ARRL 10 Soapbox built 1-11-2013 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4Z1UF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 60,672 The propagation was terrible here: 300 Q's in 48 hours is my new record!:-) On the other hand, was amazing to hear couple of African stations (the only ones on the band in the evening) working both coasts of US with a good rate, while I didn't hear even ONE NA station (except KH7Y) during whole contest! Hope for better times. 73 to all, Ilya 4Z1UF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P2K Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 55,044 Thanks to all the stations that worked me during the contest. It proved impossible to stay in the chair for any length of time after a great start early in the first couple hours of the contest. Saturday was a bummer as an unexpected work issue came up and that kept me away all day. Was up early on Sunday hoping for some solid propagation into EU. Just around 1300z the band opened to Eu and worked DK1A to get things going but a couple other matters kept me out of the chair most of the day and when I got back into the shack propagation had dried up. It was interesting to work a couple JA's at around 00:30z on the long path but never heard any VK's or ZL all week-end until about 15 minutes before the end when I managed to snare one of each. Never felt like I was putting out a strong signal all week-end - maybe need more elements on 10m. The SA stations seemed to have propagation to everywhere. Even into USA they were working stations that just did not register at my station. Look forward to next year because the conditions have to be better.. 73's, Dean - 8P2K/8P6SH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A45XR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 57,600 Very interesting propagation! All my contacts with NA and EU were long path Saturday/Sunday are working days in Oman, pity that missed daylight openings... Next year will take leave for the contest Thanks all for patience and QRS in LP contacts! 73! Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A65BD Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 26,752 Lousy condx and busy working day Sunday so small entry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3S Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 17,388 100 watts, 31 foot "center" fed vertical (GAP Challenger DX), K3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4NC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 147,114 This was more like a VHF contest. Conditions were the best for me in the last hour when Es to the midwest came rolling in. Just played around a few hours here and there over the weekend hoping propagation would improve. My sympathies to anyone trying to do this one full time. I'll bet that seemed like work! Happy holidays and a prosperous New Year to contesters everywhere! CU in the RTTY Roundup in January. 73, Will AA4NC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 66,928 Limited time plus poor conditions = low score. Wouldn't it be nice to have SOAB(A) as a category? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6K Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 23,146 Working Conditions: IC-756PII, 3 el SteppIR. Comments: Didn't have much time to devote this year but if the band had been as good as it was last year I probably could have found more time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6PW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 489,940 Down about a 100 mults and 600 Q's from last year. Very unusual to not work Japan from the West Coast until Sunday afternoon. Few stations worked in Oceania and Europe. Only worked a few Europeans and South America was the fall back for searching and pouncing. The runs to the east coast kept the contest fun and interesting with the best hourly rate of 175/hr. 73, Bob AA6PW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA7V Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 227,968 Lots of tuning around. Worked all mults heard. No WY or NDAK heard. Good XE ops pulling me out from backscatter calling. Just a few EU, JA, AF qsos, nice spurts of W/VE runs. Rig FT 1000MP, Ten Tec amp @ 1.5 kw, 2 ele at 40 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA7XT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 50,630 Hopefully the last low-power-into-a-vertical contest for me! 3 concrete tower bases are nearly cured and if can get a trench dug soon for new AC service I'll have 220V in the shack before the ground freezes here at 7000 feet ASL I've have juice for my amps soon. Amazing how many people I could copy Q5 who would repeatedly CQ in my face! 73 Bill AA7XT (ex-AA6TT, ex-NT1Y) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA8R Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 23,040 Wish I could copy code like the rest of you guys. Thanks for the Q's. Randy - AA8R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA9A Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 38,190 A busy weekend but managed to put in a couple of hours. Conditions seemed like operating a VHF contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,024 Thanks to everyone for the contacts. Couldnt stay with this one very long, but had a good time while I was operating, For the conditions reported the band did really well I thought. 73, Bob AD5VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6WL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 8,316 PART TIME EFFORT IN BETWEEN WATCHING FOOTBALL AND HOLIDAY SHOPPING WITH THE XYL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 36,646 Nothing serious about this effort. Operated when I could. Great to hear the band openings and several YCCCers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE4O Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 5,628 Ten Tec Eagle @ 85W to horizontal loop @ 50 feet. N1MM. S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE7VA Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 5,100 The propagation gods didn't seem to like my cap gun sized station this year as last year I made 350 Qs in the same period of time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG4W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 95,220 FTDX-5000D,AL-1200, 3 element quad Part time effort again this weekend. Conditions were very poor Saturday and a little better Sunday. Europe was very difficult.Very little Asia. Had a few good runs but they were short lived. Decided to use the packet network due to poor conditions. It made the contest a little more fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI6V/7 Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 256,480 Hi All Good to be back on the air from a new QTH This contest caught us in the process of moving to Las Vegas and the Antenna went up 3 days before the contest. First off the computer would not switch band motes so a reload was in store. Then a neighbor came to the door and I spent 2 hours in back of the entertainent center with filters in hand. After all that the thrill of the chase had cooled of and I hung in there to catch up with my code practice HiHi Good to hear all of you again and will be more rested when we get to Aruba. Hope that you all have a GOOD Christmas season. 73 Carl ai6v/p49v ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI7AA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 12,480 The band was better on Sunday at this location. Saturday it seemed to be just on the edge of dead most of the time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK4I Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 5,104 Jumped on to hand out some Q's. Knew I had no chance of really winning or placing in the top so just had fun collecting states for WAS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK7AZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 345,828 This was a purely recreational effort for this contest and nothing serious as this contest is considered a as laid back contest for the seasoned contesters and a training contest for any newbies. This year was not quite as good with propagation as was in years past but still proved to be fun for all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL9A Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 130,720 Wow, tough weekend! Did I only put in a little over 7 hours? Sure seemed a lot longer than that. Score this year was way down from last year. So much for this solar cycle peak I think! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4Z Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 41,256 Well - what can we say about this one? - best forgotten would be very apt. This contest was a ball breaker for legal limit ops, it was no place for low or qrp power stns, we should have had a Government warning that to participate would be dangerous for your health! How (poorly or poorlier) you did rather depended upon where you were and the middle east was no place to be for this one with little propagation to anywhere. Running couldn't happen and S&P was rewarded with stns cq'ing in your face, I thought I must be in a dream and someone had thrown a lead screen over my antenna. I am one of those optomistic people who are sure that 2nd day cannot be worse than the first and of course get it wrong. Only 50 q's and 7 mlts on Sunday, how's that for stickability? The xyl tells me that she made a call and the men in white coats are waiting for me outside. Hope they let me out in time for the next one!. 73 Brian C4Z. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE1/K7CA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,373,178 First time trying mixed operation. I'm not much of an SSB operator. One station commented that he thought I did not even own a microphone and he was almost right. I set up a complete small second station just for SSB but did not spend a lot of time on it. In fact, more than 1 of 4 stations worked was a multiplier on SSB but my throat was getting sore calling cq so couldn't spend much time on the SSB station. I should have recorded a CQ. Conditions were much worse than last year judging from the pileups which were not very large like last year but it seemed that signal levels from Europe and USA and Japan were as good. Maybe they just seemed loud because compared to signals on 160 with the summer QRN down here anything on 10m above the background noise of s0 seems like it is next door. Hope to see you all in the Stew Perry contest in a couple of weeks. 73, Al CE1/K7CA CW station: K3, Titan amp 1200W, homebrew 5 el 27 ft boom up 25 feet. SSB station: K3, AL-572 amp 700W, 3 el Steppir yagi up 20 feet. N1MM software in SO2R configuration which really works great (however, there is a bug in the multiplier window) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE1TT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 161,784 Bad propagation in northern Chile ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE3CT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 397,192 Hi to all, Thanks for the QSO's, the condition very bad at this latitude...the European sataion don�'t cross the Andes Mountain... Merry Cristmas to all Contesters and happy new year 2013... CE3CT Roberto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE3FZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 735,588 Poor conditions, almost no propagation to Europe. Half score than previous year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CR6K Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 162,946 Only good conditions on Sunday... Thanks for QSOs. 73's Jose Lopes CT1CJJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CW5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,606,592 Condx worst than in 2011 anyway we worked hard with the multipliers. Thanks for all that QSY to the other mode to give us the multiplier. Better conditions with USA than Europe. We did less EU multipliers this year. As in 2011 we worked all USA States in CW and SSB. 19 VE mults (20 in 2011) and 29 XE states (24 in 2011). We have a great time in El Mangrullo, as always is greate to have the friends in the station, is a contest that allow us talking, eating, dreaming stations improvements... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2013!! 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX2BR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 196,992 ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2012-12-01 CallSign Used : CX2BR Operator(s) : CX2BR Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 10M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : 001 Gridsquare : GF15WD Name : GUSTAVO Address : JAIME ROLDOS Y PONS 4137 MONTEVIDEO City/State/Zip : MONTEVIDEO nil nil Country : URUGUAY ARRL Section : DX Club/Team : None Software : N1MM Logger V12.12.0 Band QSOs Pts Mul 28 456 1824 108 Total 456 1824 108 Score : 196.992 Rig : Antennas : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D4C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,228,636 POOR CONDITIONS ON THE FIRST DAY WITH EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, MUCH QRM AND NOISE DURING THE DAY WITH VERY LOW SIGNALS QSB! SUNDAY, THE BEST CONDITIONS WITH APERTURES IN THE MORNING WITH LONG PATH AND JA STATIONS IN THE AFTERNOON STRONG SIGNALS WITH THE UNITED STATES. NICE COMPETITION With LS1D And CONGRATULATION TEAM CW5W! Thanks To FILIPPO IK4ZHH (CW) Where HE MANAGED The PILE UP For MANY HOURS, PHILIP TNX!! CU IN THE NEXT YEAR 2013 TNX US STATE CALL ME!! 73 ' IZ4DPV MAX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH8BQA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 134,200 Elecraft K3, PA + 6 ele OWA Yagi @ 60 ft. To sum it up: Sunspot minimum seems to be back! Conditions really sucked. :-( Saturday started very slow. Band "opened" (if you can really call it "open") at about 7:15 UTC from here in north-eastern Germany. Things went really slow, no runs, not much to work. A number of QSOs just using Meteor Scatter. Sorrily not everybody knows what it is so another number of QSOs were simply lost. Positive: KH7Y was a nice 559 long path both mornings. But most stations rather weak with lots of QSB. Worked JA5FBZ as the only JA in the morning on skewed path (80 degrees instead of 45 degrees). Later on he was a booming 599+20 on long path! JH3PRR added to the JA long path fun but that was it on Saturday. Not much from South America and just K1WHS and VE9HF on skewed path (250 degrees instead of 300 degrees) concerning continental North America. Band closed already at 13:50 UTC so after a few more ground wave and MS QSOs I decided to call it a day at 15:30 UTC. Back to the station on Sunday morning. Band opened even an hour later just after 8 UTC. VKs & ZLs louder on Sunday but still only very few UA9s, but no UA0s, no JAs, not much concerning other DX. Long path to JA later on a bit better, added 9 more JAs plus VR2XMT and BD7LMD to the log. Caribbean not really open, the big guns like PJ2T beeing really weak and a struggle to work. Again not much from South America nor North America (just K5EK on probably an MS + F2 link for under a minute) and band closed at 13:30 UTC already so after a few more ground wave and MS QSOs I switched off at 15:30 UTC. Was doing some other computer stuff afterwards, sending in my log to the contest robot, packing some of the equipment, listening to weather forecasts, etc. Then before putting the K3 into storage again I decided to switch it on once more to save my modified config (did some recalibrations during the weekend). By coincidence I heard K4TD calling CQ on "my" last CQ frequency before switching off! Worked him at 40 watts beaming South America. Thought it was skewed path but then discovered he was booming in at 599 direct path! Immediately switched the PA on again and worked a bunch of U.S. stations for a nice number of new state multipliers during the following 20 minutes! Seems we had a nice ES + F2 propagation link as at the same time GMs were quite loud and they had direct propagation to the U.S. Afterwards there was another small ES opening to EA with lots of them being loud now (until then I had just worked one EA which is very unusual). That also enabled connection to the F2 propagation from Iberia to South America so I was able to work a lot of new "fresh meat" into that direction, too. Band went dead again after 18 UTC so I finally switched off everything, packed the equipment and cleared the car from about 10 cm of new snow that fell during the day to go back into town. That last 80 minutes of operating time alone made up for about 25% of my total score! For the other 75% I needed some 16 hours. Really hard hard work from so far North ... Anyway, propagation-wise it was again very interesting and it seems the old saying stays true: There ain't no meters like ten meters. :-) 73, Olli - DH8BQA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1NX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,620 Nice to be heard at Japan and Australia from my Balcony! Just one small Inverted V inside the balcony and FT-950. I could Heard BD7LMD very loud but not answer.. :( It is always be good to be in contest but with a better condx... hihi See you next year and maybe with a better station, not easy have a station in Germany! Best 73 Alex PY1KS | PY1SEX | DL1NX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL7BY Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,260 On Saturday I heard abt. 15 UTC on the Band and there was only noise, but only 1 station: D4C. It seemed, that there was no contest. On Sunday it was better, but my time was limited. Abt. 16.30 UTC some loud W5 and K0HA with a big signal. 1 Station from ME, no other Eastcoast. Then the NA-path was closed an SA opened for one hour. All very unusual. Thanks for the QSOs, cu in ARRL DX CW. TRX: FT-920 ANT: Cushcraft A4S@10mtrs Logging: UCX-Log 7.15 73s Ben -DL7BY- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E71A Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 48,396 Setup: TS590 + 1,5 KW ANT. C31XR up 30m Poor condx, wrk only 2 JA stn LP and 35 USA second day. CU 73 Emil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4TV Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 3,752 Bad conditions... no prop... maybe next time :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4ZK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 169,576 Vy bad band conditions this year, a great opening to USA the Sundoy evening , but a lot of QRN with it.... It was very difficult to copy low signal stations.... Sorry I seemed to be deaf!!! Good Luck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7KW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 640,200 Lost more than 4 hours due to electric problems. 3 computers blew up one after another. Add to this the bad propagation. Last night the Midwest and the West coast were in for a couple of hours. For some time W6s came skewed to about 240 degress (straight path is 320 dg) and earlier an Sporadic Es skip provided those EU countries outside of the F2 range as backscatter was very poor. Evening TEP gave me 160 PY/LU QSOs. Hope El Sol behaves for the next one. Thanks all for calling me. 73, Jose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 104,328 TS-480 into a half wave dipole 2 meters high. Thanks for all the QSOs Merry Xmas 73s,Nino ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ED1R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 176,472 First we had no intention to participate this year, but we have gathered to work on the station and made a little radio (Contest and DX). On Sunday we have been active only three hours with a nice opening to NA. Thank you all for calling us. 73 de ED1R Team www.ed1r.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EF5Y Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 485,460 FT-1000mp OM Power 5 el Yagi CU in next year, 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI2CN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 173,600 This was a single operator single mode operation despite the class the rules force me into - I like to use the technology of WinTest with the internet. It was not as helpful this time though as the band was generally poor. The multipliers consist of 72 DXCC entities and 28 states/provinces. Though the band was not in good shape it was amazing to still work VK, ZL, JA, BY, 4X VP8, 5X, 5T, D4, ZS, VU and many more. One JA on long path was running 10 Watts. Indeed the majority of far DX seemed to be long path! Sunday provided about twice the activity and DX as compared to Saturday. On Saturday the band seemed to close around 15:00 with a few stragglers netted after this time. Sunday after 16:00 proved a good time to work south America but this was not possible the previous day. So the conditions were not good but they were interesting and kept me going through the day. I am thankful to all who provided me with a QSO. There are still those amongst us who seem to believe that a raw AC note or key clicks are the way to go - I tend to try to ignore them or to be honest not enter them into the log if forced to work them. It is not so easy to give a poor report with WinTest and it is time consuming. Perhaps I am wrong in this attitude but then I am not causing needless and mindless QRM. K3 P3 Acom 2000A running 1500W legal in EI for contests 4 el SteppIR at 80 feet MicroKeyer II and WinTest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5RD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 2,964 Transceiver: ICOM IC-751AF 80W Antenna: Ground Plane Software: MixW 3.1.1 10 meter is my favorite band. Unfortunately, the band was not as good than expected Only a good short time Sunday in late afternoon with North and South America Thanks to all who worked me See you again next year F5RD Bernard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,808 IC7600+MA5B ACOM 1000 gone qrt on friday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0HVQ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 36,540 Wondered if I'd overslept by several years and woke up at solar minimum! ARRL 10m was a real challenge this year, some propagation was there but you had to really hunt it out, and the band was quiet for long periods. The long path was especially good from Europe to KH6 and JA, and I managed to work some big signals from Thailand at their sunset. But the windows of propagation were few and short, I thought I wasn't going to work mainland USA at all until the very end when, during our sunset, we got a sidescatter opening into W9 and W0. At the end of the day though it was good fun, and kinda nice to have to work hard rather than have the bands wide open. Equipment: Icom 7400 + Acom 1000 amp, 300W, 4 ele monobander. 73 - Darrell G0HVQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WGN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 18,720 ALL S & P WITH TEMPORARY SETUP - DIPOLE + 150W FT5000 AND DXKEEPER S/W 16.5 HRS HARD SLOG - ALMOST EVERY MINUTE THE BAND WAS OPEN! TOUGH CONDX BUT THANKS FOR ALL THE QS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 18,130 Back to earth with a bump after last year's great conditions. Generally poor throughout the UK, with this station making less than 20% of last year's QSO total. Band late to get going both days and generally poor in most directions although it did have its moments. On Saturday it went quiet around 15:00 but came back for a brief session into Europe. On Sunday it didn't get going until around 08:30. There were a few more around and caught a few mults missing from Saturday. The band initially went quiet at around 12:00 only to awake again to SA, EU, a short opening to W9/0 (only about 15 minutes here) then finally SA again before finally closing around 1900. IC-756 ProIII, 100w, three sloping wire dipoles at various heights and inclinations. Log uploaded to LOTW and e-QSL. Thanks for all the QSOs. Maybe better next year? Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM5X Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 220,514 One of those 'difficult' contesting weekends when you spend a lot of time questioning your sanity! Highlights - long path to Asia both days and brief US opening on Sunday Lowlights - much of the rest! 73 Keith GM4YXI / GM5X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HC2UA Class: M/S LP Total Score = 249,852 Dismal conditions, especially to Asia...only one JA worked near the end. Power outage early Sunday almost cost us the small EU opening. Might we consider employing the dupe rule, like in the NS Sprints, if this is the best the sunspot cycle has to offer? ;>) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG7T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 110,110 Vy 73! Tibi HA7TM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL1VAU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 7,552 Low SSN sunk the 10m band into darkside again. It is definite contrast compared to last year. There was no chance for low power little pistol which equiped by vertical and wires during the weekend. I could not hear any common signals even high power Russian stations and US/Canada West. Some Tropical opening, Es and some big signals from South America beyond the ocean only available during daylight time. On Sunday, I relied on DX clusters and reversed becon network exceptionally but all of those not a medicine for darkside band. Happy new year to everyone and hope to see you next contests in 2013..! Rocky, HL1VAU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,376 2012 10 ARRL TEST IS VY POOR CONDITION. I'VE NOT HEARD NA. EU SECTION... CU AGN NEXT CONTEST. G,L DE HL5YI CHAE 73.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HQ2N Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 266,336 Enjoyed 10m with simple two elements Yagi antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HS0ZIA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 251,160 My favorite band and contest, my first one in 15 years and first one as DX. Lots of dead band with brief openings almost like sporadic E. No NA at all Saturday and no VK/ZL either, but SA seemed to come in at all hours! Even the JA/BY stations were sporadic. Good opening into EU Sat afternoon and band closed with a few AF around 8pm LT. Sunday got several VK/ZL and then just after sunset there was a brief opening into eastern NA and I picked up a dozen state mults before the band died. Last Q was ZF1A just after 10pm LT. Fun contest even LP despite the poor conditions and lots of very strange noises at times... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8FBU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,944 Band closed, and I even used to pay them, with occasional openings during the day a little better in the early morning, several drawbacks to the PC, the antenna, andpower failure, because of the strong wind have hit two power poles, hi! all from with many interruptions for family reasons, I wanted to test my better self-made delta for 10m. all sent in the next contest, in any case, I had the excellent results both in tx rx however, the next 73 de : IC8FBU Tony Capri isl. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: II9P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 407,032 Thank you all for contacting us, before the contest we wanted to mount the new antenna system in the stack, but the weather stopped us, these days a lot of wind and cold, strange condition in Sicily .... The condition was not the best, but certainly we had fun as always, congratulations to TM6M as always a great score ....... Soon we'll be on air for new contest ..... And new antennas are waiting to be mounted ....... 73 from Arcibessi Contest and Dx Group ..... Carmelo IT9AUG. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK3ORD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 14,508 Very poor condition....see you in next year!!! 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ9BT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 325,494 Bad conditions, but I enjoyed the Contest anyway. Thanks to Gianfranco ! 73 de Carlo IK1HJS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9VDQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 213,840 Bad weather, heavy wind, rain, storm, very hard to decode CW signals! All time strong QRN, over s9 during rain! Very strange weather for the "sunny" Sicily! 73 de Gius, IT9VDQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3TMV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 25,200 Not condition in Europe , sfi 87 not propagation NOT PARTY tnx 73s Flavio iv3tmv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JH3PRR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 185,496 I was forced to exploit the long paths to both Europe and North America and I enjoyed it! I also enjoyed the short path to NA for the last two hours. It was my first full-time participation to ARRL 10m contest. However it was mostly S&P as I could not run long path openings due to some local power-line noise. Anyway I enjoyed the contest and I would like to thank you all. 73! Masa JH3PRR MODE QSO DUP DXC MLTS POINTS CW 283 0 53 32 1132 SSB 142 0 37 9 284 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0AE Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,274 [log removed from comments] TART-OF-LOG: 3.0 LOCATION: CO CALLSIGN: K0AE CLUB: Grand Mesa Contest Club CONTEST: ARRL-10 CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-MODE: MIXED CATEGORY-POWER: LOW CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CLAIMED-SCORE: 1274 OPERATORS: K0AE NAME: nil ADDRESS: nil ADDRESS-CITY: nil ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: nil ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: nil ADDRESS-COUNTRY: nil CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V12.10.0 END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 141,482 Thanks for the QSOs 73, Dave K0DI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 434,816 Conditions SUCKED.....END OF STORY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EJ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 753,320 Merry Christmas! 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 55,840 Occasional visits to the shack throughout the weekend. Never found much in the way of rate. Kudos to the guys that stuck it out for the whole weekend. Their F1 key is probably worn out. 73 Randy K0EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0LUZ Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 52,008 After enjoying the contest last year so much and being amazed on how much you can do with qrp, my fantasies crashed to Earth this year with the so called conditions. I was looking at a prop report via the internet during the test and it said that 10 meters was normal. If that is normal, I hesitate to meet a normal family. They probably have two kids in prison and do orgies on weekends. Things I learned running qrp this year. 1. If the signal is not moving my s meter to at least s5, they aren't going to hear you. 2. Even though the DX is loud long path, they ain't going to hear you either. 3. I am convinced that IMI is part of the exchange due to large numbers of IMI replies when I called someone. 4. Backscatter is a figment of my imagination. A GIGANTIC THANK YOU for the people who dug my call out of the abyss. For those who said last year's conditions were great, you need to think back. Although DX was certainly better, the USA had the same spotlight conditions. As an OT, I can actually remember when the DX was strong and stable and USA was open in the usual east to west path during the day. This year AND last year were not good years for 10 meters. It gets me to appreciate more what we had during past sunspot cycles, but would it be to much to just give a couple of days with great SFI numbers and low A and K numbers? Really, Santa, I've been good! Merry Christmas! 73 Red K0LUZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0MD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 206,444 I spent 90% of my time running in this contest which meant that I had lots of time to multi-task waiting on stations to call. At times, the contest was about as much fun as watching paint dry. I had to stop several times due to the slow run rates and take a break. There were a couple of hours of great run rates (230/hour on rate meter) when the "band was open". Otherwise, it was like a Worked all South America contest plus a W4 or W2 QSO party. I worked a lot of Minnesota stations, almost all of them were in the noise. I was pleasantly surprised to have a significant number of ZS stations call me during runs as well as a V51. I enjoyed working all my friends in CE2. Their signals were strong here. My new antenna system is working well. I left the antennas 60/120 for most of the contest except for the late afternoon runs to LU/CE/CX where I turned the top yagi to 160. This was my first contest using no spotting assistance. I enjoyed tuning the bands not knowing what I might find. I am sure that not using spotting kept my multiplier numbers lower than others but I enjoyed the running and many of the mult's came anyway. I appreciated the civility of this contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 150,400 Obviously, conditions were much worse than a year ago. Felt more like a 6m contest. Without the evening Es this would have been a bust! Had some fairly decent domestic runs considering conditions. Rates peaked at 240 and best hour was 110. It just didn't last very long. Had brief pipelines to G, F & ZS on Sunday. Otherwise, DX was mainly SA and a few Carib. Station: FT2000, Drake L7, TH3/TA33/TH3 stack Thanks for the Qs! 73, Paul - K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TI Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 5,244 To paraphrase a Lloyd Bridges line from airplane, I picked a bad time to quit high power. Surprisingly most stations I called came right back. KX3 at 5 watts. TH7 at 50 feet. Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 262,838 This was a mostly a Saturday effort for me, due to other commitments on Sunday. I was able to squeeze in some operation time during the last hour of the contest on Sunday. Expect I would have had over 1200 contacts if I had been on all day Sunday, as the band sounded much better when it opened at 0900 local (as I was leaving the house). It's been a few years since I made a serious effort on this contest. Had to keep at it, since there were occasional bursts of good propogation to the eastern half of the US, along with Africa and South America. Worked 7 ZS's and only 7 VE's, go figure. Band opened quickly aroud 9AM local time and closed around 8PM local time. Lack of backscatter modes and limited direct propogation made it virtually impossible to work any of the western states except for UT, CO and AZ. Working multipliers was especially important this year since my time at the radio was limited. Heard several Mexican states calling others, but only a few Mexican stations were calling CQ. I had a good run on CW around 12/9 0100Z. I had up to 10 stations calling at a time, but my rate was not the best. A combination of my rusty CW skills and too many stations zero-beating my frequency made it difficult to pull out complete calls. Several comments about the number of MN stations. I could have said the same about VA and PA. Looking forward to next year's competition, hoping I will be able to do a full effort. I might make some antenna changes this summer to improve station performance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1DW Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 11,200 Did QRP last year and again this year. Last year was fun, this year was a struggle. Not sure what I will do next year. Did work 9 JA's with QRP. They can really copy! Thanks to all who pulled out my signal. 73 BCNU de Dallas k1DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1FWE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 86,912 Disappointing condx given solar activity in previous months. But then, this wasn't intended to be a serious effort. Five hours in the chair - mostly mornings waiting for the band to open to EU. No real luck there but but did catch the LP opening to BY/BV. And had a fun run on phone to the west coast Sunday afternoon. Thanks to all for the Q's. Log will be posted to LOTW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 129,744 Score CW Only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1HI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 126,564 USED PACKET SPOTS. RIG: K3 + SB-220 + (2)TH7DXX + A4S. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 91,908 Missed VT AR NM ID UT WY CO KS ND NS VE2,4,6,8. Only EU was two EAs. No Asia. 2 ZLs and a KH6. Worked 3 ZS guys! With all the signal fading, flutter, and general weakness I can't imagine why anybody would operate this contest on SSB. Maybe if they don't know the code. Nice opening Friday evening to the southeast and I never worked so many SC -- good showing. Nice openings to W1/2/3 Saturday and Sunday evenings. Openings to the west coast were brief and generally weak. Good openings to Texas but hardly anybody on it seemed. I did what I could with a dipole. TS-590S, KPA500, 84-foot centerfed at 35 feet. For the record: in 2011 in the six major fall contests I made 3450 QSOs. This year I made 2509. The deficit was 160M (I have blown off 160M for this year) and 10M (exactly half the 10M QSOs I had in 2011). I have uploaded all my contest logs to LotW since 2004. Jim Cain At The K1TN Superstation Frozen Tundra, Wisconsin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 543,744 What a difference a year makes. Less than half the QSOs as last year. Top hour was <100 this year, after 9 such hours LY. This was hard work, other than the first and last half hours! Nonetheless, the FCG was out in force again this year, so hopefully nobody missed FL. Have S8 line noise to EU which let up for about 5 minutes on Sunday AM and was otherwise an impenetrable growl. 1027 EU last year and 35 this year. On the bright side, the long path both mornings was terrific. BD7LMD was in for hours both days, as was XV1X on Sunday (with easily the biggest pileup of the weekend). The short-path catch of the weekend here was an FH8. The last few hours brought SD, plus handfuls of RI and DE to complete WAS. Heard but not worked: VE9, VP2V, VP8, 9J2, BV, XE/GTO, plus RI1ANF who emphatically stated "NO TEST" Thanks again to Terry, N4TB for his homebrew SO2R box. FT-1000MP x 2, AL-1500, Commander HF-2500 Homebrew 6L @ 50', C3E @ 165' on separate towers Thanks for all the QSOs and Merry Xmas & Happy Holidays to all! vy 73, Dan Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: K1TO CONTEST: ARRL-10 CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW OPERATORS: K1TO -------------- 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 99 99 99 8.6 0100 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 129 11.2 0200 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 159 13.8 0300 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 169 14.7 0400 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 175 15.2 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 15.2 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 15.2 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 15.2 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 15.2 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 15.2 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 15.2 1100 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 181 15.7 1200 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 199 17.3 1300 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 221 19.2 1400 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 244 21.2 1500 0 0 0 0 0 58 58 302 26.2 1600 0 0 0 0 0 80 80 382 33.1 1700 0 0 0 0 0 34 34 416 36.1 1800 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 436 37.8 1900 0 0 0 0 0 57 57 493 42.8 2000 0 0 0 0 0 75 75 568 49.3 2100 0 0 0 0 0 60 60 628 54.5 2200 0 0 0 0 0 26 26 654 56.7 2300 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 693 60.1 0000 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 718 62.3 0100 0 0 0 0 0 46 46 764 66.3 0200 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 778 67.5 0300 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 779 67.6 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 779 67.6 1200 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 791 68.6 1300 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 801 69.5 1400 0 0 0 0 0 32 32 833 72.2 1500 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 855 74.2 1600 0 0 0 0 0 31 31 886 76.8 1700 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 906 78.6 1800 0 0 0 0 0 26 26 932 80.8 1900 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 959 83.2 2000 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 986 85.5 2100 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 1000 86.7 2200 0 0 0 0 0 64 64 1064 92.3 2300 0 0 0 0 0 89 89 1153 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 1153 1153 Gross QSOs=1175 Dupes=22 Net QSOs=1153 Unique callsigns worked = 1152 The best 60 minute rate was 99/hour from 0000 to 0059 The best 30 minute rate was 148/hour from 0000 to 0029 The best 10 minute rate was 210/hour from 0001 to 0010 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSOs/minute 4 times. 