fun. Thanks! -Robby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 158,610 We had a birthday party dinner scheduled at 1800z (noon in Kansas) for my 91 year-old father-in-law, so starting the NAQP on time was not an option. I took my first hour off which turned out to be an excellent move (good meal, too), since the rates weren't great on 20 when I did start even though signals were loud. Later, rates kept solidly over 100 for most of the evening. Great fun! Overall, worked all states except ND (also missed in the NAQP RTTY). According to my logbook, at least one Q in each state I worked was with an op who uploads to LOTW, so also having fun collecting Triple Play states. More never-before-worked hams in the log this time, and I'd guess the Triple Play has something to do with that. Had a half hour break still to go at the end, so left a nice run but not before my only HI Q called me on 80m as my last contact. VE worked included BC AB SK MB ON QC NS, but nothing long. The NA DX list was short this time: XE, KP2. Overall, I had 40 ops who worked me on 3 bands and 7 ops who made 4 bands: AA3B AD8J N2NT N5KO W1FJ W6YI NZ1U. I worked 669 unique calls. Already looking forward to next weekend where I suspect the zoo will continue. Thanks to all for the Qs, and thanks for the quick LOTW uploads! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 84,708 Enjoyed the CW NAQP - its fast, lots of activity, and has a great format with working all stations each band and mults for each band! - Missed the start up of the test due to Rocky Mtn Div. Hamcon 2009 planning committee meeting for convention May 29-30 (my commercial!). Finally on air about 3:00pm after missing a lot of 20m action but had great time on 40, 80 and 160. Wkd some Buffaloes and Iguanas (Art, K6XT: do you really have a lot of Iguanas down in Ignacio, CO?) K0EU, N0KE, KO7X, W0ZA, N0HF, K8FC, and AD1C and a couple of GMCCers who missed getting on teams: K0FX, N4VI. Didn't hear the chief Iguana, K6XT but did have a landline call with Bill K0UK giving me the okay to use K7VT/mobile on way home from Castle Rock meeting. Also, worked Geo, W0UA on a few bands - nice signal as always. Best dx was NP4Z on 160m and XE2MX on 40m. 73 Ken, W0ETT Parker, CO Rig: IC756pro3 to hf yagis and verticals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0OR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 97,968 First time I've tried this event in many years. Activity on 80 and 160 was excellent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0UA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 205,368 Very strange contest. Had a nice 148-hour to start on 20. 15 was close-to non-existent here...but sounded like the 6's & 7's were cleaning-up right over our heads. I think I was about 1 hour "behind the bands" moving down-spectrum, even got to 160 too late. 39 mults on 20? Ouch! Thanks to XE2MX for the QSY's--Loco, you are the BEST! And thanks, Chuck--guess we need to fix all the wind-damaged antennas now? I hope congress is working on that Ionospheric Bail-out package... Geo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1END Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,179 Conditions seemed lousy at the start (high bands) but ended up being pretty good on the low bands. Heard a few very weak signals on 10M and managed to work one. Thanks to all, Eldon - W1END ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 92,169 Where was ND? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1FJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 126,700 Nice to see a lot of new calls and good activity. Thanks all for the Q's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 89,784 Missed ND, NE, SD and HI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1VE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 116,034 Huge Thanks to Tony, K1KP for hosting me as a last-minute request. What a blast! I've not done NAQP in a few years... It's so much fun! I made some mistakes of not looking at 15 (and even 10) more often. I couple of great horse races for a while (until I missed some important band changes) on the getscores.org scoreboard! Dennis, W1UE and I are trying to make sure we keep your CW copying skills in order -- "W1UE DENNIS MA" and "W1VE GERRY MA" ARE two different stations! Thanks for all the YCCC QSYs 73 Gerry W1VE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2JU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 52,848 IC706MkIIG, AH-4, 175 Foot OCF Doublet up 30 feet, N1MM Logger Nice opening on 10 meters to Tennessee. 73, Alec W2JU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BQF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,558 Limited time available but a heck of a lot of fun! Being able to work stations on each band really keeps this contest active and interesting. Also I at least got the chance to test my new IC-7700 which worked pretty impressively! Thanks for all of the Q's. Tom - W4BQF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,865 Limited time available for this year, but I always like the NAQP's. Thanks for the Q's. Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4DD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,956 A part time effort between painting projects. 80 seemed very good as did 160. de Jeff W4DD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4IX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 135,420 like usual, tough but fun contest with 2 wire antennas for all bands, especially on the high bands as the contrast between 10/15/20 to 40/80/160 is so drastic. 160 surprised me as the antenna was just a random length wire from the tuner out the window over some trees, but seemed to work well enough, the 80 meter Inv. L worked great and was ok on 40. Will get some real antennas up before the sunspots come back. Thanks for all the Q's guys. 73's John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 38,511 Tnx fer the Q's. Just shy of my goal of 400 Q's. The afternoon was slow, my dipole on 20m is not competitive with the tribanders, even when they are limited to 100w. