ARRL 10 Soapbox built 1-10-2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,206,932 Band was closed very early, and unfortunately cloudy weather made band locally very noisy. Contest was easy and pleasant. No pressure and hard times. Rade, E74IW was nice partner. CU in 9ACW, expecting to have Dragan, 4O4A running SOAB 73 Ranko Premium Contest Resort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4Z5MU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,134,172 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5Q2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 311,748 When your QTH is placed on 55th Latitude north it is not every year you have conditions to run the ARRL DX contest. It is also close to the day with the shortest daylight therefore we only have daylight from 07.00 UTC to 15.00 UTC. With this short daylight we had no problem to work less than 36 hours. The beam was down cause to a minor storm 2 weeks ago. Therefore the QTH was moved from OZ0J to OZ5BAL. We also moved from the countryside to the city with some extra noise especially on phone. ARRL DX on 10 M is always fun when the conditions are good. We never manage to get a pile-up to Asia, but we worked some stations out there. We had most fun with the antenna to NA, phone on Saturday and CW on Sunday. SA was workable but we did not find many stations. Where was Mexico in the contest? OZ1JTE created this video where OZ0J is working VK4ZD on phone. You can see the video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtPNfvcTPVE Thanks to everyone who worked us. I wonder how many who has logged us as HQ2T on CW or MQ2T / 9Q2T on phone. 73 Team 5Q2T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1UN Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 674,240 Great condx, not at the top yet like in 1999-2001 when band was open much longer and west coast was as easy as New England. Lost 2 hours saturday morning for a BY coax connector fault on the top of the tower near antenna dipole. Took time to lower down the antenna and repair it. At 10z I was back and had some 150-200qso less then other big guns. When USA opened amazing hours 180,239,241,175q/h. Band closed as soon as sun set. No left coast worked 1st day. 2nd day was quite good too with two 200q/h hours. Band closed same time as the 1st day but managed to work few stns from AZ, 1 CA, 1 WY, 1 NV,1 OR. Had only 5 XE provinces all came to CQ, didnt really have time for S&P on 2nd vfo with such high rates, I hope there were more XE guys active. Tnx for all qso and cu in the next one I love this Game 73 Dave 9A1UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A65BD Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 443,408 Will always be hard to compete from here with Sunday being a work day and very little mutual daylight with the USA Nevertheless some nice pileups and a few new countries on 10m for me. Happy Christmas 73 Fred ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA0AW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 301,700 Too much going on with the family and holidays but band was fun again! Highlight was having the E51 and 2 VE8's call me when I was CQing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4NC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 109,200 Got on a bit on Sunday afternoon. Good to see 10 meters back in play! Wishing everyone Happy and Safe holidays and all the best in 2012... 73, Will AA4NC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 790,134 Just like the old days.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6K Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 110,236 Working conditions: IC-756PII, 3el SteppIR. Comment: I noticed a pronounced skip zone this year. I had great difficulty in the area of NM, CO, WY, ID, WA, and BC. Closer and farther stations were loud but those in this zone were noise level at best. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6PW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,036,010 A lot of participation in this contest. Sunday commitments kept me away from the radio for some hours in the morning and afternoon. DX conditions seemed to be fair. Spotty to Europe and Asia runs were fairly slow. Missed both Wyoming/South Dakota, and worked 5 Mexico States. Elecraft K3 Alpha 89 Force 12 C31XR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA8IA Class: M/S LP Total Score = 132,720 I got spoiled by some of the great 10m prop we've had in the past two months or so. So I was a bit let down by the propagation here into eastern Ohio yesterday and early today. I'd classify most signals as "not strong" to "weak" through, with a few exceptions. On the few occasions where I CQd, I ended up asking for a lot of repeats. My filtering in the FT-950 was pretty funky and unless somebody was nearly zero-beat with me I had problems with copying them. Thanks to those who exercised patience and gave me the fills. To end on a much brighter note, I had 17 Qs logged last year versus this years' 336 Qs, and I certainly could have had a few hundred more had I spent the time on the radio. 10 meters is definitely back in play! Thanks for all of the Qs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB1OD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 73,000 The only thing keeping me from feeling annoyed that I don't have a better 10m antenna is that I only had a limited amount of time to play this weekend. Nice to hear 10m so alive this weekend. Picked up a few new DXCC-entities on 10m, and made a significant dent in the states I lack for 10m WAS. Wish I had time this afternoon to pick up the rest.... I'm coming up on my first anniversary of getting my ticket. If you had told me this time last year that I'd be having this much fun sitting at a computer and a radio, I would have questioned your sanity. My, how things change. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB3IC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 102,820 Rig: Kenwood TS-2000 Antenna: GAP Challenger DX Logger: WriteLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7R Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 431,364 Great contest though I hoped for more EU to the west coast this time. But there were some strong G stations and had a couple SK stations call toward the end. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0NF Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 768 First contest! Had fun and will have to try more contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6DD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,486 First time Contest experience for my 7 year old Son. I did the logging, he was calling stations. We only spent a little bit of time operating this time, but he really liked it and we will do it again. AC6DD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6VN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 116,412 Difficult to work Mexican multipliers. Glad to be able to work the world again on 10M. 73 de Harm, AC6VN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC8G Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 48,384 Out of town on Saturday. Unfortunately had amny interruptions on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: M/S LP Total Score = 86,080 AD1C low power (100W) + packet 37 sections, 43 DXCC Conditions didn't live up to expectations. Europe opening on both mornings was relatively short and not deep. But it was still good to see the band open again and all the activity. Too bad there aren't assisted low/high power categories. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4ES Class: M/S HP Total Score = 673,992 Thanks to Hank AA4HP for letting us use his station. Unfortunately, his Tentec Omni VI's did not cooperate, and caused loss of receive many times. The Alpha 9500 and stack of C31XR's plus the LP were great, and when the radio cooperated, the runs were great. It is always a pleasure to operate at AA4HP. K4MVO throws quite a spread of food and the company is a bonus. It was sad that our club lost W4ZW the week before. We will all miss Jon, both from his Casey Island home, and from his Colorado location. RIP, friend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4L Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 106,000 Ugh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 92,416 Band conditions good all the way through for the most part. Not as much DX as I would have liked to heard, but good signals for what was there. Thanks very much for Vietnam in the last 4 mins of the contest. 73 and Merry Christmas to one and all, Bob AD5VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8J Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 10,736 Got on for a few hours with a dipole hidden under a deck about 10' off the ground. Interesting to see what I could work. Didn't do too well in pileups but most heard my weak signal if I was the only one calling. Look for me in a M/S from V31 in this one next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1T Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 213,204 What a luxury to be able switch between two 10M antennas! I'll add a 3rd for next year. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE4O Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 24,168 Ten-Tec Eagle @ 85W to 40M horizontal loop up 50 feet. All S&P. N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AF6AV Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 81,700 operating mobile from stop Mt Soledad in LaJolla, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG4W Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 229,400 Used an FTDX-5000D with AL-1200 into a 3 element quad at 40 feet. Had alot of fun with the improved propagation this year. Saturday morning propagation seemed better than Sunday. The noise level was 2 S units higher on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AH6RR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 63,048 Talk about 10 being open man oh man was it. What a blast!!! Hope everyone had as much fun as me ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK7AZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 707,082 Congrats to Foster N3KCJ as being the main operator with over a 1000 q's!! The contest was a great training/coaching tool for some newer operators. Investing now with new operators means excellent return on investment for the bigger contests as these newer folks start to find their groove. In short, fun was has by all!! As it should be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL9A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 378,560 Good contest, but too close to the Xmas holiday season. Lots of family activities that conflicted with op time. Still, it is nice to have 10M alive and well. First ARRL 10M contest for me since 2005. When the solar cycle is at bottome, there is no point in trying to make the band work at high latitude. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4Z Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 844,920 Condx were spotty, somebody up there kept switching the lights on and off so it was not easy to maintain a run. Skip was constantly changing, so there would be a clutch of OK, YL & DL, a pause with an empty band, then next OH, SM, LA and then F, ON, PA & DL's, bless the DL's (((((. On the other hand there always seemed to be plenty of room to work, I never got bullied out of a slot. Not much of an opening to JA either day, second day 1 weak ZL no VK's and only 1 YB all weekend. HD2A & 3G3FZ window breaking signals cq'ing in my face and I didn't get as much as a ? I was happy to get 35 mlts from NA, not a lot but more than I was expecting with low power from here in the middle east If there has been one outstanding feature of 10Mtrs this contest season it has been the duration and strength of LP signals from SA over Asia. I have become used to zones 11 & 13 being among the first stns in the log but this time they were joined by zones 6/7/10/12 within the first couple of hours first day and those latter ones are among the hardest to work from here on the SP due to scarcity of numbers in those regions and intense competition from EU & NA. Same path, opposit direction the KH6's have been consistantly big signals from the south west, pity that there is little else to work from that area, just empty oceans. LP to the south east has not opened, if we can get SS numbers up that should give us another hour or so band opening time into early evening and we can look forward to some usa west coast stns at their sunrise, hopefully by next year??? Rig - TS570 - 100W. 3 Ele Yagi up 15 Mtrs. Logging with 'SD' Contesting Physchology. I concluded WWCW feeling that I had done all that I could. This time I knew that I could, and should, have done more. When I reflect upon the why? I find the reasons are many and they are, in my case, all in the mind. Ahead of the event I considered that (A) as we share only 2/3 hours of daylight with NA that limits openings only to the eastern seaboard with one or two W8/9 thrown in. (B) There are now almost 90 mlts available in NA and my expectations were about 20/25 so there is no way from here we can compete with western eu who have a couple of hours more daylight. (C) I do not do well into NA, there is a mountain range in that direction which kills low angle, add to that low power tx does not penetrate the eu wall so good. Mental decision made to just go along for the fun, even though it would be a full time effort, I decided to do a mixed mode for a first time. I didn't enjoy it, whereas with the cw, subject to propagation variations, there was some sort of flow I just could not get going on ssb and mlts were hard to find. I ended day 1 with 700 q's which I felt was a couple of hundred short of what I could have achieved on cw alone. Going into day two therefore I had a negative feeling rather than a 'can do' attitude, thought about just a cw only effort from there on but it really was too late to change. In the final event I did only one hour on ssb second day and never went back to that mode after 10.00 hrs local time. I see now that I should have made a number of s&p visits to ssb as I only had about 40 mlts on that mode so there must have been a number of easy mlts available if I'd had the patience, rather than wasting too much time chasing the piles of DE, DC and Carrib stns on cw with little success. Post contest I know that I should have realised that every contest is different, had a more positive approach and planned a strategy. From the claimed scores seen so far I could have had a competetive entry in this category. The secret for successful contesting is remembering our previous mistakes. With thanks to fellow contesters for the contacts, not just in this one but throughout the year. Have a happy, peaceful Christmas and enjoy good health throughout the coming year. 73 Brian C4Z / 5B4AIZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE1/K7CA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,625,888 Great propagation this year. Last year I had TEP to the Eastern US for 2 hours after the start of the contest at 9pm local and worked 250 stations. The next 2 days the propagation was mostly backscatter and I only managed another 500 Qs the whole contest. This year the propagation was so good to Europe that I was unprepared for the huge pileups or should I say mobs. I'm still not sure how to handle them but I think maybe moving to a frequency above normal may help thin the crowd. You might think that having a huge EU pileup would be great but try working a station with several other stations almost zero beat continuously calling on top of the one you are trying to work. However, it sure beats not having any pileup at all like last year. I wonder if working split would work for a contest. Saturday evening for a couple of hours I had what seemed a bit like the pulsed radar signal I used to hear on 40m when the band was open to Asia. I think it was propagated because the level faded from about S5 to about S1. Also, the direction was right out over the Pacific Ocean, about 100 meters from my antennas. Did anyone else hear this? On Saturday, I had worked all the US mults except AR and thought it would be easy to work on Sunday. I must have worked hundreds of W5's and kept hoping for AR but none came. Then, about 2 hours before the contest ended W5QP called in from AR. Then another AR called in shortly after that. A couple of ststions had echos so bad that I had to move the antenna away from them in order to copy. Murphy came 45 minutes before the contest ended with a power outage that lasted until after the contest ended. I was running at about 100/hr so if it would have happened earlier it could have been much worse. Maybe I should think about getting a backup generator but this is the first time commercial power has failed here during a contest, and I've operated about 20 in the last 6 years from Huasco. I built a 5 element yagi on a 27 ft boom for the contest which performed great and complimented my 3el Stepper yagi well. Both antennas are only 20 ft above the ground so I'm planning on getting at least one up to 60 ft for next year. I wonder if height matters much on 10m? Thanks for QSO's and hope to see you next weekend in the Stew Perry contest. 73, Al CE1/K7CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE1DY Class: M/S HP Total Score = 949,188 Great Contest !! glad to support in CW to my good friend Domingo - CE1DY in his first contest "alone" Great propagation on 10M all day long See you in the ARRL DX CW Contest Nick, XQ1KZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE2/VE7SV Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,407,456 There are no meters like 10 meters. New QTH at Renaca Beach, Chile with Elecraft K3 and 3 el SteppIR on top of my 20th floor apartment at approximately 250 feet above ground level and 600 feet above sea level proved to be an excellent combination. Muchias gracias to Scott K0MD who brought down parts to get my SteppIR operational just days before the contest. True ham spirit. The pile-ups to europe were crazy..many times I had to qsy and often ran with the attenuator on trying to copy anything from the mess calling....but what a rush. Working pals from the PNW from the Bluff (W7RM) days was fun and a big thrill to hear friends Rebecca and Koji (VA7BEC) crash the pile-up. My amigos CE3CT and CE3FZ (3G3FZ) did fantastic from their home qth's and we plan to operate some MS and M2 together from the much improved CE3CT station in the near future. Logs to LoTW, E QSL, and paper cards to Mike VE7WY. 73 Dale VE7SV etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE3CT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,158,488 Hi Everyone ¡¡ This is the first serious contest we made using the new callsign CE3CT and the results are excellents, nice propagation and the band from here was open over 18 hours per day. Thanks to all stations call me, special congrats to my friends 3G3FZ (Pedro CE3FZ) and CE2/VE7SV (Dale) for a greats scores from his QTH's... 73 and Merry Xmas and happy new years 2012 ¡ ¡ ¡ CE3CT Roberto ex ce4ct ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CR5A Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 624,864 Propagation not as expected, but even with low power, worked well west coast, some VK, ZL and far east. SFI gone down on a bad weekend. Hopefully next year we will be near solar maximun. See you on next contest. Best 73 Tony CT1FFU, CR5A www.dxpatrol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CR6K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,793,342 We didn't plan anything for this contest so we ended up in M/S. We almost break the EU Record, we were short by 130k points. SSB op: CT1CJJ, CR7ADN CW op: CT1ILT Setup was: TS590+AL1500 + 10 element tribander + 3 element Quad Unfortunately we cannot have 2 radios running the same band due to tower proximity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CW5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,805,128 Nice to see 10 mts open! We have a great time in "El Mangrullo" with the friends. Nice to have Marcelo CX2DK for the first time joining the Team. Thanks Fabiano PY3VK for travel from Brazil again, and the usual members of the Team: Leo CX3AL, Claudio CX4DX, Alan CX5TR (he needed to return home early Sunday) and Pancho CX7AF. Specially Thanks to my mother Sonnia CX4VA who had a hip surgery on Thursday before the contest but encouraged me to travel to the station to receive the friends and operate the contest anyway. And to Carolina and Nair for the oustanding support during the weekend! Hope all the best for you guys. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012! 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX5BW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,719,560 Rig IC 7000 Lineal Amp. 1Kw Ant. 7 el. monoband 30 mh Congratulations for all participants and my team. Merry Christmas and happy new year Dan CX9AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D4C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,733,292 That's amazing ! Broken the VP5K All time Score of 11 years ago, thanks' to new XE mult's and great condition ! We started slowly Saturday morning at our sunset, we opted to left all the first night of QRX, allowing us a long second night, and it pay a lot, 100 ja's long path during the dark hours until 0300z, it was very thrilling !! Our 4 antenna system beamed over 360 degrees has worked as a charm, two interlocked radios have done the job ! Everything was as expected, great sunshine days, no Murphy visit, a short friday / monday trip. Thank's to Giorgio I2VXJ and Donato IK2EGL, that accept to join for a MultiSingle event, they had only 10 days in advance to plan the participation, old friends with new blood ! Thank's for working us, we did our best to get out the noise all the lowest signal ! Happy new Year and Merry Xmas, see u next couple of months into the 160m contest ! 73 de Fabio I4UFH one of D4C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DA2C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 982,356 Hi @ all ! Not a full seriously effort. Had some technical problems at the station at the begining of the contest. So we took it easy and made a just for fun contest out of it. Had much fun even the condx could have been better. Especialy west coast US was difficult to get, but sure nice to see 10m band back alive and well. No DX-Cluster / Skimmer avaibel @ the station and sure that is reflected in the mult count. But all in all we had some fun in this one and that�'s what counts the most :-) Many thanks to all for the Qs and we hope to meet you soon again. Merry christmas and a good new year 2012 de DA2C crew Uli,DL8OBQ & Heiko, DK3DM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 98,532 FTdx5000, ACOM 2000A, 2*5el (USA), 6el (AS) Fun! Wish I could have spent more time on the radio this weekend. 73 Fabian DJ1YFK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK1IZ Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 59,780 IC-756, 5Wtts, Magloop 0.9m indoor, ETM-8, UCX-Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK6XZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,020,096 Hello! Thank you all to appear on 10. A nice experience and fun. Enjoyed both days some 10 hours in the chair. Happened to come first morning earlier to our club station, so could work some "early birds" from Balkans. It was nice to say "hello" to several friends there, 2-3 hours before the daylight. A71EM was the first DX in the log. I was amazed; then took nap for an hour, awaiting for real propagation. It was actually a semi-serious effort, with the only goal to experience the capabilities of the DL0MB, KT34@37m + OB16-3@18m (8L), on this mainly "closed band". In short: I liked the band when working mass of UA/UR and W/VE loud stations. To work closer EU stations was sometimes hard, even horrible, job: The "echo" around noon was annoying. Felt the band opening to NA something better on Sunday. In accordance to IonoProbe the effective SFI (SA/SO) was 140/134, Ap 6/5. Even the indicators were more or less the same in CQ WW CW weekend, the "DL feeling" was certainly not even a "slight shadow" of what I learned about 10m from CR3L. Spent a lot of time in S&P mode - was may be a mistake. Supposingly using FT1kMP (2RX) instead of TS450 would have been better for maximazing the score, but I was too lazy to bring it from home. At the end of the day - all is fine. Great to see the US M/S score of K1LZ, as well that of 4O3A & E7DX in EU. DR1A & DR1D (PY2SEX) did it good from Germany. Sure some more will come... Congratulations! 73 Suad, DK6XZ/E77XZ Some statistics: Contest : ARRL 10 Meter Contest Callsign : DK6XZ Mode : MIXED Category : Single Operator (SO) Station : DL0MB Band(s) : Single band (SB) 10 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : DX Locator : JN48IV Operating time : 21h40 MODE QSO DUP DXC MLTS POINTS AVG --------------------------------------- CW 674 8 78 45 2696 4.00 SSB 676 2 83 46 1352 2.00 --------------------------------------- TOTAL 1350 10 161 91 4048 3.00 ======================================= TOTAL SCORE : 1 020 096 Doppel-QSOs nicht gewertet und ohne Einfluss auf Schnitt Operators : E77XZ Soapbox : Powered by Win-Test 4.6.0 http://www.win-test.com DK6XZ Nach Band - Nach Betriebsart QSOs (ohne Dupes) - Nach Zeit | Hr | 10 | 10 | Total | | | CW | SSB | | --------------------------------------- | 00 | | | | | 01 | | | | | 02 | | | | | 03 | | | | | 04 | 10 | | 10 | | 05 | 5 | | 5 | | 06 | 5 | | 5 | | 07 | 46 | | 46 | | 08 | 31 | 22 | 53 | | 09 | | 48 | 48 | | 10 | 17 | 67 | 84 | | 11 | 44 | | 44 | | 12 | 90 | | 90 | | 13 | 75 | | 75 | | 14 | 70 | 5 | 75 | | 15 | | 138 | 138 | | 16 | 5 | 26 | 31 | | 17 | | | | | 18 | | | | | 19 | | | | | 20 | | | | | 21 | | | | | 22 | | | | | 23 | | | | | 00 | | | | | 01 | | | | | 02 | | | | | 03 | | | | | 04 | | | | | 05 | | | | | 06 | | | | | 07 | 30 | | 30 | | 08 | 53 | | 53 | | 09 | 39 | | 39 | | 10 | 9 | 27 | 36 | | 11 | | 70 | 70 | | 12 | | 55 | 55 | | 13 | | 93 | 93 | | 14 | | 119 | 119 | | 15 | 88 | 6 | 94 | | 16 | 54 | | 54 | | 17 | 3 | | 3 | | 18 | | | | | 19 | | | | | 20 | | | | | 21 | | | | | 22 | | | | | 23 | | | | --------------------------------------- | | 674 | 676 | 1350 | Powered by Win-Test 4.6.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2MWB Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 406,720 MODE QSO DUP DXC MLTS POINTS AVG --------------------------------------- CW 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 SSB 1240 2 108 56 2480 2.00 --------------------------------------- TOTAL 1240 2 108 56 2480 2.00 ======================================= TOTAL SCORE : 406 720 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4AAE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 8,316 Just a few QSO's to check condx and to have fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL6RAI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 893,048 Had hoped for slightly better runs condx after fantastic condx in CQWW. JAs were there only for about 90 minutes while the opening to the west only went as far as AZ/CO/MT/SK. CA and WA were audible here, but very weak and they could not copy me. However, one year ago, who believed that 10 meters would open like that? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL7BY Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 80,240 I had only a little bit time for contesting. Condx were not so good as during the WWDX CW. The band closed short after 16 UTC and only the Estcoast was really good to work. Thanks for the QSOs. TRX: FT920 ANT: A4S by Cushcraft @ 33 ft/10m and Windom @39 ft/12m 73s es best DX Ben DL7BY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL8ZAW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 389,160 OK, this was fun. 10m was open from 06:30 to 16:30 - enough time left for family (thats my opinion - my wife thinks different). Propagation was not as good as the weeks before, but ok for me. There are a lot of things to improve for the next contests: I need better antennas; I have to do something against RFI-problems within our telephone line; I should have a QSK option to the amplifier; I have to learn how to use the contest program; I have to get rid of the city noise at S5 levels during the day; ... Thanks to everybody who had a QSO with me. See you next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,640,436 A very relaxed fun operation with our local crew. No big ambitions. DJ7EO and DL6FBL operated in the mornings, DJ7EG and DL9ECA around noon, DJ6ET worked most parts of the afternoon, and everybody took a seat at the second operating position when available. Saturday night, when the band had closed, we went to a local restaurant for an XMAS dinner, nice talking and a couple of drinks. 2011 was very successful for the DR1A team. We are claiming new EU continent records for CQWPX SSB, CQWW SSB, and CQWW CW. We will now merge all 2010 and 2011 logs, and prepare for the next Auto-QSL batch soon. LotW has all QSOs up to September, and the two CQWW and ARRL10 will be uploaded before XMAS. We have completed our new system of Phased Beverages, and started experimenting with dedicated RX antenna systems for the high bands, too. In the first step we used L/4 verticals for 40/20/15/10m at the end of some loooooong 1/2" CellFlex coax runs that we buried earlier this year (a total of 4000 meters...). Some low-grade hotfixes to our interim RX switching system enabled us to listen on the same band, WHILE we are transmitting! It works acceptable up to just a few kHz away from our own TX signal. This is very helpful to dig out and work multipliers from the second operating position with only very small impact from/to the running station. It helped a big deal that we are now claiming the highest multiplier number ever worked from any station in the CQWW CW contest history! The antenna plans for 2012 include a 3-ele 80m Yagi @55m, a second 3-ele 40m Yagi @30m, a third 5/5 Stack for 10m, and a third antenna system (single 5-ele) for 20m and 15m fixed to SA/AF. We are also working on a central, modular RX filtering/amplifying/levelling/DSP/distribution system called "The Box". All available antennas shall be connected to that box, and any possible combination of RX signals shall be made available to any operating position by software control. If you feel that you can contribute to this project by RF/hardware/software design, please get in touch with us. We are open - also when you just want to share your own experience or want to participate in our development results! Irina (DL8DYL), Thorsten (DJ6ET), Aurelio (PC5A), and others were working hard to bring up our new CMS based website at http://www.dr1a.com , which will make it easier to keep the news and pictures flowing. We would love to see and read your comments in our guestbook :-) See you all again in the contests next year! 73 Ben DL6FBL for the team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,475,056 I could say that was just "a nice contest", but was AWESOME!!!!! The experience to do an ARRL 10m from Europe is completely different from South America. After I have won last year on Low Power category and complain about propagation, the guys in South America have no idea what happens here... at least in Köln, Germany. Propagation on 10m works only between 6:00 to 17:00 UTC and nothing else, I mean, after or earlier, is just 5 QSO/Hour. The European QRM is huge, not just for the Amateur radio in the contest but for another issues like We have in Brazil as well. (CB user, Taxi Drivers and etc...). It was pretty good talk to some friends in Brazil during the contest like PY2FDX, PY2EX on SSB and PY2ZEA, PY4WAS on CW. There are more that I can't remember now. After spent so good times in contest even being shorter than I was expecting, I loved it!! I wanna thanks to Robert once again to allow me participate in the contest with him as well as let me own the station on CW on second day. hihihihi.... Also thanks to his wife for wonderful meals and Frank DL4KQ to support us all the time!!! And as I always say... Fun and friendship is more important than everything else, doesn't matter if you are in South America or Europe! Actually I'm feeling at home here! :D See you all at next contest, if Robert allow me. hihihihihi.... Thanks for read my bible again! 73 DL/PY2SEX py2sex@py2sex.com http://www.py2sex.com http://www.facebook.com/py2sex twitter: @py2sex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E21EIC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 298,080 Rig: TS-850S Pwr: 80Watts. Ant: C-4 @25mH. 73, Champ, E21EIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E70LT Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 31,742 FT-817 + GP vertical 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E7DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,097,046 Friday afternoon i replaced rotator cable on our new 10m stack and repaired one broken conector on fasing line. At least that was fixed on the time. Because of some family duties, we, E70R, E70T and me arived friday evening very late to QTH, ready to setup the station. We find out that VSWR on one 10m stack is to high.... and contest started allmost like always @ E7DX.....more or less on the tower :) Satrday around 01:00 UTC i was taking 10m stackmatch down from the tower to repair it! After fixing the problem we were ready to run prototype of our new setup. We did some fine tuning during the satrday afternoon and evening when E76C arived and finished last parts....unfortunatly we were to lazy to setup any kind of inband RX antenna. Even we had 2nd radio and 3 antenna systems ready we were not able to RX-ing when other station was TX-ing and vice versa! Contest started pretty slowly, good dx condx (low participation from AS) but very poor opening to EUs with lots of echo and many many weak signals. There were allmost no condx to west coast, band closed both days to early. We worked only 2xCA 2xOR 1xNV and few AZ and CO. But worked HI satrday on LP! As well not to many XE in log. Sonday afternoon much better condx to NA and somehow we stayed in huge SSB pile up to long! Maybe we could made more points on CW ?! CW/SSB ratio is not the best! Working EU mults was very hard and tricky. We lost to much time trying to maximize mults nummber. Best hour 235/h sonday afternoon to NA! MODE QSO DUP DXC MLTS POINTS AVG --------------------------------------- CW 957 8 111 53 3828 4.00 SSB 1274 12 110 55 2546 2.00 --------------------------------------- TOTAL 2231 20 221 108 6374 2.86 ======================================= TOTAL SCORE : 2 097 046 | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC | ------------------------------------------------------- | 32.0% | 46.1% | 6.0% | 1.4% | 12.2% | 2.4% | ------------------------------------------------------- Setup FT-1000MP Mark V + FT-2000D + AMP 2 x 6 el yagi @ 24m/16m 2 x 5 el yagi @ 21m/12m 5 el yagi @ 18m Congrats to Ranko and our usual team mate Rade E74IW for nice score from Rankos station (4O3A) and thanks for competition! I hope next time we will be more lucky with short skip condx to EU and with longer openings to NA, otherweise no chance to stay competitive! Thanks for QSOs and CU in TBDC and 9A CW! 73s de E77DX-Braco for E7DX team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 176,400 SO CW & RBN cluster ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3JW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 389,188 Too much noise in the band, too many Christmas lights on my area. We hear in the next contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 354,224 I can't be on the air some of the best saturday hours by family meeting. Anyway I enjoyed this contest. The conditions here were very good for East EU and East NA, and poor to Central EU: I miss easy mults like ON, LX, HB. Nice to work all continental states except WA and WY. Thanks for the QSO. 73 de Jose FT1000MP MarkV Acom 2000A Mosley Pro67B @ 20m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5GX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 64,800 Rig : ICOM 765 PWR.80 watts Antennas : HF9V BUTTERNUT VERTICAL ANTENNA Hello boys congratulation to all, with my humble installation i made qso�'s with many American states work with the sunrise. I am very happy for taking part and it to pass to the big thing in one of the bands very nice for my, thanks to all those who did the QSO with me, to that they it tried and we could not do the QSO and I expect to listen to us the neXt year in better conditions and the nice propagation. 73�'s from Spain EA5GX Sergio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EC7ZK Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 260,848 A truly amazing contest. The very short openings NA from this part of Europe. Waiting to see the new world record which will surely have emerged. See you the next round... EC7ZK / Tony ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ED1R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,144,318 Another Contest in the short life of ED1R Contest Station. We expected better propagation, opened late and closed early. Very difficult work easy EU Mults (HB9, ON, PA) and North AF Mults (CN, 3V, EA9, CT3). The Run had moments allowed to run, but suddenly stopped and return several minutes later. At the station, everything worked very well, this contest has been very comfortable to work (only 25.3 hours of operation), much free time. Good participation in EA, is a pleasure to listen to colleagues, congratulations to all for the good results. The Competition with big European stations has been very, very FUNNY, thank you all for the nice competition, in a single band is very difficult to make a big difference !!! Visited us EA1AR, EA1ASC and EC1KD (Thanks guys). 2 x FT1000MP-MKV + QRO 5 elm ROTATIVE @ 12m 5 elm FIXED NA @ 19m 1 x Vertical with 2 Radial levels (SWL) Many DX & Contest, See you in the next Test. 73 de ED1R ARRL 10M 2011 Team Ops. EC1KR + EC4DX + EA4SV + DH1TW www.ed1r.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ED5T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,117,452 Although we had decided at the beginning of the year that we would participate in this one, by the time last Monday came around we had nothing prepared. After a few rounds of emails it turned out that as usual, this is a bad weekend for contesting since everyone has other commitments, but since this is daytime only and one radio, we could work out an op rota to be on while the band was open. However in spite of everything, in the end almost all of us managed a bit of chair time. Propagation was a bit odd most of the weekend from here, long into the east in the early morning and most folks out there still not pointing their antennas this way. As the day wore on we started working northern EU with strong signals but the mid EU who normally make up the bulk of our log were watery and fluttery, often only workable on the beam pointing to AF. Big, big signals from Ukraine and some of Russia but not an awful lot else apart from Asian multipliers coming in with a lot of QSB. No JA runs but a surprising amount of VKs on the short path. At midday the US started coming in as expected but again, selective, not open much to the west. Sunday morning was better than Saturday, in the afternoon more or less the same. The constant factor all weekend was a high noise level to most directions which I'm sure caused us to lose a number of QSOs. Station wise we had one visit from Murphy on Friday night. Everything was working A-OK, the AL1200 all tuned and ready to roll, but when I went to switch it off, we were plunged into darkness. After resetting everything we switched back on but after 5 seconds, it tripped again. We were not in the mood to do any amp work and since the Acom 1000 was sitting in a box in the corner, we just switched them over and problem solved, at least for the contest. Otherwise everything worked fine, including our gprs internet connection. Highlights of the contest included working Paraguay in their middle of the night, and being called by T88NU, amongst others. If we had had a plan, we’d have done things differently to optimize points, but since the plan was to have fun, that’s exactly what we did. Great to see how Elias EB5KT is turning into a real contest machine on phone, and how EA5YI and EA5GIE were rackin’ em up on CW. Thanks to everyone for the Qs and C U in….? 73 de Duncan EA5ON on behalf of the ED5T team. Rig: Yaesu FT1000MP Amp: Acom 1000 Ant: 2 x OB11-3 @ 15 and 22m ED5T runs N1MM software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EF5Y Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,173,480 FT-1000mp/2 vfo + OM Power + OB My first ARRL single band contest. Unfortunately no DE and AK from USA. Thanks to EA5RS for the opportunity to use his station. 73! Yuri ea5gtq/ew2cr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI4CF Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 308,052 All worked fine. Ic7800 to Seppir DB36. Duties here allowed me only 14 hours! A pity as 10m was really humming here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,937,792 Although propagation wasn't as good as the preceding month or so, with dx paths pretty much relying on daylight to work, it's still fabulous to hear 10M in such great shape. Amazing multiple echos on signals (including our own!) made cw copy difficult at times, especially past local noon. It was fascinating to find it easier to work some Europeans via long path :) Thanks to everyone that called and also to Dan, EI3JZ, for traveling down and to Dave, EI4BZ, for his potent cw skills. Wishing all a very merry Christmas and some great dx in 2012! 73, Mark EI3KD@EI7M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EU1AZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 508,416 CU RAEM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4FFZ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 167,526 73' TKS for the QSO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4FLQ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 349,920 Tnx to all for very good contest. Thank you F1TUD & F8AOF, for the preparation of the station. Thank at F2BF for the antenna. See you next. 73's Manu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5RD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 38,252 80 Watts and a multiband center-fed antenna is not the better set-up for a contest on 10m. Fortunately, with a propagation in great shape, I was able to do 176 contacts. Thanks to all who worked me. See you again in 2012. F5RD Bernard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8AAN Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 313,584 Nice contest Antenna / HY-gain 105 BA 5 element mono TX /FT 1000 MP Pwr / ACOM 1000 Soft/ Wintest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 75,628 FT1KMP markV field + MA5B. First participation.very good propa but very busy this week end. not active in the mornig for JA VJ ZL openning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0HVQ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 427,278 Icom 7400 - Acom 1k amp - 300W - 4 ele monoband yagi Great to hear 10m back in shape, condx not quite as good as they have been for CQWW but the band was still full of signals. 73 Darrell G0HVQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,086,624 Great to see 10m waking up again after it has been asleep for so many years. G3TXF operated full time CW-only on both days. On Saturday the band opened about an hour earlier than on the Sunday, however on Sunday 10m stayed open to the USA for nearly two hours longer than on Saturday. The first QSO (OL7M) on Saturday was at 0625z and on Sunday it was 5B/RN3QO at 0727z. The last USA station on Saturday was N2IC (NM) at 1803z. Whereas N7AT (AZ) at 1951z was the final USA station worked on the Sunday. The very last station audible on the band after 20z on the Sunday was PJ2T whom I had not worked, but who gracefully sank into the noise as 10m fully closed by about 2015z on the Sunday. Just as with CQWW CW two weeks earlier, there were times when "everything nearby had massive multple echos", which made copying even loud stations quite difficult. And also just like in CQWW CW there was no substantial opening to JA from G, although there was one massive JA (JH3AIU) on the long path, who despite being very loud was difficult to copy because of multiple echos on his signal. Several other Asian stations (BA7NO, VR2ZQZ/p etc) were also coming through on the long-path (South-West from G). The antenna was a single 4-el yagi at 80ft (which had been put up for the CQWW CW Contest two weeks earlier, but which was taken down after this ARRL 10m Contest). It was great to get all the 48 mainland States (with ND being the last one to make it into the log), however nothing heard from either KL7 or KH6. Also nothing heard from VO1, VO2, VY1, VY0 or VE8 in Canada. The Mexican Provincial Multiplier listing on my log remained virtually empty, with only three XE QSOs/provinces worked. Ten metres is certainly getting back to its old form again. But we just need a few more sun-spots so we can get those huge 10m DX openings (eg JA and USA/West Coast) of previous sun-spot maxima. Operated on CW-only for nearly 25 hours in the ARRL 10m Contest and enjoyed every minute of it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3Y Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 44,822 Just found a few hours for a very casual part time entry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 282,948 Hoorah for some propagation at last. The last decent year for this event in the UK was 2002. It was possible to make good QSOs all over the place from a small station. Then the sun went to sleep and my QSO totals from 2003-10 were 94, 32, 6, 31, 15, 24, 39 and 45. So this year's total is more than the combined total of 2002 to 2010. What a difference a year makes! First signals appeared on Saturday around 0545, with the first local QSO at 0622 and the first non-UK QSO at 0716. Thee band stayed active until 1700 after which it began to fade and everything was gone by 1800. On Sunday the band arose slightly later with the first local QSO at 0653 and the non-UK QSO arriving at 0710. However the band stayed open longer with the last QSO around 1900 and final NA/SA signals disappearing around 1930. Station was the IC756 ProIII, with two sloping wire dipoles, one oriented NE (centre at 5m) and one NW (centre at 7m). Decided to enter mixed mode to get a balance of rate and mults. Breaking SSB pile-ups is generally more of a challenge these days so the greater part of the time was spent on CW. The statistics are: CW- Qs 405, Mults 89 SSB - Qs 161, mults 57 Totals - Qs 566, mults 146. A raw score of 282, 948. All in all a very rewarding weekend and although there were many that "got away" it is a pleasure to finally have some results on 28 after rather too long a barren spell. Thanks to all for the great QSOs. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM3W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 664,832 We decided to enter the "Mr & Mrs" section, with Ian GM3SEK mostly on CW and Nadine MM0WNW on SSB, and using the Wigtownshire ARC callsign GM3W. Unfortunately we also had an invitation for Saturday afternoon that couldn't be refused, so we lost one precious spell of US prime-time. We ended with 1205 QSOs, 196 multipliers and lots of valuable experience for us both. Obviously we'd have done much better if we hadn't missed Saturday afternoon, but both of us thoroughly enjoyed the contest - the "Mr / Mrs, CW / SSB" format suits us very well, and we're already making plans for next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM5X Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 761,076 Having spent CQWWCW on 10m I thought SSB only in this one. I spent a bit of time the previous weekend in the snow taking down my C3E and replacing it with an old 4el monobander which had been sitting in a corner of the field for about 10 years gathering green slime and corrosion - needed a lot of TLC! All was up and ready by last Sunday evening, all had to be taken down and tilted over on Wednesday evening, in readiness for the forecast storm. At least on this occasion I was able to be around to do this job, in sub-zero temperatures, solid ice on everything and a bright spotlamp! Storm duly arrived. Horrible. The 10m antennas were fine, but my 80m vertical and 40m 4-square are completely destroyed. I seem to spend more time repairing damaged antennas than operating these days....... The survival of the antennas for the contest was tempered by the loss of mains power at 2200 on Thursday. Power was restored at 1530 Friday (phew!) ........but went off again at 1900 Friday evening (####!) Power was not restored until after 1100 on Saturday morning, while I was out getting more fuel for the generator to keep our water and heating operating. First QSO 1140. Patchy EU and a few HS but I was really annoyed about the big loss of prime time to the East. There was good support from NA in the afternoon although the band did not 'peak' with me until the 1600 hour with 230 QSOs. Like others, I also noticed the multipath echoes on my signal and some others close in either side of 1200. The NA opening was also patchy - at the beginning I could only work NC and FL but it did extend, although the West coast was all but absent. I managed maybe 4 in CA and single QSOs to WY and OR. No VE west of Winnipeg. Band took a dive about 1730, scratched a few S&P - 1144 QSOs I was on the band early, determined to make up for lost time but it did not really feel very good - but I had nothing to compare. I managed about 30 in the 0700 hour with some mults and kept searching until 0818 when I finally gave in and called CQ - 9M6YBG was the reward! A few VKs and some African stations mixed with mostly EU. Heard DLs working JA but not a whisper here. I thought after about 1000 the band got worse - there was no rate and QSB was deep. I was surprised how few Russian stations were on, given the numbers out in CQWWCW - maybe they were down the bottom of the band. Only one VU - I worked many the fortnight before. I did not pick up as much on Sunday morning as I had hoped. Strong echoes again around mid-day and around 1300 beaming SW (5el at 60ft) my one and only JA - JA6WIF - was strong on LP. This path also produced BX5AA, VR2, a BH7 and several YBs. The opening to NA was poorer than Saturday - I worked very few Midwestern stations, a couple of W6s, one guy in WA and VE6UK. The band took a dive even earlier and I was searching about from 1700 for about an hour - this produced a few mults but a lot of Central and South American stations had big NA pile ups which I could not crack. 5el monobander 60ft, 4el monobander at 40ft ICOM plus AL1500, Wintest 4.8.0 Keith GM4YXI / GM5X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW7X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 595,140 GW7X - Multi Single (at GW4BLE) ------------------------------- With my main antennas off the tower for maintenance, and the possible re-occurrence of PLA QRM ever present (coincidence or not, it did rear its ugly head again over the weekend), any entry in this year’s contest was going to be low key. Thanks to Ian G3WVG, who kindly offered loan of the beam used at MW5A in CQWW-CW, and with agreement of the Contest Cambria team, I thought it would be a good idea to air GW7X and invite some aspiring local contesters around for some experience. As it worked out, only Andy MW0MWZ was able to make it and then for just Saturday afternoon �" a sore throat (too much shouting?) and flu put paid to any operation on Sunday thus leaving a void of some three hours+ on the second day with no-one in the chair... So how did it work out? Well, ‘veteran contester’ (who wrote that?) BLE kicked off just before 7.00am on SSB with G4FKA from the Bristol team first in the log (cheers Geoff), followed soon by Steve G0AEV. There after a selection of both CW mults and SSB runs with propagation similar to that reported by others. I probably spent more time searching for mults with a consequent drop in ‘rate’, but as this wasn’t a serious effort it wasn’t a problem. It didn’t take long however for my neighbour to switch on his home plug adaptor, and despite the best efforts of my WiMo QRM-Eliminator working weaker stations became increasingly difficult. Four hours in, Andy MW0MWZ took over and after mopping up some stations to the East turned the beam out West in anticipation of experiencing some rate to the US. AD1DX was first in the bag at 1145 but it took an hour or two for any real rate to materialise. In the meanwhile yours truly retired to the pub for grub and a pint; although in remote contact via mobile phone should disaster strike (!). Andy enjoyed his stint in the chair, and handled the pile-ups admirably. We had the cluster running but any movement off a run frequency to grab a mult (unless they were loud) meant loss of ‘sync’ on the WiMo. By around 1700 the rate had thinned somewhat so we left the rig for a while to discuss and review progress. I went back to the rig about forty minutes later and grabbed one or two CW mults before calling it a day at 1800. Sunday was similar to day one, the exception being there was no second op! (Andy phoned in ‘sick’ around 11.30), which consequently meant a break in transmission from around midday ‘til gone 1500 when GW7X fell silent :-( However, Sunday did produce one of the most interesting contacts propagation wise when CA3CSOC (Chile) called in at 1028 and was worked long-path. It took a while to confirm his call, would appear to be a novice licence, he said he was running low power and (I think) a dipole. With the first US station in the log some 45 minutes earlier than Saturday the feeling was the band might be in better shape than day one, but it didn’t quite work out that way. The rate was never really exceptional, although I was ever conscious of the ‘second level’ callers often obliterated by the PLA noise. However, the band was still producing signals up to 1930 with John, K1AR, last station worked. Had it been a serious entry I would have stayed later, but with 1,400-ish contacts in the log decided it was time to pull the switch. So, despite the interference problems, we had fun, and Andy benefited from the experience. Writelog shows we had 107 CW Qs, 36 countries and 19 ‘sections’; 1,312 SSB Qs, 77 countries and 63 ‘sections' for a claimed score around 595K. If you worked us, audio playback and log search (plus a Youtube video (!) is available here (it's a shortened 'tiny URL') : http://goo.gl/Y1tOU 73, Steve GW4BLE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA4XH Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 199,136 I have N1MM logging program but first time only in this contest I could use N1MM and CAT of FT2000 together. That's great and very convenient. Next time I will be in assisted category to be able enjoy whole preferences of Telnet as well. Thanks for this great program! Someone told QRM is our friend! Only on sunday 13 to 14 UTC got a pile-up from USA. Nice signals from SA and Japan over the long path. I used 5 el 105BA Yagi with broken first director and reflector Hi! Thanks All for QSO's! 73's Charlie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9ARF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 189,720 TS-870 ( 100 Watts ) Antenna Force 12 C-4s 73's Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8C Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 322,696 Tcvr: IC735 60 Watts output Antenna: HyGain EX14 40m high Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3TEJ Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 812,844 Tnxs God for this one, Still recovering from a cervical disc problem and just running a small Yaesu FT450 AND COUPLES OF 4 elements homebrew antennas. Really amazed me how good is this little marvel. Antennas and radio played 100 percent !! Awesome rig!!. Endless pile up since the contest start; My 11 meter 5/8 vertical at 30 feet high logged more than 1,000 qso's (NA and SA), super and great for a basic antenna. Priors Weeks before contest been working more than 200 Ja's daily but nil on this contest. The best contest hour were 220 QSO's rate Continental QSO's 10M CW 10M PHO Total % SA 0 155 155 5.1 NA 0 2300 2300 75.8 EU 0 558 558 18.4 AS 0 9 9 0.3 AF 0 5 5 0.2 OC 0 6 6 0.2 Hope to CU in next pile up Tnxs God for this one and deep thanks to all of you ... 