4 QSOs/minute 7 times. 3 QSOs/minute 38 times. 2 QSOs/minute 176 times. 1 QSOs/minute 639 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 1013 1013 87.9 South America 0 0 0 0 0 71 71 6.2 Europe 0 0 0 0 0 35 35 3.0 Asia 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 Africa 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.8 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 1.6 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 1153 1153 Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 2 4 618 5 398 6 122 7 6 8 6 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 5H 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 9A 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 9Y 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 BY 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 C6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 CE 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 CM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 CN 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 CX 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 D4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 DL 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 EA 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.8 EA6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 EI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 F 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 FH 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 FO 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 FY 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 GJ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 GM 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 GW 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 HC 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 HK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 HR 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 I 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 *IT9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 J3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 JA 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.4 K 0 0 0 0 0 928 928 80.5 KH0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 KH6 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 KL 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 KP2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 KP4 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 LU 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 2.1 OA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ON 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 P4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 PA 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 PJ2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 PY 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 2.0 PY0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 TI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 TK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 V3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 V5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 VE 0 0 0 0 0 56 56 4.9 VK 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 VP5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 XE 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.7 YN 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 YV 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZF 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZL 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 ZP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZS 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 1153 1153 ------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- CA 0 0 0 0 0 187 187 16.2 -DX- 0 0 0 0 0 151 151 13.1 FL 0 0 0 0 0 62 62 5.4 WA 0 0 0 0 0 55 55 4.8 IL 0 0 0 0 0 41 41 3.6 OR 0 0 0 0 0 38 38 3.3 NY 0 0 0 0 0 36 36 3.1 OH 0 0 0 0 0 31 31 2.7 AZ 0 0 0 0 0 31 31 2.7 TX 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 2.6 PA 0 0 0 0 0 28 28 2.4 MA 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 2.3 VA 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 2.2 MN 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 2.2 NC 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 1.6 MI 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 1.6 MD 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 1.6 UT 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 1.6 MO 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 1.5 NJ 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 1.5 WI 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 1.4 TN 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 1.3 NH 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 1.3 IN 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 1.2 ON 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 1.2 NV 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 1.2 BC 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 1.2 OK 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 1.0 CT 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 1.0 MT 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0.9 ID 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0.9 AB 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.8 IA 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.7 AL 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.7 CO 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.7 SK 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.7 SC 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 KS 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 GA 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 AK 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 WV 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.4 DC 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 KY 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 NE 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 LA 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 RI 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 DE 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.3 ME 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 ND 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 WY 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 PE 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 NM 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 MB 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 HI 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 QC 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 MS 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 NS 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 BCS 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 TAM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZAC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 AR 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 DFE 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 AGS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 EMX 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 VT 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 R2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 SON 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 NF 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 SD 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 1153 1153 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 76 6.6 1 74 6.4 2 77 6.7 3 65 5.6 4 108 9.4 5 49 4.2 6 185 16.0 7 153 13.3 8 62 5.4 9 79 6.9 -------------------- Total 928 80.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 62,260 K3 to A3S at 90'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1UO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 30,680 SO SSB (Assisted): Experienced radio conditions from all kinds of sources.. E's to Aurora to backscatter and even experienced LDE's on my signal Sunday morning when beaming South. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1VK Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 87,780 This is my second attempt at contesting. I’m getting more comfortable with N1MM even though I have not yet programmed any function keys. That will come later. I tried to do some running, but with 100 watts it doesn’t work. I got 0 responses when I called, so back to search and pounce. I knew the 10 meter band was interesting. On Friday night there was an opening to only W9 and W0. On Saturday the bands were poor, but Sunday was a distinct improvement. One interesting note was that I worked several stations that recorded S0 on the signal strength meter. That was a new observation for me. That is probably due to the low noise in my area. It wasn’t always that way. I spent several evenings this fall going around the neighborhood finding street lights that were out and reporting them to the town Dept. of Public Works. The worst offenders were the ones that flicker. Also, before the contest I went around the house unplugging all the wall warts (to the consternation of the rest of the family). Everyone has to sacrifice something for the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1VSJ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 36,000 I'm glad I had to work this weekend!! It was 5 hours of torture, although I was able to work a station on Mayotte (FH8PL) which was a new band country for me. Also heard XV1X long path Sunday AM but couldn't get through the pile up. Icom 756 pro 3 and Mosley CL-33 @ 55 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1WHS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,344,200 That was fun! Friday night netted a little over 200 Qs; it was like you drew a line from ND to TX, and virtually every state east of that was worked and, outside NM, nothing west of that was worked! A few DX Qs, but virtually all US. Saturday morning, first European was worked at 1302 when 9A1A called us. What passed as a European run died an hour and a half later, with all of 15 Europeans worked. They would come out of the noise for just a minute, and hopefully you could get their callsign and number before they faded back out. The rest of Saturday was spent working the states, as many SA and Carib stations couldn't be heard. There was a good opening to the west this day, leading to us getting most of the sections out west. Just as Friday night, the band closed about 0230Z. The highlight Sunday was the LP opening to SE Asia. I have never heard signals as strong on LP as they were that day; the only thing that stopped us from working lots of stations there was there weren't many on. We did manage to work JA, VR, BA, BU, XV, HS, and 9V, and it made it worthwhile to keep one of the antennas in the stack on the LP opening. The European "opening", if you want to call it that, started earlier and lasted longer (1200-1600Z), but was still not a major opening. For the weekend, we wound up with 88% of our Qs with North American stations; we had just 68 European Qs and 18 European mults, and most of them were here now and gone. Congrats to the K1LZ crew on a good score. Looks like we got you this year! Dennis W1UE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZW Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 2,450 Not much time hit and miss Thanks for the West Coast or my score very small. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2AXX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 62,776 Conditions Saturday sucked. Sunday was better. When signals are so strong (like Sunday), you need to shut off your noise blanker. I'm SURE my signal is not really 25kHz wide as I was told, but with your NB on it will be. I moved as I wasn't operating seriously, but kindly check your station before blaming others. <\RANT> Just sayin' -AXX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 25,728 Remote operation, and the band conditions left a lot to be desired, definitely not what I had anticipated. Running 100 watts and a PRO67B at 55 feet normally does much better than I did today. I am exiting the contest early, due to the fact that I am heading off to Buffalo to attend the Bills Game early Sunday morning. This is a tough one, seeing that I am a die hard Steelers Fan #1 and Bills are #2 team, I will miss the Steelers/Chargers game on TV :-( Some things are more important than ham radio contests; like free tickets to a Pro Football game. hihi Paul K2DB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 344,420 I was getting bored with almost no signals to work with, so drifted over to SO (A)category just to have fun. Great LP openings to Southeast Asia in the morning, the rest of it was very selective and sporadic E layer. Score is about 1/4 of last years'.. Only redeeming point was so many saying" THX FOR THE VT MULTIPLIER" Andy K2LE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 355,454 Now that was a strange 10-meter contest. When you get LP Asia (worked JA with the antenna pointing north, realizing later on what was happening) in the morning when the solar flux is just about 100, and afternoon LP Asia (worked A45XR pointing west), you just know this is not the usual state of affairs. I can also throw in the fact that most of my the best rates took place after sundown, at a time the band should be closing. I was particularly dismayed that the 48th hour of the contest provided my top rate. I'm usually glad when the contest is over, but not this time. For me to compete against the W5 and W6 boys, I need a good EU opening where I can run, run, run. Worked three Saturday morning, five Sunday morning, and a few EA and CT stations Sunday afternoon. So I knew I didn't have a chance - especially when I heard K6AM running the East Coast. Nice to see many DC stations on. Worked five others: KE3X, NN3RP, K0DI, KE3VV, and K6PFA. Hope to see Eric, W3DQ, active again soon from the Nation's Capital. 73, Pete, K2PS/3 in DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 33,276 The erratic propagation is one of the fascinating things about this contest, WHo would have thought that on Sunday morning with very few signals on the band that XV1X, who was listening up 2, would be getting QRMed by BA7IO while BD7LDM was booming in at 599 a few KHz away? Of course, I couldn't work any of these three stations. I knew I was in trouble for this contest when my wife told me we had a party we HAD to go to on Friday night, two more on Sat night (5pm to 11 pm)and a golf tournament on Sunday from 10:30am thru 7 pm. That didn't leave much operating time and, even when I could get on the air, e.g. Sat daytime, condx were lousy. And, this is the peak of the Cycle? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ZR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 15,552 IC-765 @ 100W Antennas: CF Wire 210M Long & EF Wire 125M Long Logging: N1MM 73, Dick, K2ZR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3EST Class: M/S HP Total Score = 344,964 SO Assisted, SSB only. Sunday was ok, but total QSOs down by 900 from last year. 61 states/prov/xe, 41 DX, including 3 EU on Sunday AM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3KU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 39,240 The 200-ft long dipole at 50-ft is more consistent on 160M than on 10M (it does seem to have lobes on WA/BC and ZS/V5) In one SSB pileup (USA station) the guy asks for "Station with a U", so I jump in. Nope, it's another U. Then the guy says "the other U station", so I jump in again. Nope, again. Then he says "another U?" Jump; nope. Then "any more U sations?" At last! and there were no more U's after me. But, even after that, I kept BIC! CQing Sunday 20Z on SSB, hoping to grab some locals. Got called by a loud young-female-sounding, KB3ZBA. I look her up: just a few miles away; Tech license. A minute later adult-male-sounding AB3QR calls in. Looking him up, he appears to be her Dad. I like that. QSL fer sure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 75,600 Got on 2 1/2 hours late Friday night,1 hour Saturday morning, 1 hour Sunday morning. Lowlight of the Contest : Propagation Highlight of the Contest : Propagation.. WOW..the asian long path opening on both mornings was amazing.. Highlight of the Weekend: Propagation... Coming into the radio shack to shut stuff off 45 minutes after the end of the contest and working ZL1RS on SIX METER CW !.. now that was cool.. 73, Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OQ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 56,400 What a chore...but some nice DX logged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 18,832 I wasn't in the mood for a VHF contest - just swept the bands a few times giving out the rare MD mult to the deserving. Was on for some spotlight propagation to southern Italy, but there appeared to be a big diode at the equator: lots of loud SA stations just CQed in my face during that same period. It is pretty bad when YV8ADI just keeps CQing. Now the question is: will this be the norm for the 10m Contest for the next decade, or will 2013 bring one more year with the band filled with signals from every direction? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3YDX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 165,204 As others have noted, conditions were down from last year. From the same station last year this year's Q's total and score was about half what it was last year. Still fun seeing the activity and the sudden run of geographically linked stations calling as propogation shifted. Rig FT-100MP and KW to KT34XA at 80 feet. Thanks for the Q's. 73 Hank K3YDX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4LW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 6,642 Very much of a sporadic effort, but since this was the first contesting activity at this QTH since moving back to FL a year ago, it was neat. And nice to contribute a score again to the FCG effort, even a small score. At times this felt like the CA QSO party, especially if you count the number of 6's now living in AZ! Also nice to bounce over to SSB for a little change up. Thanks for the Q's. It was great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MM Class: M/S LP Total Score = 34,684 Another ARRL 10M Contest under our belts. Conditions not very good down here for me. Could be because I ran 100 watts and used a 9 foot wire sloping off the tower at 29'. Managed to work some Eu,Afr, KL7, KH6, ZL & all W7 States. No Asia. Had to be assisted, so that's why Multi Single. Persistence and good ears helped. Thanks to all who worked my skinny station. We will be back next year. 73 Tom Colyard K4MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4NV Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 269,892 Thanks to all for the QSO's. 73, Dennis K4NV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4QPL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 21,120 Station: Orion II, TH7 at 23M. Very part time, mostly S&P. Heard more than I could work in the pileups. EU in short supply while I was on. Not the same for ZL--Worked ZL3IO, ZL1BYZ, ZL4PW and ZL3TE, all in a row S&P 2155-2200 Saturday! In the other direction ZS1EL had big signal earlier at 1609. Plenty of West Coast. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 7,872 just didn't have any time to put in this one! 73's Cort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 25,172 SUCCESS in SE Georgia...Although conditions on 10m generally "sucked", the 10m Multi-Single effort at K4WP was a huge success. Bill, K4WP and Jere, KT4ZB sponsored a weekend "hands on" Contest Training session for members of the Coastal Area Radio Society (CARS) in Savannah. This was the first contest experience for several of the members and most had not used contest logging software in a true contest environment. That coupled with using a high end rig, Elecraft K3, matching amplifier and multiple antennas with switching provided plenty of shouts of joy as new DX and stateside folks were logged. We now have 9 more club members who understand the basics of contesting and are ready to get their feet wet in the upcoming contests. While the score may be meager by contest standards, our ops gained experience in listening to hard to copy stations, improving their S&P skills and several were on calling CQ and logging stations. Fun DX for the ops included FY8, CR6, XE2, LS6, CE2, IQ9, ZF1, HK3,YY4, 8P2, PJ2, PT5, J79, YV8, P40, EA8, OA4, ZS4, XQ1, D4, CT1, HI3, KP4, ZM1 AND VK2. Long time contestor, Larry, N4FD stopped by to say "Hi" and the CARS VE crew journeyed to the station to hold a VE session for one of the club members, Ann, KK4ICS, who is now KK4ICS/AE. Congratulations to Ann on this fine accomplishment. Bill cooked up the best Chicken Barley soup and there was tons of food, cookies and cake for all. Bill is a avid "Georgia Southern" fan so many of us enjoyed the team's playoff success on the big flat screen. Thanks to all for the contacts and look for these folks to active in futue contests. For the crew - Jere, KT4ZB Ops - Bill K4WP, Jere KT4ZB, Paul KC2NYU, Bill KG4SZS, Ken W4JKG, John KK4MTO (new ham and young teen), Sue W4SWJ, Peter KJ4FAW, Charles KJ4SMZ, Chuck N4KKD, Dwight K4YPM Elecraft K3, Elecraft KPA500 at 350w, SteppIR, 5 element HY-Gain monobander, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: M/S LP Total Score = 3,400 Not sure I can remember such poor conditions! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XS Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 462,768 Strange conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 290,376 Great company, great station, propagation...not so much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 601,388 MULTS ARE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5LH Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 64,740 Generally poor conditions, except for last two hours. Few EU and Caribbean, some AF and OC, no AS. Good turnout from Central & SA. West Coast and New England essentially unreachable from TX with ordinary equipment, while Great Lakes region and Mexico were open almost all the time. Quiet band generally, but weak signals. Rig: Omni V (90 W), wire dipole, Aether for Mac. Chris, K5LH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA/M Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,176 I made a few QSOs while driving home from a family gathering in East Texas. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 284,544 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 was the 12th year in a row that I've operated in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest from the station of my friend, George K5TR. Propagation was not nearly as good as I was hoping it would be for this point in the solar cycle. Propagation was especially poor on Saturday, when the band was essentially not open at all to Europe or northeastern Asia. The best I could do for DX on Saturday was a single Frecnh station, a single Portuguese station, and two stations in northwesern Africa. I had not worked any Japanese stations or other east Asians on Friday night, and to top it off, there was almost no propagation to the US all day on Saturday. There was one bright spot, though - having my antennas pointing south all day did help pick up many more Mexican stations and multpliers than I got last year. Sunday was slightly better, with weak openings to Europe, a short opening to Japan, and finally decent propagation to most of the United States and Canada. Surprisingly, I worked the Northwest Territories twice (I found one station on a search and pounce run and the other called in later) but I never managed to work Oregon. In total, I missed four states, three provinces, 2 Canadian territories, and Labrador, which is not its own province or territory and yet counts as a multiplier anyway. I experienced something that never fails to thrill me just a little. On both mornings, I managed to work other amateur radio stations in southeast Asia by pointing my antennas to my southeast (about 135 degrees azimuth). The short path to that part of the world from central Texas is to the northwest (about 315 degrees azimuth). In our morning, though, most of the planet between Texas and southeast Asia on the short path is in darkness. The long path, on the other hand, was mostly in sunlight at that time and for a brief moment, conditions are just right. I made contact with other radio stations over a distance more than halfway around the planet. No wires, no networks - just two radios with some aluminum stuck high up in the sky, enjoying one of the fleeting wonders of nature. HR 10 CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ------ --------- ----- 0 54/14 54/14 0.00M 1 106/17 160/31 0.01M 2 60/3 220/34 0.01M 3 11/2 231/36 0.02M 4 5/0 236/36 0.02M 5 1/0 237/36 0.02M 6 --- 237/36 0.02M 7 --- 237/36 0.02M 8 --- 237/36 0.02M 9 --- 237/36 0.02M 10 --- 237/36 0.02M 11 --- 237/36 0.02M 12 4/1 241/37 0.02M 13 12/6 253/43 0.02M 14 30/6 283/49 0.03M 15 27/3 310/52 0.03M 16 17/1 327/53 0.03M 17 16/5 343/58 0.04M 18 16/1 359/59 0.04M 19 31/2 390/61 0.05M 20 14/4 404/65 0.05M 21 24/1 428/66 0.06M 22 20/1 448/67 0.06M 23 43/3 491/70 0.07M 0 49/5 540/75 0.08M 1 51/2 591/77 0.09M 2 108/2 699/79 0.11M 3 28/0 727/79 0.11M 4 2/1 729/80 0.12M 5 1/0 730/80 0.12M 6 --- 730/80 0.12M 7 --- 730/80 0.12M 8 --- 730/80 0.12M 9 --- 730/80 0.12M 10 --- 730/80 0.12M 11 --- 730/80 0.12M 12 --- 730/80 0.12M 13 9/1 739/81 0.12M 14 25/1 764/82 0.13M 15 58/6 822/88 0.14M 16 65/6 887/94 0.17M 17 52/5 939/99 0.19M 18 23/6 962/105 0.20M 19 30/5 992/110 0.22M 20 28/1 1020/111 0.23M 21 22/3 1042/114 0.24M 22 80/0 1122/114 0.26M 23 94/3 1216/117 0.28M D1 491/70 491/70 D2 725/47 725/47 TO 1216/117 1216/117 Continent Distribution ---------------------- USA calls = 870 VE calls = 45 N.A. calls = 60 S.A. calls = 165 Euro calls = 28 Afrc calls = 16 Asia calls = 1 JA calls = 7 Ocen calls = 24 Total calls = 1216 Multiplier Distribution ----------------------- 1. Il 87 2. Oh 77 3. PY 71 4. In 64 5. Az 51 6. LU 50 7. Mi 48 8. Wi 45 9. Ca 42 10. Tx 40 11. Mn 40 12. Tn 37 13. Nc 33 14. Fl 32 15. Ga 31 16. Va 27 17. Ky 25 18. Mo 20 19. CE 19 20. KP4 16 21. Ia 15 22. Bc 14 23. Pa 12 24. VK 12 25. Wv 11 26. Al 11 27. Sc 10 28. ZS 10 29. On 9 30. Ks 9 31. Co 9 32. CX 9 33. EA 9 34. Ut 9 35. Nv 8 36. Ma 8 37. Ny 8 38. Wa 8 39. ZL 7 40. JA 7 41. F 6 42. Ns 6 43. Nm 6 44. Id 6 45. Nh 5 46. Md 4 47. Me 4 48. Pue 4 49. Ne 4 50. Ms 4 51. HK 4 52. EA8 4 53. Jal 4 54. Nb 4 55. Ab 4 56. DFe 3 57. EMx 3 58. Ct 3 59. YV 3 60. KP2 3 61. Ags 3 62. Ri 3 63. I 3 64. Pe 3 65. Qc 3 66. Mt 3 67. Ak 3 68. Nj 2 69. HI 2 70. HC 2 71. La 2 72. PJ2 2 73. CM 2 74. OA 2 75. Wy 2 76. GM 2 77. Nt 2 78. Hi 2 79. Mor 1 80. Bcs 1 81. D4 1 82. CT 1 83. YB 1 84. VP2V 1 85. J7 1 86. Col 1 87. FY 1 88. P4 1 89. V3 1 90. 7Q 1 91. PJ4 1 92. Qro 1 93. Qui 1 94. Gto 1 95. Son 1 96. NLe 1 97. ZF 1 98. Chh 1 99. Dgo 1 100. HS 1 101. PJ5 1 102. PA 1 103. Dc 1 104. GD 1 105. G 1 106. V2 1 107. YU 1 108. DL 1 109. E7 1 110. Sd 1 111. E5/S 1 112. OH 1 113. TI 1 114. V7 1 115. Ok 1 116. Vt 1 117. De 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5WP Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 29,052 I guess this would be my rookie shot at ACG and 10m. I mostly dabble in state qso parties but am trying to expand. My handicapped antenna (none allowed by HOA) was a TV antenna converted into ground plane vertical. I didn't even hear any ssb first day and very little cw. After giving up I converted my vertical quickly to a dipole (the ladder fell over and broke a ground plane leg)and had a bit of success with my search and pounce. Sunday evening opened up well. For everyone I came across, thanks for your patience. Isn't 10m weird? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 514,646 Things were pretty slow Fri night with a few signals from TX and FL coming thru. Sat started off pretty good with a short east coast opening. After an hour or so everything turned to SA. Then later a second short US opening. Sunday was much better. East coast and south open all day with a few shots to the midwest. Missed the northwest almost entirely except for some weak backscatter. My best LP score since '99. Nice to have an open band for a change Thanks to evryone who swapped modes for me to get those double mults. John, K6AM/ZF2AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 12,654 Absolutely Dismal. Less than half of my score from last year. On top of it I made a terrible error in hoping that going "mixed" would possibly give me some more mults. When I consider that I did 182 in 53 mults for 38,584 last year. We also had some family visiting over the weekend, which detracted from my devotion to having my butt in the chair. Last year I did 22:55 on the air time. I don't think the difference in time would have made any difference. Saturday was really bad. The 10 hours I put in, before the band closed early, was only 40 contacts. Sunday was only slightly better, where some faster rates made up for time I lingered with our house guest, our recently widowed brother in law. I'm hoping that this weekend is not an omen of the contest year to come, since it is beginning to look as if the already anemic solar cycle will just continue its further decline. It is beginning to look like the "low bands" may be the best place to our investment. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and New Year season. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GHA Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 27,000 For me it was just a SSB effort, there were some fun conditions that seemed to appear and disappear throughout the contest (like a roller coaster!). Sunday was the better day for me as I was able to land some ZL, VK and JA’s. Low power was a challenge as usual, but fun when getting the Q’s from harder to capture locations. When the band opened it sure was a lot more fun, but listening to some of the stations with 1000 and 2000+ Q’s made it seemed like I was the one in a 10m cone of silence. All in all the 10m contest was like the year, I added a few great contacts to my DX log, there were some really fun parts, I was able to apply what I learned to improve my overall skills, and I am looking forward to doing more in contesting next year. Not a bad way to end the year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 864 Not great conditions. Just checked-in to see what conditions the conditions were in. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 791,154 Not exactly what you would expect at the "peak" of the sunspot cycle, but fun nonetheless. Happy Holidays to all. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, Arizona . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 152,628 Thanks for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6SRZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 310,460 Conditions generally poor. Better on Sunday when I was able to WAC. Best DX: 7P8. When 10 is wide open to EU (and to the Midwest) I've been able to score close to a million points, but not this year. Thanks for the Qs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6SRZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 334,108 This will be a CW only entry (310,640 points CW). Please disregard my earlier posting. Forgot about "multi-single" (hah!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 127,800 Despite the decreasing solar flux, being the last GiG of the year made this weekend hard to resist so I again setup operations in Brentwood Ca. (EB section), again as a Multi-OP. SOAPBOX: I reserved the callsign K6T JUST for this event (T = Ten), even tho on SSB we signed Kilowatt Six Tango. We used an Elecraft K2 into an Ameritron MA-1000 amplifier giving us about 450 watts into an ad-hoc TH-3jr yagi atop a 22-ft high military antenna mast, backed up by a camofloged 6-BTV Vertical. Band condx were WEIRD. We heard/worked only a handful of EU and JA stations. SA and the E-Coast were where the signals were most plentiful. The Northern paths were almost non-Existent hence almost no W7's, few W0's (as well as a dearth of W5's) and for us, no VE7 - VE4 (altho we did pickup VE8, VE9 & VY2). Working several dozen W6's via hollow sounding ground-wave signals was a kick. Maybe next year, the solar flux will be more in tune with 10-meters. CYA then. WQ6X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 23,500 well this sure was not last year...I was very qrl on saturday with Basketball games and family stuff to do...so didn't play much this weekend...I heard loads of MT on the bands so that was good..we are not rare anymore...always enjoy this contest since I don't cruse around on 10 much...guess i should...thanks to all for a nice contest.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 274,560 Was looking forward to the contest even though the forecast didnt look good for condx. Well, the first night I went to bed with a dozen contacts. Thats the worst first night I think Ive ever had. Got up early hoping for better things and the band finally opened for some rate to the east coast around 1700utc. Best hour was from 1800 to 1900 on Saturday where I put 152 in the log. Thats 20 percent of my Qs in one hour. The other 563 contacts were spread over the other 25 hours. But, I still like this contest cuz you never know what is gonna happen. Most exciting Q was finding A45XR Sunday morning. I think I worked him long path, but the antennas were pointing all different directions so not sure. He had some flutter on his signal, but that was an exciting Q. Also enjoyed swinging one of the antennas north Sunday around 2100utc and sure enough, worked a few SMs and an OH. A total of 4 europe for the whole contest. Didnt work any JA the first or second night, but got close to 20 in the log toward the end. Also fun working AH0BT right near the end for the last mult. Missed 5 states for some reason: KY, MS, AR, KS, MO ... there was a hole in there somewhere and I didnt hear any on scatter. Great prop to New England and Florida as is most always the case. Thanks to all for the Qs and MX and HNY! Congrats to WJ9B in ID for a great job from near these parts. 3 73, Matt--K7BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7FLI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 48 Too much work around the house this weekend...just handed out a few Qs... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 10,812 Each 10 and 6 meter event gives evidence that "magic band" signals simply neither enter nor exit this canyon location, so I spent the weekend working on a Beverage Rx system for signals that do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IDX/7 Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 1 operated portable from the beach on Whidbey Island. 60 foot piece of wire (inverted L) at 16 feet. battery power worked all states heard except KH6 worked very few locals...very weak ground wave...no ORegon did not persue much DX ... heard 20 countries and 5 VE 2 hours Saturday 4 on Sunday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7JQ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 123,120 Due to work schedule, didn't get on until after 3:30 PM MST on Saturday...missed prime openings. Some good runs on Sunday, and worked a bunch of Outlaws...thanks. Not nearly as good as last year, but had fun anyway. Happy Holidays to all! 73, Bob, K7JQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7QQ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 288,312 Band QSOs Pts Mul 28 879 3516 82 Total 879 3516 82 Score: 288,312 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 391,248 Numerous birthday parties and holiday festivities collide this time of year, always making it difficult to find time to operate this contest. Looking at the SFI didn't look very promising either, so not expecting much, I decided to get on Sunday morning to see what was cooking. Conditions were spotty, but my rate was incredible on both phone and CW for the 5 hours I operated. I had the highest sustained rates I've ever experienced at my QTH, averaging over 230 Qs per hour. Amazing conditions for such a low SFI. 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7SS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 192,500 K7SS Low Power Mixed mode 8 hours unassisted cw 362 65 ssb 151 45 513 110 192,500 Fun times on 10 meters! These conditions gave us a moving target all weekend. DX: D4, CO, C6, ZF, CX, LU, HC, PY, CE, FY, XE, KH2, KH0, JA, VK, ZL, VP8, HK No.... KL7 KH6.... One each..... MO, IA, SD, MN, ID, UT, CO, BC. Not heard/worked...OR, AZ, NM, OK, NE, KS, ND, NV 1 African 1 JA (!) 2 W6.. K6LRN, W6YX (ms) Took time out for party Saturday afternoon, and Seahawks 58-0 win over the Cardinals on Sunday. WOW! what a change from last year ! 73 Danny K7SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ULS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 12,740 Didn't make up to the mountain this year with the SFI so low and the loom of 10" snow. I decided to stay home using a modified AR-6 with some coils. I decided first to enter the the LP phone only like last year and spent all day Saturday on SSB but with only 32 q's by days end it wasn't looking so good. So woke up Sunday working an extra 16 q's on SSB and it was the same stations over and over again so went down to the CW portion and ended up working and additional 41 with DX to the Caribbean and South America. No EU's or JA's not even Hawaii. 73 de K7ULS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7VIT Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 5,512 For years I have loved this 10 Meter Contest. It's a favorite of mine. This weekend was the 50th anniversary of my 1st Novice CW QSO as KN7VIT and January will be 50 years of continuous ARRL membership. Thanks for this event. This was a fun outing despite lower than expected band conditions for the Pacific Northwest and nearing a solar maximum. (What solar max.?) Thanks again to all who answered my calls. 73, Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 150,932 FT1000MP/ Force12 6BA @ 70'/ Mosley CL33 @ 30'/N1MM Lotsa fun in the time I had to spent in front of the rig this weekend. Thanks for the MANY New England Q's...great to hear you all. Prop really spotty, but interesting and kept you hopping from AZ. In the time I had available, few JA's or Pacific. All in all, a good time...points for the Outlaws. 73, and Merry Christmas...! John K7WP...Go Arizona Outlaws! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 177,944 M/S LP, K7XC +net, K3 & 4ele 10M Yagi @ 30'. Band was all over the place from totally shutdown, barely open with heavy QRN, sorta open and Mod QRN, to fairly open with limited success to the northern paths. Fri Nite was mainly local Tropo with a small opening to CX, Sat was open sorta then one wild hour of wide open to East Coast, then back to sorta open and no JA, Sunday was fairly open all day with some good runs mixed with alot of variable conditions. With 2 hours left the first JA's were worked along with a soul YB2. A mixed result for very mixed conditions. Never worked a single W0, few W5's, W7's never heard on BS, and only 2 Qs with W9! WB9Z was barely audible!!!! A very strange weekend on 10M to be sure... This is likely the LAST CONTEST EVER from this location... See you all from a new location new years... 