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,738 Rig: Ten Tec Omni VII Antenna: Extended Double Zepp @ 60 ft I only had a short time to play and 40 meters was hot! Thanks for the Q's. 73, Puck, W4PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,250 Good participation as usual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,075 Just testing out a new 80 meter 1/4 wave vertical and giving out a few points. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4XO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,849 SECC Team #2..Family obligations made this contest a part time effort. Started later in the contest, so I missed the higher bands Q's. Someday I will get my code speed to a higher level that will allow me to run vs just search & pounce. It certainly was a fun contest and thanks for the contacts...73..Lex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,440 Part time effort. Received the MicroKeyer cables Sat morning (TKS Joe) for the TS-2000 I bought for the Pine View School ARC and spend some time setting it up and playing in the NAQP. Ran the antenna cables over to my computer/work desk and had fun with a new radio. Pointed the 40M beam north and seemed to have a pretty good run; was surprised to have several SA's call off the back of the beam. I LOVE this ocean QTH! S&P'd 80 quickly for some mults and points for the club before tackling the VHF/UHF programming for the TS-2000. And I could see why a couple of guys sent their names twice and even three times! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5AO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 64,870 First NAQP, underestimated importance of 80/160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5JAW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,890 MkV Field Carolina Windom @ 30 ft 80-10m 12 ft tee top for 160m Due to other commitments, I could only put in limited time. Got on for two 45 minute sessions early afternoon, 15 minutes near sunset, and then another 45 minutes in the last hour. All S&P, my favorite mode, except for a 10 minute run on 20m early on (just to see how the other half live). The most fun was that magical 15 minute session on 40m at sunset. It seemed like the whole band was set up just for me. CQers from all over were lined up every 300-500 Hz. One call each time snagged the prey, then a quick mini-turn of the dial landed on the next one. Bang, bang, bang up and down the band as fast as the fingers could move. The rate meter stayed on 180-200 most of that time. Only a couple of slow repeat requests lowered the average. I had to QRT to go out for the evening with the XYL, but there were no signs that I had picked all the low hanging fruit. When I got on before midnight, the lower bands sounded great. Made on quick sweep of 160, then spent the rest of the time on 80. With everyone limited to LP, my RFI limited 25 watts on 80m worked OK. When, and if, sunspots ever return, I might make a more serious effort in this fun contest. 73, Jim, w5jaw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 204,373 Good activity level but the high bands just would NOT open. I should have taken more off time during the afternoon, but kept thinking something would happen on 15 and maybe 10. I couldn't get TR to properly trigger my DX Doubler so I went to an old headphone switch box. When I picked up the DX Doubler to take it off the desk I heard something rattling around in there. The beverages weren't working, but there was little noise. And the 80M antennas quit during the last hour for some reason, but I had to take and off time so it was a huge problem. What a contest this'll be when the suspots come back! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5OV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 34,880 Icom 756 Pro 3 (K3 soon!) Zero Five 43' vertical. I was obviously not real serious, but this is the most qsos I have made from my new antenna restricted QTH in any contest thus far. I went to 40 too late as it was already long when I got there. 80 and 160 were fun though. This 43' vertical works pretty well although on 160 it's obviously too short. I was connected to live scores, and I found it compelling to try to pass up the couple of guys ahead of me with similar scores. It kept me going at the end. Cool stuff. Band QSOs Pts Sec 1.8 45 45 25 3.5 87 87 32 7 45 45 22 14 140 140 27 21 3 3 3 Total 320 320 109 Score: 34,880 73, Bob W5OV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5VX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 28,684 I decided to put in 1 hour on each band - 15, 20, 40 and 80 but had visitors. So I only got 45 minutes on 40 and 15 minutes on 80. 20/40 sounded real nice and it appears I may have had a little better opening on 15 than guys further north. I got short term rate meter over 200 twice on 20 and once on 40. It was fun and my grandson(9) shot his first bird with his BB gun in my back yard! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6CZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,789 PT Effort between honey do's and other interruptions for a start on the CW portion of Triple Play ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 44,376 Missed first 2.5 hours of the contest and felt I just never caught up. This is a fun contest and with the 100 watt limit, it makes it a little more fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 55,924 K3, AL-1200, 80 meter dipole at 46 feet with Matchbox, TR4W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 294,176 Thanks again to Jim, W6YI for the use of his station, and for keeping me well fed. I knew going in that noise would be an issue this time. They were predicting Santa Ana winds, and whenever that happens we have alot of line noise. It really only affected 15 and 10 (10 was dead anyways.) I didnt work any W7's on 15m because the noise was a constant s9 and I couldnt hear any of them on backscatter. That hurt the mult count. The rest of the bands were noisy as well, but not nearly as bad as 15. I hope we get lucky and the noise goes away by next weekend. Im keeping my fingers crossed. The low bands were in great shape. Ive never had that many q's on 80 before. Jim's new antenna really kicks butt! 160m was never runnable from here, tried for a few minutes and didnt get a single caller. It finally popped to W1 the last 15 minutes and I picked up an additional 5 or 6 mults at the end. Thanks for all the q's and qsy's. Congrats to the big scores out there -- KL9A and N5KO in particular. 