WPX SSB Soapbox built 4-30-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 2E0CVN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,565 At M8C for most of the contest but nice to give the 2E0 mult away once I got home! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,720,848 To be in SOAB was decided in few hours prior to the contest. I was absolutely realistic about the station/qth and my chances in this category but at the end desire to check some recently introduced antenna settings overcome the other SO options I was considering. SO2R was not used, this is something new to me and I had no time to set it properly though all the gears are there. I am happy to the decision I made since now have much better understanding to which direction further improvements are possible. Again despite the propagation glitches which most of us have experienced I really enjoyed working this contest. The whole contest was done running generator. Yet again strong winds prior and during contest caused frequent power shut downs and I just had no other reliable option other than relying on big generator which worked just fine. Wind nevertheless caused another problem, after the break I have found that both Yagi on 80m and 40 were beaming off. 80m Yagi was off about 90 degrees, probably that is an explanation why had terrible start with 80m and moved on 40 after an hour of operation. The rest I guess is self explanatory from the table. My sincere thanks to all who called 73 Gia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,351,127 Local thunderstorm closed Low bands totally for about one hour Sunday morning. Sorry for pushing back a big station to repeat numbers, but noise was +40dB….Thats what I missed for new EU record. Left last few hours for 40M beaming JAs, but forgot that in JA was Monday morning and Japanese are Japanese… In Montenegro we have to come on work when we have some spare time…Hi…. Thanks to all for calling. CU in WPX CW Ranko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5D5A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 35,102,025 .....MORE NEWS LATER ON....... WE NEED TO SLEEP NOW !!!!! THANK'S TO ALL THE PARTECIPANTS 73' DE MATT IK2SGC, STEVEN IK2QEI AND SAID CN8WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 30,315,222 Scott, W4PA, here. David KY1V told me on Monday after the contest "you like to write, put up the 3830 post with our score when you get back." Let me say -- what a fun weekend in Jamaica at the 6Y1V station. KY1V and K1LZ have gone to considerable effort to put up a major league contest station on the northwest side of the island near Montego Bay. All the toys you need are there -- rigs, big amps, monobander stacks on 10/15/20 plus 2 of the largest SteppIR antennas on two 140' towers. We continually got reports over the weekend that were "you're the loudest station on the band" or "I don't hear much anyone else right now, but you guys are 20 over 9 in [insert USA state]". The crew was myself, KY1V, K6AM, and WE9V. WE9V was putting in his second appearance in the Caribbean this month after running ARRL DX SSB at PJ2T SOABHP(A). WE9V had made up some op schedules prior to the contest and we ended up splitting the 96 available rig hours (M/2 = 48 hours x 2 radios = 96 op hours) roughly 15 for KY1V and 27-28 each for me, Chad, and John. Band conditions were predictably kind of bad. 15 meters opened weakly to Europe for a couple of hours each day and even the USA openings in the afternoon were pretty marginal. 10 never opened to the USA or EU -- all 21 QSO's were South America. In general, the peaks of Europe activity regardless of band were at local EU sundown/up -- we spent a whole lot of time listening to ESP-level weak signals in QRM on 40 meters trying for those valuable 6 pointers. One of the two op positions had a second radio in line with a commutator that allowed a second op to either click on spots or help listen to the run freq as needed -- me and K6AM spent the last two hours of the contest trying to pull out weak EU's at the same time while still daylight outside local. In the run up to operating last week, WE9V had sent out an email that suggested we try for the North American M/2 record. I was initially skeptical (you got me, Chad, you never had any doubt we were going to crush it) -- I figured we had the crew OK but the band conditions have been so horrific this month that I wondered if it would be reachable -- but I agreed we'd go for it. KY1V was at the mic when N2YO was worked on 40 in only the 28th hour of the contest when our claimed score passed the old mark. The claimed score is a tad over 30M; after log checking it ought to end up in the 28M range. The previous record was just under 16M set by V47KP in 2003. Cheers and a Red Stripe to David KY1V for having us down there this weekend to see and experience what he and Krassy have created. Hope to do it again! Pictures of past operations and station information are located on their website at www.6y1v.com 73 Scott W4PA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7J1AQH Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 187,985 Conditions were poor. Even worse than last year. W/VE were not that strong in general. Very few AF. Lots of EU but very few heard from western EU. Everybody heard was strong on 10m, but nobody heard outside of Oceania and Asia. Memory snippets and quotable quotes: K7RI: "Is my frequency clear? I'm not getting many responses!" (Yes, the frequency was very clear.) VE7SV: "Conditions are terrible!" (But you were still 59+10dB.) KH6???: You need to pause the digital voice keyer while CQing longer than 1 second if you expect anybody to answer. The pileup of JAs on 40m hardly got their first letter of their callsigns out before the CQ started again. If you couldn't hear those stations, something was wrong with your receiving system. We heard you 59+20dB. W?????: The split button is so you don't transmit on 7.045. JA????: The split button is so you don't transmit on 7.213. Everybody: Your sigs DON'T get louder if you talk faster. Once clearly is better than three times fast and fuzzy. Is a contact legitimate when the running station doesn't give his callsign for 5 contacts? Rules say the exchange is callsign/RS/serial for every contact. You deserve every dupe you get and every multiplier you missed. Check out operation at KP2TM....he gave his call EVERY single contact and his serial when last heard was 4000+. That's a winner. 7J1AQH: Good thing it's a hobby. Nobody could pay you to do this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P1A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 21,290,716 Absolutely brutal first 8 hours. High bands were good on Saturday afternoon. 40 was outstanding on Saturday night and I wished I took off more time the night before. The lowbands made the difference. Slightly higher score than my claimed score in 2006, which was a North American record. Unfortunately, in the interim, log checking has surely improved more than my accuracy. Not sure about achieving a "three-peat," but still a fun event. QSL via LOTW and NN1N 73, Tom W2SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A60A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 17,036,445 We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of our radio club "Varazdin" (9A1HDE / 9A7A). Thank you to all who stopped by. 73 de 9A7A / 9A60A team ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A6A Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,848,195 Location: Island Hvar EU - 016 (JN83GD) Antenna: TX - 2 x inv.V RX - NW, N, NE beverage Rig: TS690S + PA 1kW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9G5ZS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 20,461 Cracking the QRM into EU & US difficult.Conditions not ideal but tried to get few points. Need a linear next time HI. Thanks to all the nice and well disiplined operators. See you next time. de Emil 9G5ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 16,753,800 The condition was very bad, no qso made in 10m with EU only Asia & Africa. I hope the propagation will improve next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CCO Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Total Score = 530,159 Rig: ICOM IC-756 PRO III, 400 Watts into 5 band Spiderbeam (3-Elements on 20M/15M, 4-Elements on 10M and 2-Elements on 17/12M) approximately 40 feet high. Interesting and the greatest contest that I have participated so far. Other commitments did not permit a longer operating period, but nevertheless I was satisfied with the result. Very surprisingly, 15M opened up to 0300 Local and I managed to work many new DXCCs from South America. 10M was also opened, with JAs, and a few other stations coming in 59. 20M managed to create a huge EU pile up, and was opened later than usual too. 40M was bad though - something that I really must improve on. I should not have moved the antenna before the contest. Although this gave me 6 points but the slow run rate and local noise which made hearing even JA stations difficult did not justify it. Unfortunately, unknowing to me, the Spiderbeam was off by nearly 20 degrees! This made it difficult to listen to QRP stations - my apologies for having to turn down many QRP stations as I simply could not hear them. I even had problems listening to QRP JA stations, something that a turn of the beam to JA will usually do the trick. Thank you for such a great and interesting contest. Good DX and Happy Contesting :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M8Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,445,174 Rig: FT-1000MP, Commander amplifier, 17-ele Optibeam at 75ft (3-ele on 40m, 4-ele on 20 and 15m, 6-ele on 10m). Great contest and one of my best single operator efforts for several years. Conditions overall were not that good but there were nevertheless some great runs to Europe on 20m on both days and even on 15m on the Sunday. Amazing too to work Brazil (antipodes of Borneo) long-path on 15m at 2.30am local time! Even 10m cooperated after a fashion with S9 signals from JA / HL / BY and VK (which was half expected) but also good signals from South Africa, Middle East and even a few Southern / Eastern Europeans (which was certainly not expected!) I found very little activity from US stations on 40m. I worked every single one that I heard calling CQ above 7150, usually first call, but when I called CQ myself and listened in the US phone band not a SINGLE station came back to me. Where were you all? Despite this there were many Americans who transmitted below 7100kHz to tell me to listen up when I was running Asians below 7100kHz. Hey guys, this is a contest, not a DXpedition! Why should I break a run of 6-point JAs that I was working at 2 or 3 a minute to spend perhaps several minutes trying to find a clear frequency among the S9 plus 40dB broadcast carriers to pick up a single US signal? You should have been there when I was listening for you! As usual I slept too much and only worked 30 of the possible 36 hours. Did I do enough to win Oceania? Only time will tell! 73, Steve, 9M8Z (op 9M6DXX, ex-G4JVG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5B Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,249,494 Didn't have much time to operate this weekend, and only got on the air for 2 of the last 25 hrs so it sounds like I missed the better half of the contest. Did get to use the Elecraft K3 for the first time, and liked it a lot. Thanks to Peter, K5HAB, for letting me use his station. 73, Bruce K3 + Acom Force 12 tribander (C3?) at 70 ft 80/40 inverted vees at 60 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD0K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,460 Poor band conditions during time I was operating. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SO(A)SB40 LP Total Score = 88,086 Had a great time, really enjoyed the pile ups on 40 meters. Everything went smoothly this time which made it even more enjoyable. Had to disqualify myself due to operator error using my N1MM software. It has an option of spotting all S&P's which I selected. Problem was however when I started my run I forgot to check the 'run' box so it spotted ever contact I made. Therefore due to self spotting I disqualified myself and will only be submitting my log as a check sheet. thanks to all for the contacts and good luck to everyone. Next year I hope to be more careful and submit a log to entry. Bob AD5VJ http://www.ad5vj.com/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1P Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 427,356 Had fun, really impressed with the hex-beam, opened up a lot of EU for me 73 Neil AE1P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AF6T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 604,117 Wow..condx really were poor Saturday AM, got better on Sunday. Test ended before I was ready for it to end. I was on a 70+/hr run when the clock ran out. Doug Adams was right about the magic number...two of us landed on QSO #42 at the same time! Did work any EU. Thanks for pullng out the QSOs on 80m with my really weak signal. K6TD/KR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4ME Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 37,236 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's CQ WPX Contest Log 2.5 ARRL-SECTION: VA CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB CALLSIGN: AI4ME CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 37236 OPERATORS: AI4ME CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club NAME: Don Michalek ADDRESS: 2437 Broomsedge Trail ADDRESS: Virginia Beach, VA 23456 ADDRESS: (e-mail) ai4me@cox.net SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0138 AI4ME 59 001 W0ZP 59 266 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0140 AI4ME 59 002 8P1A 59 3446 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0142 AI4ME 59 003 HI3C 59 1831 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0143 AI4ME 59 004 S50A 59 1721 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0147 AI4ME 59 005 S566D 59 1657 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0155 AI4ME 59 006 KT5J 59 1730 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0208 AI4ME 59 007 PS2T 59 2013 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0215 AI4ME 59 008 WA7NB 59 955 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0216 AI4ME 59 009 S53M 59 668 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0218 AI4ME 59 010 OK5R 59 1960 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0219 AI4ME 59 011 KP2TM 59 2621 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0220 AI4ME 59 012 NX5M 59 737 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0225 AI4ME 59 013 W1CU 59 1170 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0228 AI4ME 59 014 WG7X 59 614 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0230 AI4ME 59 015 WC6H 59 635 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0233 AI4ME 59 016 NR6O 59 934 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0258 AI4ME 59 017 PR7AA 59 215 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0259 AI4ME 59 018 AM3SSB 59 538 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0302 AI4ME 59 019 4O3A 59 2614 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0306 AI4ME 59 020 NX7TT 59 991 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0309 AI4ME 59 021 FY1FL 59 1123 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0310 AI4ME 59 022 8R1K 59 1864 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0312 AI4ME 59 023 P43A 59 417 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0314 AI4ME 59 024 TO6T 59 2013 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0323 AI4ME 59 025 VQ58V 59 2143 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0328 AI4ME 59 026 TO5A 59 1716 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0331 AI4ME 59 027 W5VX 59 333 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0353 AI4ME 59 028 6Y1V 59 1187 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0441 AI4ME 59 029 YW5T 59 444 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 0448 AI4ME 59 030 FY5FY 59 1870 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1447 AI4ME 59 031 VA3SWG 59 418 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1448 AI4ME 59 032 NR8U 59 183 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1450 AI4ME 59 033 NU1AW 59 387 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1451 AI4ME 59 034 NQ4I 59 1774 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1452 AI4ME 59 035 W1GUS 59 896 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1452 AI4ME 59 036 VE3DZ 59 1984 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1454 AI4ME 59 037 W8MJ 59 1394 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1457 AI4ME 59 038 VP2E 59 289 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1459 AI4ME 59 039 NX5M 59 1616 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1503 AI4ME 59 040 HD2A 59 1988 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1507 AI4ME 59 041 KO0U 59 713 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1509 AI4ME 59 042 VE6FI 59 711 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1509 AI4ME 59 043 WP3C 59 1151 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1512 AI4ME 59 044 S50K 59 1909 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1513 AI4ME 59 045 N5DO 59 871 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1518 AI4ME 59 046 PW2D 59 1439 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1519 AI4ME 59 047 ZX5J 59 3213 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1523 AI4ME 59 048 ZW5B 59 1666 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1538 AI4ME 59 049 FY5FY 59 2185 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1541 AI4ME 59 050 8R1K 59 2334 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1550 AI4ME 59 051 NE1C 59 559 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1556 AI4ME 59 052 N2XD 59 392 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1558 AI4ME 59 053 VE6SV 59 616 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1604 AI4ME 59 054 K4PV 59 1586 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1611 AI4ME 59 055 AC6DX 59 677 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1618 AI4ME 59 056 PY2YU 59 2555 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1624 AI4ME 59 057 5D5A 59 2109 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1626 AI4ME 59 058 AO8A 59 2346 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1627 AI4ME 59 059 EA8CDI 59 583 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1629 AI4ME 59 060 CQ3T 59 1466 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1630 AI4ME 59 061 CT9L 59 3629 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1635 AI4ME 59 062 D44AC 59 2703 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1640 AI4ME 59 063 HK3JJH 59 616 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1643 AI4ME 59 064 YV1CTE 59 507 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1645 AI4ME 59 065 LT0H 59 775 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1650 AI4ME 59 066 8P1A 59 4577 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1655 AI4ME 59 067 FG/OM3LA 59 3754 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1657 AI4ME 59 068 TO1C 59 588 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1659 AI4ME 59 069 TO6T 59 2889 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1701 AI4ME 59 070 PJ2T 59 695 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1702 AI4ME 59 071 P40A 59 3270 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1702 AI4ME 59 072 VP2MAH 59 1254 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1703 AI4ME 59 073 P49Y 59 3113 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1707 AI4ME 59 074 YV4GLD 59 110 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1711 AI4ME 59 075 WP2Z 59 2472 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1712 AI4ME 59 076 LU1NDC 59 1584 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1716 AI4ME 59 077 KP2TM 59 3606 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1718 AI4ME 59 078 LT1F 59 1882 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1723 AI4ME 59 079 VP2E 59 755 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1725 AI4ME 59 080 TI5N 59 501 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 1738 AI4ME 59 081 6Y1V 59 2428 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1938 AI4ME 59 082 LP1H 59 2241 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 1940 AI4ME 59 083 TO5A 59 2516 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1947 AI4ME 59 084 K2QMF 59 083 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1948 AI4ME 59 085 WE3C 59 1256 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1949 AI4ME 59 086 AJ1M 59 440 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 1953 AI4ME 59 087 AG9/NP2I 59 569 QSO: 7000 PH 2008-03-30 2006 AI4ME 59 088 N2RRA 59 349 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2009 AI4ME 59 089 W6AFA 59 953 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2011 AI4ME 59 090 HG80HQ 59 1778 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2013 AI4ME 59 091 AA5B 59 1464 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2016 AI4ME 59 092 VE3CX 59 1694 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2017 AI4ME 59 093 N6XT 59 1401 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2018 AI4ME 59 094 W1CU 59 1614 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2021 AI4ME 59 095 VQ58V 59 2888 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2022 AI4ME 59 096 W7EB 59 1114 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2024 AI4ME 59 097 EE2W 59 1596 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2028 AI4ME 59 098 OM3BH 59 2711 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2032 AI4ME 59 099 W7WA 59 2405 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2034 AI4ME 59 100 OM7M 59 1796 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2035 AI4ME 59 101 YW4M 59 1728 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2036 AI4ME 59 102 HA3OV 59 3023 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2037 AI4ME 59 103 S53M 59 1424 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2038 AI4ME 59 104 S57AL 59 1866 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2039 AI4ME 59 105 FG/OM3LA 59 4455 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2041 AI4ME 59 106 W1CU 59 369 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2043 AI4ME 59 107 WN6K 59 659 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2044 AI4ME 59 108 XE2S 59 644 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2048 AI4ME 59 109 YW4M 59 1363 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2051 AI4ME 59 110 WX5S 59 166 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2051 AI4ME 59 111 K6NA 59 680 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2052 AI4ME 59 112 WC6H 59 156 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2055 AI4ME 59 113 PP5JD 59 3103 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2058 AI4ME 59 114 PR5Z 59 1361 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2059 AI4ME 59 115 AY8A 59 1513 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2101 AI4ME 59 116 N6PEQ 59 2684 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2105 AI4ME 59 117 PT5A 59 2207 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2110 AI4ME 59 118 OP4K 59 981 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2129 AI4ME 59 119 P49Y 59 3799 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2132 AI4ME 59 120 VQ59W 59 2029 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2142 AI4ME 59 121 TO5A 59 2732 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2143 AI4ME 59 122 W6TK 59 1315 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2144 AI4ME 59 123 HI3T 59 2533 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2146 AI4ME 59 124 K7RI 59 719 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2148 AI4ME 59 125 YV1RDX 59 1226 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2149 AI4ME 59 126 ZX2B 59 2807 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2154 AI4ME 59 127 ZY7C 59 1572 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2204 AI4ME 59 128 PY3DX 59 920 QSO: 21000 PH 2008-03-30 2206 AI4ME 59 129 PR1T 59 1405 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2216 AI4ME 59 130 TM1W 59 2418 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2219 AI4ME 59 131 VE5FX 59 380 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2221 AI4ME 59 132 8P1A 59 5483 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2343 AI4ME 59 133 NC0B 59 395 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2346 AI4ME 59 134 WC6H 59 1334 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2350 AI4ME 59 135 W8RJL 59 402 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2352 AI4ME 59 136 WK0P 59 890 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2353 AI4ME 59 137 AD5DX 59 1115 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2355 AI4ME 59 138 N0QO 59 326 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2356 AI4ME 59 139 ZP0R 59 243 QSO: 14000 PH 2008-03-30 2359 AI4ME 59 140 KT5J 59 2454 END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK1W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 304,735 Operated first day from home, then flew to Austria and was able to operate a few hours from OE6MBG. Great fun to work the contest from two continents and hear how different the contest sounds from each place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK4I Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 221,361 Worked when I could. Didn't really worry about Uniques or total score. Just in it for the fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK6M Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 278,124 Battling the flu, but managed to sniff through 20 hours. Conditions were pretty bad first day, but picked up Sunday morning. Had difficulty hearing many European stations. QRN was S9+ for many hours. Always an enjoyable contest. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John AK6M (K6MM) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AM3SSB Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,881,454 Look the number of QSO's it's the same of this list's name, amazing :-)). Our first time as M/2, and was fun but the simultanously RUN was less than expected mainly due to propagation conditions. Bad conditions in 10m and 15m, keeping the focus in 20m and 40m. 73'S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AM7M Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 865,152 Couldn't work on Sunday but it was funny. cu in the next on ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AO8A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 45,960,171 Most difficult conditions with both propagation and our generators for long time. But we were able to keep our 4 stations running most of the contest nevertheless. Tnx to all for QSOs and see you next time ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AY8A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 3,269,376 I began the competition with some fever and throat pain, on Saturday I slept great part of the day and let us recover. Me on Sunday I woke up better and I could enjoy the competition. TX: TS-870 Amplifier: AL-1200 Antenna: (10-15-20) JVP-34-DX (40m dipole invested V) 73 de Diego - LU8ADX / AY8A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B7P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,741,595 What a very happy contest time! We can't run 48hrs since mostly OP have business or homeworks at this weekend. 15m very good to EU at sunday, but all band bad to NA! Our 80/160m antenna no ready at that moment, haha... see you in WPX cw contest... Ant: 10m - 5 ele homemade 15m - 5 ele create CL15 20m - 4 ele create CL20 40m - 3 ele create CL40B-4 80/160m - N/A Rig: IC-756PRO3 and TS-850s Amp: TL-922x2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,884,075 Condiciones muy duras para bandas bajas, los 15 metros fue la mejor banda con una muy buena apertura con EU la mañana del Sábado, y los 10 metros aun sin remontar, solo algunas aperturas esporádicas durante las tardes pero que no da para mucho... Felicitaciones a todos 73 CE4CT, Roberto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2BC Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 4,800,698 RIG: IC 7000 (100W) 5-ele-Tribander + Sloper ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 16,271,100 2nd day was better to NA. The band was mostly dead for 4 of my operating hours ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CS2T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,244,488 First of all I wanna congratulate Ranko 4O3A, G4PIQ and OK1RI for FB scores, surelly my station is not at the level to compete with them. Anyway, nice competition and FB Operators. Conditions were not as I expected, it was kinda frustrating hearing CT1JLZ running Central and North Europe on saturday afternoon on 15m, and I couldnt even hear them... Something that makes me even more frustated was knowing that 15m was highly open to USA (N2NL59+10, WN1GIV 59+20) on sunday afternoon and I couldnt get a decent run, where were all USA station? QSOs: 40% NA 50% Europe 2 hours of my Off period had to be the last 2 hours of the contest, because I had Classes at University on Monday morning at 0800! I was having FB runs from USA on 20m when I had to QRT, next time I will try to be untill the end, the end always brings you new surprises... 73's cu in WPX CW... as CS2T CT1ILT Filipe Lopes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT7X Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,664,260 Mr Murphy made a couple of visits... Not so much time to prepare our humble effort. Not even a Linear Amplifier, we had, to compete on our category. We assembled the station a few minutes b4 start. The TS2000 failed to receive a couple of CQ's after, at least CT1ERK brought his TS50 as backup radio. We assembled a G5RV during the first hour of contest to allow a running station and a multi station on the lower bands. N1MM failed in the beginning, which cost us a few Qs (and a couple of logged Qs). We were just 3 ops so we couldn't manage a full 48h effort but we tried to rest/sleep the less as possible. The lack of filters made operation of the multiplier station a bit difficult. Our goals were, at least 1k Qs or 1M Pts. We achieve them, so, at the end, we were kind'a happy. Setup: Antennas: TH3JRS, Diammond Dipole, G5RV (small ver). Radios: Icom 706 MKIIG, TS50. Pwr: 100W (@ both radios) PC: 2 Asus laptops + wired network Log: N1MM The TS50 didnt have CAT control, so basically we lost cat control from the main radio right in the beginning :( Well, after all, we did this for fun, we had it and we want more :) Must thank: .the AEP25 Scouts Group for their support (CT1FWS and the group) .CT1EYN Costa, for being always available ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT9L Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 16,735,000 Soap First of thanks to CQ hall of fame Walter (DJ6QT) who let me use his station on Madeira (CT3). After operating with some of the big stations like DR1A and PJ2T it was rally my number one wish to try out some single op effort. Walters QTH has a TH5 beam installed and a arsenal of fibreglass poles and millions of wires on stock. The class to participate was a fast decision, as this is a textbook example for Single Operator All Band (Three-Band Single-Element – formerly known as threeband-wire) My first goals were to capture the 4000 QSO’s I almost made in 2004 as PJ4P and have fun. In this time zone the contest started of course on the lowbands. Did I mention how much I hate the lowbands? Double point’s per QSO is worth it, but I was so fet up after a few hours that I decided to put in a first early break. I’d rather run 180/h on 15/20m than 90/h on the lowbands fighting splatters and QRM for the same amount of points. The next morning was much better. 20m is like 40 in the sunspot minimum, but finally I found some really nice rates on 15m. I stayed on 15m as long as possible and decided to return to 20m when the daylight goes off in Europe. Perfect decision! Just hit 20m and immediately running close to 200/h into stateside. After day one the 4000 Q’s mark felt like a piece of cake, but day two brought me back to the ground. Lots of begging for QSO’s and it was really hard to get higher than 140 Q’s/h. Towards the end of day two I hit a great opening into states side and the fantastic discipline of the US op’s, again saved my day. A little bit of my beloved low bands at the end and the finish line was crossed with well above 4200 Q’s and 16.7 million points. After the dust settled …. There was just one thought: WHAT A FUN WAS THIS!!!!! Equipment used: Yaesu FT-1000 Mark-V (lost and found by the airline) Acom 2000 Linear (thanks’ Walter) TH5 Beam (also know as the weapon of maximum impact) Vertical Wires on 40/80 (always fun to built and a surprise how they work) Heil Quietphone Pro 4 (anty rag chew capsular) Thanks to all who worked and supported me. Sorry to all I did not copy with the terrible qrm at times. CT9L QSL via DJ6QT comments and complaints to df7zs@darc.de 73sss Helmut ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 212,280 Rig: TS-440S/AT + 500w Ant dipoles 10-40-80, 15, and 20 73´s Dan CX9AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D44AC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,428,749 Started as a M/S effort with D4C callsign, the visit of Murphy has destroyed our plans ... First of all Santos CT1DVV was sick the days before the contest and has returned urgently to Portugal, now his is in good shape, we missed you ! A lot of antenna works has been done installing 11 antennas for all band, but the contest weekend was the windest days of the last 3 months and we lost after 4 hours of Contest our low band temporary wire antennas, so the contest was out. Bit disapponted we decided to get only some fun, so a single ops 15m effort was done, just to squeeze the band from this new QTH with the new antennas. Both logs ( D4C 4 hours ) and D44AC 15m multiop will be sended as control log. Hope next time to have more stronger antennas and a sunshine weekend. In the next days more pictures and video will be uploaded at www.d4c.cc Thank's to everyone called us 73 de Fabio I4UFH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DA0BCC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,670,232 BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG ----------------------------------- 160 285 2 47 541 1.90 80 999 13 331 2013 2.02 40 951 13 254 2415 2.54 20 1191 5 356 2535 2.13 15 446 6 154 882 1.98 10 23 0 2 67 2.91 ----------------------------------- TOTAL 3895 39 1144 8453 2.17 =================================== TOTAL SCORE : 9 670 232 Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DA0CA Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 869,528 40 ft vertical + low dipole 80m 73 de Frank DL1R.E.M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF1LON Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 200,928 Just a part time activity on saturday from 12UTC for 10h. TS850+FB33+FD4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ7EC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 424,230 Bad condx, so stopped on Saturday evening. Missed a lot of USA, heard not a single JA. CU in CW leg! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,301,930 We had some trouble thru storm Emma some weeks ago and could use the big tower. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next few weeks to have some good low band antennas again. Thanks for all the calls thru the big QRM :-), Vy73 de Matt DJ8OG, and Walt DJ6QT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK5OS Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Total Score = 236,799 Contest : CQ World Wide WPX Contest Callsign : DK5OS Mode : PHONE Category : Single Operator - Assisted (SOA) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 20 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : Locator : JO31NM Operating time : 14h36 BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG ----------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 0 0 0 0 0.00 40 0 0 0 0 0.00 20 423 1 317 747 1.77 15 0 0 0 0 0.00 10 0 0 0 0 0.00 ----------------------------------- TOTAL 423 1 317 747 1.77 =================================== TOTAL SCORE : 236 799 Duplikate werden nicht mitgezählt und sind nicht in den Schnittberechnungen enthalten Operators : DK5OS (@DL0GK) Soapbox : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 504,794 RIG: ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, 5-ele-tribander, 2x24m dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1ELY Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,731,348 Thanks to Tom, DL2OBO, for ofering me his fine station. That was great Hospitality! Vy 73 de Stefan, DL1ELY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1Z Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 2,493,888 Very poor dx conditions at my location on the first day and very hard to get a usable run frequency. Conditions improved on sunday and despite beaming only fixed east/west direction much more dx made it into the log. I spend more time S&P then running on both days. Station: IC-751A+L4B 5/5@31m+19m fixed USA, another 5L@43m to the east. All antennas hard wired parallel. 73 Peter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,357,731 I wanted to enjoy the station setup but was not motivated enough to do the entire 36 hours. Instead I decided to get as much sleep as possible and picked those hours that suited me best for operating. That way I could still share the meals with the family and play radio. Everybody was happy! Condx were not great at all. I spent S&P most of the time. To find a good spot to run was almost impossible. Especially on 20m. On 40m it worked but the expected US run would just never happen. I think there are not more than six or seven JA's in the log. I disregarded 80 too much and therefore missed too many easy mults. Highlights: - KH7B and NH6P with decent signals on 20 at 1830z on Sunday. - F5xxx starting to call CQ on my 40m frequency asking for stations who are not in the contest. He was gone after five minutes. Goog god... - G3PYI reminding me on 40 that I am transmitting on USB instead of LSB. I was thankful for the hint but noticed that the time was ripe for a nap (tnx OM). - The power supply that is providing most of the station equipment with power ended in smoke. At least I found a solution to feed the Six Pack and the Stack match with power and could then finish the last hours of the contest. See you in WPX CW Maik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DM4DX Class: SOSB40 QRP Total Score = 10,112 Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 160: 80: 40: 73 20: 15: 10: ------------ Total: 73 Prefixes = 64 Total Score = 10,112 Condx not at its best. Participating just for fun only for a couple of hours as QRP station with Delta-Loop. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,417,060 IC-756 PRO III IC-7000 10/15/20m SteppIR 3el 40m rotary dipole 80m 1/4 vertical 160m dipole 66m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 23,599,660 Compared to last year Saturday's propagation was better, but Sunday was much worse. We could improve our lowband results, but have about 500 QSOs less on 20m, missing mostly USA with rare prefixes (there was a very productive 20m opening last year on Sunday evening). While last year there was at least SOME 15m opening to USA, it didn't happen this year. Just a few on skew path. 40m USA was a complete loss in my eyes: not one single W/VE in the first night, only a weak opening in the second night. Late Sunday it started around 2230z, but never really opened. Big guns were 5/5 on the meter. New to our group was Gerard, PA1TX, who came over on Saturday for a few hours. Everyone else had been operating from here before. We were very happy to receive Teemu (SM0W) again coming in from Stockholm, and Kazu (JK3GAD) from London over "Niederrhein Airport" (NRN), which is only about 10 km away from the station. Amazing that you can fly in at prices cheaper than what I spend in my car driving to the station on the Autobahn... :-) On Friday before the contest we enjoyed a picture show of the recent VP6DX expedition (DL3DXX and DL6FBL were in the team). And here were also most of the members of the upcoming VK9DWX expedition to Willis Island (VK9W). Final decisions about the schedule will be made in one month. See you in WPX CW ! 73 Ben DL6FBL for the DR1A team http://www.dr1a.com http://www.vp6dx.com http://willis2008.dl1mgb.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E77DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,232,436 In last 2 years i was running WPX SSB as MO, so i allmost frogot how it´s to be SO in this one. Main plan was M/2 but since we did´t get the team togther i decide on thursday evening (when i get to my QTH in E7 land) to go SOAB! on my way to Bosnia i allmost lost 2 radios (comming from repair) and one AMP on the border. I cross many many times E7 border with my radio equipment without any problems but this time was very very bad, they keep me there for more as 2 hours there and with lot of luck (€) was able to to continue my trip! There was a lot of work on the station before....station was never before setup for SO2R and i needed to repair 160m inv V (was three times on 50m high tower), to put up beverages-only 3 of them (we need to remove 6 beverages after ARRL CW) and to do some improvments in antenna switching and filtering as well. Finaly everything was ready few hours before contest.I had even time for 1,5 hours of sleep before :) ! Contest was great fun.Very good rates and great acitivity. I made few mistakes, to much S&P, to less time spend on 40m (to less 6 points QSO´s there),.... Satrday evning durning the good opening to NA on 20m we had big rain and very high statik what made my run pretty slow. But the bigest problem was after spending allmost whole first night on 80m, staying without electrical power for more as 4 hours 2nd night.Instade operating for 6 points on 80m and 40m during second night i was operating durig sonday morning mosltly EU on 15 and 20...finaly missing some QSO´s points (in compare to others nostly on 40m). Worked only 10 USA + VE astations first and second night on 40m and about 80 station in last hour of contest! Sonday morning after i get power again i realize that my SO2R Box (EZ MASTER) doesn´t work any more. Did some recableing and contniue the contest without SO2R box. Setup: FT-2000 FT-1000MP EZMASTER SO2R BOX OM POWER AMP + HOME MADE AMP (LV6) 160m inv V @ 50m 80m inv V @ 30m 40m 2 el yagi @ 32m 20m 4 el yagi @ 32m 15m 6 el yagi @ 29m 10m 6 el yagi @ 24m 160/80/40 Titanex Vertical V160HD 20/15/10 KT34XA @ 19m 3 x beverages je 120m JA,USA,AF you cann see few contest pics clicking on following link: http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=35 It was great to work satraday afternoon Randy K5ZD from USA, and sonday afternoon from OE (@OE6MBG QTH). Funny! Congratulations to M6T,OK5R and 4O3A! Tnx for calling me and hope to work you in WPX CW! 73 es best dx de OE1(4)EMS - E77DX Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1EEY Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,788,540 It's been great come back to the competition!. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 540,147 I was a bit tired from the RusDX and I don't have energy for the SOAB on this contests. I was thinking that 15m. will be a good option for me this time: and I'm satisfied with the result. With this fair conditions, I hope to find more people on the band, but, anyway, It was funny. Nice to log some USA stations till the contest end. Thanks everybody for calling. 73 de Jose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5KV Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 2,379,902 THANKS FOR ALL CALL MY. see you in the next contest. EA5KV Victor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8OM Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 774,235 Due to strong winds during contest 40m dipole was distroyed. The internet (cluster) was not available most of the time. Everything else was ok! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE2W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,373,136 Thanks to all..!!! See you on WPX CW..! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EH8A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,328,796 This is our claimed score during our very fun participation in this contest. Our participation it's mainly in 15 and 20 meters and some QSOs in 10 and 40 meters, but very poor.- TNX to my very good friend Peter EC8ADW, I can to be on the air again for to contact many contest friends this week end. thanks you to all for the QSOs, we are very happy and fun during the contest. 73 friends ! from EA8AUW & EC8ADW as EH8A this time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES90C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,284,524 A lot of problems in the beginning this time. Band decoders burned down due to a short circuit and some other unexpected failures so first 10 hours was heavy soldering and not very efficient operating. Anyhow, interesting contest despite non-existant propagation. Almost no NA on any other bands then 20m. We can only imagine the amount of ES9CS, ES9ZS and similar calls in other logs, it was not easy:) Still, such a call helps as the QSO count shows!:) No stations ever heard on 10m and 15m was open mostly only to Asia. Funny moment was being spotted on 80m as ES9OC at the end of the contest. That brought immidiate big gun pile up who refused to listen to the actual callsign and demanded QSO. Obviously they did not notice having O insted of 0 on their callsign field. So I had no other choice as to work following dupes: DL0BRI, S52AW, OL7R, HA1YI, YO5PEZ, EE2W, SV1EBV, TC3EC, SX3Z, DL0WW and some others. Congratulations to 9A7A who are in different world from us:) We are happy to exceed UU7J score and sorry to hear about their problems. Any other M/2 scores coming up? Let's try again in WPX CW and hope for better propagation then! Find our continents, rate sheet and prefixes below. 73 Tonno ES5TV ES90C By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 !Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ---------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! 102 ! 25 ! ! ! ! 127 ! ! 01 ! 11 ! 68 ! 37 ! ! ! ! 116 ! ! 02 ! 57 ! 78 ! 13 ! ! ! ! 148 ! ! 03 ! 36 ! 37 ! 10 ! ! ! ! 83 ! ! 04 ! 5 ! 31 ! 80 ! 9 ! ! ! 125 ! ! 05 ! ! 9 ! 45 ! 78 ! ! ! 132 ! ! 06 ! ! 27 ! 55 ! 64 ! ! ! 146 ! ! 07 ! ! 3 ! 43 ! 134 ! ! ! 180 ! ! 08 ! ! ! 39 ! 131 ! 6 ! ! 176 ! ! 09 ! ! ! 33 ! 110 ! 24 ! ! 167 ! ! 10 ! ! ! 15 ! 93 ! 12 ! ! 120 ! ! 11 ! ! ! 9 ! 100 ! 21 ! ! 130 ! ! 12 ! ! ! 8 ! 111 ! 15 ! ! 134 ! ! 13 ! ! ! 12 ! 70 ! 8 ! ! 90 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 40 ! 51 ! 12 ! ! 103 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 50 ! 62 ! 9 ! ! 121 ! ! 16 ! ! 9 ! 42 ! 71 ! 2 ! ! 124 ! ! 17 ! ! 9 ! 45 ! 71 ! 1 ! ! 126 ! ! 18 ! ! 9 ! 50 ! 48 ! ! ! 107 ! ! 19 ! ! 15 ! 84 ! 77 ! ! ! 176 ! ! 20 ! ! 32 ! 104 ! 16 ! ! ! 152 ! ! 21 ! ! 42 ! 84 ! 12 ! ! ! 138 ! ! 22 ! 10 ! 25 ! 75 ! ! ! ! 110 ! ! 23 ! 9 ! 28 ! 42 ! ! ! ! 79 ! ! 00 ! 29 ! 19 ! 15 ! ! ! ! 63 ! ! 01 ! 52 ! 23 ! 3 ! ! ! ! 78 ! ! 02 ! 35 ! 26 ! 3 ! ! ! ! 64 ! ! 03 ! 16 ! 28 ! 3 ! 4 ! ! ! 51 ! ! 04 ! 16 ! 6 ! 38 ! 24 ! ! ! 84 ! ! 05 ! ! 5 ! 48 ! 22 ! 11 ! ! 86 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 57 ! 60 ! 6 ! ! 123 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 58 ! 83 ! 10 ! ! 151 ! ! 08 ! ! ! 56 ! 93 ! 13 ! ! 162 ! ! 09 ! ! ! 34 ! 111 ! 4 ! ! 149 ! ! 10 ! ! ! 30 ! 88 ! 5 ! ! 123 ! ! 11 ! ! ! 27 ! 64 ! 3 ! ! 94 ! ! 12 ! ! ! 30 ! 114 ! 2 ! ! 146 ! ! 13 ! ! ! 27 ! 73 ! 1 ! ! 101 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 27 ! 49 ! 1 ! ! 77 ! ! 15 ! ! 4 ! 31 ! 57 ! ! ! 92 ! ! 16 ! ! 6 ! 24 ! 66 ! ! ! 96 ! ! 17 ! ! 20 ! 38 ! 33 ! ! ! 91 ! ! 18 ! ! 72 ! 46 ! 10 ! ! ! 128 ! ! 19 ! 2 ! 55 ! 43 ! 15 ! ! ! 115 ! ! 20 ! 4 ! 77 ! 70 ! 6 ! ! ! 157 ! ! 21 ! 10 ! 47 ! 31 ! ! ! ! 88 ! ! 22 ! 16 ! 42 ! 10 ! 3 ! ! ! 71 ! ! 23 ! 38 ! 47 ! ! 5 ! ! ! 90 ! ---------------------------------------------------- ! ! 346 ! 1001 !1789 ! 2288 ! 166 ! ! 5590 ! ES90C - Continents By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 96.3% ! 0.6% ! ! 0.3% ! 2.9% ! ! ! 80 ! 93.1% ! 0.3% ! 0.9% ! 0.9% ! 4.6% ! 0.2% ! ! 40 ! 87.9% ! 0.8% ! 2.2% ! 0.8% ! 7.2% ! 1.1% ! ! 20 ! 57.3% ! 15.7% ! 2.2% ! 1.7% ! 19.4% ! 3.6% ! ! 15 ! 36.7% ! ! 18.7% ! 13.9% ! 17.5% ! 13.3% ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Worked prefixes 2E0 2E1 2I0 2J0 2W0 3A0 3A2 3V8 3W9 3Z10 4D75 4J7 4K8 4K9 4L0 4L2 4O3 4O7 4O8 4X6 4Z4 4Z5 5B4 5C5 5D5 5P1 5Q2 5T5 6K2 6M0 6Y1 7J1 7J4 7K3 7K4 7M1 7P8 7S0 7Z1 8F4 8P1 8R1 8S5 9A1 9A2 9A3 9A4 9A5 9A50 9A6 9A60 9A7 9A8 9G5 9H1 9K2 9M2 9M6 9M8 9Q1 9V1 9Y4 A41 A52 A62 A73 A92 AA0 AA1 AA3 AA6 AB2 AB3 AB8 AC0 AC9 AD4 AD7 AH0 AH2 AJ9 AK1 AM0 AM1 AM3 AM4 AM5 AM7 AN1 AN2 AN7 AO1 AO2 AO3 AO5 AO7 AO8 AY8 B1 B4 B7 BA4 BA5 BA7 BD1 BD3 BD4 BD7 BG3 BG4 BG5 BG6 BG7 BP0 BU2 BV0 BV4 BX4 BX5 BY1 BY6 BY7 C4 C91 CE4 CN2 CN8 CO6 CQ3 CQ95 CS2 CT0 CT1 CT6 CT7 CT8 CT9 CU1 CU3 CX8 CX9 D2 D4 D44 DA0 DA6 DB1 DB2 DB4 DB5 DB7 DB8 DB9 DC2 DC3 DC4 DC6 DC7 DC9 DD0 DD5 DD6 DD7 DD8 DD9 DF0 DF1 DF2 DF3 DF4 DF5 DF7 DF8 DF9 DG0 DG1 DG2 DG3 DG4 DG5 DG6 DG7 DG8 DG9 DH0 DH1 DH2 DH3 DH4 DH5 DH6 DH7 DH8 DH9 DJ0 DJ1 DJ2 DJ3 DJ4 DJ5 DJ6 DJ7 DJ8 DJ9 DK0 DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6 DK7 DK8 DK9 DL0 DL1 DL2 DL3 DL4 DL5 DL6 DL7 DL75 DL8 DL9 DM1 DM2 DM3 DM5 DM6 DM7 DN2 DO1 DO2 DO3 DO4 DO5 DO6 DO7 DO9 DP4 DP5 DP50 DP9 DQ2008 DQ5 DQ8 DR0 DR1 DR2 DR4 DS4 DS5 DU1 DV1 DX1 E21 E72 E73 E74 E77 EA1 EA2 EA3 EA4 EA5 EA6 EA7 EA8 EA9 EB1 EB2 EB3 EB5 EB6 EB7 EC1 EC2 EC3 EC5 EC6 EC7 EC8 ED8 EE2 EE3 EE7 EF1 EF5 EG5 EH5 EH6 EH7 EH8 EI0 EI2 EI3 EI4 EI5 EI6 EI7 EI8 EI9 EK0 EK3 EK6 EO3 ER0 ER1 ER2 ER3 ER4 ER5 ES0 ES1 ES2 ES3 ES4 ES5 ES6 ES7 ES8 ES9 ES90 EU1 EV1 EV6 EW2 EW4 EW6 EW7 EW8 EX2 EX7 EX8 EY2 EY8 F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F8 F9 FG0 FT5 FY1 FY5 G0 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G6 G7 G8 GB90 GI0 GI3 GI4 GI7 GI8 GJ6 GM0 GM1 GM3 GM4 GM7 GW3 GW4 GW6 GW7 GW8 H2 H22 HA0 HA1 HA2 HA3 HA5 HA6 HA7 HA8 HA800 HB0 HB10 HB3 HB9 HC1 HD2 HG1 HG1848 HG3 HG4 HG8 HG80 HH4 HI3 HK1 HK3 HL0 HL2 HL5 HR2 HS0 HS1 HS8 HZ1 I0 I1 I2 I3 I4 I5 I6 I8 IC8 II0 II1 IK0 IK1 IK2 IK3 IK4 IK5 IK6 IK7 IK8 IM0 IN3 IO1 IO2 IO3 IO5 IO6 IQ2 IQ3 IQ5 IQ6 IQ8 IR2 IR4 IR5 IR6 IR9 IS0 IT9 IU2 IU3 IU9 IV3 IW0 IW1 IW2 IW3 IW4 IW5 IW6 IW7 IW8 IW9 IZ0 IZ1 IZ19 IZ2 IZ3 IZ4 IZ5 IZ6 IZ7 IZ8 J28 J42 J43 JA0 JA1 JA2 JA3 JA4 JA5 JA6 JA7 JA8 JA9 JE1 JE4 JE6 JE9 JF1 JF2 JF3 JF8 JG1 JG2 JG3 JH0 JH1 JH2 JH3 JH4 JH5 JH6 JH7 JH8 JH9 JI1 JI2 JI3 JJ1 JJ2 JL3 JL7 JM4 JN1 JO1 JO3 JO7 JP1 JQ1 JR0 JR1 JR2 JR3 JR4 JR5 JR6 JR7 JR9 JS3 JS6 JT1 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 KA1 KA3 KA9 KB1 KB3 KB9 KC0 KC1 KC3 KC9 KD4 KE2 KF2 KG2 KG4 KI1 KI3 KI4 KI7 KJ4 KK1 KL5 KL8 KN1 KP2 KP4 KQ2 KQ3 KR4 KR5 KS1 KS4 KS9 KT4 KT5 KT6 KU2 KU8 KV0 KZ1 L50 LA1 LA2 LA3 LA4 LA5 LA6 LA7 LA8 LA9 LN1 LN3 LN8 LN9 LP1 LR1 LR2 LS2 LT1 LU1 LU3 LU4 LU6 LU7 LU8 LU9 LX1 LX7 LY1 LY2 LY3 LY4 LY7 LY8 LY9 LZ1 LZ130 LZ2 LZ4 LZ5 LZ8 LZ9 M0 M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M8 MD0 MD9 MI0 MM0 MM3 MU0 MU3 MW0 MW3 MW5 MW9 MX0 MX1 N0 N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 N6 N7 N8 N9 NA1 NC1 NC4 ND1 NE0 NE1 NE7 NF4 NF6 NF9 NG3 NH0 NJ4 NK9 NM1 NM4 NN1 NN5 NO4 NP3 NQ2 NQ4 NR1 NR6 NR7 NT0 NT8 NU1 NX5 NX7 NX9 NZ1 OE0 OE1 OE2 OE3 OE4 OE5 OE6 OE7 OE9 OG0 OG5 OG6 OG7 OG8 OH0 OH1 OH2 OH3 OH4 OH5 OH6 OH8 OK1 OK2 OK4 OK5 OK6 OK7 OK9 OL1 OL2 OL3 OL5 OL6 OL7 OL9 OM1 OM3 OM4 OM5 OM6 OM7 OM8 ON3 ON4 ON5 ON6 ON7 ON8 OO2 OO4 OO5 OO6 OO7 OP2 OP4 OP7 OQ4 OQ5 OR5 OS0 OT2 OT5 OT7 OY9 OZ0 OZ1 OZ2 OZ3 OZ4 OZ5 OZ6 OZ7 OZ8 P33 P40 P49 PA0 PA1 PA2 PA3 PA4 PA5 PA6 PA7 PA8 PA9 PB2 PC2 PD0 PD1 PD2 PD3 PD4 PD5 PD7 PD9 PE0 PE1 PE2 PE4 PF9 PG1 PG2 PG6 PG7 PH0 PH2 PH7 PI4 PJ2 PP1 PP5 PP8 PR1 PR5 PR7 PS2 PS5 PT5 PT7 PV2 PV8 PW2 PX2 PY1 PY2 PY3 PY4 PY5 PY6 PY7 R3 R35 R9 RA0 RA1 RA2 RA3 RA4 RA6 RA9 RD3 RD4 RG3 RG9 RK0 RK2 RK3 RK4 RK6 RK9 RL3 RL9 RM3 RM9 RN1 RN2 RN3 RN4 RN9 RO9 RQ9 RS3 RT4 RT9 RU0 RU3 RU4 RU6 RU9 RV0 RV1 RV3 RV4 RV6 RV9 RW0 RW1 RW3 RW4 RW6 RW9 RX0 RX3 RX4 RX9 RY4 RZ0 RZ1 RZ3 RZ4 RZ6 RZ9 S21 S50 S51 S52 S53 S54 S55 S56 S566 S57 S58 S59 SA0 SA6 SA7 SB6 SD3 SE2 SE5 SE6 SF3 SF6 SI0 SI3 SI9 SK7 SM0 SM2 SM3 SM4 SM5 SM50 SM6 SM7 SN1 SN2 SN3 SN5 SN6 SN7 SN75 SN9 SO1 SO2 SO6 SO8 SO9 SP0 SP1 SP2 SP3 SP4 SP5 SP6 SP7 SP75 SP8 SP9 SQ1 SQ2 SQ3 SQ5 SQ6 SQ7 SQ8 SQ9 ST2 SV1 SV2 SV3 SV7 SV9 SX1 SX3 SX5 SY8 SZ7 T77 T90 T92 T98 TA0 TA1 TA2 TA3 TB37 TC1 TC3 TC7 TF3 TF4 TI5 TM0 TM1 TM2 TM6 TM7 TO5 TO6 TU2 TZ6 U1 U3 U5 UA0 UA1 UA2 UA3 UA4 UA6 UA9 UC0 UK7 UN3 UN4 UN6 UN7 UN9 UO6 UO70 UP0 UP2 UP4 UP6 UP9 UQ70 UR0 UR1 UR3 UR4 UR5 UR6 UR7 UR8 US0 US1 US2 US3 US4 US5 US6 US7 US8 UT0 UT2 UT3 UT4 UT5 UT6 UT7 UT8 UU0 UU1 UU2 UU5 UU7 UV5 UV8 UW1 UW2 UW5 UW7 UW8 UX1 UX2 UX3 UX4 UX7 UX8 UY0 UY1 UY3 UY4 UY5 UY9 UZ1 UZ7 UZ8 V25 V51 V8 VA1 VA2 VA3 VA7 VB3 VE1 VE2 VE3 VE5 VE6 VE7 VE9 VK2 VK3 VK4 VK5 VK6 VK7 VK8 VK9 VO1 VP2 VP9 VQ58 VQ59 VR10 VR2 VU2 VU3 VY1 W0 W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 WA0 WA1 WA2 WA3 WB1 WB4 WB8 WC1 WD0 WD4 WE2 WE3 WE9 WN8 WN9 WP2 WP3 WP4 WQ1 WQ7 WR3 WS9 WU3 WU4 WX3 WX5 WX6 WX7 WY3 WZ8 XE2 XR3 XR6 XU7 XV1 XW1 YB0 YB1 YB2 YB3 YB4 YB8 YB9 YC0 YC1 YC5 YC6 YE1 YE5 YF1 YI9 YJ8 YL1 YL2 YL3 YL4 YL5 YL6 YL7 YL8 YL9 YM0 YO2 YO22 YO3 YO4 YO5 YO6 YO7 YO8 YO9 YP2 YP8 YQ5 YQ6 YR1 YR2 YR8 YR9 YT0 YT1 YT2 YT3 YT5 YT6 YT7 YT8 YT9 YU0 YU1 YU2 YU3 YU5 YU7 YU8 YU9 YV1 YV4 YV5 YW4 YW5 Z32 Z33 Z35 Z36 ZD7 ZF1 ZL2 ZL3 ZL4 ZL6 ZM2 ZM4 ZP0 ZR1 ZS1 ZS2 ZS5 ZS6 ZS9 ZV2 ZV5 ZW5 ZX2 ZX5 ZX7 ZY7 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5BEG Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 480,438 TX: FT990 100W ANT : DIPOLE 73 GERARD F5BEG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5LCU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 127,840 More fun on high bands. Quiet the smae number of contacts. Difficult on 40M ZOO BAND HI. HOPE CUAGN YOU NEXT YEAR. 73 FABRICE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FG/OM3LA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 17,048,378 Station setup :SO1R TS480HX + PA Antennas: A4S, C4XL, Dipole for 40 and 80m, K9AY loop for RX on low bands. N1MM logging software. Stack match + MicrokeyerII from Microham. Thanks to Georges FG5BG for letting me use his QTH and for his help with setting up the station. Thanks to OM Power company for supporting this activity. Thanks for calling in the contest 73 Ivan, om3la / oe1dia (one of the OM8A team) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5AN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 78,396 Just for the fun..