73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09nm... sk KB! Merry Xmas & Happy New Year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: M/S LP Total Score = 39,412 Just playin'. Band didn't open up very well except for some interesting short skip in the evening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8LV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 248,320 This was my second serious effort using the new K8LV QOMNI antenna, an Omnidirectional fixed phased array. For this contest I was able to coax Steve K8LX to mount it up on one of his unpopulated towers, at 65', hovering in the shadow of 40m. 3LY @200'. We ran from his station using an amp at legal limit to see how well we could do in the 'big leagues' (previous efforts were all LP). With one of the highest scores in the midwest, I'd say we did pretty well! It was a delight to be getting calls from all directions at many times during the contest, and not having to fool with antennas at all. All we did was operate the radio and log the QSO's. Conditions were terrible as everyone has noted, and I found it a little embarrassing to sometimes ask for repeats from stations we know are A-one. But we were rarely asked for repeats from stations that sounded really weak to us. Missed a few W/XE mults, but final count was still gratifying considering serious lack of cooperation from all of those ions up there (or lack thereof?). Ant: QOMNI @65' Rig: FT1000+HB amp @1.5kW Software: N1MM Drugs: Caffeine and adrenaline ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 9,694 Still playing and learning with my KX3. QRP remains a humbling experience. The KX3 does have a good receiver, but the transmitter (at official QRP 5 watt levels, not to be confused with QRO 10 watts)is still 25 db down from full power, and that is noticeable. Life is still to short for QRP, but there will be times with QRP is still a lot better than NoRP. Happy holidays to all, see you in the Stu Perry and in lots of contests in 2013! 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 922,432 Interesting weekend! Team was K3WA, K9QQ, K9ZO, LU7DW and myself, K9CT. Claudio, LU7DW was in Chicago area for training and had just arrived from LU. He drove three hours and joined us for the last three hours of the contest. It was fun to listen to him work SA in Spanish. We also had a contest visitor Bob, NW9X Sunday morning. Bob is returning to contesting after retirement and wanted to see our operation. Propagation was interesting to say the least. Almost everything but a blackout occurred over the 48 hours. Obviously it was not as good as last year but still it was interesting. You had to be in your seat the whole time or you might have missed an opening LP or ? Quite a few DX surprises!! We missed WY for WAS and did not get as many States on SSB. We asked several CW stations to move but most seemed concerned about their CW only entry....which is NOT a problem. This was the least successful in terms of getting more mults to move than our previous experience. We were over 100 mults less than last years effort. We only had 9 Mexican states...but that may be due to lack of prop that direction. You were either lucky or not with the E openings. We watched Sunday afternoon to the west coast working points east of us and did not hear a thing. Texas had some good runs going to the east coast that we did not get either. Our best E skip was probably Friday and Saturday evenings when we got some actual rate in excess of 120 qsos per hour. We used a three stack of 8 element OWA for most of the running. The Steppir DB42s were kept busy finding mults and the next opening. We also had a low 3 el Steppir that we kept to Mexico and TX. Lots of qsos were made backscatter using the stack...we simply could not work these mults any other way. Our only Murphy visit was loss of our Verizon internet connection 6 hours before the test...and of course it did not work the entire weekend. Lots of old fashioned digging for mults...plus we connected a modem to a laptop next to the mult radio to track the spots on the VE7CC client...not exactly the best situation. Of course, it now works on Monday morning...LOL. Thanks for the qsos. Some pretty good operators out there having lots of fun. Best wishes to all for this holiday season. 73, Craig K9CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9DR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 23,368 IC7000 and dipole at 30'. Got email that KO7X's XYL died Friday nite. They'd been married 40+ years. Alan and I have been friends since Junion High School. Put a damper on things this weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9FY Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 178,200 like pulling teeth.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9JK Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 3,016 Nothing to really write home about but I had fun (# 1 goal accomplished!) dabbling in the contest part time over the weekend. The station was set-up IN the car (the "CoROVERolla" that I use for VHF contests now), parked in the driveway, with a hamstick-clone magmounted to the roof of the car. Thanks to all the stations who were on and participated in this test, especially to those who picked my puny signal out of the noise. Thanks also to ARRL for their continued sponsorship and support for the 10 Meter Contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9OM Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 143,936 The last hour of the contest was the best hour for me. Poor band conditions caused my score to be down 70% from last year. If we worked, thank you for pulling my QRP signal out of the noise- I'd like to see receiving stations receive extra points for logging QRP stations. 73, Dick- K9OM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9YC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 436,818 Each station is a K3 + Ten Tec Titan 425 at 1.5kW, YCCC SO2R box. I was unassisted. Primary antenna is a 3-el SteppIR at 110 ft, second is 4-el at 20 ft. The higher one plays a lot better when conditions are marginal, and mostly I switched it to favor the running station. I fell short of a full effort by sleeping in 45 minutes too long on Saturday morning, probably missing a few mults. Band conditions were pretty stinko (that's a technical term). EU and AF were represented by a grand total of two EAs and three EA8s (found both on both CW and SSB), 5N1, and D4C. No JAs at all until about 2:30 Sunday afternoon, when I heard Oliver work one at his Sunol Ridge QTH. Turned the antenna around and the "run" started as a walk (on CW), and probably worked a couple of dozen before the band closed around 3:45 pm. Didn't even try to run JA on SSB, but worked 3 S&P. Interesting observation -- I think I counted fewer than six lids asking me to "Please Copy" their exchange all weekend! Who would have guessed that 10M would have the lowest "lid" quotient of all the HF contesting bands? Thanks for all the Qs 73, Jim K9YC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 147,498 Sunday conditions better than Saturday. It was two entirely different contests. Many thanks to all those who went into the log! 73. Scot, KA3DRR ICOM 756PRO Alpha 89 5 Elements at 55 feet N1MM Contest Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA4OTB Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 728 Very busy this weekend. I only had a few minutes here and there as I passed through the shack. Sorry for the poor showing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB0EO Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 271,158 Although 10 meters was in poor shape, it was still fun to get on and run some small pileups. Sporadic E opened up after 0000 UTC each night with very good runs to SE USA, Brazil, and Argentina. I worked a few EU and ZL stations - most of the DX was Caribbean and South America. The band was nowhere close to 2011 levels. There was absolutely nothing coming in from west of my QTH - I worked one South Dakota and one Arizona station, plus a couple of Alaskans. It really kept the multipliers down without the EU and western USA in the mix. I had numerous family obligations that kept me out of the seat most of the day Saturday - my daughter Bernadette won 1st place at her Olympic weight lifting high school tournament, so it was well worth it. It was great bumping into all the Minnesota stations - they are too numerous to mention. I had a lot of SE USA stations complaining that all they could work was Minnesota - way to go MWA! It was very picturesque watching the snow falling all day Sunday while sitting in the chair off and on. I had to go out the last 2 hours of the contest and snow blow the driveway while it was still light...that's living in the tundra for you. 73, Dan - KB0EO Northfield, MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB5JC Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 6,720 3 Element Yagi at 50 Ft FT-950 100 Watts All worked in S&P no Run Time ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: M/S LP Total Score = 67,584 Even though the flux was stuck at 100, it was a nice way to spend a chilly/snowy weekend. Best DX was D4C going east, and ZL3TE westward. Running remote out to WA7U's station. 73, Gene, KB7Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC0DEB Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 19,344 Even though the conditions were not what I expected from being so close to the peak of this sunspot cycle, it was fun to follow the little conditions that were there. With some surprising short openings ! Icom IC-746PRO Hygain 3 El. at 20ft. Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul 28 CW 48 192 32 28 USB 60 120 30 Total Both 108 312 62 Score: 19,344 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC0MO Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 52,302 Band did not open either day - found that so many stations could not pull my 5 w signal out that it was more productive to call CQ and lwt those that could hear me call me. Tnx to all that pull me out - highlite was trying for an hour to cut the pile-up for V51yj and finally getting thru. Tnx to yhe good ears out there - CU in the next one. de KC0MO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 165,912 Well mostly just operated when I had time, Friday night for about 3 hours and Saturday night for about 4 hours and today for about 5 hours. Propagation Friday was pretty good to the Northeast. Saturday was sort of crummy. By far today was the best propagation with an opening to JA with strong signals for the most part. Thanks to everyone that tolerated my poor CW skill. For the most part everyone slowed down for my speed--thank you very much. There were several calls that threw me for a loop, but to your credit you hung in there and I was able to get your call--I appreciate it. I think only one CW contact abandoned the Q with me because of my poor copy. I probably missed several in the pileup from time to time, but that is going to happen. Actually had a real good run of PH at the last hour (which include Dinner-hi) as well as good runs on Friday night on PH. My multiplier count is down, because I really never did tune the band--I should have, but it was more fun to run a frequency. Thanks to all the PH QSOs! I had never tried to move stations from CW to Ph or Ph to CW before, but I gave it a try with N4PN who ask me to move and K1YYL in SC whom I ask to move. I struggle to get the radio on the PH frequency but finally landed there and Paul was still waiting--Thanks! I also struggled getting there for K1YYL but final got everything worked out and he was still there--Thanks! I guess that I now have a much better understand of the necessity to setup the second VFO before I ask some to move... hi Used N1MM and it worked perfectly. There are a couple of things that is different from the logger that I have been using. I definitely need to look into the capabilities of the SO2V, I am sure that it would have produced some more Qs/Mults. Here is the station rundown: Rig: FT2000D Amp: Tentec Centurion Antennas: Cushcraft 10-4CD over a Homebrew 4L like the CC at 78' and 39' with an Array Solutions stackmatch OK, thanks again for all the QSOs and hope to catch you the next time around. cul Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5WA Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 1,188 The 10 meter gods were distracted on Saturday and Sunday was not much better. Doing S & P on phone was and exercise in frustration and patience. The OFF times log said I was not even on but rest assured I was. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD0S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 259,004 Friday nite started out OK, with about 90 Q's in the log, some Es.. Saturday was a grind in the morning, pockets of Es, No Eu, and then came the SA Qso party!! Worked a ton of South American stations, bless them for being on! Also some central American and Carribean stations. They were around until late afternoon, then a good Es opening with decent runs.. Sunday was better in terms of a small Eu opening, more Es stateside, and SA opening again.. Still overall best hour was around 80 Q's late afternoon on Saturday, otherwise a few hours around 60 Q's, and many 40 Q or less hours, with some under 20.. LOT of work, the band would sound like it was going to take off and really didnt.. We never did work out to the west coast solidly, I think only a couple WA stations and no Oregon.. We were hoping that the band would be good this year, but looks like will have to wait another year to see how things go. Wanted to give the second radio a go with its antennsa, but the conditions were too light to really make good use of it, so just 1 radio and 2 ops. Equipment: FT1KMK5field, AL-1500 amp, 3 tribanders, 2 at 90ft, 1 at 60ft, fed separately or in combination. Thanks to Jim KD0S and Shari for letting me invade for the weekend to play radio, still a great time and fun to do M/O with Jim!. 73 Todd WD0T for the KD0S team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2JA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 82,468 Worked what I planned to be a limited time on the air. Well I got sucked into the contest with the lure of beating my last effort in 2011. Saturday was not as good as Sunday. Signals would peak and then fade away. Limited EU openings but I remember working with AD4ES on this same contest in past years and we named it the "worked all FL" contest. There were better openings on Sun. I worked BD7LMD(LP), ZL's, VK's, JA's and some EU and AF. I never got XV1X but heard him LP. Equipment here is: Icom IC-7700, Ameritron AL-1500, Mosley TA-53M (at 40ft), N1MM Software, IBM ThinkPad T43 and Vibroplex Key (rusty but works well). Hope I help the FCG score!! 73, Glenn KD2JA P.S. K9ES called me on the landline as I was taking out his receiver! I never heard him! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2RD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 528,704 Thanks to all for the contacts. A little extra patience needed this year in the wake of poor conditions. Appreciate the persistance and teamwork of NQ2F (Scott) and N2PL (Paul). See you next year! 73's KD2RD -John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD3RF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 35,226 Terrible Band conditions making this a challenging contest to work. SOAPBOX: Totally Elecraft station. Mostly North-South Propogation with a few SOAPBOX: good runs in to SA. Even the Caribbean on CW was tough to work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 565,312 Thanks again to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use the farm again this year. WHERE WERE MY 900+ European QSOs (2011 total)? :-) I worked 45 this year. There were fun to be had, though, particularly Sunday morning. BD7LMD on Sunday morning, for instance. I would never have taken the time to get through if I were running Europe at 100/hour! The ONE JA long path on Saturday morning and the THREE JAs I ran Sunday afternoon (plus one S&P)! Having ZL1AIH call me for my SIXTH QSO of the contest and A44KD call in the first hour. Having HS0ZIA and 9V1YC call ME was fun. Every time things seemed to get slow, suddenly propagation would shift and a few new multipliers would call. This year, I managed Worked All States (Alaska was the last one). Hourly rates by continent and multiplier counts are below. Fun, but I hope my 900 European QSOs are back next year! Hourly Rate by Continent AF AS EU NA OC SA Grand Total 0 94 1 95 1 54 54 2 29 29 3 12 12 11 18 18 12 1 26 27 13 2 1 20 8 31 14 2 9 19 2 32 15 1 5 48 54 16 3 28 31 17 1 23 1 3 28 18 69 69 19 49 3 3 55 20 44 5 3 52 21 16 6 8 30 22 12 1 13 23 36 36 0 28 28 1 25 1 26 2 25 25 3 2 2 11 1 1 12 4 8 12 13 1 1 2 5 9 14 1 1 3 38 5 49 15 1 1 3 42 2 49 16 1 2 29 6 38 17 1 2 18 1 22 18 11 43 1 55 19 3 28 1 32 20 1 29 9 39 21 24 4 4 32 22 2 23 2 27 23 1 51 3 55 12 10 45 1016 21 62 1167 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE2OI Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 50,348 Conditions were a far cry from last year but it was still a fun contest. Hurricane Sandy dropped an 80' pine tree and it landed 6 inches from my tower down guy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 245,750 Many thanks to Paul N8HM for coming over Saturday and putting the 'DC Mult' on the air on SSB when I was hosting a birthday party for my 7-year old son Connor and 20 of his First Grade friends. Paul's comments follow - 73, Ken KE3X After operating in the 10m RTTY contest from my apartment station last weekend and seeing the solar flux and sunspot number continue to drop, I was starting to dread the thought of operating in this contest from home with 100 watts and a magnetic loop. When Ken invited me to come and operate on Saturday, I jumped at the opportunity to have a kilowatt, a beam, and a rare multiplier at my disposal. Unfortunately, my visions of pileups never emerged. I never heard any EU, but was happy to work a JA that was about 55 on long-path and peaking at about 210 degrees on the beam. Very little DX was heard the rest of the day. Worked a P4, but very few Carribeans or South Americans. Though many PYs were spotted, I never heard any. I was happy to find an LU and a CE later in the afternoon. Most of my time was spent running or, rather, attempting to run, but I went many stretches with no callers for several minutes at a time. A good number of those that did call were locals in VA and MD. I was happy to have a ZL and a VK call later in the afternoon. If not for the high XE activity and XE state multipliers, this contest would have been very dull indeed. So far 2011 has been the only decent 10m contest of this cycle, let's hope there is one more left in it next year. 73, Paul, N8HM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4CQ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 30,832 My schedule for this weekend did not allow me to work the contest as much as I would have liked. A good bit of time was during the evening hours and was challenging to say the least. The most fun was the couple of hours I was able to work today at the end of the contest. I had some fast rates and was cranking out some numbers. The qsb was incredible - stations were in the bottom only to come back a few seconds later with 59+. QRM did the same thing - from no QRM to strong QRM. It was alot of fun working with my new rig - the FTDX5000D. Wow, what a machine! Kevin, KE4CQ Loganville, GA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4KMG Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 13,750 TS-2000 using Crushcraft R-7 and Alpha Delta DX-LP. Didn't hear much US States, lot of Europe, Asia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4VH Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 5,440 Thank goodness for the Sunday afternoon opening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE8M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 79,056 ARRL Section : OH Club/Team : None Software : N1MM Logger V12.11.1 Band QSOs Pts Mul 28 244 976 81 Total 244 976 81 Score : 79,056 Rig : Kenwood TS 2000 + Ameritron ALS-600 @ 500 watts Antennas : Hy Gain LJ 105ca @ 45 ft Soapbox : nothing like last years contest did we reach the solar cycle peak last year ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 174,464 CLUB = Central Virginia Contest Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG9Z Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 22,000 Funny prop. for sure!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7Y Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 806,388 Contitions this year not anywhere like last year. Start on Saturday was good with first hr rate of 300 and then SLOW till evening long path to EU, excellent runs both night to EU even called by a SU9, many 4Xs, 5B4, 9J2 and other good stuff. Sunday was poor except for the last two hours signals picked up much better. Same old complaints, klicks,off frequency and some sending cw with their left foot made it tough at times. Thanks for the QSOs, Aloha, Fred ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI7MT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 34,902 Just got on for a bit each day to give the local club here in MT some points. MT was well represented in this one, worked 2 right at the start and heard them buzzing along off an on both days. N9RV, KB7Q, K7BG, K7ABV & K7HLM were the ones I worked / heard, so you should have no trouble on the MT multi front :-) Saturday was not very good at all here. Sunday seemed much better. New England States, VO1, VY2, VE9 and FL were loud all weekend. VE8 (NWT) was loud in the afternoon on Sunday. Think I worked everyone in NH & FL :-). Worked more RI in this contest than any other I think. Seemed like a dead zone to the South (US) and South West (US & DX) until I got into OC for a bit. No EU, a few VK / ZL, very little AS / JA, very few AF, Carib and SA were plentiful. Best DX V51YJ. 73's and have Safe and Happy Holiday Season. Greg KI7MT Helena, Montana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK4CIS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 11,700 K3/Aether Log/10m dipole up 25 feet I had a lot of fun despite the tough conditions. Sunday was better than Saturday. From south Florida, propagation seemed to be running in a very narrow corridor either to the northwest or to the southeast. Only heard/worked two European stations (both on Sunday morning). West coast of the US was relatively easy to work on Sunday. Midwest and midsouth portion of the US was workable on Saturday. South America was easier to reach on Sunday. Many thanks to all the ops who were able to copy my call, particularly LU2AYB and LV5V for their patience. 73 KK4CIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL2HD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 24,480 Poor propagation from KL in general except for Sunday morning when band opened up for about 1.5 hours which was very fun. Able to work people other times of the contest, but very slow and didn't hear too many that I couldn't eventually work. Propagation was weird with hardly any US stations at all(!)on the first day but loud VK, Caribbean and LU/PY stations. No JAs at all. Able to run for a bit on Sunday. ARRL 10M Contest - 2012-12-08 0000Z to 2012-12-10 0000Z - 241 QSOs KL2HD Max Rates: 2012-12-09 1951Z - 4.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 240 per hour 2012-12-09 2031Z - 2.8 per minute (10 minute(s)), 168 per hour 2012-12-09 2049Z - 2.1 per minute (60 minute(s)), 126 per hour Thanks to all who called and hope to work you in the next contest. 73, Jeff KL2HD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL2R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 158,610 No signals a the start on Friday afternoon in Fairbanks. Then abysmal conditions Saturday gave way to a little -- repeat, LITTLE -- better day on Sunday. On Saturday we worked almost no US/VE stations. We had almost exclusively PY/LU/CE and VK/ZL in the log by the end of the day. That was quite anomalous for any contest. Sunday was more normal, but still disappointing considering some of the recent good openings on 10m. We've noticed an increasing number of jammers on the bands, and they seemed to come out in greater force for this contest. And then there was the LID sending P-I-R-A-T-E in slow, sloppy code in the middle of one of our pileups. (Learn to copy code and learn how to use qrz.com!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 17,200 Any thought of a serious CW effort dissolved Friday with zero Q's in the log. Ran a little Saturday but Sunday was fun trying to get all the states by S/P only. No luck with that either, missed OR and the normal "hard" ones. 73 Rich ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 94,500 This will be a CW only submission but I did work a few that asked me to QSY to SSB. I had to work late on Friday so I also started out with NIL until Saturday morning. My first contest QSO came at 1828z and last fell into the log at 2342z, Saturday. Saturday was tough but that's contesting. Saturday was even a bit harder due to QRN as a direct result of 40 mph wind gusts that day. I watched our temperature go from -21F to +20F in a matter of a few hours thanks to the arrival of the SE wind flow. The last four hours of Sunday showed my best rates all weekend. I had higher hopes for the last big contest of 2012, as I didn't even hit the 50% mark from what I was able to accomplished last year. I think the most notable points with this contest was the crazy propagation and QSB. The QSB was intense at times and stations would call and then disappear. I was low power so like many, I had multipliers CQ in my face to no avail. I missed more than I care to list. Happy Holidays to all and I hope to find my way into a few logs as this contest season continues into 2013. I have no valid complaints about this contest as 378 QSO's are better than none, which was the case only a few years ago. I predict that 2013 will be the year of change for this station. But for now, it's time to enjoy the holiday season and from our shack to yours, on behalf of KL8SU and myself, Seasons Greetings from Alaska! May many new multipliers and entities fall easily into your logbooks in 2013. Sincerely, Phil - KL8DX Suann - KL8SU Dempsey (The Wonder Beagle) Luna (The Grandcat) Denali National Park, Alaska Office: http://www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm Personal Website: http://www.livingindenali.net/ Blog: http://kl8dx.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM3T Class: M/S LP Total Score = 33,152 Rig: Elecraft K3 100W Antenna: NE/SW Dipole up 30' Got on between chores to work some of the suffering. ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM6I Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 56,760 K3, KPA500, temporary dipole @40ft Things looked pretty dismal coming into the weekend, but Sunday morning ended up being a lot of fun. I was able to run with my temporary antenna, and the short-term rate meter got over 150 a few times. I was also pleasantly surprised to find ZS2NF calling CQ for my only AF QSO. Thanks for the QSOs everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 11,948 Friday night operated CW to work at least 100 QSO's for the club's score before embarking West to a bowling tournament.Did not hear any DX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN5O Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 568,116 I must have told myself at least a dozen times, quit this agony! Conditions on Saturday were absolutely awful. Maybe a bright spot or two, but VERY short lived. On the other hand, this was a good warm up for me for the upcoming ARRL VHF Contest in January at K5QE M/M in east Texas! Friday night started out like what seemed to be 2008/2009 conditions all over again. I quit at 10PM local time with 191 Qs, telling (or lying to) myself that things would be better in the morning. Sure enough, got up before sunrise Saturday, pointed the antenna at 150 degrees and proceeded to catch the LP opening to Asia. Well that didn't last long. Busted two pileups to get BD7LMD and JA5FBZ and that was it. Then I tried calling CQ, but that was useless. Anyway, from the chart below, it was a painful day of mostly CQ-ing for not very much and tuning for S&P QSOs - albeit a very slow process. Conditions were so bad on Saturday that I would estimate 95-98 percent of all signals did not move my S-meter. Echoes, fading, strange QRN, south-of-the-border AM/SSB splatter from the illegals, etc., you name it, it was there. Nevertheless, I persevered. I tried to keep my two yagis at right angles to each other depending on where the openings were at that time of day. Anyway, Saturday evenings, things picked up a bit, but not enough to get me real excited for Sunday's operation. I thought then - man, you should quit. What good is this doing you? Well, I quit at 10PM and told myself I'm finished and planned to spend Sunday with the XYL. Then, the alarm went off at 5:00AM Sunday (I forgot to reset it from Saturday AM). Anyway, I was awake now, so might as well get ready, have breakfast and for laughs, check 10M. And like Saturday, pointed the antenna S/SE and waited to see what I could hear. At sunrise, it pretty much sounded like a repeat of Saturday. But you just never know and the contest bug bit me again. So off we go CQ-ing and gee, things seem a little better. I’m actually getting answers to my CQs. The SFI is now slightly higher than Saturday. Rate is starting to pick up - somewhat. But the strange thing is that when I use the NE-pointed yagi to work the USA, no signals! But I’m getting USA signals on the SE-pointed yagi. Anyway, I used the SE antenna and was working USA off the back, plus CA/SA/Caribbean, and even a few LP ASIA (XV,HS) with some south Africa mixed in. Then, all of a sudden I get a call from A45XR off the side of the antenna. That was a shocker that I did not expect. Of course I fumbled his call 4-5 times with the conditions, but he was patient enough to help me eventually get it. Thanks Chris. After about 9AM, I noticed I was starting to hear better on the NE yagi. Ok, time to work to the Northeast USA and grab some 1s,2s,& 3s. But much to my surprise, the northeast was getting clobbered by Europe! From about 10AM to Noon and considering the conditions, I had some reasonable EU runs with again, barely-to-no S-meter movement. The volume control on my FT-1000 Field was at max. Then, BLAM! - I thought my ears where going to explode. I can't remember who, but a +10db signal appears out of nowhere. Man, that hurt! So Sunday was a different contest than Friday/Saturday. I even had the desired 4PM to contest close JA run Sunday evening. Compared to last year, there is no comparison. But it turned out not to be the disaster I thought it was going to be. Glad I hung in there. Regarding the stats, I missed WY, ME and ND for WAS, the typical hard ones for me. I also missed LB, NU, NWT, QC (VE2 again!) and YT Canadian mults and worked only 9/32 Mexican States. According to N1MM, I had another 62 DXCC. Anyway, I thank all of you for the Qs and making this contest. I wish all of you the best of the Holiday Season and hopefully, a better 2013. 73, Ted KN5O -------------- 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 63 63 63 5.7 0100 0 0 0 0 0 59 59 122 11.1 0200 0 0 0 0 0 52 52 174 15.8 0300 0 0 0 0 0 17 17 191 17.3 0400 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 192 17.4 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192 17.4 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192 17.4 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192 17.4 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192 17.4 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192 17.4 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192 17.4 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192 17.4 1200 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 203 18.4 1300 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 226 20.5 1400 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 248 22.5 1500 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 275 25.0 1600 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 314 28.5 1700 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 329 29.9 1800 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 340 30.9 1900 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 358 32.5 2000 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 371 33.7 2100 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 386 35.1 2200 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 396 36.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 409 37.1 0000 0 0 0 0 0 41 41 450 40.9 0100 0 0 0 0 0 59 59 509 46.2 0200 0 0 0 0 0 44 44 553 50.2 0300 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 569 51.7 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 569 51.7 1300 0 0 0 0 0 33 33 602 54.7 1400 0 0 0 0 0 47 47 649 58.9 1500 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 679 61.7 1600 0 0 0 0 0 94 94 773 70.2 1700 0 0 0 0 0 61 61 834 75.7 1800 0 0 0 0 0 46 46 880 79.9 1900 0 0 0 0 0 34 34 914 83.0 2000 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 937 85.1 2100 0 0 0 0 0 45 45 982 89.2 2200 0 0 0 0 0 72 72 1054 95.7 2300 0 0 0 0 0 46 46 1100 99.9 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 1101 1101 Gross QSOs=1132 Dupes=31 Net QSOs=1101 Unique callsigns worked = 1101 The best 60 minute rate was 95/hour from 1607 to 1706 The best 30 minute rate was 100/hour from 1638 to 1707 The best 10 minute rate was 120/hour from 0006 to 0015 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSOs/minute 1 times. 3 QSOs/minute 33 times. 2 QSOs/minute 207 times. 1 QSOs/minute 583 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 0 898 898 81.6 South America 0 0 0 0 0 63 63 5.7 Europe 0 0 0 0 0 58 58 5.3 Asia 0 0 0 0 0 45 45 4.1 Africa 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 1.4 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 2.0 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 1101 1101 ------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------ Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 5H 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 6Y 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 9Y 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 A4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 BY 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 C6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 CE 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.4 CM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 CN 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 CX 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 D2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 D4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 DL 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 EA 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0.9 EA6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 EA8 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 EI 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 F 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 FY 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 G 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.5 GI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 GM 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 HA 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 HC 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 HK 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 HR 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 HS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 I 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 IS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 *IT9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 J3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 J6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 JA 0 0 0 0 0 41 41 3.7 K 0 0 0 0 0 796 796 72.3 KG4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 KH6 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 KL 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.8 KP2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 KP4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 LU 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 1.8 ON 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 OY 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 P4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 PA 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 PJ2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 PJ4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 PY 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 2.2 S5 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 TF 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 TI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 TK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 UA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 V2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 V3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 V5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 VE 0 0 0 0 0 63 63 5.7 VK 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 VP2V 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 VP5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 XE 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 1.1 YN 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 YU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 YV 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZF 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZL 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.7 ZP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZS 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 1101 1101 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2DX Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 20,400 partime operation. worse conditions i ever see on the 10 meters band.jus south america and a few USA stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4EU Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 100,344 ¡HAM RADIO IS FUN! THANK AGAIN TO MY FRIENDS FELIPE-NP4Z; OTIS-NP4G AND JIM-WP3A/NP3X. PRARL = #1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 185,920 Cndx much worse than last year, but some interesting long path to asia. 73 Johnny, KR4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0M Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 9,504 IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE OPS IN SOUTH AMERICA MY SCORE WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS. THANKS TO THE SA HAMS. TOO MUCH GOING ON TO SPEND VERY MUCH TIME IN THIS CONTEST. I STLL HAD SOME FUN. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0MO Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 13,440 severe lack of free electrons! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS2G Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 6,192 Worst conditions since 2007! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4TX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 26,064 The Holiday Season finally caught up with me. Just a token effort in support of the ACG club score. Cndx just as all have stated hr in NA (North Alabama). Want to wish all a very Happy and Healthy Holiday Season from Toonersville,AL. Ho Ho Ho, Tim, KT4TX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT8K Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 35,256 Didn't have much time for the contest but got some in anyway - had a great time, of course. Too bad the band wasn't better - almost no EU here and no JA, at least when I was on. Thanks to everyone who dug me out of the static. When 10 is open it's great, and I experienced a bunch of different propagation patterns common to 10m - really interesting, and kind of like Michigan weather: If you don't like it just wait 5 minutes. Equipment here is 5 Watts to a vertical dipole (A3 tribander driven element) suspended 50 feet up in a tree. 72 and best of everything for you and yours in 2013! - Tim, KT8K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT8TD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 7,918 Despite the generally sub-optimal conditions, I made contacts with some new entities including PEI and NZ. Propagation is what it is, and there is very little point in complaining about it. It just sounds like whining. Bruce KT8TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 175,360 Kenwood TS-850S - 100 watts - Vertical full wave loop @ 50 ft. Saturday was a real grind with lots of spotlight propagation. I had some runs on Saturday where I worked at least 20 station in a row in CA then VE5-7 , then WA/OR then MT then MN. N9RV was almost pinning the S meter in the TS850S. It must have been a Sporadic E cloud moving from west to east. It's weird but none of the South America guys were real loud here and for awhile many of them just CQ'ed in my face. I never heard PJ2T even once and only heard PJ4NX one time on Sunday morning but couldn't get thru the big pileup. The band seemed to be open to MN from GA the most. Had some spotty east coast openings but it opened up with booming signals on Sunday for the last 1 1/2 hours to W1-W2-W3-W4 and Texas. That helped the score big time and had my best run of the contest. I think conditions were better on Sunday. The band was open somewhere all day. There was some nice LP Sunday morning around 1300Z - heard a JA5, DU, BV and XV but it was pretty much impossible to work that stuff with 100 watts and no beam. Oh well. Thanks for all the QSO's and Happy Holidays to all my contesting friends. Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 64,260 Didn't really plan to operate this event very much. Had lots of outdoor chores lined up. But, then it rained. I also had a committment from 5pm to 10pm Saturday evening; but, I thought, what the heck. Let me give this a try with the GAP Eagle DX since my temporary ten meter antenna was already packed up. Lots of spotlight propagation. I only had one Q with EU on Saturday and about ten on Sunday. Heard a BD7 Sunday morning all by himeslf. I gave him a call and he came back 8Q? I called him again but the big boys called over me. It was nice to hear him though. Left a lot of mults on the table in W1, W2 and W3 land. They just couldn't hear me. At one time Saturday, all I worked was VE7, VE6, VE5, WA, and OR. Must have been a slow drifting Sporadic-E cloud between me and them. Boy, were they strong!!! Anyway, it all worked out okay. Had lots of fun. Hopefully, I can get it on my schedule next year with my good ten meter antenna. Rig = TenTec Jupiter @ 100 watts Antenna = GAP Eagle DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7L Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 27,744 Not quite as action-packed as last year, but there were a few openings on Saturday, and things got a bit better Sunday. Thanks for the fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: L33M Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 407,336 Cndx were not pretty good but I enjoyed the contest. See you next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LP1H Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 559,360 Thanks everyone for the QSOs! Merry Xmas and HNY to all. Ramon, LP1H (LU5HM) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LS1D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,803,020 Tnx to all for the qso.s Cu in the next log Merry XMAS and happy New Year 2013! 73 Crew Six Stars Contest Station ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU5DX Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,053,998 Thx to my father and mentor for sharing this contest with me for the second time. Cndx were tough this year for LP, but enjoyed some nice runs to USA. There was a solid JA opening Saturday night. Thx everyone for the QSOs. Season's greetings to all. Martin LU5DX & Carlos LU6EBY Rig: Kenwood TS 440S + JE3HHT DSP Filter. Ant: 1/4 wave vertical GP at 90 ft. Loggin soft: First day N1MM, second day TR4W (just for fun, cause I like both). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU5FB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,517,114 This is one of the contest we used to do with new contesters from LU5FB "Círculo de RadioAficionados Rosario". This time we have at least 4 new contesters and 3 old timers ;) We prepared the station at LU5FB's the week prior to the contest! The station setup: Ant 1: 6 El for 10/15/20 (JVP36DX) Ant 2: 4 El mono fixed to US Rig: TS850S Amp: TL922 LU1FAM and LU2FE did the CW part and the rest of the gang the SSB. Nice condx on both days! 73's and CU next contest season! Lucas LU1FAM/F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU7DBL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 88,616 My first Arrl 10 meter and my first international contest in monoperator category. Bad conditions the first 24 hs . Specially thanks to LU7DBL ( LU5DHE, LU3DPH, LU9DKO, LU2EIT,LU4EOU, LW3EIH, LU6EPE, LU8EKW and other HAMs members) for this oportunity. www.lu7dbl.com.ar www.lw6ege.com.ar 73 & DX LW6EGE EMI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU7HZ Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 220,920 First participation on ARRL 10M, somewhat dissapointed by the very low conditions experienced, very low SFI count (<100) most of the weekend. Very low conditions, almost no opening to EU. Good opening to USA on saturday and very limited on Sunday. Good opening with JA zone on saturday night. Extremely poor conditions during most of the Sunday. Extremely difficult to keep any reasonable rate operating QRP under these conditions. I could imagine the patience and ear torture for most of our partners in the other side, my gratitude to all of them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU8EOT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,093,152 Thanks for the all QSOs.. I had high QRM all time in all direction about S6 S8... The propagation like you know was very poor around the world, however I never had this score from my station in AR10.. Was fun!!! Marry Xmas & HNY... See you next year!! 73 Mark LU8EOT.- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,680 Best year propagation, uhhhhhhhh KH7Y first in LOG, signal was not normal, like in other room :) Also several ZL's in a row. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY7Z Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 600 TS 850S/AT + 22m LW SA = CX, 2x LU's, 2x PY's EU = YL , YO , LZ , LY, 9A AF = ZS AS = 4x UN's It was longest 3 hours in contest... 73! Andy LY7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ2DF Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 64,344 73!!! Good Luck in the Contest !!! Very Happy New Year - 2013 Very Merry Christmas !!! 73!!! Mike LZ2DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 76,038 Very, very horrible propagation.. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2013!! 73, LZ3FM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M0CFW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 19,656 Equipment used: K3 100W, 5 meter wire on flag pole with ATU I started with 9A then several Russian station around 09 - 10Z. Usual Asian station from 5B4, 4X etc came a bit later. At lunch time band is open to SA but weak. Heard VY2ZM and VY2TT but too weak to work. Nothing from W land. Then by 14 - 15Z, SA faded out and band became very quiet, seems end of Saturday activity. Then after sunset, strong signal from YO/LZ came through, moving towards west, I, EA, but no CT station worked. Sunday was similar in the morning, but SA was still open at sunset. Then worked W9/0, only open for 10-20 minutes. After that, relatively strong signal from PY/LU/CE with LZ/YO/TK/I/EA etc. Heard but not worked: ZS, HC, HK Thanks for QSO, see you in next contest! 73 Kazu M0CFW, JK3GAD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MW5A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 103,880 This was loosely planned as a 'part-time fun multi single' activity by a few of the Three As CG, as it turned out the rest of the team had to pull out due to other commitments, and it became an even more 'part-time' single op (with cluster) operation. I deliberately put more spots into the cluster, than I took out, hoping it might encourage casual operators to get on and make some Qs. Both days, didn't get to the shack until 1000 GMT and also took time out for about an hour or so lunch breaks, plus a few other 'pit stops'. Final QSO on Saturday was at 1930, with just 142 Qs in the log. The band probably had some life in it, short-skip to parts of Europe, but it was time for me to pull the plug.... Propagation had been 'interesting' the first day (read: challenging), with some long-path to JA and thereabouts, but just a handful of USA contacts. Sunday was better, with stronger long-path to JA, BY, XV and VK worked between 1130-1200, followed by a few weak W/VE and there were hopes the band might start to really open to North America. Unfortunaetly that wasn't the case, those USA worked were sporadic and propagation was VERY selective. The only East coast Q was into MA but for some reason several stations in the Nine and Zero call area (CO, IA, NE, SD etc...) were very strong, also a single VE4 in MB. It's fascinating to theorise how propagation works sometimes. Following a good number of South Americans in the log, and again what appeared to be Es propation into Europe, I finished up with the final Q at 1853. Thanks to web guru MW0MWZ, audio from the weekend has been uploaded to my logs site at http://www.gw4ble.dxlist.co.uk If you do access the site, be aware the playback time can be changed from the default - see instructions on the opening page. All QSLs via G3TXF Thanks for the contacts and MERRY CHRISTMAS 73 Steve GW4BLE (aka MW5A) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0HJZ Class: M/S LP Total Score = 169,556 I operated a bit off-and-on during the weekend. We received nine inches of snow too! I had my 12-year old nephew help me operate. He'd call and I'd log. He'd even push the buttons on the keyer. He loves the radio contesting and all the countries he can talk to. He's got a license manual under the Christmas tree! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0JK Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 360 Worked both days of the contest, and had family obligations with a special needs grandchild. I put in an hour Sunday afternoon while fixed mobile with a new homebuilt whip to hand out some points. The SWR was really high. Didn't work nearly as well as my trusty Radio Shack CB mag. mount whip. Thus my effective power was probably in the milli-watt range. Nonetheless, worked D4C, VP5CW, LS1D, CX, etc. After getting home was monitoring 6M and heard some Es. Dropped down to 10M and worked KN5O LA on 28.001 MHz at 2358 UTC by "loading up" the attic 6M dipole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1CC Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 54,036 Before the contest I decided to operate QRP. The NTX low-power gang is too big and has much better antennas than I do for me to compete and win. Change is usually better, and there are some suprises when you do. Very complex propagation introduced another handicap. Did not hear or work a single 1-land station. Little or no probagation to populated areas during the daytime hours. Everyone had the same issues for most of us. East and West coast guys had a heyday for QSO count, and we could not hear either end of any QSO that happened in that way. Saturday morning EU's not audible here, OK on Sunday. No JA's on Saturday, plentiful on Sunday. Now, I feel pretty good about my 200 QSOs ... and by patience I worked almost every station that I called. Some, the power difference made not possible. Never expected to run, but had a 10-QSO run on Saturday morning... during the contest worked ALL continents with some effort. D4C pounded in most of both days, little else heard that was consistant. Running 5 Watts - FT-990 will adjust down to 4.8W output on 10M, won't go that low on 160-15 wihtout an attenuator in line. The C3E at 40 feet is enough antenna for 10 Meters and low power most of the time. During a challenging period of propagation this weekend I seldom did not get through to those that I called. The degree of "alligator" behavior wasn't evident to me. Late Sunday, when the band became more cooperative, Mother Nature dealt me a major thunderstorm that lasted close to an hour over my location .. so I misssed some I might have gotten otherwise. When the lightning crashes on 10M go 40 over 9 -- it's time to retreat! I enjoyed being QRP. Will I try other contests? Good Question! 73, Jim Modified! Original report used wrong call N1DD not N1CC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 59,520 Limited hours for this one. Very strange propagation and overall much worse than CQWW weekend. I ran EU for several hours during CQ WW. This weekend only 2 stations in the log from Italy. Both were IT9's with S9 + 20dB signals. This is STRANGE ! Missed s lot of states that were easy in the ARRL SS. Had trouble being heard around 1,500 miles. No trouble at 2,000 miles +. Never heard AK or HI. Worked about 80% of SA. Highlight for me was a call from ZL4AS Sunday afternoon. Thanks! Station: TenTec Omni7 @ 100W, HyGain Explorer 14 @ 30ft, N1MM Thanks for the QSO's Rick N1DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1EN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 3,168 Without a good 10m antenna here (just 80m & 160m wires here) and without last year's excellent conditions, I opted to just work a couple here and there in between the weekend's chores. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1GLT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 17,160 Had Fun Playing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1JM Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 270 I only had about 1/2 hour after getting home from church. K3/100, P3, 14AVQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 27,136 Terrible conditions. Just playing around with 200W. DX was 21 mults. States and Provinces was 34. Ed N1UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1WK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 800 Just passing by the KB1H barn would not be right without making a few QSOs. Played really well for the tough conditions. Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul 28 CW 100 400 20 Total Both 100 400 20 Score: 8,000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2BJ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 160,524 Missed one of the 4 openings on as I had an office Xmas Party Friday night. The rest of the time other than a few opening it was almost as bad as sitting in the dentist chair getting a root canal! I guess this is what to expect at the peak of the sunspot cycle??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 41,268 Not bad for the bottom of the sunspot cycle.. wait, this is the peak! K3, Drake L7 @ 1kW, TH6DXX 48', N1MM 73, Tom N2CU <>< K3 #3582 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 13,572 I started the contest using a 40M dipole but by Saturday afternoon I had a quad loop at 25 feet. My granddaughter, NY2GB, helped me to begin to reassemble my quad which was damaged by Sandy. We were rained out Sunday monring. Heard China loud Sunday morning but he did not hear me. Not much time for operating. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 419,160 Lost 1 hour Saturday AM due to an emergency run to the bank so that my daughter could pay her mortgage. Thanks for all the qsos and Seasons Greetings to all ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 466,956 I put up a 3 element 10m beam at about 40' on Friday, suspended between two trees. I used a rope to point it all weekend. F2 propagation was disappointing, but there was amazing Es throughout the Eastern US all 3 nights. Highlight was 190 QSOs in the last 75 minutes of the contest when the Es exploded. - John N2NC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NF Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 39,000 Condtions not very good on Saturday. Better on Sunday, but had limited operating time both days. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2ZN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,912 I guess last year was the year to operate this one! Had over 800 Q's last year with just a dipole. Condx not FB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 42,918 IC-7600 AL-80B C-3SS @ 50' WriteLog v11 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3QE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 7,656 I cannot believe that by the official off time rules I actually spent 5 hours looking for QSO's. A Saturday morning opening to JA was pretty cool. I thought like the low sunspot years in 2007-2008 I would be working a lot of PY's, LU's, and Carribean. But only a handful. I worked a lot more DX on 160 this weekend, than I did on 10. Want to write "And that's a good thing!" like that Twilight Zone episode. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 212,080 Just played around in the contest, in various stints, using internet spotting to work the various mults that showed up on the band. Conditions were disappointing on Saturday, with virtually no European opening that I caught. On Saturday morning, JA5FBZ and BD7LMD were very strong on the long path, which was interesting and fun. Sunday brough XV1X on the L/P, who had a huge signal. This was the best L/P opening on 10m I have ever witnessed. Spotlight propagation was amazing. I recall that on Saturday afternoon, I was calling CQ and 15 out of 20 callers were from MN! Then later WA. On Sunday, A45XR was worked peaking due south. Missed a bunch of S/P: RI, WY, LB, MB, NU, NWT, QC, YT Other than the fancy L/P stuff, best DX was ZL and KH0. 73 - Dave N3RD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3UM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 188,576 My 12th time doing ARRL 10 m, starting in 2000, and my 2nd-best score since 2003 back when sunspots were plentiful. With SFI at or near 100 this year, there was no way I could better my score of last year, when SFI was 145 and I made more than twice as many QSOs and worked more than three times as many DX mults. But, my score was 12% above that of 2010 when the SFI was "only" 87. In the very first hour of the contest, roughly half of my 72 QSOs were LOS to MD, DC, and 6 contiguous states, BUT I also worked 12 other states, as far away as TX, NE, SD, and FL: clearly sporadic E. There was a strong "spotlight" effect: of my 34 skip QSOs in that first hour, 11 were in MN and 8 in WI! Sat. and Sun. mornings were a big disappointment: computer propagation predictions said that with SFI=100 I'd see only an hour or two of EU signals from a few countries, but in fact it was only a QSO or two with EU each morning in a grand total of 3 EU countries, compared with 4 AF mults and 7 SA mults. Pitiful. No problem finding mults in every other corner of the world: a 3W, 3 JA, 4 CX, 5 ZS, 6 each ZL, PY, and LU, and 7 XE states. Missed only VT, SC, WY, and ND in the US: AK and HI were easy. I got good rates both afternoons 19-21 Z pointing NW, SW, and S. Many CA, AZ, and WA QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZZ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 70,680 Last hour not too productive, but there was an opening to the mid-west for the first time around 23:45 on Sunday. This weekend,the beam was more effective at 25 feet than 55. K3 and 4 element. Thanks to all those good ears out there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BCD Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 31,356 Kicked off with a nice run into the northeast on Friday night then went to S&P during Saturday's strange condx - would work a guy 4 miles away then ZS's, then nothing. The Alpha 91 blower motor started sounding like a coffee grinder and I finally shut it down Sunday morning - not much fun after that. Bummer, considering it went back to CO last fall for a replacement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 124,640 Really hard work unassisted! From what I hear, it wasn't much easier assisted!!! I prefer the thrill of either running into a new mult or having it call me... I was (and am still) at a disadvantage with my high antenna (X9 at 30M) doesn't indicate position...so to chase mults I used my low antenna, (T-8 at 30 feet!). I just didn't have enough signal to work the XV! Same goes for LZ9W who was really loud here...but I (obviously) wasn't there! I do hope conditions are better next year. Many thanks to the stateside guys who really struggled with the "ups and downs" of band conditions to work me. 73, Bert N4CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EEB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,176 Packet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EK Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 47,628 Really strange conditions to say the least. Stations 20 over one minute, down in the mud the next. AZ, CA and WA were plentiful with a few OR mixed in. Best hour was at around 2300z Sunday when W1, W2 and W3 finally started coming in. Saturday worked alot of South Americans. Probably missed some good runs Sunday while out. Band was alive when I got home at 1500z. 90% run this time. 73 and cul at Orlando! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4FP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 37,944 100 watts to 22' flagpole antenna. Worked most stations I could hear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4IJ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 220,000 IM SURE OTHERS HAVE SAID THE SAME: UGLY CONDX ON SATURDAY AND A BIT BETTER ON SUNDAY. AT LEAST A FEW EUROPEANS WERE WORKED ON SUNDAY. RIG = TEN TEC OMNI 6+ AND 5 ELEMENT OWA YAGI AT 55 FT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 97,920 OUCH! 10M was DEAD much of the time and barely opened to Europe (when I was not on the radio). It would have been better if the 10M and 160M contests had switched weekends this year, probably for Both Contests. Just played around in this one to finish 10M Mixed Mode WAS confirmed by LoTW, picking up DE RI on SSB and WV on CW. Should have tried running more during ing E-layer openings which were mostly near/after dark. Almost NO NA skip during the day, especially Saturday. Missed VT DC KY NC AR MS NM WY OH IN ND VE1,2,4,5,8,9,VO2,VY1,2,0 R1,2,3 Still need DE RI IN ND for CW WAS via LoTW and a Bunch on (ugh) Phone. NO EU, BY(LP) and JA in AS, KH0,VK,ZL in OC, D4,V5,ZS in AF Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KH Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 76,032 Lot's of fun playing in this one but very little time to operate. Conditions finally improved Sunday. Missed China and Vietnam Sunday morning. Thanks for the QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 17,800 All S&P! At times - slow but as usual, had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OO Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 7,500 Threw a dipole up and had some spotlight prop to W1 and the West Coast. 73 Brian N4OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 661,878 Started out Low Power as the numbers looked it would be a W/VE contest... Had 263 Q's Friday night....with 37 in MA and 30 in MN...only had 38 Q's first night last year... Went to High Power on Saturday morning...too many goodies to miss out on..decided to use Packet with so many great mults floating around, hence, M/S....Me and Packet....crazy category.. As everyone knows, not much from these parts into Europe...only 5 EU first day and 4 AF, but one was a real surprise - FH8PL! Sunday was a real winner....within 21 minutes (LP) worked XV1X, BD7LMD, BA7IO, BU2AV, VR2XMT, JH6AUS. Also, LP, 9V1YC and A45XR. Total of 21 EU on Sunday and 15 AF, mostly ZS's, except for EA8's and V51YJ plus D4C. Got beat our several times by ole pal, W4GKF running LP and K9OM once who was QRP...hi. Sunday evening the last four hours was a blast....never touched the rotator or changed frequency....rate meter was 207, 204, 197, and 192...on CW. Missed WY, MB and ND on both modes....thanks to VE8GER, VE8NSD for being in there.... Should have chased the XE crowd more...only 5 on CW and 2 on SSB.. Thanks to all who came to the party.... 73, Paul, N4PN FT1000MP/AL1200 - 1200W TH-5 at 70' (4el on 10m) Logging w/CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4WW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 329,200 I sure wish rates for the rest of the contest would have been as good as they were for the last 2 hours. I made almost 25% of my Q's the last 2 hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 72,576 The first two hours were quite a bit of fun with good E-layer openings to W1, VE1, VE2, VE3, W0, W3 and W9. I was crossing my fingers for decent conditions on Saturday but that was not the case - so I decided to spend time doing other things. Managed 3 European QSOs - a far cry from 2011! The big highlight was hearing BA7IO Sunday morning and XV1Z less than a KHZ apart. At least I heard them. Both had good signals but unfortunately BA7IO CQed in my face..shucks! Fun to work so many W6 and W7 stations. Rig: Ten Tec OMNI VI for CW and Kenwood 850 for SSB. Antenna: Dipole NW/SE at 75 feet, 2 element yagi at 27 feet aimed NE, rectangular loop at 500 feet SW/NE. 73, Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 255,386 Conditions were definitely worse than last year. The northwest was particularly hard to work from here -- no ID, OR, or WA and only 1 VE7. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 964,896 W6NV and K6WG did all the hard work on Friday and Saturday while conditions were so poor. I had all the fun on Sunday, shoveling guys on cw while Oliver chased mults and did a little running on ssb. It helps to have three 10M antenna systems and a superb location. Thanks for all the q's. 73, Steve K6AW for Radio Rangers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 330,480 Hi all: I spent lots of time watching TV while the voice keyer or the computer CQed into the ionosphere. I thought the conditions were quite strange with almost "spotlight" propagation at times. I never heard the Pacific Northwest and barely heard the OR multiplier. I did hear NV but no joy at his end. One AZ (thanks Dave-K6LL). Completely devoid of contacts in the midwest west of IA (one contact with superstation N0NI-thanks Tony). No EU heard. To put it mildly, this contest was a "grunt". But, I still had fun and look forward to next year's rendition. Thanks for the Qs. 73 Arnie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6MU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 51,816 Virtually all S&P. LP to a lousy vertical in marginal conditions doesn't allow successful CQing, hi. It was really apparent as I listened to the loud HP and beam locals (K7JA, N6HC and AA6PW) running guys I couldn't even hear. Oh well. Only made 18 Qs Friday night. 17 were with locals but the 18th was the only TX station (N5ZC) I heard all weekend. Funny how that works as he was loud but the only one. Saturday and Sunday were better. I did manage to work all the W1-4 and 8-9 mults except VT (my SS nemesis), DE and WI(?). Also snagged LA and MS Saturday and 7 CO and 3 AZ Saturday night. Sunday afternoon brought OK (K5KC) and, again, he was loud but the only one from the region. Only worked 3 XE mults. Heard more but they couldn't hear me. Typical. My highlight was V51YJ. I called him on and off for hours before success. I'm always amazed by the many loud stations who CQed in my face while many of the weak ones heard me no problem. Good old 10 meters! 73... John, N6MU TS-570 & 4BTV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 241,780 Conditions were very poor Saturday, but Sunday was better. No Europeans heard all weekend, but maybe I slept through the opening, as I couldn't put in a full time effort for this one. It sure was nice to finally have a working 10m antenna after several years without one, now that an interaction problem has been fixed (TNX K7NV). I missed working many close-in states. Some S-3 line noise made copy difficult on many stations when the band wasn't open well. Ant: 5 el Yagi @ 100' Rig: Elecraft K3 Amp: Alpha 87A SW: Win-Test 4.11.0-dev -------------- 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 23 23 23 2.9 0100 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 26 3.3 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3.3 1600 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 38 4.8 1700 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 63 8.0 1800 0 0 0 0 0 25 25 88 11.2 1900 0 0 0 0 0 67 67 155 19.7 2000 0 0 0 0 0 70 70 225 28.7 2100 0 0 0 0 0 31 31 256 32.6 2200 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 267 34.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 268 34.1 0000 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 271 34.5 0100 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 276 35.2 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 35.2 1700 0 0 0 0 0 51 51 327 41.7 1800 0 0 0 0 0 94 94 421 53.6 1900 0 0 0 0 0 72 72 493 62.8 2000 0 0 0 0 0 69 69 562 71.6 2100 0 0 0 0 0 112 112 674 85.9 2200 0 0 0 0 0 53 53 727 92.6 2300 0 0 0 0 0 58 58 785 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 785 785 Gross QSOs=788 Dupes=3 Net QSOs=785 Unique callsigns worked = 785 The best 60 minute rate was 118/hour from 2057 to 2156 The best 30 minute rate was 130/hour from 1752 to 1821 The best 10 minute rate was 180/hour from 1809 to 1818 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSOs/minute 1 times. 4 QSOs/minute 10 times. 3 QSOs/minute 54 times. 2 QSOs/minute 135 times. 1 QSOs/minute 308 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 0 667 667 85.0 South America 0 0 0 0 0 52 52 6.6 Europe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Asia 0 0 0 0 0 53 53 6.8 Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 1.5 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 785 785 73, Bob, N6TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,880 About 30 minutes total op time while testing new remote systems at K6LRG. Friday night.. called cq - NCCC qso party (hi hi) Saturday... same deal at the time I was calling. Sunday.. quite a difference.. we have a band! callers from all over the country and VP2. solid rate untill I had to break away to continue work.. wish I could have stuck around for more! 73 and seeya next time Chris N6WM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 38,184 Roughly 60 Q/H on Saturday, 180 Q/H on Sunday. Quite a change. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6YEU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 102,856 Challenging contest. Sometimes funny conditions. OH and MI were a pipeline for me Only two 7(AZ and AK) and one 0 (CO) a few good DX ZS,V5,EA8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6ZFO Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 234,624 Did not work a single station from TX (or OK); but multiple Q's from MS and LA and AR. Same story for MN. For first time ever, the WL rate meter exceeded 300 for brief periods on SSB. But on CW there were many times with rates of 180/min, so more net points per minute. In the closing minutes managed to add BC and WA on CW and several CA's on backscatter with beam pointed toward Pacific. But couldn't raise OR, or ID, and never heard MT or WY. Sporadic E provided CO; W7UT was strong briefly but no joy because he was S&P when heard. Most frustrating moment was hearing FK8CP announce, on SSB, that he was moving to CW . . 50.116! Couldn't raise him on SSB even though he was S-7 Sat night. Only Asian mult worked beside JA was YB on SSB Sunday afternoon just before close. But zero JA's Fri and Sat afternoon/evening and most JA's on Sunday had numbers below 150; last year had 150 Q's on Friday night, mostly JA's; this year only 26. Sat evening, ZL's suddenly surged to S-9 after the VK's disappeared 30 min earlier. Just one Eu contact and maybe two Africans, an EA8 and 9J2BO on Sunday both answered CW CQ's. Managed to just exceed my 2012 CQP score by 3,000 points.. . kind of sad for 10m near the cycle's sunspot peak. 73 Bill n6zfo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 528,724 ARRL 10 has become an annual social event here. We hosted our friends,fellow Arizona Outlaws Linda N7LR and Kevin W9CF again this year. Lots of socializing, good chow and some operating/coaching too. Operated "shifts" with no real score strategy, with the goal of just having fun. Our guests did most of the operating again this year and are really improving. Looking forward to a repeat event next year! 73, Bob K8IA 88, Sandy N7RQ Arizona Outlaws Contest Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 73,580 Started out QRP on Saturday and switched to LP on Sunday because this was just a score for the club points. Nice opening to Spain and Japan gave me WAC finally. Nothing like last year unfortunately. 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7OU Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 75,888 I operated portable from a house on the soggy, east-facing shore of the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington. I've used this site, with its saltwater launch, many times before on various Field Day operations. Mostly in the rain, I set up wire vertical arrays aimed due east and towards SA. I also set up antennas for EU and JA but never got to use them. Rigs: K2, K3, ANC-4 Ants: 4 el Bruce array w/ref, SVDAs, 1/4 wave GP 73 Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7RVD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 85,248 Fun little contest. Saturday was a bust, but Sunday was ok. Only running 90 watts, the rate counter hit 158/hr on CW and 255 on SSB. Other than a few SA stations,not much DX. Mostly worked up and down the east coast. Nice way to spend a rainy day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7TEW Class: M/S LP Total Score = 3,416 Gave Friday night a shot but nothing, then Saturday commitments left a casual Sunday Search and Pounce. Lucky I got what I got with conditions like they were. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7TR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 137,728 No EU. Best DX was 7P8CC that called in at almost +20db over. Also a V51 and a few ZS's kept things interesting. 73 Rich N7TR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7VM/6 Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 3,172 Ran mobile in Southern California. Interesting dealing with varying noise levels and QSB as we moved around. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 67,968 The flux wasn't going to be there and it was a busy weekend for other things so just got on for some fun when the time presented itself. Even then, I was working on stuffing flyers for our annual fleamarket in between the Q's. The times I got on, the rate was good (bumping even to 300 for one minute) but averaging 80+ for the 4 hours. As others have observed, prop from the Pacific NW was mostly a pipeline into the areas east of the Mississippi. For this coast, beyond the locals, I think I managed one Oregon and a couple Californians. The only DX for me was South America. I gotta say, this solar cycle has been a real feast or famine. Guess beggars can't be choosey . cheers dink ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 50,460 Glad to see some propagation in the limited time I had to work the test ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8HM Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 736 Spent all day Saturday operating at KE3X. Made a few QSOs from home on Sunday. Really a struggle with the low SFI. Great to hear so many DC stations on the air, though! Rig - Yaesu FT-450D Antenna - MFJ-1786 Magnetic Loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 936,002 All in all, one of my favorite 10M contests of all, I have not missed too many, Hi! After so many tries, I think I have the strategies worked out pretty well by now; the runs were some of the best ever into the west coast. The black hole in the Midwest was a little bit brighter from my persprective with lots of sporadic E openings especially Friday and Saturday evenings to liven things up considerably. My QSO ttoals: MN - 65, WI - 41, MO -31, IA -26. There were some deep SA stations at the start as well probably linked to here by Es as well and the same occurred with huge signals from 22-2330Z Sunday. Saturday was a dig them out type of morning with first F2 QSO a loud JH3 long path, I did not work anything else LP south despite many CQ's/S&P. EU was very marginal with EI, EA, EA6, F, and I being logged in very small numbers. My first QSO was that N9 guy in MT with a little antenna hardware at 1456, but the band did not open well until around 1645 or so when WA and VE6/7 stations started booming in. A45 was worked LP around 1620. The opening gradually expanded farther south to include CA, NV, and AZ, but AZ propagation was poor at times despite working a total of 75 AZ Q's. Sunday was nearly crazy good, except EU was worse than Saturday except for a late ES to F2 opening to SW EU. Condtions were great to Asia LP which started around 1245 with about 4 quick JA Q's on CW followed by no more. A BD7 was logged at 1302, BV1 called at 1308, XV found at 1405, HS0 called at 1414 all CW, HS0 called on phone at 1506, and 9V1 on CW at 1538. I had a great CW bacscatter run in the 14Z hour (97 Q's) follwed by some nice scatter on phone with needed states calling in. Trying to run the west was slow despite some good signals until about 1715 when I started a very long run of mainly CA, OR, and WA on phone, even the weak ones were easily workable on completely clear to nearly clear frequencies. Conditions were substantially better than Saturday with day 2 Q's of 951, day 1 of 750. When the west coast died out around 2240, I S&P a few minutes to find loud KP4's and deep SA's. I actually had about 15 minute run of SA stations nearly one after the other. Then around 2315 the Es spread to the SE USA where I had made very few Q's, last hour was 85 Q's! Sations as close as NC were worked on Es and SC called in for the last mult of the lower 48 on both modes. I made WAS on CW, missed only AK on phone, but did get two VE8's there. I never heard VO1/2 or VE4, worked only 1 loud VE5 and only one ND (moved for mults on other mode). Best rates were nothing great, both in the 18Z hours with 112 Sat and 105 Sunday. Many thanks for all of the calls. Many inexperienced ops called me during a QSO. It is best to listen for a moment until you are sure a QSO is not in progress before dumping in your call. Also, please do not call when another is being called or a partial call fill which is not yours is requested. Highest Q's by state/DXCC: CA - 268! (much better condtions than last year) WA -123, VA - 89 (mostly locals), AZ -75, OR -67, MD - 59 (locals), PA -42, LU - 42, IL -38, PY - 37. Despite some Saturday struggles, this WAS fun! See you again next year. If I improve my station, I could be dangerous. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8UM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 55,568 Miserable conditions except for stateside scatter and e-skip after dark. Never heard all the morning long path to Asia. The new Elecraft PR-10 outboard preamp really helps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8XX Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 10,292 SO CW, QRP. Ancient Drake TR-5 rig, LDG Z-100 tuner, 130' inverted vee @ 28' at apex, 10' on ends, fed with 400 ohm window line. Power measured with a recently calibrated Heath QRP tuner. Nothing like Paul's K3 and 500 watt amp, but it's fun working even some DX and beating the pileup with a "mighty five watts.) Had other things going this weekend - 5½ hours operating. Missed a BIG opening around 0000Z Sunday (7 p.m. Saturday evening EST) according to the scuttlebutt on the reflectors, but enjoyed a great amateur actors' production of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" at a local theatre. Band was "fair to middlin'" during 1800Z to about 2200Z Saturday, dead when I got home around 0300Z Sunday. Started up about about 1800Z Sunday, fair to middlin' again until about 2150Z when I started hearing a few east coast stations. Worked in order, KH7Y HI (he was within hearing only about 10 minutes, I was lucky), N9NC NH, K1LZ MA, VY2ZM PEI , K1BG MA, W1XX RI. VE9HF NB, W2ID NJ, KD4D MD. (Worked him twice, because he insisted is was MN instead of MI the first time - he was having trouble copying, so I waited until his signal came up and duped him), N2MM NJ, W3BGN PA, N5RZ TX, K1WHS ME, K4LO FL, K4ZGB AL, K4QD FL (and two or three other Florididia stations - they became very ubiquitous), K4FX NC, VE9AA NB, (yes another VE9 just for the fish - halibut), KN5O LA. All within about 30 minutes. Otherwise, many, many W7's and W6's, and VE7's. They occupied probably 50% of the log until 2200Z Sunday. It was fun, fun, fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9GUN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,032 Very Part Time Effort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9NC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 123,200 No EU :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9RV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 291,564 Had set aside the weekend to do this contest, but after Friday night's disaster I didn't have the stomach for it. So I wandered in and out a lot. Very bad conditions until I came back in from plowing snow at about 1800z and found the band wide open to east coast. And I do mean east. W1, New York and North Carolina were the hot spots, along with the always loud Florida. I can't believe it, but I missed Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. Had a grand total of 1 QSO with Indiana. Also missed WY. Almost missed many others. Feast or famine for propagation here. No wild DX worked here. Thanks for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 13,072 Rig: Elecraft K3/KPA500 400W Ant: Cushcraft R5 Vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2U Class: M/S HP Total Score = 60,676 Pro III, AL-80B (800w), ground-mounted Bravo 5 vertical dipole. 