73, Dan N6MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 412,090 This is the first recent NAQP of any sort that 15 meters wasn't open at the beginning to somewhere other than just local stations. This meant that 20 meters was THE band at the beginning and rates were terrific in the first hour - 88 Q's in the first half hour and 158 Q's total on 20 in that hour. 15 opened around 1830Z, netting our second mult, NP4Z, and 5 minutes later the band was open to the northeast states and eastern Canada. Over the next several hours 15 meters opened to the southeast and then propagation moved to the west. We missed a few of the 7-land states, both Dakotas, and a few others on 15. After moving K2LE from 20 to 15 he suggested a move to 10, so we tried it. We didn't work K2LE, but did work Jerry, K6III, and ended up spending 10 minutes CQing on 10 meters with no other answers. We heard other locals CQing on 10 later and could hear some beacons in CA, but nothing was ever heard outside of the state so we didn't go there again. 40 was wide open when we moved there shortly before 2300Z. 40 went long quite early here, though, so later in the evening there were very few stations to be heard on 40. We probably stayed on 20 for too long, working JA's and UA0's as our last Q's there after the band was dead to NA. 80 was open when we moved there at 0030Z, but we couldn't really get much of a rate CQing then and ended up S&P'ing for a while until the band opened better. We stayed on 80 for the rest of the contest. I was amazed that we worked F5IN with low power on 80. W6LD and N6CCH spent most of the day fixing feedlines and working on the 160M transmit antenna. John, W6LD, then did most of the 160 operating to see how well the C antenna works with the feedpoint raised from 10 feet to 30 feet. We still could hear many stations that were not able to hear us. We were hearing so well on 160 that we never went back to 40 meters in the last 2 and a half hours since we always had a bandmap full of unworked mults and stations on 160. We heard 9 mults that we didn't work on 160. Congrats to all the other M/2 stations for the great scores. -Mike, N7MH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7GKF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 87,966 Operated the first 10 hours straight. Wish the contest started one or two hours earlier. When 15m and 10m come back we will be hard pressed to do the three high bands justice. Meanwhile, running the east coast on 80m is definately hard to do with 100w. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 254,443 Many thanks to Tom and his wife Midge for the use of this beautiful station. It is so quiet here compared to my home QTH that I thought the receiver was dead -- no band noise at all. 10m was quite dead here. 15 was OK but it never opened really well. The low bands were fantastic. Ants: 160m: 1/4 wave vertical, 75 radials, DX Engineering 4 square receiving ant. 80m: 1/2 wave dipole @130' 40m: 2 el @120' 20m: 6/6 @140'/110' 15m: C31XR @45' 10m: 6 el @25' (QTH elevation is 6500') Rig: FT-1000MP Mark V FT-2000 microHAM MK2R SO2R box 73, Bob, N6TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 31,080 Fun contest. This is one of my favorites!! It was mostly S&P, looking for mults. Had some honey-do's to do today so didn't get to operate the whole contest. It was a beautiful sunny day here, so the wife thought we should take a ride up the coast for breakfast this morning. Thanks for the Q's and the log is already on LOTW for those needing Oregon for Triple Play. 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 175,599 I was feeling a little under the weather and got a late start, missed the first 18 minutes. Was glad to see 15 open for awhile, and checked 10 quickly, but nothing here. I was surprised to work so many VE3s. Usually there are plenty of ON stations, but this seemed way more than usual. Missed some seemingly easy ones: AK; PAC; ND; SD. - I need to improve the Mults. Had a couple of great runs on 20, and sorry I couldn't manage the pile better. Maybe it's old age creeping in (grin). I don't currently have an antenna for 160, so turned down a couple of requests to QSY there. Finally decided to give it a try anyway, and the rig's tuner loaded up the 80M phased verticals there, altho I could tell it wasn't very efficient. Sorry for turning down the previous requests. Rig: TS950SDX at 100 watts Ant: Phased HyTowers on 80 and 40; A3S at 50' for 20,15 and 10. Logger: N1MM running on a Dell Optiplex with XP Pro. Interface: microKeyer (original model) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8CAR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 110,316 Val managed to open 15 for some early afternoon fun. Condx overall were strange-bands seemed flat but there always seemed to be someone to work. Dan W8CAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9LHG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 49,403 K3 40m loop at 25' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 223,892 Echo the same, the afternoon is work and the evening is fun. Winds here have battered the antennas and Friday I had to climb 10 meter tower to try and figure why I had no 10 meter antennas available. Station was ready but op was not, QLF physically and mentally. First 15 m q's were like meteor scatter. Had way too many CQ's called in my face on 15. Lot's of new calls and op-keep coming back to a good one. This contest like no other in the fact that you have lot's of rate at the end and don't even hear some active stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 106,276 If anyone thought all hams in alabama are named Dan, I will explain. An active member of our club ACG Dan w4nti and long time contester passed away at the end of Dec. In his memory all ACG members used the name Dan. I am sure he had a smile while looking down on us. RIP OM On another note I really messed up on 40 meters. I went there way too late. Lesson learned. 