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5FY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,575,412 Good conditions on 40, operating around 7200 with success, even with the europeans. Operating without QSX is possible and this band is more easy now. Strong QSB on 15 and no signals on 10. Thanks for all and each QSO / pfx, it seams to form a final good result in LP. 73's Didier / FY5FY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 150,252 Joined in for the last four hours only, mostly on 80m. 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW/M Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 468 Used a 100 mile car journey to give away one or two points. IC-7000 20 Watts 8' whip G3WW/M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4IIY Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,243,000 Part-time entry, with just two operators. Hard work, with the anticipated good run to North America (and the endless multipliers) on the LF bands not materialising until late on Sunday evening. The single QSO on 10m was an Italian who was 20 over nine and the only signal on the entire band. We did not attempt 160m, because of the noise and the aerial was too low. The tower was not wound up because of the gale force winds. The nine contacts on the band took out the wireless router, which refused to re-boot for 30 minutes. Will need to re-engineer the 160m aerial for future operations. (Note for next SSB contest - need to invest in another Microham keyer so that both stations have CQ machines !) Ian G4IIY Colin G6LSO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 106,894 FT2000 + UK Amp at 400W most bands N1MM Logger (thanks to Tom, so easy to use) 160m - Random wire 80m - Inverted L 40m-10m - Homebrew Windom 20m - Homebrew 1/4 wave vertical About 10 hours operation in G4. Flew to 5B4 on the Sunday on business but forgot antenna centre and power lead for ham radio! Yeah I know, what a waste but hey, the weather was warm and the Keo beer was cold - perfect combination. Conditions: - USA/Canada; unusually poor for me across the bands. - S America; made a good few S American Qs. - Far East; Plenty heard but unable to break the pile-ups. - Oceania; Nothing heard except for a squeak from VK6. - Africa; ok but huge pile-ups. - Heathrow Airport Terminal 5; never never never never never again. Was it lack of filters/headphones/brain that made it so difficult for some operators? Bring on the cw leg I say. Cheers and thanks for the Qs, Terry G4MKP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 33,176 LOT OF PROBLEMS POWER CUTS AND PROBLEM WITH LOGGING PROGRAME (N1MM).BUT DID ENJOY THE CONTEST WHEN WORKING. RIG...FT920...AMERITRON AMP 400watts 3ELE YAGI AT 50ft WINDOM 80 ANT AT 45ft LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,530,460 Arrived back from ZS5 exactly 24 hrs before start of this contest - however that fits the GM7V team motto 'ensure all operators are mentally and physically exhausted before start of contest' Conditions fairly good here - some interesting DX callers e.g. CE0Z etc.. Should have a 160m antenna for the CW leg, but 160m is not really much use in this contest anyway if other bands are good. Congrats to Andy M6T and ohers for great scores - scores rise exponentially in this contest and GM7V never quite got onto the steeply-rising part of the curve. Disappointing to hear some stations (e.g. ZD7X, DP9Z) asking to be spotted on the DX Cluster - when I checked back 10 minutes later, ZD7X had made 50 more QSOs. Pse QSL GM7V via Linda M0CMK - all GM7V logs are on LoTW. 73 Chris GM3WOJ/ZL1CT www.qsl.net/gm3woj ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA3OV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,369,128 Rigs: 2x TS950SDX Amps: Alpha 91B + HM Antennas: 160m: dipole 80m: Inv.v dipole 40m: 2 el HB9CV 20m: 2x 5 ele Yagi 15m: 6 ele Yagi 10m: 5 ele Yagi Beverage rx antennas: 350m to NA, 180m to JA, 180m to AF SW: Wintest 3.19 As a member of HG6N I usually prefer M/2 or M/S but decided to do some SOAB efforts this year for the sake of WRTC. Thanks for the tech support from HA1AG, HA6ND and HA6PX!! Good EU run on 15m the saturday afternoon. Only a few SA on 10m so I did only a second radio QSO that band. 20M was OK but To find a clear freq to CQ, was incredibly tough sometimes. Nice US runs mainly on saturday evening. I think I lost some good "sixpointers" on 40M, the second night when I got up a bit late from my rest. Thanks the QSOs! 73! Anti HA3OV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 235,710 Rig: IC-756 Ant: Vertical(28m) Rx ant: 2x50m (LW) Nice Contest! Poor condx! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB10DX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,128,062 The Swiss DX Foundation (SDXF) uses this special call to celebrate it's 10th birthday. For details on the special event station and how to qualify for a special SDXF Original Swiss Knife check out http://www.sdxf.ch. The team operated from HB9CA (Letzi-DX-Group) station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,455,916 Its was not easy for mee. The 1 of marc. at 1416 utc came EMMA (hurricane) with 180 km/h wind. VERTICAL(36mh) overturn, 4el.quad broken(80%), all beverages break. One of bev. flee and i find one weak later(indeet).... After two weaks weather was bad, rest ten days for renovation mine station. wee repair... Thanks to mine wife Livi, she help mee anything (annt.work, bring food, drink for mee in contest), and Jani mine neighbour(he help annt. mech...) station setup: ts870+ hm pa 160,80,40m.: vetical 28mh 20,15m.: 4el. QUAD at 18 mh Four pieces beverages, 160-320m long. Contest, frist day was nice 21 hours work, 2060 qsos (1150 on 20m). Second day i was little on 20m(when na coming, 40 usa on sunday???.) Nice run on 15m to asia and oc. sunday morning. Wonderful moment on 80m when AH0BT and VK7GN answer mine cq. thanks for all callers, and congrats to soab from eu more than 10mil. point(M6T, OK1RI, 4O3A...and also to ANTI(HA3OV) nice score. 73, and see you on the next(i hope EMMA or she s sister not coming back... hi pali ha8jv, hg8r ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,607,455 10 METER AND 160 METERS NOT OPEN .....TX ALL CALL CONTACT TO STATION LOMA DEL TORO HI3C/////OPERATOR HI3CCP*TINO* HI3K*EDWIN*.. MULTI SIGLE HP.. 1 FT1000 MP..TO 10,20,40,80,160/LINEAL KENWOOD TL/922A ...AND ANOTHER FT1000MP/LINEAL AMERITRON ALS/600PS TO 15 METERS....NOT GOOD THIS ANTENNA TO HY SWR IN BAND SSB LOMA DEL TORO ANTENNA ANTENNAS...1. 7 ELEMENTO 10 METERS TOWER 60 FEET 1. 5 ELEMENTO 15 METERS TOWER 40 FEET 1. 5 ELEMENTO 20 METERS TOWER 100 FEET 1. 2 ELEMENTO 40 METERS TOWER 60 FEET 1. 4 ELEMENTO 6/10/15/20 STERPPIR TOWER 30 FEET AUTO SUPPORT 2. DIPOLO 160 METERS 1/VERTICAL TOWER 100 FEET AND 1/V INVERT 3. DIPOLO 80 METERS 1/2 ELEMT AND 2/V INVERT CW AND SSB TX HI3K *EDWIN* GOOD FRIEND TO DX LOMA DEL TORO CONSTANTINO CARLO *TINO* HI3CCP WWW.LOMADELTORO.COM EMAILS HI3CCP@LOMADELTORO.COM HI3CCP@HOTMAIL.COM HI3CCP@YAHOO.COM HI3CCP@GMAIL.COM CONSTANTINO@CODETEL.NET.DO HI3K@LOMADELTORO.COM CEL PHONE 809 481 6385 OFC PHONE 809 241 0410 FAX PHONE 809 241 0318 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 7,386,652 Thanks Guys still recovering from my illness. The first contest hours is a repetition of a prior one very slow rate and next morning the magic returns. I will not dream with my finals results but at least I did reachead my goals. Holly cow thanks also for the nice QRM session all sunday specially on 20M UAOHH .... On 40 meter and 80 I surprised with all station coming from everywhere even I couldn't work JA even they been very strong but my 100 watts not enough for them. VK,Zl,KH0,YB,KH,VU ( I HAVE A PIPELINE FOR) to name a few logged on this contest Next year if God will I will change my strategy to get a better QSO number. Thanks Again for all QSO's also for the invisibe QRM man My station: FT2000 (100w) 4L Steppir, 2L 40m , 80m 1/4 vertical and a lot of passion CU in next pile 73'S HI3TEJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,260,128 Station Description: ICOM 765 Antenna(s): MOSLEY TA53M, G5RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 7,056 Hi OM ? cu next contest. de hl5yi chae g,l 73.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,367,157 Quite disappointed about my final score. I hoped to reach at least 2000 qso and 4 Million points. Terrible 20m where everybody was there. Our club station need urgent maintenance, 40m antenna does not work like some time ago; IC765 radio is becoming older and older and selectivity is quite less than adequate for today 20m crowded band. It was frustrating to hear people telling me: "great signal", "good frequency" and nobody was replying to my CQs!! Cu next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8FAX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 120,042 Another WPX SSB has gone. After some experiences on 2005 and 2006, I participated into QRP class. I am very happy of this result, because it's my record. This time, due to other troubles, I was on only 32 hours, but I was very very tired.... Next year I will plan better my working hours... RIG: Kenwood TS-2000 - 5 WATTS Hy-Gain 14AVQ vertical GP for 10M, 15M, 20M, 40M Dipole for 80M (tested only..) N1MM Logger v7 Best 73 to all de Jacob IC8FAX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8TEM Class: SO(A)SB160 HP Total Score = 180,557 Hello! Thanks to all the stations that I have heard in this contest, and to my IC8 friends. I'm sorry but I know that there were some stations who heard me well, but I cannot listen to all because of the strong QRN due to strong Auroral event and the typical QRM of the contest. Also enjoyed to listen some friends and some italian stations (that are also mults for me). Never tried the Top Band and enjoyed a lot with a poor antenna. The rig: YAESU FT1000MP-MKV PA 500W VERTICAL GP Hope to be on air soon in this year. Best 73 from Capri Island de Costy IC8TEM PS: YOU CAN FIND MY INFORMATION ON QRZ.COM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9RBW Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,010,076 -------------------------+ | QSOs by Continent | +-------------------------+ EU: 723 ( 87,6 %) AS: 29 ( 3,5 %) AF: 10 ( 1,2 %) OC: 0 ( 0,0 %) NA: 60 ( 7,3 %) SA: 3 ( 0,4 %) Icom 756 pro 3, pa,home made loop 73s de IT9RBW Joe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9STX Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 2,448,512 Scanty propagation to NA, only 28% of qso with NA stations. Ts 870, PA, 3 el H.M. @19Mt CUL in next test. 73's Bob, IT9STX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ1LBG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,277,100 Another time a very great contest... Saturday very good opening on 10 and 15 m... For all time very busy band... It was hard make running on 20 m during the afternoon... Tnx for all QSO... See u on CW one... 73 de Filippo IZ1LBG Overlay category: ROOKIE Antenna: 4 el for 10 m 4 el for 15 m 4 el for 20 m dipole for 40, 80 and 160 m Radio: IC-756 PROIII Amplifier: Challenger III ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ8FWN Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 1,846,496 NICE TIME ON THE RADIO. SEE NEXT YEAR 73'S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA6WFM/HC5 Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 654,750 I enjyed the contest with IC-7000 + dipol. please QSL via JA6VU but sorry only direct. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JQ1BVI Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,421,070 There were four sunspots, and it was expected SSN=63. However, it went up to K=4, and conditions were worse than last year. It was 70Stn/H though was the maximum. The condition of especially 21Mhz got depressed. The search with Wintest and MK2R was correct selections. Last year's own score was exceeded. It is already an operation of endurance for a while. I was called in CO and TI by 7Mhz when it was good. The op time was 31h. I had to try a little more at night. However, it is likely to come to have to take a rest from the work on Monday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0GAS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 242,694 HAPPY TO SEE 15M STARTING TO OPEN AGAIN. ALWAYS ENJOY THE CONTEST. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RI Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 590,949 OP time interrupted with Search & Rescue missions both Sat night and Sun. IC-756proIII IC-PW1 160m horiz loop Force 12 C-19XR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 41,134 I just got on here and there throughout the weekend. I started out the first half or so as SOLP but found I had to get the amp fired up to do anything in this. Even after that it was tough sledding. the the end of the contest when the station I was listening to went QRT and another voice came on, sarcastically saying "that was fun". Pretty well summed it up. 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,884,042 73' Krassy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1XM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 242,865 Part-time S&P from home. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,821,388 Everything worked this time.....Massachusetts electric even managed to cooperate by not shutting off the power on me this weekend. Congrats to K4ZW, K3CR and K1LZ on some very fine scores. CU in the next one... 73 JEFF K1ZM/VY2ZM K1ZM@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3EST Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,354,842 As usual during SSB contests, Bob did 90% of the operating alone. 73 Phil KT3Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 132,559 Inverted L 30'H x 75'L w/ground mounted radials IC-756ProII N1MM All band inverted L continues to work well on 40 meters. 73, Tad, K3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 427,122 Conditions appeared to improve on Sunday.... Mostly S&P effort but had some success running USA, EU and JA.... Most interesting callsigns worked -- M0VIE and YO22NATO.... Thanks for the Q's.... 73....//Steve K4EU FT-1000/Field QRO HF2500DX 8 ele Log Period at 55' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4UVA Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 35,164 This was the first WPX contest for me. Equipment used was IC-746 and home-brew dipole with 100 watts. Mostly S&P due inability to hold a running freq on the crowded bands. Had fun working lots of dx but couldn't participate the entire time due to family committments and the NCAA tourney! Thanks for the q's! 73 Lee, K4UVA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 76,538 Looking forward to next year!! 73 Bill K4WP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,201,536 Was it just me, or was someone playing with the "enable propagation" switch? Seemed to come and go all weekend. Glad to see a string of JA's Sunday evening. Had to lose some time Saturday for funeral of SK (W5DDP rip). As seems to be the pattern for contest weekends in TX/LA, more lightning storms came through bringing low band noise and forced early shutdown Sat night. Overall. it was a fun contest. Thank you to all who stopped by. See you in Dayton! 73! Mark, K5ER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,207,439 Another fun WPX. This contest was very much like last years contest for me from a propagation standpoint but if anything 15 meters was even worse. Without 15 meters I just do not work much DX from this location. 40 and 20 meters just do not produce much runable DX for me - maybe if I had some bigger antennas on 20 or if I was closer to Europe or something. I was sure that 15 meters was going to bust wide open to Europe on Sunday - and it did get very close but it just did not quite make it. There was an hour or two where the EA and CT stations were quite strong but there were not many on and the opening did not extend into the rest of Europe. For the first time I really tried to operate this contest by watching the points per QSO rate and not just the QSO rate. As a result I improved my points per QSO average over last year. I operated the first 11.5 hours before taking an off-time.4 I did have some fun on 40 meters working quite a few VK/ZL stations. Overall the low bands were very good - 80 meters sounded great on Saturday night but the static made it difficult going but the signals were very good. And now for all the numbers ......................... CQ WPX SUMMARY SHEET Contest Dates : 29-Mar-08, 30-Mar-08 Callsign Used : K5TR Operator : K5TR Station : K5TR BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes _____________________________________________________ 160SSB 12 12 18 1 80SSB 239 236 436 54 40SSB 866 847 2025 199 20SSB 1851 1814 2443 447 15SSB 199 196 461 63 10SSB 22 22 60 9 _____________________________________________________ Totals 3189 3127 5443 773 Final Score = 4,207,439 points. Station: http://www.k5tr.net/ 160 - 1/4 wave sloping verticals sloped east and west - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW from 120'. - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 40 - Force 12 240N at 120' - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 87' - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 20 - 6 element yagi at 80' fixed NE - 6 element yagi at 80' - 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW - 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE 15 - 6 element yagi at 70' - 6 element yagi at 35' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 50' fixed SE 10 - 6 element yagi at 60' - 6 element yagi at 30' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 10 186 585 1410 55 2 2248 VE calls = 1 11 41 141 0 0 194 N.A. calls = 1 14 25 38 17 2 97 S.A. calls = 0 7 27 31 81 17 163 Euro calls = 0 9 26 108 11 0 154 Afrc calls = 0 5 4 15 8 0 32 Asia calls = 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 JA calls = 0 2 64 51 1 0 118 Ocen calls = 0 1 73 15 22 1 112 Total calls = 12 236 847 1814 196 22 3127 HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ---- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- ----- 0 --- --- --- 188/113 7/6 --- 195/119 195/119 0.03M 1 --- --- 21/11 101/45 1/1 --- 123/57 318/176 0.08M 2 --- --- 183/51 4/2 --- --- 187/53 505/229 0.16M 3 --- --- 69/24 3/2 --- --- 72/26 577/255 0.22M 4 --- 3/3 105/31 --- --- --- 108/34 685/289 0.30M 5 --- 41/6 43/7 --- --- --- 84/13 769/302 0.35M 6 4/1 56/13 6/4 --- --- --- 66/18 835/320 0.41M 7 --- 13/4 49/20 --- --- --- 62/24 897/344 0.51M 8 --- 3/1 39/3 --- --- --- 42/4 939/348 0.59M 9 --- 2/1 33/9 --- --- --- 35/10 974/358 0.67M 10 --- 45/9 4/1 --- --- --- 49/10 1023/368 0.72M 11 --- 31/8 8/1 --- --- --- 39/9 1062/377 0.75M 12 --- --- --- 16/8 --- --- 16/8 1078/385 0.79M 13 --- --- --- 49/23 5/3 --- 54/26 1132/411 0.88M 14 --- --- --- 146/34 2/1 --- 148/35 1280/446 1.04M 15 --- --- --- 145/23 2/1 --- 147/24 1427/470 1.17M 16 --- --- --- 116/15 6/2 --- 122/17 1549/487 1.29M 17 --- --- --- 129/24 1/1 --- 130/25 1679/512 1.43M 18 --- --- --- 95/11 10/1 --- 105/12 1784/524 1.53M 19 --- --- --- 104/12 7/4 --- 111/16 1895/540 1.65M 20 --- --- --- 59/17 33/10 --- 92/27 1987/567 1.82M 21 --- --- --- 42/17 30/7 --- 72/24 2059/591 1.98M 22 --- --- --- 57/11 21/6 14/4 92/21 2151/612 2.17M 23 --- --- 10/2 87/11 1/1 3/1 101/15 2252/627 2.32M 0 --- --- 33/5 42/3 --- --- 75/8 2327/635 2.44M 1 --- --- 85/6 25/0 --- --- 110/6 2437/641 2.56M 2 --- 8/2 52/6 1/0 --- --- 61/8 2498/649 2.67M 3 8/0 21/3 --- --- --- --- 29/3 2527/652 2.74M 4 --- --- 12/1 --- --- --- 12/1 2539/653 2.76M 5 --- 13/4 --- --- --- --- 13/4 2552/657 2.80M 6 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2552/657 2.80M 7 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2552/657 2.80M 8 --- --- 32/5 --- --- --- 32/5 2584/662 2.92M 9 --- --- 41/7 --- --- --- 41/7 2625/669 3.09M 10 --- --- 22/5 --- --- --- 22/5 2647/674 3.16M 11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2647/674 3.16M 12 --- --- --- 8/1 --- --- 8/1 2655/675 3.18M 13 --- --- --- 54/13 --- --- 54/13 2709/688 3.30M 14 --- --- --- 26/14 11/4 --- 37/18 2746/706 3.46M 15 --- --- --- 60/16 3/1 --- 63/17 2809/723 3.61M 16 --- --- --- 84/9 15/7 --- 99/16 2908/739 3.80M 17 --- --- --- 124/15 --- --- 124/15 3032/754 3.98M 18 --- --- --- 7/0 --- --- 7/0 3039/754 3.99M 19 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 3039/754 3.99M 20 --- --- --- --- 20/5 5/4 25/9 3064/763 4.08M 21 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 3064/763 4.08M 22 --- --- --- 42/8 21/2 --- 63/10 3127/773 4.21M D1 4/1 194/45 570/164 1341/368 126/44 17/5 2252/627 D2 8/0 42/9 277/35 473/79 70/19 5/4 875/146 T 12/1 236/54 847/199 1814/447 196/63 22/9 3127/773 Gross QSO's=3189 Dupes=62 Net QSO's=3127 Unique callsigns worked = 2518 The best 60 minute rate was 197/hour from 0209 to 0308 The best 30 minute rate was 236/hour from 0209 to 0238 The best 10 minute rate was 282/hour from 0216 to 0225 The best 1 minute rates were: 7 QSO's/minute 1 times. 6 QSO's/minute 4 times. 5 QSO's/minute 34 times. 4 QSO's/minute 113 times. 3 QSO's/minute 256 times. 2 QSO's/minute 493 times. 1 QSO's/minute 720 times. There were 327 bandchanges and 151 (4.8%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 2 4 1145 5 1164 6 777 7 12 8 20 9 4 10 3 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 2043 2 bands 361 3 bands 98 4 bands 12 5 bands 4 6 bands 0 ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 4 95 445 1378 104 17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZO Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Total Score = 543,544 Poor condx Friday. Could only here west of the Miss.river. Got in abt 2.5 hrs before having to quit because of the local thunder storms. Saturday was better but could only work a hand full of Eu. Sunday much better. Had a few runs into Eu, loads of south, centeral americans. I think I got most of carib. Condx were so good EU was causing qrm on freqs close by. I kept getting pushed up in the band. Saturday I couldn't find any EU and Sunday I couldn't get rid of them. CU Lloyd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 12,480 Try as I might, the conditions were poor for LP and wire antennas. It was nice to hear lots of stations, including DX, appearing in the General portion of 40. Unfortunately the same was not true of 80. I did hear N6AJR above 3850, but apparently he didn't hear my anemic signal. The only station I even heard on 160 was NR6O who apparently spent a lot of time there. The only signals I heard on 10 were NR6O, and 2 Argentina stations. Boy there were sure a lot of Hula stations on, which was nice to here. Last year I think I only found 2. Well, maybe the conditions will be a little better for CW in May. 73's to all, and thanks to all those who worked me. Bert, K6CSL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 57,960 I think I probably missed the best hour on 15m this weekend by missing the first hour of the contest. Bands seemed generally poor this weekend. I think the best DX was Friday night. Didn't work any Europe or Africa (other than D44), and only 3 JA's. I worked 2 band fillers - YJ8 on 15 and 8R1K on 40. Calls to not confuse: VE6SV and VE7SV. My biggest disappointment of the contest was when I woke up early this morning to work DX on 40, and none of the DX in the Pacific and Asia was listening up! ARGH! Rig: FT-990 100W Ants: 80 Meter Sloping Dipole from 50 feet 40 Meter Inverted Vee at 50 feet 20 meter dipole at 20 feet 15 Meter diplole at 25 feet Software: N3FJP WPX Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 199,503 I was going to see if I could work some of the people that were going somewhere to operate. Then I wanted to see if I could break 100, then 200, then 300, then to see if I could make 200K. Now I am regretting not getting on sooner & trying a little harder. CU all in CW WPX if the ringing in the ears quiets down by then. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 11,544 QRP with low wire antennas is difficult, but especially on phone and when the higher bands don't open. Looking forward to WPX CW! 73 and thanks to those who struggled to hear me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 174,110 Conditions improved Sunday - short eu opening - gud N/S, Asia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 911,624 Great time, but wish I could have had more hours at critical times...thanks to all for the Q's! Equipment: FT1000MP; Alpha 76A; Force 12 6BA; 160/80m Sloper; N1MM 73 until the next one...! John K7WP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,896 Not a serious effort. Spent most of the weekend working on VHF+ amplifier projects. Used only the bands where I currently have antenna's that cover the SSB portion of the band. IC746, Alpha 78, Inv Vee for 20M up 30', 160M Inv L up 35'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,073,261 A half time effort, decided to go for 1 million point score, and did. But, sure miss 15 and 10 meters! come on, sunspots! 