73, Fred/NA2U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4CW Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 129,092 Power out: 4W cw, 3W SSB Eqpt: FT1000 MKV Field, C31XR up 10m, Carolina Windom 160 up 8m. Power measured with Daiwa CN620A on 20W scale. Only saving grace from poor propagation was great opening to the northeast during the last 90 minutes of the contest. Biggest surprise was working both Australia and New Zealand despite the poor propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5TR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 82,620 Self inflicted wound: Inop rotator. Lots of time trouble shooting, then moving antenna to point NW, to go with fixed (intentionally) NE. Finally 15 hours. Several Euros Sunday AM, OH6 over the pole mid-day, Several Pacific, and 1 claimed AU5. Sounded weak and tinny, could have been. If valid, I hope he turns in a log. Would be my first VU! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 6,552 Very poor conditions here in SW MN. I had very limited time to operate and much of it was spent trying to find a station to call. - Did have a good little opening to the SE Saturday evening. It was really pretty much a "4 land QSO Party" from here. Some of the strong South Americans just CQ'd in my face. That rarely happens to me on 10 even with 5w. How I long for the "good ol' days of the Ten Meter Contest! 73, Randy, ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND4V Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 48,664 Last hour the band perked up and that was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 185,752 I was plagued with power line noise on Sunday. Did not work WV, DE, SD or LA. Good CW practice for a phone operator. Getting a little more comfortable with running. FT-5000 VL-1000 SteppIR 4el. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF8J Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 63,072 K3,KPA500,TH11DX,N1MM LOGGING. Condx marginal, very rapid QSB, would answer someone and they would be GONE, no chance to even get their exchange..Fun, but frustrating.. 73 & GL, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 15,616 Part time effort. Had fun digging out some EU and even South Africa. Missed the opening to JA and VK on Sunday. Did more running in this contest. Practiced division of attention (for future SO2R ops) by studying a recurrency class unrelated to ham radio and talking with XYL. Biggest challenge: working my neighbors with strong signals! With the gain all the way ip and narrow filters, in between the overload, ringing and iono-bounce, my radio made sounds it had never made before. Thanks to three stations in particular for their patience. Equipment: FT-950 L4B Hex beam up 25 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI7R Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 60,480 K3/AL-811H/10 meter dipole up 8 and a half feet. Mostly S&P (or should I say S&S&S&P), but got a couple of small runs going. Last year I had 420 Qs in exactly the same amount of hours. Best DX was ZS to the east and a bunch of ZLs and JAs to the west. Even though band conditions were not the best, it was still fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2O Class: M/S HP Total Score = 42,900 Thanks to Jeff for the use of the station. Conditions were not so great, but having the high antennas helped work what was there. I had time for one day, so I picked Saturday. The conditions sounded quite suppressed. I kept checking WWV numbers for an expected K index of 3 or 4. It was interesting to see that the K was actually 0 or 1. It seems that the solar flux of 100 and totally quiet geomagnetic resulted in the so-so conditions on Saturday. I had a few bursts of WA, OR and NV. I never knew there were so many in NV. The band did not really open to CA for me. I was spotted and old buddy K3EST called in. He was not especially loud, but the band opened and he went to town with East Coast that I could not hear. I could not get anything going to CA at the same time. 2400 miles from Rochester is in the ocean, off the west coast. Not much out there. I listened from home on Sunday, and the band sounded "normal." So, "quite a difference" between the days. There was a bit more GEO activity on Sunday. This may be the subject for more observation and discussion. Perhaps "best conditions" are actually slightly active GEO conditions. It sure helps backscatter. Best DX was the FH8 just CQing on CW with no callers. He was worked around 1400 along with ZS and D3. Sounded like normal 10 M conditions, but that proved not to be the case. There was a ton of EU to EU spots. I did not hear anyone north of D4. Owner Jeff and I did a bunch of antenna comparisons and resolved an antenna selection issue. So, we're ready for the next time. More flux would be great. 73, Ray ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3RP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 4,104 Almighty did not allows to sit for much time on this test. Instead allow us the time to do more family matters this weekend ;) Rafael / NN3RP Washington, DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 35,225 Tough condx on Saturday; better on Sunday. Impressed to have worked a JA longpath on Saturday. Never would have thought...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 76,284 Band was pretty bad here, no EU, best DX was VK/AH0/KH6, started 1 hour late, band closed early, set alarm, missed alarm, band was still closed, 3 contacts between 8am and 3pm local, then band opened.. same on Sunday, best runs were in the last hour when the northeast opened up, only heard 1 Mexican station and with all the new mults I was expecting more...only 10 and a half hours in the chair... Equipment: FT1000MP MkV, Alpha 78, Mosley TA-63 Paul - NN4F, Ridgeville, SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7ZZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 203,200 Fun as usual, but it was a tough grind at times with the poor conditions. I missed several states. I never had propagation to the great lakes area so missed MN, WI, IL, IN, and MI. I actually heard W0AIH once but he was calling someone else and was soon gone. I heard W9RE CQing and tried to get Mike’s attention for a few minutes but no dice. Also heard K0HA early Sunday, and I know he is in NE which I needed, even through he was calling someone else I did try to nab him but missed and never heard him again. Also missed MS, and my neighbor state WY. Had a few pleasant surprises, like being called by BD4FM in the last hour. A few JA and EU stations in the log this year, but nothing to boast about. The only EU mults were F, EA, SM, and OH. I always wonder how far south I need to move to make my mult count more respectable... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3A Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 263,452 Very good condx on Sunday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ2W Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 23,760 I had a pretty good idea going into the weekend that this year wasn't going to be like last year... Started late due to a prior commitment Friday night local time...landed one QSO - local. Up early Saturday morning hoping for an opening to Europe...didn't happen...set the tone for the rest of the weekend but I didn't give up. 99% search and pounce...mostly searching and, being QRP, the pounce is more like a tap on the shoulder. The 1% spent calling ended up in a few runs of 1 station each. Even up early Sunday morning but nothing from Europe...Africa, Asia, Oceania...few from the Caribbean and South America. Used my Ten-Tec Jupiter cranked down to 5 watts...as always...to my MA3B (MA5B without the WARC element) at 25 feet. Anyone ever try putting another parasitic element on that antenna to up the gain on 10? I wonder...lengthen the boom...add a director... In any case, thanks to everyone that heard my QRP signal and put NQ2W in the log...some of you have amazing receivers and I appreciate the work you have done on your stations. I wish there was a way to award more points to stations for working us QRPers. Looking forward to next year...hopefully, I'll be a little louder. 73, Will NQ2W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 800,900 Orion x 2, Alpha amps x 2, two sets of stacked yagis, one for CW and one for SSB. Two separate computers with lock out for keying just to be sure. WinTEst software. Thanks to Rick and Georgeann of NQ4I for their invitation and hospitality at Rick's FB contest station. Only problem was that the one yagi for CW that would rotate couldn't be pointed between 90 and 180 degrees, so I may have missed a fews mults. Problem will be corrected soon I am sure. Thanks for all QSOs and happy holidays. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR5M Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 342,820 Sunday was much better than Friday/Saturday for DX. But the S5 line noise that cropped up on Sunday to both NE and NW made copying the S1-S2 F-layer signals a real challenge. All-in-all a fun contest, but thank God for the voice keyer! George, NR5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS9I Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 86,432 Minute by minute changing conditions/propagation! Was fun though ... tnx all for q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT4H Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 23,436 Wow, that was a tough one for me, band conditions did improve later on Sunday for me, had a little run just before the end. Rig: Yaesu FT-857D Antenna: Hustler 5BTV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT8Z Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 696 Kenwood TS-590 Windom No time to play radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NW2K Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 69,520 100W, 2el at 35' fixed W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,153,248 This contest weekend started out with electrical issues both at the start and at the end. The electrical issue 30 minutes prior to the start was resolved at 2350z. Mother nature provided her own electrical issue by pushing thunderstorms upon us which shut us down for almost the entire last hour....and hour that had really good rate potential. We had to pull the plug with the rate meter at 255. Four new yagis were added in the last month or so on a second tower. However, about two hours in the antenna set on tower number one suddenly tripped the amp with excessive reflected power. Having put in the new antennas and a much more complex switching system we were able to throw a switch and use only the new antennas on tower two. In the meantime, KU5B and I went on the chase to find out what had gone wrong. Of course it ended up being the last thing we checked....a jumper that ran from the radio to the master relay switch. Aside from burning up a bandpass filter, which I forgot to remove in my new configuration, all else went well. The added antennas worked very well. Friday night started off pretty good. Saturday was painful until the band improved later in the evening. Sunday morning was decent but the band fell off again for several hours and did not rebound until around 2100z. We were really bothered that we had to shut it down due to the weather because based on the 2200z hour we should have added another 100+ qsos in the last hour. The storm cell is still sitting almost on top of me so it has been ongoing since 2300z and has hardly moved. We had some fine food as always and a lot of conversation. I even got to hear KU5B and KJ5T sing "Fish Heads" in the shack. They can get away with stuff like that when the band is slow. We had the same operating crew as last year consisting of KU5B, N5XJ, KJ5T, NW7DX, N5DUW and myself. N5DUW was dealing with some medical issues and was unable to spend the whole weekend but persevered through his pain to log several good hours in the chair on Saturday. It is nice to have extra operators so that we can rotate out and get plenty of rest and relaxation. After so many years of doing this contest I am still amazed by some of the openings that occur. Gotta love 10 meters! Thanks for all the qso's and to those who participated. 73 Bob NX5M +KU5B, N5XJ, KJ5T, NW7DX, N5DUW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX6T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 668,670 Best ARRL 10 Meter Contest results in a long time. Some nice DX from Africa but Little to no EU and only picked up some JAs late Sunday afternoon and guess many JAs had gone to work on Monday. Very good morning runs on SSB and CW with high rates well over 200 QPH. Very frustrating to watch east coast guys all working each other after Sundown and hardly anything other than locals and Texas for SoCal hams to work. Could not work much for in the closer western states and WA, BC and AB as I guess we never had the right skip distance. K3, ACOM 2000A, 2 3 Element SteppIRs, 1 at 40 ft, other at 70 ft and enjoyed using stack match and putting SteppIRs into Bi_Directional mode allowing us to radiate in 4 directions then hone in on any weak signals calling. 73, Dennis N6KI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 8,320 It was fun to get to play radio again for a couple hours! 73 and Merry Christmas/HNY! Jeff NX9T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY3A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 454,272 Not the quantity like last year but still some terrific LP openings. LP both mornings to Asia, JA, 9V, XV, HS and others. A45 LP Saturday afternoon. Specific spotlight propagation within the States more narrow than I've heard. There are sure a lot of hams in TN! Thanks for the q's. 73; Steve K3-Alpha 91B "stack" on AB577 6L 60ft 6L 35ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG6N Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 35,242 As already many people mentioned I for one couldn't believe that we are supposed to be almost at the solar max. I was on and off because of no real propagation. Most of the QSOs were the result of a struggle. Some of the stations were readable just a few seconds at a time. The highlight of the contest were the JAs and KH7Y on the long path. On Sunday evening we had some sort of an opening into the states with stations coming up and going down in a matter of seconds good enough to S&P some 15 NA stations into the log. Maybe next year with better conditions. This time it was like working on VHF. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH1F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 64,314 The best condx of the year! Unfortunately not on 10 meters but on low bands (&mediumwaves). Only NA worked was VY2ZM. Highlites were JAs both days long path (coming in for hours with S9 signals), FO8WBB on Saturday and KH7Y on Sunday - both long path. With condx like these we didn't take this one too seriously - lots of time to drink beer and to monitor the mediumwave band condx to USA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM2VL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 191,180 Very bad condx .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT4A Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 50,160 I decided this year to run low power to see how well the stack of the KT36XA 's was performing. Due to the poor conditions i could not permitt me to judge them correctly ! But cw is always FUN ! Cuagn soon ! Theo OT4A (On4aek) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA6K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 195,260 Nice contest, lousy condx! We put a lot of work in antenna building: a 4/4/4/4, a 5/5, a 7 ele beam, a quad loop, 2 verticals, and a dipole. All for naught :( Hope condx will be better next year, so the work will pay off then. Hope to work you in the ARRL 10 meter contest 2013! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S LP Total Score = 40,612 Best DX was KH7Y via Long Path... Highest hourly rate was 22... Lowest number of QSO's ever... Total number of NA stations 8 (AA4CF, K0EJ, K1TO, K4TD, VY2TT, VY2ZM, W4NZ, W4SVO). Audio clippings available upon request. See you in Stew Perry! 73 -- Aurelio, PC5A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4NX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 254,016 It was my first time to be QRV in this contest. Conditions could have been much better, specially to Europe. I was the only one to be active from the PJ4-DXCC so I hope my multiplier was welcome in some of the logs :-) 73's de Peter, PJ4NX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP1CZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 277,184 What happens with the Sun in this weekend? The propagation didn't cooperate with us in this Contest. Anyway, I could have fun. Thank you all folks for the QSO. Hope to hear from you soon in another one. Best 73 from PP1CZ - Leo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP5EJ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,780 Despite not propagation during Friday and Saturday, on Sunday I heard good stations NA. I could not dedicate myself as I would, but I did not fail to score some points. thankS 73 de PP5EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,384,240 TNX to Atilano PP5EG for the opportunity to activate PS2T. This time we had a invited two new young operators, Matheus PY2MTS & XYL and Renato PY2TIM to know the PS2T contest station. We sure had excitement in the pileups and a lot of laugh during the rest periods. Thus, the two most important requirements of a good contest event were met: Good action and good social life. Life is too short for contests without fun and friendship ! 73, Ville PY2ZEA Danilo PU2RSD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT5T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,845,428 Hi folks We continue our plan to introduce our hobby and mainly contest to the young generation and at this time we had PU5DCB Vitor managing the station. In order to complete the team we got IV3NVN Simone, PY1KN Marcelo, PP5MCB Mauro, PP5RZ Rogerio and myself PP5EG. 90% of the contacts has been made by PU5DCB and IV3NVN. The others served coffe and sandwiches. Has been a pleasure to see the Vitor/s evolution Best 73 Oms PP5EG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PU5FJR Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 480,640 My first contest alone from my father station PP5JR (ZX5J) Good conditions but it is very dificult to control the pile up too many stations át the same time Thank you very much for qso,s Eduardo PU5FJR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1CG Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 144 This was my first contest (ever).. Terrible propagation on the last day. I was runnig with a vertical 5/8 antenna for 11 meters coupled with my FLEX3000 radio. To much working for me.. But I liked (VERRY MUCH) 73 to all. PY1CG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1PL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 105,930 Bad Propagation! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1ZV Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 56,304 bad conditions!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NDX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,248,620 Rig: Yaesu FT-2000 Amp: Alpha 91b - 1KW Ant: 5 el. Short Yagi up 14 meters Cluster: Very poor connection with internet, more than 1 day without DX cluster. Nice competition with big guns from Brazil: PT5T, PS2T, PX2B, most part of then are of Araucaria DX Group. Conditions this year were poor compared with last year. Propagation on Sunday was absolute terrible, last 5 hours we made only 170 QSOs, yeah, is not joke, while stations located south was working USA easily and continously. Thanks all for the QSOs. See you next year. PY2EYE - Nilson PY2KC - Rod PY2NDX - Rafael PY2YU - Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 42,720 QRP is always a challenge, specially under bad conditions... See you next year... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2WC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 421,592 TESTING MY NEW ANTENA STEPP IR DB18E YAESU FT 1000MP MARK V FIELD 73 TO ALL AND TNX FER QSOS CU IN NEXT CONTEST 73 PY2WC - WAL ALL QSOS IN LoTW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2ZXU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 143,220 Was at the station to do fixes after heavy windstorm, got some spare time to try the contest. No Amp available so I hooked up my K3 barefoot to the 2 x 5el stack, great 4hours pile-up, thanks all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU9AZ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 22,596 Equipment/antennas : Yaesu FT-950/Tribander RR-33 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57UN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 43,548 Bad condx and work only on saturday. 73 and see you Renato s57un ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6DER Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 120 no conds to northern europe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP3S Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 6,820 Hello Propagation conditions that prevailed not found a solution :-)) Regards Jery SP3S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T6LG Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 19,728 Extremely strange conditions... I do not know what to say...? I am not follower of VHF contests, but this contest was like on VHF. Only 17 contacts during the second day, I can not believe!!! Despite of conditions it was funny! Got many call-signs, but lost many QSOs due to a fading and unable to get the reports. CU in ARRL DX contest! Equipment: FT-897 100W SPIDERBEAM (manually rotated:)) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T6MO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,432 Vegas odds has South America winning this year, hah! What a difference a year makes! I've made more QSOs per effort in a VHF contest than, yikes! This was just like VHF with signals popping up then disappearing a little while later. Band didn't open until 10am local on day one then never really opened on day two until about 45 minutes before sunset. Stations to the East not worked: XV1X, JT1, and AH0BT Merry Christmas....bring us better propagation in 2013. 73, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5/N2BA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,184,612 My wife is Eve, N2GSG. Her dad turned 90 on Dec 7, the day before I headed to Keko's place to work this contest. I thought I had plenty of time to submit my logs after Christmas. Eve's dad went in the hospital with pneumonia on Dec 24. They pumped 2 liters of fluid out of his lungs and managed to get that stabilized but he continued to deteriorate (he has chronic leukemia). Ernst asked for there not to be life extending measures taken. He'd just had his 90th birthday the day before I came down there. His condition deteriorated and he was discharged into home hospice last Thursday. He died Monday morning and today we had the funeral. I got home and finally pulled out my laptop to submit my logs and discovered that the deadline was 00:00 UTC Jan 9, not 23:59 UTC Jan 9. (In other words, 00:00 is before Jan 9 even has a chance to start). I've never been close to the deadline so I never thought about these things. So I have been flagged as missing the deadline. I've asked if they can give me some mercy, but in any event, when I told Eve, she said, "Well, I guess we'll just have to go back again." I wish I had better news. 73, and thanks for all the QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2B Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 17,952 very poor condition compared to last year ! only 5% NA, only one strong station with K4XS . ic756, 6 ele mono , amp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 604,128 Around 330 N/A stations , 100 UA , 53 PY , 25 LU ... 10 JA. Never heard a single "XE" as VE "5" "6" "7" . Nice to work KH7Y in "lp" Sun mning he was loud for hours. As lots of people said condx weren't as good as last year , but we had some "es" link to augment numbers of qsos. Some big score are coming from S/A , E/W Coast of US. Thanks all for qsos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UX4U Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 42,000 ea - 7 PY - 10 UA9 - 8 ZL - 7 DL - 1 G -1 F - 2 JA - 2 VE - 1 K - 0 CARIBEAN - 0 hi hi CUAGN 2013 !!! 73 !!! OLEG UX4U / US7UX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V26DR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 401,940 Saturday was not very good with SFI at around 99; Sunday quite a bit better with SFI at 104 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3KAI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 13,728 CallSign Used : VA3KAI Operator(s) : VA3KAI Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 10M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : ON Gridsquare : FN14US Name : Al Niittymaa ARRL Section : ONE Club/Team : Contest Club Ontario Software : N1MM Logger V12.11.2 Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul 28 CW 106 416 33 Total Both 106 416 33 Score : 13,728 Rig : Knwd TS2000 @ 100W Antennas : 132' OCF inverted dipole (E-W) up 40', ends 25' 44' sloping dipole (N) with remote tuner. Soapbox : Part-time effort on Sunday only. DX to south and NA west coast only. 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 : 2012-12-10 Signature : Al Niittymaa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 1,536 K2, 5w, vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7BEC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 258,912 2012 definitely did not have the WOW! factor of 2011. Very strange conditions. Propogation was, well, weird. Provided some interesting opportunities along with some frustration. Patience from CQers and S&Pers was required this time, as well as good ears. :) Really, really tough weekend. Somewhat disappointing. But also smile-inducing. Ahh... the magic of radio. Given that only 13 hours were productive, the Q count isn't too bad. Always wish for more Qs in the log but very happy to have the Qs that we do have. Thanks to everyone who heard us CQing and dropped by and/or picked VA7BEC out of less-than-ideal conditions. All the best for the various festivities that December brings. CU AGN SOON. Rebecca VA7BEC & Koji VA7KO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7DZ Class: M/S LP Total Score = 170,558 Europe completely absent, almost no Africans, very few JAs - but lots of South Americans, and we had an S9+ pipeline into W1 and W8 for long periods. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7IR Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 10,044 BAND WAS SURE CRAPPY FROM THE NORTH-WEST. SEEMS LIKE THE FURTHER NORTH YOU WERE THE LESS THE BAND WAS OPEN. JUST PLAYED A LITTLE TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN. SEE YOU NEXT IN THE R A C CONTEST KEN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 80,520 Conditions didn't warrant the 14 hours I spent last year, so I put in just under 7 hours this year -- and they were mostly slow hours. The only European action was a two-minute window on Sunday afternoon when I tried JA on a whim, and two SMs and one OH station came pounding in on a northwest skew (auroral flutter, but still strong). Then there were none. Only six JAs, all in a stream just after 2230z Sunday. Kept calling CQ in their direction, waiting for the decent run I had last year, but six was all there were. Worked 9 XE mults, up from six last year. Was shut out of W6, almost all of W0-land (thanks MO), and only Alaska worked in the 7s. Couldn't even find Hawaii, let alone any ZL/VK activity, though I'm sure they were all there. Very disappointed by the band this weekend, but frankly I didn't really hold out much hope given flux hovering around 100. I guess solarmax came and went, and we didn't even notice it. There's always next cycle. I better start eating right. -- Bud VA7ST ps. See you all again in RAC Winter and the Stew at the end of the month! Happy holidays to all. Qs Mult Score 2012 366 55 80,520 HP 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: VE1RGB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 121,660 Hard slogging intersperced with moments of great excitement. Mostly the former. K3 + P3 + wires and a vertical Gary VE1RGB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1ZA Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 19,116 Not the solar conditions for QRP. Nice Es opening Saturday night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3AD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 161,604 TOUGH SLEDDING. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3HMK Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 228 It was a short contest for me , Thanks to a Hockey game on Saturday Night W/ my Brother in law which i missed almost of my time, However I had a good time i almost got VA7BEC in BC But the reflector prevented me from making a QSO This is also My Host Country has Being Shut Out this time I Tried VE QSO'S But The Needle is on the same level as the Power Output, Next stop is The RAC Winter Contest This will be helpful to me Happy Holiday's to all, On the Lighter side I got a 100 Point Certificate on the 40 mb #2816 Additional details is www.3905ccn.net to get involved thanks & 73's Mark Alexander Humenyk VE3HMK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 462,280 Only half the QSO's and one third the score of last year. Those sun-spots just were not cooperating. On the other hand great signals from Asia on the long path. A few Mediteraneans and a lonely EI2 representing northern Europe. South America there all the time. Missed a few domestic mult's: MB,ND,NM,LB,and YT. Best DX:FH8,BD7,9V1,VK7,ZP. A wild combination of scatter, E and F and a load of QSB. Thanks for all those W's that sustained my few good runs and thanks to all the CCO members I worked. See you all in the RAC Winter Contest! 73 Bob VE3KZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MMQ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 337,608 CONTEST WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE TO WORSER HI HI IC 7600 ALPHA 99 NIMM 7EL M2 @ 75FT 4EL STEPPIR @ 70 FT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 45,144 Just put up a wire delta loop at 10m on a tree. FT1000MP MKV + 750W Bad...bad CONDX...no EU herad here at all...:-( See you on 160m... 73 Lali, VE3NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 5,508 Just a few contacts made with the beam stuck straight west. Made the local QSOs with the 160m loop. Was building the new Radio Shack...I am getting moved from the basement (besided the washing machine and cat litter box) upstairs to the spare bedroom. Hooorraaay. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4VT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 36,192 Saturday I thought this was the LU/PY QSO party. Just a handful of deep South American DX. There were some very strong signals from XE and the zone 8 Caribbean stations as well as Alaska. The skip zone was just too long for any domestic propagation. The one exception being VO1TA booming from out on the rock. Being in the center of the continent really sucked in this one. Late Saturday evening found a couple stations in TN via sporadic E but that was all that could be found. Sunday morning there were some good signals from Africa and some weak sporadic e openings to close in states. Worked, IL, WI, IA, SD and MT, all neighbors practically. Normally I can count on strong signals from CA, FL and STX, but not this weekend. No problem working AK and NWT off the back of the beam however. My guess from the folks on either coast will have probably run up some decent numbers. See everyone in a couple weeks for the RAC winter contest! Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5KS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 82,604 Had to work hard to get the QSO's since the band was up and down. I only had one good run to the maritimes/NE US, got the qso rate up to 159 qso/hr but it did not last very long. The propagation was mostly over the US but did get some good sporadic E during the last few hours and picked up AB, SK, ID, MT, and WA. Heard only one W6 but he could not hear me. Sigs from Alaska and PEI were consistantly 20db over 9, unfortunately the rest were down at the S5-7 level. Thanks to all for making it a good contest in spite of the poor propagation. Looking forward to seeing you for the RAC contest later this month. 73, John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6BMX Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 145,360 Conditions not all that great, but should be happy the band was open at all this far north. Saturday amounted only about 80 qso's. Band was better on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7JH Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 399,600 A week before the contest Duane, VE7UF invited me to use his station. Who could say no to an ICOM756PROIII and an Alpha 76 amp with a solid kW and the choice of nine 10m antennas? I used two independent arryas of 3/3/3 of TH6's, one on a 170' the other on the 150' tower. Being able to switch directions instantly turned out to be a great asset when alternating between New England and South America. The contest started at 4PM local time Friday here on Vancouver Island. Right around 3PM JM7OLW faded out and that was it for DX that evening. I struggled for the first 3 hours and made 24 QSOs. Saturday the band opened just after sunrise at 15Z first to South America then also to the East Coast. Had some good W/VE runs, best hour was 18Z with 165 QSOs. Then, like clockwork at 00Z the band closed. I only worked 1 JA on Saturday and I'm pretty sure I screwed up the serial number (sorry JE1CKA). Sunday the band woke up again around 15Z but this time it stayed open to the East Coast, Central and South America almost till the end. The faithful JA opening finally arrived at around 22:30 with quite a few VK/ZL/Pacific sprinkled in. Mults: US: 45 (missed ND, DE, SD, AR, WY and AK) VE: 9 (missed LB, MB, NU, NWT and YT) XE: 10 (AGS, BCS, DFE, EMX, GTO, HGO, JAL, NLE, TAM and ZAC) Plus 26 DXCC. This was first 10m contest from a serious station and boy what a difference! Thanks to all who called, and to VE7UF for the superb hospitality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7WO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 17,808 Condx not the greatest from VE7. Limited time to operate. Thanks for the weak stations for hanging in there as signals were up and down here in BC. All the best. CU in RAC Winter! 73 Brian VE7WO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7XF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 288,272 Man, I thought the CQ WW CW was sparse! I had an alarm/operator malfunction on Saturday morning, missed my 7:30 alarm, and didn't wake up until 9:30. By the time I hit the band, it was wide open to the east coast, and I dove right in. Who knows what great mults I missed? I had some great runs, but not much from anything outside NA, and zippo from EU - the closest I got was EA8 (both days)! Saturday provided no XE, JA or other AS, but a few VK/ZL, and the band lost its enthusiasm for even NA after noon. Sunday was better - the alarm clock worked, and I filled in a few NA/SA mults. Again, nothing from AS except a few JA, and the VK/ZLs returned. I worked everything I heard, except for the AH0 with 15 minutes to go :-( QSOs: K:667, VE:63, JA:18, LU:16, PY:14, XE:11, ZL:11, VK:9, CX:5, CE:4, etc.. Overall country mults: AF:3, AS:1, EU:0, NA:9, OC:2, SA:10 I'll be in PY1 (with no radio) for the RAC 'test, so Victor (VA2WA) can sleep in and still take home first prize :-) K3+P3, AL-1200, 3el Steppir, N1MM Ralph, VE7XF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9AA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 268,704 I did have a multi-page spiel all typed up, but, like this contest, it was very long and mostly boring interspersed with a few interesting bits. If it weren't for the 2 hour Es session into W3/4/8 (and VK7!) or the JA via the LP,(or the faithful callers in the slow hours) this contest would've been a total writeoff. More like a 6m contest than one on 10m. I can sum the propagation itself up in one word: "...MEH..." Missed ND, SD, AR, AK, LB, MB, NU, NWT, QC, YT...only worked 8 XE districts. 73 Mike VE9AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9ML Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 20,384 Had to work hard to get all the contacts.Checked out a 10 and 15 meter beam and was not impressed with the performance on 10 meters.Maybe the conditions had to do with the performance.Hope that was the case. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4WIL Class: M/S LP Total Score = 615,762 Well it seems that a lot of operators didn't join in the fun over the weekend due to poor propagation forecasts. Besides that, the band was very poor indeed, the lack of operators on air was noticeable. SSB was very poor, but good 5 and 9 signals from most CW stations made CW easy for most of the weekend being affected by QSB at times. There was little propagation into USA at the kickoff. Sunday was worse than Saturday's performance and VK4WIL's target was falling way below last years effort. Sunday night saw 20+ signals from Europe long path and still 5/7 short path. We had beams pointing both directions. South America was worked LP till about 9pm local. Due to poor SSB, we ended up sitting on CW most of the weekend, and this morning (Monday) was so bad for VX contacts into the States, we finished the last 3 hours using CW only. Thanks to all for the contacts. Alan VK4SN. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1TA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 160,000 Poor conditions into EU, Only a hand full of contacts. Most contacts were made with Mid West and West Coast of NA, Managed to work all States and Provinces except for the Yukon. Not sure if there was anyone else on from Nf, Was asked to qsy many times to ssb, I did not have a mic hooked up to the rig. Sorry Thanks Again Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 31,626 Some points for MCC.VY2 well covered by VY2ZM and VY2TT.MERRY XMAS de VY2LI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 432,820 Best DX was LP to China, Taiwan, Japan Sunday morning. It sounded like the band was going to open nicely to EU both AMs, but it never happened. The only constant the whole weekend was QSB. Conditions were so disappointing, I just couldn't keep my butt in the chair. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2ZM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 621,540 TOUGH condx but still alot of fun. Season's Greetings to all. 73 JEFF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: M/S HP Total Score = 777,168 NE9U had tickets to take his family to snowy Lambeau Field to watch the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, so a FT single Op effort was out the window this year for him. KB9S joined in for a tag team M/S operation. SO1R with no spotting station, kind of a low key but FUN effort this year by the two of us. NE9U took day one and KB9S had day two. The 10 meter contest is always my favorite. Even with bad conditions, you never know what to expect! The contest started out with the best hour of all....142...mostly to SE USA. KB9S also had a good hour 1 of day two with a 135, again mainly to SE and Eastern USA. A couple DX hi-lites for NE9U was being called LP Saturday morning by an A45 and two Ja's. KB9S reported s9 snow static on all the antennas for a few hours late Sunday which put a dent in those hours. A funny "you gotta know Paul" episode happened Saturday morning. Our two money antennas in this contest are the 4x4x4x4 stack and the 5 element yagi at 200 feet. The Yagi sits atop the 40 meter stack and is offset -90 degrees and is usually controlled by the 40 meter control box at the 40 meter position. Well, Paul put in to use a spare control box so we would have a control box at the 10 meter position. However, we apparently had a problem where the control box indicated the rotor stopped, but it kept spinning both the 40 and 10 meter yagi's until the coax ripped away from antennas. Not good. We talked about it and really only needed the 40 meter Yagi back in service by ARRL DX CW in February, and we could live without the 200 foot 10 meter Yagi until then too. ( we have the 4x4x4x4 stack, and Rhombics in all directions). So that was settled. Or so I thought. Wisconsin weather in December isn't balmy...and a snow storm was on the way. About 11:00 AM Saturday morning, Paul comes bounding into the the Chalet. "They are both fixed!!!" Paul had spent his morning at 200 feet with a torch fixing everything!!! And that 200 footer sure came in handy the rest of the way. Here is our continent report: USA 988 VE 30 NA 61 SA 110 Europe 23 Africa 19 Asia 1 Japan 3 Oceana 24 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Scott NE9U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 125,668 A nice US/VE opening on Saturday evening made for a very enjoyable few hours. Didn't have much time to play Sunday, but picked up a number of close in states and some southern and southeastern DX. Thanks for the Qs, and happy holidays to all! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 93,728 Not the best conditions but still an interesting contest from my perspective. Saturday morning, mostly SA and Carribean along with some east coast W1/VE1, pleased to wk one NY and VA; logged some W6s, N9RV MT, N7TR NV and AZ to the west. Did QSO with CE1/K7CA, ZS1EL, D4C, ZL and VK in midday for long distance DX. Late afternoon, wkd many locals when it got quiet. I was almost ready to turn off the radio at dinner time and go watch TV when KE9I popped in cqing S9. Several other 9s in WI soon appeared which was the beginning of a 2 1/2 hour Es opening to the east; logged many states and VE1, VO1, and VE3. Got Fred, KH7Y and ZL1BYH towards the end of the opening. - On Sunday, it started out with the SA and Carribean stations building up with S9 sigs and shortly afterwards we had a decent Es opening to the east coast especially to W1 with 8,9, and a few 4s peaking up later; midday had some limited openings to W6 and other western states. Later, I was working some of the the weak signals in nearby states to the east when a loud station started to interfere; I moved down to check it out and it was MM0AMW pounding in s9! Wkd him quickly, and then GM3W thinking I was lucky. About half hour later started to hear other EU CQing, and was able to log multiple stations in F, I, ON, EA; an hour later TK; heard V51CYJ peak about 10 over 9 for half an hour but could not break the E.C. pileup. Later in midday, I logged EA8CN who appeared out of thin air and soon disappeared. Also, in the early afternoon also logged 3 KL7s, 4 VKs, 3 ZLs, and somehow worked NWT/VE8 with S9 sig - he said it was 35 degrees below zero Celcius! Missed out on working VE5UF SK - just couldn't hear me calling. At times, this contest seemed like a part time DX contest along with a mix of a June VHF contest with its sometimes loud Es opening to the east, and dirt water weak signals to nearby states in the east and west. Sometimes had to turn the yagi all around to peak signals on backscatter; wkd many of these signals barely moving the meter off the back of the beam. Took quite awhile to work N0NI in IA but later heard him peaking S5; was pleased to QSO K0HA NE and Bruce K0BJ KS for mults; heard KD0S SD but nil on QSO. Overall, I enjoyed the contest which gave me the opportunity to put my HF dx contesting and VHF contesting experiences to work! Missed the Friday evening opening of the test due to a Christmas party at my mother's assisted living center, and again the last three hours Sunday due to a Christmas service at church. 73 Ken, W0ETT Parker, CO Rig: IC756pro3 to HF yagis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PAN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 26,160 Even with rollercoaster band condx, this was really fun!! It was interesting to work New England, then band changed to Florida, then changed to South America then died Saturday. Sunday was better with the improved SFI. A first for me, almost had more CW Q's than Phone. Short of last year's score but still a great time with the vertical. Ended the contest with Alaska, Hawaii, and Japan - who would have guessed? Not at last year's level but still fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AJT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 30,000 K3 + ACOM 1000 + 43' Vertical Strange conditions throughout. Worked A4, K6, ZS, and CX all in less than 10 minutes. Glad to have a least gotten WAC. Thanks to all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1CEK Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 864 Able to get on for a few hours. Saturday not much going on. Sunday Band opened up in the afternoon. Rig: FT897, Antenna: 160m Inv. L with SG230 tuner at base. Logged with RUMped on IMac. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1DYJ Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 13,632 TS-2000, 5el HB Yagi at 10M. Spent random times over the whole weekend, mostly S&P. No real propagation to speak of. Best catch: Mariana Is. for a new country. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1END Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 38,940 Ten meters used to be my favorite band, Grrrrr. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TJL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 51,552 I started the contest on Friday night with little if any voice, but managed to re-record the voice recordings and such. Then I ran into N1MM on the bands who told me just how horrible I sounded! Thanks Tom. :-) I had planned on doing a part time effort due to family commitments and that's what I did. Friday and Saturday the bands were quite horrible. Not much into Europe, limited South America and Caribbean. Asia was a dream... An unfulfilled dream! At least when I was on! But Sunday was much better, (although according to Murphy it was also much busier with family things (I had promised my wife we would get the tree, do several other errands, etc.). But it was good while I was on and actually got a couple of small runs going. So overall, it's still a fun contest and I actually managed to get some sleep! My scorewas better than I imagined it would be and Sunday my voice was better and I actually could respond to calls without hitting a button! SO overall another fun year on 10 Meters 73, Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 66,080 Just plucking mults each time passing by the shack. Ran 112/hour the last hours it was fun. Lots of fun, probably not for the guys who put in a serious effort. Put up a 160m inverted L Sunday which took some time- Until it was too dark out I went in and had the good run on 10m. Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul 28 CW 280 1120 59 Total Both 280 1120 59 Score: 66,080 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1WBB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 111,548 The long distance conditions were not ideal... it was more like 2 yrs ago in 2010 -- with very similar solar flux levels (just below 100) and sunspot numbers below 40 -- than last year's **great** DX blockbuster. As many as 57 fewer DX (CW) mults this year compared to last year due to almost total lack of propagation to Europe. Mult breakdown: 42 USA, 7 VE, 7 Mex, + 23 DX = 79 total 23 DX mults by continent: 5 Eu, 5 NA, 9 SA, 2 AFr, 1 AS, 1 OC Missed states: NJ, DE, KY, AR, MS, WY, ND & SD Had 203 Qs/61 mults (just 13 DX mults) and about 50k pts thru Sat eve. Slow going Sunday with fewer good CQ rates and much S&P for new mults and new stns, but stayed at it to hit the 100k pt mark. Happy to have the XE mults who *were* active on CW...hope for more activity in future years as many XE mult slots go unfilled. Highlight QSO was with A45XR via Long Path on Sunday AM @ 1515Z...well past sunset in Oman. Also, cool to be called by KL7RA after hearing just 'AK' in a nearby exchange, then quickly moving up band to call CQ hoping he'd call in...and he did for new mult! Excellent Es openings all 3 evenings out to ~ 1200 miles (Nebr. and OK were furthest worked) lasting more than 2 hrs each with interesting and different spotlight propagation each day... ie. - only 1 FL in log until late Sunday when the band just opened up to there with lots in the log; plenty of AL, TN & MO each eve but no nearby MS or AR; many WI, IL and IA but no MN until late Sat eve when a bunch were suddenly worked in a string; and Fri eve had short Es to VA, WV and OH and later out to TN, GA and AL but skipped over the Carolinas! Hampered significantly by recent loss of Rx audio/Tx capability in bottom 20-30+ kHz (varies) of band due to misalignment problem in rig PLL system. I'm sure I lost some Q's and mults because of *that* big problem. Doublet antenna suffered high SWR during weekend rainy periods and was used only Sunday. Rig/ant: ca. 1992 Icom IC-737 (due for repair!) @ 100w; 5-band Hexbeam with 10m elements at 33' above ground; 88' wire doublet @ ~ 45' with gain lobes to multiple areas of S/A, S. Afr. and WNW (primarily used for quick-change for DX mults); N1MM Logger. Many thanks for the contacts on 10m! The rapid propagation changes on this band always makes this an interesting and fun event. 73, Bill W1WBB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2EG Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 153,928 Conditions were disappointing compared to last year. Only a small handful of EUs, couple of ZLs and KH6s, only one AS and one AF. Seemed like a series of 'pipelines' for much of the test -- would work a bunch of VE7's (one after another), then a bunch of WA's, then a bunch of AZ's, etc. Heard a couple of meteor pings, but none long enough to make a QSO. Highlights for me: A45XR @ ~1830z Sunday, and ZS6WN off the back @ ~1920z. Fun, but QSO rate was too slow to really hold my interest well. Thanks all for the Q's. 73, Rich, W2EG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2GB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,576 Very short operating time for this contest. On top of that had difficulty with N1MM kicking me from 10 meter CW to 40 SSB for some strange reason. oh well points is points.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2LC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 41,220 Some really loud short skip Sunday afternoon. 73 Scott W2LC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2UP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 137,088 Several weeks ago, Chuck, W0DLE, asked me if I'd like to operate his station remotely, using a TS480 and remoterig. I had operated there (onsite) last year for SS and it's an excellent station. I had a 3 el Steppir at 55 ft and a 5 el monobander at 35 ft for 10m. They were switched via web browser. We kept the Steppir bidirectional, for JA and SA, and the monobander pointed E/NE. It's about 80 miles from my QTH in a remote location in the Rockies at 9500 ft ASL. There are no public utilities in the area, so the station ois powered primarily by wind and solar, with a generator for backup. Another local, WB0GAZ, has done some casual remote operating there and did the set up in the remoterig modem. As it turned out, we did have some glitches over the weekend - more below. On to the contest... I looked up the record for SOLP/CW for Colorado. It was set in 1991 with about 1100 QSOs. I thought breaking it would be easy, since last year, I operated from my condo with a balcony dipole and racked up 800+ QSOs. Wow, what a difference a year makes! Condx were just terrible, especially the first 24 hours. There were scattered, focal, E-skip openings on and off. Seems the path from Colorado to Alabama was open the most often, followed by W1/VE1. On Sunday, I was very surprised to work 2 GMs at about their sunset, followed by another 10-15 Europeans. I had a small JA run shortly after JA sunrise, a couple of hours before the end of the contest. Best ears award goes to K7BG for pulling me out of the noise for the MT mult. I called K6LL for a while, without success, but later caught a few others in AZ. Never heard WA, MN, NM (N2IC?) or VE7! And missed a few others like ND and DE. Worked my HST teammate, KE3X, in the final hour for the DC mult. Called AH0BT for the last 15 minutes of the contest without success. Regarding the remote operation, we had a few glitches. First, the TS480 lost xmit power a few times - possibly an intermittent or cold solder joint, as it worked fine once the radio was warm. Second, the CW transmission was flaky at times, dropping dits and sending long dahs. We suspect the problem is dropped packets on the Comcast network, as I talked with another station who has similar problems with his remote operation (using Comcast on one end). Dave, WB0GAZ, never experienced this and he uses DSL with a different ISP than me. Lastly, despite the nearest power line being 7 miles away, there were some noise issues related to a power inverter and possibly some lighting as well. Thanks for the Qs and putting up with the erratic CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3EP Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 206,340 All SSB: Upside: Contest opened and closed with widespread Es; Es or transcontinental F2 evident for most of the contest! Activity from Mexico best ever: worked 13 Mexican states. Downside: Only a few Europeans heard on SSB; Caribbean activity seemed low--many normally easy-to-work multipliers not heard. Surprises: Getting called by F, CT, and EA after 1730 UTC while running W6 and W7 stations. Hearing BD7IS long path Sunday morning, but he did not hear me and did not seem to be making any QSOs while I heard/called him. Looked for my friend VR2XMT, usually reliable when long path is in, but could not find him and could not spend the time hunting. A good deal of fun and expect some big QSO totals but suppressed multipliers. Emil W3EP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 77,308 Coax or connector to the beam antenna failed prior to the start of the contest. Used the 35' high backup OCF dipole for the entire contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3SFG Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,032 Only checked in briefly, but had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TZ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 2,850 Band was almost as bad as the bottom 5 or 6 years ago. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4DD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 32,752 Part time effort testing out some new hardware Orion 1, Henry 2k Classic Amplifier, A-4 Tribander @ 75 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: M/S LP Total Score = 37,122 TS-440S es G5RV N1MM logger Tnx for the Qs, especially the 1 Florida from K1TO 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4GKF Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 87,078 Spotty condx on Saturday but Sunday was great. Major openings to South/Central American and the Caribbean as well as to the US Northwest and CA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4GV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 106,080 Great time but very unusual condx. Propagation changed in dynamic fashion. First somewhat serious effort in this contest. Need to wake up earlier to enjoy the day's beginning propagation. Bad S6 line noise through most of my beams arc. Very quiet between 155 deg and 230 deg. Usually opted for the quiet and suffered through loss of rx and tx gain. See you next year. 73 es gl/DX de Walt - W4GV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4IX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 238,728 Wow, that was crazy...had a 101 the first hour and then downhill from there. The low SF# did not favor the low power guys. It was great when the eskip was in, but after that, it was nuts. Heard so much more than I could work. Just could not break through and work the Asian stuff that came in Long Path...boy was XV1X loud or what. Heard BD7LMD,BU2AQ,BA7IO and XV1X all at the same time. Took a lot of patience to squeak out the DX mults. Many of them just cq'd in my face for hours, but eventually I would get one. Lots of mults left on the table. Sometimes running was useless. Missed WY,AR,MS,NM, & ND in the US and VE4,VE8,VY1 & VY0 in Canada. Thanks for the great contest season. Headed to work for the rest of the year. Hope to CU all next year with QRO... Icom IC764 Barefoot to a TH7 @ 40 feet and 5 ele 105BAS @ 46 feet. WINTEST. 73's John / W4IX 73 John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4LT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 120,650 Rig : Elecraft K-Line (K3/KRX3/P3/KPA500) Antennas : Cuschraft A3S @ 40ft Soapbox : Maiden voyage for brand new KPA500. Amp was born on Tuesday and came alive on Thurday. Installed on Friday right before the contest. Worked wonderfully even with a minor glitch that Elecraft sent software to me for a fix. Bravely installed new software from the email and went on the air for the Contest at 9pm. Flawless from then on! The amp, that is... Band had issues this weekend. The conditions can only be described as dismal, and I had lots of family things to deal with this weekend, plus pack for a trip out of town on Monday, so spent all the time I could on this effort. Crazy band! Point north west and get the CA QSO Party. Point south and get the Argentina QSO party. Nobody from the north east coast was copyable. QSB and signals were weird. Stations were HUGE one minute, then faded to nothing the next. Felt like a 6 meter contest most of the time! While trolling for SA signals on the low end of the CW band on Saturday morning, I came across BD7LMD blasting in at 1317 LONG PATH! He was 20 over 9! I was beaming Argentina! Worked him then moved the beam to short path. He dissapeared! Moved back to long path, 20 over again! Gotta hand it to 10 meters, full of surprises this weekend! Can somebody tell the 10 Meter band that it is not 6 Meters and that this is the top of the cycle? I dont think it knows! Hope that everyone has a great Christmas and Happy New Year! See you in NAQP next year! Lu - W4LT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 327,472 Hellooo, Europe!!...are you still there? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 73, Ted W4NZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 280,376 I did not use packet this year. I did not do nearly as well as last year (871 Q's versus 694 this year) and total score was about half (581,828 last year). However, conditions to Europe last year were much better than this year. Saturday morning was non-existent but Sunday morning was somewhat better. Highlights of the contest were working 9V1, XU, and JA via long path and A45 and SV via skewed path. Heard BY via long path very strong but was not able to break the pile-up. 73, Sam W4PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4QN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 65,320 Terrible condx, virtually no Q's to NE, weak midwest, West Coast best,and little S Pac. Very few to Euro,and Russia was nil. Africa was poor, Carib and SA just fair, but were the most Q's came from their. The surprise was the good LP opening to Asia, with China, and Vietnam being the best catch. Lots of interruptions, funeral on Saturday, replace hot water heater on Sunday. But still lots of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 466,944 Well cndx sure weren't very good. It was amazing wrking BD7, BU2, 9V1, Ja's and XV1X over the Southpole. Their signals were amazing, while Europe was weak! You never know about this band. I only could work certain areas at certain times. CU in the CQ WW 160. Equip: Ten Tec Orion, AL-82 1500 watts. Antenna KT-36xa (6el. on 10) 32 foot boom @ 60 feet on the water. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UH Class: M/S HP Total Score = 868,608 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, 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. PS: The RUM helped! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 25,392 Wire dipoles only ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,064 Thanks for the Qs. 73, Vic, W4VIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WWQ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 22,736 K3, P3, 3 elem StepIR Conditions weren't too hot and high noise level, but did manage to keep BIC long enough to double last years score. It must have been the CW QSOs that pushed me this year after the phone Qs were all worked Sat. night. Always room for improvement. Glad to work many WV this contest, but missed DC and many others. Didn't hang on long enough for propagation to move to all states. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 615,264 Sunspot peak? Yeah, right! Saturday was grueling with hours in the teens and 20s all day. Sunday was better with some hours in the 40s and 50s and finally a bit of DX outside of SA/Car. Just 56 European QSOs and 14 JAs in all. If it weren't for e-skip, I'd have no skip at all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5PR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 349,432 I had a tough time with this contest. My second tower is still in the trees where it fell a few months ago during a tornado. I used the other tower with one rotary beam and two yagis fixed northeast. They were way too high for the conditions (Lowest at 90 feet). Then I missed the first half hour because I was thinking daylight savings time! Then all went dead at about 4:00 pm local on Saturday. I had to climb and repair the relay box on the tower. NO MORE relay boxes on the tower! That took about 1 1/2 hours to fix. Other than those things, I felt good about the contest. Next year I will be back! It was fun, although it was slow some of the time. I had about 1/2 of the score I had last year. More longpath than I expected. 10M CW 10M PHO Total % NA 0 1135 1135 80.6 OC 0 31 31 2.2 SA 0 146 146 10.4 AS 0 13 13 0.9 EU 0 63 63 4.5 AF 0 21 21 1.5 10M CW 10M PHO Total 7Q 1 1 BY 1 1 CE 14 14 CM 1 1 CT 8 8 CU 1 1 CX 7 7 D4 1 1 DL 2 2 E5/s 1 1 E7 1 1 EA 15 15 EA8 4 4 EI 2 2 F 12 12 FY 1 1 G 1 1 GD 1 1 GM 1 1 GW 2 2 HC 2 2 HI 2 2 HK 4 4 HR 1 1 HS 1 1 I 12 12 J7 1 1 JA 10 10 K 1017 1017 KH0 1 1 KH6 3 3 KL 5 5 KP2 1 1 KP4 10 10 LU 40 40 OA 2 2 OH 2 2 P4 1 1 PJ2 1 1 PJ4 1 1 PJ7 1 1 PY 67 67 SM 2 2 TI 1 1 V3 1 1 VE 70 70 VK 17 17 VP2V 1 1 VR 1 1 XE 21 21 YB 4 4 YN 1 1 YU 1 1 YV 5 5 ZF 1 1 ZL 5 5 ZP 1 1 ZS 15 15 QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band Hour 10M CW 10M PHO Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 82/14 82/14 82/14 D1-0100Z - 151/14 151/14 233/28 D1-0200Z - 72/2 72/2 305/30 D1-0300Z - 9/3 9/3 314/33 9 D1-0400Z - - 0/0 314/33 60 D1-0500Z - - 0/0 314/33 60 D1-0600Z - - 0/0 314/33 60 D1-0700Z - - 0/0 314/33 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 314/33 60 D1-0900Z - - 0/0 314/33 60 D1-1000Z - - 0/0 314/33 60 D1-1100Z - - 0/0 314/33 60 D1-1200Z - 10/1 10/1 324/34 29 D1-1300Z - 22/11 22/11 346/45 D1-1400Z - 29/8 29/8 375/53 D1-1500Z - 25/6 25/6 400/59 D1-1600Z --+-- 22/1 22/1 422/60 D1-1700Z - 18/1 18/1 440/61 D1-1800Z - 13/4 13/4 453/65 D1-1900Z - 38/1 38/1 491/66 D1-2000Z - 22/3 22/3 513/69 D1-2100Z - 28/1 28/1 541/70 D1-2200Z - 3/1 3/1 544/71 48 D1-2300Z - 16/5 16/5 560/76 39 D2-0000Z --+-- 63/6 63/6 623/82 D2-0100Z - 116/5 116/5 739/87 D2-0200Z - 67/1 67/1 806/88 D2-0300Z - 10/1 10/1 816/89 31 D2-0400Z - 2/0 2/0 818/89 57 D2-0500Z - - 0/0 818/89 60 D2-0600Z - - 0/0 818/89 60 D2-0700Z - - 0/0 818/89 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 818/89 60 D2-0900Z - - 0/0 818/89 60 D2-1000Z - - 0/0 818/89 60 D2-1100Z - - 0/0 818/89 60 D2-1200Z - - 0/0 818/89 43 D2-1300Z - 32/6 32/6 850/95 D2-1400Z - 58/1 58/1 908/96 D2-1500Z - 55/3 55/3 963/99 D2-1600Z --+-- 75/7 75/7 1038/106 D2-1700Z - 53/2 53/2 1091/108 D2-1800Z - 45/5 45/5 1136/113 D2-1900Z - 14/1 14/1 1150/114 D2-2000Z - 26/2 26/2 1176/116 D2-2100Z - 26/5 26/5 1202/121 D2-2200Z - 107/2 107/2 1309/123 D2-2300Z - 100/1 100/1 1409/124 Total: 0/0 1409/124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 14,190 10 Meters, I just welcome you back a couple of years ago, please don't leave so soon. Not too much operating time, but one good 15 minute/33 QSO run on Sunday morning before I had to leave for the day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6PH Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 315,000 IC781 AL1200 N1MM (I think I am getting better with it.) Antennas: 5 el yagi (N8SM design) at 60 feet, A3S at 40 feet Not a real serious effort but a fun time. Friday night for one hour. A few LU's and PY's plus some TX stations. All very weak. Saturday morning at 7:30 am started with a good opening to the southeast US and South America. Tons of stations answering my CQ's and then it went away about one hour later. The band reopened at 10 am to the entire east coast and I stayed with it until about noon when I had to QRT to drive 60 miles to Bishop to see the latest James Bond movie with my wife. (Actually not a bad movie.) Got home about 9 pm and didn't bother to check the band. Sunday morning started out well and stayed well until about 2 pm when certain parts of the US went blank for awhile and then reappeared. The band opened to JA at 2:30 pm with a few good signals that went down hill very quickly and it was over by 3 pm. Not many JA's on. By then the QSB took over and signals were at ESP level. I missed AR (had propagation), ND, SD, KS, WY, VE4, VE6, and YT. I worked a couple EA's but that was all for Europe. I built the antenna on Thursday from some other antennas and put it up on Friday morning. The antenna is a Steve Miller N8SM (SK) design when he was WD8IXE. It is five elements on a 20 foot boom. I was very happy with the way it worked. It comes down tomorrow and won't go up again until next October. No more contests until the ARRL DX Contests from VP9. 73, Kurt W6PH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6QU Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 29,200 Radio: Elecraft K-2 (5 Watts) Antenna: 3 el SteppIR up 10 Meters *********************************** Conditions were not very good. I never heard a European station all weekend. I workded a couple VKs and got ZM1G with 10 minutes left in the contest for my final mult. Also got 2 EA8s. All the rest of my Qs were in this hemisphere: South America, Central America, Caribbean and North America. This is the one contest I enter where I can call CQ and get answers with my 5 watts! Half of the Qs I made in this contest were by CQing. I only operated 10 hours in this contest, but that wasn't for lack of trying! The band died about 03:00 Z and not a peep until about 15:00 Z. Then there were a lot of Grandpa duties and a few othere things I had to do that kept me from the rig. It seemed like I was operating for more than 10 hours, but that is what the N1MM logging program tells me. The other odd thing about propagation was that there was no short skip. From here in San Diego, I worked every state in call areas 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8. But besides the locals, I only worked one state west of the Mississippi! But that is 10 Meters.... 73, Bill Parker W8QZA / W6QU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SDM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 38,448 START-OF-LOG: 3.0 LOCATION: AZ CALLSIGN: W6SDM CLUB: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club CONTEST: ARRL-10 CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-MODE: MIXED CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CLAIMED-SCORE: 38448 OPERATORS: W6SDM NAME: Steve Miller ADDRESS: 636 South Blacktail Trail ADDRESS-CITY: Maricopa ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: AZ ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 85139 ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V12.12.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 172,620 Used Reverse Beacon Network, hence Multi-Single. Turns out 90% of contacts were Run. Including a 149 hour, my best ever. K3, ACOM 2000A, wire antenna at 46 feet with Matchboxes and MB-V-A, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 956,256 Last year we had a large group of operators for our M/S effort and I assumed we'd get the same turnout this year but no one, myself included, responded to the request for operators. So I showed up, didn't turn on packet spots, and ended up going S/O Mixed. I lost a few minutes at the start of the contest when I discovered that the cabling to one of the amps had been bypassed for the 10-Meter RTTY contest the previous weekend. I set up the station for SO2R with one radio exclusively on CW and the other exclusively on SSB. The first evening was slow. Mostly locals in CA, a few Es QSOs out to as far as TX and XE2, one CE station, a couple ZLs, and meteor Q's with K7SS and K7BG. In the morning the band was dead until just after 1400Z. Then the western states started to come in on CW including KS and SD. AC8Y in VA was the first east coast mult at 1429Z. I S&P'ed for a while and worked stations from ME to FL but only west to TN and WV. At 1513Z signals had picked up enough that I started getting answers to my CQs. I alternated running on both modes, S&Ping on the other mode. Signals were weak so CW was more productive. Occasionally I'd try dual CQing which usually resulted in losing one of the run frequencies when I needed a repeat of a callsign or exchange on the other mode. Between 1600 and 1800 the propagation shifted to South America, Central America and the Caribbean. A few weak US stations were worked during these two hours but mostly in Atlantic or Gulf states. At 1820Z the band opened better to W1, W2 and VE3 but still with weak signals. Finally at 1845Z signals got much stronger and the opening expanded to W8's. I began working 4 to 6 per minute on phone and had 243 Q's in the 1900 hour, all on phone. The opening expanded to include W3, W4 and Indiana. One Wisconsin station made it into the log but nothing was heard from Illinois or any W0 state. Conditions held through the 2000 hour during which I worked 135 on CW but then the rate began to drop and the opening ended at 2130. A few more FL and VA were worked but the next couple of hours was slow with just South Americans and CA. I beamed toward the Pacific with one antenna and finally worked VK on both modes and picked up ZL on phone. At 2331 I was called by JG1ILF on CW for my first and only JA of the day. AH0BT and NH2DX also called in on CW for new mults. Shortly after 0100 we had a better Es opening than the day before which included TX, NM, XE2 and a couple of AL stations. Even though signals were strong the activity was light. I turned off the radios at 0200 as I'd committed to a family dinner on Saturday assuming conditions would be equally as poor as on Friday. After dinner and a video I returned to the station at 0530. Nothing was heard and in CQing for 15 minutes I only worked one local, Ira/K2RD. I noticed that one of the antennas was acting like it had an intermittent connection. The band noise would drop to nothing two or three seconds after transmitting. I decided to wait for the morning and see if the issue resolved itself. I started up in the morning at 1400 and immediately had problems with the amp faulting on the suspect antenna. Since the band wasn't open this was a good time to trace the feedline and try to fix it. Replacing an N barrel connector in the overhead cable tray fixed the intermittent issue. There was not much new to be worked in the 1400 hour. In a brief chat with K3EST he told me that east coast stations were working Asia long path but he couldn't hear the spotted Asia stations using the N6RO stacks. I didn't hear them either and was periodically CQing in that direction. At 1500 I began to get propagation to FL and the Caribbean. The Caribbean stations were much stronger than on Saturday and I S&Ped for a while to try to get DX mults I'd missed the day before. ZS was found on both modes and I ended up working 12 total ZS stations. Running attracted more South America and other DX stations than on Saturday. I could not duplicate the high rates of Saturday as it was much harder to pull out callsigns and serial numbers for the DX stations and fast QSB caused many US stations to disappear before I could get their exchange. At 1646 I was called by TM6M on CW for my first EU. I also worked one France on phone, several EAs on both modes and CR6K on phone for a total of 11 EU. I was called by 7Q7 on phone for my most exotic DX of the contest. I missed the 7P8 that others reported working. Propagation to the eastern US was similar to Saturday but opened further to the west with my first IL worked at 1759. W0 was still missing and the only new state worked was IA on CW at 2100Z. The band remained open to the east until at least 2240, much later than on Saturday. I heard a couple of JAs on CW at 2240 but they couldn't hear me. I started CQing in that direction and had a slow run going on CW. I had only one JA call me on phone so I mostly ran on CW and picked off a few that I heard running on phone. I worked a second Asian mult on phone when I found YB8FL in the last half hour. JA signals dropped off in the final half hour and only six JAs were worked after 2330. After reading other reports I realize that I missed several easy mults that I would surely have worked if I'd used the spotting network. I didn't even know that D4C was on, never heard them. I worked PJ2T only on phone. I briefly heard VY2ZM on CW but he faded before I had a chance to call. No MN, MO, NE, ND, VE4, VE6, VE8/VY1 or VO were heard. Only 12 XEs accounting for 7 mults were worked. I must have had one-way propagation to N7AT. I called them at least 10 different times on CW and just about every time I got a ? in reply but after sending my callsign a couple of times I'd hear them sending CQ again. During the slower times when I was S&Ping on CW I began to notice that N6TV would invariably be next to work the station I'd found. TV-Bob would see my strong signal on his P3 and jump to that frequency to be next in line. I was using an FT1000MP and MarkV with no band scope so I couldn't reciprocate and work the stations he found. Below I've included Cabrillo statistics from CBSW, separating the CW and SSB by changing all of the 28.0 to 21.0 in the log to get the separate stats and then editing the CBSW output to get CW/SSB column headings and remove the other bands. Thanks for all the Q's. 73, -Mike, N7MH Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: W6YX CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CONTEST: ARRL-10 OPERATORS: N7MH -- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ----- Hour CW SSB Rate Total Pct ---------------------------------------- 0000 36 0 36 36 1.8 0100 4 16 20 56 2.8 0200 6 12 18 74 3.8 0300 5 1 6 80 4.1 0400 3 7 10 90 4.6 0500 0 0 0 90 4.6 0600 0 0 0 90 4.6 0700 0 0 0 90 4.6 0800 0 0 0 90 4.6 0900 0 0 0 90 4.6 1000 0 0 0 90 4.6 1100 0 0 0 90 4.6 1200 0 0 0 90 4.6 1300 0 0 0 90 4.6 1400 18 1 19 109 5.5 1500 119 5 124 233 11.8 1600 43 56 99 332 16.9 1700 20 45 65 397 20.2 1800 34 54 88 485 24.6 1900 0 243 243 728 37.0 2000 135 3 138 866 44.0 2100 35 29 64 930 47.2 2200 17 3 20 950 48.2 2300 10 8 18 968 49.2 0000 6 7 13 981 49.8 0100 16 10 26 1007 51.1 0200 0 0 0 1007 51.1 0300 0 0 0 1007 51.1 0400 0 0 0 1007 51.1 0500 0 1 1 1008 51.2 0600 0 0 0 1008 51.2 0700 0 0 0 1008 51.2 0800 0 0 0 1008 51.2 0900 0 0 0 1008 51.2 1000 0 0 0 1008 51.2 1100 0 0 0 1008 51.2 1200 0 0 0 1008 51.2 1300 0 0 0 1008 51.2 1400 0 2 2 1010 51.3 1500 10 35 45 1055 53.6 1600 16 133 149 1204 61.1 1700 39 82 121 1325 67.3 1800 76 43 119 1444 73.3 1900 30 83 113 1557 79.1 2000 80 18 98 1655 84.1 2100 21 140 161 1816 92.2 2200 46 43 89 1905 96.7 2300 52 12 64 1969 100.0 -------------------------- Total 877 1092 1969 Gross QSOs=2020 Dupes=51 Net QSOs=1969 Unique callsigns worked = 1773 The best 60 minute rate was 254/hour from 1853 to 1952 The best 30 minute rate was 274/hour from 1900 to 1929 The best 10 minute rate was 294/hour from 1927 to 1936 The best 1 minute rates were: 6 QSOs/minute 9 times. 5 QSOs/minute 27 times. 4 QSOs/minute 89 times. 3 QSOs/minute 173 times. 2 QSOs/minute 239 times. 1 QSOs/minute 427 times. --- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y --- CW SSB Total Pct ----------------------------------------- North America 746 976 1722 87.5 South America 52 84 136 6.9 Europe 6 5 11 0.6 Asia 57 5 62 3.1 Africa 4 11 15 0.8 Oceania 12 11 23 1.2 ----------------------------------------- Total 0 877 1092 1969 Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 2 4 745 5 758 6 447 7 6 8 9 9 2 --- C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ----- Country CW SSB Total Pct --------------------------------------- 6Y 1 0 1 0.1 7Q 0 1 1 0.1 C6 1 2 3 0.2 CE 4 8 12 0.6 CM 4 6 10 0.5 CT 0 1 1 0.1 CX 4 6 10 0.5 EA 5 3 8 0.4 EA8 1 0 1 0.1 F 1 1 2 0.1 FY 0 1 1 0.1 HC 2 1 3 0.2 HI 0 2 2 0.1 HK 1 2 3 0.2 HR 0 1 1 0.1 J3 1 0 1 0.1 J7 0 1 1 0.1 JA 57 5 62 3.1 K 685 895 1580 80.2 KG4 1 6 7 0.4 KH0 1 1 2 0.1 KH2 1 0 1 0.1 KH6 1 1 2 0.1 KL 5 6 11 0.6 KP2 0 1 1 0.1 KP4 2 6 8 0.4 LU 16 28 44 2.2 OA 0 1 1 0.1 P4 1 1 2 0.1 PJ2 0 1 1 0.1 PJ4 1 1 2 0.1 PY 23 33 56 2.8 TG 0 1 1 0.1 TI 1 2 3 0.2 V3 1 1 2 0.1 V5 1 0 1 0.1 VE 37 35 72 3.7 VK 4 4 8 0.4 VP2V 1 0 1 0.1 VP5 1 0 1 0.1 VP9 0 1 1 0.1 XE 4 8 12 0.6 YB 0 1 1 0.1 YN 0 1 1 0.1 YV 0 1 1 0.1 ZF 1 1 2 0.1 ZL 5 4 9 0.5 ZS 2 10 12 0.6 --------------------------------------- Total 877 1092 1969 -M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y- Mult CW SSB Total Pct --------------------------------- -DX- 144 141 285 14.5 FL 72 106 178 9.0 CA 83 81 164 8.3 OH 32 81 113 5.7 NC 45 52 97 4.9 VA 37 54 91 4.6 NY 45 41 86 4.4 PA 34 41 75 3.8 MI 24 48 72 3.7 GA 22 48 70 3.6 TN 32 32 64 3.3 MA 23 36 59 3.0 ON 28 27 55 2.8 MD 24 26 50 2.5 NJ 18 30 48 2.4 IN 10 33 43 2.2 AL 26 14 40 2.0 SC 10 27 37 1.9 KY 13 20 33 1.7 IL 14 15 29 1.5 NH 13 14 27 1.4 TX 12 14 26 1.3 CT 10 13 23 1.2 WI 13 9 22 1.1 WV 6 14 20 1.0 MS 8 12 20 1.0 CO 10 3 13 0.7 LA 5 7 12 0.6 AK 5 6 11 0.6 DE 4 5 9 0.5 RI 4 4 8 0.4 DC 5 3 8 0.4 AZ 4 3 7 0.4 WA 4 2 6 0.3 ME 3 3 6 0.3 VT 3 3 6 0.3 QC 2 4 6 0.3 NV 2 3 5 0.3 NM 4 1 5 0.3 EMX 1 3 4 0.2 BCS 2 1 3 0.2 MT 2 1 3 0.2 NS 1 2 3 0.2 BC 2 1 3 0.2 NB 3 0 3 0.2 ID 1 1 2 0.1 AR 2 0 2 0.1 OR 2 0 2 0.1 DF 0 2 2 0.1 HI 1 1 2 0.1 KS 1 0 1 0.1 WY 0 1 1 0.1 SD 1 0 1 0.1 UT 1 0 1 0.1 SK 1 0 1 0.1 SON 1 0 1 0.1 PUE 0 1 1 0.1 GTO 0 1 1 0.1 PE 0 1 1 0.1 IA 1 0 1 0.1 OK 1 0 1 0.1 --------------------------------- Total 877 1092 1969 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 30 1.5 1 154 7.8 2 177 9.0 3 157 8.0 4 465 23.6 5 74 3.8 6 152 7.7 7 37 1.9 8 224 11.4 9 110 5.6 -------------------- Total 1580 80.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 17,472 SFI at 97 band here was out except for 2 hrs before lunch Saturday. Was alittle better Sunday. Best DX was a BY5WJ. Last year did 423 Qs Joe w7qn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7TVC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 465,640 First day was a bit slow but the pace really picked up Sunday. More of a domestic contest than last year with condx being low, but domestic rates were very good. 73 and thanks for the Q's, the W7TVC crew. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 307,680 Conditions not the greatest, I've ever experienced for this contest. Very few Europeans answered my CQ on the first day, most were worked skew path via S&P. With a higher solar flux on Day 2, there were a few more EU stations that answered my CQ on the normal short path and a few more made it into the log. Despite conditions, did manage to get 59 countries in the log. The long path opening to JA, BY, and XV was incredible both days although I could not crack the pileup to the XV. It was a plesant surprise to work 7P8CC well after his sunset as well as RM1Z well after his sunset as well. Both stations were incredibly loud. Was disappointed with the openings to the Caribbean. Listened for VP5CW, C6AKQ, and V31NO many time before finally snagging them. The same goes for the Alaska stations. I had to look and look before working my first one and after snagging him got about 5 more in the log. Missed VE4 and heard VY1 only once but never worked him. Despite poor conditions, the contest was still fun and I plan to be back doing CW only again next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8OHT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 5,200 Set the 4-1000A loading control and went most of the operating time with it set at this incorrect setting. Was able to triple may output power when I actually took some time to tweak it for max power out. By then my interest in this contest was on the wain, but next worked a Phillipine station which was my first ever I think. Used unwise times of day and generally wasted the best prop hours in this one. John, W8OHT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9IIX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 644 a no prop disaster ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9XT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 331,972 This is my favorite contest, but this long stretch of bad conditions is getting old. The solar flux dropped about 40 points from CQWW phone where I did a single band 10M and worked nearly 1200 stations, roughly twice my QSO count this weekend. In that one I only had one mode and could not work US stations for points. Fortunately there was enough Es to keep things interesting. In between I made some progress on the new Tom Clancy novel while the keyer banged out CQs. The A3 tribander on the tower away from the house has some problem when I run high power. It is much quieter than the TH7 next to the house, and I would have missed a lot of weak stations without it. For that reason I went low power mixed mode. I don't think I ever went low power in this contest before. At times it didn't seem to matter, and other times I felt I was banging my head on the wall. The DX highlights were working FH8PL on Saturday morning. Sunday morning I heard an XV long path but there was no hope of breaking the big pile up on him. Later, about 17:00 I had the beam west trying to pick up some W0 states for multipliers and heard A45XR. Great! A good multiplier. I turned the beam east and he disappeared. I turned it back west and the signal went up. I don't recall working that part of the world LP on 10 before ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1Z Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 77,112 Fair weather effort. After 4 hours of working no more than 15 QSOs per hour Saturday morning, I decided to do something else for the weekend. Had a fun Es 105/hour to open the contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2JQK Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 105,750 Due family commitments I couldnt operate the entire contest.. Condx to Europe never reached last years level...Only worked a handful of eastern Europe.. Thanks to all that worked me... I ran only wire antennas... Happy Holidays to all ! 