73 BoB (aka Dan ) WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4PGM Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 63,900 Something broke early on the 80m antenna so had to use the 160 L. Worked KP2, KP4, XE, found VE9DX strong on 10 meters plus a couple of New England states. First hour was a struggle but got better and I stuck it out for the full 10 hours. Good luck to everyone in the 2009 and thanks for the contacts. 73 Kyle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6BOB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,548 Second contest that has been interrupted by the NFL. Sunday is Chargers Day, KB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 28,560 I knew I wasn’t going to be able to work the entire contest, but my time was cut even further by an emergency trip to the veterinarian. $600 and several hours later, the cat and I returned home; having missed some great upper-band operating time. When I did get home, the Descanso area was facing 60-70 mph winds. The capacitance hat came off my vertical, leaving me without 80m and with limited 40m. The winds were coming from the northeast, and I could NOT rotate my beam into the wind. It just wouldn’t go. So I ran the rest of the day with the beam pointed southwest, and working off the back of the beam. It actually seemed to work pretty well. So with all that said, I had a pretty good time. The only real problem I had with the back-of-the-beam was into parts of the Midwest. I never heard any NE, SD, ND, or WY. I had no problem getting to the East Coast. 20m died quickly, as did 40m. However, the 160m band seemed to open early. Or perhaps it was because it was the only low-band antenna I still had standing. At any rate, I had 45 Qs and 21 mults was fun. I wish I could have done better for the SCCC team. I guess I can blame the cat. Thanks to everyone for the Qs, and to K6AM for my only 10m contact. Elecraft K3 at 100w, T-11 Log Periodic pointed backwards for 10-20m. Long sloper off the tower for 40m and 160m. It loaded on 80m but nobody heard me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7LNW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 43,778 Station 102 ft. wire inverted-v fed with 450 ohm twin lead through 4:1 balun and tuned with a LDG Z-11 Pro ATU to a Kenwood TS-440S/AT running 100 watts and using WriteLog software. Always a fun event with good participation. Thanks to all who gave me a contact. 73's de Jack, WA7LNW New Harmony, UT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,775 I think everybody made it into the log this time. Trying a K3 for the first time in a contest: seems to be pretty good, and didn't have to read the manual for anything. My time was limited to a handful of hours, but late in the fray, I developed a ground loop that screwed up the keying, both in the computer and the rig. Never had a ground loop before, but checked all connections with no joy. Then it cured itself. Never a dull moment. " Nice to 'speriment wit you, Artur" K3 CL33 @ 45ft 40M inv vee @ 55ft 160/80inv vee @ 60 ft N1MM/uham MK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 104,040 Had to split operating time with some quality time operating the snow thrower throughout the day and evening... The contest started out very slow until I abandoned 20 meters for 40 very early in the contest. Surprised to find 40 long early, working UT and NM at 1:15 PM local time from Northern Ohio. Hard to believe 160 was the workhorse. Let's hope 160 sounds like this for the CQ 160 contest later this month! Missed ND and KH6 for WAS. Nice to work our former local homie KL8DX. I need you on 40 Phil for my final 40 meter LOTW WAS confirmation. Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 - Rick WB8JUI IC746Pro 160 meter inverted L @ 50' Ground mounted vertical 80-10 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC7S Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 23,436 wow, what a lotta fun that was. Great to work the country with 5 watts and wire antennas, even if a couple of them are 360 foot long each. Great to hear and log log friends, and make new ones too. Thanks to all, C U in the next test. 73, Dale WC7S Station is a K2 at 5 watts, a pair of edz (360 foot each) at 50 foot, a pair of verticals and a dipole for extra coverage. What a kick to work 160 qrp too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE9V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,119 Only had 15 min towards start of contest and the last 43 minutes of the contest, due to finally getting together with my family for Christmas. This is probably my favorite contest of the year. Sucked to have missed most of it. 73, Chad WE9V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF7T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,909 I wasn't going to play, but changed my mind at the last minute. Glad I did! I don't have a real antenna for 160, but the G5RV was wet from rain and showed SWR of 3:1. What the heck! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,373 Somewhat low key effort from my house in Madison. Was going to go to the cabin Friday afternoon for a more serious effort, but work and snow got in the way of my enthusiasm. WinTest says I operated 7 hours, but it was probably less than 6. Spent a fair amount of time tracking and fixing computer RFI issues and watching football on and off for a while. Before I started I kind of arbitrarily decided to work 100 QSOs each on 80, 40, and 20, and whatever I could on 15 and 10. The bands were all long for me. In spite of checking it often in the afternoon I never heard a signal on 10 except the usual birdies from the UW Research park behind my house. I had a brief opening on 15, but all stations worked were in AZ, CA or WA except for 1 WI on ground wave. Forty was long even in daylight, and 80 was long by the time I got there. No antenna here for 160. Quite noisy on 40 an 80 here, S4-5 most of the time. Should have checked 80 and 40 earlier than I did. I never logged a single station in IL, IN, MI, and IA in spite of good activity in those very nearby mults. In fact I never even heard an MI or IA, and only heard 1 each in IN and IL (K9BGL on 20 backscatter). I finally worked a few WI and MN stations on 80. The plusses included finally working out an interface problem I was having between my computer and my K-3, and working a lot of old friends. Gear: K-3, WinTest, C3S at 30 ft, 80/40 dipole at 25 ft. 73 Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 131,010 I used N1MM. It works properly now using multi user as so2r. Thanks all for the qsos, and pardon the many requests for repeats. 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ2N Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 52,260 First time operating QRP in any contest. The first hours were very slow QRP as it took many calls to get through. It was very frustrating at times, but it was very fun nonetheless! 10M had a surprise opening and it seemed that only few knew about it. I told many to try 10M as there was an opening to the SE. Some of them QSY'ed (thank you!) while many stayed on their selective bands. My QRP signal seemed to get out well on 10M during the opening. I heard many on SSB that were 20-30over! Even worked NS/NB beaming SW. I could of had the most 10M contacts and I was QRP! I spent way to much time on 10M thinking more people would realize it was open, which was not the case, and it lead to my score decreasing. No regrets though. I had to QRT before the contest ended because I saw an opening to shovel the snow before the freezing rain came and decided to do that instead. Now I don't have to shovel the heavy stuff today. Looking back now, it looks like I could have made a very good effort to crack the top 10 if I did LP. 10M/15M were very favorable to the NE, which I did not think was going to happen, so I did the QRP category. Some very big scores so far, cant wait to see the results. 40M was very difficult with snow/rain all day and night. The noise was continuously S9+ on all the antennas. Wish 40M could have been better, hopefully it will improve for the WPX RTTY test coming up, which we will be M/2 with my call. IC 7700 (new!) and IC 756 PRO III power down to 5W Antennas: Force 12 C4 @ 40FT, C3SS @ 40FT, Dipole for low bands at 55FT Tried doing SO2R, but it gave me a headache. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 126,248 That one was like night and day, only the "night" was the daytime part. Averaged 61 Qs/hr during first five hours and 86 Qs/hr during the last five. But was I smart enough to take the two off hours early? No. *laugh* 20 was crazy long. Missed OH, IN, IL, IA, and most everything south of there. 80 on the other hand was wonderful. The callers just kept coming. 160 was also great but didn't leave ample time for it. Sometime after sunset I had good copy on a 10m beacon somewhere in W3, but no one was there and five minutes of CQing yielded nothing. 73, -- Ray WQ5L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT6K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,212 Enjoyed operating in this QP. Was able to make short runs on 20 and 40. Worked 48 states...never heard ND and couldn't snag VT. Worked what seemed to be a large number of KB'ers. Looking forward to the SSB and RTTY portions of this series. Al wt6k ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW2DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,125 Just testing out some added features to RUMped contest software on the Mac. 40 looked good, 80 was long and some nice loud DX on 160 (EL2DX). Looks like we are getting some more sunspots, looking forward to 10m. 73 Lee WW2DX.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW9R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 65,897 Wow, who would ever think that you would get 1 Q on 10 mtrs, 24 Q's on 20 mtrs and 157 on 160... Never the less it was great fun. Thanks for all the fills. As the night wore on, my ability to copy seemed to wain :) Yaesu FT1000 100W 160 MTRS = dipole at 30 feet 80 & 40 MTRS = Gap Voyager 10, 15, 20 MTS = Gap Titan DX Hope to see you all next week. Pat Big Bend, WI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 8,064 Bill, NG3K apologized prematurely about being the "weak link" in PVRC Team #2, however Bill's scores is several orders of magnitude greater than mine... Band conditions seemed EXCELLENT! Was pleasantly surprised to find 10 meters wide open, however very few takers as it wasn't a score producing move to go to 10. Heard lots of SSB stations, only had one person answer my 5 minute CQ. 80 & 160 were also quite good and long. I'm always surprised to hear Ken, N6RO's booming signal with low power (Ken has some GREAT antennas). 