73's Ted, HI3TEJ Rig: YAESY FT450 ANTENNAS Steppir 4L and 2 4 L homebrew 5/8 L vertical for NA and SA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK1NA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,424,720 NICE TO SHARE THE WEKEND WITH FRIENDS.. A LOT OF FUN... GOOD CONTEST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8FBU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 77,256 set up yeasu ft 920 100 w ant dip see you next one, best regards .Marry crhistmas and happy new year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: II9P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,666,338 Some problems with an amplifier made QRX for some hours to the multiplier station. Rejection between RUN and MULT station was abt 50 dB with horizontal polarization in the run station and a vertical about 150 meters far from the main antennas. Some fuses were blown in the RX protection circuit. The K3 did a very good job in the run station. Propagation was good but it in not the best on 10 meters yet. Worked only few W6 in direct path with very low signals in late afternoon then some good multipliers from USA west coast, rocky mountains, beaming to South America (we have a good panorama to the sea in that direction) with very weak but stable signals. Comments wanted on our signal as the TX antenna height was studied and varied during the contest for best results. In reverse beacon network we see that our signal is not so strong as other europeans stations (ie. IO5O) but maybe propagation was longer in out southern QTH. Next year we will try to beat the italian IR4T record. Tnx to everybody for the QSO. QSL will be ok via IT9CHU or LotW. 73 de Fabio, IT9GSF (also IG9A, IT9A Arrl 10 mts record SOSSB for Italy since 1991, II9T, IU9T, and now II9P). An other IT9 contest station was born! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK7JWY Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 801,136 A lot of fun on 10m, after many years without condx. Two homemade OWA 6 elements antennas , one fixed (only 6m above the roof) and one rotating (11m above the roof), used in stack when beaming USA. One homemade J-pole antenna for monitoring the band with the VFO-B. Amplifier: a very seasoned TL922. Hoping the solar cycle will continue growing the nex year, maybe the setup will be better ;-) Thanks to everyone and CUL 73 de IK7JWY Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ1GE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,377,194 Our first time ! Thanks to everybody to be on the band ! IQ1GE crew. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4C Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 296,000 IC 781 + pa + 3 el quad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9MUO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 378,120 Icom Pro3 - Acom 1000 - ant. 3 el. yagi triband - Software QARTest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3TMV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 954,096 Hello Guys tnx for many qsos great number of operator in my shack ,good test for my antenna system propagation not so good with many problems in cw with many echos ,and not possible copy many station in europe ,the skip is very long with my antenna system ,next year ,have new antenna for possible qsos . Best 73s and Merry Christmas and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 de Flavio iv3tmv-io3p ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IW1QN Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 149,864 First partecipation in this Contest. I still verifiy the Log. Good and Strange propagation. Funny Contest. CU in ARRL RTTY RU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ4AMS Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 94,760 ANT 1 : Yagi 5el 10m boom @ 15mh ANT 2 : 5/8 vertical Power : 70w NO CLUSTER USED Contest location @ 1100m asl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA1XMS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 245,616 I've enjoyed 10m openings again. I thought the open was not so wide, especially right after 00Z. So I was later comer. The start was aftenoon here 05Z to EU. The rate was not too bad. Rather good. I regret to be late. The good point of ARRL 10m is that - Can QSO any station, and giving the same point - DXCC entity is multiplier - ARRL section is also multiplier What the ham radio contest is, when takling to totally-unrelated-to-radio person, I may explain it is kind of festival. Many people get together and have events, talks, having wild time, isn't it ? The ARRL 10m is 'ARRL DX + CQ WW + Domestic'. Most fantastic contest among others. We need Solar activity though, and this year was it. Thanks for the station picking my weak signal up especially LP opening to EU, and thanks again who responded to my CQ. My multiplier was: Type Count Note DXCC 52 USA 42 Missing ME,RI,VT DC,DE SC,WY,WV KL7 1 KH6 1 VE 5 SK ON BC MB AB XE 1 DXCC breakdown AF 0 NA 0 EU 27 OC 8 SA 3 AS 14 -- 52 Rig: TS-590 100W (No good roofing filter on 10m) Ant: TriBand 4EL (Mini Multi 4SDX) @120' Logger: N1MM Morse: Winkey USB (K1EL) Breakdown by Continents and hours 2011-12-10 28 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 21 22 23 --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+ AS 15 2 3 1 21 EU 20 41 26 2 2 3 94 pp JA 3 7 2 4 2 1 2 21 NA 3 29 57 89 OC 1 4 1 1 1 1 9 SA 1 2 4 1 8 --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+ sub 38 43 36 5 11 5 2 2 2 5 34 59 242 accm 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 7 2 3 8 0 2 4 9 3 2 2011-12-11 28 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 21 22 23 --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+ AS 1 3 13 6 3 1 27 48 EU 26 21 49 2 4 1 103 197 JA 2 1 3 4 2 12 33 NA 55 13 3 72 61 204 293 OC 3 1 1 1 6 15 SA 2 1 2 3 8 16 --+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+ sub 58 22 40 30 53 6 2 6 2 5 75 61 360 602 accm 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 0 2 2 2 2 6 9 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 4 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 1 3 9 1 1 1 6 1 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA1YPA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 678,144 It was the condition which is not good. The result was not able to be satisfied although the contest was pleasant. Let's meet again in you and a contest. de JA1YPA/JA1PEJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA5FBZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 657,744 My computer was troubled by logging program. But I thank you for all stations who called me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA6WFM Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 615,276 IC-756PRO3 100w 20mh 6ele yagi N1MM I enjoyed the last contest this year from JA next will be QRV /HR2 Hiro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JF1SQC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 898,464 The score is temporary as XE mult's are not counted. Oops, I forgot to set new 10m DAT file. The path to East NA (especially W1's) from JA was stiff tough, but I enjoyed Pile-up for a moment and amazingly I could get all states but VT ! Thanks to all calling me. TS950SDX+Commander HF2500, only 5el Yagi @ 50' on the hill top 73 & Marry Xmas Sei JF1SQC / KH0DQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JG1RSL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 546,414 First, let me thank Kinoshita-sama JA1AHS/JA8CCL for letting me borrow his excellent station. Kinoshita was a great host. I was unable to start the contest until almost 12 hours after it began. Here, the contest begins at 9am on a Saturday, so you can imagine that missing those precious several hours of daylight and the Saturday opening to Europe had a big impact on my score. Ten was in great shape. I was amazed at the Long Path openings to Europe. Japan to Europe the long way 'round is a very long path indeed, 30,000km or more, and a few signals fron Europe were amazingly loud. Openings to the Americas were also very good. As usual, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, at Japan's antipode, were almost always audible if the band was open in any direction. Some of the runs to Canada and the US were very good, with 206/hour for the last 90 minutes of the contest. Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP MkV + Yaesu VL-1000 amp Antenna: 7el Yagi up 25m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JH5RXS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 448,384 Part-time operation was to end of contest from Sunday afternoon at Local time. Missed State ME,VT,DE,DC,ID,WY,ND,SD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JN4MMO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 511,872 Equipments:FTDX5000+VL-1000 23mH 7ele(T3-11DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 443,088 A lot of fun with 3 elements and an FT-100 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,162,160 Well we were a little disappointed with the overall European opening . State side and JA were good but we sure could have used more activity from Europe and Africa. We simply needed more Mults . I expect to see some really big scores this year ! Great to have 10 meters back ! Larry K0CL and Bill K0UK did a great job. Good to here a lot of the GMCC guys on . Thanks to all the gave us a contact. Season Greetings from Western Colorado . Jerry K0DU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0KX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 562,380 Many S9 plus signals with no ears. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0LUZ Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 274,912 First time QRP for many years. I was extremely surprised how well 5 watts gets out when the path is good. For the most part, it was easier to work DX than to work some parts of the USA. From Central Florida, I must have worked every Arizona and Colorado station licensed who worked the contest. Someone described the conditions as "spotlight openings". That pretty much sums it up. I also learned one truism about QRP. Backscatter just doesn't work! Although I believe I heard all of the states in the Southeast and a few in New England, nary a one was worked. The only one I can remember that might have been backscatter was K3MD who was my only PA. The qso must have taken five minutes. I congratulate K3MD for the sticktooiveness. Missing sections included CT, NJ, MD, KS, NE and all of the SE except Florida. WAC with five watts was accomplished and included contacts with ST2, E5, A7 and 5B. These contacts were done in fairly quick fashion or I would have told myself "Are you crazy? There is no chance you will work this station with the pileup". Then there was HD2A who I called often until Sunday afternoon when I worked him first call. Another good feature is that there is absolutely no fear of TVI, RFI and whatever. The only noise experienced was in the evening, when Christmas lights came on, the level rose. But with no evening openings, no big deal. I look forward to next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0MD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 385,152 First Multi-Single from K0MD since new antenna upgrade. The bands were great. I enjoyed the morning runs to EU but they stopped too early in the afternoon for me. 10 meters shut down too quickly at night to work much in Asia except JA. The JA operators are so courteous and willing to work USA. Sarah W0SMW had fun but found the contest a bit too aggressive for her skill level. I did 99% of the operating on Saturday, while I did 1/3 of it on Sunday and Pat 2/3 on Sunday. The antenna stacks performed very well into JA and EU. I was delighted on Saturday to be running a West Coast pileup when it was broken by ZL and VK stations. Thank you guys for your persistence in calling. We clearly have a great 10 meter set up here with 14/7 at 100/45 and 4 at 45 ft on a second tower. I enjoyed working all of the MWA stations as well. Scott, K0MD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 20,304 rig = TenTec Argo556 %w to C4SXL at 65' Only worked short times in the afternoons but the band sounded pretty good. Was fun working DX with 5 watt QRP rig. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 106,904 Conditions were pretty good for QRP. Easier to work DX mults than some of the closer states. Fun contest! Station: FT2000 @ 5w, 3 x Tribander stack Thanks for the Qs! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 135,744 Thank you for all the Q's...Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 801,584 Band condx somewhat better on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0VBU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 197,760 Great to have 10 meters back! I had a very limited time to operate this weekend, but got a taste of the 'good ol' days' on 10 meters. Let's hope this cycle continues upward! Kansas was alive and well: I heard more KS stations than ever: K0PY, W0BH, K0RU, KU1CW, AC0C, K0RU, K0WA, KA3NAM, and I'm sure I missed a few. Not a rare mult these days! IC-746, TH6DXX @ 50', N1MM Logger. Thanks for the Q's! 73, Bill, K0VBU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 322,184 Great conditions and lots of participation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1HTV Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 638,604 Had fun with 100W and a temp A3S tribander at 75 feet. Missed 2 states, RI and NE. Snagged VE8NSD in NWT on SSB but never heard a station in NU or YT. Mexico was well represented. Worked 16 of the 32 XE states. Two minutes before the end, I heard 9M6XRO trying to get a station to copy his call with no success, then he slipped away. The band went dead when the contest ended as the propagation gods pulled the 10 Meter ionospheric plug for the day. 73, Rich - K1HTV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 641,448 The score above doesn't include the SSB QSOs. The power pole that started making broadband noise just before the ARRL 160 contest is still making noise. That pole which is about 1500 feet from my tower raises the 10 meter noise floor by several DB. So, working Europe was made more difficult because I couldn't hear the weakest signals. My apologies to those I couldn't pull through (sounds like a low-band excuse). The power company promises to fix the noise, but it remains to be seen if they can do it before the Stew Perry test. I started the contest operating "mixed", but I made my last SSB QSO Saturday afternoon when the Europeans faded out on CW. Since conditions were better Sunday, I never went up to the SSB part of the band again. So, I'll probably enter the CW only class. The surprise multiplier was VU2. I didn't expect to hear such nice DX through the line noise. T8 was another nice multiplier, but I chased him, so he wasn't a surprise. The V6 didn't stick around very long after I found him so I missed that one. I didn't hear the XV. Equipment: K3, ETO 91B (as always, thanks K8ND), X7 up 60 feet and an old Hy_Gain 3 element monobander fixed on the Caribbean at 30 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,781,960 Given the conditions there will be a lot of good scores posted in this contest. We made our maximun effort with a great team Thanks to Steve(W2GB) Iliya(LZ4UU)one of the premier cw ops in the world Miki (N8BO)For great operation and special thanks to Vel (K3JO) who put the station together along with the new H-Frame 4x4 element cubical quads. We all had great fun and I got my wish..I have been waiting 1999 for 10m to open !! 73 See you in the next contest Krassy K1LZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 301,476 I worked hard for a while but DX conditions just weren't there. Had a real "Black Hole" experience all weekend; the East Coast wall to EU was in full effect for me (what Hugh Cassidy, WA6AUD, dubbed The Codfish Curtain). And the opening to EU was short on Saturday and even shorter on Sunday. Not to mention, the Russian border was closed -- I did not work a single Russian station! The closest I got was one lone Estonian. No better to Japan, either. Last week I put up a delta loop broadside on JA and sloped, with a slapdash reflector behind it (in 20 degree F weather). My effort was rewarded with four -- count 'em -- four JA QSOs. No UA9/0 either. By Continent: N America: 392 (58%) S America: 12 (2%) Europe: 250 (37%) Africa: 3 (0%) Asia: 6 (1%) Oceania: 16 (2%) I had no propagation to the U.S. East Coast, but great to the Left Coast. Missed DC, DE, AR, KS, WY, ND, NWT. I worked more stations in Spain (14) than in Texas (11). But, 87 CA, 31 AZ, 36 WA, 19 OR, and 10 BC! Wow, thanks. Worked a few Mexican states that my old NA software didn't count. Biggest thrill this weekend: W9RE called me! Nobody cares but some day my biographer will want to know ... I did all six major contests this fall and made 3540 QSOs, even including 624 between CQ SSB and SS SSB, all with a couple of haphazard wire antennas in trees. Elecraft K3, AL-811 amp (350 watts), 4-element Sterba curtain at 60/240 deg, delta loop, 110-foot doublet. Jim Cain At The K1TN Superstation Black Hole, Wisconsin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,422,720 Great FCG participation as we remembered Jon, W4ZW who became a Silent Key on Tuesday. Band was great down here during the day and awful at night. No E-skip at all which was surprising since E-skip seems to be even better with higher sunspot activity. As a result, I missed tons of closer stations that are much harder to work via the F-layer. No complaints, as there were plenty of W5/6/7/0 to keep the afternoons rolling. EU was terrific both days, with a slightly deeper opening on Sunday that yielded VU. Didn't try to work anyone Long Path in our morning. Main run antenna is a homebrew 6L @ 50'. Main 2nd rig antenna is a C3E @ 165'. RBN analysis shows that there is plenty of room for improvement here. Also had a few fixed 4L Yagis, including one to XE, hoping that many of the 24 states that were promised on CW would show up. I worked 5. Heard, but not worked: E51, FG, V6, BV Not heard, but known to be on: GD, ST, ZK2, plus many others less likely for me to work Skimmer sure has had a dramatically positive effect on the QSO totals that are possible. Next year should be tremendous with more sunspots and some E-skip. Thanks to Terry, N4TB and Tom, W8JI for their able technical assistance with some of my equipment. Everything worked flawlessly this weekend. Thanks for all the QSOs! This was the 3rd serious contest weekend in a row and it's time to catch up on other things. Happy Holidays! See you all on the bands again in 2012! 73, Dan percent North America CW 1151 48.5 South America CW 79 3.3 Europe CW 1042 43.8 Asia CW 69 2.9 Africa CW 12 0.5 Oceania CW 23 1.0 HOUR 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 65/14 65/14 65/14 1 22/1 22/1 87/15 2 15/3 15/3 102/18 3 10/5 10/5 112/23 4 12/3 12/3 124/26 5 . . 124/26 6 . . 124/26 7 . . 124/26 8 ..... ..... 124/26 9 . . 124/26 10 . . 124/26 11 16/6 16/6 140/32 12 149/28 149/28 289/60 Sunrise ~1210Z 13 157/6 157/6 446/66 14 164/16 164/16 610/82 15 140/16 140/16 750/98 16 118/6 118/6 868/104 17 107/11 107/11 975/115 18 106/4 106/4 1081/119 19 84/4 84/4 1165/123 20 92/2 92/2 1257/125 21 79/1 79/1 1336/126 22 72/0 72/0 1408/126 Sunset ~2237Z 23 22/1 22/1 1430/127 0 5/1 5/1 1435/128 1 2/0 2/0 1437/128 2 8/0 8/0 1445/128 3 2/0 2/0 1447/128 4 . . 1447/128 5 . . 1447/128 6 . . 1447/128 7 . . 1447/128 8 ..... ..... 1447/128 9 . . 1447/128 10 . . 1447/128 11 4/0 4/0 1451/128 12 82/6 82/6 1533/134 13 114/3 114/3 1647/137 14 99/4 99/4 1746/141 15 108/1 108/1 1854/142 16 86/1 86/1 1940/143 17 76/2 76/2 2016/145 18 64/1 64/1 2080/146 19 50/1 50/1 2130/147 20 53/1 53/1 2183/148 21 69/3 69/3 2252/151 22 76/2 76/2 2328/153 23 16/0 16/0 2344/153 DAY1 1430/127 ..... 1430/127 DAY2 914/26 . 914/26 TOT 2344/153 . 2344/153 (includes 4 FL SSB QSOs) 4O 1 4X 1 5B 1 9A 15 9H 1 9K 1 CE 5 CN 1 CT 2 CT3 2 CX 2 D4 1 DL 177 E7 5 EA 48 EA6 2 EA8 6 EI 6 ER 2 ES 6 EU 9 F 48 FM 1 FS 1 G 78 GI 1 GJ 1 GM 9 GW 2 HA 31 HB 11 HC 1 HK 2 HP 1 HZ 1 I 39 IS 1 J2 1 J3 1 JA 59 KH2 2 KP2 1 LA 20 LU 26 LY 12 LZ 25 OA 1 OE 4 OH 10 OH0 1 OK 64 OM 13 ON 12 OY 1 OZ 6 PA 58 PJ2 1 PJ4 1 PY 33 S5 22 SM 26 SP 40 SV 4 SV9 1 T8 1 TF 1 TK 1 UA 86 UA2 3 UA9 4 UR 73 VK 3 VU 1 YL 9 YO 30 YU 22 YV 4 Z3 1 ZC4 1 ZF 1 ZL 11 ZP 3 ZS 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 255,000 Nice to have 10M back! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1UO Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,647,912 3 ele. SteppIR @70ft Acom2000a Elecraft K3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1WHS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,830,590 The first try with my new 10 meter antenna. As usual, Murphy struck right away as we actually blew out our multiplier hunting second station due to high rf coming down the unprotected feedline. (duh) I borrowed the K3 from my brother, so when he stopped by to see how we were doing, he was a bit disappointed that we killed his "baby". The main station was another K3 and my homebrew amplifier. It coasted along nicely all weekend. It sure was fun seeing ten meters coming back, and while we did not work everything that was on the band, we took a pretty good portion! I was disappointed in not many JA stations appearing in the log, but I think we worked just about every VK who had an antenna connected to his radio. W1UE and K1BX did 99.5% of the operating. K1WHS was the go-fer. I did pizza delivery and kept the coffee pot running. At one point I worked under the shack installing foam insulation board and sealing it with spray foam. That was hard and I succeeded in getting most of the foam in my hair. We had three home brew yagis aimed at Europe. There were two yagis aimed at SA and a single yagi for everywhere else. I can't wait for next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2AXX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 287,712 Got on between various chores, band was in pretty good shape. Sat BIC and ran only, no real S&P whatsoever - goofing around getting practice for other events this year. Best Moment: E51NOU answers my CQ, and I was trying REALLY HARD to bust his call. He was just plain loud, and my internal stupid filter was engaged. EH1NOU, HI1NOU....I'm just thankful he stuck around. Hopefully he laughed his ass off over that! IC-746Pro + SB220 - 1.2KW Cushcraft X7 @ 67' See all y'all next year! Mark, K2AXX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DSL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 113,970 100w, single radio, wire antennas and a whole lot of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,262,646 DEDICATED TO MY LONG TIME FRIEND W2AX (SK) I thought conditions were far worse than during the CQWW (especially SSB)weekends Very few deep Asians ( Zones 17-26 ) and almost no African or Mid-east stations to work. Still a lot of fun - no busted packet spots to chase.. Missed ONE state for WAS - VT of course.. most stations stopped to tell me I was the first VT for them even late on Sunday. CU from P4 shortly Andy K2LE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 944,384 I was pretty excited going into this one. I'd been focusing on ARRL 10 for the past year, and to that end, bought a 4-element monobander and a pushup mast which I installed at my son's place in DC. It performed pretty well in CQWW, both modes, single band, and for the first time in a long while, the East Coast had a potential advantage over the W5's and W6's, due to the EU path. I had a pretty good setup back in SNJ, and discovered recently that I actually held the SO LP Mixed record for the Atlantic Division, set back in 2002! So I had a goal to see how I measured up against that, given that propagation conditions might be somewhat comparable. The stations, however, were not comparable. Back in NJ my tower went to about 55 feet, topped by a C31XR, which gave me 7 elements on 10. The location was pretty good as well - while not high in elevation, South Jersey is pretty much flat, and only 60 miles separated me from the ocean and so basically an easy shot at EU. Now I'm 3 elements smaller and 15 feet shorter, with a QTH that is not as good. I did have the DC section mult, but it really didn't help much. I was spotted 19 times, and in only 5 cases was DC mentioned. I think maybe only two of those may have contributed to a sudden rush of Qs, and they didn't seem to last long. It was fun though, to give out that mult, especially at the tail end of the contest. From what I gathered, there was not all that much activity from DC, and most SSB stations reacted when they understood that I was in Delta Charlie, not NJ, NY, or NC. One memorable reaction was, "Hot Dog," followed by profuse thanks! It turns out that I matched up to my 2002 score pretty well, and may have eclipsed it. This time around my score is only 3500 points short of the 2002 SUBMITTED total. I tried to stay on CW longer this time, and that made up for a handful fewer QSOs and mults. We'll see how the log checking goes. Last time I lost 30K points. Was I more careful to log correctly now, with my advanced age? There's also the possibility that another station put in a great score in the Atlantic Division. It's a good thing N8II is in the Roanoke! Great score, Jeff. 73, Pete, K2PS/3 in DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ZR Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 14,800 Rig: K2 @ 5W Antennas: End Fed Wire 125m * Center Fed Wire 210m * 160M Inv "V" * 160 Inv "L" Log: Pencil & Paper Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Dick,K2ZR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3EST Class: M/S HP Total Score = 783,804 Missed WY and VY0. Got 15 XE states, 67 countries. Minimal EU opening, but great JA participation. Thanks! K3, Alpha 76, 5/5/5 yagi-stack. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3IE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 477,650 Just could not get "into a groove" with this one. Had many family obligations over the weekend that cut it short. The JA opening Sunday evening was exceptional - wish it would of been the same on Saturday night (hi). Could not get a decent run going on SSB but did have fun on CW. Fun to have 10 "alive" again. Thanks for the Q's, Hunter K3IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3IVO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 567,432 Wow, what a difference a year can make! The Free State ARC operates this event as a group effort for fun and a learning experience. I think this year it went beyond our expectations. Everyone enjoyed their time in the chair and learned a thing or two as well. Thanks to everyone for the QSO's and the opportunity to enjoy our wonderful hobby. 73 Hank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3KU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 42,120 My objectives in this Contest were to have fun and to give my 14-yr-old mentee friend a chance to operate. I'm in the third year of helping this kid with High School math, and have gotten him interested in Ham Radio Contesting. I arranged for him to come over Sunday afternoon. Without him I would have been CW-only, SOLP. With him, we wind up as M/S (non-assisted). I had fun. He had fun, but it was interesting to see his frustration at getting pounded in the pileups. And it was instructive to see the skills gap beteween a complete newbie and even a Little Pistol phone 'op. See also my post "Two at a time" on CQ-Contest Reflector. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 486,112 Great conditions... 95% cqing.. Highlight of the weekend was on Sunday morning. Was running Europe on ssb with a big EU pileup.... All of a sudden I hear Bravo 7 Papa call in ... problem was he was 20 db louder then the European pileup.... I thought it was a local having fun with me.. so B7P called a couple time before I worked him.. I could not hear the Europeans when he was calling..... I guess it was the real B7P..amazing signal over Europe... Used CT for the contest so it did not pick up any of the XE mults... Happy Holiday and 73, Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 829,776 Boy, wasn't THAT fun?! Condx seemed a bit down from the CQWW contests, but how can you complain? Condx were still awesome! I didn't plan a full effort, and didn't give one, but I did more than originally planned. I handily beat my previous best score in the ARRL 10m Contest that I set in 1999! I would have easily broken 1000 QSOs, but I spent a lot of time on CW for the extra points and the practice (I'm NOT very good on CW!). My rates on CW were pretty poor. My apologies to those who suffered through my CW "runs" that were more like a clumsy walk. I missed only KS and SC for WAS! Nice to see our XE friends giving out mults! Thank you everyone! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 66,816 just a chance to add to my 10 meter DXCC total, I added 9 new ones. Thanks for Qs, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 261,184 K3 to 135' Windom at 45' This weekend was my wife's birthday, so wasn't planning on much operating time - not much of a sacrifice since I have no real antenna for 10m. I mostly got on to add to LotW state QSL count. Added NE, SC, IN, and MI stations - never did catch VT or AR and my only DE QSO was a non-LotWer. When I was on, conditions didn't seem as good as they have been in the past month or so. Lots of signals, but just not booming in like a few weeks ago. Of course, infinitely better than previous years... Sure is a funny contest, where the 2nd JA gets you the same number of points as the 400th AZ station! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,332,148 Good conditions on 10 make it hard not to spend too much time in this event. One of these years I will have to remember that M/S means I could invite a few friends over to keep the station on more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4AB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 636,568 Mostly just a Sunday affair. Almost didn't get on due to the Saturday night "rugged-double-kegger" office party. Line noise required me to use the noise blanker a lot of the time, which made the receiver cruddy. Sorry if I missed stations calling. Best DX was B7P long path. Boy, was he loud! Had Fun! 73, Larry K4AB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,040,160 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW, TH6DXX. Lots of fun and a lot of frustration. High power line noise all weekend, but not as bad on Sunday. Didn't seem to be able to run very well, certainly not as well as many other Southeastern USA stations. Thanks for all QSOs and Happy Holidays to all. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,111,810 Fun contest!!! Single-band/daytime only ops - what could be better??? Great to have 10m back! Thanks for the Q's.... Wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!!! FT-1000/Field QRO HF-2500DX 8 ele Log Periodic at 55' --------------------------- ARRL 10m Contest Trivia The first annual ARRL 10m Contest was held 15-16 December 1973 at the absolute bottom at that sunspot cycle. Only sporadic spotlight north/south props existed. World single-op high score/winner was KZ5NG ((op-WA4UAZ/KZ5BP, now K4EU)) with a total of 122,056 points ((76 mults and 790 Q's))... I've still got all the paper logs.... ---------------------------- 73.....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,982,596 Daytime excitement! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 486,864 Great contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MM Class: M/S LP Total Score = 492,960 RIG: TS-2000 90 watts MFJ Versa Tuner ANT: 1/2 wave Dipole @ 25' Had been watching the SF drop all week.. Damn!! Poor condx for my setup, but gave a real try anyway. Hopefully next year condx will be better. Thanks to all who worked me. 73 Tom K4MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4NV Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 531,934 Thanks for all the contacts This was a real grind for me asa we have lots of power line noise. 73, Dennis K4NV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 962,540 I was feeling a bit under the weather all weekend, and didn't operate nearly as much as planned. My operating skills were at an all-time low. It felt like I could not concentrate very well, and got tired quickly. Sometimes I wasn't sure whether it was my brain or rapid QSB, but it felt like lots of figures got mangled somewhere between my ears and my fingers. Despite lots of repeat requests, I am not looking forward to seeing my error rate in this contest. Still, it's great to have Ten Meters back open. I replaced my T2X which failed during CQWW CW, and that sure helped a lot. Everything else worked pretty well in the station. Now if I can just get the op back in shape... 73, Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,020,000 First effort from my QTH since probably 2009. Felt good to get back on the air and contest again. Many thanks to KY5R for his help in troubleshooting lightening damage to the station. Thanks for all the QSO's, I certainly appreciate them. I really enjoyed the JA runs on both days. Those guys are awesome in pileups, and they really seem to get the importance of proper response to the sending of call sign fragments. Signals to JA were stronger the second evening (at least from here). Lots of interesting QSO's on both days. The one that sticks out most in my mind is when I was called by VU2BGS in the middle of a morning EU pileup. He was so loud that he sounded like the other EU's that were calling me. The other Q that stands out in my mind was when DV1/JO7KMB called me in the middle of a JA pileup. I was obviously delighted with receiving both of those calls. I can't imagine how interesting this contest will get as conditions improve. Very 73 and Happy Holidays, Rick K4TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TOJ Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 4,544 Better score this time than the last contest. It was fun while I could play. Tried to do some running but didn't do too well with it. I looked at it as fishing which made it fun though when someone did come back. Especially Friday night near the start of the contest where the only contact I had was 4 miles away. I like doing S&P though and trying to get through pileups. It's satisfying when you think you can't be heard when all of a sudden, they guy comes back with your call. Christmass! Wonder if I should have hooked the computer up and tried some CW? One of the things I've got to figure out is why I'm only able to push about 50 or so Watts with a peak around 68 Watts from my TS-930S using SSB. 73! Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WI Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 5,472 I just couldn't get up for this one... the thought of another qrp struggle just didn't appeal to me after the last attempt. Hopefully I will have a decent antenna back up soon. Sounded like a fun contest! 73's Cort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 23,892 Grabbed a couple of hours out of a busy weekend. Worked as many Q's in two hours as I worked the whole contest three years ago! 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4YCR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 9,200 NOTED THE AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS NOT COUNTED AS A MULTIPLIER BY N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5IID Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 330,400 Conditions were pretty good, but not as good as hoped for. Still a fun time. Christmas cantata at church along with Christmas program for the kids kept me away and caused me to leave early. But still had fun and met lots of old friends again! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5LH Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 277,344 Mostly S&P. All continents within easy reach. Never worked AZ, OK or MS. All of VE well within reach. Little activity in XE or Caribbean compared to last year. Much flutter and echoes on signals from New England. Thanks for all the Qsos. Great fun! Happy Holidays! Chris, K5LH Rig: Omni V (90 w), wire dipole, Aetherlog for Mac ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,226,944 This is my best 10M CW score ever in this contest, including the years I did it from upstate NY. I am sure many records will fall as the conditions and activity were outstanding. Was anyone else hearing the strange noise and splatter that would come and go? It was on 10M CW during the day of both Saturday and Sunday. I was looking at the panadapter and it looked like the splatter affected the entire CW band when it would come on. Was I the only one hearing this? 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ND Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 32,200 Casual effort with K3 and Cushcraft MA3V vertical. Skookum Logger for Mac. Enjoyed running for the first time, versus my usual search and pounce. Thanks everyone for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 681,378 Station K5TR: http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html Elecraft K3 Elecraft K3 + Elecraft P3 Ameritron AL-1500 Ameritron AL-1500 26' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 115' rotatable 24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 60' rotatable 24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 30' fixed NE 4-element Yagi @ 40' fixed SE Half wave vertical, base @ 20' Ameritron RCS-8V antenna switches Heil Proset Plus HC-4 W9XT contest card TR Log 6.96 This is the 11th ARRL 10 Meter Contest in a row that I have operated from the K5TR contest station in Blanco County, Texas. I have now operated this contest across a complete solar cycle. George added a new Yagi to his complement of 10 meter antennas this year - six elements on a 26 foot (8 meter) long boom. He put it on the same mast as his high 40 meter Yagi at 115 feet (35 meters) or so above ground. There were definitely times when I think it heard better than the lower antennas, but the difference was never as big as I would have anticipated. The best benefit was having the flexibility of another rotatable Yagi in the mix. This was only the fourth-highest QSO total I've made in the past 11 years, but it was a second-best multiplier total for me. That was a bit of a surprise, given that I worked only a single Mexican station this weekend. Last year, I worked 40 XE stations in 21 states. That is 20 fewer multipliers from Mexico that I missed out on this year. Comparing notes from other stations in Texas, it seems that either activity was well down in Mexico this year, or we simply didn't have propagation. I did, however, manage to work all US states, the District of Columbia, and all Canadian multipliers except VE0, VO1, and VO2. I even worked three stations in the Northwest Territories. Propagation to Europe and Japan was the best we've had in this contest since 2002. Last year, I did not work a single station in Japan - this year, over 100 made it into the log. I worked stations all over Europe, but missed a few multipliers including OM, LA, LX, YL, ES, and EU. Some exciting multipliers that did make it into my log included EA9, ST, VP8, ZK2, and a BV station I worked on long path on Sunday morning. I had some really big rates during the contest. My best 10 minute rate was 264 QSOs/hour, which was much higher than last year, when I couldn't break 200 QSOs/hour even for a 10 minute period of time. My best minute was 7 QSOs. Maybe next year I can do 8. HOUR HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE PCT ---- ------ --------- ----- --- 0000 185/22 185/22 0.01M 7.4 0100 139/6 324/28 0.02M 5.6 0200 64/1 388/29 0.02M 2.6 0300 32/1 420/30 0.03M 1.3 0400 3/0 423/30 0.03M 0.1 0500 --- 423/30 0.03M 0.0 0600 --- 423/30 0.03M 0.0 0700 --- 423/30 0.03M 0.0 0800 --- 423/30 0.03M 0.0 0900 --- 423/30 0.03M 0.0 1000 --- 423/30 0.03M 0.0 1100 --- 423/30 0.03M 0.0 1200 8/5 431/35 0.03M 0.3 1300 29/14 460/49 0.05M 1.2 1400 97/23 557/72 0.08M 3.9 1500 130/10 687/82 0.11M 5.2 1600 119/6 806/88 0.14M 4.8 1700 180/8 986/96 0.19M 7.2 1800 152/3 1138/99 0.23M 6.1 1900 126/2 1264/101 0.26M 5.0 2000 120/2 1384/103 0.29M 4.8 2100 103/1 1487/104 0.31M 4.1 2200 38/6 1525/110 0.34M 1.5 2300 89/4 1614/114 0.37M 3.6 0000 21/3 1635/117 0.38M 0.8 0100 14/0 1649/117 0.39M 0.6 0200 6/0 1655/117 0.39M 0.2 0300 8/1 1663/118 0.39M 0.3 0400 6/0 1669/118 0.39M 0.2 0500 1/0 1670/118 0.39M 0.0 0600 --- 1670/118 0.39M 0.0 0700 --- 1670/118 0.39M 0.0 0800 --- 1670/118 0.39M 0.0 0900 --- 1670/118 0.39M 0.0 1000 --- 1670/118 0.39M 0.0 1100 --- 1670/118 0.39M 0.0 1200 3/1 1673/119 0.40M 0.1 1300 30/8 1703/127 0.43M 1.2 1400 94/3 1797/130 0.47M 3.8 1500 77/3 1874/133 0.50M 3.1 1600 75/0 1949/133 0.52M 3.0 1700 76/1 2025/134 0.54M 3.0 1800 96/0 2121/134 0.57M 3.8 1900 97/1 2218/135 0.60M 3.9 2000 68/1 2286/136 0.62M 2.7 2100 47/0 2333/136 0.63M 1.9 2200 57/1 2390/137 0.65M 2.3 2300 61/2 2451/139 0.68M 2.4 ---- ------ --------- ----- --- DAY 1 1614/114 DAY 2 837/25 TOTAL 2451/139 ---- ------ --------- ----- --- Gross QSOs=2497 Dupes=46 Net QSOs=2451 Unique callsigns worked = 2451 The best 60 minute rate was 190/hour from 0003 to 0102 The best 30 minute rate was 208/hour from 0026 to 0055 The best 10 minute rate was 264/hour from 0037 to 0046 The best 1 minute rates were: 7 QSOs/minute 1 times 6 QSOs/minute 5 times 5 QSOs/minute 18 times 4 QSOs/minute 87 times 3 QSOs/minute 213 times 2 QSOs/minute 402 times 1 QSOs/minute 533 times Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 2 4 596 5 1046 6 796 7 2 8 5 9 4 Continental Distribution ------------------------ USA calls = 1501 VE calls = 145 XE calls = 1 N.A. calls = 35 S.A. calls = 127 Euro calls = 447 Afrc calls = 17 Asia calls = 5 JA calls = 118 Ocen calls = 55 Total calls = 2451 Multiplier Distribution ----------------------- 1. Wa 137 2. Ny 132 3. JA 118 4. Ca 112 5. Ma 86 6. Nj 85 7. Or 75 8. DL 67 9. Tx 64 10. PY 62 11. Il 58 12. Pa 58 13. Md 58 14. F 55 15. On 54 16. G 53 17. I 51 18. Ct 47 19. Va 42 20. PA 41 21. EA 40 22. LU 37 23. In 34 24. Bc 33 25. Oh 33 26. Mi 31 27. Tn 31 28. Mo 30 29. Nh 28 30. Mn 27 31. Co 26 32. Wi 25 33. Me 25 34. Nc 24 35. Ga 24 36. Fl 22 37. VK 21 38. Id 20 39. Ky 16 40. Qc 16 41. Ab 16 42. CE 14 43. Ri 14 44. De 14 45. ZL 14 46. CT 13 47. OK 13 48. Al 12 49. Ia 12 50. SP 12 51. Ak 12 52. Ks 11 53. ON 11 54. 9A 10 55. S5 10 56. Vt 10 57. Mt 10 58. Nd 9 59. Nv 9 60. Sc 8 61. HB 8 62. Hi 8 63. KP4 7 64. EI 7 65. Ne 6 66. YO 6 67. EA8 6 68. Ns 6 69. Mb 6 70. Wy 6 71. SV 6 72. ZS 5 73. Ok 5 74. Sk 5 75. DU 5 76. Sd 4 77. Ms 4 78. Ut 4 79. CM 4 80. OZ 4 81. SM 4 82. GM 4 83. Dc 4 84. YB 4 85. OE 4 86. Wv 3 87. Ar 3 88. GW 3 89. KP2 3 90. Nt 3 91. Nb 3 92. HA 3 93. UR 3 94. GI 3 95. P4 2 96. HK 2 97. HP 2 98. HI 2 99. TK 2 100. E7 2 101. EA6 2 102. UA 2 103. Nm 2 104. YV 2 105. OA 2 106. CT3 2 107. TI 2 108. Pe 2 109. Ags 1 110. La 1 111. C9 1 112. 4O 1 113. LZ 1 114. ZA 1 115. SV5 1 116. CU 1 117. Az 1 118. FY 1 119. VP5 1 120. HC 1 121. CX 1 122. ZP 1 123. UA9 1 124. BV 1 125. 9M6 1 126. KH2 1 127. D4 1 128. OH 1 129. ST 1 130. EA9 1 131. LY 1 132. YU 1 133. 4X 1 134. VR 1 135. Yt 1 136. VP8 1 137. PJ2 1 138. ZK2 1 139. HL 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5WO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 300,104 Armed with only a stealth 24' vertical, I decided to enter from home as multi-single and chase Reverse Beacon Net spots. Mostly it worked out pretty good, especially when the band was wide open. I filtered the spots to cq zone 3 only, so I'd have a chance of at least hearing them :-) Was even able to get a few decent runs going. What a fun contest! 73, Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 38,584 Wow! Conditions were great. A new station record. At 16:22Z Sunday I worked G3TXF, for the first EU I have ever worked with this station on 10M. I was also surprized with D4C for first Africa on 10M. I also found Carl, AI6V/ZM2V as well as ZM1A and ZM4G. I didn't hear any VK. I'm also wondering if anyone managed to sweep those Mexico states. I only heard 3 the entire contest and I worked them. It all made a very fun week-end. I also only worked 2 W7's, AZ(K6LL) and NV(K7NV). I did hear W7RN, and several WA stations, but couldn't work them. I guess the band was just too long. I did work a few area KB'ers, KA6BIM, WC6H, W0YK,W6YX and N6JV. By the way I got a surprize Certificate in the mail for last years ARRL 160M Contest, 1st Plave SOLP in SJV. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 570,078 Only about a week ago I received an email from Tim N6WIN with his generous offer to let me guest op at his Super station during the 10 Meter Contest! To go from my modest station with a low fixed beam and wire antennas to his station was like going from my Honda Accord to driving an Indy car. Tim showed me the ropes on the K3, recorded the messages on the DVR, and away I went. It was a thrill to actually control a frequency, or to bust a pileup quickly. The rates that I could achieve were fantastic! 140/hr was my best on phone, and 100/hr on CW. The number of stations calling me from OH, MI, MN, KY, IL and WI just seemed infinite. The sunspots "raised the roof" on this contest, quite literally. In previous years, we were bouncing our signals off the E layer (Sporadic E), but this year we used the F2 layer. Ironically, last year's 10m Contest was almost a Colorado QSO Party. I think I worked every ham in CO. This year ZERO COLORADO stations. Skipped right over. Tim wanted me to include some suggested improvements, so here they are. 1. Use the DSP filters in the K3 Noise Blanker to knock out local line noise. 2. The weighting or spacing in the keyer box made keying with paddles very difficult for me. Not sure why, and didnt have time to tinker with settings. 3. Fix the Enter key on keyboard. 4. See if sub-vfo can be used for a SO2R like operation to get mults. Things I need to improve on: 1. Practice Morse Runner a couple of weeks before the contest. The serial numbers in CW were hard to copy. 2. Increase CW speed to 28 or so. 3. Don't repeat the callsigns back phonetically on phone. Use letters. Best DX: V51 who called me Weirdest QSO: Pointed Yagi at Alaska at 2230z, and worked Sweden! It was 10:30 PM in Sweden at that time! Congrats to Bob AA6PW for his amazing score. I have a long way to go to improve my rates, and mult acquisition skills. This was my first contest with a rotatable yagi, and with a full limit amp. First contest for me to ever go above 1000 QSOs. My previous 10m best was only 440 Q's in 1989 as WB6OWD. This guest op opportunity was the best gift I could dream of for my milestone birthday this week. Thanks again to Tim N6WIN and his wife. They were gracious hosts. Station: Elecraft K3 Acom 2000A LM354HD 54' Tower Force 12 C31XR Latest N1MM Software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GHA Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 75,144 Well, that was fun! It is nice to have a 'level set' from last year to measure my self by. I was 3x last year’s total for LP QSO's, so I was pleased. Just before the contest I received in the mail an award for first place in the 2010 ARRL 10m contest for Single Operator Phone Only, LP for SCV. It was my first certificate for contesting. If band conditions are any indication, am sure there was more competition this year. For me it seemed to drop off after 6pm and start up again at 7am each day. The added bonus for Saturday morning was the eclipse, thank goodness the propagation allowed me to watch it before the bands opened! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6III Class: M/S HP Total Score = 21,888 All hunt-n-pounce. I was hoping to finish off my 10m SSB W.A.S. Started the contest needing only UT. Finished contest needing only UT! Never saw UT spotted. I made a lot of spots as is my usual contribution to the NCCC (and others). This year I was only going to work SSB and 1 Mult per QSO. But I goofed a few times and in the end I had 18 dupe mults. I worked a few of the deserving KBers but mostly just kept the dial moving and the Spot key exercised. Working the XE states was novel for me. I logged 11 of them. My final mult was ND about 15min before the end of the activity. About 5 minutes before the ending gong sounded, a T88 was spotted... the pile up was tremendouls. Only a few got thru. 61 sections and 35 DX are in the log and uploaded to LOTW. Missed mostly the close-in sections... AZ, WA, WY, NM, UT, MT, BC, AB, SK. On the other side of the continent, I missed DC, DE, NU, NS & LB. Don't know why NE was missed... I hit all around it! Well, that's 10-meters for ya. I have other priorities on Sunday morning and that is when I might have worked the East Coast had I been around. The band closed down for NA QSO's about 3:30pm here. I did manage to add SD, ND and CO just before it closed. Only hearing Asia DX and few SA after then. Merry Christmas to all. de Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,740,200 European openings were very marginal from here, but the contest sure was a lot of fun! Happy holidays to all. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, Arizona . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 193,200 Quit early to catch part of 49er game...should have stuck with contest!! Ugh!! Thanks for the Qs! Happy Holidays & see you in RTTY RU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,012,230 What a blast. Didn't quite know what to expect, but this turned out to be my best effort in this one. Gotta love this contest. One band. Both Modes. Great turnout. Doesn't get much better. Never much of an opening either morning to Europe, but otherwise good propagation. Fun time. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John, K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 555,770 Great to find 10 meters in decent condition again after what seems like forever. There was a very nice turnout on both modes, too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6SRZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,349,868 This contest could really use a rules overhaul. It's not a fair competition when several different operators can get together for 36 hours at a single SO2R operation--complete with packet and skimmers--and still be in the same category as a true single op who uses packet. SO2R wasn't an issue during the last sunspot cycle, but it is now! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6WSC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 157,560 Happy Holidays! 73, Bill K6WSC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 26,320 This was a casual effort for just a few hours and I was surprised at how much fun it was. I wish now that I had dedicated much more time and effort to contesting this weekend. Thanks for all the fun everyone. 73, Ted K6XN Equipment: Yaesu FT-2000 and a four element SteppIR antenna system plus WriteLog software, a laptop and a microHAM microKEYER. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 405,654 SSB runs were a blast...didn't use cw much, MT was covered very well with N9RV,KB7Q KS7T,K7BG..and some I may have left off the list, sorry, Europe never did happen like I had thought it might...their was always a hugh pileup on SSB so I hung in their even tho I do not always like ssb..was fun to see rate meter near 300, .great effort by many, thanks for a fun weekend...was nice as the night time band was dead at my qth..so could do other things also...thanks to all for the q's... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 909,220 Lotsa, lotsa fun in this one. I had a dinner engagement Friday night with the XYL so I got up from the rig with the rate meter sitting on 150 after the first hour or so. That was hard. The band was still open a bit to the pacific/JA and there was a nice Es opening to the Midwest (Kansas and Missouri and a few others). Leaving the rig at that time was the hardest part of the weekend. When I got home 3 hours later I worked the remnants of the Es opening and then went to bed. The full moon was so bright I couldn’t sleep very well and at 3:30AM local (1030 utc) I got up to see if the moon was starting its eclipse and went down to take a listen on the band. I heard a few weak stations and they didn’t sound like scatter or meteor pings. They were Europeans! I could only hear a few stations. One signal would fade out and then I would hear another one or maybe two. They would then fade out and another one would show up. They were working other EU stations, but I couldn’t hear the other stations and their rate seemed slow. I called TM6M and finally got him in the log at 1048utc. He disappeared and then I heard a few HG stations and finally worked HG0A at 1113utc. I also heard ES5RY, but couldn’t make it into the log. He got K7, but that was it. He said, “LTR” after several tries, but alas, there was no later for that part of EU from here. The only other station worked was HG7T who went in the log at 1148utc. This opening lasted about an hour and overall I think I only heard a half dozen stations. I know I’ve experienced this opening once or twice before, but it’s been a long, long time and it’s very strange and awe inspiring. The opening disappeared after an hour or so and I went upstairs and drank coffee in the cold dark night and watched the moon disappear behind the earth’s shadow. I didn’t put another EU in the log Saturday morning until DL9GFB at 1530utc. The last mainland EU station worked Saturday morning was DK9OY at 1658utc. I took a quick listen in the wee hours again early Sunday morning for the same opening, but no joy so I went back to bed. I didn’t work an EU station Sunday until LZ9W at 1451utc. The last in the log was S53EO at 1627utc. Both days the openings were about an hour and a half and sigs weren’t loud. I didn’t spend much time S&P so I’m sure I missed some good mults, but it was just too much fun running rate to the east coast to look for mults. It was nice to be called by W1YL/4 on Sunday afternoon. Made me think of K4OJ and how much he loved this contest. Congrats to Gene (KB7Q) and Pat (N9RV) for outstanding efforts from here in Big Sky country. I was going to call you both at 3:30 Saturday morning to tell you the band was sort of open to EU, but I didn’t think your respective XYLs would approve, not to mention that you would have had to reclassify your logs as M/S, aitch eye. Thanks to all for the good time and rates. N America: 1449 1449 (83%) S America: 65 65 (4%) Europe: 79 79 (5%) Africa: 10 10 (1%) Asia: 120 120 (7%) Oceania: 26 26 (1%) 9A,9M6,9V,BY,CE,CN,CT,CU,CX,D4,DL,E5/s,E7,EA,EA6,EA8,EI,F,G,GI,GM,GW,HAHB,HC,HK,HL,HR,I,J3,JA,KH2,KP2,LU,LZ,OH,OK,OM,ON,PA,PJ4,PY,S5,SM,TF,UA9V5,VK,VR,YB,YS,YV,ZF,ZK2,ZL,ZS WAS (Thanks KD4POJ in ND for last one) 11 XE states only missed NU and LB in VE land. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 118,775 Condx OK to AS, NA, CA, SA, AF. Condx poor to EU - worked about a dozen EU - no decent EU opening :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7FA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 222,000 Rig: K3 Ant: Monobander 10M7DX @ 100 Ft. AGL Tribander TH7DX @ 85 Ft. AGL Sfw: N1MM-Logger V11.12.0 Plan to File log as SO CW LP. Full score should go to AOCC. EU Opening Sun a.m. began with weak signals for an hour, followed with very strong signals for the next hour. (i.e., MM0GPZ with monster signal) Then the plug was pulled on all except a few EU sigs. Ops. with exceptionally good ears: V51YJ,PA0O,ST2AR and finally (last but not least), OA4DX @ 40 wpm. Nice to operate 10m during the peak of the 11-year sun-spot cycle. Not long ago, we were thankful to find openings that lasted only a few minutes ... now we want the band stay open all day long! Thanks for the Qs. 73, Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: M/S LP Total Score = 20,116 At least on CW nobody will go to trouble of saying "you're weak, repeat everything!" The cluster proved utterly useless. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 404,417 Great fun! Hope spots last through 2012. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7JQ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 432,994 Icom IC-7600, THP HL-1.5KFX, ground-mounted screwdriver. Decided to go the same category as last year...unassisted. Finally, a contest I could generate some runs...not used to that with my antenna "system". Good conditions, although rather short EU openings both days. Still plenty to go around. Lots of fill-ins over and above the call history list. Worked lots of Outlaws, thanks! Happy Holidays to all! 73, Bob, K7JQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LY Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 278,568 Good conditions. Had a bit of a problem with equipment early on, but finally got it going. This year I did manage to get all the Christmas parties out of the way before this contest! Kind of tough finding multipliers while operating unassisted. Great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7NV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 868,496 Good to be back on from home for a real contest with all the new (to me) stuff, in the shack. The band was not what it was in my last best effort in 2001, but I'm happy with how it went with all the new rigs, computer & software. Don't think the band was even close to what it was the last time I tried this one seriously. But, that is all relative....I was really disappointed I was always way down from where I had been in 2001, and had to fight so hard to not actually catch up at the end....was hoping to do better..... But, it's a different contest each time, and ya just gotta go do what you can, with what you've got, when it happens. Maybe we'll have some good years to come...? Thanks to everyone for being in there making it worth the time to take the weekend off from what I really should have done! Same little old antennas @ K7NV.com. Ya just run what you brung to these gigs. See you folks the next time I can be on....it's always an adventure, no matter how it comes out. But, one of the best things about getting to be on for an event is hearing & working so many friends...even if they are QRMing you off the side, they didn't mean to...it's just part of the game ;-) 73, Kurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 378,600 Great to see 10M back! Very few US west coast stations were heard. I was at over 500 QSO's before I worked MI! NH and DE were well represented. I even worked a few new DXCC countries. I really enjoyed this one. All QSO's on LOTW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 395,010 Not much time to play in this one, unfortunately. Got in on the start Friday afternoon at 00:00z, and then again Saturday morning. Got the rate meter up 545 per hour on SSB and 300+ on CW. Really wish I would have had more to play. The band was outstanding to NA, and somewhat poor to EU. Thanks to all for the Qs! 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7SS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 744,282 What a hoot ! GREAT to have 10m back to its fine upper end of the cycle form. Haven't worked so many TX, IL, WI, IA, MO stations in years...they just kept calling. Saturday midday had some great rate, felt like i was on a DXpedition. All states but WY.... WY7SS called over and over on backscatter way up in the CW band ... just not enough oomph to get their attention w/ 100w...nevertheless its the ones I did work that were such a pleasure. Getting K0DI in DC both modes was cool.....THANKS! and THANKS to KE0A who also gave me a double NDak. Just the very Western edge of EU made it here to the PNW...you could see the change from CQWW SSB, to WWCW to now, as days get shorter and shorter. Very tight window for us in WA/OR/VE7. worked only EA, CT, GI, EI and EA6, and that's all she wrote. A treat saying a quick howdy to many familiar calls/folks from over the years. What a great fraternity! and welcome aboard to the many many KC KD KE KF KGs KJ etc, new folks who are experiencing their first 10 meter peak.. fun huh ?? yep. Its been a fun Fall Contest Season and this was the last game and the best. Happy holiday fun to all and to all a good nite. See you in 2012... 73 Danny K7SS ic-756pro2, steppir 3el @48'. 100w. unassisted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ULS Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 330,480 Powder Mtn. 9000' FT-897D (100w) 5 ELE Monobander (LJ105CA) Great contest with good weather other than 20 degrees most of the time. Band was wide open every day some EU in morning but quickly covered by stateside contesters. Asia in the evening with good JA openings also China,Indonesia,Phillipines,Guam,Australia. First ARRL 10 meter contest for me and it will be well remebered. Thanks to all those who gave me such a huge score 73 de K7ULS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7VIT Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 49,200 Interesting band conditions considering some contests within the last couple of months. Got some mults that I usually find hard to get. Some of the closer in states which I usually get are not in my log this time. (?) I also did not work as many XE's this year. I love 10 meters. Merry Christmas, Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7VU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 341,440 Lots of fun with limited effort. I would have had more hours in on Saturday but the XYL had a Christmas party for her friends and a few of them got stuck in the snow which of course required me, my tractor, tow rope and lots of time! I am sure next year will have even better conditions than this weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 172,660 FT1000MP; AL811H; Force 12 6BA @ 70'; N1MM Fun 8 hrs! Unfortunately missed the EU opening on Sat. morning...mostly a Sunday part time efforthere. So good to hear 10m again! 73, and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! John K7WP .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 170,352 Amazing What 5W can do when the conditions are this good. Most of Sunday was hearing delayed LP echoes on most NA stations worked. Didn't work any of Friday night and missed over 1/2 of Saturday. None the less it was a fun event. Running only 5W output, I saved alot on the power bill this weekend! 73's and KB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZS Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 101,728 First real contest operating using my REMOTE setup! I am always in Baja California at this time of year, in a remote village along the Sea of Cortez - totally Solar Powered, 20 miles off the grid. Thanks to a recently upgraded internet connection, I was able to operate the home station in Oregon from here. (We have plenty of bandwidth now - 4 Mbps delivered by a 5.7 Ghz Motorola Canopy system microwave link, with 1 relay required on a hill between me and the nearest town) Microwave DXing! The setup used a Kenwood TS-480SAT with the RemoteRig 1258 MKII system forming the link. On the Oregon side, it was connected to the other remote rig, the rest of the TS-480 and routed through an SPE 1K-FA solid state linear amplifier, finally into the 4 Element SteppIR @ 90'. I didn't have a real 'contest setup' here, just the hand microphone, so it was Left Hand for the Microphone, Right Hand for typing the exchange into N1MM. I was very pleased that the 125ms latency of the internet connection (about 1/8th of a second) was not an issue at all. N1MM reports these MAX rates (mostly hampered by the Hand Mic / 1 Hand Bandit typing!) were: Best Minute: 300 Q's per hour Best 10 Minutes: 192 Q's per hour Best Hour: 146 per hour. It was a blast, this stuff works! Best 73 from XE land - and now GREAT to have 10 meters rockin' and rollin' Kevin K7ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 929,764 Turned on the rig hoping to find that elusive zone 18, but no joy there. Used my Orion II with SDR-IQ/SpectraVue panadaptor, Alpha 86, 3 el SteppIR at 60 feet. First SSB contest operation in decades. Still can't speak and use my hands at the same time without error. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 429,568 Well, it's not the highest score I ever got in this contest, but it sure was a lot better than it's been for the last few years. This contest was a lot of fun, with a lot of stations to work right up to the end. Thanks to everyone for all the contacts, for hearing me, and being patient when I didn't hear you so well. There was a lot of noise areas on the band, and they moved around, usually finding the frequency where I happened to be calling CQ at the time. Also a lot of audio signals from time to time. CBers? Freebanders who are a little lost? Who knows, but they made hearing some signals an interesting project. Anyway, it was a lot of fun, and I'll surely be looking forward to next years version! Rig: Yaesu FT2000 Antenna: 4-element quad at 65 feet Software: WriteLog 10.81d ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,318,144 Incredible weekend on the radio. Conditions were disappointing on Friday night, got better on Saturday and better yet on Sunday. Thanks to Tom, K8AZ for the opportunity to play at one of the premier contest stations in the midwest. Also,thanks to Lu, W4LT for his K3 "cheat sheet" that helped take some of the nerves out of operating a new radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 597,740 Great condx, finally, and lots of activity. CW activity was up to almost 28200 and Phone was up almost to 28900!! Watching GeoClock, I could see I was indeed having propagation to wherever the Sun was shining! It was also nice to have interest picking up in Mexico now that their States count as Multipliers in this Contest. Propagation was quite interesting from the standpoint that it often didn't matter which way the beam was headed to work someone. It was good that I could work 6's without swinging the antenna out West when the Band was open well into EU. But, it was bad when I wanted to null out the West when signals were getting weak from the Northeast. Such a problem! ;-) For significant periods of time it appeared that there was long and short skip occurring simultaneously. EU was coming in FB and I was also working stations along the East Coast. I even worked DC as a Mult which is very rare on 10M! Backscatter must have been working, too, at times, since a lot of stations sounded stronger when I pointed the beam due North. Maybe next year I'll try a 10M Vertical and see if there might be any sort of advantage. It would be very interesting to switch back and forth. That might lead to installing two in an NE/SW cardioid pattern. I ran into a problem with my old CT-WIN not counting the Mexican States as Multipliers. There were some links on the K1EA CT Site to some user-modified files that fixed this problem, but they were old and broken. Reading a from an archive last year there was info about modifying some data files to make Mexico part of Canada and make the individual States Mults. After some careful editing, I replaced the original files with the ones unique to the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. VOILA!! I brought CT-WIN back up after the Contest with the same QSO File and I saw the new Mults worked and my score had recalculated with an increase of over 50,000 points!! The ARRL scoring software would have probably done the same thing, but it was nice to have things done right on my own computer for me to see. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 26,400 A few qsos as time permitted. Seasons greetings to all! Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 64,614 This was a single-handed effort with part-time spotting (lost my internet connection for a while), hence the M/S. Not that the spotting mattered anyway, I could only work what I can hear (and who can hear me). This is a very antennacally-challenged station--an Outbacker clamped to a chain-link fence. Anyway, I had a great time. The QSO total (all S&P) was a personal best from this station. I look forward to doing this again. Larry K8MU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,707,642 We had a great time! Condx were down from CQ WW. Friday and Saturday were not as good as Sunday. Band seemed to open later and close earlier than expected. We worked very hard on getting mults and balancing between cw and ssb. Lots of fun seeing what the station can do and how to do this as a team. Thanks to K9ZO and KB9UWU for staying at the station for the weekend. Everyone was there early and stayed late. Thanks to N7MB and N9LR for finding so many mults! NK9E dropped by to see how everything was playing and sat at a radio for a few minutes...thanks. Station was three K3 setup for cw and ssb run stations and one mult station. We used the three stack of 8 element OWA antennas for running and two Steppir DB42 and one 3 element Steppir for mults. Alpha 87A amplifiers and N1MM Logger. Thanks for the qsos and Seasons Greetings Craig K9CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 22,880 Due to other committments on Saturday, missed the European opening. On Sunday, operated at the AD4ES M/S operation. Very sad to hear about Jon W4ZW as SK. He will be missed in FCG and on the bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 781,392 No time for full time op this year but I wanted to have some fun with best 10m condx we've seen in a number of years for this contest. 6 hours Saturday PM. 6 hours Sunday AM. Band was sort of open to southern Europe two hours before my sunrise but seemed to mostly close to EU areas shortly after their respective sunset. 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9OM Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 512,730 Absolutely wonderful to have good condx. on 10-meters again! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9YC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,015,280 This was fun. As was noted by other NCCC members, EU was pretty scarce, and the band died at sunset. If there were any openings after dark, I missed them. On the other hand, I managed to get good sleep both nights and took time for a neighborhood party. The following VERY broad CW signals were noted (first noticed by ear, then confirmed on the P3). W0YK, K9IG, N8OO, K4ZGB,WA8LE, K6MMM, and JH2FXK. On the positive side, fewer badly distorted SSB signals was heard during this contest as compared to other recent SSB contests, with the notable exception of about half of the XEs. 73, Jim K9YC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1ZD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,964,400 This is Linda's favorite contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2D Class: M/S LP Total Score = 417,600 Dedicated to the memory of Larry Amodeo W2AX SK FT-1000MP 100W Multi-band Yagi @ 20 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3NZR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 160,728 I HAD MY FIRST "BY" FROM THIS QTH. RAN THREE RIGS TS590S/TS430S/TS820, ON MY 160 MTR FULLWAVE LOOP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB0EO Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,000,090 I wasn't sure I was going to put in an effort after operating CQWW CW as single op 10 meters 2 weeks ago...what the heck! I only missed Delaware and District of Columbia in USA, and Quebec and Nunavut in Canada. I got about 1/3 of the Mexican states - a little more difficult. Great to hear all the Minnesota boys slugging it out - I hope everyone did well! Merry Christmas to all and happy 2012! Dan - KB0EO Northfield, MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB4KBS Class: M/S LP Total Score = 11,186 Was only able to play a few hours so used the time mostly to work on CW skills and look for new countries/band countries. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7HDX Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 152,684 First real effort for the 10 meter contest, pretty happy with my score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 862,080 Thanks to Todd, WA7U for the use of his station yet again. Just a TH-7 @ 55 feet, a K3, and my Alpha 76A amp. Saturday was run, run, run fun! Sunday morning I worked as hard as I could to nab those European multipliers just after the band opened. 73, Gene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7QND Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 46,900 For some odd reason, I never heard any European stations which was quite a contrast to CQ WW SSB awhile back. Found it nearly impossible to make any runs calling on Saturday...about 1Q every 10 minutes. Much better luck on Sunday making a run, but ran out of time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC0W Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1 Thanks to all for helping me break the 3,000 QSO mark!!! That's one nice thing about operating from here in North Dakota, there's really ZERO competition from any other amateurs in the entire state, hihi. The station seemed to be firing on all 12 cylinders throughout the contest & (luckily) no unfortunate surprises happened. I should have operated more CW but the runs on SSB were thrilling to say the least. Broke 300+ QSO an hour rate on several occasions. Most operators seemed to be pretty good but I ran into my fair share of Bozo's as well............PLEASE guys, don't be a idiot, give your FULL CALL SIGN when calling. All it does is slow the CQing station down when LIDS give a partial call sign. Funny how you NEVER hear amateurs giving a partial call sign on CW........Hmmmmmm. I'm constructing a state of the art contesting/DXing station here in North Dakota. I heartily welcome all amateurs to visit & use it FOR FREE when it's completed, sometime by 2013. Check out the insanity of what I'm putting up on my bio page on QRZ.com. See ya in the next 'test..........Probably Stew Perry. Tom KC0W ' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 352,320 Thanks for all the QSOs. Also had 64 Qs and 31 Mults on CW that I won't count, but will be in the log. Just could not get into the CW so just went PH. First time that I really had played this contest--work has always got in the way of participating in this event seriously. It was great fun and with the start up of Cycle 24, there were some really good runs during daylight hours especially Saturday. It did not take long for the band to shutdown after dark. Only worked 59 Qs on Friday night. But Saturday was great fun with big run to EU in the morning and a very good run to the West Coast and ASIA in the afternoon. Sunday morning I missed a 1.5 hours of the prime time for EU but still managed some early on. Was surprised to work B7P--had a huge signal! Only worked 6 XE states. They were strong for the most part, but I could not find the rest or they did not find me. I was surprised to missed NY, NJ, CT, RI, DC, DE and MD--strange! Also missed KY, MS and NE. Missed Canadian Province NU. I did manage to work the NWT and YT but it was late in the contest. OK, thanks for the QSOs again and it was great fun! Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC9TLW Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 352 First time HF operating experience for Tom - KC9TLW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2JA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 244,098 Band Mode QSOs Pts Cty 28 CW 215 856 101 28 USB 211 422 90 Total Both 426 1278 191 Score: 244,098 Good band conditions both days. Wish I had a better Yagi up at 100 ft. I did manage to work some good DX like Sudan, Nui, JA's, Oceana, EU, AK, CA, and a bunch I just cannot think of now. Wish my old ears were better and my CW skills were better too! Yet I am fairly new to contesting. I can remember Field Day in NJ with W2ZQ and working with WB2REM on the 40 meter CW station. God Jim could run CW and talk to me while catching 6 or more calls at the same time! He never missed a beat! Will I ever get that good? I do not think I will live that long to get that good! But in my defense, I was in a band playing R&R music while others were playing ham radio. You pay your money and you take your chances! 73, Glenn Belkin KD2JA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2RD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,387,722 Great contest! It took perseverence at times running low power, but we all had a blast. Paul (N2PL) and Scott (NQ2F) really came through once again and made this another great effort. These guys were great ! 73's and see you in the next one. John KD2RD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,269,324 THAT was fun! 10 meter conditions weren't as good as I had hoped and I missed my major goals: 2000 QSO's, DXCC, and WAS - but I didn't miss them by much. Never heard RI or ND. Saturday night, I thought my antennas had fallen down - I was slowly running a few JAs and working DC stations. There were very few signals left on the band. My favorite QSO was with OX3XR. I had just tuned to his frequency when he sent "QRX 20 mins". AHA - a new run frequency for me! :-) He called me on that frequency about 10 minutes later for the multiplier. I also had a decent run for 30 minutes or so on a nice clear frequency. :-) Thanks again to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use his great station again. Being able to beam in two directions was great when the band was open to Europe and the US. Conditions to the US seemed better Saturday - the JA run seemed better Sunday. I didn't get as many Asian multipliers as I had hoped. 73, Mark 2011 ARRL 10 Meter - KD4D HOUR 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ----- ----- 0 70 70 70 1 23 23 93 2 27 27 120 3 1 1 121 4 0 0 121 5 0 0 121 6 0 0 121 7 0 0 121 8 0 0 121 9 0 0 121 10 0 0 121 11 17 17 138 12 113 113 251 13 118 118 369 14 126 126 495 15 139 139 634 16 85 85 719 17 100 100 819 18 65 65 884 19 74 74 958 20 55 55 1013 21 55 55 1068 22 61 61 1129 23 28 28 1157 0 4 4 1161 1 2 2 1163 2 0 0 1163 3 0 0 1163 4 0 0 1163 5 0 0 1163 6 0 0 1163 7 0 0 1163 8 0 0 1163 9 0 0 1163 10 6 6 1169 11 34 34 1203 12 98 98 1301 13 107 107 1408 14 92 92 1500 15 98 98 1598 16 82 82 1680 17 46 46 1726 18 34 34 1760 19 44 44 1804 20 47 47 1851 21 42 42 1893 22 49 49 1942 23 30 30 1972 TOTAL 1972 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD6SXF Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 9,672 This was my very first contest ever; I had a lot of fun! (I don't count "Field Day" as a real contest.) I just got back into ham radio after being off the air for more than 18 years. I renewed my license during that gap, but was QRT the whole time for various reasons. I only operated about 4.75 hours, but I was exhausted! I wonder how so many ham are able to stay on the air hour after hour. I imagine that one builds stamina over time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 69,976 Weekend full of kids activities: Chess Club, Scouts, skating lessons, and Connor's 6-year old birthday party with 14 Kindergarteners over. Only got away fof 3 hours of radio, in 7-9AM and 5-7PM slots, so all QSO's were with Europe or Western USA - virtually no Caribbean. Seems like propagation was a bit better on the 2nd day. 73, Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE5OG Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 33,108 Good conditions...not enough time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE8M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 376,464 great weekend had fun thanks to all kenwood ts 2000 amertron als 600 @ 400 watts hy gain lj 105 ca @ 45 ft imax 2000 @ 48 ft n1mm logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF0UR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 248,220 Due to other commitments, this was, unfortunately, a part-time effort. Ran mostly, with little S&P. Didn't really search for mults. Condx were good, but not as good as they were a few weeks ago. Fortunately, had good condx to the whole east coast a reasonable amount of time. Had fun nevertheless, and look forward to the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF6T Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,547,340 A simply amazing band! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7Y Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,257,696 WOW, Saturday was red hot to U.S. mainland with good runs all day. Friday night long path was fair with some very loud EU and 4X etc. Saturday night long path was excellent to 5B,A71, plus loud EUs. Sunday was not as good as Saturday, but still some nice runs in the morning, then very slow near the end. Much confusion on HI= Hawaii report, many DX stations did not read the rules. This caused extra time to get the HI report in their logs...They were looking for a number... If my score holds it will be a new record for OC. Station, FT-5000 + Al-1500 and 8 element M2 Log at 100 feet. Thanks for the QSOs, Aloha, Fred ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI4UDF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 832,048 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Erick and Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI4WLX Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 216 My first contest, urged on by OM KG4CUY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ4LTA Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 52,500 Not a big score but I had an absolutely fantastic time. Can't wait till the next time. 73's ED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK1KW Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 804,960 Had lots of fun operating from WW1WW.The improvements made over the summer have made contesting a sheer joy to operate from here.This contest station has become very diverse when it comes to directivity..band was in great shape while it was daylight which gave plenty of time to rest at night(no time management needed).Would have like to see more participation from VK,Ja,ZL,the few I did work were strong.The V6,T8 were loud also into NH. Congrats to all the top finishers and thanks to all the stations I was able to work. Seasons Greetings to everyone ! 73 Fred KK1KW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK4CIS Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 26,788 FT897D, 100 watts, 10m dipole at 20' All S&P, which I find to be very tough on 10m. Felt like I heard everybody in MN as the band was open all day on both Sat and Sun b/t FL and MN. Generally, I found 10m to be open to very few parts of the US on both days, e.g. I work IL all of the time on 10m, but didn't hear a single IL station on either day during the contest. European stations seem to have trouble with the KK4 prefix, presumably because it's relatively new? Epic pileup whenever the Suriname station was working . . . . biggest I've ever heard. Conditions were good, better on Saturday; Sunday the band died after 2030 UTC. 73 KK4CIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL1JP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 138,780 Having received my General and Extra Class during the bottom of the solar cycle, I've never really experienced a good 10m band opening. For me - this was it. I can sum up this contest in one word - FANTASTIC. Funny part - my headset stopped working the start of the contest so I did all the phone with the hand mic in one hand and typed everything with the other hand - using one finger. I'm pretty sure I'm now the fastest single finger typist in North America. Thanks to all who called me and again, for everyone's patience... too new at this... Yaesu FT-2000 with 100w into a 3 element 10m beam at 40 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL2HD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 120,960 Very fun contest. 10 m is interesting and I enjoyed following the sun as the band changed. Of course, my simple 5$ non-directional loop skywire did about as good as it could do with LP on 10m. Best time was as darkness went across the East coast and people turned their beams west towards me. Lots of west coast stations were worked off the back of their beams when S&P which is what I did in the mornings since no one was listening this direction.... Young Contester Error No. 543: Read the rules before jumping into the contest. Skimmed the entry section after rushing home early from work and used spotting network thinking I could apply for assisted SOLP. No. I only used the spots a few times, but fair is fair and it's my mistake so M/S category it is, but only a mixed category, why not SSB, CW and mixed? My best effort at a contest since I started a year ago. If you measure success by how you improved last year this was great. Last year I had a total of 6 contacts - wow! What a difference. No rig control on this loaner Yaesu FT-990 so it was easier to keep fixed and just call CQ. Looking forward to next years (better?) conditions! 73, Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL2R Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 472,812 That was fun. Too bad the band never opened to Europe. On Sunday AM just after midnight I heard A65BD for about 2 minutes before he faded. Dang. A surprising number of dupes. Hmmm...Thanks to all who worked me, even if twice for good measure. You made it a real pleasure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 279,028 My long time friend and old neighbor Sean, KL1SF made a return trip to Alaska on a work related mission. I was hoping to get him in the shack but his schedule never allowed it. He headed back to AZ on Friday night, so I did not operate a few hours so I could see him off. We were forecasted to receive strong winds yet again from another of our famous winter Chinooks. I had to crank down my beam from the 42-43 foot level where it normally sits, to about 20 foot. All of my operation on Saturday was with my beam at 22 foot! We had wind gusts here at my QTH to 60 Mph over the weekend so needless to say, the lower noise was horrible and it was directly in my lower 48 path. I was able to send the beam back up Sunday once the winds dropped to a normal speed. For me, I think the propagation on Saturday seemed a bit better than Sunday but of course, my beam was 20+ foot higher too! I will post a full overview on my blog in the next few days. I want to extend the very best of holiday wishes to everyone! Thanks for all the patience as I continue to learn the ropes to this contesting stuff. May 2012 bring you a wealth of DX to your logbook. I'm sure hoping it will bring me DXCC on 10 meters! 73, Phil KL8DX Denali National Park, Alaska Website: http://www.kl8dx.com/ Blog: http://kl8dx.blogspot.com/ Work: http://www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM3T Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 3,124,856 Main rig: Icom IC-7700 / AL-1200 amp 1.5KW Second radio: Icom IC-756 Pro II / Drake L4B 1KW Main antennas: 4x7el Yagis at 140'/105'/70'/35' on rotating tower 7el rotary Yagi at 190' 7/7el stack fixed South America Second station antennas are fixed Yagis on a 20 foot Rohn 25 tower: EU, JA, South America Hats off to Andy N2NT for his great Mixed HP score - didn't know he was going to be in it full bore! It was great to hear the massive amount of activity this weekend from Europe, USA, and South America. We can use more activity in Asia in this contest! I also agree that this is just not a good time of year for this contest. Lest I forget them all, some notes from the weekend: - SO2R wasn't considered seriously until Friday - and consisted of two computers and two pairs of headphones. No time to set up an SO2R box. In-band interference was pretty bad and only the very loudest stations could be heard through the QRM. Lots of tuning in between CQ's. Not as many second radio QSOs as I would have liked. Mostly used to find mults. - Power-splitting between antennas was useful. Angle steering was, likewise, effective and highly useful. - Europe starting coming in via a southerly scatter path Saturday morning between about 1120Z and 1140Z, then the path went direct. I also heard but could not work UP2L on this path at the same time. This phenomenon did not seem to happen Sunday - and the EU opening seemed better and deeper on Sunday - many more Russian stations and some goodies like 4K4K and 9K, 4X4, etc. - The KC1XX station is on a good hilltop in southern NH near the MA border. When the band is closed it is possible to work ground-wave QSOs up and down the East Coast and out toward Buffalo/Rochester, NY and into VE3 - only way besides backscatter to get into these high population density areas from up here. Much like a VHF contest on 6 meters. My many years of VHF contesting experience came in handy. :-) - Scatter contacts (only a handful) were best on the 35'/70' antenna pair though not many stations knew enough to be on - or the scatter wasn't very good, not sure which really. W0AIH (NE9U, op) was a notable sharp operator - scatter signals were so good I was able to move him to SSB Saturday night since I needed Wisconsin on SSB. Then I worked a few WI stations on SSB on Sunday, but who knew that would happen. - Tried to balance CW and SSB the best I could. I think I gave slight preference to SSB on Saturday - then applying what I learned Saturday I hit CW much harder on Sunday morning, especially to Europe, where CW activity seems stronger. It is also much easier to work more EU on CW since the pileups are downright unruly to EU on SSB. Not all of EU, but there are notable countries where stations just keep calling, even though I clearly am calling someone with a totally different callsign. Some education is sorely needed here. If you understand me when I give your call, you should understand when I call someone else. You just make things crappy for everyone (including yourself) when you behave this way - so please try to listen more carefully. - I went back and forth between modes when I got the sense that the supply was getting worked out. Always trying to keep the rate high, but also aware that CW wins over phone because of the 2:1 point ratio. On SSB incredible rates are possible but require the right propagation and demographic. Running USA on SSB will always be faster, for example. Only comment on USA SSB stations - *please* learn and use phonetics for you call. Especially the new 2x3 calls - they are really hard to understand without phonetics! Use phonetics - save us both a bit of time and help make both of our logs more accurate without lots of fills. - JA was pretty limited here...we're already 30-45 minutes into darkness when we might hear our first JA. So without a lot more solar flux that path will simply not be open under normal circumstances. And BY/9V, etc...same thing. Their sunrise is too late for us, again, without more flux. I never heard B7P but seems many worked him over EU or long-path. Never heard any of the other long-path goodies, either...despite beaming that way with the 7/7el south stack a lot at the right times. - The activity from South America, especially Brazil and Argentina, was amazing. Many stations called in, and many new PY hams. Muito obrigado to the many PY's who called, and muchas gracias to the many other South American stations! - Nice to pick up VY1NM and VE8NSD! - Thanks for all the contacts...if the log survives log checking this should be a new USA record for SO HP Mixed Mode. Can't wait for a weekend with more solar flux! Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) http://bit.ly/cabstat ----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y ----------------- 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct --------------------------------------------------------------------- North America 0 0 0 0 0 2002 2002 54.0 South America 0 0 0 0 0 185 185 5.0 Europe 0 0 0 0 0 1423 1423 38.4 Asia 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 0.6 Africa 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 0.5 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 53 53 1.4 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 3706 3706 CONTEST: ARRL-10 CALLSIGN: KM3T CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M HIGH MIXED OPERATORS: -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 0 0 0 122 122 122 3.3 0100 0 0 0 0 0 78 78 200 5.4 0200 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 202 5.5 0300 0 0 0 0 0 65 65 267 7.2 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267 7.2 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267 7.2 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267 7.2 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267 7.2 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267 7.2 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267 7.2 1000 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 274 7.4 1100 0 0 0 0 0 76 76 350 9.4 1200 0 0 0 0 0 161 161 511 13.8 1300 0 0 0 0 0 189 189 700 18.9 1400 0 0 0 0 0 164 164 864 23.3 1500 0 0 0 0 0 201 201 1065 28.7 1600 0 0 0 0 0 167 167 1232 33.2 1700 0 0 0 0 0 157 157 1389 37.5 1800 0 0 0 0 0 197 197 1586 42.8 1900 0 0 0 0 0 172 172 1758 47.4 2000 0 0 0 0 0 127 127 1885 50.9 2100 0 0 0 0 0 120 120 2005 54.1 2200 0 0 0 0 0 70 70 2075 56.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 2100 56.7 0000 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 2103 56.7 0100 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 2123 57.3 0200 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 2146 57.9 0300 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 2154 58.1 0400 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 2165 58.4 0500 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2166 58.4 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2166 58.4 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2166 58.4 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2166 58.4 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2166 58.4 1000 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 2170 58.6 1100 0 0 0 0 0 44 44 2214 59.7 1200 0 0 0 0 0 157 157 2371 64.0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 141 141 2512 67.8 1400 0 0 0 0 0 143 143 2655 71.6 1500 0 0 0 0 0 136 136 2791 75.3 1600 0 0 0 0 0 138 138 2929 79.0 1700 0 0 0 0 0 118 118 3047 82.2 1800 0 0 0 0 0 144 144 3191 86.1 1900 0 0 0 0 0 129 129 3320 89.6 2000 0 0 0 0 0 84 84 3404 91.9 2100 0 0 0 0 0 126 126 3530 95.3 2200 0 0 0 0 0 72 72 3602 97.2 2300 0 0 0 0 0 104 104 3706 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 3706 3706 ** PH ****** Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ************** Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 0 0 0 62 62 3.2 0100 0 0 0 0 0 41 41 5.2 0200 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 5.3 0300 0 0 0 0 0 34 34 7.1 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 1100 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 7.9 1200 0 0 0 0 0 82 82 12.1 1300 0 0 0 0 0 150 150 19.7 1400 0 0 0 0 0 36 36 21.6 1500 0 0 0 0 0 191 191 31.3 1600 0 0 0 0 0 106 106 36.7 1700 0 0 0 0 0 67 67 40.1 1800 0 0 0 0 0 190 190 49.8 1900 0 0 0 0 0 77 77 53.7 2000 0 0 0 0 0 45 45 56.0 2100 0 0 0 0 0 38 38 57.9 2200 0 0 0 0 0 36 36 59.7 2300 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 60.2 0000 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 60.2 0100 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 61.1 0200 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 62.1 0300 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 62.2 0400 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 62.5 0500 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 62.5 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62.5 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62.5 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62.5 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62.5 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62.5 1100 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 62.8 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62.8 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62.8 1400 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 62.8 1500 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 63.1 1600 0 0 0 0 0 98 98 68.1 1700 0 0 0 0 0 59 59 71.1 1800 0 0 0 0 0 119 119 77.2 1900 0 0 0 0 0 124 124 83.5 2000 0 0 0 0 0 53 53 86.2 2100 0 0 0 0 0 117 117 92.1 2200 0 0 0 0 0 62 62 95.3 2300 0 0 0 0 0 93 93 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 1965 1965 ** CW ****** Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ************** Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 0 0 0 60 60 3.4 0100 0 0 0 0 0 37 37 5.6 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.6 0300 0 0 0 0 0 31 31 7.4 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.4 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.4 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.4 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.4 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.4 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.4 1000 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 7.8 1100 0 0 0 0 0 59 59 11.1 1200 0 0 0 0 0 79 79 15.7 1300 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 17.9 1400 0 0 0 0 0 128 128 25.3 1500 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 25.8 1600 0 0 0 0 0 61 61 29.4 1700 0 0 0 0 0 90 90 34.5 1800 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 34.9 1900 0 0 0 0 0 95 95 40.4 2000 0 0 0 0 0 82 82 45.1 2100 0 0 0 0 0 82 82 49.8 2200 0 0 0 0 0 34 34 51.8 2300 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 52.7 0000 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 52.8 0100 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 53.0 0200 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 53.2 0300 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 53.5 0400 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 53.8 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53.8 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53.8 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53.8 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53.8 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53.8 1000 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 54.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 56.3 1200 0 0 0 0 0 157 157 65.3 1300 0 0 0 0 0 141 141 73.4 1400 0 0 0 0 0 142 142 81.6 1500 0 0 0 0 0 131 131 89.1 1600 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 91.4 1700 0 0 0 0 0 59 59 94.8 1800 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 96.2 1900 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 96.5 2000 0 0 0 0 0 31 31 98.3 2100 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 98.8 2200 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 99.4 2300 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 1741 1741 Gross QSOs=3785 Dupes=79 Net QSOs=3706 Unique callsigns worked = 3477 The best 60 minute rate was 225/hour from 1823 to 1922 The best 30 minute rate was 236/hour from 1523 to 1552 The best 10 minute rate was 270/hour from 1656 to 1705 The best 1 minute rates were: 7 QSOs/minute 1 times. 6 QSOs/minute 11 times. 5 QSOs/minute 59 times. 4 QSOs/minute 189 times. 3 QSOs/minute 400 times. 2 QSOs/minute 490 times. 1 QSOs/minute 402 times. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 8 4 1111 5 1635 6 929 7 10 8 10 9 2 10 1 ------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------ Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4J 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 4O 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 4X 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 5B 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 5N 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 5Z 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 9A 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0.4 9K 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 9Y 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 C6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 CE 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.2 CM 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.1 CT 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 0.5 CT3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 CU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 CX 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.1 D4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 DL 0 0 0 0 0 260 260 7.0 E5/s 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 E7 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.2 EA 0 0 0 0 0 92 92 2.5 EA6 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 EA8 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.1 EA9 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 EI 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.1 ER 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ES 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.2 EU 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0.4 F 0 0 0 0 0 88 88 2.4 FG 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.1 FM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 FO 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 G 0 0 0 0 0 114 114 3.1 GI 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 GM 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.2 GW 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.2 HA 0 0 0 0 0 33 33 0.9 HB 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 0.4 HC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 HI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 HK 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 I 0 0 0 0 0 85 85 2.3 IS 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 *IT9 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.1 JA 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 0.4 K 0 0 0 0 0 1861 1861 50.2 KG4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 KH2 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.1 KH6 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.2 KL 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 0.4 KP2 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.2 KP4 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.2 LA 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 0.5 LU 0 0 0 0 0 48 48 1.3 LX 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 LY 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0.3 LZ 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 0.4 OA 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 OE 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0.3 OH 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 0.4 OH0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 OK 0 0 0 0 0 74 74 2.0 OM 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 0.5 ON 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 0.7 OY 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 OZ 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0.4 P4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 PA 0 0 0 0 0 97 97 2.6 PJ2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 PJ4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 PJ7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 PY 0 0 0 0 0 107 107 2.9 S5 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 0.7 SM 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 0.6 SP 0 0 0 0 0 64 64 1.7 SV 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.2 SV9 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 T7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 T8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 TA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 *TA1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 TG 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 TI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 TK 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 UA 0 0 0 0 0 80 80 2.2 UA2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 UA9 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 UR 0 0 0 0 0 76 76 2.1 V5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 V6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 VE 0 0 0 0 0 82 82 2.2 VK 0 0 0 0 0 26 26 0.7 VU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 XE 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 0.4 YL 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.2 YO 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 0.6 YU 0 0 0 0 0 21 21 0.6 YV 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 Z3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ZB 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 ZK2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ZL 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0.3 ZP 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 ZS 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 3706 3706 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- -DX- 0 0 0 0 0 1726 1726 46.6 TX 0 0 0 0 0 217 217 5.9 CA 0 0 0 0 0 208 208 5.6 MA 0 0 0 0 0 155 155 4.2 CO 0 0 0 0 0 98 98 2.6 WA 0 0 0 0 0 89 89 2.4 NH 0 0 0 0 0 83 83 2.2 AZ 0 0 0 0 0 75 75 2.0 NY 0 0 0 0 0 70 70 1.9 FL 0 0 0 0 0 69 69 1.9 CT 0 0 0 0 0 51 51 1.4 OR 0 0 0 0 0 49 49 1.3 NJ 0 0 0 0 0 46 46 1.2 PA 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 1.1 NM 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 1.1 OK 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 1.1 MD 0 0 0 0 0 37 37 1.0 VA 0 0 0 0 0 36 36 1.0 KS 0 0 0 0 0 31 31 0.8 RI 0 0 0 0 0 29 29 0.8 MT 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 0.6 MO 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 0.6 NC 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 0.6 UT 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 0.6 ID 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 0.6 ON 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 0.6 NE 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 0.6 LA 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 0.5 BC 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 0.5 GA 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 0.5 IA 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 0.5 MN 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 0.5 OH 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 0.5 WY 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 0.5 IL 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 0.4 TN 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 0.4 AB 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0.4 SD 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 0.4 NV 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 0.4 AL 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 0.3 ME 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0.3 IN 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0.3 AK 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0.3 AR 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0.3 MS 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.2 WI 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.2 HI 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.2 ND 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.2 QC 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.2 MI 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.2 MB 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.2 WV 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.2 VT 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.1 SC 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.1 KY 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.1 DE 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.1 SK 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.1 PEI 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.1 NS 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 AGS 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 DC 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 NB 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 QUI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 SON 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 NLE 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 O 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 EMX 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ZAC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 NWT 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 BCS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 DFE 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 BAC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 TAM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 DGO 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 GTO 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 WU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 HGO 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 YT 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 3706 3706 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 229 6.2 1 331 8.9 2 151 4.1 3 96 2.6 4 151 4.1 5 297 8.0 6 225 6.1 7 287 7.7 8 43 1.2 9 51 1.4 -------------------- Total 1861 50.