73 Kevin K7ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 17,864 90 QSOs, 77 Prefixes, 51 Suffixes. Most common suffix was "T". Second place was "A". 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 14,580 Had right hernia operation on Thursday before the contest...So this was good practice being able to sit up a chair a little while to get back into shape for work, hah! Glad to hand out some points. Onward to WPX CW :-) Best of health to all, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA6SGT Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 9,815 While SSB is not generally my cup of tea, I had fun testing out my new Heil ProSet. QRM was intense throughout and the HC4 element did what Bob Heil said it would, despite operating QRP. Thanks to all for their patience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC3R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,065,933 Tried a little bit different strategy this year but it's hard to tell if it worked. Practically the same number of contacts, slightly bigger mult and 0.5M more than the last year. It might be due to other things though. Got really tired on Sunday evening and left 20 too early, although there was still something left just above the bottom. Didn't use the second radio much. Most of the time needed both of my ears to sort out the pieces of calls and numbers getting through the QRM. Thanks to everyone who called, your patience is deeply appreciated ! Congratulations to K4ZW for the fantastic effort ! Watch out for K1ZM though, he had 14.150 both days :) My sincere thanks to WA3FET for letting me use his station again. 73, Alex LZ4AX -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 69 23 0 0 92 3.4 0100 0 10 53 12 0 0 75 2.8 0200 0 73 0 0 0 0 73 2.7 0300 0 78 0 0 0 0 78 2.9 0400 0 49 9 0 0 0 58 2.1 0500 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 0.2 0600 0 7 14 0 0 0 21 0.8 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1000 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1 1100 0 0 3 59 0 0 62 2.3 1200 0 0 0 88 0 0 88 3.2 1300 0 0 0 96 0 0 96 3.5 1400 0 0 0 83 0 0 83 3.1 1500 0 0 0 66 4 0 70 2.6 1600 0 0 0 95 0 0 95 3.5 1700 0 0 0 82 1 0 83 3.1 1800 0 0 0 36 24 0 60 2.2 1900 0 0 0 69 0 0 69 2.5 2000 0 0 0 92 0 0 92 3.4 2100 0 0 0 87 0 0 87 3.2 2200 0 0 0 97 4 0 101 3.7 2300 0 0 43 41 0 0 84 3.1 0000 0 0 96 0 0 0 96 3.5 0100 0 98 0 0 0 0 98 3.6 0200 0 78 0 0 0 0 78 2.9 0300 0 41 7 0 0 0 48 1.8 0400 0 42 1 0 0 0 43 1.6 0500 0 40 10 0 0 0 50 1.8 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1100 0 0 0 33 0 0 33 1.2 1200 0 0 0 80 0 0 80 2.9 1300 0 0 0 77 0 0 77 2.8 1400 0 0 0 58 0 0 58 2.1 1500 0 0 0 53 0 0 53 1.9 1600 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 0.2 1700 0 0 0 39 19 0 58 2.1 1800 0 0 0 66 1 0 67 2.5 1900 0 0 0 72 1 0 73 2.7 2000 0 0 0 76 6 0 82 3.0 2100 0 0 5 65 0 0 70 2.6 2200 0 0 59 21 0 0 80 2.9 2300 0 0 65 18 0 0 83 3.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 522 437 1684 65 0 2708 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD0S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 398,762 This was a training session for a couple new operators. Thanks to everyone for their patience as they were learning. Since I had lots of time with the other operators here I tried packet spots in Writelog for the first time. I can see how useful it would be in contesting as it worked very well. I even had to go work K4FX at the end so I could see our station spotted. Must have been some computer problems happening there. We have all been there. Bands seemed in very good condition this time but we had no activity on 10 meters with 15 being open for just a short time both days. It was good to hear everyone on as the activity was great! 73 KD0S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2KW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,600 First attempt to get involved with this contest due to poor antenna situation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,417,592 As usual, thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting us invade the "farm" for the weekend. He had everything working before the start of the contest...amazing. As of Saturday morning, we hadn't broken anything either. Well, THAT was a long weekend! We had one tower start rotating on its own but managed to stop it before it caused much damage. This was late during the day Saturday and was the 20 meter tower so it didn't hurt us too much. John repaired it Sunday morning! The highlights for me were working my first YJ8 (Thanks, YJ8TZ) on 40 after our sunrise, a 105 hour on 40 SSB, and getting the last ten rate over 220 on 40 for a few minutes on Saturday evening! 40 was very good for a few hours around sunset on Saturday. We stuck to our strategy of TRYING to run Europe on the low bands to maximize our six point QSO's, probably sacrificing a few too many USA one-pointers. 15 never really opened so we spent most of the day Saturday and Sunday running US and Canadian stations. I'm pleased to have scored about what we did last year since I think conditions were a bit worse. Congratulations to NQ4I for an AMAZING QSO total on 20 meters. See you in the CW contest. Continent Statistics KD4D CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Multi Two 30 Mar 2008 2358z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent SSB North America SSB 73 596 1217 823 49 0 2758 62.9 South America SSB 2 21 45 54 89 0 211 4.8 Europe SSB 0 217 275 726 8 0 1226 28.0 Asia SSB 0 4 10 30 0 0 44 1.0 Africa SSB 0 9 14 19 9 0 51 1.2 Oceania SSB 0 8 74 10 1 0 93 2.1 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KD4D CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Multi Tw HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR 0 ..... 56/40 54/42 19/18 ..... ..... 129 1 . 88/48 88/31 . . . 176 2 . 39/14 105/38 . . . 144 3 . 38/13 55/26 . . . 93 4 25/4 43/18 18/10 . . . 86 5 22/6 55/20 12/9 . . . 89 6 . 43/9 15/11 . . . 58 7 . 20/9 42/12 . . . 62 8 ..... 24/5 23/8 ..... ..... ..... 47 9 . 19/5 11/2 . . . 30 10 . 28/5 5/2 . . . 33 11 . 5/2 32/3 18/11 . . 55 12 . . 48/12 51/32 . . 99 13 . . 55/8 40/18 . . 95 14 . . 38/8 70/17 13/2 . 121 15 . . 28/5 66/19 12/6 . 106 16 ..... ..... 37/2 99/35 6/3 ..... 142 17 . . 42/2 71/27 20/7 . 133 18 . . 17/1 65/24 35/14 . 117 19 . . 40/3 67/29 13/6 . 120 20 . . 29/1 81/28 17/6 . 127 21 . . 44/2 104/23 . . 148 22 . . 54/11 63/19 . . 117 23 . . 73/13 70/11 . . 143 0 ..... 25/7 69/18 25/3 ..... ..... 119 1 . 98/9 42/8 . . . 140 2 . 52/6 33/6 . . . 85 3 9/1 48/8 14/2 . . . 71 4 19/0 47/5 1/0 . . . 67 5 . 43/8 18/3 . . . 61 6 . 29/8 14/1 . . . 43 7 . 11/2 17/3 . . . 28 8 ..... 10/0 20/1 ..... ..... ..... 30 9 . 7/2 12/3 . . . 19 10 . 9/1 5/0 1/0 . . 15 11 . . 17/1 13/7 . . 30 12 . . 30/4 79/41 . . 109 13 . . 32/3 77/19 . . 109 14 . . 15/2 43/8 9/3 . 67 15 . . 45/3 66/14 . . 111 16 ..... ..... 37/2 48/8 ..... ..... 85 17 . . 4/0 72/6 15/2 . 91 18 . . 37/5 64/9 4/1 . 105 19 . . 28/2 68/14 5/1 . 101 20 . . 37/4 48/8 . . 85 21 . . 24/0 72/14 5/2 . 101 22 . . 32/1 33/4 . . 65 23 . . 40/2 40/14 . . 80 DAY1 47/10 458/188 965/262 884/311 116/44 ..... .. DAY2 28/1 379/56 623/74 749/169 38/9 . TOT 75/11 837/244 1588/336 1633/480 154/53 . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 104,706 2008 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest KD5J SINGLE-OP-LP AR Section -------------------------------------------- 160m 1 1 1 80m 58 76 35 40m 312 398 118 20m 48 64 29 15m 6 15 6 -------------------------------------------- TOTALS 425 554 189 Claimed score = 104706 2008 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest KD5J AR Section Prefix Multipliers: 6Y1 FG0 KB3 KF6 KT3 NB7 NR3 VE1 WA5 WM4 AA2 FY5 KB5 KF7 KU4 NC1 NR6 VE2 WA7 WQ1 AA3 K0 KB8 KF8 KY4 ND1 NR7 VE3 WA8 WR3 AA6 K1 KB9 KG4 KZ1 ND4 NR8 VE6 WB0 WR9 AA8 K2 KC0 KG5 KZ7 ND8 NS1 VE7 WB1 WS4 AB8 K3 KC2 KI1 KZ9 NE1 NU0 VO1 WB4 WT4 AC0 K4 KC3 KI4 N0 NE4 NU1 W0 WB5 WU3 AC2 K5 KC4 KI6 N1 NF4 NX2 W1 WB7 WX3 AC5 K6 KC7 KJ4 N2 NF5 NX5 W2 WB8 WX5 AD7 K7 KC8 KK9 N3 NG1 NX7 W3 WB9 WX7 AF8 K8 KC9 KN1 N4 NG3 NX8 W4 WC6 WY3 AF9 K9 KD0 KN4 N6 NI2 NY0 W5 WD5 WZ4 AG9 KA1 KD4 KO0 N7 NI6 P49 W7 WD8 WZ8 AI0 KA2 KD8 KO4 N8 NJ3 PJ2 W8 WD9 XE1 AJ1 KA4 KE0 KP2 N9 NN4 PY2 W9 WE3 XE2 AJ4 KA8 KE5 KQ2 NA1 NO4 S50 WA0 WE9 YV1 AK9 KA9 KE7 KQ4 NA3 NO8 V48 WA1 WG2 ZX2 AM7 KB0 KE8 KR1 NA4 NQ2 VA2 WA3 WG7 ZX5 AO8 KB1 KF4 KR8 NB3 NQ4 VA3 WA4 WI4 Total: 189 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG6DX Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 259,600 Ten meters still had some life in it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7/KO7X Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,954 Just a few QSOs while on vacation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7B Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 8,922,729 Wow, outstanding, great etc! Although the K and the A index were high conditions out in KH6 were really great. This was the first contest with all the KT36XAs rotating and I just finished getting the last rotor up and working a day before the contest. I really didn't know what the propogation would be like since the antennas had been fixed more or less to the mainland since I put them up. The contest started with a bang and by 0200Z I had around 500 QSOs. Around sunset the first night the fun began with strong Asians and some Europeans and Mideast coming through. Saturday began with huge piles of W's and VEs with a smattering of VK/ZL and an occasional Oceanic goodie. By the sunset I had attained my goal of breaking the Oceanic record of 6.5M. Then the fun began again. As others have noted, conditions on Saturday night were great. Many Asians and lots of Europeans were logged on their respective sunrises as well as the usual bundles of JAs and I worked them until 11:30 PM local time Sunday morning began with runs of W/K, and then a BIG opening into Europe which lasted for about two hours. There was only one hour that really stunk...around 1900 or 2000 the second day. Signals really got really weak and there was a huge hiss across the whole band, resulting in about a 35 hour. Having the W/K stations count for three points is a big change for me after suffering through one pointers for years. I like it! One interesting note....an XU7 must have been spotted above me since I heard this huge racket up around 14229 while I was on 14226. How do I know it was an XU7? Several stations called me blindly thinking I was the XU7. Ah, the joys of the spotting clusters! A big mahalo for all the spots and the QSOs. See you in the FQP! Bill K4XS/KH7XS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI4GUO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 450,410 We operated "multi-op single-family." KI4GUO is my daughter and KI4ZWQ is my XYL. All of us contributed to the effort and had lots of fun. This was the first time that KI4GUO and KI4ZWQ had over 200 Qs each in a contest. The biggest problem with their growing interest in contesting is that I now have to "share my toys" with them! ;-) Jordan also insists that we use her callsign so we are limited to the General segments of the band. We won't win any awards for our score but I couldn't be more excited about my daughter's and XYL's involvement and effort this weekend. Thanks for the Qs. 73, Barry K4CZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI9A Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 209,238 Would not have even turned the rig on this year if were not for the 1 point USA contacts. Like the NAQP, with a handful of DX thrown in. Had 3 seperate 100+/hrs, which kept it fun for me. 73-Chuck KI9A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ4IC Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 8,062 Not much time to operate - only on and off, but had fun anyway. Bob KJ4IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ4VO Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,622,578 Shouldn't do these things when so tired....getting old is for the birds. Sorry didn't put the right call in the first posting... Sorry Mark... 