73 Bob Jack Queen King ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3F Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 20,296 The best part of the contest was getting some other things done that needed my attention. Conditions were awful. When there was an opening, it was to just one spot. So, I'd sit down for 10 minutes, work what was there, then come back in a couple of hours. My goal quickly became 100 Q's. When I hit that, I sent in my log and went on to other pursuits 73 Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4ZXV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 14,362 Had fun. Band was really crazy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA5RML Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 7,680 Yaesu FT-857D @100 wts to Cushcraft MA5V vertical; Sunday - switched to T.T. Paragon for better receive audio. Lot's of fun - even with bad conditions and my compromise antenna. The band was volatile enough that I never knew what station might suddenly pop up. Lots of good operators. Still surprised at how many QSOs other stations could rack up while I struggled. Good job to those operators! Next year...CW and SSB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB0LCW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 16,340 First 10m contest in many years - only did CW and only for a limited time, but had a nice opening to the NE US and a lot of TE to SA. Spooky LP echo on those SW stations on Sunday too! Had fun, maybe the spots will be better next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB0TEV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,068 Had to work much of this weekend. When not working the temperature outside was in the 70's, much too nice to stay cooped up in front of a radio, and my score reflects these realities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ABD Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 87,300 Bad line noise both afternoons ... ugly stuff... Godzilla crunching popcorn ... shows up on weekends, it seems. Some really dead propagation times, but then working stuff at odd beam headings too: JA and A45 longpath, eg. Very little EU. K3 KPA500 3el Steppir @ 45ft N1MM GHE Radio Boss ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4OMM Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 13,500 The most bizarre contest conditions I have ever experienced! But still a fun time! Friday night, horrible, Saturday (all day) worse than horrible! Sunday....well better somewhat, but the last few hours saw some improivement. Oh, well......on to the next contest!! 73, Happy (safe!) Holidays!!!! Steve WB4OMM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4SQ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 38,412 Comments: Worked 26 states, 3 Prov, 16 DX Worked everyone I could hear except for D4, KS, I Lacked patience for anything but S&P this year. Working VK2 on phone was a thrill... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8BZK Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 10,660 Operated from my mobile on a hill top near Chicago ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 91,980 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC7Q Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 170,352 What an unusual weekend. The band opened long Saturday morning and never changed to speak of. Seems like nothing west of the Mississippi was getting to the west coast. The only 0 worked was Mo. All of 7 was not heard other than AK and WA. Thanks to the Mexican stations for their mults as well as the LU,PY,CE, CX ZP and some Carribean stations. Late Sunday I worked D4C and a few VE, ZL , KH and JA stations to get a few more mults. Not quite as good as last year. Glad I taped the Seahawk game as it was an astonishing win over the Cardinals 58-0. GO HAWKS. Station: K3 3 el Steppir @ 34 ft. Ameritron AL-811 600 watts N1MM logging ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5COV Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 56,400 Wish I had more time to spend in the contest. Happy Holidays to all. 73 Dave WD5COV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 370,788 Elecraft K3 100w TH7DX @ 50 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WH7DX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,728 Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 10M Power : HIGH Mode : SSB Default Exchange : HI Gridsquare : BL11DG Band QSOs Pts Mul 28 72 144 12 Total 72 144 12 Score : 1,728 Played around and had fun. South America is always strong. Only a few N. America came in. Wow. Very low. Only a handful of JA 1 hour before contest end. Wasn't around yesterday around 23UTC. A handful of VK and only one or two ZL. It was the twilight zone with me and South America.. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 292,160 Solar flux down, no opening to EU here but interesting to have to BY stations call during the last hour. 73, wj9b ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK4P Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 76,812 It always amazes me that after 20+ years in ham radio I always learn things when I work a contest. 10 meters has it all. I always enjoy the backscatter contacts on both 10 and 6, and had a few this weekend. Now time to rest until the RTTY contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 85,200 After listening and calling (A LOT) on Friday night, I thought that I might change my class to MM - no not Maritime Mobile but Maunder Minimum - boy did the band suck and those electrons kept right on going out to Never Never land. I know cause a couple of W6s called me from Santa Barbara area. End of Friday I had 23 Qs and 6 mults. I was looking to see if there was a Nature Scene Channel on my 405 selections on TV so I could watch grass grow someplace for excitement. Next day was a liiiiiiitttle bit better - there was daylight afterall but the bands still sounded pretty punk. I had a 90Q hour but it was shortlived and from other reports, so did lots of other folks. End of Saturday my total was 191Qs and 33 mults -Juuuuuust enough to make me come back the next morning. Some new emerging spots appeared on the western limb and this bode for a bit more activity - even worked a EU - but was glad that the signals in the US were more solid (for the most part) and by morning's end, I had all the states in Districts 1-4 and 8 + 9. Everything else was in the middle.Worked a few of those with backscatter (wish more would move antennae about) Only 3 VE Provincial Entities - BC, PEI and ON and 3 XE States - EMX, PUE and BAC. No Hawaii????? I was banging coconuts and everything but no grass skirts to be found. On JA on day one's evening but about a dozen I think on Sunday afternoon. Quite a bit below the score of last year, so maybe next year... WN6K, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR9D Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 555,108 What a let down! I put up at 5el mono on my tower trailer just for this contest... and the condx were awful! After I accepted the fact that condx sucked and we were all in this together, I had a blast! There's nothing more exciting than coming across some cool DX on a "dead band." The e-skip to the east coast was great both evenings. From ME to FL and everywhere in between. Saturday was awful, period. Sunday had some nice openings to EU and normal F skip to the west coast (briefly). It was very exciting working BD7LMD long path Saturday morning. I was searching up and down the band beaming SE looking for carib/SA and tuned right to him... couldn't believe how loud he was. I tried to find other LP stations but no joy. Sunday morning, sure enough, BD7LMD booming in again from the S/SE. I then found XV1R who had a huge pileup that I simply couldn't crack. A trip up to SSB rewarded me with VR2XMT, who was a solid s3-s5 on 28485 (iirc). Around 1430z, A45XR called me on cw while I was beaming SE. He was quite weak with flutter, interesting. I briefly heard SJ2W and a OH8 station Sunday afternoon over the pole, no successful QSOs though. Equipment: K3, AL800H, 5el @50' 73 Matt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WU6W Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 7,344 Not Much Time - Just trying to get NV out there ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WV9E Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 4,216 Interesting site.. this 3830 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW4LL Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 70,884 Only a part-time effort due to work committments. Had fun for the limited time that I was on. Did not turn the radio on Sunday. Obviously, conditions could have been better. Thanks and 73'....Fred, WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 807,168 What a difference a year makes!! My optimistic hope to be running Europeans for hours did NOT materialize, however this is a fun contest because you just never know what 10 meters is going to serve up. For starters, that long path Asian opening both mornings ROCKED!! Plenty of USA stations to work, a few JAs, a few EUs, and reasonable participation considering that the solar flux was way down this year. The team was N8IVN and WX3B on Friday night and Saturday and Dennis did good work coaxing out the QSOs on a rather slow band. K3AJ and WA3AER arrived Saturday morning and it was their day to learn how to partner with each other and have fun on the radio. Tom K3AJ is a CW operator so there was a good division of labor happening. It was great fun watching the teamwork Tom and Ted. One problem that really had Dennis and I scratching our head was the wiring of the N3OC two radio box which seemed to have a poison length of coax on one side that rendered the separate RX vertical useless. That piece of coax has been so labled....and the RX vertical worked better the second day, however there is still great room for improvement in that area. Now I am putting in my order for sunspots and a REAL band opening in the 2013 10 meter contest! Merry Christmas and best holiday wishes to all. 73, Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX4G Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 211,750 Lousy conditions...maybe 10 europeans...hard to stay at it without any dx. Where were all the big Euro stations?? The few I worked were single-ops... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX7G Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 46,968 TS-480HX at 150 watts to a Tarheel 40A screwdriver antenna on the car. Parked at the Great Salt Lake of Utah to get a low noise level and a salt water takeoff for the signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2AU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 143,016 Conditions not good but enough to have some fun. Missed working EU and AFRICA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 492,300 This contest was a great opportunity to hone skills under adverse and challenging conditions. I was tracking the progress of competing stations on http://cqcontest.ru/readscore.jsp Also hope that more stations come onboard. Great site !! I estimate that At least 20% of the QSO's were fished out at noise level and/or high QRN -plus all sorts of fading, backscatter, etc.. Hardware: FT-100MP +AL800H @ 1KW Antennas: Rotable 3 ele Yagi @75 ft + 3ele Yagi @ 45 ft (fixed to East coast) --------------------------- THE CONTEST DAY 1 UTC (contest starts on Friday at 6PM XE time) The contest started really slow with just one JA station contacted and after 30 minutes, I needed to quit to attend a customer call. Returned at 0200z (20:00hs local night) to find out a complete dead band. Saturday XE morning: the band began to "open" at 01300z, although with noticeable ups and downs on intensity and unpredictable propagation. So the first 2 hours were spent S&P and switching back and forth between CW and SSB. It was until at 1500z that I managed to run for almost 2 hours and bag two XE mults (GTO and ZAC) at ground wave. The rest of the day was a combination of S&P and short runs; almost fell out of my chair when -in one of those mini runs to stateside,I was called by 5H3EE ! Wow, this lifted my spirit and helped me to keep the race going -although at very at very low rates. DAY 2 UTC Saturday Night XE: The band closed much later (0324z) than our previous Friday night. When the rate dropped to 12/hr I decided to get some sleep. Sunday Morning XE: I started at 1533z, I heard the first EU around 1600z (LZ9W) and called him with no luck; his signal was really faint and just lasted a couple minutes, then it disappeared. I started to run and finally worked my 1st EU at 1639z -big gun F5IN- with a weak but copyable signal. Right after that, I did hard stop to make an urgent errand and also enjoy an unimissable breakfast accompanied by a legendary homemade salsa by XYL. Batteries charged -and fully caffeinated, I resumed the test an hour later -runnning, with few -but great, catches such as D4C, two F and 2 CT stations. I had my best SSB run ~120/hour at 2000z. The rest of the contest was mainly done alternating short runs of CW and SSB with some S&P to get mutipliers. In the last 15 minutes I was rewarded with AK and TI multipliers. ------------ Strange things: - Only 12 JA's - CE's, their signasl were by far, the strongest fom SA - More LU's (38) than PY's (27) - SAturday afternoon I heard (SSB) a VE6 on my face, with a relative strong signal57 and he could not copy me. He mentioned that my signal-despite my 1KW, was very weak! Go figure. - I never heard a single EU station during our Saturday XE morning (more like the bottom of the cycle years). ------------------ STATISTICS: - Mixed mode QSO's volume: 68% CW 32% SSB - About 80% Running 20% S&P - Most of the QSO's volume was stateside: 75% . The Northeast coast produced 40% of this volume (see details below) As reported by N1MM Logger: Max Rates: 2012-12-09 2040Z - 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by XE2B 2012-12-09 2043Z - 3.2 per minute (10 minute(s)), 192 per hour by XE2B 2012-12-09 2054Z - 2.1 per minute (60 minute(s)), 123 per hour by XE2B Runs: 2012-12-08 1511 - 1611Z, 28031 kHz, 102 Qs, 102.1/hr XE2B 2012-12-08 1613 - 1658Z, 28033 kHz, 83 Qs, 110.1/hr XE2B 2012-12-08 2012 - 2026Z, 28050 kHz, 20 Qs, 87.5/hr XE2B 2012-12-08 2053 - 2111Z, 28033 kHz, 29 Qs, 98.2/hr XE2B 2012-12-08 2306 - 2317Z, 28014 kHz, 17 Qs, 90.0/hr XE2B 2012-12-08 2326 - 2343Z, 28041 kHz, 23 Qs, 81.7/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 0011 - 0025Z, 28037 kHz, 22 Qs, 94.5/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 0038 - 0048Z, 28464 kHz, 26 Qs, 157.8/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 0053 - 0248Z, 28037 kHz, 137 Qs, 71.6/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 0254 - 0306Z, 28425 kHz, 18 Qs, 89.6/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 1606 - 1636Z, 28051 kHz, 54 Qs, 108.3/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 2006 - 2054Z, 28428 kHz, 118 Qs, 146.1/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 2111 - 2132Z, 28059 kHz, 28 Qs, 78.3/hr XE2B 2012-12-09 2206 - 2222Z, 28045 kHz, 13 Qs, 49.1/hr XE2B - Worked 45 states, 10 VE provinces and 5 XE states: # ST/PROV TOTAL % - ----- ---- ----- 1 TX 84 11.4% 2 NY 66 9.0% 3 MA 65 8.8% 4 PA 45 6.1% 5 NJ 41 5.6% 6 OH 37 5.0% 7 MI 36 4.9% 8 VA 35 4.8% 9 WA 28 3.8% 10 AZ 24 3.3% 11 NH 23 3.1% 12 MD 23 3.1% 13 NC 16 2.2% 14 MN 16 2.2% 15 CT 16 2.2% 16 CA 14 1.9% 17 OK 13 1.8% 18 OR 11 1.5% 19 LA 10 1.4% 20 FL 10 1.4% 21 WI 9 1.2% 22 VT 9 1.2% 23 CO 9 1.2% 24 WV 8 1.1% 25 RI 7 1.0% 26 NM 7 1.0% 27 MS 7 1.0% 28 ME 7 1.0% 29 KS 7 1.0% 30 IL 7 1.0% 31 AR 7 1.0% 32 MO 6 0.8% 33 DE 6 0.8% 34 TN 5 0.7% 35 IN 4 0.5% 36 SC 3 0.4% 37 MT 2 0.3% 38 KY 2 0.3% 39 ID 2 0.3% 40 HI 2 0.3% 41 DC 2 0.3% 42 AK 2 0.3% 43 UT 1 0.1% 44 NE 1 0.1% 45 AL 1 0.1% # VE's Q's - ----- ---- ----- 1 ON 43 55.8% 2 BC 7 9.1% 3 AB 7 9.1% 4 SK 6 7.8% 5 QC 5 6.5% 6 PEI 3 3.9% 7 MB 3 3.9% 8 NS 1 1.3% 9 NF 1 1.3% 10 NB 1 1.3% # XE's Q's - ----- ---- 1 AGS 2 2 ZAC 1 3 SON 1 4 GTO 1 5 BCS 1 Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: XE2B CONTEST: ARRL-10 CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE OPERATORS: XE2B -------------- 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 6 6 6 0.6 0100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.6 1300 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 14 1.4 1400 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 28 2.9 1500 0 0 0 0 0 86 86 114 11.7 1600 0 0 0 0 0 105 105 219 22.4 1700 0 0 0 0 0 29 29 248 25.4 1800 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 270 27.7 1900 0 0 0 0 0 21 21 291 29.8 2000 0 0 0 0 0 56 56 347 35.6 2100 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 374 38.3 2200 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 376 38.5 2300 0 0 0 0 0 49 49 425 43.5 0000 0 0 0 0 0 76 76 501 51.3 0100 0 0 0 0 0 80 80 581 59.5 0200 0 0 0 0 0 53 53 634 65.0 0300 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 646 66.2 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 646 66.2 1500 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 655 67.1 1600 0 0 0 0 0 60 60 715 73.3 1700 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 722 74.0 1800 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 752 77.0 1900 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 772 79.1 2000 0 0 0 0 0 121 121 893 91.5 2100 0 0 0 0 0 37 37 930 95.3 2200 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 957 98.1 2300 0 0 0 0 0 19 19 976 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 976 976 Gross QSOs=990 Dupes=14 Net QSOs=976 Unique callsigns worked = 912 The best 60 minute rate was 123/hour from 1955 to 2054 The best 30 minute rate was 154/hour from 2014 to 2043 The best 10 minute rate was 192/hour from 2034 to 2043 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSOs/minute 1 times. 4 QSOs/minute 8 times. 3 QSOs/minute 58 times. 2 QSOs/minute 192 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 0 829 829 84.9 South America 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 10.2 Europe 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.5 Asia 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 1.2 Africa 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 2.4 -------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 976 976 Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 2 4 460 5 349 6 158 8 6 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 5H 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 C6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 CE 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 1.2 CT 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 CX 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.8 D4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 E5/s 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 EA8 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 F 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 FY 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 HC 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 HK 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 J3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 J7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 JA 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 1.2 K 0 0 0 0 0 730 730 74.8 KG4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 KH0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 KH2 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 KH6 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 KL 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 KP2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 KP4 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 LU 0 0 0 0 0 38 38 3.9 OA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 P4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 PJ2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 PJ4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 PY 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 2.8 TI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 VE 0 0 0 0 0 77 77 7.9 VK 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.9 VP2V 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 VP5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 VP8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 XE 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.6 YB 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 YN 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 YV 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 ZF 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZL 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.5 ZS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 0 0 0 0 0 976 976 ------------ 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 0 157 157 16.1 TX 0 0 0 0 0 84 84 8.6 NY 0 0 0 0 0 66 66 6.8 MA 0 0 0 0 0 65 65 6.7 PA 0 0 0 0 0 45 45 4.6 ON 0 0 0 0 0 43 43 4.4 NJ 0 0 0 0 0 41 41 4.2 OH 0 0 0 0 0 37 37 3.8 MI 0 0 0 0 0 36 36 3.7 VA 0 0 0 0 0 35 35 3.6 WA 0 0 0 0 0 28 28 2.9 AZ 0 0 0 0 0 24 24 2.5 NH 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 2.4 MD 0 0 0 0 0 23 23 2.4 CT 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 1.6 MN 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 1.6 NC 0 0 0 0 0 16 16 1.6 CA 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 1.4 OK 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 1.3 OR 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 1.1 LA 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 1.0 FL 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 1.0 VT 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.9 WI 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.9 CO 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0.9 WV 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 0.8 ME 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 RI 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 BC 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 AB 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 AR 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 MS 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 NM 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 KS 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 IL 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 0.7 SK 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.6 DE 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.6 MO 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0.6 QC 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.5 TN 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.5 IN 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.4 MB 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 SC 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 PEI 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.3 AGS 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 MT 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 DC 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 HI 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 KY 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 ID 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 AK 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.2 GTO 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ZAC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 AL 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 UT 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 SON 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 NS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 NE 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 NB 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 NF 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 BCS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 0 0 0 976 976 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 46 4.7 1 123 12.6 2 120 12.3 3 85 8.7 4 53 5.4 5 112 11.5 6 19 1.9 7 64 6.6 8 87 8.9 9 21 2.2 -------------------- Total 730 74.8 CU on the next one Luis XE2B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XQ1KZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 738,876 Hard to work EU via SP & LP. Any way, it was a very good contest I wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy new year. Nick, XQ1KZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XR1J Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 448 MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN A CONTEST OF TRUTH ARRL INTERESTING CONDITIONS BUT NOT MUCH accompanied me greetings to all very affectionate XR1J INDICATIVE CAN VISIT SPECIAL CONTESTS IN 73S QRZ.COM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XR3A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 261,600 Definitely I have to buy a Steppir... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YN5ZO Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 330,432 That was as fun as it could be given the conditions. I feel relatively good about the QSO total but know I am going to get creamed on mults by the LU, PY, CX, and CE stations. Time will tell if I reach my goal and make it into the Top 10 box. Full story follows. This was my second ever DX operation. Planning started immediately after my first operation here in Nicaragua during the 2012 ARRL DX SSB contest. When I put down the headphones I told myself: “That was fun but next time I need a real radio, an amp, a bigger antenna, and a DVP.” With that goal started a half year long journey leading up to the ARRL 10 Meter contest. Before getting to the contest story let me step back to early 2012. My wife and I were planning a trip to Nicaragua to see our son, who lives in San Juan del Sur. I decided it would be fun to take a radio along and get on the air during the ARRL DX SSB contest. I had never operated on the DX side of things and YN, though not rare, is uncommon enough to add a bit of spice to the game. I was able to put together essentially a one briefcase station from my existing ham pieces and parts: an old FT-100, switching power supply, a 10-20M dipole, 50 feet of coax, a headset, and footswitch. Getting the license was about as easy as could be. With a little assistance from Octavio/YN2A, I was able to e-mail all the required documents to YN’s licensing authority, Telcor, and then a short time later received the license back as a JPG file. And at no cost! This is how licensing should work everywhere. So off we went and during ARRL DX SSB weekend I got on the air with the dipole strung from our 2nd floor hotel balcony out to a tree and with me hunched over the radio and PC carefully balanced on a little side table. It was a kick. I made just under 1,000 QSOs and had little mini runs when someone spotted me. But I knew it could be better. Having operated at NK7U I know what it is like to be loud. To have that stopping power signal strength that makes everyone tuning by on the band stop to give you a call. That was what I wanted next time. (And to have a DVP to save my poor vocal cords from more abuse along with a radio with better selectivity to save my ears. ) So, the journey started. How to take a major step up the loudness scale and still be essentially a, setup out of your luggage, field day, DXpedition? I knew the keys to loudness would a bigger antenna, up higher, and with more power behind the signal. The journey started with scouting out potential QTH’s to rent. The area around San Juan del Sur is pretty hilly which can be great if you can find a house in the right location and with enough yard to put up antennas. An afternoon of driving around found a great QTH that was in the final stages of construction. Luckily most homes in the area are for rent and we tracked down the rental agency in charge and made arrangements. (See photo in QRZ.COM profile of YN5ZO) In hindsight it might have been better to get a home a bit higher up the hillside for a better takeoff to Europe, but I don’t think that would have made much difference. At least this time. The next step was getting an antenna. A SpiderBeam seemed like a good route to go. It is light weight, breaks down into a small size, and has good gain on the high bands. Many DXpeditions are using them. I found a partially assembled 5 band SpiderBeam on the QTH.COM classifieds and purchased it. The original owner had done a lot of the tedious detail work in putting it together which was appreciated. Still, getting one of these antennas completed and tuned is not a single afternoon project. I also then bought a used hard sided golf case off Craigslist and adapted it to carry the Spiderbeam with straps to secure the boom sections and attached zipper bags to hold all the other parts, some coax, etc. If anyone is interested let me know and I will send photos. Be aware though that in the eyes of the airlines, even though you are still using a standard golf bag, because you don’t have golf clubs in it, it is just a giant oversized bag and they will hit you up for an excess baggage charge. To complement the SpiderBeam I also bought from them their 10 meter push up mast and tripod. They really have a great system designed and all the parts work well together. The push up mast though would not fit into a hard sided golf bag. The two or three longest sections are longer than the 48 inch maximum size for a golf bag. At one point I was considering cutting back the offending sections to 48 inches until NK7U suggested going with a hard sided ski carrier. I tracked one of these down, luckily on sale at REI, and had that problem fixed. Both the push up mast and tripod fit nicely in the case. Of course, like the golf bag, the airlines are going to consider this an oversized bag. The rest of the station came together pretty easily. A Kenwood TS-590 and Elecraft KPA-500 were ordered along with a MicroHAM microKEYER II for voice keyer and RTTY work. I also ordered some LMR-240 coax. This is the size and weight of RG-8X but has higher power handling and lower loss. Pretty good stuff! And to carry the radio and amp I ordered cases from Rose Kopp/N7HKW who seems to have made a pretty good business out of making cases for the Elecraft line. They are well made and well worth the cost. I had all of this equipment on hand by early November and ran a beta test of sorts at home during the weekend of JIDX SSB and WAE RTTY. I gained approval from my next door neighbor for this temporary setup as they are always concerned when I play around with things radioish. The antenna went up in my back yard on the push up mast and tripod using the TS-590, KPA-500, microKEYER, etc. It seemed to play well, so time to pack things up and head south. Like I said this was essentially a field day operation with the whole station travelling in checked and carry on luggage. I ended up with the hard sided golf and ski cases with the antenna, mast, tripod, coax, and other assorted stuff. Both cases came in at 49.5 pounds! In carry on luggage I had the radio in Roses case, inside a standard black rolling suitcase which my wife hauled around. The amp went inside a smaller rolling briefcase along with the radio power supply and microKEYER. This bag was hefty to be sure. I could barely lift it into the overhead luggage compartment. What a sight. We were not quite the normal couple going through security on check in or through customs on arrival. But, in the end everything made it to Nicaragua as planned. Setup at the rental home here went more or less as planned. The caretakers wondered what in the world I was setting up, but I managed an explanation. There was the perfect space out on the pool patio for the tripod and the terrain sloped off from 240 degrees through north to 90 degrees. The one hiccup was that winds were higher here than I had experienced at home and I had trouble getting the mast up to its full height and to keep the wind from turning the beam. The first problem was solved by waiting for a lull in the wind and the last problem was solved by attaching a rope to the back end of the beam to keep it in place. You can never have too much rope! So, this brings up back to the ARRL 10 Meter contest. My goal was a Top 10 box in the SO HP SSB only category. From the 2011 results and propagation forecasts leading up to the contest I figured a 2,000 QSO effort should do it along with a reasonable number of mults. That should do it. I also hoped to set and all time record for YN in this category. The contest starts in Nicaragua at 6:00 PM local time, about 45 minutes after sunset. From experiences leading up to the contest I was not even sure I would make any contacts the first night. The band shut tight as the sun touched the horizon. But, contests have a habit of stretching propagation out a bit. And, sure enough as the contest started there were many of the PY/LU/CE/CX contest stations on the air and quite workable. CQing did not generate much so it was mostly S&P. I only worked one station north of me when I caught a XE working someone and asked him to go up five for a mult. In total I managed a respectable 34 QSOs before the band shut tight around 0400 UTC. I was up at dawn on Saturday �" 6:00 AM local time, 12:00 UTC. I really did not expect the band to be open for another hour and a half, but I didn’t want to miss anything in case it did open. And, it didn’t do anything surprising. I could just make out some signals around 13:00, an hour after sunrise. The first audible station was LV5V at 13:30. The first station to the north I could copy was AA1JD at 13:50 and my first QSO of the morning was OA4TT at 13:53, which at the time was my third OA QSO in a row. I am positive I have never had that in any of my logs before. Nothing happened then until 14:11 when I made my first stateside QSO with WA8EUG. Then 4 minutes later the band literally turned on. Just like someone threw a switch it was that quick. I settled in at 28369, and ran off a 210 hour followed by a 100+ hour. Most of the weekend I operated in the range of 28370 as this was where the local noise was at a minimum. This initial run was pretty much focused in the Northeast US, east and north from Ohio. A few of the VE1 sections called in for mults. At one point I asked “Any Europe out there” and was pleased to have EI9E come back weakly for the only EU of the day. He was followed immediately by D4C and then it was back to North America for more or less the rest of the day. I asked several times if there was any Europe out there until well after their sunset to no avail. Propagation just was not there. I did have an EA8 call in later in the day but signals were just not going to make it across the Atlantic. I am just too far north and west and the stations in PY, LU, CE etc have a huge advantage over me in this respect as I competed with them for a Top 10 box finish. After the opening pileups propagation quickly moved west across the US and the northeast disappeared until later again in the afternoon. About this time I also noticed that I was missing all the states in the Southeast: SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, AR. For whatever reason, propagation or effects of my local terrain on my takeoff pattern, I was skipping right over these states. Propagation predictions sort of suggested this and that W4 would start coming in stronger later in the day. I finally worked my first FL, K4XS, at 17:30. Bill likewise said they had not really had any opening to South and Central America. I eventually worked plenty of FL stations and a couple of the other missing states but I still ended up the first day lacking AR, AL, and SC in the log. Crazy. Similarly I had troubles getting into the Pacific Northwest, notably WA and VE7 which likewise I ended up missing on Day 1 along with UT. (And only with 2 OR, 3 ID, and 1 MT in the log) I did have 3 AK stations in the log, but totally missed VE7 and WA. Not sure if this was propagation or my antenna pattern. Most of Saturday was spent following the spotlight band openings. I am not that experienced in 6 meter contests but it felt much like that. I would have 4 straight QSOs in AZ, followed by 3 in MI, a couple in NY, then back out to CO, etc. There was not a general widespread opening, just little pockets of propagation that moved back and forth across the US. The band was never totally closed but rates would drop down under 50 an hour interspersed with pleasant mini runs of 10-15 minutes when the rate would climb back up over 100. In the late afternoon signals from the north disappeared as the MUF over the path dropped below 28 MHz. My last QSO north of me was fully 30 minutes before sunset. Since there was nothing to work I went outside, and took advantage in a temporary lull in the trade breezes to extend the push up mast another 8 feet. My hope was that this would change the takeoff angles and fill in the skip zones Sunday I experienced to the Southeast US in particular. With this change made I turned the antenna west and was rewarded with a nice opening to VK/ZL �" something that either was not there or I missed on Friday night. My last QSO of the day was at 0106 UTC. I checked the band a few times after that but there was nothing new to work and CQing did not get any responses. K4XS was still pounding in as late as 02:30 as the only signal from up north. Another conspicuous absence in the log was Japan. I had thought that even if I didn’t work Europe I could at least work Japan. From the QTH here the path to JA is just about perfect. I am 150 feet above the ocean and from the antenna the terrain slopes down the ocean and then off to Japan. At one point I thought I heard a JA working a VK but this was true ESP stuff. Actually, probably a hallucination. I ended Day 1 with 801 QSOs and 77 mults. Certainly well below what I had hoped for. But from the feel of things I thought I still might have a chance for a Top 10 box as the conditions were clearly bad for everyone. I figured I didn’t need to get in front of the radio quite as early on Sunday morning. So I gave myself another hour of sleep and slipped in front of the radio at 1300 UTC. Surprisingly I could hear stations already and I worked my first station of the day, K1WHS at 13:20 UTC on Sunday. So, at least from that standpoint the band seemed better than Saturday. It was open 30 minutes earlier than on Saturday. Interestingly, TM6M called K1WHS right after me and I could almost believe I could hear him. That also gave me a ray of hope and would also be a portent to the QSO of the contest later in the day. As things happen though, I was not able to work anyone else for another 20 minutes when the band clicked open around 13:40 UTC and I was off the races. Rates were not as high as on Saturday but I still managed a 120 then a 150 hour for the first couple hours. Soon after the run started I was pleased to have a ZS call in. A bit unexpected, but appreciated. A couple QSO’s later I heard a very excited and insistent “Romeo” call in over the top of the station I was working. Turned out to be TM0R for my first mainland Europe QSO. I then made a point of CQing for Europe and was rewarded with another F and a MW. I got so excited I even tried to turn several calls starting with KK into DK. But, it just didnt happen and that was most of Europe for the day. So back to W/VE. At least the opening seemed more widespread and consistent on Sunday and rates stayed up with the 2000 and 2100 hours being some of the best of the contest. During the day I also filled in the missing states in the Southeast US. Then just when predictions said the band should start opening to W7 a VE7 and WA called in within 10 minutes of each other. Whether snagging these missing mults was just normal contesting or facilitated by my late Saturday change in antenna configuration I will never know. Interestingly I worked many WA and VE7 stations on Sunday while I worked relatively few stations in FL and they were much weaker than on Saturday. A reversal of conditions on Saturday. The QSO of the contest came around 1800 UTC when a loud but somewhat distorted French voice came back to my CQ. All could make out clearly was “M6M” with the leading letter garbled. At one point I thought it was FM6M which made sense, sort of. There could be propagation from the Caribbean and FM is a French island, but the call didn’t make sense. I struggled with it for a while until I finally heard a clear “Texas” in the earphones. What do you know, it was TM6M calling in somewhere around 2 hours after their sunset. And that was it, just a single QSO. No magic late Europe opening. Just a fascinating QSO. It would be interesting to know how it occurred propagation wise. Rates dropped off a cliff again around 2200 as the path north shut down. Continued CQing brought in a few XE mults, a couple KH6s and an AH0. But, again, no JAs. At one point V31NO rose up out of the noise just long enough for a QSO and then faded away again even as we tried to compare notes on the contest. That was a perfect snippet of the whole contest in one QSO. Day 2 ended with 1,721 QSOs meaning I worked 920 on Day 2, more than Day 1, which was unexpected and a measure of the band being better on Sunday than on Saturday. I felt pretty good about the QSO total though falling short of my 2,000 goal. However, the log checkers are still going to have a fun time as I must have had 75 or more stations say I was their contact #1. 