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM4HI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 606,060 What a blast! Ten was really hot during Sunday here in NFL. Had some great runs on both CW and SSB. Jim, NS1L, did all the heavy lifting on CW, what a fine cw op! I did the bulk of the SSB Q's, along with Jim pitching in while I put up the outside Christmas lights both Sat and Sun and visited my mom at her ALF. Thanks, Jim, for the stellar effort. Never had the LP opening either AM. Only worked one JA (SSB) on Saturday then over a dozen show up Sunday late. We noticed many EU Q's on Sunday were low serial numbers. Highlight was working 9M6YBG on SSB @ 6:04 PM just before the band took a dive. Overall, we had a great time in the contest. Merry Christmas to everyone and the best DX in 2012!! See you next contest! 73, Jim / KM4HI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 71,340 No awards for me, but was nice to hear some countries that I hadn't worked before. My focus was to try to work on my LoTW on 10 meters. Band was interesting this afternoon with New Zealand coming in S-9 for a period of time. Work New Zealand then next qso is in Ohio. No wonder 10 meters is my favorite band. See you in the Stew Perry next weekend. Scott- KN3A Kenwood TS 450SAT 75 Watts N1MM Logger Choice of 2 dipoles for 10 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,380 Bowled in a tournament at prime time, worked a few stations Friday night and mobile en-route.After bowling band was dead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN5O Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 946,764 Spent as much time as I could between honey do's.. Conditions seemed pretty decent, but the band closed for DX about 6PM each evening. Worked WAS, missed the DC mult. Also missed NF (no propagation, could barely here'em), LB and NU. Only worked 7/32 Mexican states. Ran 95% of the time, 2nd VFO used to scan for mults. Kinda messed up the log at times - fumbled around a good bit between VFOs. I'v got to get better with this. No big hardware issues, although my ICOM PRO III linear keying port stuck on Friday nite - forced me to switch to one of the FT1000MKVs. Had a JA call in while I was running Europe about 9 AM local time - that was certainly not expected. Anyway, I had a good time. Always enjoy this contest. Thanks to all for the contacts. Contesting is done for me this year. Have a "politically incorrect" Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 73, Ted KN5O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 293,832 I got on Sat AM to work some EU. There really wasn't much and I thought I must have missed the opening, so Sun AM I got on connected to WA7LNW Skimmer. That confirmed the EU openings were minimal.... Antenna - 5/8th GP vertical on a 6' pole. (10M yagi is this winter's project) 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson, AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 463,256 What a party, eh? Great turnout for the new sunspot cycle. Lots of activity, fair openings, etc. If you ever wanted to work call areas 1-4, move to Wyoming. There was layer upon layer of them. 88 Florida stations in the log. There were several Wyoming stations to pick from too, so if you were paying attention, Wyoming should have been in your log. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2/K9MA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 161,504 Thanks to all with the good ears! Radio was not the highest priority for this trip to St. John. It was a stealth operation from a terrible QTH (chosen for entirely different reasons). The antenna was an end fed half-wave vertical of magnet wire in dense vegetation. If any RF got through the trees, a massive wall of rock to the north and northeast blocked any ground reflection in those direction. K3 and ASUS netbook did their valiant best. Conditions, as nearly as I could tell, were excellent, hence the non-zero QSO total. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2A Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,370,574 Got first antenna up about 2 hours before contest. Got second antenna up in the middle of the night Friday night during the contest. Took advantage of a break in the rain and the full moon (about 1 AM local). Lots of rain but that made the line noise quiet. Lost the amplifier (smoke in HV circuit) during Saturday morning Europe run. Got a different amplifier out of storage but it didn't work. Figured out a wire that had come loose (HV to plate). Repaired, then operated with that amp the rest of the way. Only lost 1 hour. It was good when band was open, but opened late and closed early. Nothing to JA or Pacific except KH6. DX mults way down. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4KE Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 291,612 Hello! Tnx to all stations to come to my frec. I run the contest with 3.7 Watts. The antenna was a 9 ele. homemade yagi at 90 feet high and a 3/4 wave vertical. I decide to put the vertical because alot of USA station call and the 9 ele move slow , Put the 9 ele. antenna was a mistake for a contest to much directional. lost a lot of calls. You can see my antenna at qrz.com in my page See you next year. 73&DX de KP4KE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ0C Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 460,788 What a nice contest... with full night's sleep. Basically there was no propagation under 1000 miles except ground wave... so I never got WY or NV. But I did get 48 states, 12 Can Provences, 8 Mex states and 71 other countries, including some rare stuff. For maybe the first time ever all my station equipment worked flawlessly. Interestingly I found I used a vertical dipole for nearly half my QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ2M Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 479,864 With so much work to do and so much line noise, I just got on for a few hours during the EU openings. Fabulous CW activity! The "obsolete" mode is alive and well and better than ever! :-) While the band was even more packed than CQWWCW, the cndx were definitely marginal at times with tremendous rapid qsb making for lots of requests for "agn?" or "rpt"? I was absolutely plagued by S9+ line noise and when I turned on the noise blanker, the loud signals combined with the filtering resulted in lots of receiver crud, key clicks and other junk. I tried SSB where the level of line noise was lower and had some good EU runs, but then the line noise worsened there too and activity dropped off. EU stations love cw (and so do I) and with the 4 pt. vs 2 pt advantage for cw q's, the SSB band had much lower activity. So it was back to cw until the line noise/rcvr crud became unbearable and the stations uncopiable. Very sorry to be such an alligator this weekend! Many thanks to some of the more interesting callers: VU2BGS, FS/DM2XO, the K3LR 20 meter team of N2NT & K1AR calling back-to-back :-), 4K4K, B7P, 7Z1SJ, TK5KP, SV9AHZ and 9H1DE, When I went to SSB on Sunday, I heard a super-loud B7P working a W2. I called B7P and he didn't come back so I found a clear spot up about 5 kc and called cq. B7P called me shortly thereafter @ 1300z. I had been hearing a loud BA7IO lp at that time earlier in the week and I had one antenna pointed South for lp, but B7P was coming in sp over Europe and he was an amazing s9+10! Thanks for the q's and mults and cu all in ARRLCW! 73 Bob KQ2M kq2m@kq2m.com www.rlsfinancialgroup.com www.kq2m.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 86,016 IC-746 PRO, AL-811 (500W) Restricted Antennas: Vertical 10M Dipole, Horizontal 10M Dipole Single OP using spotting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 340,464 Condx not as good as during CQWW CW. Thanks to KU2M for getting an XM510 up on the side of the back tower. Elecraft K3/10 at 5.0 watts output, measured at the rig (not at the end of the coax). de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 431,460 Best 10m contest in years! Hopefully next year even better. 73 Johnny, KR4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS2G Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 108,360 Dedicated to the memory of W2AX (SK). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS4X Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 120,978 Thanks to all for hearing my weak signal.Only could hear Europe or the west coast mostly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0P Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 37,996 Welcome back sunspots! Part time participant. Had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1I Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 11,232 It was nice to do a 10M contest. Low power and minimal antenna made it difficult at times. Thanks to all that worked me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4LST Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 16,002 Had my daughter up for the weekend so was only able to work part time but had a blast as always my first cw contact was with N4WW and found out it was Kevin behind the key so that was very cool cw was very fun this was my second contest that i worked CW the more i get in to it the more im loving it as far as the contest went on my end Friday as not good at all on my end band was dead Saturday how ever was better but on my end when the sun went down it was like someone pulled the plug on the band. as Kevin said "I think someone forgot to pay the light bill" HIHI yeah I think so. and sunday hands down it was Rockin and Rollin the only bummer was a Saudi Arabia station i was trying so hard to get but could not oh well maybe next time all in all had a blast and made a 100 QSO for FCG cant wait to do it again 73's KT4LST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4Q Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 80,908 Just a little time to play this weekend due to many holiday events. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4ZB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 79,120 What a Fun Contest...knew that this would be a limited time contest for me as folks visiting and many other events. Entered the assisted catagory so I could chase some mults and enjoy the good 10m conditions. Missed the EU opening on Saturday; but, it was fun Sunday morning. Northeast US was dead for me, but there was a pipeline to the western US. Must have worked every ham in AZ and ID - many were 20 over. Asia was pretty much a zip while Pacific was good. Merry Chrismas to all - Jere FT-1000MP Field, at 100w, TH6-DXX, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7E Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 88,350 This was fun, but I had trouble hearing Europe. Seems we had better propagation to the South Pacific than Europe. TX, MN and IL were loud here in OR. The equipment worked well with no glitches. I used the TS 590s, Alpha 87A and the SteppIR w 30/40 all on SSB. We had a grand daughter sleep over over from Saturday evening so after that ther was no radio, so we ran what we could on Saturday afternoon. Thanks for all the stations I worked. 73 and Happy Holidays Joe KT7E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1T Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 155,480 Harumph. Fighting with flu during SSB contest is not fun. I do not know if it was propagation, or me, but it was hard slogging all the way through. Thanks for all the Q. vy 73, de KU1T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU2M Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,180,480 Back in October the XYL asked "what contest weekends do you want to reserve in December" and I completely forgot about the 10M test. So, she scheduled a reunion dinner at a restaurant with old friends not seen in more than 20 years for... the Sunday of the 10M contest. Not wishing to be divorced, I had to quit operating (more or less) at 4 PM on Sunday afternoon - 3 hours before the contest ended. Although I did a few minutes' worth after 4, I was completely QRT and on my way to the restaurant by 4:30, a full 2 and one half hours before the contest ended. Moral of the story: choose divorce. Antennas: SteppIR DB-36 @ 105', 3 el South Quad at 35' Radio: Elecraft K3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 286,152 Didn't quite know what to expect in this event. Operated last year but we didn't have any sunspots then. Not sure how I'll make out compared to anyone else; but, I sure had fun. Really surprised to work so many EU's. Didn't know there were so many W6's and W7's either. Just about all S&P here. Okay for my 100 watts and wire antennas. See you all again next year. 73 tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7L Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 72,924 Wow! Got tied up with Christmas stuff, so only got in a few hours, but they were action packed. Amazed by the serial numbers that the big-gun DX stations were sending: 3900 from D4C! In a single band contest?! The only downside was the lack of a substantial opening to Europe in the mornings from the NW (as far as I could tell). Had a blast! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX9X Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 118,336 Another serious contest effort from my apartment with my external OCF dipole. Was gunning for the CT section record for QRP, CW Only, but fell short by about 20k. I had the QSOs but missed the mults. With a yagi, I'd have the record. Band died out for me by 2200z, with only a handful of QSOs after sunset. I had worked everything out West except for Idaho, Utah and VE6. My last 5 QSOs were 2 VE6's, 2 Idaho and 1 Utah. I love how things work out sometimes. Hope everybody had as much fun as I did. 73, Sean KX9X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY4F Class: M/S LP Total Score = 101,480 Welcome back 10 meters! Low power here and only an inverted L antenna. Didn't have the ability to commit a full effort. Still, can't complain with the results! Thanks for the QSO's. Looking forward to the rest of the contest season! 73, Doug KY4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 439,250 Partime effort this year. Cndx OK. Hope better in the next few years. Happy Holidays to all...... Tim, KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA5LJA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 221,028 FT-1000MP AND G5RV FUN, BUT HARD TO WORK ANYTHNG ATT ALL WITH A G5RV. PROPAGATION WAS BETTER IN CQWW CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA6YEA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 790,740 Used my own call sign for a change - and let LN3Z rest this time. It was clear I could not make a 100% effort, but could not resist spending a few hours anyway. The family had to be favored this weekend, but hard to just let the pileup when the obligations to be fulfilled. Condx really up compared to last year 10m competitions, but still not very hot about. One of my favorite competition - and hopefully next time with a dedicated weekend for this purpose. 73 Oystein LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LR4E Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 366,654 Triband antenna malfunctioning,The power only 400 Wts maximum. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LS1D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,501,966 Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! The idea of ​​the crew were planning in 4000 QSOs, but the thunderstorm during the afternoon of Sunday was markedly lower rates. Very interesting activity from SA, congratulations to all the excellent scores! This CLAIMED score is a new record LU. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. CU next year in the pileups! 73 Team LS1D "Six Stars Contest Station" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU5DX Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,161,126 Shared the operation with my father and mentor LU6EBY (70 y/o). Rig TS440-S - no CW narrow filter :-( @ 80 Watts. Ant 1/4 L Vert GP. AEA MM3 Morse Machine. Logging Soft TR4W. Tnx everyone for the QSOs. Vy 73 LU5DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY1FW Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 189,696 Big thanks to Arturas LY2W, for opportunity to use his station. Unfortunatly propagation was worse than in CQ WW CW leg. On Sunday little bit better, than on Saturday, but anyway was limited here to TX and MS from W5 area and WV, MI, WI, OH from W8 and W9. Heard just N0SD from W0 area, but no luck to work.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY5W Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 64,800 Just checked can I work with low antenna and 100w. TS-850S + 6el.KLM KT34XA @ 6mh to S.W. See You in 9A contest next weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY7Z Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 17,160 FT 897 5W + AV 12 AVQ Best DX was LT1F with great ears. TNX QSO's 73! Andy LY2TA / LY7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ1MC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 76,736 Band Mode QSOs Pts Mlt 28 CW 186 744 68 28 USB 64 128 20 Total Both 250 872 88 Score: 76 736 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ1ND Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 493,120 My set up: IC 756 pro 3; ACOM 1000; 11 ele 7 bands yagi ant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ5R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,024,556 It was a pleasure to take part in the contest. Not very good propagation as in CQ WW SSB but fun. Lots of echoes in the signals...poor short skip...Sunday afternoon good opening to USA. Equipment used: IC 7800 1st radio IC 781 2nd radio ACOM 2000A 7 el monobander 24 el tribander Force 12 C-49XR SteppIR Monster N1MM I agree - there are no meters like 10 meters. To compare last year propagation to this year I will mention our result from 2010 which was: Band Mode QSOs Cty 28 CW 56 21 28 USB 2 2 Total Both 58 28 Score: 5 244 CU may be in TBDC this weekend-depends from some work commitments. 73 de LZ1UK/Savko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M0CFW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 82,320 Equipment: K3 + Buddipole Thanks everyone for QSOs. See you in next contest. 73 Kazu JK3GAD, M0CFW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M3I Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 141,988 Missed saturdays fun due to swanning about in the motor home around Gloustershire for a few days....don't ask!!! Anyway, got back early sunday mid-day and after raising the tower etc, I finally got moving about 12:35...ish I set the SteppIR firing E/W put out a CQ M3i and didn't get a break for 3hrs, solid qso's at a rate of between 170 - 200. NA was endless, and just how many AZ,stations were active beats me coz their were strings of em one after the other...phew, MO was just as bad...! LOTS of mid-west but Not sure what happened to CA as I only had 1 solitary caller. Worked JA which was not done during CQWW CW, so was happy getting some JA's in the log. The fun ended soon after 5pm local, with just the NA mega stations showing on my P3 scope. Didn't do much S&P, but as I like, ran em like the wind.... EleCraft K3, P3, KPA500 400w, SteppIR, Win-Test 4.9.1, MicroHam Microkeyer mk2 (latest firmware/software) Single op, un-assisted. Thanks for the QSO's had a real fun 4hrs. Ken..G0ORH / M3i ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0CCE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 220,968 Just a few hours of fun, nice conditions but other commitments.... 73 Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MM0LID Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 248,676 Only A Short Term Operation Due To Work Commitments On Saturday and Ill Health On Sunday, wish i could have operated longer, band was in great shape for the time active. Rig: Yaesu FTDX5000 PWR 400W Ant : Homemade 2ele Cubical Quad Thanks for all the Q's See You In The Next One De Scott MM0LID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0EOP Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 7,392 Enjoyed the time I got to operate. Most of my US contacts were West Cost. Need to put up another antenna for East Cost and surrounding states. Thanks to all the took time to work me. MERRY CHRISTMAS to all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0HJZ Class: M/S LP Total Score = 203,412 Lots of great signals. I felt my signal didn't get out well. I will be better prepared next year. I think I need to be on the DX end of the contest!! We'll see! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 706,580 Part time effort. SO plus spots=MS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0MA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 649,740 A great effort by the guys at the Radio Farm in Iowa. It's been a long time since we had so much fun on 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0POH Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 26,910 Couldn't operate too much but it was fun to work a few new countries and some GMCC'ers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0TA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 208,110 Had a lot more fun than I anticipated! Started pretty slow, but picked up the intensity on Sunday. K3, KPA500 (@150w), vertical, doublet, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0UJJ Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 16,756 Yaesu FT-950 and Ground mounted Vertical Thanks for the Q's-- 73---Tim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0VD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 810,264 Not intended to be a full time effort, but ended up spending more time in the chair than I expected. Also planned to get my recently licensed YL (Christine - W0CFF) on the air for her first contest but unfortunately other things got in the way - so this was basically SO HP (semi) assisted. Very short openings to EU in the early morning and not very deep - only about 1 1/2 hours both mornings, but it was still certainly nice to hear EU again on 10. Had some decent NA and JA runs. Pretty cool to be called by VY1, 4Z, SV9, TK and V5 to name a few. Probably my favorite contest from the states. See you in February from PJ2T. Kelly - N0VD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1ATO Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 211,048 A FUN TIME . DOING MY LOGS WITH A COMPUTER WAS A CHALLENGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1CC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 496,008 Rig: FT-990, ClrDSP Audio Filter, WriteLog Atenna: Force-12 C-3 at 40 Feet. Although the Solar Flux was high I have the impression that conditions were not as good as they were in the CQWW Phone and CW. In both of those with only part time on 10 Meters I made DXCC over the weekend on 10 by itself. For the 10M ARRL contest more hours resulted in a great deal more contacts but only 56 different countries were contacted. Friday and Saturday the band essentially stopped producing contacts as the sun set. Sunday however, started out better and at the end of the contest --- after dark was still nicely open to Asia, South America and Oceania. 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 112,404 Hard to find enough chair time this time of year. Great fun with only limited hours on Sunday. Nice to work VK's on the first try. Didn't hear much from the Caribbean?? I really missed all those multipliers. Thanks for the QSOs! Station: TenTec Omni 7 @ 100W, HyGain Explorer 14 4 element yagi @ 30 ft Computer: old HP 500 Mhz Pavilion running CT 73 Rick N1DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 310,800 Busy weekend, but time to get on a few times, find a frequency and run. Only had to S/P once to find an open freq. One advantage of a single band, CW and SSB contest is that available frequencies are easier to find. Tried a JA run on Saturday about 22:30 UTC but only worked 13. Sunday morning conditions were great with a couple of 140+ hours. 73, Bruce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1SNB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 245,234 400w and Delta Loop. Lots of fun. Should have probably just stuck with CW - struggled to run on SSB. Long honey-do list this weekend meant limited time - but it's really exciting to think conditions could get better and better for the next 2-3 years. I missed most of the last cycle peak (college) making this all the more fun. Heard lots of Asia all week before the contest LP but not much at all in the contest. Curious to read what others thought of the conditions. Thanks for the QSOs Jeff N1SNB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1TB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 797,148 Apologies to a few stations who tried to work us Friday night and might have felt "stood up". It was a technical problem beyond our control. We hope you were able to find us later. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,314,788 Very Fun. Way better than past years. I have not done this contest seriously when conditions are good so really didn't know what to expect. It was not as good conditions as hoped. The band opened 30 - 45 mins later to EU than I had seen this past week and it never opened to JA despite being open to JA a few hour before the start of the contest. Having B7P call in long path at 1430Z on Sunday was a thrill. Nice rate although not quite as fast as the 2 CQ WW contests prior. Enjoyed it. Hope for record conditions next year. 73 Ed N1UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2BJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 906,696 Part time effort. Got home late Friday night from a business trip and band was dead and not worth getting into contest. Had obligations on Saturday and Sunday part of each day so this was definitely a part time effort. Conditions seemed better to Europe and Asia on Sunday with lower Sunspot numbers? Pretty wierd. Both Saturday and Sunday prime time had to leave the QTH. I wondered with 10M open how much better I could have done if I sat in the chair! The new Icom 7600 and Alpha 87A play nice... Barry N2BJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 708,504 Single Op + CW only + packet = M/S Mixed Mode. Go figure. This is a great band with a few sunspots to heat it up. Highlight was VU2BGS calling in during a European run. Lowlights were several stations trying to steal my run frequency by starting to CQ without even a QRL? I just kept working stations and eventually the QRMers went elsewhere. Rig: K3 Amp: Drake L7 @ 900w. Antenna: TH6DXX @ 15m. 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2EK Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 65,664 TH-3 fixed NE at 60', 40m Windom at 30', 10M Ringo vertical at 30' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 306,774 Great fun. Most of my QSO's were on Saturday. We did only 3 hours on Sunday before heading off to NJ for the NJDXA Holiday Party. Before we QRT we worked OH2XX with Marti at the mike and he sent his reegards along to the NJDXA crew. We did very well with a three element quad on an 18 foot boom at 45 feet and a KW. Before the band closed down Saturday evening we managed to work 69 stations in one 43 minute SSB run. While I may have done better at W2AX or J3A I never did that well from the home station. As some of you know, Larry, W2AX, passed away the day after the CQWW CW DX Contest. A great generous guy who once gave me his station so I could use my call there for a HP SSB effort in the ARRL Ten Meter Contest. I was thinking about him all weekend and his generosity and his great station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 114,948 Dedicated to the memoray of Larry Amodeo W2AX (sk) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,345,536 I'm amazed by those east coast QSO totals. I can't imagine numbers like that without the steady stream of W1,2,3,4,8, and sometimes 9 that I had. Also had a great Es opening Friday night to W0/W9 which was good for 150 QSO's. Without those USA QSO's, this would not have been a fun contest. Believe-it-or-not, this was the first time I have done this contest seriously. During high sunspot years, it seemed like other things took priority, and during low sunspot years, it's a VHF contest. Leaned a vertical up against a tree on Friday for the 2nd radio. That was good when I was pointed NE (which was THE direction until JA opened up). Otherwise, too much overload. Used the 2nd radio only as a receiver, with the N1MM command to swap radio frequencies when I wanted to work someone. Need to improve the RX antenna situation if I do this next year. Frustrating waiting for the band to open direct path to EU in the morning. Sunrise here is 1410Z. Seems like every minute means the band is closing in another eastern EU country. I could work a few big guns skew path over South America beginning at 1330Z, but the direct path didn't happen until 1454Z on Saturday, and 1452Z on Sunday. Yes, it was that sudden that the direct path opened. Once it did open, Saturday was much better propagation than Sunday. Even though I got plenty of sleep, it's funny how brain dead I became. With the mixture of states and QSO numbers, more than once I found myself typing 09 when working TN and 05 when working Ohio. A few stats: QSO's: EU 334 JA 309 USA 1353 Mults: 50 USA States 9 VE Provinces (where was VO1, VE8, VY1 ?) 5 XE States R1, R2 4O, 9A, 9V, BY, CE, CO, CN, CT, CU, CX, D4, DL, DU, E5, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EI, ES, F, FG, FM, G, GI, GJ, GM, GW, HA, HB, HC, HK, HL, HS, I, IS, J3, JA, KH2, KP2, KP4, LA, LU, LZ, OE, OH, OK, OM, ON, OX, OZ, PA, PJ2, PJ4, PY, S5, SM, SP, SV, TF, TI, UA, UR, V5, VE, VK, VP5, VP8, VR, XV, YB, YN, YO, YS, YU, YV, ZF, ZL, ZS A really fun contest. Wish we had sunspots every year ! Thanks for all the QSO's ! 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 912,340 Condx fair on Saturday, better on Sunday. Almost WAS (missed MS) Only problems were both rotators had flaky or no meter indication. This meant numerous trips outside to check the direction. What a pain!!! I still can't understand why folks must tune their amplifiers for long periods of time without ever checking the frequency!!!! Thanks for the qsos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MUN Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 64,770 Dedicated to the memory of Larry W2AX SK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2SR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 16,692 Wish I had more time for this contest, especially with the SFI up and with great 10M conditions. So, 1 hour of running, and a few minutes here and there on Saturday afternoon and Sunday working a few stations. This contest needs a SOA class. Tom, N2SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2ZN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 518,100 Nice conditions; first time I have ever seriously operated this contest, due to it being essentially a VHF contest the past 7 years or so. Slept in too much Saturday morning and missed about 2 hours of prime time to EU. I probably could have had 1000 QSO's if I didn't mess that one up. Station: FT-1000 Mark 5 Alpha 76A Dipole @ 30' 73, Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ALN Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 98,928 Equipment: Radio: Icom 756 Pro III @ 100W Antenna: Carolina Windom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3AWS Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 20,200 Icom 756 Pro II at 5 watts Superantennas YP-3 Three element portable yagi @ 21 feet Much more action than last year! 73, Jim N3AWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 144,228 All S&P, low power. At times it didn't seem to matter which direction the beam was pointing. At 1057Z Sunday morning the band just opened like a switch had been thrown. Thanks to K3ZO's predictions I was at the rig. IC-756Pro3 Force 12 C-3SS Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3HBX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 433,958 A part-time effort as I had to attend a concert Sunday afternoon. Operating unassisted I probably missed a bunch of mults, but 72 countries and 67 states was not too bad. Power line noise continues to be a problem at the home QTH. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3JT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 20,000 Computer freezes continue to plague. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3QE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 180,708 Wow what a fun contest :-). Sunday was just as happening as Saturday was. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 99,712 Lots of folks on ssb who were not in Supercheckpartial, maybe 10m will get us some new contesters!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 695,196 94 countries, 63 states/provinces. Not only was propagation good on the band, but there was a complete lack of any man-made noise in any direction. It was a great pleasure working all the great DX that called in. When the S-meter reads S0 to S1 with the K3 preamp engaged, you can really copy the weak ones. There were lots of chores to be done, so I had planned to make just a few QSOs, to keep the keyboarding skills tuned up, but quickly got drawn into the fray. Initally the goal was 500 Qs, but that was quickly passed, so the goal became 1,000. But...there's still a few hours to go, so I hung around to work a bunch of JAs. It's been a while since that was possible. Great fun. 73 - Dave N3RD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3TD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 65,780 This was a very part time effort for me due to having to wait on a tow truck in Northern Virginia at the start of the contest. So I didn't get home till around 10pm. So I did not actually log my first contact until almost 9am Saturday morning. While working the contest I spent time surfing the web to see what could potentially be the reason why my F350 diesel would not start **ugh**. I have had a Shakespeare ABS-1600 vertical laying around that I decided Saturday afternoon to set up and leaned it against one of the dogwood trees. I was surprised at how well it performed for a ground level tree leaning vertical. I tried to establish a run a few different times but to only work 2 or 3 stations. So most of my QSOs were S&P. I only operated for a few hours Sunday morning until 11AM when I had to put on my mechanic hat again and work the truck and commuter car that was sitting in the garage also requiring work. It was nice to get "you have a booming signal" report from some European stations with my current station configuration. Just wish I had more time to enjoy the propagation and a fun contest. Looking forward to improving my score next year with a great BIC commitment. Station: Icom IC-756 Classic, Cushcraft A4S @ 20ft, Shakespeare ABS-1600 (Green "Big Stick"), Buckmaster 135ft Off Center Fed Dipole @ 45ft, Cushcraft AP8A Vertical @ 2ft (disconnected to use coax for Big Stick) and 160M Inverted-V @ 45ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3UM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 666,900 I've done ARRL 10 m. eleven times since 2000, always SOHP CW Only, with comparable effort and equipment. This year my claimed score was only 5% behind my best ever score, in 2002, and 28% ahead of my former second-best, in 2001. It's exciting to be past the sunspot drought years of 2004 thru 2010 and my pitiful scores then of 7% to 25% of my 2011 claim. I worked one more country this year than in 2002, and one more mult in US + VE. (I missed just one US state this year, MS, none in 2002, but got 2 more VE provinces this year.) If I scale my 2011 score to 2002 rules by eliminating my 7 XE state mults, it's still only 9% behind my 2002 number. Fri. evening there was no E or F skip, just VHF-style LOS QSOs in MD and adjacent states plus a few via meteor trails. Beaming east Sat. AM at 12 Z, there was good backscatter to the US east coast, and a few EUs via skew path. Then, very good run to EU beginning 13 Z: I averaged 84/hr for 3 hrs, 13-16 Z, and 68/hr for the whole morning, 12-1715 Z. After lunch, 1830 - 23 Z, I beamed west and found 28 mults and 174 QSOs, mixing run and S&P. In hindsight, I shoulda run more, like I did in 2002, when I got 23 mults and 303 QSOs in the same time period. Sat. after dark was DEAD: only 4 QSOs. Sun. AM I started earlier, 1135 Z, found a freq and just ran. Slow at first, ~35/hr., but rate really took off just before 12 Z: 316 QSOs in 4 hr. 12-16 Z, an average of 79/hr. I worked 4 new states on backscatter: IL, ND, SD, and KS. Sun. PM I ran pointing west and found 3 more states: MO, NE, and OK. At 2048, VY1EI called me for YT! Not loud, and I had to quick swing my beam N, but no problem. Then, S&P, I found some DX mults and then finally AR with 43 min. to spare, but never MS, despite lots of TX and LA QSOs. I found plenty of JA, VK, ZL, and ZS, but my only semi-rare mults were V5, KH2, and ZL5, at the Kiwi base in Antarctica. Dec. 2012 on 10 should be fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3WD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 155,376 Was hoping on putting in more of an effort. Saturday afternoon I had to drive my daughter to around and Sunday I was all ready and operating like crazy in the morning when I got a call at 9AM that my friend had an extra ticket to the Ravens game and I needed to get to his house ASAP if I wanted it. Did not operate the rest of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4AU Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 63,332 Kenwood TS570 at 5 Watts to 3 Element triband yagi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BCD Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 80,136 Limited time effort with 2 goals - work some new DX and maintain a good rate. Cond'x not as good for DX as CQWW a few weeks ago, so will see what LOTW shakes loose. Rate-wise I was glad to see a maintained rate of 105 Q's / hour for almost 2 hours on Saturday. FT950 > Alpha 91B > A3S @ 65' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4DJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 790,644 Thanks to Bob, W4DR, for having me as a guest operator at his station and to Bill, NR4M for the use of his K3. My best 10 meter contest ever! 73, Don ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4DXI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 94,512 Great openings to Europe and Africa in the morning, worked Hawaii around noon local, expected wonderful openings to Asia in the afternoon, early evening....not much Saturday or Sunday. Don't quite understand it, if paths to Europe were excellent in the morning, why wouldn't paths to Asia be just as good in the evening? Hey, I'm not complaining; I did work several new DXCC including Armenia and United Arab Emirates. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EEB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 435,536 Bad line noise forced me into a part time effort. Hope to get that cleaned up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EK Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 167,580 Well, a definite improvement over last year. Part time again with other commitments the same weekend. At least I did not go on a cruise but I will pay for that later to keep the peace. I never had a VE3 call me or did I hear one. Worked about five XE's. CA was very well heard along with UT, IL, WI and WA. I also heard the echoes on Sunday and noticed strange beam heading to hear stations. I have seen some great scores turned in and I believe we will take first place again this year. 73 to all and see you next year. N4EK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 418,584 MY LUCK , THE PWR CO PULLED THE PLUG AT 8AM SATURDAY AND RETURNED PWR 5 HRS LATER..SO MUCH FOR EU RUN...CONDX WERE GOOD TILL THE BAND FINALLY CLOSED. ALWAYS A FUN CONTEST..NICE WKG OLD FRIENDS AND MAKING NEW ONES. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL 73s JERRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 470,340 WHY is the 10 Meter Contest scheduled during the Shortest Days of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere? This contest would be a LOT more exciting near the Equinoxes in Early October or Mid March. I stayed on CW Friday/Saturday then added SSB on Sunday (about 2 to 1 SSB to CW QSOs Sunday). Missed RI DC WY NE ND VO2 VY1 VY0 on CW. Most States East of the Rockies were worked via BackScatter. Heard WY7SS in WYO via backscatter (peaked N) but he couldn't hear me. Only worked 4 XE stations on CW and 4 XE stations on SSB. It was clear that the MUF was 'Dropping like a Rock' at the end of the contest as all of the NA signals disappeared escept for some W6/7s. I've been 'Radioing Hard' almost daily for the past 3 months. I'm worn out from burning the DX Candle at Both Ends much of that time trying to catch all the interesting openings from 80 thru 10 Meters. Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 115,584 All QSOs S & P, 10 Meter Hamstick on van in the driveway. Highlight was working K1TO via ground plane some 115 miles south of me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4NW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 757,848 High point was B7P calling me long path in long CW run! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,524,144 Them little spots are back and so is the fun. Missed some prime time on Sunday for church. When it was BIC, it was like ole times. Thanks to all for being there Merry Christmas and all the best in 2012 73, Paul FT1000MP/AL1200 - 1kw TH-5 @ 70' Logging w/CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4QX Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 13,552 Rig: Yaesu FT-817ND Antenna: Workman 10m mobile I drove to Hains Point in East Potomac Park both mornings to have a little fun and contribute to the PVRC total as my weekend sccedule allowed. Really wish I had more time, as conditions were unreal. My 79 minutes of operating on Sunday morning was probably the most fun I've ever had on the radio. A bit of a scare came Saturday afternoon around 1:00 when helicopters continually flew by. As I found out from a uniformed Secret Service officer (!) a few minutes later, I was the object of their attention. A quick presentation of my licenses (driver's and amateur radio) and a check of the NCIC (I'm clean--hope you are too), and they left me alone. Hope the sunspot cycle holds up next year--I would like to repeat with time and a 13 dB power increase. 73 de Brennan N4QX 73 de Brennan N4QX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VDL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 20,496 Very part-time effort, but glad to make some contacts after poor showing on 10 mtrs in CQWW. I'm fairly new at contesting and don't want to sound like a whiner, but I wasted a lot of time waiting on run stations to identify only to find out that I had already worked them. I also got caught up in working stations--regardless of their location--and not focusing on multis. Hopefully learning occurred and I will do better next time. Thanks for the q's--can't wait until next year. 73, David+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 616,550 I think I am already getting spoiled with 10 meters. I found myself complaining about conditions compared to recent contests. However, this was obviously way better than in recent years. I had a fun time with pretty much a daylight only effort. RIG: IC 781 Antennas: Dipole at 80 feet, Bi-Square at 40 feet, Tribander at 22 feet. Surprisingly each antenna had a strong point and each were used quite a bit. I rotated the tribander by climbing a ladder to get on the roof of the shack to compare with other antennas. Even at 22 feet, the tribander won a few times to the west. 73, Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 520,632 Lots of fun, conditions weren't the best I have seen, but certainly better than last year. Looking forward to next year - better conditions and new antenna! Thanks for all the Q's!! Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,154,440 Nice to have 10 back again. I think it will be even better next year. Thanks for all the Q's! 73 Don-n4zz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 908,192 What a fun weekend! Thanks to Ken, WM5R, for his work in updating the 10M contest records down to the section level. After he sent the link to the records to contesting.com I checked out the West Gulf and WTX records. I found the West Gulf record of 1,157,166 set by WD5K in 2002 and the West Texas record of 807,128 set by W5ZO in 1999. I wrote down their QSO and multiplier totals and kept that piece of paper close at hand as a goal. Fortunately, I was able to surpass the West Texas mark, but was not able to approach the West Gulf record. Of course, I realized that it was not enough to pass the record, but I had to get extra points so that my score would survive the log checking process. I believe I was able to do that. I had some great hours on Sunday running on SSB, although I was always aware that I was only getting half as many points as I would have on CW. My only disapointment was that I only heard three XE stations all weekend, and only was able to work one of them. I assume that improved propagation meant an increased skip zone as I also never heard AR or MS and missed several close in states on SSB. But it was still lots of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5KF Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 12,096 A few hours here and there. WOW, band is sure open now!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5LZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 646,152 It’s nice to have 10M back. I logged all the US/VE mults except Wyoming, Labrador, and Nunavut. During one run I heard stations calling KO7X as I guess Al and I were on the same frequency. I wonder how many of HIS contacts got into MY log and vice versa? Would be interesting to compare our logs during that segment. I worked only four Mexican mults. Last year I thought that rule change was a bad idea, and after this year I am thoroughly convinced of it. There were many high points. Too many to mention. Great fun. But I did lose at least three multipliers because I was unable to copy the serial number or exchange. (CT3, DV1/JA something, and XE2GG). The DV1 and XE2 just faded, but the worst case was a very loud and very slow KC2 calling at the same time as the CT3, and he kept calling and calling while I was trying to get the CT3 serial number. After asking the CT3 for 3 or 4 repeats he finally just gave up and left. I suppose that I would have done the same thing. I'm sure the KC2 still clueless about what he did to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5QQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 87,420 Had a chance to play a bit from home QTH in Dallas. What fun to have 10m back in operation! The packet was a never ending stream of stuff to work. Tried to fill in countries I've never worked on 10m - particularly the few African stations. de N5QQ/Ron K3, Alpha 78 @ 600w, 18avq on the roof & N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 34,720 I did not have a kitchen pass this weekend, however, I managed to sneak in some time here and there... You could feel conditions were not as good as CQ WW weekend but I did manage to pick up a few new countries on 10 meters that I didn't have before.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,296 Got back from work on Friday and had less than an hour on the air before the band closed. JT1DA and JT5DX both had good signals although not as strong as I've heard them in the past two months. Propagation keeps softening up just before the contests. I had a little 10 minute JA run in the middle of my S&P operation. It is great to hear 10 meters alive! Thanks for the QSOs. 73, David N6AN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 199,820 Just a few 2 hour spurts in time was all I could manage to get in this weekend, but it was fun to see 10 open nearly everywhere! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 801,720 TS-940S ALPHA 87A 4 EL CUSHCRAFT AT 28 FEET N1MM Great fun. And us west-coasters even got a lunar eclipse just before band opening on Saturday morning. Don N6DA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,021,884 What a pleasure to have our ten meter band back again. 73 Arnie N6HC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HI Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 27,180 Operation from a "no antennas" QTH in Phoenix. N6HI ran ONE HALF WATT into a 20 foot end-fed wire. For me, this was relaxed and fun, TNX for all the Q's. :-) GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! 73 John N6HI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 149,226 This was a reaal blast. First contest in ever so long that 10m was really open for me. I've never had a score this big before in any contest. Really enjoyed myself. Never heard or worked any EU stations though. Could hear the east coast calling and working them, but nary a peep here. I noticed the sunspot number was relatively low for these times, 90 on Sunday. What would this have been like if it had been back up around 150? Fun to think about. The new (about 2 years old) beam got a good workout, as well as the rotator. Thanks to all for the Qs. Happy Holidays. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 448,476 What a treat to have 10M again! Enjoyed it immensely, albeit just in fits and starts between other stuff. This is one of those "multi-operator/single transmitter, single operator" entries since there seems not to be an assisted category. Got all the states except ND. Europe was weak and short-lived here but they were in there briefly and much appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6YEU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 425,648 Great conditions both days. Lots of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6ZFO Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 829,456 FT1000MP Mk V at 150 watts. 2 3-el Yagis, home made at 20 and 40 feet. Comments: -- More Indonesian stations than I've seen in any contest. -- Right at close there was a great W1, W2 opening with S9+ signals (SSB). In 20 mins, had a rate of 180/hr, mostly 1's. -- Eu a little slim, but better on Sunday morning, although brief, maybe 30 mins. here. No Northern or Eastern Eu, however. -- On CW on Saturday, somehow worked 49 states, missing only NM. No NM on Sunday either, CW or SSB. -- Worked a P48 station on cw Saturday who was sending the same QSO # each time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,176,468 Sandy N7RQ had only 6 qso's, and I operated only 3 hours, as we took a step back, did some contest coaching, and let Arizona Outlaw friends Linda N7LR and Kevin W9CF do the bulk of the operating. This was their first opportunity at a contest equipped station and they did very well. I particularly enjoyed watching near contest newbie Linda improve during the course of the weekend. She even ran the short time N1MM rate-meter to 353 at one point, on ssb! It makes Sandy and I smile when someone does well here! CU Stew Perry next weekend! 73, Bob K8IA Arizona Outlaws Contest Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 100,152 Certainly better than last year! Thanks for the contacts. 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7KU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 645,788 Love 10m. Lots of fun as usual. This was a part time effort in between putting with the Christmas decorations. First contest with new antenna, seemed to play well but felt at times I was missing something. Short openings to EU and JA. All the best for the holidays. Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7LOX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 689,680 Rate hog=low mults. state-side was just endless..c.u.all Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 42,336 The Mike & Key ARC choose 10Meter contest weekend to do bell ringing for the Salvation Army from Fry's in Renton. While the shifts are only an hour, I was on-site the whole day in a supervisory capacity after my shift was done. I made the best of it by getting on from the truck to the tune of about 50 Q's. It's kinda tough with a 1/4 wave whip when you are used to a beam. It did keep me out of the store so I didn't spend too much money. (Fry's normally has a bad effect on my wallet.) Sunday was a bit more fun. In-between other projects I got on throughout the day and did some running. Usually 100+ Q rates but I was hitting the 200+ mark quite a bit and did some 300+ as well. That last hour and a half was a real barn-burner. Darn that was fun. Couldn't type fast enough (I'm a challenged typist anyway). I think half the contesters were on from Texas and Ohio though. Some DX slipped through though I wasn't expecting any. A couple northern Europeans and Asian Russia. Even did New Zealand from the truck. (Heard D4C from the truck too but no way.) Some Brazilians and Argentina. Just a few JA's Sunday afternoon but I wasn't expecting many - it was Monday morning after all. I heard many from the truck on Saturday - just couldn't work 'em. Reminder - now that 10Meters is back, move the bell ringing to the 160M weekend for 2012! BTW, we filled that kettle up good and that was fun too. cheers dink, n7wa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7XU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 245,208 Could not play full time this year. It was a kick to get on mid afternoon here on the left coast and run stations at almost 200Q/hr with 100W. 10m is open and I loved it. Heard both WY and ND at times but they were either very weak or S$P and hard to catch. Thanks for the fun! 73, Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 846,362 I had to send both of my K3s to Elecraft for repairs. Hats off to the Elecraft staff. They turned my radios around in about 2 DAYS so I had them back in time for the 10M contest. Amazing customer service. This is my first real effort in this contest and had alot of fun. The band closed up at about 7 pm and I had only about 100 Qs in the log. Lots of good AS and OC mults including JT and HS0. Mostly ran JA. The band opened up at about 7 am to the east coast and was expecting EU to open. Never really did. Worked a few western europeans and then started runnning the east coast. A few EU mults called in including GM and EA8. Just worked the UK and France pretty much. Had a great run to the east coast on SSB the first day. Finished up with about 700+ Qs. Was hoping for a good EU the second day. Heard a YU and was psyched for a good opening. But again, no joy. The band didn't really open till 8 am. In fact I didn't even hear some of the countries worked the first day. Pretty much just worked a few EAs CTs and an F. CU2JT did call in the second day though. Had a great run on CW and pretty much just focused on 4 pointers the whole second day. Again, I put almost 700 Qs in the log. Well past my stretch goal of 1000 Qs. Highlights: V51YJ, CU2JT and E21EIC called in. Was disappointed in the poor EU opening. Should be better next year. Setup: 2 Elecraft K3/100s 6 el monobander at 167' 3 el SteppIR at 60' fixed CA 73, Guy, N7ZG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8HM Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 3,808 My goal was 100 QSOs. Fell way short. Couldn't break through many of the pileups. This score would have been good for 9th in the world last year, but I'm sure it won't be close to that this year now that we actually have sunspots. Happy to hand out the DC mult to those who pulled me out of the mud. Thanks for the QSOs. See you for a few hours at least in the OK RTTY contest next week. Rig - Yaesu FT-817ND Antenna - Alexloop Walkham Portable Magnetic Loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,425,908 I started the contest with not the best attitude and condtions didn't help, band was dead Friday evening except a lone PY; finished 2 hours with 95 Q's. I was up early enough Saturday to catch the beginning of propagation at 1130Z. Both days the Balkans were the first area to come thru (S5,9A,LZ) well before the band opened direct elsewhere. As the band opened Saturday, it was obvious there would be plenty of EU activity, even CW was packed full. I sturggled to run on CW and even more so on phone, so spent some time S&P'ing both modes, should have done more! The guys in EU were smart and mostly in run mode. Around 1545Z or so, I discovered my antenna were about 25 degrees farther north than indicated, the wind had moved it which explains a lot of the frustration (first time this happened in a long time). Around 16Z, I finally got a decent run going on CW with an 89 hour. EU faded out fast in the 17Z hour, but kept beaming there until not much was left but a few EA's. The opening to the west was very frustrating, it was like the "big one" (earthquake) had hit CA and dropped them into the Pacific. I worked a handful of CA on CW, but first CA on phone was W6TA at around 2040Z and he was a struggle. Condtions were great to MT/WY/CO/NM with skip short enough to only briefly work ND/SD/KS. VE4-VE7's were loud, but VE4 activity was low. AZ was booming (many active!), but strangely no NV was logged on SSB until Sunday afternoon. Finally around 2145Z (our local sunset), the flood gates opened up to CA for a 123 hour on SSB. Over half of my total CA Q's for the contest were worked in that run which lasted about an hour. Conditions to JA were marginal as expected and the opening was maybe 45 minutes. I never heard KH6 on phone and KH7Y on CW was down from usual. There were several ZL's on CW, but VK was sparse and fairly weak both days. I moved E51NOU up for a Q whike he was S&P'ing on CW. Around 18Z, found VP8NO calling someone, so called CQ up 1 kHz and got him, then moved to SSB for his NR 5 and 6. Sunday, the band opened earlier to the same Balkan area, managed to find T7 on phone. By about 1215Z, there were many loud signals, so I moved to CW and managed to land a prime spot low in the band for a great run that lasted until 1545Z. QRM was never much of a factor and at times the pile-up was deep, who needs the amp? 13Z rate was 137 and 14Z 132 with many more Russians logged than expected. Put together the 52 EU Russians and 46 Ukrainians and I was only 10 Q's short of the 108 CA Q total, it was weird! VU2GBS called in for my only central Asian QSO. The run was too good to abandon, so the EU CW and phone mults suffered. This year's contest featured the least amount of Es I can ever remember. We had almost no propagation to IA, MO, AR, TN, AL. Even FL was barely worked on SSB, the band never opened there on Es. So, it was a wild struggle trying to fill in the missing states on Sunday afternoon. We had some brief spotty sporadic E finally late Sunday afternoon which enabled me to catch AR, IA, LA, and MS on on SSB. First NE was also worked Sunday and 2nd NE KT0K moved to CW. OK had not been worked at 21Z, so was very happy to move 2nd SSB OK, W5LE to CW where AA4V in SC found me for next QSO, then moved back to phone to give us each a double mult. K1WHS in ME was finally logged on CW after hearing him several times late afternoon giving him his last state; he graciously QSY'ed to SSB. I probably should have S&P'ed south more Sunday, but gave that area some effort Saturday. VE1/VE9 were skipping over me most all of the weekend, so only logged VE9AA and VY2ZM on CW backscatter. Considering the line noise which was about S4-5 towards EU and S3-4 on phone, I did pretty well on domestic mults, it has never been such a struggle with conditions so good, but lack of Es and LP made it that way. I worked 6 XE states on each mode. Most common mults: DL - 142 CA - 108 G - 56 AZ - 82 UA1- 52 MD - 52 UR - 46 WA - 46 F - 43 CO - 43 OK - 47 VA - 40 EA - 40 TX - 28 I - 40 PA - 28 SP - 35 PA1- 28 Not so rare states unless you are in EU: ID - 26!, MT - 18, NM -18, UT - 17, OR - 17 This was my best LP effort ever; take away the extra 10 XE mults and it is about even with 2002. About 800's on not so good Saturday and 800 more on much more enjoyable Sunday. Conditions in 2002 were better; EU activity in 2011 probably much better. At the start in 2002, the band was open to the west coast and a few JA's, and a few SA with some Es thrown in in several directions, finished Friday time with over 200 Q's as opposed to less than 100 locals this year. The Es was also much more plentiful that year. Thanks for all the Q's and digging me out. 73, Jeff N8II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 11,352 Not a big effort, but all the new gear is a bit daunting here. Been moving it around to fit, and not feeling well to do it. But tried to find club members but never seemed to open South like that. had some fun anyway. Jeff-N8NOE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8OB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 20,592 CW only. Great to hear the band in good shape again. Much different than last year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8XX Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 28,520 Wow! 10 metres was open - early in the day to Europe, later to western USA, South American, etc. Even with a wire antenna at 28' maximum (it's a 130' inverted V, fed in the center with 400 Ohm Twin Lead) folks could actually hear me! Never put together a big enough signal for a "good run" but about 95% S&P. Thanks to all the folks who dug down deep into the noise to pull my pipsquoke antenna out of the mud. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9AUG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 103,766 Interesting weekend. Tribander wouldn't tune on 10 so ended up using a 160 meter inverted ell. Had 500 Qs and 108 mults Saturday which weren't written to the harddrive so they are floating around in cyber space. If you worked me Saturday, your QSO is not going to show in my log. Am going to let the contest judges know, so maybe you will not get penalyzed for your call not being in my log. Then I switched to our club call for a couple of hours and ran a few Q's. Decided I wasn't gonna get any LoTW QSLs with this call so switched back to N9AUG and submitted the Sunday log. Gonna petition the county to change the name of the road I live on. Otherwise, I had a great time. Larry N9AUG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 91,504 Yet another part time effort. Great to hear 10m open again. No real 10m antenna available, so used the 2el 40m yagi (XM-240) at 95'. Autotuner in FT-1000MP handled the impedance mismatch. 73, Charlie N9CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9NC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,025,544 Operated M/S CW Only, Single Op Assisted (Telnet DX Cluster). Objective was to see how well a bunch of low antennas, mostly wire Vee beams, could play on 10m. It was the most fun I've had from this QTH. Claimed Score: 1,025,544 1482 CW QSOs, 173 Mults ( 104 DX + 69 States etc - missed only DE in US, and the hard VY0, VY1, and VO2, and a boat load of XE states { got 8 only } ) Station: Rig: FT-1000 MP Mk V ( with RX Noise Blanker Mod) + Alpha 87A Antennas: N. EU/UA9/VU Vee beam high - 60' - aimed about 30 degrees, 44m legs. EU Vee beam low - 25' - aimed about 50 degrees, 44m legs. SA/JA Vee beam - 30' - aimed 330 degrees, ~80m legs. W5/6/7 Vee beam - 25' - aimed 240 degrees, 44 m legs. 5 el homebrew OWA yagi at 17' (manually rotated, used Sat afternoon and Sunday only, see below) (All Vees are not terminated so they have theoretically 0 dB F/B) Lessons learned: There was always more to do with station prep and antennas. Yet, I don't feel I was hardware limited - I reconfirmed its all about state of mind. Example - this morning (Sunday), I had a great freq in the lower end, which was forcibly taken by a Central American station. I allowed myself to give up, and do S&P for a while, really too long. After realizing this was not working, I tried harder, and found a new low end freq with not much trouble, and got the rate back up where it should be. So when such things happen, take a deep breath, then KB! Also, my desire for continuous antenna improvement was a two edged sword - I did complete a new, better antenna, but lost some operating time to do so. I had started building a new (the first here) yagi about mid-day on Thursday. But with gathering parts and other distractions, I had 3 of 5 elements complete by dark Friday. So I started with the Vee beams only, which produced the best hour rate of 152 around 9am Saturday (only the low 25' one). Then after EU closed (mostly), I finished the last 2 elements, and man handled the 27' boom up to about 17' on a telescoping mast. This took 2 hours out of valuable operating time. But it did pay off - even at 17', it was equal or better to all the Vee's to JA and to EU on Sunday morning. So received wisdom confirmed - once 10 meters is properly open, a low antenna works well, and is really a necessity. The low Vee and low yagi were 10 dB better than the 60' Vee, with an edge for the yagi, probably because it has a broader pattern than the Vee. Anyway, now I have this yagi, so long as I don't succumb to my idea this evening to make another one to put at the other end of the yard for a second radio antenna, and put off doing it until a day before the next contest, I will be OK... Radio mod - if you have an FT-1000 MP/MK V, and haven't done the Noise Blanker mod, you should do it. I stumbled across this on W8JI's site. You remove one C and and add one R, and you get at least a 10 dB improvement in dynamic range. All the garbage I used to hear is gone. OK, its not a K3 or FT-5000, but its so much better than before that I may be able to continue to put off purchase of one of those. ( JI found a design flaw in the noise blanker circuit, it causes intermod even with the noise blanker off. This goes away with the mod, only thing is, it's a pain to get to the PC board to do it, requires major rig surgery and removal of a surface mount capacitor, etc.) Propagation - we all know how it went -just wish the flux had stayed high, no UA4, UA9, EK, 4K, nor more exotic Asians from here. Only a handful of JAs. A month ago when we got up to 170 or so, VU, 9V, were easy, zone 26 long path, etc. The long path may have been open but I missed it, having just worked a BA7 on Friday morning). So we have more to look forward to yet for 10m in coming months/years. A word for the 'Packet is the Devil' crowd: This contest doesn't have the Assisted category such as ARRL DX, so I just did M/S CW only. It was much more fun for me - I really wanted to see how the station played in the more difficult multiplier pile ups - having the cluster/skimmer enabled doing that consistently. Also, it is an open secret that for the big multi stations (M/s and M/M), packet/skimmer is a must have nowadays - for QSOs, not just for multipliers. So to maintain multi-op proficiency, one has to get really good at using the band map, and what I call PCP (Point, Click, Pounce). If you are vigilant, you can be on freq of a new mult or QSO before the pile starts, and have it logged before the big guns and larger pile arrives. Even from a big station, once the larger pile arrives, it can take more than a couple of calls to get through. Sometimes there are mini piles of the big guns on some random but fresh meat CQing DL or OK station... So you have to get good at always watching the new mult new Q window, and doing the QSY etc while trying to maintain a run freq ( it is much easier if you have a 2nd operator for such work, but its better for the soul to do it SO2V; think metal cilice, as used by Silas in The Da Vinci Code). Bottom line - objective achieved- the simple antennas play well, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! 73, Tom N9NC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9RV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,032,516 Many social obligations prevented a full time effort. But I think I hit most of the good times. Should have worked harder to work EU during the brief time it came in. I mostly CQ'd during the EU openings, never got anything good going. I would assume that Montana was a rare mult in EU, because I didn't work very many! Happy holidays to all. Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: N9RV CONTEST: ARRL-10 CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE OPERATORS: N9RV -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 0 0 0 93 93 93 4.6 0100 0 0 0 0 0 92 92 185 9.2 0200 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 204 10.2 0300 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 211 10.5 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211 10.5 1400 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 224 11.2 1500 0 0 0 0 0 78 78 302 15.1 1600 0 0 0 0 0 204 204 506 25.3 1700 0 0 0 0 0 196 196 702 35.1 1800 0 0 0 0 0 194 194 896 44.8 1900 0 0 0 0 0 177 177 1073 53.6 2000 0 0 0 0 0 140 140 1213 60.6 2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1213 60.6 2200 0 0 0 0 0 106 106 1319 65.9 2300 0 0 0 0 0 108 108 1427 71.3 0000 0 0 0 0 0 85 85 1512 75.6 0100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1512 75.6 1400 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 1526 76.3 1500 0 0 0 0 0 60 60 1586 79.3 1600 0 0 0 0 0 71 71 1657 82.8 1700 0 0 0 0 0 69 69 1726 86.3 1800 0 0 0 0 0 45 45 1771 88.5 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1771 88.5 2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1771 88.5 2100 0 0 0 0 0 118 118 1889 94.4 2200 0 0 0 0 0 112 112 2001 100.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2001 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 2001 2001 Gross QSOs=2001 Dupes=0 Net QSOs=2001 Unique callsigns worked = 2001 The best 60 minute rate was 209/hour from 1609 to 1708 The best 30 minute rate was 220/hour from 1605 to 1634 The best 10 minute rate was 246/hour from 1611 to 1620 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSOs/minute 27 times. 4 QSOs/minute 123 times. 3 QSOs/minute 220 times. 2 QSOs/minute 244 times. 1 QSOs/minute 226 times. ----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y ----------------- 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct --------------------------------------------------------------------- North America 0 0 0 0 0 1464 1464 73.2 South America 0 0 0 0 0 44 44 2.2 Europe 0 0 0 0 0 122 122 6.1 Asia 0 0 0 0 0 332 332 16.6 Africa 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 0.6 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 1.3 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 2001 2001 Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 4 880 5 603 6 503 7 2 8 12 9 1 ------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------ Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------------- 9A 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 BV 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 BY 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 CE 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 CM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 CT 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 CT3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 CU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 CX 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 DL 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 DU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 E5/s 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 E7 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 EA 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 0.8 EA6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 EA8 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 EI 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 F 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 FM 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 FS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 G 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 1.1 GD 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 GI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 GM 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 GW 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 HA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 HB 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 HC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 HL 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 HS 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 I 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 *IT9 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 JA 0 0 0 0 0 295 295 14.7 JT 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 K 0 0 0 0 0 1362 1362 68.1 KG4 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 KH2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 KH6 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 KL 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 KP2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 KP4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 LU 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 0.8 OH 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 OK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 OM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ON 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 OZ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 PA 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 0.6 PJ4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 PY 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 1.0 S5 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 SM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 SP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 TK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 UA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 UA9 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0.7 V5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 V6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 VE 0 0 0 0 0 82 82 4.1 VK 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.3 VP8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 XE 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 YB 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 YS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 YU 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 YV 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 ZL 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 ZP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ZS 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 2001 2001 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- -DX- 0 0 0 0 0 543 543 27.1 Ny 0 0 0 0 0 84 84 4.2 Pa 0 0 0 0 0 81 81 4.0 Tx 0 0 0 0 0 80 80 4.0 Fl 0 0 0 0 0 74 74 3.7 Va 0 0 0 0 0 69 69 3.4 Oh 0 0 0 0 0 68 68 3.4 Nj 0 0 0 0 0 53 53 2.6 Tn 0 0 0 0 0 52 52 2.6 Ca 0 0 0 0 0 51 51 2.5 Ma 0 0 0 0 0 50 50 2.5 Md 0 0 0 0 0 49 49 2.4 Nc 0 0 0 0 0 45 45 2.2 On 0 0 0 0 0 44 44 2.2 Il 0 0 0 0 0 43 43 2.1 Mi 0 0 0 0 0 43 43 2.1 Al 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 2.0 In 0 0 0 0 0 38 38 1.9 Ga 0 0 0 0 0 35 35 1.7 Nh 0 0 0 0 0 35 35 1.7 Mn 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 1.5 Wi 0 0 0 0 0 29 29 1.4 Wa 0 0 0 0 0 28 28 1.4 Az 0 0 0 0 0 26 26 1.3 Mo 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 1.2 Ct 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 1.2 Co 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 1.0 Ky 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 1.0 Ri 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0.7 Me 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 0.6 Sc 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 0.6 La 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0.5 Wv 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0.5 Vt 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0.5 Ia 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 Ms 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 Or 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 Ut 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.4 Bc 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.4 Ok 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.4 Ks 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.3 Ar 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.3 Qc 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.3 Id 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 Mt 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 Ne 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 Dc 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 De 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 Ak 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.3 Hi 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 Sk 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 Ab 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.2 Ns 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.2 Nd 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.2 Nm 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.2 Nv 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 Pe 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1 Nb 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 Mb 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 Sd 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1 Wy 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 Nt 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 Yt 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 2001 2001 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 106 5.3 1 164 8.2 2 164 8.2 3 159 7.9 4 257 12.8 5 118 5.9 6 60 3.0 7 85 4.2 8 130 6.5 9 119 5.9 -------------------- Total 1362 68.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 100,368 Rig: Elecraft K3/KPA500 400W Ant: Cushcraft R5 Vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2U Class: M/S HP Total Score = 305,230 Pro III, AL-80B, N6BT Bravo 5 vertical dipole (ground-mounted). New antenna helped. Sunspots helped. Used packet mostly to spot friends and I ran into may this year while running, S&P, and point/shoot. It's one of the best things about this contest. There ain't no meters like 10 meters. 73 from the desert, Fred/NA2U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA3D Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 606,204 Many, many thanks to Sig and Marianne for their wonderful hospitality and use of the awesome N3RS station! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 508,524 Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5TR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 259,350 Friday night started well, but Murphy came calling: At 0115 UTC my rotator jammed pointing 330, where it stayed the rest of the contest. Still, when the band shut down I had 304 Qs in the log. Saturday I finished assembling my 2nd 10M antenna and installed it at 55 ft pointing NE. So I now had 2 "fixed" antennas, NE and NW. They played pretty well, actually. I worked a fair number of of S. Am. off the back of the NW, and some Oceana off the back of the NE. Don't think I will stay in this configuration, though, but it was effective when running stations to be able to change direction by simply switching antennas. I am a believer. After I get the rotator down, repaired, and up again, improvement plans call for a fixed antenna at about 40 ft pointing 130. In this contest, I worked NWT, S. Korea, and China for the first time. Overall it was fun, but I sure would have liked to have those hours back I spent getting a 2nd antenna up on Saturday! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA6E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 118,272 Mark and I have not seen each other for over a year. My wife and I went up to his place and we had great plans to dig in and spend some real BIC time. But between visiting, having a fantastic Turkey dinner and over sleeping, we only managed 6 1/2 hours..... and much of that time was not serious. And somehow I lost contact #2 when I logged #3! It was a lot of fun working so many fellow Outlaws. And this was the first time I have ever used an amp. I'm used to QRP and was like a kid in a candy store when most people came back to me on the first call. Just look out for NA6E in the RTTY Roundup! Mark and I will really put in the full BIC for that one! KU7Y and WT6P dba NA6E ... Kingman, AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA8V Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 517,448 TS850 + TH6 at 37' Put the beam up Friday, had it all hooked up and ready to go at 2356z. Skip in the US was dismal, it seemed like everything east of the Rockies was bent. Missed DC, VT and WV plus VE4 and the northern tier of VE. I did get 8 XE states and more different XEs (12) than I've ever worked in contest before. Never got close to what you could call rate except for a couple hours to EU. Conditions to EU were good, but there just isn't enough daylight in December. It's sunset in Moscow when it's dawn here. Even so, I worked more EU than stateside stations. I was actually able to run some, although it's evident I was a few layers down from a lot of folks. Sunday was better, had an hour of 87 Sunday morning. Worked more EU on Sunday than on Saturday. One of the highlights was finding an open spot at 015, calling CQ, going to town - for a few brief minutes. Didn't take long to get pushed back up to the high end. After I realized just how weak the loud W's were and how tightly we were all packed in, i got really worried about who was working whom. Worked 25 JA's, again better Sun than Sat. Worked a UA0 and a 4z and that was it for Asia. Band didn't open until 45min. after sunset both days. Many thanks to all the ops that took the time to dig me out of the mud and also to those that tried hard but couldn't quite get there. Felt great to be back on the high bands with an antenna that turns. greg/na8v hgchapoton@gmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NB7V Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 164,164 limited time-- It was an east coast contest from here no NW SW or CA-Eu was never heard--a couple of south Americans worked------oh well next year. Mark5 --Kilowatt--Double stack of KT34XA's both rotatable-thanks for th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NC5O Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 21,216 Running 100w to a Butternut on the ground had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 25,800 I only had a few hours to operate due to a bunch of other commitments, but wanted to "play" a little and enjoy the good propagation in the time available. (My original plans to go full bore in this one went by the wayside when various Christmas program schedules for my daughter came out. And I had to be involved in some volleyball club tryouts, so.... Maybe next year!) I have loved this contest since the early days - running QRP in it back before there was a QRP category! It is a great event and is multiplier rich. I used my old Ten Tec Argonaut 509 running a rock-crushing 3 watts output - it is still a nice little radio. I focused on working as many mults as I could in the limited time I was on. Conditions seemed pretty decent, but not as good as in the last couple months. Things seemed a little spotty and QSB was significant at times. It seemed from here that the band opened later and closed earlier than a month ago and it was never quite as long as a few weeks ago. I didn't hear any BYs and couldn't get thru to the eastern Europeans. (It might have been better on Saturday morning - but I wasn't on. - I could have used the mults!) But I did manage to work a total of 53 countries in 6 hours time. When I called loud stations, it was pretty much a push-button QSO. And high in the band, with minimal QRM, even weaker stations were easy to work. Once again 10 meters demonstrates what an awesome band it is for QRP! The ND0C "retro station" for this one: Ten Tec Argonaut 509 - 3 watts out (circa 1980) Wilson SY-3 three element tribander Yagi (circa 1979) 73, Randy, ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND6S Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 113,160 Lots of S & P and a long nap or two. Many DX stations trading Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 125,492 Limited time. Great daytime conditions! Missed KY, KS and WV for 10 mtr WAS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE7D Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 5,544 Only got one shot in the early hours of the contest, but fun nevertheless! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 62,560 Was deer hunting all weekend except for Saturday afternoon....had to come in for a company Christmas party. Was able to get on for almost 4 hours. Conditions were good but not as good as they had been a few days before the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF8J Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 128,502 What a great contest, could only operate for 8 hrs on Saturday and 1 hour on Sunday to fill a few multipliers. K3, TH11DX @ 90' and N1MM logging. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NH2DX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,762,344 Great long path openings to Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI7R Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 151,200 Antenna was a temporary 10 meter dipole at a height of 10 feet. It seemed to work fairly well. I was able to work almost every EU station called. Working the western states was the most difficult though. I never worked NV, WY or OR. Thanks to those Arizona Outlaws with good ears who heard me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,553,904 Well that was a lot of fun! Joe/NK7U and I took turns. Joe on CW and I on SSB. Our goal was to keep our QSO points about equal between the two modes and it worked out well. I had the last 10 rate meter hit 400 at one point. I have never seen that before! Also had my best hour ever with a 235 hour on SSB Saturday afternoon. Joe said his CW pileups were as deep as anything he has ever experienced. It was just a bottomless pit. It was great working all those new hams with the KI, KJ, and KK calls -- we had 53 of them in the log just from the 4th call area. XEs were out in force again with 31 QSOs and 25 mults. Even as the contest came to an end the bandmap was full of stations we had not worked. Somehow we managed to miss RI, WY, ND, and SD on CW and NM on SSB. VEs were well represented with an amazing 61 VE3s and 3 NWTs. We did miss LAB and NUN on both modes and MB, BC, and YT on SSB. We thought our score was pretty good though we only got to about 75% of the Oregon record M/S score. That AI7B effort in 1989 must have been amazing, 3,454 QSOs! However we also have to agree with K7SS, K7RL, N7ZG and the other Pacific NW stations that the Europe opening was disappointing. After a wonderful October and November of 10 Meter propagation we have not seen in a decade the shorter days of December finally caught up with us. Saturday our opening was from 16:15-17:15 UTC and we worked just the very western part of Europe -- EA, CT, F, EI, and the G's. Sunday things started off great with a DL, I, 9A, and OE quickly in the log around 16:00. Then we got a run going with loud EA, CT, and G's calling in but after 10 minutes someone shut the door and that was it. The band had a 5 minute bounce back about 20 minutes later and then it was gone for good. Turned out worse than Saturday. Interesting though TM6M spotted us at 19:10 Sunday. No idea if they heard us or heard someone work us. Friday night was great fun for those who hung around. The band had its usual close to Asia and points west a little more than an hour into the contest. It was a pretty good start with VR, HS, NH2, 9V, 9M2, T8, 9M6 and other usual suspects in the log. We went in for dinner and came back out and started calling CQ. We had a great spotlight opening into NE, KS, MO, and IA -- fairly short skip but signals were strong. We had no idea there were than many stations in NE. We worked 9 of them. The band was not in as good a shape Saturday night but we did have a pipeline into MN with 11 straight MN qsos over a period of about 30 minutes. Lesson to everyone out there. The band is often open at night if you hang around. It was a fun and relaxing weekend. Thank everyone for the QSOs. We did notice several folks who had their logging software set to spot everything they worked. It they were running this just succeeded in filling up everyone's bandmaps with useless information. I did come across one Ham walking another through how to turn it off. Sounded like the one guy didn't know he was doing it and appreciated being notified. Let's all do this when we can. Scott/K7ZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2L Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 23,976 Only had a few hours to spare. Interesting listening as the band opened and hearing the big beams and higher power opening the band up to folks I couldn't work. I could hear them fine, but could not work them with my peanut whistle & wires. Great fun! I wish I had been able to spend more time on the air this weekend! I don't think propagation will ever get much better than what we have seen on 10 this year. 73 de NM2L, Greg in Sugar Hill, GA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM5M Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 92,400 K3/100, R5 Vertical, Stealth Wire laying on roof, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN1N Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,386,660 Too much to do to allow for a full operation. Not ready for winter yet :-) That's a bad thing based upon last year's winter. Spent most of Saturday afternoon outside. Conditions were OK. Great runs from Europe, TU. Lots of neat stuff called-in. Wish I could get the same kind of rate from the US. Very weak openings to Japan. Saturday night the band closed and then opened for about 15 weak minutes to Japan. Missed DE but heard WW3DE once. Heard VY1EI once too and couldn't snag his attention. Still too many key clickers on the bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 327,756 Good times Got the "green beam" up in the air at about 40 feet for this one. Thought it did OK, but have decided it needs some beefing up. 10 sounded good, but it was better in CQWW CW and much better in CQWW SSB. Felt that Sunday was much better than Saturday. But, compared to 2005-2009, I'll take it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 314,208 Band was in pretty good shape, only managed 16.5 hours due to work and band closed at times, only made 13 contacts first night before it closed down totally here in SC.. Missed RI, MS, and Canadians in NB YT and NU, worked 12 Mexican sections.. and 73 Counties... Had fun was the main thing... Equipment: FT1000, ALpha 78 (1kw) and a Mosley TA-63 up at 60ft.. Paul- NN4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4MM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 236,140 Two 80 foot wires at 35 feet, but still fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NO5W Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 102,644 K3/100, dipole at 25 ft Good to see 10m open, had fun. 73/Chuck/NO5W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP4Z Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,075,500 Great to see 10 in great shape again... the band werent nearly as good as other days but activity was great and the pile ups were endless! too many family commitments cut my operating time short. The new antennas played as expected... very happy!! Happy new year to all!! Felipe NP4Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR1X Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 552,684 Well, where does one begin after a weekend like that.(or 2 weeks for some of us) I guess it all starts at CQWWDX CW weekend with my friends and contesting team mates at KB1H. Never having experienced any thing like the conditions on ten meters that we saw that weekend, I was hooked.. Having been on a sort of hiatus, otherwise known as second shift, I have been missing out on alot of the contesting I love like NS Sprints every thursday and all of the great CWops events. Also the fact that a stupid mistake of wireing led my ft 950 to sit on a shelf for months. These things combined to lead some of my friends and team mates to question my contesting MOJO. I had something to prove, to myself and them. I knew darn well that even with the trusty old SB-200 the 5/8wave vertical antenna wasnt going to cut the mustard for this one. I did have an old 3rd hand mosely ta33jr sitting around that I had been sorely disappointed by before, but something about traps just rubs me wrong, and I dont have a place to get a yagi high enough to be of any use on 15 or 20 meters so.... First victim Mosley.. On to R&D. I went to the website of W4RNL and found some interesting designs. Then I stumbled across a set of articles he had written for the 10-10 club and a specific design he wrote about. It is a Bill Orr, W6SAI design and meant to be easy for a first time yagi builder... PERFECT... so the mosley ta33jr went into surgery. (after some reassurance from models by W1UJ) so 1 week befor ethe contest up goes the antenna I have dubbed the "OrrBikSley" 3el on a close to 12ft boom.. After analyzing it, all the figures Very closely matched the models. then a weeek long run of getting the station all in order, amp keying, DVK from N1MM, making a footswitch, and rf testing it all. Now for the contest. I took a vacation day on friday so not to miss the first 6 hours of the contest. 2 hours before the contest loud signals from all over the US and Mexico. KIckoff time, crickets. The band reminded me of 6 meters in januaray.. spin the wheel across a dead band and listen closely then hit f1 till your fingers bleed. Im not sure how many QSO's or Mults I got that first night but it wasnt much. Early bed time so I could make the most of the AM run on EU. Go figure I over sleep till about 9am and had to jump in late. Im sure I missed a few mults for that one. Once in the chair and having a seat on the band EU was awesome saturday morning. Run till your working more off the back of the antenna then turn into the hellfire.. Fun stuff, til you hear every station on the band fizzle out and its back to 6m in January. Sunday morning a 5am wakeup from the XYL got me up and coffee going and find a spot. CQing into the great wall of propagationlessness until it opens up. Then all off the sudden hear comes the UA's... oooo starting to get excited... never really got any traction into EU on sunday, but I was there to hear the band open up as much as it was going to. Had a nice run of USA stations on SSB to keep me busy and catch up to UJ's qso count, but never could get back the mults I missed out on by sleeping in on saturday. Anyway, "OrrBikSley" performed very well as did everything else in the shack. Can't wait till next year, I can see this is going to be a favorite of mine. Thanks for all the fun. FT-950 sb-200 "OrrBiksley" @ 35ft vertical @ 35ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR5M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,113,284 Thanks to Bill,K5GA, and Jason,N5NU, for a great job! The station played well. The only major problem was a failed active antenna that prevented use of our skimmer. Wow! What a different band a year (or two) makes. And thanks to all for the Q's! Hope to be back again next year for more 10 meter fun. George, NR5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NW3H Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 15,400 Only 4 hour all SSB effort during daughter's nap time this weekend. Saturday conditions were much better then on Sunday. Worked 3 ZL stations on Saturday around 2pm. On Sunday conditions were much worse. At least there was activity and that is always good to hear on 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX0I Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 292,380 Great conditions all weekend. Lots of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX3SS Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 6,080 Limited op time ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,606,610 Felt like throwing in the towel before the contest even started. KU5B arrived at the station around 11am Friday, while I was out of town, to find that recently added cows decided to almost totally destroy feedlines, control lines, rotor cables and phasing gear to half of the 10m antenna system. When I arrived at the station around 245pm it became a mad rush to try to make repairs to all of the damage. At least in the end we got it all working for the most part but quickly found right at the start of the contest that there were other issues that were unknown. Something had changed somewhere which altered the swr when running multiple antennas on ssb so we were limited on the amount of power we could use. For what we could run on ssb we may as well have used a 600w amplifier. On cw everything was good enough but still had to cut back power a little. One of my worst fears came true this year. We were almost totally blacked out to Mexico and the plentiful XE multiplers. I think we logged 10 total qsos but every one of those was a struggle to hear and work. Mexico just was not in our footprint and it is really irritating to be too close to be able to have a chance at working those 32 multipliers. For all I know a station 50 miles east of the area may have been able to hear them.....but all that matters is that "we could not". Although we were able to work all 50 states on both modes this year there were still several areas that were almost totally silent. We worked a very low number of W4's and who would have thought that Arizona would be attenuated to less than 10 qsos overall. Also, very poor results from W8 and W9 and other than Friday night W0 was missing in action as well. The goal was 3000 qsos and 350 mults so we fell short. If the band had been open to the areas mentioned above I am sure we would have reached the goal. If we had spent a little more time on ssb perhaps the rates would have been a little higher resluting in more qsos but it was hard to go to ssb when it was a compromising situation. Oh well, the team here knew full well that the 6-year winning streak would end at some point and that this would probably be the year it would happen as we have moved into a new cycle. We had a good time, some good laughs and some good food. Now that there is a break from contesting comes the time to find existing problems and fix them. We will be back even if I have to assassinate those 30+ cows! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX8G/5 Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 51,340 Operated from my winter home in Franklinton, LA. Casual search and pounce operation, I tried to call CQ a few times, but it didn't seem to be productive with my low power station. Propagation was very good to some areas of the US and nonexistent to other areas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ4O Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 19,890 Rig- Icom IC-756 Pro III Power- 400 watts Antenna- 300 foot long horizontal loop up at 35 feet Software- N3FJP Ten Mtr v3.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OA4DKW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 11,352 Using a 20 meters inverted V for 10 meter is not the greatest when running against the big guns. Less than 100 watts from my TS-140S with no filters was no help either. However it was fun and am glad for those stations who could pull me out and where patient enought to work me. Thanks to all, Roger, OA4DKW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 647,838 nice to see that our old equipment is still working, sometimes spotty condx, but big fun on 10m again ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE3KAB Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 210,532 Using 2el Yagi & Kenwood TS480HX. Conds were pretty good and I enjoyed the contest. Whish I could spend more time in this contest next year. Thanks for all the QSO's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE8Q Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,238,780 thanks to all for calling Happy Holidays 73 de OE8SKQ Stefan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG2A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 561,996 This was an assisted entry that in this contest is multi. Great fun with RBN to see what is on and how my own signal was developing over the day. Thanks for the contacts! Markku ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK6RA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 165,894 Only for fun :-) With very very poor ant. (something between dipol and vertical dipol on the balcony at 14m up). But worked with stations around the word. The band closed immediately after sunset. Sunday seemed to be better than Saturday. See you in the next contest :-) Vaclav OK6RA (ex.OK1WMV,OL9R) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,200,000 On Friday before the contest we finished new 6el OWA and 20meter tower. We conceived contest very relaxed, mostly CW and RUN mode. CONDX unfortunately worse than ALL CQWWs, only one QSO with CA - congratulations to James W6YI! Bad the old national record from 2002 was overcome, hi. Thank you for your wonderful pileups from NA/SA and see you in Stew Perry ! on behalf of OL7M group Pavel OK1MU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP4K Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 66,898 Was only able to take 3h35 this weekend to play around. Thank you the Qs. 73 Joe OP4K Yeasu FTDX5000mp Acom 2000A Optibeam OB18-6 N1MM Happy Holidays!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,071,104 ON5ZO + classic Telnet cluster = Multi Op. OB11-3 = 5 el on 6m boom @22m, K3 + kW, N1MMLogger (accept no substitute!). We should say: "The best ARRL 10m contest in almost a decade!". But of course, us contesters say: "Lousy conditions way off from WW SSB and even WW CW". In fact this was my first ARRL 10m test with a real tower, a real antenna and QRO. And sunspots! So I have nothing to compare to. I tried mixed mode with packet which makes me M/S but now I have a benchmark for the future. No the propagation wasn't as good as in WW SSB. But we're gonna be very unhappy if we keep that weekend in mind as 'the standard for 10'. The band opened wide around noon here, before noon things were slow. And around 16.00 utc it seemed someone pulled the plug out of the bathtub and the signals slowly went down the drain. Around 17.30 utc, the band was closed. Nevertheless it was fun. Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 de Franki ON5ZO = OQ5M http://www.on5zo.be/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OR2F Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 493,368 thanks to all for reply and calling ... 