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ5W Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 108,484 A loooong weekend... Afew high spots: CE0Z calling me. A few JA's but no EU and only one AF... 10M Total % NA 115 115 36.1 OC 80 80 25.1 SA 120 120 37.6 AS 3 3 0.9 AF 1 1 0.3 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 3D2 1 1 8R 1 1 A3 1 1 CE 9 9 CE0Z 1 1 CX 5 5 E5/s 1 1 EA8 1 1 HC 1 1 HI 1 1 HK 3 3 HP 1 1 J3 1 1 JA 3 3 K 109 109 LU 39 39 OA 1 1 PY 58 58 TI 2 2 VK 46 46 VP2E 1 1 YJ 1 1 YV 2 2 ZK2 1 1 ZL 29 29 QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z 4/4 4/4 4/4 24 D1-0100Z 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0200Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0300Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0400Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0500Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0600Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0700Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0800Z --+-- 0/0 4/4 60 D1-0900Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-1000Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-1100Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-1200Z - 0/0 4/4 60 D1-1300Z 2/1 2/1 6/5 54 D1-1400Z 2/1 2/1 8/6 37 D1-1500Z 14/8 14/8 22/14 D1-1600Z 7/4 7/4 29/18 35 D1-1700Z 7/5 7/5 36/23 D1-1800Z 26/20 26/20 62/43 D1-1900Z 24/15 24/15 86/58 D1-2000Z 33/20 33/20 119/78 D1-2100Z 50/23 50/23 169/101 D1-2200Z 34/11 34/11 203/112 D1-2300Z 36/13 36/13 239/125 D2-0000Z 28/4 28/4 267/129 3 D2-0100Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0200Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0300Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0400Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0500Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0600Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0700Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0800Z --+-- 0/0 267/129 60 D2-0900Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1000Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1100Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1200Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1300Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1400Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1500Z - 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1600Z --+-- 0/0 267/129 60 D2-1700Z 3/2 3/2 270/131 36 D2-1800Z - 16/8 16/8 286/139 D2-1900Z - 15/5 15/5 301/144 D2-2000Z - 7/1 7/1 308/145 D2-2100Z - 7/2 7/2 315/147 D2-2200Z - 4/1 4/1 319/148 Total: 319/148 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN1DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,350,842 Prior to ARRL DX I arranged with NR4M to use his station for ARRL DX SSB, Russian DX, and WPX SSB since the station is normally used for multi-op in CW contests. I figured if I was going to rearrange the station I might as well operate all 3. The 40 meter beam at my home station is still out of commission and since Steve has bigger hardware and I spend so much time there helping to put the place together, it seemed like the way to go. This weekend was a real roller coaster ride. Friday night was an absolute disaster. I couldn't get any runs going on any band, not even to the US. Also, I thought I had an Orion go bad but when I replaced it with another and the same thing happened, I quickly discovered it was operator error. Going into Saturday morning, after 6 hours of operating, I had a paltry 300 QSO's and a major hole to dig out of. Some of the guys stopped out at the farm Saturday morning and with the poor conditions on 20, I was literally a QSO or two from walking away from the radio and hanging with them. After grinding through ARRL SSB and Russian DX, I didn't think I had it in me to do this again. I don't know why, but I hung with it. The terrific opening on 20 to JA and later some nice runs to Europe on 40 & 80 got me focused again. By Sunday morning I had too much time invested so I figured I was in for the haul. So in the end this turned out much better than I expected. But, I've had my fill of contesting for a few months. Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 42/37 15/15 6/6 --+-- --+-- 63/58 63/58 D1-0100Z - 41/25 11/9 - - - 52/34 115/92 D1-0200Z - 16/11 34/24 - - - 50/35 165/127 D1-0300Z - 25/19 23/10 - - - 48/29 213/156 D1-0400Z - 52/30 - - - - 52/30 265/186 D1-0500Z - 12/10 19/10 - - - 31/20 296/206 1 D1-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 296/206 60 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 296/206 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 296/206 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 296/206 60 D1-1000Z - 1/1 - - - - 1/1 297/207 59 D1-1100Z - 36/14 3/1 18/5 - - 57/20 354/227 D1-1200Z - - 6/3 77/53 - - 83/56 437/283 D1-1300Z - - - 65/33 1/0 - 66/33 503/316 D1-1400Z - - - 99/47 11/7 - 110/54 613/370 D1-1500Z - - - 80/27 13/10 - 93/37 706/407 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 69/26 9/6 --+-- 78/32 784/439 D1-1700Z - - - 78/33 13/4 - 91/37 875/476 D1-1800Z - - - 69/40 11/5 - 80/45 955/521 D1-1900Z - - - 88/37 9/7 - 97/44 1052/565 D1-2000Z - - - 84/25 6/4 - 90/29 1142/594 D1-2100Z - - - 108/42 5/3 - 113/45 1255/639 D1-2200Z - - 1/0 113/42 2/1 - 116/43 1371/682 D1-2300Z - - 5/1 51/20 1/0 - 57/21 1428/703 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 107/21 --+-- --+-- --+-- 107/21 1535/724 D2-0100Z - - 84/10 - - - 84/10 1619/734 D2-0200Z - 60/9 3/1 - - - 63/10 1682/744 D2-0300Z - 34/7 3/0 - - - 37/7 1719/751 5 D2-0400Z - 19/5 - - - - 19/5 1738/756 60 D2-0500Z - 27/4 33/9 - - - 60/13 1798/769 D2-0600Z - 3/1 1/0 - - - 4/1 1802/770 55 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1802/770 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1802/770 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1802/770 60 D2-1000Z - - 4/2 - - - 4/2 1806/772 58 D2-1100Z - 1/0 29/6 21/7 - - 51/13 1857/785 D2-1200Z - - 6/1 59/26 - - 65/27 1922/812 D2-1300Z - - - 61/14 3/0 - 64/14 1986/826 D2-1400Z - - 7/3 61/14 - - 68/17 2054/843 D2-1500Z - - 3/2 77/21 4/1 - 84/24 2138/867 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 32/14 20/2 --+-- 52/16 2190/883 D2-1700Z - - - 36/11 10/2 - 46/13 2236/896 D2-1800Z - - - 132/30 3/1 - 135/31 2371/927 D2-1900Z - - - 92/16 4/2 - 96/18 2467/945 D2-2000Z - - - 95/18 2/1 - 97/19 2564/964 D2-2100Z - - - 110/23 1/0 - 111/23 2675/987 D2-2200Z 2/0 - 1/1 46/17 5/1 - 54/19 2729/1006 Total: 2/0 369/173 398/1291827/647 133/57 0/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 22,320 Part time effort to help out the cause. Band conditions not the best, especially on 20 meters. Kenwood TS 450SAT G5RV @ 35 Ft. N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO0U Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 652,288 Lowest number of Q's and mult's in many years made for the worst score I can remember. Maybe by the time the CW WPX gets here we will have a sunspot or two and we can operate something other than 20 meters. With conditions like they are this turns into a domestic contest for me. Hope to see you all in the MO QSO party next weekend when I plan to be a rover for the first time (with W0BH). 73 de K0OU Steve in MO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2BH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 423,280 Bands were not to good at this end of the island (west). best band was 15 meters.just operate for couple of hours between saturday night and sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2TM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 14,479,600 FT-1000MP/Alpha 76PA, NA 10.66 Antennas: 2L 20/15/10 Quad Cushcraft 40-2CD 80M AI1H dipole No antenna for 160 You know you're in for a long weekend when after 15 minutes, you are on 40m. We were hoping to get some use out of 20m at the start but it just didn't work out. Hopefully we're at the bottom and on the way back up now. Repairs were completed on the Cushcraft 40 before the contest. The lugs that make up the feedpoint had both broken off. This was something I found last November when I went down for SS SSB. I didn't feel comfortable fixing it by myself in November, so the repair was left to this trip. This year we experimented with a receive antenna for 40m. The antenna consists of two 40m hamsticks phased to provide a null towards EU. This helped with the EU broadcast QRM. Unfortunately we had no receive antenna for 80m. There was a lot of noise on 80m all weekend, so we didn't spend much time there. We heard some southern signals on 10m but not enough to make it worth spending 10 minutes on the band. Despite the poor conditions and points rule penalty of the QTH, it's still a good time. Thanks for all the QSO's (QSL via AI4U). 73's Tim, K9TM Dave, K8CC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 25,380 Rig: IC-756ProIII Pwr: 100 Watts Ant: 20-15-10: three remotely switched 20m doublets in triangle configuration 40: 40m doublet and 80m inverted V 80: 80m inverted V + small 80m coax loop RX antenna with preamp 160: inverted L + small 160m coax loop RX antenna with preamp I didn't get a chance to really play in this contest as I would have liked to. I just joined in a few times here and there to give away a few points and mults. 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 488,124 Wierd propagation. Many, many Europeans CQing without reply to my calls. Those that did reply required many repeats. That was 1400 watts to a TH-3 at 60 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4Z Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,359,476 Congratulations to W7WA for a great score. Dan showed me why he wins this contest year after year on 20 meters. Chatting with Tim, KY5R last week I told him I was going to try to see how close I could get to W7WA. Well, I made it to about Mississippi from northwest Florida in geographic terms as far as how bad I did in comparison to Dan. I'm sure others beat me as well. Conditions here in the armpit of Alabama (25 miles north of Pensacola, Florida) were strange to say the least. The band teased me with a few brief openings to EU and JA, but mostly was just a pit of QRM. Nice to work Randy, K5ZD from his QTH and then again /OE within 24 hours as he was on a business trip. The contest would have been miserable, but I rented an 80 foot lift for the weekend and put a 204BA on the top section of tower in the lift which played much better than my tri-bander at 40 feet. I couldn't hear most of the Europeans calling on the tri-bander at all. The tri-bander did function as a west and south antenna quite well. 73, Jay N4OX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS1Y Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 234,632 ICOM 756 PRO 2 6L15M MONO 5L20M MONO 80M VERT AND DIPOLE + BEVERAGES 160m VERT + BEVERAGES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS9K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,147,573 As KQ2M likes to say, WPX is a contest all about strategy. Of course, the clever general must examine the capability of his troops, equipment, and location, as well well as those of his enemy to come up with a winning strategy. This is true whether one is battling on the world stage with other super powers (read 1500 watts) or in a more localized arena in a regional squabble (read 100 watts versus other USA stations). With this contest coming exactly 28 days after the ARRL DX SSB contest, I expected conditions to be similar to those prevailing that dismal weekend. However, since the DX stations could work anyone, not just US/VE stations, I knew that I couldn't count on my low power station working 28 different DX countries on 160 as I did 4 weeks ago, but I hoped to pick up a little slack by picking up some VE 4 pointers there. (Normally, the 160 and 80 meter antennas are removed following the ARRL phone contest but with the really poor conditions I left them up a month longer.) I hoped that 10 would pick up a little, but never heard a signal here although WD5K ended up with 52 ten meter QSOs. I heard one EU Sunday afternoon on 15 beaming SE but no contact resulted. From the center of the country it is hard to beam in a direction which picks up both DX and domestic QSOs. Since this contest originated as a DX contest with no points for domestic QSOs, I decided to try to favor the DX stations whenever possible, since 30 DX contacts would equal 90 USA contacts. Of course, the USA has lots of prefixes nowdays, so when I'd worked all of the DX available to my S&P efforst, I would try to find some USA guys to work. I ended with about 198 different USA prefixes in the log. I seem to have been moderately successful with this DX first strategy. Early returns show AC0W (1234Qs x 452 prefix) and WD5K (1125Qs and 498 prefixes) made more QSOs but ended with lower scores than my 1007Qs x 497 prefixes made. BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes _____________________________________________________ 160SSB 56 56 92 22 80SSB 230 230 551 111 40SSB 172 172 509 58 20SSB 485 485 988 276 15SSB 64 64 169 30 _____________________________________________________ Totals 1007 1007 2309 497 Final Score = 1147573 points. Continent List 2008 WPX SSB KS9K 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 44 151 93 206 2 0 496 VE calls = 9 22 15 21 0 0 67 N.A. calls = 3 16 14 29 20 0 82 S.A. calls = 0 5 15 33 41 0 94 Euro calls = 0 30 25 173 0 0 228 Afrc calls = 0 6 5 7 1 0 19 Asia calls = 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 JA calls = 0 0 0 11 0 0 11 Ocen calls = 0 0 3 2 0 0 5 Total calls = 56 230 172 485 64 0 1007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,697,028 Due to last minute issue, worked nearly first half of contest with low power and mainly S & P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT5J Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,775,512 Another difficult "learning experience" for me. Congrats to K5TR and NN5J (N5DX) for outstanding efforts and results. W5WMU was in there as well. I haven't seen Pat's score but it's cerain he did well. I'm a bit humbled, as I worked hard but it just doesn't look good on the scoreboard. The WX report for he