96 Mults was also well under my hopes though to be expected with essentially no Europe and Asia in the log. In some respects I was in a little black hole of sorts and missed openings to both areas that stations south and east of me had. And, of course I ended up missing North Dakota. I worked dozens and dozens of W0s on Sunday expecting at least one of them to say “ND” but it never happened. Where were they all? I also missed a few of the more sparse Canada mults. All in all �" it was fun. It could have been better for sure. And I am sure glad I was in YN for the contest and not parts north of here. I might make a return trip for ARRL SSB. We will see. Thanks for the QSOs. Log will be uploaded to LOTW before the end of the year. Scott/YN5ZO (K7ZO) QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band Hour 10M CW 10M PHO Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 23/4 23/4 23/4 D1-0100Z - 7/1 7/1 30/5 37 D1-0200Z - 3/1 3/1 33/6 12 D1-0300Z - - 0/0 33/6 60 D1-0400Z - 1/0 1/0 34/6 59 D1-0500Z - - 0/0 34/6 60 D1-0600Z - - 0/0 34/6 60 D1-0700Z - - 0/0 34/6 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 34/6 60 D1-0900Z - - 0/0 34/6 60 D1-1000Z - - 0/0 34/6 60 D1-1100Z - - 0/0 34/6 60 D1-1200Z - - 0/0 34/6 60 D1-1300Z - 1/0 1/0 35/6 53 D1-1400Z - 163/31 163/31 198/37 D1-1500Z - 129/10 129/10 327/47 D1-1600Z --+-- 41/1 41/1 368/48 D1-1700Z - 65/6 65/6 433/54 D1-1800Z - 66/7 66/7 499/61 D1-1900Z - 79/7 79/7 578/68 D1-2000Z - 72/3 72/3 650/71 D1-2100Z - 97/3 97/3 747/74 D1-2200Z - 32/1 32/1 779/75 D1-2300Z - 9/2 9/2 788/77 48 D2-0000Z --+-- 10/0 10/0 798/77 43 D2-0100Z - 3/0 3/0 801/77 53 D2-0200Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-0300Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-0400Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-0500Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-0600Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-0700Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 801/77 60 D2-0900Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-1000Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-1100Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-1200Z - - 0/0 801/77 60 D2-1300Z - 27/4 27/4 828/81 20 D2-1400Z - 118/1 118/1 946/82 D2-1500Z - 171/2 171/2 1117/84 D2-1600Z --+-- 69/0 69/0 1186/84 D2-1700Z - 27/1 27/1 1213/85 D2-1800Z - 90/2 90/2 1303/87 D2-1900Z - 79/2 79/2 1382/89 D2-2000Z - 139/2 139/2 1521/91 D2-2100Z - 162/0 162/0 1683/91 D2-2200Z - 29/4 29/4 1712/95 D2-2300Z - 9/1 9/1 1721/96 Total: 0/0 1721/96 10M CW 10M PHO Total 6Y 1 1 C6 1 1 CE 4 4 CM 6 6 CX 6 6 D4 1 1 EA8 3 3 EI 1 1 F 3 3 FY 1 1 GW 1 1 HI 1 1 HK 1 1 HR 1 1 K 1521 1521 KH0 1 1 KH6 4 4 KL 5 5 KP4 3 3 LU 23 23 OA 3 3 P4 1 1 PJ2 1 1 PJ4 1 1 PY 20 20 V3 1 1 VE 70 70 VK 15 15 VP8 1 1 XE 11 11 ZF 2 2 ZL 6 6 ZS 1 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU/S56A Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 240 Ionosphere let us down in EU! I joined YU1KX club station with 105 Yagi and 1k5W on the top of the hill but we couldn't make even 100 QSO on Sat. I could hear KH7Y long path, ZS gave me 59+20dB, UA9 peaked S9 but the noise was also S9 most of the time. I couldn't get attention of ZL3IO SP but I managed ZL1BYZ LP at 10 UTC and left the station. AH0BT called with 500+ QSO and later I worked South America with 2K QSO. It was nice to catch YM PY2NDX! 9A CW should be easier with all this snow. No way to go to Z6 WAE mult again. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1KX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 15,132 very bad conditions on 10m see you next year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 21,600 Same as last weekends 10m RTTY Contest, least said the better !! 73 Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZF1A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 839,808 We had a good time at ZF, but propagation certainly could have been better for more extensive openings. We only worked 128 Europeans - a big disappointment. But we did work a good number of South Americans, XEs, South Africans, and VKs/ZLs. The bright sun, warm weather, and blue water kind of made up for the lack of propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL3IO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 224,700 Conditions were extremely poor and down from 2 weeks ago (WW DX CW) or last year. I had only a few hours to spend so not a big deal to miss this one. 73 Holger, ZL3IO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM1G Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 64,124 Short openings to US/VE and JA. Very little to EU and SA. Nothing to AF. In spite of the generally poor condx, I had a few interesting Q's: US/GA with 11W (before turning on amp), several to EA (antipodes from ZL) including /M, several with heavy echoes, and several incoming QRPs. Managed to work about 42 states, including several new ones, and even a couple of new DXCC's. Not as exciting as when the band is wide open, but still fun and worth the 12 hour effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM2B Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 433,768 My first contest since a quad bi-pass heart operation a month ago. Propagation fairly good to everywhere. Index of Calls Call: 4Z1UF Class: SO CW HP Call: 8P2K Class: SO SSB HP Call: A45XR Class: SO CW HP Call: A65BD Class: SO CW HP Call: AA3B Class: SO CW HP Call: AA3S Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AA4FU Class: SO CW LP Call: AA4NC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AA4V Class: M/S HP 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: AA7XT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AA8R Class: SO CW LP Call: AA9A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AC0W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AC2FA Class: SO CW LP Call: AC8G Class: SO SSB HP Call: AC8Y Class: M/S HP Call: AD4EB Class: SO CW HP Call: AD5VJ Class: M/S HP Call: AD6WL Class: SO CW LP Call: AE1T Class: M/S HP Call: AE4O Class: SO CW LP Call: AE7VA Class: SO SSB LP Call: AG4W Class: M/S HP Call: AI2N Class: SO CW HP Call: AI4UN Class: SO SSB LP Call: AI6V/7 Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AI7AA Class: SO CW LP Call: AK4I Class: SO SSB HP Call: AK4QU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AK7AZ Class: M/S HP Call: AL1G Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AL9A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: C4Z Class: SO CW LP Call: CE1/K7CA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: CE1TT Class: SO SSB HP Call: CE3CT Class: SO SSB HP Call: CE3FZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: CR6K Class: SO SSB HP Call: CW5W Class: M/S HP Call: CX2BR Class: SO CW LP Call: CX5TR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: D4C Class: M/S HP Call: DH8BQA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: DL1NX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: DL7BY Class: SO CW LP Call: E71A Class: SO SSB HP Call: EA4TV Class: SO SSB HP Call: EA4ZK Class: SO CW HP Call: EA7KW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: EA7RM Class: SO CW LP Call: ED1R Class: M/S HP Call: EE7K Class: SO SSB HP Call: EE7Z Class: SO SSB LP Call: EF5Y Class: SO Mixed HP Call: EI2CN Class: M/S HP Call: ES5Q Class: M/S HP Call: EU1AA Class: SO CW QRP Call: F5IN Class: SO CW HP Call: F5RD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: F8CRS Class: SO CW LP Call: G0HVQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: G3WGN Class: SO CW LP Call: G4FKA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: GM5X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: HC2UA Class: M/S LP Call: HG5D Class: SO CW LP Call: HG7T Class: M/S HP Call: HG8C Class: SO Mixed LP Call: HG8W Class: SO Mixed HP Call: HI3K Class: SO SSB LP Call: HK1R Class: SO Mixed HP Call: HL1VAU Class: M/S LP Call: HL5YI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: HQ2N Class: SO Mixed LP Call: HS0ZIA Class: SO CW LP Call: IC8FBU Class: SO CW LP Call: II9P Class: M/S HP Call: IK2YCW Class: SO SSB LP Call: IK3ORD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: IQ9BT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: IT9VDQ Class: SO CW HP Call: IV3TMV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: J35X Class: SO CW LP Call: JH3PRR Class: M/S HP Call: K0AE Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K0DI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K0DU Class: M/S HP Call: K0EJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0EU Class: M/S HP Call: K0KX Class: M/S HP Call: K0LUZ Class: SO CW QRP Call: K0MD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0PC Class: SO CW LP Call: K0PK Class: M/S HP Call: K0RI Class: SO CW LP Call: K0TI Class: SO CW QRP Call: K0TT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K0ZX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K1BV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K1DC Class: SO CW LP Call: K1DW Class: SO CW QRP Call: K1FWE Class: M/S HP Call: K1GI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K1GU Class: SO CW LP Call: K1HI Class: M/S HP Call: K1KNQ Class: SO SSB HP Call: K1LZ Class: M/S HP Call: K1RM Class: SO CW HP Call: K1SD Class: SO SSB HP Call: K1SE Class: M/S HP Call: K1TN Class: SO CW HP Call: K1TO Class: SO CW HP Call: K1TR Class: SO CW LP Call: K1UO Class: M/S HP Call: K1VK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K1VSJ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K1WHS Class: M/S HP Call: K1YR Class: SO CW LP Call: K1ZW Class: SO SSB LP Call: K1ZZI Class: M/S HP Call: K2AXX Class: SO CW HP Call: K2CYE Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K2DB Class: SO CW LP Call: K2JMY Class: SO SSB HP Call: K2LE Class: M/S HP Call: K2PS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K2SSS Class: SO CW HP Call: K2SX Class: M/S HP Call: K2ZC Class: M/S LP Call: K2ZR Class: SO CW LP Call: K3AJ Class: SO CW HP Call: K3EST Class: M/S HP Call: K3FH Class: M/S LP Call: K3IT Class: SO CW LP Call: K3IU Class: SO CW HP Call: K3KU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K3OO Class: M/S HP Call: K3OQ Class: M/S HP Call: K3SV Class: SO CW HP Call: K3TN Class: SO CW HP Call: K3WI Class: M/S LP Call: K3WW Class: M/S HP Call: K3YDX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4CX Class: SO CW LP Call: K4DMR Class: SO SSB LP Call: K4EDI Class: SO CW LP Call: K4FT Class: SO CW LP Call: K4FTO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K4FX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4GMH Class: SO CW HP Call: K4HAL Class: SO CW HP Call: K4IQJ/4 Class: SO CW LP Call: K4IU Class: M/S HP Call: K4LM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4LW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K4MM Class: M/S LP Call: K4NV Class: SO SSB HP Call: K4QE Class: SO SSB HP Call: K4QPL Class: SO CW LP Call: K4TD Class: M/S HP Call: K4WI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K4WP Class: M/S HP Call: K4WW Class: M/S LP Call: K4XS Class: SO SSB HP Call: K4ZGB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K5IID Class: SO CW LP Call: K5KC Class: M/S HP Call: K5KG Class: M/S HP Call: K5LH Class: SO CW LP Call: K5NA/M Class: SO CW LP Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Call: K5WP Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6AAB Class: M/S LP Call: K6AM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6CSL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6GHA Class: SO SSB LP Call: K6JEB Class: M/S LP Call: K6KO Class: SO SSB HP Call: K6LL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6LRN Class: SO CW HP Call: K6SRZ Class: SO CW HP Call: K6SRZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6T Class: M/S HP Call: K6TU Class: SO CW HP Call: K6WSC Class: M/S LP Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7BG Class: SO CW HP Call: K7FLI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7IA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7IDX/7 Class: SO SSB LP Call: K7JQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7MM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7QQ Class: SO CW LP Call: K7RL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7SS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7ULS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7VIT Class: SO SSB LP Call: K7WP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K7XC Class: M/S LP Call: K8BL Class: M/S LP Call: K8GT Class: M/S LP Call: K8LV Class: SO CW HP Call: K8MR Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K8WW Class: SO CW LP Call: K9CT Class: M/S HP Call: K9DR Class: SO CW LP Call: K9ELF Class: SO SSB LP Call: K9FY Class: SO CW HP Call: K9JK Class: SO SSB LP Call: K9OM Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K9QC Class: SO CW LP Call: K9YC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KA1GEU Class: SO SSB HP Call: KA2D Class: SO CW LP Call: KA3DRR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KA4OTB Class: SO SSB HP Call: KB0EO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KB3LIX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KB5JC Class: SO SSB LP Call: KB7Q Class: M/S LP Call: KC0DEB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KC0MO Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: KC4HW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KC5WA Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KC7V Class: SO CW HP Call: KC8RPV Class: SO SSB LP Call: KD0S Class: M/S HP Call: KD2JA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KD2RD Class: M/S LP Call: KD3RF Class: M/S HP Call: KD4D Class: SO CW HP Call: KD5J Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KD7H Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KE2OI Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KE2VB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KE3X Class: M/S HP Call: KE4CQ Class: SO SSB HP Call: KE4KMG Class: SO SSB HP Call: KE4VH Class: SO SSB LP Call: KE7TM Class: SO SSB LP Call: KE7X Class: SO CW LP Call: KE8M Class: SO CW HP Call: KG4W Class: M/S HP Call: KG9Z Class: SO CW HP Call: KH7Y Class: SO CW HP Call: KI0F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KI1U Class: SO CW LP Call: KI7MT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KI7Y Class: SO CW HP Call: KK4CIS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KL2HD Class: SO SSB LP Call: KL2R Class: M/S HP Call: KL7RA Class: SO CW HP Call: KL8DX Class: SO CW LP Call: KM2O Class: SO SSB HP Call: KM3T Class: M/S LP Call: KM4JA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KM6I Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KN0V Class: SO CW LP Call: KN4Y Class: SO CW LP Call: KN5O Class: SO CW HP Call: KP2DX Class: SO SSB LP Call: KP4EU Class: SO SSB LP Call: KP4ROS Class: SO SSB LP Call: KR4F Class: SO CW HP Call: KS0M Class: SO CW LP Call: KS0MO Class: SO CW QRP Call: KS2G Class: SO SSB LP Call: KS4L Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KS4X Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KT0A Class: SO CW HP Call: KT0K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KT4TX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KT8K Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: KT8TD Class: SO SSB LP Call: KU8E Class: SO CW LP Call: KV8Q Class: SO CW LP Call: KX7L Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KY7M Class: M/S HP Call: KZ2V Class: SO CW LP Call: L33M Class: SO CW LP Call: LP1H Class: SO SSB HP Call: LR2F Class: SO SSB HP Call: LS1D Class: M/S HP Call: LU1DBQ Class: M/S LP Call: LU5DX Class: M/S LP Call: LU5FB Class: M/S HP Call: LU5MT Class: SO SSB LP Call: LU6FOV Class: SO SSB LP Call: LU6KA Class: SO SSB LP Call: LU7DBL Class: SO SSB LP Call: LU7HZ Class: SO CW QRP Call: LU8EOT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: LW5HR Class: SO CW LP Call: LY5W Class: M/S HP Call: LY7Z Class: SO CW LP Call: LZ2DF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: LZ2PS Class: SO CW LP Call: LZ5R Class: M/S HP Call: LZ5XQ Class: SO CW LP Call: LZ6K Class: M/S HP Call: LZ9W Class: M/S HP Call: M0CFW Class: SO CW LP Call: MW5A Class: M/S HP Call: N0HJZ Class: M/S LP Call: N0JK Class: SO CW QRP Call: N0TA Class: M/S HP Call: N0XR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N1CC Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: N1DC Class: SO CW LP Call: N1EN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N1GLT Class: SO SSB HP Call: N1IW Class: SO CW HP Call: N1JM Class: SO SSB LP Call: N1LN Class: SO CW HP Call: N1SV Class: SO SSB HP Call: N1SZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N1TA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N1UR Class: SO CW HP Call: N1WK Class: M/S HP Call: N2BJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2CU Class: SO CW HP Call: N2DD Class: SO SSB LP Call: N2FF Class: SO CW LP Call: N2MM Class: SO CW HP Call: N2MUN Class: SO SSB HP Call: N2NC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2NF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N2NS Class: SO CW HP Call: N2ZN Class: M/S HP Call: N3AFT Class: M/S LP Call: N3ALN Class: SO SSB LP Call: N3AM Class: SO CW LP Call: N3BM Class: M/S HP Call: N3QE Class: SO CW LP Call: N3RD Class: M/S HP Call: N3RR Class: M/S HP Call: N3UM Class: SO CW HP Call: N3XL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N3ZV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N3ZZ Class: SO CW LP Call: N4AF Class: SO CW HP Call: N4BCD Class: SO SSB HP Call: N4CW Class: SO CW HP Call: N4DJ Class: SO CW HP Call: N4DW Class: SO CW HP Call: N4EEB Class: M/S LP Call: N4EK Class: SO CW LP Call: N4FP Class: SO CW LP Call: N4GG Class: M/S HP Call: N4IJ Class: SO CW LP Call: N4JF Class: SO CW LP Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Call: N4KH Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4LZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4MM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4NM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4OO Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: N4OX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4PD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4PN Class: M/S HP Call: N4TB Class: SO CW LP Call: N4UC Class: SO CW LP Call: N4VV Class: M/S HP Call: N4WW Class: SO CW LP Call: N4YDU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4ZZ Class: SO CW HP Call: N5DO Class: M/S LP Call: N5ZK Class: SO CW HP Call: N6DZ Class: M/S HP Call: N6HC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6MU Class: SO CW LP Call: N6TV Class: SO CW HP Call: N6WM Class: SO CW LP Call: N6XI Class: SO CW HP Call: N6YEU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N6ZFO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N7AT Class: M/S HP Call: N7BK Class: SO SSB LP Call: N7CW Class: SO CW HP Call: N7IP Class: M/S HP Call: N7IR Class: SO CW LP Call: N7OU Class: SO CW QRP Call: N7RVD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N7TEW Class: M/S LP Call: N7TR Class: SO CW HP Call: N7VM/6 Class: SO SSB LP Call: N7WA Class: SO CW LP Call: N7WR Class: SO SSB HP Call: N7XU Class: M/S HP Call: N8HM Class: SO SSB LP Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N8OO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N8UM Class: M/S HP Call: N8VV Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N8XX Class: SO CW QRP Call: N9GUN Class: SO CW LP Call: N9LYE 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: SO CW HP Call: NA2U Class: M/S HP Call: NA4CW Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: NA5TR Class: SO SSB HP Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Call: ND4V Class: SO Mixed HP Call: ND6S Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NE1B Class: M/S HP Call: NE1C Class: M/S LP Call: NF8J Class: SO CW HP Call: NG7A Class: SO CW HP Call: NI7R Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NK3Y Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NM2O Class: M/S HP Call: NM5M Class: SO CW LP Call: NN1N Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NN3RP Class: SO CW HP Call: NN3W Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NN4F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NN4RR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NN7ZZ Class: SO CW HP Call: NP3A Class: SO CW LP Call: NQ2W Class: SO CW QRP Call: NQ4I Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NR4M Class: M/S HP Call: NR5M Class: SO SSB HP Call: NS9I Class: SO CW HP Call: NT4H Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NT6K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NT8Z Class: SO SSB LP Call: NW2K Class: SO CW LP Call: NX5M Class: M/S HP Call: NX6T Class: M/S HP Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Call: NY3A Class: SO CW HP Call: OG6N Class: SO Mixed HP Call: OH1F Class: M/S HP Call: OH2BBT Class: M/S HP Call: OM2VL Class: SO Mixed HP Call: OT4A Class: SO CW LP Call: OZ4FF Class: SO CW LP Call: P40CX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: PA6K Class: M/S HP Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S LP Call: PJ2T Class: M/S HP Call: PJ4NX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PP1CZ Class: SO CW HP Call: PP5BZ Class: SO CW QRP Call: PP5EJ Class: SO CW LP Call: PP5JD Class: SO SSB HP Call: PP6ZZ Class: SO CW QRP Call: PS2T Class: M/S HP Call: PT5T Class: M/S HP Call: PU2LEP Class: SO SSB LP Call: PU5FJR Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY1CG Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY1GQ Class: M/S LP Call: PY1PL Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY1ZV Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY2MC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY2NDX Class: M/S HP Call: PY2NY Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: PY2WC Class: SO CW LP Call: PY2ZXU Class: SO CW LP Call: PY3OZ Class: SO CW LP Call: PY4XX Class: SO CW LP Call: PY4ZO Class: SO CW LP Call: PY9MM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: R9AE Class: SO Mixed HP Call: RA9AP Class: SO CW LP Call: RT4RO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: RT9S Class: SO CW LP Call: RU9AZ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: RU9BS Class: SO CW LP Call: RV9CBW Class: SO SSB LP Call: RW4WM Class: SO CW LP Call: RW9QA Class: SO CW LP Call: RX9CAZ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: S57UN Class: SO CW HP Call: SM6DER Class: SO CW LP Call: SP2LNW Class: SO CW HP Call: SP3S Class: SO SSB HP Call: T6LG Class: SO CW LP Call: T6MO Class: SO CW LP Call: TI5/N2BA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: TM2B Class: SO SSB HP Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Call: UA4ALI Class: M/S LP Call: UA5C Class: SO CW HP Call: US7L Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UX4U Class: SO CW HP Call: V26DR Class: M/S HP Call: VA3ATT Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3EC Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3KAI Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3RKM Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: VA3YP Class: SO SSB HP Call: VA7BEC Class: M/S LP Call: VA7DZ Class: M/S LP Call: VA7IR Class: SO SSB LP Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW HP Call: VE1OP Class: M/S HP Call: VE1RGB Class: SO CW LP Call: VE1ZA Class: SO SSB QRP Call: VE2EBK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE2PIJ Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE3AD Class: M/S HP Call: VE3CWU Class: M/S LP Call: VE3CX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3EJ Class: M/S HP Call: VE3EY Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3HMK Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE3IAE Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3JI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3KZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3MIS Class: SO SSB HP Call: VE3MMQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3NE Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3RCN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3RZ Class: M/S HP Call: VE3TA Class: M/S HP Call: VE3TU Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE3TW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3XAT Class: M/S HP Call: VE4VT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE5KS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE5UF Class: SO CW HP Call: VE6BMX Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE6WQ Class: SO CW HP Call: VE7CV Class: SO CW LP Call: VE7IO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7JH Class: SO CW HP Call: VE7WO Class: SO CW HP Call: VE7XF Class: SO CW HP Call: VE9AA Class: SO CW HP Call: VE9HF Class: SO CW HP Call: VE9ML Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VK4WIL Class: M/S LP Call: VO1TA Class: SO CW HP Call: VY2LI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VY2TT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VY2ZM Class: SO CW HP Call: W0AIH Class: M/S HP Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W0ETT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W0JTC Class: SO SSB LP Call: W0PAN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W0RU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W0UCE Class: SO CW HP Call: W1AJT Class: SO CW HP Call: W1CEK Class: SO SSB QRP Call: W1DYJ Class: SO SSB LP Call: W1END Class: SO CW LP Call: W1KQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1OHM Class: SO CW LP Call: W1RH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1SRD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1TJL Class: SO SSB LP Call: W1TO Class: SO CW LP Call: W1UJ Class: M/S HP Call: W1WBB Class: SO CW LP Call: W1XX Class: SO CW HP Call: W2EG Class: SO CW LP Call: W2GB Class: SO CW LP Call: W2LC Class: SO CW HP Call: W2TF Class: SO SSB LP Call: W2UP Class: SO CW LP Call: W3EP Class: SO SSB HP Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB HP Call: W3SFG Class: M/S LP Call: W3TZ Class: SO SSB HP Call: W3ZGD Class: M/S LP Call: W4AU Class: SO CW HP Call: W4BAB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4DD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4EE Class: M/S LP Call: W4GDG Class: SO CW LP Call: W4GKF Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4GV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4IX Class: SO CW LP Call: W4LT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4NZ Class: SO CW HP Call: W4PK Class: SO CW HP Call: W4QN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4SVO Class: M/S HP Call: W4UAT Class: SO CW HP Call: W4UH Class: M/S HP Call: W4UK Class: SO CW HP Call: W4UT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4VIC Class: M/S HP Call: W4WWQ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W5GCX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5JBO Class: SO CW LP Call: W5KFT Class: SO CW HP Call: W5PR Class: SO SSB HP Call: W6AAN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W6BIV Class: SO CW LP Call: W6JTI Class: SO CW QRP Call: W6KC Class: M/S HP Call: W6OAT Class: M/S HP Call: W6PH Class: SO CW HP Call: W6QU Class: SO SSB QRP Call: W6RLL Class: SO CW HP Call: W6SDM Class: SO CW HP Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Call: W6SZN Class: SO CW HP Call: W6TK Class: M/S LP Call: W6YX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W6ZL Class: SO CW LP Call: W6ZQ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W7FI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W7IJ Class: SO CW HP Call: W7POE Class: SO CW LP Call: W7QN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Call: W7TVC Class: M/S LP Call: W7VXS Class: SO CW LP Call: W7WW Class: SO SSB HP Call: W7ZR Class: SO CW HP Call: W8AV Class: SO CW HP Call: W8FJ Class: SO CW HP Call: W8OHT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W9IIX Class: SO SSB HP Call: W9ILY Class: SO CW LP Call: W9SE Class: SO CW HP Call: W9VQ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W9XT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WA0MHJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA1DRQ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WA1Z Class: SO CW LP Call: WA2JQK Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA3AFS Class: M/S HP Call: WA3F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA4ZOF Class: SO CW LP Call: WA4ZXV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WA5OYU Class: SO SSB HP Call: WA5RML Class: SO CW LP Call: WA8UEG Class: SO SSB HP Call: WB0LCW Class: SO CW HP Call: WB0TEV Class: M/S HP Call: WB2ABD Class: SO CW HP Call: WB2RHM Class: SO SSB LP Call: WB4OMM Class: SO SSB LP Call: WB4SQ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WB4TDH Class: SO CW LP Call: WB5WAJ Class: SO SSB HP Call: WB8BZK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Call: WB8YYY Class: SO CW QRP Call: WB8YYY/3 Class: SO CW QRP Call: WB9Z Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WC3O Class: SO CW QRP Call: WC6H Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WC7Q Class: SO CW HP Call: WD0ECO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SO CW LP Call: WD5COV Class: SO CW LP Call: WD5K Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WH7DX Class: SO SSB HP Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW HP Call: WK4P Class: SO SSB HP Call: WL7BDO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WN6K Class: SO CW LP Call: WP3A Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WR9D Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WU6W Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WV9E Class: SO SSB LP Call: WW4LL Class: SO SSB HP Call: WX3B Class: M/S HP Call: WX4G Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WX7G Class: SO CW LP Call: XE2AA Class: SO SSB LP Call: XE2AU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: XE2B Class: M/S HP Call: XQ1KZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: XR1J Class: SO SSB LP Call: XR3A Class: SO CW HP Call: YN5ZO Class: SO SSB HP Call: YU/S56A Class: SO Mixed LP Call: YU1KX Class: M/S HP Call: Z35F Class: SO CW QRP Call: Z37M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW HP Call: ZF1A Class: M/S HP Call: ZL3IO Class: M/S HP Call: ZM1G Class: SO SSB HP Call: ZM2B Class: SO CW HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/S HP Call: AA4V Call: AC8Y Call: AD5VJ Call: AE1T Call: AG4W Call: AK7AZ Call: CW5W Call: D4C Call: ED1R Call: EI2CN Call: ES5Q Call: HG7T Call: II9P Call: JH3PRR Call: K0DU Call: K0EU Call: K0KX Call: K0PK Call: K1FWE Call: K1HI Call: K1LZ Call: K1SE Call: K1UO Call: K1WHS Call: K1ZZI Call: K2LE Call: K2SX Call: K3EST Call: K3OO Call: K3OQ Call: K3WW Call: K4IU Call: K4TD Call: K4WP Call: K5KC Call: K5KG Call: K6T Call: K9CT Call: KD0S Call: KD3RF Call: KE3X Call: KG4W Call: KL2R Call: KY7M Call: LS1D Call: LU5FB Call: LY5W Call: LZ5R Call: LZ6K Call: LZ9W Call: MW5A Call: N0TA Call: N1WK Call: N2ZN Call: N3BM Call: N3RD Call: N3RR Call: N4GG Call: N4KG Call: N4PN Call: N4VV Call: N6DZ Call: N7AT Call: N7IP Call: N7XU Call: N8UM Call: N9NC Call: NA2U Call: NE1B Call: NM2O Call: NR4M Call: NX5M Call: NX6T Call: OH1F Call: OH2BBT Call: PA6K Call: PJ2T Call: PS2T Call: PT5T Call: PY2NDX Call: TM6M Call: V26DR Call: VE1OP Call: VE3AD Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3RZ Call: VE3TA Call: VE3XAT Call: W0AIH Call: W1UJ Call: W4SVO Call: W4UH Call: W4VIC Call: W6KC Call: W6OAT Call: W6SX Call: W7RN Call: WA3AFS Call: WB0TEV Call: WX3B Call: XE2B Call: YU1KX Call: ZF1A Call: ZL3IO Class: M/S LP Call: HC2UA Call: HL1VAU Call: K2ZC Call: K3FH Call: K3WI Call: K4MM Call: K4WW Call: K6AAB Call: K6JEB Call: K6WSC Call: K7XC Call: K8BL Call: K8GT Call: KB7Q Call: KD2RD Call: KM3T Call: LU1DBQ Call: LU5DX Call: N0HJZ Call: N3AFT Call: N4EEB Call: N5DO Call: N7TEW Call: NE1C Call: PI4TUE Call: PY1GQ Call: UA4ALI Call: VA7BEC Call: VA7DZ Call: VE3CWU Call: VK4WIL Call: W3SFG Call: W3ZGD Call: W4EE Call: W6TK Call: W7TVC Class: SO CW HP Call: 4Z1UF Call: A45XR Call: A65BD Call: AA3B Call: AA7A Call: AA7V Call: AD4EB Call: AI2N Call: EA4ZK Call: F5IN Call: IT9VDQ Call: K1RM Call: K1TN Call: K1TO Call: K2AXX Call: K2SSS Call: K3AJ Call: K3IU Call: K3SV Call: K3TN Call: K4GMH Call: K4HAL Call: K6LRN Call: K6SRZ Call: K6TU Call: K7BG Call: K8LV Call: K9FY Call: KC7V Call: KD4D Call: KE8M Call: KG9Z Call: KH7Y Call: KI7Y Call: KL7RA Call: KN5O Call: KR4F Call: KT0A Call: N1IW Call: N1LN Call: N1UR Call: N2CU Call: N2MM Call: N2NS Call: N3UM Call: N4AF Call: N4CW Call: N4DJ Call: N4DW Call: N4ZZ Call: N5ZK Call: N6TV Call: N6XI Call: N7CW Call: N7TR Call: N9RV Call: NA2M Call: NF8J Call: NG7A Call: NN3RP Call: NN7ZZ Call: NS9I Call: NY3A Call: PP1CZ Call: S57UN Call: SP2LNW Call: UA5C Call: UX4U Call: VA7ST Call: VE3EY Call: VE3NE Call: VE5UF Call: VE6WQ Call: VE7JH Call: VE7WO Call: VE7XF Call: VE9AA Call: VE9HF Call: VO1TA Call: VY2ZM Call: W0UCE Call: W1AJT Call: W1XX Call: W2LC Call: W4AU Call: W4NZ Call: W4PK Call: W4UAT Call: W4UK Call: W5KFT Call: W6PH Call: W6RLL Call: W6SDM Call: W6SZN Call: W7IJ Call: W7ZR Call: W8AV Call: W8FJ Call: W9SE Call: WB0LCW Call: WB2ABD Call: WC7Q Call: WJ9B Call: XR3A Call: ZC4LI Call: ZM2B Class: SO CW LP Call: AA4FU Call: AA8R Call: AC2FA Call: AD6WL Call: AE4O Call: AI7AA Call: C4Z Call: CX2BR Call: DL7BY Call: EA7RM Call: F8CRS Call: G3WGN Call: HG5D Call: HS0ZIA Call: IC8FBU Call: J35X Call: K0PC Call: K0RI Call: K1DC Call: K1GU Call: K1TR Call: K1YR Call: K2DB Call: K2ZR Call: K3IT Call: K4CX Call: K4EDI Call: K4FT Call: K4IQJ/4 Call: K4QPL Call: K5IID Call: K5LH Call: K5NA/M Call: K7QQ Call: K8WW Call: K9DR Call: K9QC Call: KA2D Call: KE7X Call: KI1U Call: KL8DX Call: KN0V Call: KN4Y Call: KS0M Call: KU8E Call: KV8Q Call: KZ2V Call: L33M Call: LW5HR Call: LY7Z Call: LZ2PS Call: LZ5XQ Call: M0CFW Call: N1DC Call: N2FF Call: N3AM Call: N3QE Call: N3ZZ Call: N4EK Call: N4FP Call: N4IJ Call: N4JF Call: N4TB Call: N4UC Call: N4WW Call: N6MU Call: N6WM Call: N7IR Call: N7WA Call: N9GUN Call: NM5M Call: NP3A Call: NW2K Call: OT4A Call: OZ4FF Call: PP5EJ Call: PY2WC Call: PY2ZXU Call: PY3OZ Call: PY4XX Call: PY4ZO Call: RA9AP Call: RT9S Call: RU9BS Call: RW4WM Call: RW9QA Call: SM6DER Call: T6LG Call: T6MO Call: VA3ATT Call: VA3EC Call: VA3KAI Call: VE1RGB Call: VE3IAE Call: VE7CV Call: W1END Call: W1OHM Call: W1TO Call: W1WBB Call: W2EG Call: W2GB Call: W2UP Call: W4GDG Call: W4IX Call: W5JBO Call: W6BIV Call: W6ZL Call: W7POE Call: W7VXS Call: W9ILY Call: WA1Z Call: WA4ZOF Call: WA5RML Call: WB4TDH Call: WB8JUI Call: WD4AHZ Call: WD5COV Call: WN6K Call: WX7G Class: SO CW QRP Call: EU1AA Call: K0LUZ Call: K0TI Call: K1DW Call: KS0MO Call: LU7HZ Call: N0JK Call: N7OU Call: N8XX Call: NQ2W Call: PP5BZ Call: PP6ZZ Call: W6JTI Call: WB8YYY Call: WB8YYY/3 Call: WC3O Call: Z35F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AA6PW Call: AA9A Call: AI6V/7 Call: AL1G Call: AL9A Call: CE1/K7CA Call: CE3FZ Call: DH8BQA Call: EA7KW Call: EF5Y Call: G0HVQ Call: GM5X Call: HG8W Call: HK1R Call: HL5YI Call: IQ9BT Call: IV3TMV Call: K0EJ Call: K0MD Call: K0ZX Call: K1BV Call: K2CYE Call: K3YDX Call: K4FX Call: K4LM Call: K5WP Call: K6LL Call: K6SRZ Call: K7ABV Call: K7JQ Call: K7RL Call: K9YC Call: KA3DRR Call: KB0EO Call: KC4HW Call: KD2JA Call: KE2VB Call: KI0F Call: KM6I Call: KT4TX Call: N0XR Call: N1SZ Call: N1TA Call: N2BJ Call: N2NC Call: N3XL Call: N3ZV Call: N4LZ Call: N4MM Call: N4NM Call: N4OX Call: N6HC Call: N8II Call: N8OO Call: ND4V Call: NI7R Call: NK3Y Call: NN1N Call: NN4F Call: NQ4I Call: OG6N Call: OM2VL Call: P40CX Call: R9AE Call: RT4RO Call: TI5/N2BA Call: US7L Call: VE3CX Call: VE3KZ Call: VE3MMQ Call: VE4VT Call: VE7IO Call: VY2TT Call: W0BH Call: W1KQ Call: W1RH Call: W1SRD Call: W4BAB Call: W4DD Call: W4GV Call: W4LT Call: W4QN Call: W4UT Call: W5GCX Call: W6AAN Call: W6YX Call: W7FI Call: W8OHT Call: WA0MHJ Call: WA2JQK Call: WA3F Call: WA4ZXV Call: WB9Z Call: WC6H Call: WR9D Call: WU6W Call: WX4G Call: XQ1KZ Call: Z37M Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AA3S Call: AA4NC Call: AA6K Call: AA7XT Call: AC0W Call: AK4QU Call: CX5TR Call: DL1NX Call: F5RD Call: G4FKA Call: HG8C Call: HQ2N Call: IK3ORD Call: K0AE Call: K0DI Call: K0TT Call: K1GI Call: K1VK Call: K1VSJ Call: K2PS Call: K3KU Call: K4FTO Call: K4LW Call: K4WI Call: K4ZGB Call: K6AM Call: K6CSL Call: K7FLI Call: K7IA Call: K7MM Call: K7SS Call: K7ULS Call: K7WP Call: KB3LIX Call: KC0DEB Call: KD5J Call: KD7H Call: KI7MT Call: KK4CIS Call: KM4JA Call: KS4L Call: KS4X Call: KT0K Call: KX7L Call: LU8EOT Call: LZ2DF Call: N1EN Call: N2NF Call: N4KH Call: N4PD Call: N4YDU Call: N6YEU Call: N6ZFO Call: N7RVD Call: N8VV Call: N9LYE Call: ND6S Call: NN3W Call: NN4RR Call: NT4H Call: NT6K Call: PJ4NX Call: PY2MC Call: PY9MM Call: RU9AZ Call: RX9CAZ Call: VE2EBK Call: VE3JI Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TW Call: VE5KS Call: VE6BMX Call: VE9ML Call: VY2LI Call: W0ETT Call: W0PAN Call: W0RU Call: W4WWQ Call: W6ZQ Call: W7QN Call: W9VQ Call: W9XT Call: WA1DRQ Call: WB4SQ Call: WB8BZK Call: WD0ECO Call: WD5K Call: WL7BDO Call: WP3A Call: XE2AU Call: YU/S56A Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K8MR Call: K9OM Call: KC0MO Call: KT8K Call: N1CC Call: N4OO Call: NA4CW Call: PY2NY Call: VA3RKM Class: SO SSB HP Call: 8P2K Call: AC8G Call: AK4I Call: CE1TT Call: CE3CT Call: CR6K Call: E71A Call: EA4TV Call: EE7K Call: K1KNQ Call: K1SD Call: K2JMY Call: K4NV Call: K4QE Call: K4XS Call: K5TR Call: K6KO Call: KA1GEU Call: KA4OTB Call: KE4CQ Call: KE4KMG Call: KM2O Call: LP1H Call: LR2F Call: N1GLT Call: N1SV Call: N2MUN Call: N4BCD Call: N7WR Call: NA5TR Call: NR5M Call: NX9T Call: PP5JD Call: SP3S Call: TM2B Call: VA3YP Call: VE3MIS Call: W3EP Call: W3LL Call: W3TZ Call: W5PR Call: W7WW Call: W9IIX Call: WA5OYU Call: WA8UEG Call: WB5WAJ Call: WH7DX Call: WK4P Call: WW4LL Call: YN5ZO Call: ZM1G Class: SO SSB LP Call: AE7VA Call: AI4UN Call: EE7Z Call: HI3K Call: IK2YCW Call: K1ZW Call: K4DMR Call: K6GHA Call: K7IDX/7 Call: K7VIT Call: K9ELF Call: K9JK Call: KB5JC Call: KC8RPV Call: KE4VH Call: KE7TM Call: KL2HD Call: KP2DX Call: KP4EU Call: KP4ROS Call: KS2G Call: KT8TD Call: LU5MT Call: LU6FOV Call: LU6KA Call: LU7DBL Call: N1JM Call: N2DD Call: N3ALN Call: N7BK Call: N7VM/6 Call: N8HM Call: N9TGR Call: NT8Z Call: PU2LEP Call: PU5FJR Call: PY1CG Call: PY1PL Call: PY1ZV Call: RV9CBW Call: VA7IR Call: VE2PIJ Call: VE3HMK Call: VE3TU Call: W0JTC Call: W1DYJ Call: W1TJL Call: W2TF Call: W4GKF Call: WB2RHM Call: WB4OMM Call: WV9E Call: XE2AA Call: XR1J Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KC5WA Call: KE2OI Call: ND0C Call: VE1ZA Call: W1CEK Call: W6QU