73 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT4A Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 342,516 Just a total of 8 hours found to be active,so decided to run with low power and mostly cw. Great fun as always. Cuagn sn OT4A Theo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OY1CT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 305,196 Conditions no so good as in CQWW, only few hours of daylight ment few hours spend at the radio. Not many mults from NA and mostly eastcoast stations. Nice to have some sunspots back - looking forward to next years 10m contest. Thanks to all who called me. 73 de OY1CT Caen... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ1ADL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 221,950 ...Just Andrew and I playing around with the 7 elm. Yagi under less than perfect condx - We didn�'t even manage to work California ... But a lot of fun nevertheless - but nothing like CQWW :-) CUAGN Jan, OZ1ADL http://www.thogersen.dk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ4FF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 86,268 dxc 61 mult 30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40K Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 547,476 Thanks to Carl AI6V/P49V and Sue AI6YL/P40YL for use of their beautiful Aruba home and great station. Conditions had deteriorated from the previous weekend but were still quite good. Wonderful to have 10 meters back with a lot of activity including many new operators. Thanks for the Q's. Logs will be on LOTW in a few days. QSL to WM6A direct or to the W6 bureau if you want a QSL card. Kay, K6KO/P40K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA0JED Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 53,064 station: Yaesu ft-817ND 5 watts out to 5/89 vertical and 3 ele yagi. Good condx with lots of multi path propagation. Season greetings and see u all in 2012 73 jan pa0jed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PI4DX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 579,330 I'm still a youngtimer by ham standards and this is my first solar cycle. Everybody always told me how great 10 meters would be once the band would really open up. Boy, they weren't kidding! There's no meter like 10 meter! I had a absolute blast. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,083,108 Station setup: TenTec Orion I + amplifier SteppIR 3 ele @ 250 feet mostly in bi-dir mode (which is great by the way!) About 10 stations were logged in the first hour, 4 of them from E7/S5, nice scatter! After a 4.5 hour nap it started off slowly with the first DX at 0635 from Israel. After another half hour the band came alive and things started moving. First VK worked just before 08:00. Later in the morning some strong signals from Africa could be worked. EU was difficult because of ECHO's. First station from north America made it into the log around 12Z. Then it was mainly NA the rest of the afternoon until 17:45Z, when the band had sadly closed already. A meager 600+ QSO's in the log. Hmmm, we had to adjust our goal. The next morning from 07Z onwards the band woke up again. First with some small JA runs short path. We were surprised to work JH5RXS at 14Z long path, since it was already 6.5 hours into the night in JA5... Last DX to be worked was N4NO at 17:30Z from Alabama. Over the weekend only 2 XE's were worked. It's a pity propagation (or activity?) was not there to work all those XE provinces. An interesting question is how we all would have done and how much more/less fun we would have had without DXcluster, RBN and running just 100W...? For those who worked us and want to hear how we heard you, drop me a message and I can send you an audio clipping. Hope to see many of you on Top Band in Stew Perry. 73 -- Aurelio, PC5A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,992,120 With leadership from N4RV and equipment brought by WX0B we set up two stations, one for CW and one for SSB. WX0B fabricated a lockout cable to assure that only one transmitted at a time, and we were able to at times interleave phone and CW contacts. At most other times, we ran on one and pounced mults on the other. 10 meter conditions the week before the contest were superior to those on the weekend, but it was still a hoot to be able to work 29% of our Qs in Europe after many years of not one single 10 meter QSO to Europe. The Asian contacts were equally thrilling, most especially JT5DX on CW. Pileups slowed our rates down markedly. As usual, the North American and Asian pileups were orderly but the European pileups were another story altogether. We consumed a lot of kilowatt hours of electricity and equal amounts of beer, taking a focused but fun approach to the contest. It was great to again have WX0B at the QTH and look forward to Jay's visits in the future. Many thanks to Jack, N4RV, for providing the organizational leadership on this one. Thx and 73, - Geoff, W0CG/7, PJ2DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4LS Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 685,568 My first 10 mtr contest. Could not operate the full period due to other commitments. Started on Saterday morning, with good EU/USA opening untill midday at PJ4. Band closed at 18:00Z. During the evening opening to VK/ZL. Enjoyed to bring up score on Sunday with again good opening to EU/USA in the morning. Band closed at 22:00Z. Hughe pile-ups all the time overflowed my capacity for quick logging. Equipment used : Yaesu FT-100MK5, Kenwood TL-922(500W), Microham keyer, Vibroplex Dual lever Iambic paddle, antenna LPDA, software WINTEST. Mni TNX for your patience, gl dx. Mry XMAS & Hpy 2012 Hans / PJ4LS MORSE=ART ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT3T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,257,570 Nice contest and good prop. Worst thing was to deal with the 36 hours rule, because we had good prop, either on SP or LP, almost 24 hours / day. Very tight control over the "on hours", to achieve the goal...35:59, very sharp.... Merry Xmas and Happy New Year - Hpe see you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PU2LEP Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 458,240 FT950 HEIL PRO SET 4 5 ELEM YAGI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2EX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,625,712 Vy good propagation this year. A lot of stations on the air. Hard to find a frequency to call CQ. I hope we can have the same conditions in 2012. 73 de Eger PY2EX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2HL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 51,086 TX:FT 857D AMPLIFIER:FL2100 METER:CN-102L ANTENA:5 ELEM YAGUI(YU7EF) POWER:700W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2MTV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 536,000 Thanks for all qso, log in LOTW, EQSL and Direct via only M0OXO. 73 es DX Andre PY2MTV Also PX2C Contest Call ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NDX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,580,666 Rig: FT-2000 Amp: Alpha 91b Ant: 5 el. Yagi @ 14 meters up (short boom) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY4CHM Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 61,204 ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2011-12-09 CallSign Used : PY4CHM Operator(s) : PY4CHM Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 10M Power : LOW Mode : SSB Default Exchange : 001 Gridsquare : GG88HG Name : Carlos Henrique Monteiro - PY4CHM ARRL Section : DX Club/Team : RIO DX GROUP Software : N1MM Logger V11.12.0 Band QSOs Pts Cty 28 286 572 107 Total 286 572 107 Score : 61.204 Rig : FT897D Antennas : DXA3S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY4RR Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 54 Low time in contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY6KY Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 154,810 Setup: FT450AT + Delta Loop @ 6,0m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,041,718 It was first ARRL 10M for me)). And it was vy fun. Propogation to JA and USA was vy Sharp and short. Cu in Stew Parry! 73's Yury Contest : ARRL 10 Meter Contest Callsign : RL3A Mode : MIXED Category : Multi Operator - Single Transmitter (MS) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 10 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : DX Locator : KO85OX Operating time : 21h05 MODE QSO DUP DXC MLTS POINTS AVG --------------------------------------- CW 1347 25 116 36 5384 4.00 SSB 866 3 112 23 1730 2.00 --------------------------------------- TOTAL 2213 28 228 59 7114 3.21 ======================================= TOTAL SCORE : 2 041 718 Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations Operators : R3DCX, RT3DX,UA3ASZ,RZ3RX,R3CM,RL3FT,UB4FAB Ant.: 3x8 el Yagi @44m, 3X8el Yagi @46m, 7el Quad RQ83AWL, XL222@70m EAST(S&P), 3EL HB9CV @70m USA(S&P) Rig's: IC7800, IC756PRO2, IC775DX2, TS950SDX; For more info: Russian yagi: http://russian-yagi.ru/ RQUAD: http://quad.ru/ RL3A: http://rk3awl.ru/ Some Statistic: 10mCW 10mSSB 10mMix S&P RUN Sum S&P RUN Sum S&P RUN Sum MA 100 12 112 172 146 318 272 158 430 MB 19 718 737 21 364 385 40 1082 1122 MD 249 0 249 67 67 316 0 316 ME 244 30 274 99 99 343 30 373 612 760 1372 359 510 869 971 1270 2241 44,6% 55,4% 41,3% 58,7% 43,3% 56,7% Worked DXCC DXCC | CT | 10C | 10S | TOTAL ================================= 3A | EU | 1 | | 1 3V | AF | | 1 | 1 3W | AS | 1 | 1 | 2 4J | AS | 1 | | 1 4O | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 4S | AS | 1 | | 1 4X | AS | 4 | 2 | 6 5B | AS | 3 | 3 | 6 5N | AF | 1 | | 1 5R | AF | 1 | | 1 5X | AF | 1 | | 1 5Z | AF | | 1 | 1 9A | EU | 9 | 7 | 16 9H | EU | 1 | | 1 9J | AF | 1 | | 1 9K | AS | 1 | | 1 9M2 | AS | 2 | 2 | 4 9M6 | OC | 1 | 1 | 2 9Y | SA | 1 | 1 | 2 A6 | AS | 1 | 2 | 3 A7 | AS | 1 | | 1 BV | AS | 3 | 4 | 7 BY | AS | 21 | 24 | 45 C9 | AF | | 1 | 1 CE | SA | 2 | 3 | 5 CE9 | SA | 1 | 1 | 2 CM | NA | 1 | 2 | 3 CN | AF | 1 | 1 | 2 CT | EU | 2 | 11 | 13 CT3 | AF | 2 | 5 | 7 CU | EU | | 3 | 3 CX | SA | 3 | 3 | 6 D4 | AF | 1 | 1 | 2 DL | EU | 81 | 46 | 127 DU | OC | 2 | 5 | 7 E7 | EU | 5 | 2 | 7 EA | EU | 39 | 55 | 94 EA6 | EU | 4 | 2 | 6 EA8 | AF | 10 | 8 | 18 EA9 | AF | | 1 | 1 EI | EU | 6 | 12 | 18 EK | AS | | 1 | 1 ER | EU | 1 | 1 | 2 ES | EU | 4 | 3 | 7 ET | AF | | 1 | 1 EU | EU | 6 | 1 | 7 EX | AS | 3 | | 3 EY | AS | | 1 | 1 F | EU | 38 | 64 | 102 FG | NA | | 1 | 1 FM | NA | 1 | | 1 G | EU | 62 | 40 | 102 GD | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 GI | EU | 3 | 4 | 7 GJ | EU | 1 | 1 | 2 GM | EU | 7 | 4 | 11 GU | EU | 1 | 1 | 2 GW | EU | 1 | 6 | 7 HA | EU | 12 | 3 | 15 HB | EU | 9 | 9 | 18 HC | SA | 1 | 1 | 2 HI | NA | | 2 | 2 HK | SA | 2 | 2 | 4 HL | AS | 7 | 5 | 12 HR | NA | 1 | | 1 HS | AS | 2 | 4 | 6 HZ | AS | 1 | 3 | 4 I | EU | 48 | 68 | 116 IS | EU | 1 | 1 | 2 J3 | NA | 1 | | 1 JA | AS | 149 | 73 | 222 JT | AS | 3 | 2 | 5 KH2 | OC | 1 | 2 | 3 KP2 | NA | 4 | 2 | 6 KP4 | NA | 1 | 2 | 3 LA | EU | 2 | 2 | 4 LU | SA | 16 | 8 | 24 LX | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 LY | EU | 4 | 4 | 8 LZ | EU | 9 | 1 | 10 OA | SA | 1 | | 1 OD | AS | | 1 | 1 OE | EU | 5 | 4 | 9 OH | EU | 8 | 5 | 13 OH0 | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 OK | EU | 13 | 5 | 18 OM | EU | 9 | 1 | 10 ON | EU | 13 | 7 | 20 OY | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 OZ | EU | 2 | | 2 P4 | SA | | 1 | 1 PA | EU | 49 | 33 | 82 PJ2 | SA | 2 | 1 | 3 PJ7 | NA | | 1 | 1 PY | SA | 18 | 18 | 36 S5 | EU | 23 | 11 | 34 SM | EU | 9 | 3 | 12 SP | EU | 14 | 6 | 20 ST | AF | 1 | 1 | 2 SV | EU | 6 | 13 | 19 SV5 | EU | | 2 | 2 SV9 | EU | 2 | 4 | 6 T7 | EU | 1 | 1 | 2 T8 | OC | 1 | 1 | 2 TA | AS | 1 | 1 | 2 TF | EU | 1 | 1 | 2 TI | NA | 1 | 1 | 2 TK | EU | 1 | 2 | 3 TR | AF | | 1 | 1 UA | EU | 69 | 33 | 102 UA2 | EU | 1 | | 1 UA9 | AS | 58 | 29 | 87 UN | AS | 13 | 7 | 20 UR | EU | 38 | 15 | 53 V2 | NA | | 1 | 1 V5 | AF | 2 | | 2 V6 | OC | 1 | | 1 VK | OC | 5 | 28 | 33 VP5 | NA | 1 | 1 | 2 VR | AS | 1 | 3 | 4 VU | AS | 2 | 2 | 4 XU | AS | 1 | | 1 YA | AS | 1 | 1 | 2 YB | OC | 1 | 2 | 3 YL | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 YO | EU | 6 | 6 | 12 YU | EU | 12 | 2 | 14 YV | SA | | 1 | 1 Z3 | EU | 1 | | 1 ZC4 | AS | 1 | | 1 ZF | NA | | 1 | 1 ZL | OC | 9 | 4 | 13 ZP | SA | 2 | 1 | 3 ZS | AF | 1 | 3 | 4 ================================= | | 1037 | 805 | 1842 Worked States/Provinces | CW | SSB | TOTAL =========================== CT | 19 | 7 | 26 MA | 23 | 4 | 27 ME | 6 | 2 | 8 NH | 13 | 6 | 19 RI | 5 | 1 | 6 VT | 2 | 1 | 3 NJ | 21 | 3 | 24 NY | 35 | 3 | 38 DE | 1 | 2 | 3 PA | 29 | 3 | 32 MD | 20 | 8 | 28 DC | 1 | | 1 AL | 2 | | 2 FL | 40 | 7 | 47 GA | 4 | | 4 KY | 1 | | 1 NC | 7 | 1 | 8 SC | 3 | 3 | 6 TN | 7 | | 7 VA | 23 | 2 | 25 LA | 3 | | 3 TX | 4 | | 4 MI | 5 | 2 | 7 OH | 10 | 1 | 11 WV | 3 | 1 | 4 IL | 4 | | 4 IN | 3 | | 3 MN | 2 | | 2 ND | 1 | | 1 NB | 4 | | 4 NS | 5 | | 5 NF | 1 | 1 | 2 PEI | 3 | 1 | 4 QC | 3 | 1 | 4 ON | 12 | 1 | 13 R1 | 1 | 1 | 2 =========================== | 326 | 62 | 388 RL3A By band - By mode QSOs (without dupes) - By time | Hr | 10 | 10 | Total | | | CW | SSB | | --------------------------------------- | 01 | 4 | | 4 | | 04 | | 9 | 9 | | 05 | 62 | 18 | 80 | | 06 | 79 | 36 | 115 | | 07 | 51 | 84 | 135 | | 08 | 52 | 61 | 113 | | 09 | 55 | 117 | 172 | | 10 | 54 | 78 | 132 | | 11 | 89 | 72 | 161 | | 12 | 139 | 20 | 159 | | 13 | 145 | 35 | 180 | | 14 | 25 | 3 | 28 | | 17 | 1 | | 1 | | 04 | 8 | 3 | 11 | | 05 | 61 | 18 | 79 | | 06 | 35 | 70 | 105 | | 07 | 41 | 20 | 61 | | 08 | 77 | 29 | 106 | | 09 | 61 | 16 | 77 | | 10 | 18 | 86 | 104 | | 11 | 57 | 35 | 92 | | 12 | 109 | 22 | 131 | | 13 | 74 | 25 | 99 | | 14 | 50 | 9 | 59 | --------------------------------------- | | 1347 | 866 | 2213 | Powered by Win-Test 4.5.1 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RT9S Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 308,588 Rig: FT-1000MP Ant 7 el yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU0FM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,080,156 Great contest! A lot of fun during the openings to NA with highest rate 262 QSO/hour, my best personal rate with serial numbers. 73! CU in other contests! Vlad, RC0F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RV9UP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 449,592 Got nothing from NA. Had heard WL7E with SNR about 0dB, so 100W and Higain TH3 gave no chance. Short daylight time decreases operating time and breaks hopes :-) Anyway got lot of fun gettinh run of 100 over QSO's/hour. Where are good times of huge pileups of USA using simle wires and 50W at late 70-ies and early 80-s? Sure we know where these years are! :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RX9CAZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 334,080 Tnx all , US wkd K1LZ and WH6DWD ssb KH7Y cw , VY2ZM call 30 min . HNY! Next contest CQWW160M CW 2012. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50G Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 195,840 Limited time only... just few hours, nice propagation to US and some nice runs K3 + PA 6 el Yagi @ 7m 73 Robert, S57AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50O Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 111,996 Only part time operation first day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,235,598 It was amazing how quickly band opens in the morning and close in the evening. It was nice event. Thanks for all QSOs. 73 de Miha / S51FB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 224,508 Thank's to all of you for qso's. 73', Huby - s51nz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 728,180 Finally got 1 kW QRO runing and enjoyed W/VE CW pile-up on Sunday afternoon. I was late for SSB but picked up few SA mults. No West Coats, Alaska or Hawaii. It was fun again! 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 212,007 CU in next one. 73,Ivo, S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 435,240 Hard job Low Power job! Listening other HP station running huge pile-ups. In my case no Japan QSO has been made on my CQ. 95% S/P. Funny Back-Scatter conditions over South Atlantic Path, listening HP stations working Japan Long Path, South America and Back-Scatter Europe - all at once. Band stops when sun goes down on both days. Les MTPLRS (DXCC) acctive as in CQWW, but additional States makes more fun. This is my favorite contest, after CQWW, of course. 73, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP1NY Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 397,440 Condx worse than in CQWW CW/SSB. Not a single beep from West Coast. Catch NE and KS on almost dead band saturday afternoon. Like in CQWW CW S&P most of the time, only two short runs during NA openings both days, with low average rates at around 60-70 QSO/hr. Only one QSO difference in amount between NA & EU. Anyway was a nice contest. Thanks to all for QSO and see you in next contest. 73's Mirek Rigs: FTDX-5000 @150W Ant: Ultrabeam UB-50 ----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y ----------------- 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct --------------------------------------------------------------------- North America 0 0 0 0 0 275 275 38.2 South America 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 3.3 Europe 0 0 0 0 0 276 276 38.3 Asia 0 0 0 0 0 120 120 16.7 Africa 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 1.8 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 1.7 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 720 720 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2LNW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 308,160 No any sigs from west coast USA. 73 Slaw sp2lnw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP4LVK Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 11,750 PWR:5W Ant: 2 el Delta Loop TRX:FT-950 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ9UM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 604,692 Not planned and limited activity but it was a pleasure to give out the ponits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ST2AR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,167,696 Just for a bit of fun! The conditions were far from what we've seen in both CQWW contests. Hardly any openings to West Coast. 73 Robert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV0XBZ/9 Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 305,760 IC756 ProII, 100W; 2 element Moxon Thanks for the QSOs! 2nd day propogation seemed to be a bit better to JA & NA. But patience of my family - the opposite :) Going fully through crowded band in S&P mode without cluster/RBN took about 1 hour each time - hard to withstand to not start CQing... 34 states/sections + 64 DXCCs DXCC QSOs --------- USA 133 UA 115 DL 83 JA 50 UA9 50 G 45 PA 33 EA 23 SM 22 F 20 LY 17 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV5DKL Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 5,250 Warming up before the International Naval Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T6MO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 118,584 Umm well the first day was slower than I had planned for. Was hoping for a total of around 800 Qs based on WW CW 10m results. Then that evening I noticed the K=3 so that explains the first day. Was looking like the K was going to drop to one but then tonight noticed the A went to 9. Mother Nature keeps us guessing! Had fun although at times it was slow. I see Rob T6RH was on SSB so hopefully you worked us both! Band pretty much was a 9am to 5pm band. Worked VY2TT on PEI which was cool. Darn WriteLog and MicroHam USB froze up on me too many times. Can they get along with each other? Yaesu FT-857D RadioWavz 40-10m OCF dipole at 28 feet WriteLog and MicroHam USB DAYTON 2012! CQ CONTEST! Best of health to all & Happy Holidays, Eric T6MO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3Y Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 601,088 Even though I was only able to spend less than 15 hours on the contest it was a lot of fun. A late night surprise re-opening of the band into the Pacific and quite a few NA stations in the log. I guess next year will be interesting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,649,576 Wow! What can we say. Love the Low Power M/S category. Not being able to bust every pileup or even make all the over-the-pole contacts kind of makes it more fun somehow; we have to try harder and we can't leave it all to the equipment and antennas. We never had any unruly pileups except for early on following packet call-outs. Even when there were many callers they seemed ruly so we were gruntled. Equipment: K3, IC-756ProII, 4 el Quad, TH-5, TH-6, A3. 73, Keko (TI5KD) and Brooke (N2BA) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM0T Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 743,776 First time i use new setup antenna, very satisfied ! Icom 7800, Acom 2000A, 7 over 7 element DXBeam monobande Yagis First one beaming NA @ 10m above ground Second one @ 18m above ground 4 element SteppIR @ 27m above ground Win-test 4.9.1 See you in the next contest Gildas F/TU5KG / TM0T TM0T - Continents | Mode | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC | -------------------------------------------------------------- | SSB | 23.4% | 67.2% | 3.1% | 1.0% | 3.9% | 1.3% | -------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by Win-Test 4.9.1 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,989,500 6 elements mono yagi stack 3 over 4 ts-870 ft1000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,514,036 1st station heard was 9A1A. Saturday evening last signal was heard at 19z whereas second day we stayed heard couple of W0,6,7 around 2030z , we tryed to run without any reply. Never heard KH6,KL7,ZL7 in the wend. Worked all states in CW , missed DC , NV , WY in SSB. Missed VO2,VE8,VY1,VY0 in boths modes. Hope for more opening in 2012. Best regards from the team TM6M. http://tm6m.over-blog.com/ setup: 6 elements DXBEAM @14m (www.dxbeam.com) Win-Test V4 powered of course! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: US0HZ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 191,360 RIG: FT 2000 ANT: 1/2 Vertical romb 162m long 40m hign 73 Stan US0HZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UX4U Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 971,000 MNY TNX !!! NISE TEST !!! CU 2012 !!! 73 73 73 !!! DE OLEG UX4U / US7UX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V25R Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,166,220 What a difference a year makes! Last year was my first trip to Antigua for the 10 meter contest, and I came in 8th DX SSB HP with a measly 58,000 points. Conditions were terrible - no EU opening, just a few hours of openings to parts of the US. This year was completely different. Conditions from the Caribbean were outstanding - the band was open from before sunrise until well after dark. I worked PA, W2 and W6 in the same minute, LU and W5 in the next. Huge props to KW8N (@KP2A) for demonstrating conclusively that skill and operating experience matter - he cleaned my clock, despite having a number of equipment issues that I didn't face. The contrast between the US pileup and the EU pileup was quite amazing. This was my first real experience as DX in a major contest, and the unruly EU callers were very frustrating. I had plenty of guys in the pile most of the day, but my rate was about 50 Q's / hr. higher when working primarily US stations - just because they are so much better behaved. In any event, thanks to all for a great contest - the 10 meter is still my favorite and always will be. V25R was 4 element yagi's at 75',50' (EU) and 25' (US), K3 + ALS-1300, operating from the V26B station on Antigua. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2EW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,571,820 10m with better propagation, what a pleasure Thanks to all the callers Gilles VA2EW VE2TZT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: M/S QRP Total Score = 70,632 Just playing around.... As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, VA3DF Doug ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 663,872 Used the cluster at times ... very casual ... single-op ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3KAI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 25,252 Rig : Knwd TS2000 Antennas : 270'(N-S) and 132'(E-W) OCF inv-vee dipoles up 40' Soapbox : Very limited operations due to Xmas shopping, etc - lost bands early. Just adding a (very) few extra points for CCO - see you all for the RAC Winter Contest next week-end. 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 : 2011-12-13 Signature : Allan R. Niittymaa, VA3KAI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RJ Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 18,720 K1 @ 5W; 10m hamstick + 10m bazooka dipole (inverted "V" configuration). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 9,620 K2, 5w, vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3UG Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 10,584 A very part time (3 hrs or so) effort as previously planned engagements kept me from running for the 36 hour time limit. The first test from the home QTH using the new beam, which seems to be working quite well. Nice to see 10 in good shape. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7BEC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 620,984 An enjoyable contest. First time for me in the ARRL 10m contest. Actually, first time doing just a single band. Really great to be able to sleep at night during a weekend contest. What a treat! Also fun to be a team, with VA7KO on CW. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on perspective), my runs on SSB prevented Koji from having more fun on CW. But I got my pileup fix; should last at least until RAC Winter. :-) See you all again soon. Rebecca VA7BEC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7DXC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 49,302 4 hours each day from the condo in downtown Vancouver, all S&P QSOs. Wish I could have spent a bit more time on this one but pre-Christmas duties were calling. Solid N-S prop to SA but openings to JA & Asia were short and obviously not a strong as the CQ WW CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7DZ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 178,868 COULDN'T FIND MANY EUROPEANS HERE ON THE WET COAST, BUT THE JAS SHOWED UP IN FORCE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND THERE WERE LOTS OF CARIBBEAN AND SA OPS PLUS AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF US OPS. GOOD OL' 10 WAS OPEN NONSTOP FROM DAWN TO DUSK BOTH DAYS. A GREAT CONTEST, LIKE SS AND THE DX TEST ROLLED INTO ONE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7IR Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 82,320 Was a fun contest,,fighting inbetween the splatter from a lot of overdriven stations,,mike gains set so high you could not understand them..amps overdriven also. doesnt anyone monitor their signals? since when does ten meters need so much power. a good radio set up right with a good antenna system works wonders. thanks to those that heard me between the power houses. have a super Xmas and hope to work you on the next ssb contest Ken 4.8 watts and a TH6 at 53 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 355,200 10M may have been better than it has been in a decade, but I still feel ripped off by conditions. The band was alive but struggling to breathe (we get spoiled rather quickly in this game, I guess). There was no European opening either morning here -- just EI, F and SM worked all weekend (and both SMs were off a skew while beaming JA). Whatever antenna the TM6M lads are using, I want one. They were the only European station heard here both days. Highlights were 9J2BO calling in early Saturday morning, VP8NO calling in at almost exactly noon Sunday (usually a magic window for ZS calling in), and working five ZLs, T88 and E51, all strong from the Pacific. Missed any VK action. Flux opened at 140 and fell to 135 by the end, with the A-index rising to 8 as the test wore on. Aurora was elevated for long periods, and the polar path was simply non-existant for much fo the time. No access to Europe means a steep tilt on the multiplier table for those out West. This was very much a domestic rate-fest from here. Qs US 727 EU 5 <-- yes, a whole continent = 5 Qs JA 66 VE 36 PY 20 LU 15 Missed ND, NE, SD, DC and DE. Just 7 XE mults worked -- what a disappointment beaming south. Enjoyed a few runs of 200+ with rate around 100/hr, but really missed the Euro and XE multipliers. There's always next year. Thanks for the contacts and happy Christmas. See you in the RAC Winter and Stew Perry next weekend for one last round of fun before the holidays. -- Bud VA7ST Qs Mult Score 2011 925 96 355,200 HP 2010 105 30 12,600 2009 86 10 3,440 2008 22 7 616 2007 23 19 920 HP 2006 163 29 18,908 2005 212 41 34,768 2004 36 20 2,880 2002 280 60 66,720 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,273,272 1 Radio, CW only, VE1OP + Telnet = Multi-op in this one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 269,280 Thanks for the QSO's. Hope to catch everyone in the RAC Winter Contest next weekend. Tom - VE3CX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 128,270 Hi, Just throw up a single delta loop onto a three on Saturday evening at the back of our building. SWR was great so I started working stations on Sunday morning. I was having difficulties getting through however so I thought the delta loop is not working too well. Because I was looking at the reflected SWR at 16:00 z I realized that I am running 10W...:-) At that time EU was pretty much gone...:-) Just wanted to let you know that I was not testing your ears or RX...:-) I cranked up the power and had some more fun...:-) CONDX were pretty lousy. Way down from last couple of months. I hope it will bounce back later on. 73 es DX Lali, VE3NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 35,820 Limited time in this one. Very surprised that my station could work Israel, Guam and Australia in the crowded bands. I bet there are going to be some HUGE scores from the folks that had the time. GO CCO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 430,458 Rig: ICOM 756Pro Amp: AL80B Ant: KT34 @ 50ft Not too much time to spend on the band this weekend - too many chores. Conditions seemed pretty good, worked just about everything I could hear. Busted few pileups, best dx was probably V63QQ and NH2DX who was still coming through at about 0100Z on Saturday evening. Thanks to all for the Qs. This is last contest for me in 2011 - CU in the new year - happy holidays to all. 73 Tony ve3rz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 240,828 Friday night I could work everything I heard - on the first call. Unfortunately, I only heard 11 stations! Saturday, I could hear a lot more, but could only bust through about 75% of the time. Sunday morning, I had a short opening to Western EU stations-most with S9+ signals. The band could've been better; my fist could've been better. My skills could've been better. I thought I beat this Murphy guy into the ground back in the 70's. What's he still doing here in the 21st century? And why is he in my computer cabling? I can't wait until I can figure out contest logging and operating. 100 Watts can be heard. But, truth be told, there is only so much you can hear with a dipole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 255,024 Hate to have not played a lot more in this one. Way too many family activities, surprise visitors, Christmas concerts, piano recitals etc. Stole a few minutes here and there and looks like I missed some great conditions. Hope to see everyone next weekend in the RAC contest. Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5MX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,767,300 Just me and the telnet. Missed only ND for a WAS on both bands. Worked all of the VE's on one mode or the other except for VY0. VE4EAR had his usual great signal on 10m. Thanks to N0XR, K0EA, and KT0K for moving Friday night for Multipliers. Those close in states can be a real bear but the Es sure helped. Thought I was going to get shut out of XE mults until about 2200Z Sunday when the band came alive to XE. Ended up with 19 of a possible 64 mults. EU was pretty tough from here. Managed to grab a fair number of mults but only western EU was runnable and the openings were short lived. Did have SM3PHM and OH3JF call in around 2230Z on Sat. Very cool. Called CQ with the beam pointed that way for awhile trying to scare up some other northern stations but no luck. JA opening was much better Sunday afternoon from here. Rig: IC-7700 Amp: PW-1 Ant: TA-33 at 17m N1MM software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6FI Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 226,620 Nice to see 10meters open for a contest. sure seem to be a lot of folks on. A little light into Europe but pretty active locally. We are presently moving the ve6fi station so this was a pretty modest operation. Denis ve6aq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6TL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 328,776 Wasn't planning on doing this contest, so only did a part-time effort. Thought I would only make a few Qs but before I knew it I had some really nice runs going. Most of my effort was on Sunday afternoon as it was snowing here and not much else to do. Missed any openings to Europe or the Carribbean, or most places, actually. Still, I had fun and being unassisted, didn't worry about making too many mults. It was just a treat to hear 10m open from this latitude. I checked my last entry, which was from 2008, and only made 4000 points in that one! The nice thing about 10m is that there is so much room to spread out and so little QRN. Too bad I had to wait so many years to hear it like this. Jerry VE6TL Rig - FTDX-5000MP Amp - FL7000 Ant - TH6 tribander at 13m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7WO Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 202,742 Have discovered that it's much easier to call CQ while drinking a coffee while on CW. Hi! Thanks to all who called...Hope to catch you in the RAC Winter this weekend. 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7XF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 604,592 I wish I had the resolve at the beginning that I have at the end, then maybe I wouldn't have taken so many breaks. The closer we get to the Solstice, the worse condx get - how discouraging when the band opens in the morning to see the band has closed in Europe, but not before the guys on the east coast have had their fill :-( Only heard/worked a few coastal Europeans - nothing from inland. Surprisingly, the UK was much more workable (and earlier in the day) than in the CQ WW CW. I had one N1MM crash in the middle of a run, requiring a complete computer re-boot, and lost 15 minutes or so. Also, N1MM didn't let me log a couple of US K4s (wanted me to put them in Puerto Rico), so I'll have to add them directly to the Cabrillo log. My score will be 'adjusted' (I hope) by the log checking software. On to the RAC Winter, for which I hope to have a new 160m antenna, so protect your rcvr front ends! K3 (producing rcvr clicks from many stations), Acom 1000, 3el Steppir. And a few extra characters sent by the cat on the keyboard. Maybe back to the 1000mp for the RAC 'test. Ralph, VE7XF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE8EV Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 81,144 Just 100 watts and a vertical for this one so I decided to go CW only. The marginal antenna, low power, aurora, low SSN and lack of time all conspired to keep the numbers low. Given my limited CW prowess it was probably just as well. When I had time to get on the radio I'd find a quiet corner at the higher end of the band and run callers with only an occasional foray to S&P the loud guys. I got up early Saturday and CQ'd away for four hours without a single caller, hoping for that mythical morning opening to Europe. It didn't appear and I suspect that from this part of the world in December it never will. Still, the band was open to everywhere in North America for at least five hours both days so I certainly can't complain. My ability to copy CW is still a bit ropey and I was kind of nervous at the very beginning. Wouldn't you know the very first answer I get to my cq was 7K4QOK! Once I got through that the rest was fairly smooth sailing. The rate meter actually hit 100 for a few short bursts so I guess I'm starting to get the hang of it. Worked a pretty good cross section of W/VE, a handful of Asians, VK/ZL, and a few South Americans (although not as many as I remember from the old days on 10m). Lots of giggles in this one for some reason. The best was working the W8 with the drifting TX. He was zero beat at the start of each call but his frequency would increase with every key stroke until he was out of my passband. After three tries I finally opened up the filter to 3K and got him in the log. For some reason it sounded hysterically funny and I chuckled about it all day long. I also found it very amusing that it took me three tries to figure out why the KH7 station was laughing at me instead of sending his exchange. Is this what normally happens to people after listening to beeping for hours on end? Happy Holidays and hope to hear everyone in the RAC Winter Contest next weekend! 73 John VE8EV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9AA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,101,712 What a horse race ! Watched www.getscores.org intently ! Chased VE1OP for two days, wondering how his mults would skyrocket @ times, only to realize later I think he was packet assisted. HI First day was fraught with disaster here @ home, so missed 5 mins here, 10 mins there. Went head to head with AA3B for the entire 2nd day...hardly got out of the chair, but did allow 15mins for lunch on 2nd day....after lunch spent 45 mins or more tuning the band looking for mults, but only got one....big waste of time. Bad move.... Prop. First day-blah, but did really enjoy being called by VU2BGS and V51YJ - thanks a lot guys--a real treat for me ! Some real loud OH6's - wow Second day prop....had some early morning Es to W2/W8 which was kinda nice to fill in a few holes, but went entire contest and never heard DE...what's up with that? HI Band closed early 2nd nite...couldn't hardly Attract anyone's attention from out west. Very few XE's on--shame, as had a nice path to XE most of 2nd day. Not too many complaints. It is what it is... My limp lampcord Charlie-Brown Xmas tree wire ground plane seems to be holding its own and I never set it on fire, so I guess that's a good thing. Thanks all ! Mike VE9AA, eh? IC-746, 500W, wire ground plane, base @ 33', N1MM, VK-64 keyer and laptop that's NOT interfaced with radio,.....CW sent by hand, except CQ's...can't move left arm...hard to type now....ugh....ahhh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 657,072 Had a few contacts on SSB as well but far prefer CW. Just went on SSB to cover requests for the mult. Actually had to hunt for a mic... Some interesting prop Sunday morning early with US 1's 2's and 3's coming in on some path well before surrise but when one runs a vertical - who knows...! Hope I was a new mult for some on CW as well - Seasons greetings all from our house to your's Tks for all the Q's 73 Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK2DX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 313,248 Part-time effort form home QTH. Antenna: A3S @10m. Missed many hours of prime opening to US and EU due to family commitments. Conditions to US significantly better on second day. As always, EU was hard to penetrate and the 'easy' JAs and Asian UAs were no show. No Africans and only a bunch of SA. Still heaps of fun to operate. Contest highlight: QSO with the bizarre VR2ZQZ/p. Loud K9CT was the band-opener on both days. (Beam stuck to VK2?) 2012 new year resolution: to erect at least one tower on contest location in VK4 and put up a decent stack for 10m band. CU in pile up, 73 Nick VK2DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4CT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,547,582 This was another enjoyable contest with a personal best - despite two electrical storms causing a loss of six hours of prime time. 10m band conditions were very good. I experienced unusual propagation at 09:00 UTC, with delayed echo on short-path to EU/Asia. Signals travelled full circle one-and-a-half times around the globe. Long-path was too weak to be relavent. I confirmed with two beams - one on short-path and one on long-path. The number of XE participants seemed to be down on 2010 participation. Thanks to all who answered my CQ calls. 73, John VK4CT (VK4EMM) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4UC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 192,998 QSO breakdown CW PHO Total % AS 23 85 108 19.7 NA 57 240 297 54.1 OC 3 11 14 2.6 SA 1 5 6 1.1 EU 18 104 122 22.2 AF 0 2 2 0.4 In the last 5 hours the signals were generally weak and my local noise was high. Othwise conditions were good. It is good to be back as a SO aftermore than 4 years away. John VK4UC/W5UG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1KVT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 421,440 Conditions were pretty good for the entire contest, I really enjoy 10 meters and waited a long time for this. I would like to thank all for the contacts, see you next year. Seasons Greetings Ken, VO1KVT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP5CW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,713,726 Great Conditions ! 10 Meters is definitely back ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VX6WQ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,922,788 Had to miss the first 30 min of the contest as meetings at work limited the time I could head out to Lamont. Conditions here were mixed but obviously much better then the past 10 years. With very limited hours of sunlight the openings to Europe were very short and poor with only about 45 QSOs in the log on both modes. This really limited the multiplier possibilities with only 28 Eu mults on both modes. The US was strong and consistent from sunrise to sunset. Our midnight opening on Friday was limited to JT. I guess we needed a higher flux for eastern EU and Middle East. Nothing on Saturday night. On Sat Am the opening to EU was poor limited to very western Eu and only a few of the really big stations making it through. On Saturday AM the band opened to very southern Eu about an hour before sunrise but only I stations and a couple of others were heard. Equipment was an ICOM 756 Pro, Alpha 87A Amp and 7/7/7 on a 150ft tower plus a TH6 and another 7 el on other towers. As always Don was a great host making the station available, bringing me food and drinks throughout the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 148,630 Unable to spend a lot of time in the chair,and missed a lot of the European/Middle East path.Hope we were a mult for some of you on phone.This was probably the most activity ever from VY2 land during this test.Merry Christmas to all from the shack of VY2LI.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 600,240 I had some great runs but too many breaks. I faded out before the band did, both days. Thanks for the fun! -Robby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 2,454,648 I only regret the band wasn't open longer. Not much E at night. No LP openings. Missed DE and VE8/VY1. Lots of phone guys don't have keys and lots of CW guys don't have mics - if they did my mult total would be higher:) 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2ZM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,668,480 All in all, condx were not bad - even though the solar flux was down and the band opened to Europe later than it did during CQWW CW - and I am pretty sure Europe went out earlier as well than it did during WW CW. No matter..... What a difference from last year! Lots of DX in Europe to work - so nice to hear 28Mhz cooking again. Also great to qso my friend Carl Cook AI6V at ZM2V near the end of the contest - a great ending to a fun weekend... 73 to all and Season's Greetings JEFF VY2ZM K1ZM@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,772,412 Well, Ive been beating my head in in this contest past 5 years with no propagation, so Paul graciously allowed me have some fun this year! In hindsight, probably made a few strategic errors: Stayed on CW Saturday morning too long, thinking the band wouldn't close to Europe so soon. It did and I ended up very short on Mults. So had to start out on SSB Sunday and stay there too long to get my mult totals up. Also, usually my ratio is 2:1 CW instead of 1:1. But those afternoon SSB runs to California would just not quit! Paul has most of the line noise issues that killed them in CQWW CW and 160 fixed, but I still had some noise to the NW when using the Stack. But kicked in the JA Rhombic which I have never used before on 10 and that solved the noise problems! (We usually keep the JA Rhombic on the 15 or 20 position in the DX contests). The African Rhombic on reverse was a killer antenna to VK and ZL in the afternoons. It did pretty good to Africa too, just didn't log many to that area. I ended up with 14 hours at over a 100 rate and 26 of my 35 hours over 50. Top mults were: California 267 (Last year I had 16) JA 155 DL 114 WA 104 FL 90 The close in stuff was a lot tougher this year, but my friends in Minnesota still came through with 63. Also way down from here was Texas and a lot of the southeaster states. Thanks to Paul and Mary for being such great hosts as usual! Merry Christmas! Scott NE9U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 264,600 Part time but enjoyed the good rates when I was on. A call from Antarctica the last 5 minutes of the contest was a pleasant surprise. Missed and never heard MT WY UT NM KY WV TN(!). Worked KH2 but not HI although I heard them on at times. Worked BC AB MB ON QC NS NB PEI in VE-land. Only worked one XE station. Qs have been uploaded to LOTW. Happy Holidays to all! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0EEE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 98,056 10 meters was a blast, especially during the last weekend before finals! I can say I didn't get much studying on. Thanks all for the fun! 73 Sterling, N0SSC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ERP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 39,308 I didn't know 10 meters could do that wow! I like phone contests but cw is much more fun I was going to operate cw only but figured with the limited time the phone multi's would jack the score up so I found the microphone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 600,192 Very good band conditions for the 2011 10m Contest with lots of DX and NA in this one. Vy nice to work 7 XE states - great idea to have Mexican states as mults. Maybe the same thing needs to be done for JA - I wonder if they have provinces or states. 73 Ken, W0ETT Rig: IC756pro3 with 100w to HF yagis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0JTC Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 3,074 First time on the 10 meter contest. Worked portable, 20 watts. On Saturday I operated at the beach and on Sunday went to a local park...Had a great time. Tried QRP for about an hour without much luck, so cranked it up to 20 w/internal battery power on a Yaesu FT 897d. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LSD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 154,000 Casual effort due to Holiday/family activites. Unusual opening to EU. Weak and regional signals. G's, F's and EA's were about all I heard. Short opening on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0MU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 282,426 I was single op CW only but assisted. I am not sure why we don't have an assisted category in this contest. Being tossed in with SSB and mixed is just because you choose to use a technology that has been accepted for years and years is bad form. Just under 11 hours of time. No real EU runs or JA for that matter. Missed most of Saturday afternoon on a family outing. I had a couple of decent runs on Sunday. Worked tons of scatter or E skip short stuff. When did everyone move to MN? I can't recall ever working as many MN stations. I saw lots of XE spots but only heard a couple. It was nice to see 10 open again. There were no super openings to W6 or the West Coast nor the interior of the US. The band always seemed open to W1 and FL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PAN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 42,032 Vic Clark, W4KFC (SK) would have been proud of this one. Back in the early 70's, during an ARRL Board meeting, we "contesters" on the Board kicked around the idea of a 10 meter contest. After discussion, it went to the Contest Advisory Committee for their input. K8IA, Bob was one of them that I recall pushed for approval. My recollection is that this one has to be the most successful one (from a participation standpoint) since it started in the 70's. The conditions were great, the participation was great, the operators were great, and there should be some major scores coming in from this one. The CW sure helped with points and mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 28,512 K3 and Hex Beam at 30 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0UCE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 226,000 Part time S&P having fun on 10m -Thanks for the Qs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0YK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 764,932 US: 51 VE: 11 XE: 10 DX: 47 ------ 119 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0YR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 225,848 Nine hours is all I could devote to this. Despite very crowded band conditions, very polite operators. Can next year be any better? Great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 811,800 Hopefully 10 meters will stay open this way for a few more years. No big runs into West Coast, but upper midwest condx were excellent. Thanks to all be GMCCer's who worked me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AN Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 93,740 As a part time operation and experiment, the first 50 Qs were run mostly at 100mw with few at 1W. For the duration I stayed at 5W. Interesting fun! Nice propagation with several pacific stations worked. 73, John, W1AN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1DYJ Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 52,460 Woburn MA, TS-2000, 5 el HB mono @ 30 ft. Nearly all S&P. 2nd best score in the past 18 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 17,600 Remotely operated from Japan. My G5RV doesn't work very well on this band. Just spent a couple of hours giving out the rare Ohio multiplier. Nice to work half a dozen JA's during the last hour of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1RH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 89,040 Just a short period of running. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1SJ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 578,200 Mults approx - still counting up all the Mexican states! This was a load of fun! Finally, after 10 long years of crappy conditions on 10 meters (and it gets very crappy up here at the 45th parallel) we get some good 10 condtions. I started out with great anticipation, and at the starting bell at 0000 was met with ---- a dead band. After working the two locals, I ended up going out with the wife since there wasn't much else to do --- not even a wiff of scatter. Morning arrived and after picking off a bunch of new mults, I found myself waist deep in a pileup for most of the day. Now that's fun! On Sunday, after a great EU run, I was expecting some big numbers, but the band started to run outta gas mid-afternoon. Too bad! But I was able to land a JA just before everything went dead, just after sunset. Let's hope we get a bunch more good years out of 10m! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TJL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 239,202 This was the first contest (heck it was the first real operating other than some testing) I've done from my new QTH up here in East Hartland. I decided to go with low power, unassisted. Since we built the house last summer and moved in at the end of October of last year it has been constant "things" that needed to be done most of which were not radio related. But I convinced my lovely XYL that I HAD to have an antenna or antennas up for the contest season this year. (A short history - you can skip this if not interested). My wife and I bought land in East Hartland for two reasons. The first was my desire to find a HIGH location away from city noises, traffic, etc. About 5 years ago I found 8.5 acres of land at 1284 ft in East Hartland, CT - the highest point in the area. At night I can see Holyoke, Hartford, Springfield and Bradley Airport. The other way is pretty good too but there are many more trees… The 2nd reason was the quiet. Other than some occasional construction machinery I seldom hear much noise other than planes. Electrically it is just as quiet (so far). So it’s ideal for radio. My wife’s pet name for this place is “The Middle of Friggin’ Nowhere”. :-) This year I got both of my towers up (a 50 ft Texas Towers tubular and a Rohn 25 hinged tower which is 65 ft tall). The Rohn is still unoccupied. The tubular has a Force C-4XLD 10 to 40 meter 5 bander) on it. Finally an HF antenna! 