73, Jim Nitzberg WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX4MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,560 First CW contest ever. Still practicing. Index of Calls Call: AA2NA Class: Single Op LP Call: AA3B Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4FU Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Call: AA6YX Class: Single Op LP Call: AA8LL Class: M/2 LP Call: AA9DY Class: Single Op LP Call: AB4GG Class: Single Op LP Call: AB7E Class: Single Op LP Call: AB7R Class: Single Op LP Call: AC0E Class: Single Op LP Call: AC0W Class: Single Op LP Call: AC6T Class: Single Op LP Call: AD1C Class: Single Op LP Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op LP Call: AD6WL Class: Single Op LP Call: AD8J Class: Single Op LP Call: AE6RF Class: Single Op LP Call: AE6Y Class: Single Op LP Call: AE8M Class: Single Op LP Call: AF6EV Class: Single Op LP Call: AI2N Class: Single Op LP Call: AJ1M Class: Single Op LP Call: AK4K Class: Single Op LP Call: AK9F Class: Single Op LP Call: AL9A Class: Single Op LP Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Call: K0AD Class: Single Op LP Call: K0DXC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0EJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K0EU Class: Single Op LP Call: K0FX Class: Single Op LP Call: K0KX Class: Single Op LP Call: K0LUZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K0OU Class: Single Op LP Call: K0PC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0PK Class: Single Op LP Call: K0TG Class: Single Op LP Call: K0TI Class: Single Op LP Call: K0TO Class: Single Op LP Call: K0WA Class: Single Op HP Call: K0XI Class: M/2 LP Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K1HI Class: Single Op LP Call: K1JB Class: Single Op LP Call: K1MK Class: Single Op LP Call: K1PY Class: Single Op LP Call: K1TN Class: Single Op LP Call: K1TR Class: Single Op LP Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K1ZZI Class: Single Op LP Call: K2DBK Class: Single Op LP Call: K2LE Class: Single Op LP Call: K2QMF Class: Single Op LP Call: K2SI Class: Single Op LP Call: K2SX Class: Single Op LP Call: K2TJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K2XA Class: Single Op LP Call: K2ZR/4 Class: Single Op QRP Call: K3CR Class: Single Op LP Call: K3IU Class: Single Op LP Call: K3MM Class: Single Op LP Call: K3PP Class: Single Op LP Call: K3RWN Class: Single Op LP Call: K3SV Class: Single Op LP Call: K3WI Class: Single Op LP Call: K3WW Class: Single Op LP Call: K4ACG Class: Single Op LP Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op LP Call: K4CZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4DJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4FJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4GM Class: Single Op LP Call: K4GMH Class: Single Op LP Call: K4HAL Class: Single Op LP Call: K4HMB Class: Single Op LP Call: K4IQJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4IU Class: Single Op LP Call: K4NO Class: Single Op LP Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Call: K4QO Class: Single Op LP Call: K4RO Class: Single Op LP Call: K4TD Class: M/2 LP Call: K4WI Class: Single Op LP Call: K4WW Class: Single Op LP Call: K4XU Class: Single Op LP Call: K4ZW Class: Single Op LP Call: K5DU Class: Single Op LP Call: K5END Class: Single Op LP Call: K5ER Class: Single Op LP Call: K5GO Class: M/2 LP Call: K5JX Class: Single Op LP Call: K5KA Class: M/2 LP Call: K5LH Class: Single Op LP Call: K5MR Class: Single Op LP Call: K5NA Class: Single Op LP Call: K5WA Class: Single Op LP Call: K5XR Class: Single Op LP Call: K5ZM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6AM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6CSL Class: Single Op LP Call: K6DBG Class: Single Op QRP Call: K6GFJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K6III Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LL Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LRN Class: Single Op LP Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6NR Class: Single Op LP Call: K6RB Class: Single Op LP Call: K6RIM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6RM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6SRZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K6ST Class: Single Op LP Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6WSC Class: Single Op LP Call: K6XT Class: Single Op LP Call: K6XV Class: Single Op LP Call: K6ZH Class: Single Op LP Call: K7BG Class: Single Op LP Call: K7ON Class: Single Op QRP Call: K7RAT Class: M/2 LP Call: K7RSM Class: Single Op LP Call: K7SV Class: Single Op LP Call: K7WA Class: Single Op LP Call: K7ZS Class: Single Op LP Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op LP Call: K8DD Class: Single Op LP Call: K8FC Class: Single Op LP Call: K8GT Class: Single Op LP Call: K8MAD Class: M/2 LP Call: K8MM Class: Single Op LP Call: K8MR Class: Single Op LP Call: K8WDN Class: Single Op LP Call: K9BGL Class: Single Op LP Call: K9CT Class: Single Op LP Call: K9GY Class: Single Op QRP Call: K9MMS Class: Single Op LP Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op LP Call: K9NR Class: Single Op LP Call: K9NW Class: Single Op LP Call: K9XE Class: Single Op LP Call: KA3DRR Class: Single Op LP Call: KA4OTB Class: Single Op LP Call: KA6SGT Class: Single Op QRP Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KB9AX Class: Single Op LP Call: KB9OWD Class: Single Op LP Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Call: KC9FAV Class: Single Op LP Call: KD2MX Class: Single Op LP Call: KD4HXT Class: Single Op LP Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Call: KE1FO Class: Single Op LP Call: KG4CUY Class: Single Op LP Call: KG6D Class: Single Op LP Call: KI0F Class: Single Op LP Call: KI7Y Class: Single Op LP Call: KJ0G Class: Single Op LP Call: KK8D Class: Single Op LP Call: KL5O Class: Single Op HP Call: KL8DX Class: Single Op LP Call: KM9M Class: Single Op LP Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Call: KN4Y Class: Single Op LP Call: KN5H Class: Single Op LP Call: KO7AA Class: Single Op LP Call: KO7X Class: Single Op LP Call: KP2M Class: Single Op LP Call: KR4F Class: Single Op LP Call: KS0T Class: Single Op LP Call: KS1J Class: Single Op LP Call: KU0G Class: Single Op LP Call: KU5B Class: M/2 LP Call: KU8E Class: Single Op LP Call: KY5R Class: Single Op LP Call: KZ5D Class: Single Op LP Call: N0AV Class: Single Op LP Call: N0AX Class: Single Op