80 and 160 to come shortly, weather permitting. I was NOT totally ready for this contest. Though the antennas were up and the coax was into the shack through temporary access, I only had one of my radios set up. No key, computer was there but unwired and no connection to the radio. So all week I was scrambling to get things done. Started the contest on time on Friday but immediately had problems. Murphy came home to roost. The first problem was the RigBlaster Pro induced a loud hum into the radio transmitted audio that was not there when the headset was plugged directly into the radio. Checked cabling, grounds, etc. to no avail. So ran without computer audio the whole contest. Then my beloved Kenwood TS-950SDX began giving me problems. Receive was down, transmit was working but no one was coming back to me. SWR on the antenna was all over the place! Thought it was an antenna problem but after an hour of scratching my head decided to exchange the 950 with my other 950 (yes, I have 2 of them) and all was well! So back to contesting. Then an MFJ antenna switch became intermittent! No problem, then no antenna and back and forth. New antenna switch fixed it. Finally a computer problem where it would be a few seconds up to 30 or 45 seconds for keyboard input to be acted upon. Reboot did not cure it but at least that was intermittent. So while Chet, N8RA and Dave K1NYK had a Murphy free contest, it was due to the fact Murphy had come to stay with me. Saving everything on the PC and upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 this week. It’s a good PC but something is wrong and it’s just not worth diagnosing. As others have said, band conditions were great, even with 150 Watts I ran a great deal and when conditions were good to Europe, signals were loud and strong. It was harder working the stateside contacts than Europe. Lots of skewed path �" many South American stations were louder to the west than to the south. Yet VK and ZL were right in the direction they were supposed to be. And fairly loud on Sunday afternoon / evening. In summary, had a great time, have really missed not having a functioning station and so happy to have one working again! And now I can’t wait to get the rest of this done… 73, Tom W1TJL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UJ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 708,920 It all started when fellow Barnstormer, NR1X started building a 10m monobander for the event. Allan was the motivator for this one for sure! I had an old 105ba (The 'Leo')in the aluminum pile that was re-assembled during the week preceding the contest. That left Friday for the installation. Took the much needed day from work and installed the 5el at ~28' fixed South. At the top of the tower is a 4el Steppir at 75'. The 4el I had popped 2 of the driver chips in the controller so swapped in a spare 3el controller - BUT - the driver chips arrived from Mouser on Friday also, for the first time 4el Steppir is in action! With the freshly repaired controller. Now the contest starts.... Turning the top antenna to.. somewhere (45 mins in) and not looking at the TIC ring controller, it 'took off' and spun the antenna all the way to a stop, and yanking out the controls for 3 of the 4 motors on the Steppir! So now, was stuck high in the band (28500) and I dont know if 180/Dual direction was engaged, and I couldn't determine where it was pointing. Sunrise in W1 was a brisk, refreshing climb to the Steppir around 0700EST, better than coffee! Here is the problem, after I climbed and repaired the Steppir connections and re-flowed the wire, I found the TIC ring stuck at 120 degrees, no turning the rest of the contest... 120 degrees, not much that way... thank goodness motors were working FB with 180 and dual direction back-in-action. Sunday was a wash, having a great time with My Dad in the AM and then Brother-In-Law graduation party in the afternoon killed any productive action, but I returned home with <2 hours left and exceeded the goal of 1000 QSOs but fell short on 1mil point goal. Great to work many YCCCers, Thursday NSers, and CWOps Jay W1UJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1VT Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 78,624 Made lots DX contacts with 5 watts to a half wave wire dipole at 20 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1WBB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 611,660 Operated as single-op LP on both modes using the spotting network...therefore placed in Multi-op Single Tx (M.O.S.T.) *Low Power* category {new this yr}. Lots of fun both days with plenty of sigs on 10m! Nice to have Eu in the log 1/2 hr before S/R...then solid copy for next 4.5 hrs. Better opening to Pacific/Asia area from here was on Day 2. No real sporadic-E opening in eves into W1. Good ears from a few, copying me on back scatter during daytime...worked some hard-to-find mults that way. Scatter sigs came up nicely late afternoon Sunday. PLENTY of mults to work going mixed-mode...even worked a /MM stn for credit! Ten XE states worked which was good, but they remain a rarity. Log will be uploaded to LoTW. Great activity in this one from our CTRI CG gang! -- Icom IC-737; Broadband Hexbeam w/ 10m wire elements up @ 33'; N1MM Logger. 73, Bill W1WBB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1WEF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,331,360 I have a serious question below, but first let me say this was fun. It's been a while since I've really pushed myself in any contest, but I did this time so no excuses. I was pleased to beat my goals of 1M and 2000 Qs which I thought were a stretch when I set them. Now my question: For over 30 years I have at times been dizzy (vertigo) when getting up out of bed. It has only happened rarely, and usually went away in a few days or less, as my Doctor said it would. I never associated it with contesting until now, but it started again after CQWW CW, and gradually went away, but is back full swing after this contest and although I've been up for 3 hours now I still feel dizzy. I'm wondering if the hours of headphones covering my ears listening to CW along with being 74 yrs old has anything to do with it, knowing that it's an inner ear thing. I also know that it has happened at times without a contest, but wonder if anyone else has ever had vertigo and associated it with long term CW operating? Please reply directly to w1wef@arrl.net. Thanks 73 JACK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2EG Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 422,592 A 'relaxed' effort. Conditions SO much better than last year! I got up too late Saturday morning (local time) -- about 1400z, but did have a nice run to EU Sunday morning beginning about local sunrise, or 1200z. Enjoyed it. Thanks for the Q's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2GPS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 384,020 This was my first 10 meter contest and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I tried to balance my time between CW and SSB but CW had more easy contacts and was milder on the ears so I did most of my operating there. The band closed down a few hours after dark so I got plenty of sleep. Friday evening was a bust except that I worked plenty of local stations within about 400 miles. Saturday morning at 11:30Z the band lit up with more European stations than I could work and it kept on giving for many hours. Sunday was not quite as dramatic but it was good too. After noon each day there were plenty of NA stations to keep me busy. Most of the east coast stations were worked by backscatter with the beam pointed west. I tried pointing at New England and Florida but the stations couldn’t be heard until I wend back to due west. That was convenient as I seldom needed to turn the beam in the afternoons. During the quiet time Saturday evening I worked a few local stations that had all gathered at 28490. With their help I found and fixed the source of the “RF on my audio” that has plagued me for a year. Thanks guys! It was nice to hear a couple of stations on Sunday say “good audio.” Near the end of the contest it seems that many people stopped operating but that is when I worked some good Pacific area contacts. Rick W2GPS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2ID Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 607,500 I set a goal of beating the Division record of 1125 x 122. I came up 1 QSO short at the end, but managed a few more mults, thanks in part to the new Mexican States. I suspect a lot of records will be falling this year, due to that addition plus the great condx. D4C and ZM2V were both still pounding in a couple of hours after sunset. There's no meters like 10 meters! Rig: FT-1000MP (SO2V with heavy use of VFO B) Ant: Cubex 2-element Quad @ 45' New QTH seems to play very well on 10m too. Can't wait to get some aluminum in the air in the spring! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2RE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,048,502 That was fun! First contest at the new qth on 10M. The 5/5/5 worked great but fixed on Eu. Used a C31XR for chasing mults and found the results poor. Next year a 8EL at 100ft! Congrats to the K1LZ team! 73, Ray W2RE Lee WW2DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2RR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 519,184 Just like for the 160 test, I hope that the "change" lumping SOA category (whether low or high power or CW-only or SSB-only) for scoring purposes along with MS HP MIXED MODE is an ERROR by ARRL and will be reversed. Hardly the same categories in any way, shape or form. Detailed emails sent to Contest Branch and ARRL Division Director prior to contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2TF Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 191,136 band cndx could have been a little better, but obviuosly it was ALOT better than the fe previous years ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2UP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 424,080 That was fun, most of the contest. I much preferred when the band was closed to Europe, as it was much easier to get some rate going. I had a tough time working over the east coast wall to EU, but did better on day 2, when most of the EU CQers were already worked by the east coast. I operated from my urban condo using a K3 and dipole on the balcony. Biggest problem is the Stucco-faced building contains wire mesh all the way around, and my antenna is only 5 ft from it. This causes SWR to be 5:1 at a minimum, and I have a real tough time pushing and pulling RF through the building to the NW, making JA tough. It's bad enough that the Denver TV towers are only 7 miles west, but we get no reception with rabbit ears due to being in a Faraday Cage. So, with a 5:1 SWR, using about 75 ft of RG8X, I’m getting about 25W to the antenna. I really should be in the QRP category, as my ERP is probably less than KR2Q's :-) I also hate to admit to being a low power alligator, but that’s the case due to a high noise level. Speaking of KR2Q, I started the contest S&P'ing, but after hearing Doug CQing with decent results, I tried it, too. Had some pretty good runs, best around 1800Z, with a best 10 minutes of 132/hr and a best hour of 79. Not bad... Was nice to work all my FRC brethren back east with big signals. Other comments in no particular order: 1. You know you've heard too many cut numbers when you log Tennessee as 09. 2. I tuned by, without waiting or calling, anyone who signed TU as their call. 3. It's frustrating when calling EUs and after they work out the other callers, he CQs in your face when you're the only one left calling. 4. If the purpose of adding XE states as mults was to stimulate XE activity, it’s not working, at least on CW. 5. Lot of bad bug-sent CW in the test (wonder how skimmer handled it). One W1 sent me 599QK, and after 3 repeats, I finally realized it was 599MA K. It prepared me for the second 599Q, which was only a few minutes later. 6. Worked all states except nearby KS. Called K5CM for 30 minutes without success for next-to-last OK. He finally heard me during the last hour. 7. Best ears award goes to NK7U for my only OR, worked on backscatter. Also had a tough time with WA and VE7. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3EP Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,413,000 General 10-meter conditions seemed to have deteriorated some from recent weeks (supported by declining solar flux index), which translated into shorter DX openings and fewer multipliers at extreme distances. Still, tremendous activity from Europe and the US sustained QSO rates. Fewer stations and multipliers from Caribbean,Central America, and Africa than might be expected depressed my score, at least. Have no explanation or excuses for low multipliers--missed many common European entities, for example, and found few from Central American or the Caribbean. Other propagation notes: no sporadic-E evident, scatter disappointing both in the evenings and early morning, could not hear any early-morning long-path to Asia, and backscatter-fills within the US also weak. My most surprising contact was with B7P on SSB during the European run at 1259 UTC on Sunday. The Chinese contest station was easily 59 when he called me over the pileup. Amazing. Nudged my Yagi a bit further north expecting to work other Asians, but nil. Only other Asians were JAs in late afternoon. Great fun, still have some skills to improve. Only five hours with QSO rates 100+. K3 / KW / 5-ele Yagi at 20 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3FA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 74,800 ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2011-11-30 CallSign Used : W3FA Operator(s) : W3FA Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 10M Power : LOW Mode : MIXED Default Exchange : MD Gridsquare : FM28CX Name : Jim Bruce Address : 417 N. Main St. City/State/Zip : Greensboro MD 21639-1402 Country : United States ARRL Section : MDC Club/Team : Potomac Valley Radio Club Software : N1MM Logger V11.12.0 Band Mode QSOs Pts Cty 28 CW 192 768 68 28 USB 41 82 20 Total Both 233 850 88 Score : 74,800 Rig : TenTec Delta ll Antennas : HyGain TH3Mk3 @ 55' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3UA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,865,246 Old story. Power line noise. Sorry Europe, you must be over S7 for me to copy you guys... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3WW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 110,416 Thanks to ALL for the Qs. Had fun when the band was open. Copy was really difficult for the Pacific/Asia area as conditions deteriorated after mid day. During the morning on Sunday the EU stations blew me out of my chair. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 43,168 Recovering from a nasty cold, but still lots of fun for the limited time spent on the air. tnx es 73 - John, W4AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BQF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 218,872 Good band conditions and good operators! Thanks for the Q's! 73, Tom - W4BQF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: M/S LP Total Score = 160,290 TS-440 Tri-bander G5RV N1MM logger Tnx for the Q's 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 7,626 Very casual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MLB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,176,196 Thanks to PCARS for making the club station available. All the equipment worked 100%. Bad rain static for parts of Sunday. TS-850S Harris RF103A @ 1KW Moseley Pro-67C @ 60' Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 71,944 I had very limited time in the contest but I had some nice runs while I was on. Thanks for the Qs and I'll CU in the next one. 73, Jack W4NF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 581,828 Signals from Europe were strong both mornings. Several signals from the eastern half of the states had strong echos on them to the point where it was filling the spaces between the characters. This was in the morning on both days. Used the Internet skimmers, hence my M/S category. It is a mixed bag as most times the station was not there or someone else had taken his place. However, it was very useful for finding mults. I did about 80% S&Ping as this CW-challenged operator has difficulty copying serial numbers above 28-30 wpm. Thanks for all the Q's! 73, Sam W4PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4QN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 608,590 Band died Friday and Saturday shortly after Sunset - No long path to Asia was a disappointment. North Eastern states were very difficult this year. Missed CW and total QSO goal - but score was improved over 2010. Better next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 263,940 Good propagation at last! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 267,624 Part time effort but had a great time with the EU run on Sunday AM. Just could'nt keep my rate high enough to work the pile up down in the short time I was operating (a grate problem to have) But I need to continue to work on my code speed to keep everything moving and the pile-up happy. Highlight was the VU's calling in during the EU run. Station: FT-100MP, Alpha 99, 7/7/7 @104,72,36Ft and 5/5 at 60/30ft fix on EU. 73 Bill W4RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SUN Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 30,464 Thanks to all who strained to copy my puny 5 watt QRP signal! Started Saturday afternoon sitting in the car with the FT-817 to a cut down CB whip on a trunk mag-mount. Later ran the rig in the house with the wire dipole at 35 feet. Only 5 hours total operating time; its not a lot of fun waiting in line for the pile ups to thin out. Wish the propagation conditions had been as good as during 2011 CQ WW SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 422,308 Not quite as good as it could have been. First had computer problems at start of contest. Friday nite was not feeling well. Band closed early. Then Saturday during European run got sick. Slept for two hours, hoping to feel better. Made up some lost Q,s in the afternoon, but score down. Went to bed early Saturday nite. Then Sunday had very high noise with beam pointed to Europe, so had to beam S.E. to hear, not good. In fact whole weekend had high noise. I hate xmas lights!!!! Then on Sunday morning around 10 checked on my Mother who is 92 and she has accident in house. Spent the next hour cleaning up!!! Then what can happen next! Just as I am getting a good run going, neighbor across canal shows up and tells me I am coming in on his speakers which are attached thru an amplifier and hooked up to his direct TV!!. Loose an hour, but could not fix problem, so 100 watts the rest of the day. And from there down hill. Oh well. Trying to work a contest , take care of my 92 year old mother, and live in suberbia tooks its toll. Might be my last 10 meter contest. Mark W4SVO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UAT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 264,504 None ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UH Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,961,918 First of all thanks to everyone who worked us, it was really appreciated! This was our best shot with no excuses! Sure we could always wish we had better conditions, no line noise, no equipment failures, computer crashes, etc. Shoulda, woulda, coulda, can be added to any contest comments, but hey, this is contesting. We had a great team and a great time and enjoyed every minute of it. This is truly my favorite contest year after year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 16,640 I resent being forced to 'compete' in a mixed-mode Multi-Single category just because I use spotting assistance -- for whatever very little value it is to me, personally. I bow to the thinking that this equates my ops to that of a Multi-Single, but I do NOT understand why I must be listed as Mixed Mode. I do NOT like to operate SSB in contests -- just as I would not enjoy bear-baiting, cock fighting, or dog fighting -- all provoking the same feelings in me as do the dog-eat-dog tactics of too many of the SSB operators. It's your party, so you make 'das roolz,' but don't expect me to be a happy camper, or to go quietly. Unhappily, Vic, W4VIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WWQ Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 10,400 Is there a bug in N1MM for this contest in that when the log is opened for the first time the multiplier AK is shown as already worked? I did finally work AK so no issue in the end. I need to find more than a few hours to devote to the PVRC effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZGR Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 10,336 K3 5 Watts Attic Dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5GAI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 695,952 Band open during daylight and signals loud. Worked all 50 states, 10 provinces and 1 Mexican State. My best contest score and rate ever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5JR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,432 Not much DX or States when starting 2 hours before end of contest - and the band closes an hour before the end! I did pick up a few new band countries. IC756ProII, Alpha 78, OCF @ 45', N1MM Logger, VE7CC & W4AX spotting assitance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,278,668 Ten meters is back! I had a great time. Good activity everywhere, but didn't work a single XE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5MX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,066,816 Excellent condx, although it seemed the openings to EU were shorter and more intense than in CQWW CW as others have eluded to. Spent a fair amount of time S&P and devoted more time for mults on Sun. Unfortunately run rates suffered a bit because of it during prime EU opening time. Had a great time and thanks to all for the Q's. Hope to work you all in the Stew Perry! 73's Bryan W5MX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6AMD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 624 A month ago I did not have a ham radio station. Although I have been licensed for a long time as a Novice and now as a Technician, my very first contact was with my Elmer on November 25, 2011. That first contact was my only contact prior to the 2011 ARRL 10 Meter Contest. On Saturday I had 4 contest QSOs, and had an additional 20 contest QSOs on Sunday. I worked Canada, Mexico, and 11 different states. Thanks to my Elmer K6WSC who helped me learn to use my new FT-450D remotely via webcam, and coached me in contesting. Please excuse my mistakes, as I was on a rather step learning curve. The contest was great fun, and I can’t wait for the next one! 73, Tony W6AMD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6AQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 200,652 Ten Meters is like I remember it when I first got interested in Ham Radio in the late 1940's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 241,740 I got the rate up to 300/hr for a few brief periods on SSB...that was pretty neat. Only missed DE for 10M WAS. After running for a few hours I just focused on finding new mults. It was great to see the entire band fully engaged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 303,808 K3, ACOM 2000A, wire antenna at 46 feet with Matchboxes, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6UX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 19,266 Operating time was limited to the first hour on Friday and 7 hours on Sunday. Had good signal reports from 4 and 9 land, but few contacts made to the east coast and Great Basin areas. DX was mostly limited to Canada, Argentina, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Power: 100w Ant: Inverted V doublet @ 43' Radio: Elecraft K3 73 de Jeff, W6UX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 582,978 Thanks for all the qsos. The European opening was not great and was hampered by s7 line noise. It was great to work so many new hams. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,141,782 Fun contest. Although looks like propagation wasn't quite as good as it was two weeks earlier in CQWW CW. This showed especially in difficulty on working some Eastern European countries. We worked a lot of EA, F, G*, CT but DL and east from there were rare and tough to work. Sunday opening was better than Saturday but still not as good as in CQWW. European morning openings always started with skew path (approx. from east) and then about an our after sunrise direct path (~30 degrees) opened. On JA side we noticed JAs fading away for a while but then to open again to provide more JAs to the log until 0250Z. Also, Es openings have been bread and butter in this contest in last few years but there weren't that many even if we were QRV most of Saturday evening in hope of catching those. Some of these Es openings were also very focused (CO/WY/OK/TX/NM/AZ). Some of them were strong (skimmers reporting us 30db) but nobody calling us. Maybe people were exhausted working daytime goodies and went QRT for the evening and watching Dancing with the Stars instead. Daytime stateside pileups were great! You can see those in our rates (http://www.w6rk.com/6514727119_541b8157b8_z.jpg). Anyways, we beat our previous SCV record with about 100k (raw). Let's see how it holds the log checking. The new (possible) record is mostly thanks to new Mexican mults that didn't exist in 2000 when previous record was made. Writelog shows our operating time as 28h 2min but that is not entirely true. We had periods of CQing to dead/QRT band in evenings and nights so true operating time is probably closer to 30-31h. Next multiop from W6YX will probably be RTTY RoundUp. See you in the log! You can see our rate here: http://www.w6rk.com/6514727119_541b8157b8_z.jpg Equipment: Rig: Elecraft K3, Yaesu FT-1000 MkV, Yeasu FT-1000 MP Amp: Alpha 9500, Alpha 86, Alpha 78 Antennas: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft, 5-el at 31 ft, 6-el at 75 ft, Mosley Pro67 Software etc: WriteLog 11 beta, VE7CC cluster with skimmer spots QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band Hour 10M CW 10M PHO Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z 60/10 13/10 73/20 73/20 D1-0100Z 67/5 16/6 83/11 156/31 D1-0200Z 20/4 12/2 32/6 188/37 D1-0300Z 2/0 - 2/0 190/37 59 D1-0400Z - - 0/0 190/37 60 D1-0500Z - - 0/0 190/37 60 D1-0600Z - - 0/0 190/37 60 D1-0700Z - - 0/0 190/37 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 190/37 60 D1-0900Z - - 0/0 190/37 60 D1-1000Z - - 0/0 190/37 60 D1-1100Z - - 0/0 190/37 60 D1-1200Z 1/1 - 1/1 191/38 56 D1-1300Z 6/2 - 6/2 197/40 D1-1400Z 14/6 1/1 15/7 212/47 D1-1500Z 36/22 14/9 50/31 262/78 D1-1600Z 27/18 26/14 53/32 315/110 D1-1700Z 51/19 30/20 81/39 396/149 D1-1800Z 33/5 134/20 167/25 563/174 D1-1900Z 60/7 82/3 142/10 705/184 D1-2000Z 38/2 121/3 159/5 864/189 D1-2100Z 49/2 119/3 168/5 1032/194 D1-2200Z 113/1 74/1 187/2 1219/196 D1-2300Z 120/7 30/2 150/9 1369/205 D2-0000Z 43/3 80/5 123/8 1492/213 D2-0100Z 22/1 69/1 91/2 1583/215 D2-0200Z 21/1 3/0 24/1 1607/216 D2-0300Z 5/0 2/1 7/1 1614/217 D2-0400Z 8/0 3/0 11/0 1625/217 1 D2-0500Z - - 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-0600Z - - 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-0700Z - - 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-0900Z - - 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-1000Z - - 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-1100Z - - 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-1200Z - - 0/0 1625/217 60 D2-1300Z 1/0 - 1/0 1626/217 43 D2-1400Z 4/1 1/0 5/1 1631/218 45 D2-1500Z 17/14 9/7 26/21 1657/239 D2-1600Z 44/3 23/10 67/13 1724/252 D2-1700Z 80/2 23/6 103/8 1827/260 D2-1800Z 52/2 60/3 112/5 1939/265 D2-1900Z 90/1 13/1 103/2 2042/267 D2-2000Z 93/1 7/5 100/6 2142/273 D2-2100Z 74/2 21/2 95/4 2237/277 D2-2200Z 73/0 37/2 110/2 2347/279 D2-2300Z 44/1 52/1 96/2 2443/281 Total: 1368/1431075/138 10M CW 10M PHO Total 3W 1 1 4O 1 1 6Y 1 1 2 9A 1 1 2 9H 1 1 9M2 3 3 9M6 1 1 2 9V 2 2 BV 2 2 4 BY 7 12 19 CE 6 3 9 CM 2 2 4 CN 1 1 2 CT 2 4 6 CT3 3 3 CU 1 1 2 CX 2 3 5 D4 1 1 2 DL 1 1 2 DU 2 5 7 E5/s 1 1 2 E7 1 1 2 EA 4 14 18 EA6 1 1 2 EA8 3 8 11 EA9 1 1 2 EI 2 2 4 F 3 2 5 FM 1 1 2 FY 1 1 G 1 1 2 GD 1 1 GI 1 1 GM 1 1 GU 1 1 GW 1 2 3 HA 2 2 HC 1 2 3 HI 1 1 HK 2 2 4 HL 7 5 12 HS 1 3 4 I 1 1 2 J3 1 1 J6 1 1 2 JA 176 117 293 JD/o 1 1 JT 1 1 2 K 942 724 1666 KH2 2 1 3 KH6 4 4 8 KL 6 4 10 KP2 2 1 3 KP4 1 4 5 LU 14 18 32 LZ 1 1 OE 1 1 OK 1 1 OM 1 1 ON 1 1 P4 1 1 PA 1 1 PJ2 1 1 2 PJ4 1 1 PY 19 16 35 PZ 1 1 S5 2 2 SM 2 2 T8 1 1 2 TG 1 1 TI 1 1 2 TK 1 1 UA9 12 3 15 V2 1 1 V5 1 1 V6 1 1 VE 58 32 90 VK 9 9 18 VP5 1 1 2 VR 1 1 2 XE 11 21 32 YB 1 4 5 YN 1 1 YS 1 1 YU 1 1 YV 3 2 5 ZF 1 1 2 ZK2 1 1 2 ZL 7 1 8 ZP 1 1 2 ZS 4 2 6 10M CW 10M PHO Total % AS 210 148 358 14.7 SA 50 51 101 4.1 OC 30 28 58 2.4 NA 1030 798 1828 74.8 EU 36 34 70 2.9 AF 11 16 27 1.1 73! Risto, W6RK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ZL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 167,076 Best score ever in this contest. 3:1 seems about the right ratio of CW:SSB. FT-1000MP MARK-V @ 100W KT-34M2 @ 30' N1MM ver 11.12.0 Winkeyer USB Thanks for the contacts. /73 Dave W6ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7FB Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 186,368 Great to see 10M alive again. Been a QRP op for decades, still impressed how well 5 watts does the job! Band played very well, runs achieved well over 100/hour in the 10Q window many times ... was unable to play the last 5 hours of the contest because of UNINVITED "guests" who show out of the blue! (Am building a MOAT with pirana and a drawbridge for next year ... har har!! ... always wanted one of those!) Used SD for logging program ... worked very well! .... yet, as always, I paddle the entire contest ... quicker response on calls waiting ... type with left hand, send with right ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7IV Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 276,640 Sunday wasn't as active and I'd hoped and I never heard a thing North or the canary Islands...I was hoping for some EU. Mostly East and West path for me all weekend...I worked plenty of upper midwest, but ID, NV, CO, UT, etc. were not to be found...I could hear them in there weakly, but was shooting right over them. Thanks to lots of casual contesters on the band handing out Q's, especially J68FF! See you next year - I'm going back to HP - QRP is a lot of work! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,719,672 K3 X 2, Emtron Amp, 6el @ 30' x 2 Sterba Curtain @60' I had no intention of putting in this many hours but the boys never stopped calling in. 109/hr rate for 22 hours??? Don't remember these kinds of condtions, ever. Rookie W7NIK made about 100 SSB contacts. The Old Man did the rest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7TVC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 750,300 Things have changed since 2009 when our best DX in the 10 meter contest was about 30 miles. The band gets most of the credit for that of course, but we also got an additional edge from the new tower & antennas at K2PO which upped our 10 meter element count by about a factor of ten. From the US West Coast, we didn't get much of an opening to Europe, and zones 15-18 and 20-22 did not make it into our log at all. But the Americas and Asia/Pacific were all strong, and we even worked several JAs off the back of the beam in the afternoons. The addition of the Mexican states is a welcome addition, bringing a lot of geographical interest and some more multipliers to chase. I think we got a lot more XE participation, too. Many thanks to Bill, K2PO, and Kristen for the hospitality. 73 and thanks for all the Q's. See you on the bands The W7TVC team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7VJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 157,560 Great fun. Regret that the conditions did not favor good EU and Asian openings, but there seemed to be an endless number of U.S. 8 and 9 land stations. 73 and Season's Greetings! Andrew W7VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 88,480 When I retired, I though I would have all sorts of time to do these contests. Seems like I have less time now than when I was working. Only got in about 6 hours this time. Saturday my wife and granddaughter decided it was time to go get a tree. We got it home, and when we finished decorating the tree, I went to push it back into the corner where it goes. As I was pushing it back, it started to fall and I couldn't stop it, and over it went. A friend of mine said it sounded like the Griswells in National Lampoons Christmas movie :-) I think I worked more 'non contester' callsigns in this contest than any that I can remember. Something about the 10 meter contest that brings them out of the woodwork. It is really a blast! How about them Denver Broncos???? That Tim Tebow is pretty amazing. 73 and thanks to the ARRL for a lot of fun. Tom W7WHY Radio TS-450SAT Homebrew 2-el monobander at 15 feet N1MM Logger 11.12.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 154,020 Rookie learned a lot. My first 10 meter contest. 81 countries, down a bump from the CQWW. All search n pounce, great fun! Next time I will work some states, hi! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 315,256 Great condx and activity. Bet there will be some huge scores. Kudos to our XE friends for their activity, and to the ARRL for adding them to the multiplier mix! 73, Bob W7YAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZB Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 370,476 Great to have 10 online again!!! My first contest from the home QTH for a really long time.. I had a blast! European opening limited to the very west of Europe. Nothing east of France. But IT WAS THERE for the us poor schlupps on the West Coast. Good runs of JA's.. Running 1200 watts to KT34XA at 85 feet in a suburban setting in the unassisted category. I could run JA's off the front of the beam, and work the states off the back. Took it pretty easy with a break every hundred or so Q's. Thanks to everyone who called.....Maybe even better next year....73, Mark, W7ZB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 504,000 Christmas parties on a contest weekend ???? Could not put full effort in. Was fun again on 10m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZRC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 550,968 Lots of fun and high rates for me. Nice to have 10m open so much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AEF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 383,428 I amazed myself during this contest. I hoped to log 500 qso's and I hit that objective before the band closed on Saturday evening. I was bic at 1330z listening to a dead band and at 1435z the switch was thrown and the fun began anew. Tnx all for the q's, that was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 264,656 Only a partial effort this year. Left Sunday morning to visit new grandson in Raleigh, NC which curtailed my operating (second grandson arrived 2 days ago in Columbus, OH). Just got home yesterday so am a bit late posting my results. Good to see 10 back again after a long hiatus. Conditions on Satruday were pretty decent. Good rates into EU and a good number ot JA's were worked on Saturday night. Will be back "full bore" again next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,924,280 What a way to end a contest before the Christmas Holidays. Wow...Ten Meters sure did not disappoint. Nice weekend all the way around. Nice thing about this contest is everybody is equal points no matter who you work SSB, or CW. Was not able to get alot of easy mults stateside due to propagtion just not being there, but otherwise if was a very fun weekend. To all the west coast, thanks for being there mega bunches both SSB and CW. Looking forward to the Holidays, Merry Christmas to one and all. Log has been uploaded to LOTW. Ken W8MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8OHT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 43,160 HB Amplifier had no reflections back to my K-3 rig which allowed normal 4-1000A drive power for maximum signal for me. Conditions bad Saturday, but much better Sunday here. John, W8OHT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8QZA Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 62,832 Rig: Elecraft K-2 (5 Watts) Antenna: 3 el SteppIR up 32 feet Very good conditions this year! Four years ago, in 2007, with a full effort I had 33 Qs, 4 Mults, and a score of 264 with a full effort! ...Times change! I used my original W8QZA call in this contest so the Qs would count for my Triple Play award. I was able to put in a pretty full effort in this contest and logged 19 hours at the rig, stopping only when the skip gave out. One huge disadvantage for me was that there was almost NO E-skip so I was not able to work any close in states at all. And, I never heard a DE which I also need for LoTW WAS! This is the one contest that I can actually run on a frequency with my 5 watts. I had a run of 88 Qs on late Sunday afternoon over a 90 minute stretch. Of my 374 Qs, 138 (37%) were made during only 2 1/2 hours of CQing. I made a lot of Qs but no new mults! As far as DX is concerned, I was able to work 36 DXCC countries. I was able to get into western Europe, but nothing in eastern Europe. I did work some interesting Pacific DX including BY, KH2, ZL, VK6, YB, DU, and UA0. Oddly, no KH6 which is normally a west coast stable! Japanese activity seems to be coming back and I was able to work 13 JA stations. I made 40 Qs on CW to pick up some states I needed for Triple Play, but did not submit those Qs for the contest. I really enjoy this contest and look forward to it each year. ....maybe it's because I get to sleep! 73, Bill W8QZA / W6QU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9XT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,160,012 Great to see 10M is back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA0MHJ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,206,904 Great fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 90,376 I had planed to do only about 3 hours. It turned into about 7 hours. Too many contest in a short period of time. Wifey says be carefull ! Hi HI. C ya all in NAQP cw and ssb. 73 BoB WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2BCK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 501,600 This is the first time I've operated the 10m contest with a modicum of sunspots. I'm continuing to figure out what my new antennas can do in contest conditions. I had a lot of fun running Eu as fast as I could work them! Thanks to all the PVRC'ers and SPARC'ers who worked me. Next time I will concentrate more on mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 940,240 That was fun! K3, HF2000 Rhombics, Lazy-H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3F Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 389,600 Same ol' routine 100% S&P All CW sent from paddle, not keyboard Band was not up to past weeks openings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3OFC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 93,408 Band Mode QSOs Pts Cty 28 CW 123 492 65 28 USB 90 180 74 Total Both 213 672 139 Score : 93,408 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA5RML Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 21,060 FT-857D to Cushcraft MA5V Vertical; Vibroplex paddles. Lots of fun. Thanks to all who heard my QRP signal - Good Ears! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6L Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 38,480 5 watts never felt so good! This is my 4th or 5th year running this contest as QRP, and there is absolutely no comparison with previous years. I was working just about everything I could hear, and there was a lot to hear. In eight hours of S&P over the two days I got 40 sections and 12 DX, including 6 new band-countries. One of those was Ireland, which I almost went right by thinking it was an EA instead of an EI. I was feeling pretty big on Saturday and tried a run, but that did not work out so well. I had no luck with the 7-area, missing the sections up the coast as well as NM, UT, and CO. I never heard Hawaii either. California was no picnic either and only got a couple of the locals. John, WA6L Elecraft K3 @ 5 Watts SteppIR Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7NWL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 67,500 Great contest. Very few EU heard or worked. Heard/worked 'everywhere else', though, including several new countries and states for various awards. CW was all S&P; SSB was combination S&P and Running. Congratulations to fellow Outlaws Paul, KB7QND, and Jim, KF7DYX, for their results with their new radios! Thanks to everyone for the contacts and the great time! 73, John, WA7NWL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7PRC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 151,822 646 Qs was pretty doggon good for me, and only 4 less than my personal best. WriteLog says I worked 31.3 hours (out of 36 max). Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) would say, "I missed it by /that/ much!" I ran a frequency for the last several hours and saw the rate meter peak as high as 200/hr (4min average), and 150/hr (40 min average). It seemed someone was always calling! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB0TEV Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 207,920 Since operating assisted (my typical contest modus operandi) would not only have forced me in the multi-op category (which doesn't seem unreasonable), but also would have put me into mixed mode, whereas I wanted to be a phone only entry, I opted for high power unassisted. I 2nd the motion of others who would like to see the creation of single-op assisted categories for SSB only and CW only in this contest. What a ride and what contrast with last year! A real joy to work all continents on a single band and make it look easy, because it was! Had I played hookey from church and thus not missed 3 hours of prime time Sunday AM the score would have been even higher. From here in North Texas single hop propogation favors an arc that sweeps from the Pacific NW across upper central Canada and then into New England. Being centrally located we get good openings to Europe in the morning and a 2-3 hour long window to JA in the afternoon starting with their sunrise around 2200Z. As was pointed out by K7ZO in his pre-contest writeup on the ARRL website, historically one of the best places in the continental US for the 10m contest is South Texas, so North Texas is still a pretty great place to be. Not surprisingly the most common mults worked were WA (109), CA (105), OR (63), NY (42), MA (34). 20% of all my QSOs came from the 7th call district. Most worked DX (excluding 49 VEs of various flavors) was JA (47), PY(21),EA(21) F(20), LU(20) and DL (15). Eu totals would have been higher absent the 1500-1800Z QRT I took Sunday. In every contest I learn a little bit more of how to use N1MM logger. This time I managed to get .wav files working so I could just hit F1 and have a canned CQ go out, thus saving my voice a little. Did come across one bug though. When I worked NP2N it refused to associate it with KP2 (although WP2Z & KP2A had worked fine earlier ) and wouldn't let me plug in a serial number for an exchange. (I saw a similar comment elsewhere). Ended up punching it in as KP2N so it would accept a serial number and then editing it after the fact to change the callsign back to NP2N. Fortunately I already had a couple KP2's in the log at that point so I already had the mult. Somebody probably just forgot to associate NP2 with USVI along with KP2 and WP2. Split my time between CQing and S&P. Best run hour was 1814-1913 Z Saturday at 125/hr. Not like the "big guns" but gratifying nonetheless. In the K/VE multiplier department I missed Nebraska, District of Columbia, Alabama, Arizona(?!), Labrador, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Nunavut and the Yukon. Didn't work a single XE. Some highlights: Got called by ZK2V during one of my CQ runs. Almost didn't believe it as at first I thought it was too early for propagation from the south Pacific but I was happily mistaken. Getting called by 9J2BO from Zambia was a pleasant surprise as well. Around 1925Z Sunday I heard a weak station that at first I though was a TI6 and thus swung the beam SE, but in so doing he disappeared. Swinging the beam back around again though I got the call right as it swung to the northeast. It was EI6JK. Typically 1900Z+ is way too late even for western Europe, but we made the QSO. It was great picking up 6 new multipliers in the last 90 minutes of the contest. N0UU provided Kansas with K4PZC yielding up the surprising hard to find (from here at any rate) state of Virgina in the 30 minutes leading up to 2300Z Sunday. In an S&P break shortly after 2300Z I was lucky enough to stumble across VE8GER for the NWT mult. With 20 minutes left to go I was scanning the band and heard NX0X work a running station and give his state as Minnesota, another one I lacked. I called him "The Minnesota station, WORK ME!" and we QSY'ed up a couple and was able to check off another one. Bagged 9M6YBG 11 minutes prior to the closing bell after having heard him the evening before but at that time had been unable to break the pileup. With about 8 minutes to go I went back to one final frantic CQ run picking a number of JAs and at 2358 WY7SS called in to add Wyoming as the final mult worked. A great sprint to the finish line it was! 73, Victor -WB0TEV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ABD Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 294,128 Heavy wet snow froze Fri. nite - resulting in S9 power line noise for almost the whole weekend - somethings broke somewhere. Noise blanker helped where there weren't any big signals around, but most of the time, large zippers and galactic backwash. I know there were a lot of signals on ... just couldn't pull 'em out. 18hrs includes walking dog, meals in the kitchen, humoring granddaughters. K3( 8w) KPA500( 135 - 140w ) 3el Steppir @ 45ft N1MM + GHE Radio Boss ADVIL Just listening to the junk @ 0330 after the contest ... it just quit!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 248,000 The 160 meter inverted L loaded well enough on 10 to have some fun. Canadian provinces/territories and Mexican states were very well represented. Nice to also see a lot of JA and ZL participation. Hope to work you all again next weekend on 160 in the Stew Perry TBDC and Winter RAC. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC4J Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 15,776 NEIGHBOR DECIDED TO WIELD MADE THE CONTEST IMPOSSIBLE EXCEPT WHEN HE WAS EATING MAYBE NEXT YEAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC6H Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,425,980 Fun contest! Thanks for all the Q's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC7Q Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 315,288 Fantstic conditions and I had some great runs. Hoped to make my first over 1K Q's but my computer kept crashing. Gotta fix my RFI problems. Had to reboot several times. Thanks to the locals that gave me a contact. N1MM Program TS870 Kenwood TX AL811 Ameritron Amp 600 W. 3 el Steppir. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF7T Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 37,324 Was able to take a few hours this weekend to play around. Thanks all for the Qs. 73 Brad WF7T Nashville TN --- IC-7600@100W Doublets@25-40' N1MM 11.12.0, YCCC SO2R+ (really wished I had better antennas for this one!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI4R Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 66,640 FT450, quad. My first QRP contest attempt. I was quite surprised. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI7N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 506,964 A fun contest now that 10 M is open again. Freezing rain fell at my QTH all day on Saturday, and my simple two-element quad (only up about ten feet) refused to move under rotator control. I couldn't move it manually either and assumed the rotator motor was burned out and didn't even attempt using it on Sunday, but today�"Monday�"the temperature is warmer and the rotator moves the antenna just fine. Whew! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 153,972 Mostly S&P looking for a few states to finish off 6 Band WAS on LoTW with a few runs on CW thrown in. Missed the European openings both mornings except for a few western Europeans due to other commitments. Nice to see so many XEs on the air. 73 Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WL7BDO Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 88,796 That was a great weekend! Thanks to all who helped with my failing voice. It sure slowed my rate for Friday evening and Saturday. Sunday, I just had to do some runs and word was out some where looking for SSB-AK so I just worked with my horse voice. Should have made a list of the ideas to fix my voice. Likely did help me increase my final Mults as spent more time S&P and even added a few new countries to my DXCC 10M list. First year with the single band 10M yagi, which I will not ever be in this countest without again. Did not look like my station or conditions would have allowed for any AK records to fall at my hands but did set the goal early on to exceed the highest Qs for any catagory last year (#432) for our State and I did! What a differnce a year makes. Will be back next year with a full voice for a rematch. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WL7E Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 426,960 Absolutely no EU/AF from under the auroral oval for me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM3O Class: M/S HP Total Score = 30,388 not much fun with my new neighbor's new plasma TV. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 480,928 This was a bit of "A Tale of TWO Bands" I was going to do just CW but there were times at the beginning the CW band seemed to dry up so I went and played on SSB and as a result picked up some mults that helped pump up the score. EU was like most of the DX, spotty and it was very hard to get heard. I don't think that the conditions were all that terrific. Missed WAS by 3 - those close in spots - WY,OR and ID were illusive. Sunday was 90% 32WPM CW which seemed to keep that action going till the very end. Better scores are out there I am sure but this is the best I've seen in quite a while for sure. WN6K, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO6M Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 435,424 Great fun from my modest station - city lot very close to power lines, tribander up 42ft, FT920. Hopefully will upgrade my rig and have a 10M beam for next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ5L Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 492,632 150W, vertical loop @30' fixed NE/SW Hey, look, it's a DX contest again! Best DX conditions since 2002, if not earlier. Still, it can get even better as we get closer to the cycle peak -- the openings will start up a little earlier and shut down a little later. On the flip side, short skip (Es) was darn near nonexistant. I caught a weak opening to the Plains/Rockies in the first couple hours, and one to W8/VE3/WNY right near the end. In particular, apart from scatter, I had no propagation to the mid-Atlantic area which in other years is a big source of QSO points from here. Missed NC, DE, DC and MO. There was no short skip to the southwest either; I only worked four Mexican states, all out west. All in all, great fun... maybe a better antenna next year. 73, -- Ray WQ5L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,247,024 The 2011 ARRL 10 meter contest: Yes, we DO have sunspots! This was the maiden voyage of the new WX3B Force 12 EF-610 Monobander during a contest WITH sunspots and it got sure got a great workout! I decided to do this contest with team WX3B veteran Dennis, N8IVN because I knew we could split up the operation into “SSB” and “CW” specialties. Ok, I enjoy SSB as much as CW (unheard of in PVRC) and figured it would be a great excuse to get some pileup training for Dennis and let me have at least one of those 200+ QSO hours I saw Bernie W3UR have an endless supply of during CQWW SSB. Armed with an N3OC multi-radio lockout box (insures only ONE signal can be on the band at a time) and a 10 meter hamstick as a diversity receive antenna, we were ready to rock and roll. Saturday morning came along and as I sat perched in the chair to run EUs on CW I was surprised by the LACK of density with the callers. Saturday evening came and went with very few JAs/Asia heard. Fortunately, Sunday was much better in both departments and we more than doubled our QSO count. Fred K3ZO has been talking about long-path Asian openings with really strong signals. Dennis, N8IVN experienced an interesting QSO when B7P called him in the late Sunday morning as he was running EUs. It is always fun hearing “Bravo 7 what??!!! Bravo 7 PAPA??? Really???” My favorite contact was near the end of the contest when a very familiar call sign, K3LR was worked. Tim was at his Oklahoma home, and OK was a MULTIPLIER I had missed - Thanks, Tim! I want to thank Dennis N8IVN for his excellent work at WX3B �" I had set a tentative goal of making 2m points and we easily exceeded it. I will be curious to see if any of the big guns were able to break records this year. I get the feeling that the A and K index may have conspired to keep some things in check. Congratulations to my good friend Steve NY3A for an unbelievable CW (un-assisted) performance of over 2,000 QSOs. That score just ROCKS!!! Best Wishes to all for a great 2011 holiday season. 73, Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX9U Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 125,216 Had to work this weekend...good to see 10m hopping again! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 104,648 Aborted the test early, due to the death of my dad on Saturday (silent stroke). 73 Luis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2GG Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 111,824 First of all, apologies to ZX5J and LT1F who kept asking me for my number. I had not turned on the VOX yet so I heard my paddle CW via the keyer sidetone, but I wasn't transmitting. Had I sent the exchange with the N1MM message you'd have heard me. Sorry, Gents. I just had to lend a hand in activating a Mexican state, but did not have the free time for a full effort. (As N6AN I only got 45 minutes on the air Friday before the band closed.) After a little research I decided to drive to the Hacienda Santa Veronica 24 miles from the border at Tecate. The last 6 mile stretch is a dirt road and I was prepared to turn around if I felt my Toyota Camry would not survive the trip. I departed on Saturday morning around 1630Z. By the time I arrived and set up my portable antenna and station half the contest was gone. My first QSO was at 0010Z with JH3AIU. ZM1A went in the log at 0155Z for the last of the evening. It was a cold night. My car thermometer read 23 F. Sunday morning just before sunrise. By the way, the room I rented had no heat except for a small loaner space heater. The cold stored in the massive adobe walls was no match for that poor little glowing electrical element. But my $40 sleeping bag was up to the task and I managed to sleep warm and snug, the top of the bag drawn tightly around my face. The band popped open with HD2A in the log at 1438Z. Calling CQ rarely lasted more than 10 or 15 minutes. My longest "run" was 25 Qs between 1912 and 1936Z. EA8MT and D4C were the only Africans heard, and worked. JA and UA9 were the only Asians. I heard several states that could not hear me including WA and SD. The lone UT station heard could not pull my state out of the mud so the QSO went unfinished. I only worked 3 Mexican states myself. XE2K was too close in and could not hear me. At 2330Z I shut everything down and packed to go. I wanted to be off the dirt road before dark. I just made it to the main highway as darkness fully set in. At 0530Z I pulled into my driveway. The antenna was a simple homebrew 1/4 wave vertical. The base was supported by a camera tripod with a plate mounted SO-239 accepting the PL-259 carrying the vertical wire element. A carbon fiber collapsible fishing rod supported the wire and some discarded soda bottles taped to the short radials kept them extended. The feedline consisted of three sections of salvaged RG-214 cable taken from retired TV microwave relay trucks. The station was a K3 with N1MM. I had trouble several times when the keying software froze and would repeat my call until I turned off the power to the radio in desperation. (The K3 transmit button would not respond when I tried pushing it.) And the external keyboard would stop working. Running just 100 watts I found it hard to suspect RFI since I've never experienced this problem before, but anything is possible. It was an enjoyable adventure activating BAC. Thanks for digging me out of the noise. 73, David XE2GG/N6AN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2MBE Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 10 YAESU FT-707, A-99 Solarcom Antenna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2PXT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 540 Thanks to all operators that contacted this weekend, first time in a contest in years.. I hope to become a regular from now on... 73 de HILDA, XE2PXT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE3N Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 289,542 Great Contest and lot fun!! Regular propagation and many US stations on the log. " Really I has enjoyed the contest 2011, now with XE multipliers was lot interesting " Thanks to all participants that was in QSO with me, best 73's and See You at next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XR3A Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 470,232 Beautiful ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5OAG Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 51,850 Rig: IC-7600, Ant: Diamond BB-7V, Kelemen dipole. '73 Sanyi YO5OAG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO9HP Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 869,046 The propagation was not as good as expected, but I had a lot of fun with multipath echoes and consistent long path signal (especially from SA). Both Saturday and Sunday, for the first part of the day, it was much easier to work stations from central/western Europe with the antenna pointed to East. I tried to balance the operating time in both modes, but it seems that runs went better in CW, than SSB. Overall it was a nice contest. I wish Happy Holidays to all contesters ! Alex, YO9HP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YR1C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,017,676 Condx in this one were much better than those I've seen 2003, but far away from what we've had in 2002 and 2001! Every phone contact was a struggle, but CW compensated with the fun. Nice LP openings to South America at our both SRs. 73 Tibi YO9GZU Remote @ YR1C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT0Z Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 752,824 73's Milan YU1ZZ - YT0Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT9A Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 676,656 4 el. QQ + FT-920 & TS-930. 73 de YT9A - Boban ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU5A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,406,400 FT1000D + TS590, 1500W to single 6 el yagi antenna@10m. Monday SSN peak promise good DX conditions, so Wednesday after work beer and we are in. This was some kind of "semi field day stile" operation, as we have to assemble antenna and whole setup Friday night before the contest and dissemble it all after the end. We expected more QSOs and longer working time. Anyhow, it was great fun. Thanks all station calling! 73 Zoran, YU1EW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV5KG Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 245,952 Rig Icom 706 MKIIG with 100 watt antenna Mosley triband. QSL card 100% via Bureau o direct information www.qrz.com. Many tnx to all hamradio Op in the contest best 73 HNY 2011. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: Z35X Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 63,700 Just 3 hours of operation. Thanks for calling and Happy holidays to all. Chris, Z35X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL1GO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 528,896 Rig: K3, Ant: 3 mh Wire beam (USA) & GP (DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM1A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,450,176 What a fantastic week end. Conditions were not as good as CQ WW CW but we had some great openings to NA. Only missed one state: DC! Continent Statistics ZM1A ARRL 10 METER CONTEST Single Operator 12 Dec 2011 2359z Note: total QSOs includes dups (52) Continent QSOs percent North America CW 1628 68.5 South America CW 34 1.4 Europe CW 258 10.9 Asia CW 411 17.3 Africa CW 10 0.4 Oceania CW 35 1.5 ARRL 10 METER CONTEST -- 2011 Call: ZM1A Category: Single Operator Power: High Power Band: Mono 10 Mode: CW Country: New Zealand MODE QSO QSO PTS STATES/VE/XE COUNTRIES CW 2324 9296 75 81 SSB 0 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------- Totals 2324 9296 75 81 = 1,450,176 Special thanks to Ken, ZL1AIH for his hospitality (as usual). Best 73's Jacky, ZL3CW (F2CW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM2V Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,794,604 I was thrilled to operate the contest from ZL3IO's beautiful QTH overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Using a 3-ele quad, I played on 10 before the contest, and it was hotter than a firecracker. It was not quite that good during the contest, as big QSB kicked in a lot of the time. It was very difficult to get a run going on phone, but CW worked much better. It's quite a pleasure to see 10 so active again. We must express our heartfelt gratitude to Holger and his wonderful family for making us feel like we were at home during our stay with them. We will treasure these memories. Isn't it incredible how ham radio brings people together. Thanks to all for the QSOs, and the repeats it took for this old mind to catch the correct call signs and numbers. CU from Aruba in January. Very 73 Carl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM4G Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,296,372 What a blast! Condx great apart from a dead period at 07-10z on the first day. Hard to find space to CQ. N1MM vkept crashing for some reason, roughly once an hour on average, but at least it restarted quickly! I took the risk of updating to v11.12.0 during the contest but it was no better :-( 73 merry Christmas all, Gary ZL2iFB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZP5X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,199,940 Amazing trip for many reasons: -First, operate another DXCC from. We knew one of the 7 new wonders of the world, Iguazu falls in Brasil/Argentina. -We knew the most powerful and second largest hydropower dam in the world, Itaipu Dam, also considered one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. - We knew wonderful people and amazing places so close to home. Thanks to Dany ZP5DBC! About the contest: difficult, strange, poor at times, but like all, FUNNY! It would be boring if everything was easy! The propagation was very bad for us, short openings to Europe at unusual times, low prop to Japan and Asia in normal times and almost closed with VK and ZL. Nights completely closed, only the second night I got about 100 QSOs with Europe LP. We only had about 10 hours of interesting condx each day. As the only ZP, we had higher expectations than we could achieve, but against nature, can do nothing. In the short times of stronger prop, the pileups were vy strong, and so should have been most of the time. US comes strong between 2100 and 2300z with stack, but earlier when EU are opening, US stations comes with a S9 on the lower antenna and noise only with the higher antenna. Storms on Friday at the beginning and Saturday night, QRM from an electric fence that we could not find, RFI problems with more than 400w in the lower antenna, a power supply was burned the first hours, among other things... But, THIS IS THE HAM RADIO!... and we are proud of this hobby has given us a lot of friends who trusted us. This year we operate 4 times from outside the country, and there is nothing more beautiful than traveling, meeting places, people and new stations! Thanks to Dany ZP5DBC for giving us this wonderful opportunity. Personally, I am preparing my next adventure, it will be a great challenge. I hope to hear you all from Malpelo HK0NA since January 20! Merry XMAS and happy 2012! 73. Manu LU9ESD ZP5X Team Setup: IC-7600 (brand new, arrived on Wednesday) Henry 3K Classic 5 el. Yagui @12mh 5 el. Yagui @22mh Stack Match by Array Solutions Wavenode swr/wattmeter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZX5J Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,787,692 Another great expereince with the kids. This year we had PU5FJR Eduardo my son 13 years old, PU5BIA Beatriz, my daughter 14 years old, and Vitor PU5DCB, 13 years old pp5mcb son. The kids operated the phone part, just them, andmy dear friend PP1CZ made the cw part. Tahnk you very much Leo pp1cz for your help and support. Next year we are going to have his son Gabriel with us in the time wonderful kid . Probably his is going to have a license next year. You can see the kids in the videos below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECzOdJig_2A pu5fjr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVr0FtsDz4 pu5bia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oB6st0cwDc pu5dcb it is a great expereince to see the improvment of them during the contest, and coordenating the pile upp. Thank to all for the qso[s see you next year Merry Christimas and happy 2012 sergio pp5jr the waiter of zx5j time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZY2C Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,328,860 1st. time on M/S cat. Lot of fun. Tnx to PY2TIM. See you next year. 73�'s. PY2ADR - Adriano Perazio Index of Calls Call: 4O3A Class: M/S HP Call: 4Z5MU Class: M/S LP Call: 5Q2T Class: M/S HP Call: 9A1A Class: M/S HP Call: 9A1UN Class: SO SSB HP Call: A65BD Class: SO CW HP Call: AA0AW Class: M/S HP Call: AA3B Class: SO CW HP Call: AA4FU Class: SO CW LP Call: AA4NC Class: SO CW LP Call: AA4V Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AA5VU Class: SO CW LP Call: AA6K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AA6PW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AA7A Class: SO CW HP Call: AA7V Class: SO CW HP Call: AA8IA Class: M/S LP Call: AB1OD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AB3IC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AB4SF Class: SO CW LP Call: AB7E Class: SO CW LP Call: AB7R Class: SO CW LP Call: AB8M Class: SO SSB LP Call: AC0NF Class: SO SSB LP Call: AC0W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AC6DD Class: M/S HP Call: AC6VN Class: SO CW LP Call: AC8G Class: SO SSB HP Call: AD1C Class: M/S LP Call: AD4EB Class: SO CW HP Call: AD4ES Class: M/S HP Call: AD4L Class: SO SSB LP Call: AD5VJ Class: SO CW HP Call: AD8J Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AE1T 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K5ND Class: SO CW LP Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Call: K5WO Class: M/S LP Call: K6BBQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K6CSL Class: SO CW LP Call: K6DGW Class: SO CW HP Call: K6EZ Class: M/S HP Call: K6GEP Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6GHA Class: SO SSB LP Call: K6III Class: M/S HP Call: K6LL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6LRN Class: SO CW HP Call: K6MM Class: M/S HP Call: K6RB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6RIM Class: M/S HP Call: K6RM Class: SO CW LP Call: K6SRZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6SRZ Class: M/S HP Call: K6ST Class: M/S LP Call: K6TUJ Class: SO SSB LP Call: K6WSC Class: SO CW LP Call: K6XN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6XT Class: SO CW HP Call: K6YL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7BG Class: SO CW HP Call: K7EG Class: SO CW HP Call: K7FA Class: SO CW LP Call: K7GK Class: M/S LP Call: K7HBN Class: SO CW LP Call: K7HP Class: SO CW LP Call: K7IA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7JQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7LY Class: SO SSB HP Call: K7MY Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7NV Class: SO CW HP Call: K7RE Class: SO CW LP Call: K7RF Class: SO CW HP Call: K7RL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7SS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7ULS Class: SO SSB LP Call: K7VIT Class: SO SSB LP Call: K7VU Class: SO CW LP Call: K7WP Class: M/S HP Call: K7XC Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K7ZD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7ZS Class: SO SSB HP Call: K8AC Class: M/S HP Call: K8AJS Class: SO CW LP Call: K8AZ Class: SO CW HP Call: K8BL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K8GT Class: M/S LP Call: K8MCN Class: SO SSB LP Call: K8MM Class: M/S HP Call: K8MR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K8MU Class: M/S LP Call: K9BGL Class: SO CW HP Call: K9CT Class: M/S HP Call: K9ES Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K9GS Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K9NW Class: M/S HP Call: K9OM Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K9QC Class: M/S HP Call: K9YC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KA1ZD Class: M/S HP Call: KA2D Class: M/S LP Call: KA2KON Class: SO SSB LP Call: KA3NZR Class: SO CW LP Call: KA4OTB Class: SO SSB HP Call: KB0EO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KB1EFS Class: M/S HP Call: KB3LIX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KB4KBS Class: M/S LP Call: KB7HDX Class: SO SSB LP Call: KB7Q Class: SO CW HP Call: KB7QND Class: SO SSB LP Call: KB9S Class: SO CW LP Call: KC0DEB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KC0VTJ Class: SO SSB HP Call: KC0W Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KC2VVZ Class: SO CW LP Call: KC4HW Class: SO SSB HP Call: KC7V Class: SO CW HP Call: KC9TLW Class: SO SSB HP Call: KD2JA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KD2MX Class: SO CW LP Call: KD2RD Class: M/S LP Call: KD3TB Class: M/S HP Call: KD4D Class: SO CW HP Call: KD5J Class: SO SSB HP Call: KD6SXF Class: SO SSB LP Call: KD7H Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KD9MS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KE2OI Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KE2VB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KE3X Class: M/S HP Call: KE5OG Class: SO SSB LP Call: KE6TIM Class: SO SSB LP Call: KE7AUB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KE8M Class: SO CW HP Call: KF0UR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KF6T Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KF7DYX Class: SO SSB LP Call: KF7GNI Class: SO SSB HP Call: KF7GYE Class: SO SSB LP Call: KF7IUH Class: M/S LP Call: KG4CUY Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KG9JP Class: SO SSB LP Call: KH2RU/KP4 Class: SO SSB LP Call: KH7Y Class: SO CW HP Call: KI0F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KI4UDF Class: M/S HP Call: KI4WLX Class: SO SSB LP Call: KI6QDH Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KI7Y Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KJ4LTA Class: SO SSB LP Call: KK1KW Class: SO SSB HP Call: KK4CIS Class: SO SSB LP Call: KK7Z Class: SO CW HP Call: KL1JP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KL2HD Class: M/S LP Call: KL2R Class: SO CW HP Call: KL8DX Class: SO CW LP Call: KM2O Class: SO SSB LP Call: KM3T Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KM4HI Class: M/S HP Call: KM4JA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KN0V Class: SO CW LP Call: KN3A Class: SO CW LP Call: KN4Y Class: SO CW LP Call: KN5O Class: SO CW HP Call: KN7K Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KO3T Class: M/S LP Call: KO7AA Class: M/S HP Call: KO7X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KP2/K9MA Class: SO CW LP Call: KP2A Class: SO SSB HP Call: KP2B Class: M/S LP Call: KP2MM Class: SO CW LP Call: KP4KE Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KQ0C Class: SO SSB HP Call: KQ2M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KQ6ES Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KR2E Class: M/S HP Call: KR2Q Class: SO CW QRP Call: KR4F Class: M/S HP Call: KS1J Class: SO CW LP Call: KS2G Class: SO SSB LP Call: KS4X Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: KT0K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KT0P Class: SO CW LP Call: KT1I Class: SO SSB LP Call: KT4LST Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KT4Q Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KT4ZB Class: M/S LP Call: KT6VV Class: SO SSB HP Call: KT7E Class: SO SSB HP Call: KU1T Class: SO SSB HP Call: KU2M Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KV8Q Class: SO CW LP Call: KW3W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KX7L Class: SO CW LP Call: KX9X Class: SO CW QRP Call: KY4F Class: M/S LP Call: KY5R Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KY7M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: L40E Class: SO SSB HP Call: LA5LJA Class: SO CW LP Call: LA6YEA Class: M/S HP Call: LQ5H Class: SO SSB LP Call: LR4E Class: SO SSB HP Call: LS1D Class: M/S HP Call: LU5DX Class: M/S LP Call: LU6FOV Class: SO SSB LP Call: LU8DCF Class: SO SSB LP Call: LW5HR Class: SO CW LP Call: LW7DUC Class: SO SSB LP Call: LY1FW Class: SO SSB HP Call: LY5W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: LY7Z Class: SO CW QRP Call: LZ1MC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: LZ1ND Class: SO CW HP Call: LZ2DF Class: SO Mixed HP Call: LZ2PL Class: M/S HP Call: LZ2PS Class: SO CW LP Call: LZ5R Class: M/S HP Call: M0CFW Class: SO CW LP Call: M0VKG Class: SO Mixed LP Call: M3I Class: SO CW HP Call: MD0CCE Class: SO CW HP Call: MM0LID Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N0AX Class: SO CW QRP Call: N0BUI Class: SO CW HP Call: N0EOP Class: SO SSB LP Call: N0HJZ Class: M/S LP Call: N0KE Class: M/S HP Call: N0KQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N0MA Class: M/S HP Call: N0NI Class: SO SSB QRP Call: N0POH Class: SO SSB LP Call: N0SXX Class: SO CW LP Call: N0TA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N0UJJ Class: SO SSB LP Call: N0VD Class: M/S HP Call: N0XR Class: M/S HP Call: N1ATO Class: SO SSB HP Call: N1CC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N1DC Class: SO CW LP Call: N1IBM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N1IW Class: SO CW HP Call: N1IX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N1LN Class: SO CW HP Call: N1SNB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N1SV Class: SO SSB HP Call: N1TB Class: M/S HP Call: N1UR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N2BJ Class: M/S HP Call: N2CU Class: M/S HP Call: N2ED Class: SO CW HP Call: N2EIK Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2EK Class: SO CW LP Call: N2FF Class: M/S HP Call: N2GA Class: SO CW LP Call: N2IC Class: SO CW HP Call: N2MM Class: SO CW HP Call: N2MUN Class: SO SSB HP Call: N2NS Class: M/S HP Call: N2NT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2SR Class: M/S HP Call: N2YBB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2ZN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N3ALN Class: SO SSB LP Call: N3AM Class: M/S HP Call: N3AWS Class: SO SSB QRP Call: N3BM Class: SO CW LP Call: N3HBX Class: SO SSB HP Call: N3JT Class: SO CW LP Call: N3OC Class: M/S HP Call: N3QE Class: SO CW LP Call: N3QQ Class: SO CW HP Call: N3RC Class: M/S HP Call: N3RD Class: M/S HP Call: N3TD Class: SO SSB LP Call: N3UA Class: M/S HP Call: N3UM Class: SO CW HP Call: N3WD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4AU Class: SO CW QRP Call: N4BCD Class: SO SSB HP Call: N4CW Class: SO CW HP Call: N4DJ Class: M/S HP Call: N4DW Class: M/S HP Call: N4DXI Class: M/S HP Call: N4EEB Class: M/S HP Call: N4EK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4GU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4JF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Call: N4LF Class: M/S LP Call: N4LZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4MM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4NM Class: M/S HP Call: N4NW Class: M/S HP Call: N4PN Class: M/S HP Call: N4QWZ Class: SO SSB HP Call: N4QX Class: SO CW QRP Call: N4RA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4TB Class: SO CW HP Call: N4TOL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4UC Class: SO CW LP Call: N4UU Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4VDL Class: SO SSB LP Call: N4VV Class: M/S HP Call: N4WW Class: SO CW LP Call: N4YDU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4ZI Class: SO CW LP Call: N4ZZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N5DO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N5KF Class: SO SSB LP Call: N5LZ Class: SO CW HP Call: N5NA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N5QQ Class: SO CW HP Call: N5UI Class: SO CW HP Call: N5ZK Class: SO CW HP Call: N6AN Class: SO CW HP Call: N6AR Class: SO CW HP Call: N6BM Class: SO CW LP Call: N6BY Class: SO SSB HP Call: N6DA Class: M/S HP Call: N6HC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6HI Class: SO CW QRP Call: N6KI Class: M/S HP Call: N6WG Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: N6XI Class: M/S HP Call: N6YEU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N6ZFO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N7AT Class: M/S HP Call: N7BKS Class: SO SSB LP Call: N7CW Class: SO CW HP Call: N7DD Class: M/S HP Call: N7IR Class: SO CW QRP Call: N7KU Class: SO CW HP Call: N7LOX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N7MAL Class: M/S LP Call: N7RK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N7US Class: SO SSB HP Call: N7WA Class: SO CW LP Call: N7XU Class: SO CW LP Call: N7ZG Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N8AA Class: SO CW HP Call: N8HM Class: SO SSB QRP Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N8NOE Class: SO CW HP Call: N8OB Class: SO CW LP Call: N8OO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N8RA Class: SO SSB HP Call: N8UM Class: M/S HP Call: N8XX Class: SO CW QRP Call: N9AUG Class: SO CW HP Call: N9CO Class: SO CW LP Call: N9ISN Class: SO SSB LP Call: N9NA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N9NC Class: M/S HP Call: N9RV Class: SO CW HP Call: N9TGR Class: SO SSB LP Call: NA2M Class: M/S HP Call: NA2U Class: M/S HP Call: NA3D Class: SO SSB HP Call: NA4K Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NA5TR Class: SO SSB HP Call: NA6E Class: M/S HP Call: NA8V Class: SO CW LP Call: NB2T Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NB4M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NB7V Class: SO SSB HP Call: NC5O Class: SO CW LP Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Call: ND3D Class: SO Mixed LP Call: ND6S Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NE1B Class: M/S HP Call: NE1RD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NE7D Class: SO CW LP Call: NE8P Class: SO CW HP Call: NF4A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NF8J Class: SO SSB LP Call: NF8M Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NH2DX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NI7R Class: SO CW HP Call: NK3Y Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NK7U Class: M/S HP Call: NM2L Class: SO CW LP Call: NM3G Class: SO SSB LP Call: NM5M Class: SO CW LP Call: NN1N Class: SO CW HP Call: NN3W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NN4F Class: SO SSB HP Call: NN4MM Class: SO CW HP Call: NO5W Class: SO CW LP Call: NP4Z Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NQ4I Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NR1X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NR5M Class: M/S HP Call: NV4B Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NW3H Class: SO SSB HP Call: NX0I Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NX3SS Class: SO SSB LP Call: NX5M Class: M/S HP Call: NX8G/5 Class: SO SSB LP Call: NY3A Class: SO CW HP Call: NZ4O Class: SO SSB HP Call: OA4DKW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: OE2S Class: M/S HP Call: OE3KAB Class: SO CW HP Call: OE8Q Class: SO Mixed HP Call: OG2A Class: M/S HP Call: OH0Z Class: SO CW HP Call: OK4AS Class: SO SSB QRP Call: OK4RQ Class: SO CW LP Call: OK6RA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: OL3Z Class: SO CW HP Call: OL7M Class: M/S HP Call: OM0DX Class: SO CW LP Call: OM2VL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: OM3AG Class: SO CW HP Call: ON5RZ Class: SO SSB LP Call: OP4K Class: SO Mixed HP Call: OQ5M Class: M/S HP Call: OR2F Class: SO Mixed LP Call: OT4A Class: SO Mixed LP Call: OU2I Class: SO CW LP Call: OY1CT Class: SO CW HP Call: OZ1ADL Class: M/S HP Call: OZ4FF Class: SO CW LP Call: OZ8A Class: SO CW QRP Call: P40K Class: SO SSB HP Call: PA0JED Class: SO CW QRP Call: PI4DX Class: SO SSB HP Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP Call: PJ2T Class: M/S HP Call: PJ4LS Class: SO CW HP Call: PP5BZ Class: SO CW QRP Call: PQ5B Class: SO SSB HP Call: PS2R Class: M/S LP Call: PT3T Class: M/S HP Call: PU1MKZ Class: SO SSB LP Call: PU1TMT Class: SO SSB LP Call: PU2LEP Class: SO SSB LP Call: PU8WWW Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY1GQ Class: M/S LP Call: PY1NB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY1PL Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY1ZV Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY2EX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY2HL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: PY2MTV Class: SO CW HP Call: PY2NDX Class: M/S HP Call: PY2PT Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY4CHM Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY4RR Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY4XX Class: SO CW LP Call: PY6KY Class: SO Mixed LP Call: R0DX Class: SO CW HP Call: R3KM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: R3ZZ Class: SO CW HP Call: R5AJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: RA9AP Class: M/S LP Call: RA9MX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: RG3K Class: SO Mixed HP Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Call: RT9S Class: SO CW LP Call: RU0FM Class: M/S HP Call: RU4SO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: RV9UP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: RW1CW Class: SO SSB LP Call: RX9CAZ Class: M/S HP Call: S50G Class: SO CW HP Call: S50O Class: SO SSB HP Call: S51F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: S53M Class: M/S HP Call: S54K Class: M/S HP Call: S56A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: S56P Class: SO SSB HP Call: S57AL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: S57S Class: SO Mixed LP Call: S57UN Class: M/S HP Call: SE0X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: SN5J Class: SO CW LP Call: SO9C Class: SO SSB LP Call: SP1NY Class: SO CW LP Call: SP2LNW Class: SO CW HP Call: SP4LVK Class: SO SSB QRP Call: SP9LJD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: SQ9UM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: ST2AR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: SV0XBZ/9 Class: SO CW LP Call: SV1BJW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: SV5DKL Class: SO SSB HP Call: T6MO Class: SO CW LP Call: TF3Y Class: SO CW HP Call: TI5N Class: M/S LP Call: TM0T Class: SO SSB HP Call: TM2B Class: M/S HP Call: TM2T Class: SO CW LP Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Call: UA0SR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UA4ALI Class: M/S LP Call: UA9MA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UN7PCZ Class: SO CW QRP Call: UN9GD Class: SO CW HP Call: UR5IFX Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: US0HZ Class: SO CW LP Call: UU7J Class: M/S HP Call: UV5U Class: M/S HP Call: UW1M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UX4U Class: SO Mixed HP Call: V25R Class: SO SSB HP Call: VA2EW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VA3ATT Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3DF Class: M/S QRP Call: VA3DX Class: M/S HP Call: VA3EC Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3GKO Class: SO SSB LP Call: VA3GUY Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3KAI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VA3PC Class: SO SSB LP Call: VA3RJ Class: SO CW QRP Call: VA3RKM Class: SO CW QRP Call: VA3UG Class: SO SSB LP Call: VA3WR Class: SO CW QRP Call: VA3YP Class: SO SSB LP Call: VA7BEC Class: M/S LP Call: VA7DXC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VA7DZ Class: SO CW LP Call: VA7IR Class: SO SSB QRP Call: VA7RN Class: SO CW LP Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW HP Call: VE1OP Class: M/S HP Call: VE1RGB Class: SO CW LP Call: VE2PIJ Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE3AD Class: M/S LP Call: VE3CR Class: SO SSB HP Call: VE3CWU Class: M/S LP Call: VE3CX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3DZ Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3EJ Class: M/S HP Call: VE3EY Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3HG Class: SO SSB QRP Call: VE3JI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3KI Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3KZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3NE Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3RCN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3RZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3TU Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE3VE Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE3XAT Class: M/S LP Call: VE4EA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE4EAR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE5MX Class: M/S HP Call: VE5UF Class: SO CW HP Call: VE6FI Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE6TL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7BC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE7WO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE7XF Class: SO CW HP Call: VE8EV Class: SO CW LP Call: VE9AA Class: SO CW HP Call: VE9DX Class: SO CW LP Call: VE9MY Class: SO SSB HP Call: VK2DX Class: SO CW HP Call: VK2GGC Class: M/S HP Call: VK4CT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VK4UC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VO1KVT Class: SO SSB HP Call: VO1TA Class: SO CW LP Call: VP5CW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VX6WQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VY2LI Class: SO SSB HP Call: VY2SS Class: SO CW HP Call: VY2TT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VY2ZM Class: SO CW HP Call: W0AIH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W0EEE Class: M/S HP Call: W0ERP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W0ETT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W0JTC Class: SO SSB LP Call: W0LSD Class: SO SSB LP Call: W0MU Class: M/S HP Call: W0PAN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W0RU Class: M/S LP Call: W0UCE Class: SO CW HP Call: W0VX Class: M/S HP Call: W0YK Class: SO CW HP Call: W0YR Class: SO CW HP Call: W0ZA Class: SO CW HP Call: W1AN Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W1DYJ Class: SO SSB LP Call: W1EBI Class: M/S HP Call: W1END Class: SO CW LP Call: W1KQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1NHS Class: SO SSB HP Call: W1NN Class: SO CW LP Call: W1RH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1RM Class: SO CW HP Call: W1SJ Class: SO SSB HP Call: W1TJL Class: SO SSB LP Call: W1TO Class: SO CW LP Call: W1UJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1VT Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W1WBB Class: M/S LP Call: W1WEF Class: SO CW HP Call: W1XX Class: SO SSB HP Call: W1ZA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W2AJW Class: SO SSB LP Call: W2CDO Class: M/S HP Call: W2EG Class: SO CW LP Call: W2GPS Class: M/S HP Call: W2ID Class: SO CW LP Call: W2JU Class: SO CW HP Call: W2NO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W2RDM Class: SO SSB LP Call: W2RE Class: M/S HP Call: W2RR Class: SO CW HP Call: W2TF Class: SO SSB LP Call: W2UP Class: SO CW LP Call: W2VJN Class: M/S HP Call: W2XL Class: SO CW HP Call: W3EP Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W3FA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W3FV Class: SO CW HP Call: W3KB Class: SO CW LP Call: W3KL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB HP Call: W3RAR Class: M/S HP Call: W3TZ Class: SO SSB HP Call: W3UA Class: M/S HP Call: W3UR Class: M/S HP Call: W3WW Class: SO CW LP Call: W3YY Class: SO CW HP Call: W4ARM Class: SO CW LP Call: W4AU Class: SO CW HP Call: W4BAB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4BCG Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4BK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4BQF Class: SO CW HP Call: W4CYS Class: SO SSB HP Call: W4EE Class: M/S LP Call: W4GDG Class: SO CW LP Call: W4GHD Class: SO SSB HP Call: W4HZ Class: M/S HP Call: W4KAZ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4MLB Class: M/S HP Call: W4NF Class: M/S HP Call: W4NZ Class: SO CW HP Call: W4OZK Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4PK Class: M/S HP Call: W4QN Class: M/S HP Call: W4RK Class: M/S HP Call: W4RM Class: SO CW HP Call: W4SK Class: SO CW LP Call: W4SUN Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W4SVO Class: SO SSB HP Call: W4UAT Class: M/S HP Call: W4UH Class: M/S HP Call: W4UT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4VIC Class: M/S HP Call: W4WWQ Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4ZGR Class: SO CW QRP Call: W5GAI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W5GN Class: SO CW HP Call: W5JBO Class: SO CW LP Call: W5JR Class: M/S HP Call: W5KFT Class: SO CW HP Call: W5MX Class: SO CW HP Call: W6AAN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W6AMD Class: SO SSB LP Call: W6AQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W6EU Class: M/S HP Call: W6FA Class: SO CW LP Call: W6KC Class: M/S HP Call: W6NF Class: M/S HP Call: W6OAT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W6RLL Class: SO CW HP Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Call: W6SZN Class: SO CW HP Call: W6TK Class: SO CW HP Call: W6UX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W6YI Class: SO SSB HP Call: W6YX Class: M/S HP Call: W6ZL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W7FB Class: SO CW QRP Call: W7IJ Class: SO CW LP Call: W7IV Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W7KAM Class: SO SSB LP Call: W7POE Class: SO CW LP Call: W7PP Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W7QN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Call: W7SO Class: SO SSB LP Call: W7TVC Class: M/S LP Call: W7VJ Class: M/S HP Call: W7VXS Class: SO CW LP Call: W7WHY Class: SO CW LP Call: W7WW Class: SO SSB HP Call: W7WZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W7YAQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W7ZB Class: SO SSB HP Call: W7ZI Class: SO CW LP Call: W7ZR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W7ZRC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W8AEF Class: SO CW HP Call: W8AV Class: SO CW HP Call: W8CAR Class: SO CW HP Call: W8FJ Class: M/S HP Call: W8MJ Class: M/S HP Call: W8OHT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W8QZA Class: SO SSB QRP Call: W8TA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W8WTS Class: SO CW LP Call: W9IIX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W9ILY Class: SO CW LP Call: W9JJC Class: SO SSB HP Call: W9OP Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W9SN Class: SO CW LP Call: W9XT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA0MHJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA1DRQ Class: SO SSB LP Call: WA1FCN Class: SO CW LP Call: WA1Z Class: SO CW LP Call: WA2BCK Class: SO CW HP Call: WA2JQK Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA3A Class: SO CW HP Call: WA3AFS Class: M/S HP Call: WA3F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA3OFC Class: M/S HP Call: WA4EUL Class: SO CW LP Call: WA5RML Class: SO CW QRP Call: WA5ZUP Class: SO SSB HP Call: WA6L Class: SO CW QRP Call: WA7BNM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WA7LNW Class: SO CW QRP Call: WA7NWL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WA7PRC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA8UEG Class: SO SSB HP Call: WB0TEV Class: SO SSB HP Call: WB2ABD Class: SO CW LP Call: WB2RHM Class: SO SSB LP Call: WB4MSG Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WB4TDH Class: SO CW LP Call: WB6CZG Class: SO SSB HP Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Call: WB8YYY Class: SO CW LP Call: WB9Z Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WC4J Class: SO SSB QRP Call: WC6H Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WC7Q Class: SO CW HP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SO CW LP Call: WD8RYC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WF7T Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WI4R Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: WI7N Class: M/S HP Call: WI9WI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WL7BDO Class: SO SSB LP Call: WL7E Class: SO CW HP Call: WM3O Class: M/S HP Call: WN6K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WO2U Class: SO SSB HP Call: WO6M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WQ5C Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WQ5L Class: SO CW LP Call: WR1Q Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WT8C Class: M/S HP Call: WT9U Class: SO CW LP Call: WU9B Class: SO CW LP Call: WV0T Class: SO SSB HP Call: WX3B Class: M/S HP Call: WX4G Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WX4US Class: SO SSB HP Call: WX9U Class: SO CW HP Call: XE2AU Class: M/S LP Call: XE2B Class: M/S HP Call: XE2CRH Class: M/S LP Call: XE2GG Class: SO Mixed LP Call: XE2MBE Class: SO SSB LP Call: XE2PXT Class: SO SSB HP Call: XE3N Class: SO SSB LP Call: XR3A Class: SO CW LP Call: YO3CZW Class: SO SSB HP Call: YO5OAG Class: SO Mixed LP Call: YO9BXC Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: YO9HP Class: SO Mixed HP Call: YP8T Class: SO SSB HP Call: YR1C Class: M/S HP Call: YT0Z Class: SO CW HP Call: YT2F Class: M/S LP Call: YT9A Class: SO CW LP Call: YU1TY Class: SO CW LP Call: YU2A Class: SO Mixed LP Call: YU5A Class: M/S HP Call: YV5KG Class: SO SSB LP Call: Z35F Class: SO CW LP Call: Z35X Class: SO CW HP Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW HP Call: ZL1GO Class: SO CW LP Call: ZM1A Class: SO CW HP Call: ZM2V Class: SO Mixed HP Call: ZM4G Class: SO Mixed HP Call: ZP5X Class: M/S HP Call: ZS6A Class: SO CW HP Call: ZX5J Class: M/S HP Call: ZY2C Class: M/S LP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/S HP Call: 4O3A Call: 5Q2T Call: 9A1A Call: AA0AW Call: AC6DD Call: AD4ES Call: AI2N Call: AK7AZ Call: AL9A Call: CE1DY Call: CR6K Call: CS2P Call: CW5W Call: CX5BW Call: D4C Call: DA2C Call: DL6RAI Call: DL8ZAW Call: DR1A Call: DR1D Call: E7DX Call: EA1WX Call: ED1R Call: ED5T Call: EF3A Call: EF8R Call: EI7M Call: GM3W Call: GW7X Call: HK1NA Call: II9P Call: IQ1GE Call: IV3TMV Call: JA1YPA Call: JH5RXS Call: K0DU Call: K0KX Call: K0MD Call: K0YCE Call: K1JB Call: K1LZ Call: K1WHS Call: K2RD Call: K2SX Call: K3EST Call: K3IE Call: K3IVO Call: K3OO Call: K3PP Call: K3STX Call: K3WW Call: K4FJ Call: K4WW Call: K4XD Call: K5AUP Call: K5KG Call: K6EZ Call: K6III Call: K6MM Call: K6RIM Call: K6SRZ Call: K7WP Call: K8AC Call: K8MM Call: K9CT Call: K9NW Call: K9QC Call: KA1ZD Call: KB1EFS Call: KD3TB Call: KE3X Call: KI4UDF Call: KM4HI Call: KO7AA Call: KR2E Call: KR4F Call: LA6YEA Call: LS1D Call: LZ2PL Call: LZ5R Call: N0KE Call: N0MA Call: N0VD Call: N0XR Call: N1TB Call: N2BJ Call: N2CU Call: N2FF Call: N2NS Call: N2SR Call: N3AM Call: N3OC Call: N3RC Call: N3RD Call: N3UA Call: N4DJ Call: N4DW Call: N4DXI Call: N4EEB Call: N4KG Call: N4NM Call: N4NW Call: N4PN Call: N4VV Call: N6DA Call: N6KI Call: N6XI Call: N7AT Call: N7DD Call: N8UM Call: N9NC Call: NA2M Call: NA2U Call: NA6E Call: NE1B Call: NK7U Call: NR5M Call: NX5M Call: OE2S Call: OG2A Call: OL7M Call: OQ5M Call: OZ1ADL Call: PI4TUE Call: PJ2T Call: PT3T Call: PY2NDX Call: RL3A Call: RU0FM Call: RX9CAZ Call: S53M Call: S54K Call: S57UN Call: TM2B Call: TM6M Call: UU7J Call: UV5U Call: VA3DX Call: VE1OP Call: VE3EJ Call: VE5MX Call: VK2GGC Call: W0EEE Call: W0MU Call: W0VX Call: W1EBI Call: W2CDO Call: W2GPS Call: W2RE Call: W2VJN Call: W3RAR Call: W3UA Call: W3UR Call: W4HZ Call: W4MLB Call: W4NF Call: W4PK Call: W4QN Call: W4RK Call: W4UAT Call: W4UH Call: W4VIC Call: W5JR Call: W6EU Call: W6KC Call: W6NF Call: W6SX Call: W6YX Call: W7RN Call: W7VJ Call: W8FJ Call: W8MJ Call: WA3AFS Call: WA3OFC Call: WI7N Call: WM3O Call: WT8C Call: WX3B Call: XE2B Call: YR1C Call: YU5A Call: ZP5X Call: ZX5J Class: M/S LP Call: 4Z5MU Call: AA8IA Call: AD1C Call: EA4ZK Call: K0PC Call: K0RI Call: K2QMF Call: K3KU Call: K3WI Call: K4MM Call: K5WO Call: K6ST Call: K7GK Call: K8GT Call: K8MU Call: KA2D Call: KB4KBS Call: KD2RD Call: KF7IUH Call: KL2HD Call: KO3T Call: KP2B Call: KT4ZB Call: KY4F Call: LU5DX Call: N0HJZ Call: N4LF Call: N7MAL Call: PS2R Call: PY1GQ Call: RA9AP Call: TI5N Call: UA4ALI Call: VA7BEC Call: VE3AD Call: VE3CWU Call: VE3XAT Call: W0RU Call: W1WBB Call: W4EE Call: W7TVC Call: XE2AU Call: XE2CRH Call: YT2F Call: ZY2C Class: M/S QRP Call: VA3DF Class: SO CW HP Call: A65BD Call: AA3B Call: AA7A Call: AA7V Call: AD4EB Call: AD5VJ Call: CE1/K7CA Call: DJ1YFK Call: DL6KVA Call: EA3JW Call: EF5Y Call: ES5RY Call: F5IN Call: F6FYA Call: G3TXF Call: HB9DHG Call: IK7JWY Call: IT9ESW Call: IT9MUO Call: JA5FBZ Call: JF1SQC Call: JN4MMO Call: K0FX Call: K1BV Call: K1GU Call: K1LT Call: K1RM Call: K1TN Call: K1TO Call: K1ZZI Call: K2AXX Call: K2SSS Call: K3IU Call: K4GMH Call: K4TD Call: K4VV Call: K5JX Call: K5NA Call: K6DGW Call: K6LRN Call: K6XT Call: K7BG Call: K7EG Call: K7NV Call: K7RF Call: K8AZ Call: K9BGL Call: KB7Q Call: KC7V Call: KD4D Call: KE8M Call: KH7Y Call: KK7Z Call: KL2R Call: KN5O Call: LZ1ND Call: M3I Call: MD0CCE Call: N0BUI Call: N1IW Call: N1LN Call: N2ED Call: N2IC Call: N2MM Call: N3QQ Call: N3UM Call: N4CW Call: N4TB Call: N5LZ Call: N5QQ Call: N5UI Call: N5ZK Call: N6AN Call: N6AR Call: N7CW Call: N7KU Call: N8AA Call: N8NOE Call: N9AUG Call: N9RV Call: NE8P Call: NI7R Call: NN1N Call: NN4MM Call: NY3A Call: OE3KAB Call: OH0Z Call: OL3Z Call: OM3AG Call: OY1CT Call: PJ4LS Call: PY2MTV Call: R0DX Call: R3ZZ Call: S50G Call: SP2LNW Call: TF3Y Call: UN9GD Call: VA7ST Call: VE3EY Call: VE5UF Call: VE7XF Call: VE9AA Call: VK2DX Call: VY2SS Call: VY2ZM Call: W0UCE Call: W0YK Call: W0YR Call: W0ZA Call: W1RM Call: W1WEF Call: W2JU Call: W2RR Call: W2XL Call: W3FV Call: W3YY Call: W4AU Call: W4BQF Call: W4NZ Call: W4RM Call: W5GN Call: W5KFT Call: W5MX Call: W6RLL Call: W6SZN Call: W6TK Call: W8AEF Call: W8AV Call: W8CAR Call: WA2BCK Call: WA3A Call: WC7Q Call: WL7E Call: WX9U Call: YT0Z Call: Z35X Call: ZC4LI Call: ZM1A Call: ZS6A Class: SO CW LP Call: AA4FU Call: AA4NC Call: AA5VU Call: AB4SF Call: AB7E Call: AB7R Call: AC6VN Call: AE1T Call: AE4O Call: CE1CR Call: CE2/VE7SV Call: DL4AAE Call: DL7BY Call: E21EIC Call: EA5GX Call: EA6BF Call: F8CRS Call: HB9ARF Call: HK1N Call: IC8FBU Call: IK8TEO Call: JA1XMS Call: K0TI Call: K0VBU Call: K1PQS Call: K1TR Call: K3AN Call: K3IT Call: K3SV Call: K3SWZ Call: K4FT Call: K4HAL Call: K4KO Call: K5LH Call: K5ND Call: K6CSL Call: K6RM Call: K6WSC Call: K7FA Call: K7HBN Call: K7HP Call: K7RE Call: K7VU Call: K8AJS Call: KA3NZR Call: KB9S Call: KC2VVZ Call: KD2MX Call: KL8DX Call: KN0V Call: KN3A Call: KN4Y Call: KP2/K9MA Call: KP2MM Call: KS1J Call: KT0P Call: KV8Q Call: KX7L Call: LA5LJA Call: LW5HR Call: LZ2PS Call: M0CFW Call: N0SXX Call: N1DC Call: N2EK Call: N2GA Call: N3BM Call: N3JT Call: N3QE Call: N4UC Call: N4WW Call: N4ZI Call: N6BM Call: N7WA Call: N7XU Call: N8OB Call: N9CO Call: NA8V Call: NC5O Call: NE7D Call: NM2L Call: NM5M Call: NO5W Call: OK4RQ Call: OM0DX Call: OU2I Call: OZ4FF Call: PY4XX Call: RT9S Call: SN5J Call: SP1NY Call: SV0XBZ/9 Call: T6MO Call: TM2T Call: US0HZ Call: VA3ATT Call: VA3EC Call: VA3GUY Call: VA7DZ Call: VA7RN Call: VE1RGB Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3KI Call: VE8EV Call: VE9DX Call: VO1TA Call: W1END Call: W1NN Call: W1TO Call: W2EG Call: W2ID Call: W2UP Call: W3KB Call: W3WW Call: W4ARM Call: W4GDG Call: W4SK Call: W5JBO Call: W6FA Call: W7IJ Call: W7POE Call: W7VXS Call: W7WHY Call: W7ZI Call: W8WTS Call: W9ILY Call: W9SN Call: WA1FCN Call: WA1Z Call: WA4EUL Call: WB2ABD Call: WB4TDH Call: WB8JUI Call: WB8YYY Call: WD4AHZ Call: WQ5L Call: WT9U Call: WU9B Call: XR3A Call: YT9A Call: YU1TY Call: Z35F Call: ZL1GO Class: SO CW QRP Call: DF1DX Call: DK1IZ Call: EU1AA Call: K0LUZ Call: K0PK Call: K2ZR Call: KR2Q Call: KX9X Call: LY7Z Call: N0AX Call: N4AU Call: N4QX Call: N6HI Call: N7IR Call: N8XX Call: OZ8A Call: PA0JED Call: PP5BZ Call: UN7PCZ Call: VA3RJ Call: VA3RKM Call: VA3WR Call: W4ZGR Call: W7FB Call: WA5RML Call: WA6L Call: WA7LNW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AA4V Call: AA6PW Call: AH6RR Call: AI9T Call: AL1G Call: DK6XZ Call: EU1AZ Call: EV1R Call: F4ERS Call: F5CQ Call: F5UTN Call: F6GOX Call: F8BDQ Call: G0HVQ Call: HA8BE Call: HL5YI Call: JG1RSL Call: K0IO Call: K0ZX Call: K1UO Call: K2LE Call: K3ZO Call: K4AB Call: K4ADR Call: K4BAI Call: K4CX Call: K4EDI Call: K4EU Call: K4FX Call: K4RO Call: K4ZGB Call: K6GEP Call: K6LL Call: K6RB Call: K6SRZ Call: K6YL Call: K7ABV Call: K7IA Call: K7JQ Call: K7RL Call: K9GS Call: K9YC Call: KB0EO Call: KC0W Call: KD2JA Call: KE2VB Call: KF6T Call: KG4CUY Call: KI0F Call: KM3T Call: KN7K Call: KO7X Call: KQ2M Call: KQ6ES Call: KY5R Call: KY7M Call: LZ2DF Call: MM0LID Call: N0KQ Call: N1SNB Call: N2EIK Call: N2NT Call: N2YBB Call: N2ZN Call: N4LZ Call: N4MM Call: N4RA Call: N4UU Call: N4ZZ Call: N5NA Call: N6HC Call: NA4K Call: NB4M Call: NF4A Call: NH2DX Call: NK3Y Call: NP4Z Call: NQ4I Call: NR1X Call: OE8Q Call: OM2VL Call: OP4K Call: PY2HL Call: R3KM Call: R5AJ Call: RG3K Call: S51F Call: S56A Call: S57AL Call: SE0X Call: SP9LJD Call: SQ9UM Call: ST2AR Call: SV1BJW Call: UA0SR Call: UA9MA Call: UW1M Call: UX4U Call: VA2EW Call: VE3KZ Call: VE3RZ Call: VE4EAR Call: VE6TL Call: VK4CT Call: VK4UC Call: VX6WQ Call: W0AIH Call: W0BH Call: W1KQ Call: W1RH Call: W1UJ Call: W1ZA Call: W2NO Call: W3EP Call: W3KL Call: W6OAT Call: W7PP Call: W7WZ Call: W8OHT Call: W8TA Call: W9OP Call: W9XT Call: WA0MHJ Call: WA2JQK Call: WA3F Call: WA7PRC Call: WB4MSG Call: WB9Z Call: WC6H Call: WD8RYC Call: WI9WI Call: WO6M Call: WR1Q Call: WX4G Call: YO9HP Call: ZM2V Call: ZM4G Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AA6K Call: AB1OD Call: AB3IC Call: AC0W Call: AD8J Call: C4Z Call: CR5A Call: DL4MCF Call: DO6SR Call: EA8OM Call: EI4CF Call: F5RD Call: G3Y Call: G4FKA Call: HG8C Call: HL1VAU Call: JA6WFM Call: K0AD Call: K0DI Call: K0TT Call: K1HTV Call: K2CYE Call: K2DSL Call: K2PS Call: K3AJ Call: K3TN Call: K4FTO Call: K4YCR Call: K5IID Call: K6XN Call: K7MY Call: K7SS Call: K7ZD Call: K8BL Call: K8MR Call: K9ES Call: KB3LIX Call: KC0DEB Call: KD7H Call: KD9MS Call: KE7AUB Call: KF0UR Call: KI6QDH Call: KI7Y Call: KL1JP Call: KM4JA Call: KT0K Call: KT4LST Call: KT4Q Call: KU2M Call: KW3W Call: LY5W Call: LZ1MC Call: M0VKG Call: N0TA Call: N1CC Call: N1IBM Call: N1IX Call: N1UR Call: N3WD Call: N4EK Call: N4GU Call: N4JF Call: N4TOL Call: N4YDU Call: N5DO Call: N6YEU Call: N6ZFO Call: N7LOX Call: N7RK Call: N7ZG Call: N8II Call: N8OO Call: N9NA Call: NB2T Call: ND3D Call: ND6S Call: NE1RD Call: NF8M Call: NN3W Call: NV4B Call: NX0I Call: OA4DKW Call: OK6RA Call: OR2F Call: OT4A Call: PY1NB Call: PY2EX Call: PY6KY Call: RA9MX Call: RU4SO Call: RV9UP Call: S57S Call: VA3KAI Call: VA7DXC Call: VE3CX Call: VE3JI Call: VE3NE Call: VE3RCN Call: VE4EA Call: VE7BC Call: VE7WO Call: VP5CW Call: VY2TT Call: W0ERP Call: W0ETT Call: W0PAN Call: W3FA Call: W4BAB Call: W4BCG Call: W4BK Call: W4KAZ Call: W4UT Call: W5GAI Call: W6AAN Call: W6UX Call: W6ZL Call: W7QN Call: W7ZR Call: W7ZRC Call: W9IIX Call: WA7BNM Call: WA7NWL Call: WF7T Call: WN6K Call: WQ5C Call: XE2GG Call: YO5OAG Call: YU2A Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: E70LT Call: HG6C Call: K0OU Call: K4WI Call: K6BBQ Call: K7XC Call: K9OM Call: KS4X Call: N6WG Call: UR5IFX Call: W1AN Call: W1VT Call: W4SUN Call: W6AQ Call: W7IV Call: W7YAQ Call: WI4R Call: YO9BXC Class: SO SSB HP Call: 9A1UN Call: AC8G Call: AE4EC Call: AG4W Call: CE3CT Call: CT3FQ Call: DD8SM Call: DJ7YP Call: DL2MWB Call: DL5GA Call: EA5DFV Call: EB2AM Call: EC7ZK Call: F4FFZ Call: F4FLQ Call: F8AAN Call: GM5X Call: GW9T Call: IR4C Call: K0RH Call: K2JMY Call: K3DNE Call: K4NV Call: K5TR Call: K7LY Call: K7ZS Call: KA4OTB Call: KC0VTJ Call: KC4HW Call: KC9TLW Call: KD5J Call: KF7GNI Call: KK1KW Call: KP2A Call: KQ0C Call: KT6VV Call: KT7E Call: KU1T Call: L40E Call: LR4E Call: LY1FW Call: N1ATO Call: N1SV Call: N2MUN Call: N3HBX Call: N4BCD Call: N4QWZ Call: N6BY Call: N7US Call: N8RA Call: NA3D Call: NA5TR Call: NB7V Call: NN4F Call: NW3H Call: NZ4O Call: P40K Call: PI4DX Call: PQ5B Call: S50O Call: S56P Call: SV5DKL Call: TM0T Call: V25R Call: VE3CR Call: VE9MY Call: VO1KVT Call: VY2LI Call: W1NHS Call: W1SJ Call: W1XX Call: W3LL Call: W3TZ Call: W4CYS Call: W4GHD Call: W4SVO Call: W6YI Call: W7WW Call: W7ZB Call: W9JJC Call: WA5ZUP Call: WA8UEG Call: WB0TEV Call: WB6CZG Call: WO2U Call: WV0T Call: WX4US Call: XE2PXT Call: YO3CZW Call: YP8T Class: SO SSB LP Call: AB8M Call: AC0NF Call: AD4L Call: AF6AV Call: EA5HSI Call: HA4XH Call: HI3K Call: HI3TEJ Call: IW1QN Call: IZ4AMS Call: K0VVX Call: K1VU Call: K4BP Call: K4IU Call: K4TMC Call: K4TOJ Call: K6GHA Call: K6TUJ Call: K7ULS Call: K7VIT Call: K8MCN Call: KA2KON Call: KB7HDX Call: KB7QND Call: KD6SXF Call: KE5OG Call: KE6TIM Call: KF7DYX Call: KF7GYE Call: KG9JP Call: KH2RU/KP4 Call: KI4WLX Call: KJ4LTA Call: KK4CIS Call: KM2O Call: KS2G Call: KT1I Call: LQ5H Call: LU6FOV Call: LU8DCF Call: LW7DUC Call: N0EOP Call: N0POH Call: N0UJJ Call: N3ALN Call: N3TD Call: N4VDL Call: N5KF Call: N7BKS Call: N9ISN Call: N9TGR Call: NF8J Call: NM3G Call: NX3SS Call: NX8G/5 Call: ON5RZ Call: PU1MKZ Call: PU1TMT Call: PU2LEP Call: PU8WWW Call: PY1PL Call: PY1ZV Call: PY2PT Call: PY4CHM Call: PY4RR Call: RW1CW Call: SO9C Call: VA3GKO Call: VA3PC Call: VA3UG Call: VA3YP Call: VE2PIJ Call: VE3TU Call: VE3VE Call: VE6FI Call: W0JTC Call: W0LSD Call: W1DYJ Call: W1TJL Call: W2AJW Call: W2RDM Call: W2TF Call: W4OZK Call: W4WWQ Call: W6AMD Call: W7KAM Call: W7SO Call: WA1DRQ Call: WB2RHM Call: WL7BDO Call: XE2MBE Call: XE3N Call: YV5KG Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KE2OI Call: KP4KE Call: N0NI Call: N3AWS Call: N8HM Call: ND0C Call: OK4AS Call: SP4LVK Call: VA7IR Call: VE3HG Call: W8QZA Call: WC4J