LP Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Call: N0KE Class: Single Op LP Call: N0KK Class: Single Op LP Call: N0NI Class: M/2 LP Call: N0OCT Class: Single Op QRP Call: N1BAA Class: Single Op LP Call: N1RR Class: Single Op LP Call: N1SNB Class: Single Op QRP Call: N2GC Class: Single Op LP Call: N2IC Class: M/2 LP Call: N2NT Class: M/2 LP Call: N2WK Class: Single Op LP Call: N2WN Class: Single Op QRP Call: N2ZN Class: Single Op LP Call: N3BB Class: Single Op LP Call: N3LL Class: Single Op LP Call: N3SD Class: Single Op LP Call: N3UA Class: Single Op LP Call: N3XLS Class: Single Op LP Call: N3ZL Class: Single Op LP Call: N3ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: N4AF Class: Single Op LP Call: N4CW Class: Single Op LP Call: N4DW Class: Single Op LP Call: N4EEB Class: Single Op LP Call: N4LF Class: Single Op LP Call: N4NM Class: Single Op LP Call: N4OX Class: Single Op LP Call: N4PN Class: Single Op HP Call: N4VI Class: Single Op LP Call: N4ZI Class: Single Op LP Call: N4ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: N5AW/0 Class: Single Op LP Call: N5DO Class: Single Op LP Call: N5EEI Class: Single Op QRP Call: N5KO Class: Single Op LP Call: N5OE Class: Single Op LP Call: N5OT Class: Single Op LP Call: N5PO Class: Single Op LP Call: N5UL Class: Single Op LP Call: N5UM Class: Single Op LP Call: N5WLA Class: Single Op LP Call: N6CK Class: Single Op LP Call: N6EE Class: Single Op LP Call: N6ML Class: Single Op LP Call: N6NF Class: Single Op LP Call: N6QQ Class: Single Op LP Call: N6RO Class: Single Op LP Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Call: N6WM Class: Single Op LP Call: N7BV Class: Single Op LP Call: N7MAL Class: Single Op LP Call: N7ON Class: Single Op LP Call: N7WA Class: Single Op LP Call: N8AA Class: Single Op LP Call: N8EA Class: Single Op LP Call: N8LJ Class: Single Op LP Call: N8NOE Class: Single Op LP Call: N8VV Class: Single Op LP Call: N8XX Class: Single Op LP Call: N9CK Class: Single Op LP Call: N9CO Class: Single Op LP Call: N9FC Class: Single Op LP Call: N9ID Class: Single Op LP Call: N9RV Class: Single Op LP Call: N9SF Class: Single Op LP Call: N9TF Class: Single Op QRP Call: N9XX Class: Single Op LP Call: NA2M Class: Single Op LP Call: NA4BW Class: Single Op LP Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Call: NA5Q Class: Single Op LP Call: NA7QP Class: Single Op LP Call: NB4M Class: Single Op QRP Call: NC4KW Class: M/2 LP Call: NE9U Class: Single Op LP Call: NI6T Class: Single Op LP Call: NJ1F Class: Single Op LP Call: NK7U Class: Single Op LP Call: NM2L Class: Single Op LP Call: NN3W Class: Single Op LP Call: NO3M Class: Single Op LP Call: NO5W Class: Single Op LP Call: NP0FU Class: Single Op QRP Call: NP3D/W2 Class: Single Op LP Call: NP4Z Class: Single Op LP Call: NR5M Class: M/2 LP Call: NS3T Class: Single Op LP Call: NZ1U Class: M/2 LP Call: VA3ATT Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3EC Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3RJ Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3WR Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7RN Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Call: VE1DT Class: Single Op LP Call: VE1OP Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3CX Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3DZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3EJ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3EY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3FU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3GSI Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3IAE Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3JI Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3JM Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3KF Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3KI Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3KZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3OBU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3RZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3TA Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3UTT Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XB Class: Single Op LP Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op QRP Call: VE7FO Class: M/2 LP Call: VE7IO Class: Single Op LP Call: VE9DX Class: Single Op LP Call: VO1MP Class: Single Op HP Call: VY2SS Class: Single Op LP Call: W0BH Class: Single Op LP Call: W0BR Class: Single Op LP Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Call: W0OR Class: Single Op LP Call: W0UA Class: Single Op LP Call: W0UO Class: Single Op LP Call: W0YK Class: Single Op LP Call: W1AMF Class: Single Op QRP Call: W1EBI Class: Single Op LP Call: W1END Class: Single Op LP Call: W1EQ Class: Single Op LP Call: W1FJ Class: Single Op LP Call: W1RH Class: Single Op LP Call: W1TO Class: Single Op LP Call: W1UE Class: Single Op LP Call: W1UJ Class: Single Op LP Call: W1VE Class: Single Op LP Call: W2JU Class: Single Op LP Call: W2LHL Class: Single Op LP Call: W2OO Class: Single Op LP Call: W3KB Class: Single Op LP Call: W3RA Class: Single Op LP Call: W4AU Class: Single Op LP Call: W4BQF Class: Single Op LP Call: W4BW Class: Single Op LP Call: W4DD Class: Single Op LP Call: W4IX Class: Single Op LP Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4NZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4PM Class: Single Op LP Call: W4RK Class: Single Op LP Call: W4UH Class: Single Op LP Call: W4XO Class: Single Op LP Call: W4ZE Class: Single Op LP Call: W4ZW Class: Single Op LP Call: W5AO Class: Single Op LP Call: W5JAW Class: Single Op LP Call: W5KFT Class: Single Op LP Call: W5OV Class: Single Op LP Call: W5VX Class: Single Op LP Call: W5WMU Class: Single Op LP Call: W6CZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W6OAT Class: Single Op LP Call: W6SJ Class: Single Op LP Call: W6SX Class: Single Op HP Call: W6TK Class: Single Op LP Call: W6YI Class: Single Op LP Call: W6YX Class: M/2 LP Call: W7CT Class: M/2 LP Call: W7GKF Class: Single Op LP Call: W7RN Class: Single Op LP Call: W7WHY Class: Single Op LP Call: W7ZR Class: Single Op LP Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Call: W8CAR Class: Single Op LP Call: W8MJ Class: Single Op LP Call: W9ILY Class: Single Op LP Call: W9LHG Class: Single Op LP Call: W9RE Class: Single Op LP Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Call: WA1UJU Class: Single Op LP Call: WA1Z Class: Single Op LP Call: WA2JQK Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4PGM Class: Single Op QRP Call: WA4SM Class: Single Op QRP Call: WA5ZUP Class: Single Op LP Call: WA6BOB Class: Single Op LP Call: WA6L Class: Single Op LP Call: WA7LNW Class: Single Op LP Call: WA7YAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op LP Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Call: WC7S Class: Single Op QRP Call: WE9V Class: Single Op LP Call: WF4W Class: Single Op LP Call: WF7T Class: Single Op LP Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op LP Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op LP Call: WQ2N Class: Single Op QRP Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Call: WT6K Class: Single Op LP Call: WW2DX Class: Single Op LP Call: WW9R Class: Single Op LP Call: WX3B Class: M/2 LP Call: WX4MM Class: Single Op LP Call: WX4TM Class: Single Op HP Call: WX7G Class: Single Op LP Call: XE2MX Class: Single Op LP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 LP Call: AA8LL Call: K0XI Call: K4TD Call: K5GO Call: K5KA Call: K7RAT Call: K8MAD Call: KU5B Call: N0NI Call: N2IC Call: N2NT Call: NC4KW Call: NR5M Call: NZ1U Call: VE7FO Call: W6YX Call: W7CT Call: WX3B Class: Single Op HP Call: F5IN Call: K0WA Call: KL5O Call: N4PN Call: VO1MP Call: W6SX Call: WX4TM Class: Single Op LP Call: AA2NA Call: AA3B Call: AA4FU Call: AA4LR Call: AA6YX Call: AA9DY Call: AB4GG Call: AB7E Call: AB7R Call: AC0E Call: AC0W Call: AC6T Call: AD1C Call: AD4EB Call: AD6WL Call: AD8J Call: AE6RF Call: AE6Y Call: AE8M Call: AF6EV Call: AI2N Call: AJ1M Call: AK4K Call: AK9F Call: AL9A Call: K0AD Call: K0DXC Call: K0EJ Call: K0EU Call: K0FX Call: K0KX Call: K0LUZ Call: K0OU Call: K0PC Call: K0PK Call: K0TG Call: K0TI Call: K0TO Call: K1GU Call: K1HI Call: K1JB Call: K1MK Call: K1PY Call: K1TN Call: K1TR Call: K1ZZ Call: K1ZZI Call: K2DBK Call: K2LE Call: K2QMF Call: K2SI Call: K2SX Call: K2TJ Call: K2XA Call: K3CR Call: K3IU Call: K3MM Call: K3PP Call: K3RWN Call: K3SV Call: K3WI Call: K3WW Call: K4ACG Call: K4BAI Call: K4CZ Call: K4DJ Call: K4FJ Call: K4GM Call: K4GMH Call: K4HAL Call: K4HMB Call: K4IQJ Call: K4IU Call: K4NO Call: K4OD Call: K4QO Call: K4RO Call: K4WI Call: K4WW Call: K4XU Call: K4ZW Call: K5DU Call: K5END Call: K5ER Call: K5JX Call: K5LH Call: K5MR Call: K5NA Call: K5WA Call: K5XR Call: K5ZM Call: K6AM Call: K6CSL Call: K6GFJ Call: K6III Call: K6LA Call: K6LL Call: K6LRN Call: K6MM Call: K6NR Call: K6RB Call: K6RIM Call: K6RM Call: K6SRZ Call: K6ST Call: K6VVA Call: K6WSC Call: K6XT Call: K6XV Call: K6ZH Call: K7BG Call: K7RSM Call: K7SV Call: K7WA Call: K7ZS Call: K8AJS Call: K8DD Call: K8FC Call: K8GT Call: K8MM Call: K8MR Call: K8WDN Call: K9BGL Call: K9CT Call: K9MMS Call: K9MUG Call: K9NR Call: K9NW Call: K9XE Call: KA3DRR Call: KA4OTB Call: KB7Q Call: KB9AX Call: KB9OWD Call: KC4HW Call: KC9FAV Call: KD2MX Call: KD4HXT Call: KD5J Call: KE1FO Call: KG4CUY Call: KG6D Call: KI0F Call: KI7Y Call: KJ0G Call: KK8D Call: KL8DX Call: KM9M Call: KN3A Call: KN4Y Call: KN5H Call: KO7AA Call: KO7X Call: KP2M Call: KR4F Call: KS0T Call: KS1J Call: KU0G Call: KU8E Call: KY5R Call: KZ5D Call: N0AV Call: N0AX Call: N0BUI Call: N0KE Call: N0KK Call: N1BAA Call: N1RR Call: N2GC Call: N2WK Call: N2ZN Call: N3BB Call: N3LL Call: N3SD Call: N3UA Call: N3XLS Call: N3ZL Call: N3ZZ Call: N4AF Call: N4CW Call: N4DW Call: N4EEB Call: N4LF Call: N4NM Call: N4OX Call: N4VI Call: N4ZI Call: N4ZZ Call: N5AW/0 Call: N5DO Call: N5KO Call: N5OE Call: N5OT Call: N5PO Call: N5UL Call: N5UM Call: N5WLA Call: N6CK Call: N6EE Call: N6ML Call: N6NF Call: N6QQ Call: N6RO Call: N6WM Call: N7BV Call: N7MAL Call: N7ON Call: N7WA Call: N8AA Call: N8EA Call: N8LJ Call: N8NOE Call: N8VV Call: N8XX Call: N9CK Call: N9CO Call: N9FC Call: N9ID Call: N9RV Call: N9SF Call: N9XX Call: NA2M Call: NA4BW Call: NA4K Call: NA5Q Call: NA7QP Call: NE9U Call: NI6T Call: NJ1F Call: NK7U Call: NM2L Call: NN3W Call: NO3M Call: NO5W Call: NP3D/W2 Call: NP4Z Call: NS3T Call: VA3ATT Call: VA3DX Call: VA3EC Call: VA3RJ Call: VA3WR Call: VA7RN Call: VA7ST Call: VE1DT Call: VE1OP Call: VE3CX Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3EY Call: VE3FU Call: VE3GSI Call: VE3IAE Call: VE3JI Call: VE3JM Call: VE3KF Call: VE3KI Call: VE3KZ Call: VE3NE Call: VE3NZ Call: VE3OBU Call: VE3RZ Call: VE3TA Call: VE3UTT Call: VE3XB Call: VE7IO Call: VE9DX Call: VY2SS Call: W0BH Call: W0BR Call: W0ETT Call: W0OR Call: W0UA Call: W0UO Call: W0YK Call: W1EBI Call: W1END Call: W1EQ Call: W1FJ Call: W1RH Call: W1TO Call: W1UE Call: W1UJ Call: W1VE Call: W2JU Call: W2LHL Call: W2OO Call: W3KB Call: W3RA Call: W4AU Call: W4BQF Call: W4BW Call: W4DD Call: W4IX Call: W4KAZ Call: W4NZ Call: W4PM Call: W4RK Call: W4UH Call: W4XO Call: W4ZE Call: W4ZW Call: W5AO Call: W5JAW Call: W5KFT Call: W5OV Call: W5VX Call: W5WMU Call: W6CZ Call: W6OAT Call: W6SJ Call: W6TK Call: W6YI Call: W7GKF Call: W7RN Call: W7WHY Call: W7ZR Call: W7ZRC Call: W8CAR Call: W8MJ Call: W9ILY Call: W9LHG Call: W9RE Call: WA1FCN Call: WA1UJU Call: WA1Z Call: WA2JQK Call: WA5ZUP Call: WA6BOB Call: WA6L Call: WA7LNW Call: WA7YAZ Call: WB2ABD Call: WB8JUI Call: WE9V Call: WF4W Call: WF7T Call: WI9WI Call: WJ9B Call: WQ5L Call: WT6K Call: WW2DX Call: WW9R Call: WX4MM Call: WX7G Call: XE2MX Class: Single Op QRP Call: K2ZR/4 Call: K6DBG Call: K7ON Call: K9GY Call: KA6SGT Call: N0OCT Call: N1SNB Call: N2WN Call: N5EEI Call: N6WG Call: N9TF Call: NB4M Call: NP0FU Call: VA3DF Call: VA3RKM Call: VE4EAR Call: W1AMF Call: WA4PGM Call: WA4SM Call: WC7S Call: WQ2N