CQ160 CW Soapbox built 2-26-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W3W Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 107,600 It was our second CQ160M Contest from Vietnam. We move from Hanoi and choose place about 40km south from town. Middle of rice fields. We have had a fun, could weather and 150 QSOs more than last year. You can see more on www.ok1jr.com in end of this week. Using FT10000MKV, Alpha 91B, N1MM Logger, the DX Cluster, and full radio control via Microham Keyer. Transmitting to L-antenna and receiving with Active Antenna made by Eddy, XV1X. Thanks for calling us and we hope to hear you soon. 73s Stan, 3W9R and Eddy, XV1X 3W3W Contest Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L2M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 409,626 FT-1000D and simple INV.V amtenna competed 8 hrs before contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,700,595 I was predicted to make 1,3M points, with some luck, having on mind new horizontal dipole @ 30m and nice terrain profile to JA and USA. As expected, few EUs were much louder in USA, but RX antennas on location worked great and make us competetive. I guess that many EU big guns did better than old ON4UN’s record. Propagations were good, much better first night. Thanks to all for calling us HARDWARE TX antenna – dipole @ 30m RX antennas – beverages NW, NE, East Rig FT1kMarkV + OM Power AMP CU in ARRL Ranko – 4O3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6M0V Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 27,069 BDXC(Busan DX ClUb) team in 2008 160m contest. Using MA-160V G,P, FL-7000, and FT-1000. Many tks FB QSO, QSL 100% VIA BURO..OR DIRECT. (QSL ADDRESS :WWW.QRZ.COM (Busan DX Club P.O.Box 872 Busan 600-608 KOREA ) (BDXC TEAM OP : DS5ACV,DS5DNO, DS5AAQ, DS5KJR, 6K6AYC, 6K5AQY, DS5ANY, DS5QLJ 6K5AQY, DS5BRE, HL5BMX. AND HL5YI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S7V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,001 TS-850S/AT Antenna: "Sirotica" @5m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7X0RY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 511,200 During all weekend QRM S7, and sometime pulse QRM S9+40dB....grrr... So, SRI ON6AB, AND VY TNX G3ZAS !!! 73! Frantisek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A2AA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,435,000 Using lighthouse with 3 sloping dipoles and 2 beevrages of about 300m (1000 ft) made band like 20m. Will be hard to switch home station to top band:-) 73, Tine Brajnik S50A for SCC team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A50KDE Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 443,016 EQUIPMENT: FT-1000MP MV + PA 600W ANTENA'S: I.VEE (top @30m) + NW 200m beverage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 599,625 A fun contest as always. Worked 11 JA and and RW0 on second morning, most after sunrise. 06z the first night was best hour to Europe. 935 two-pointers 89 five-pointers 256 ten-pointers Orion I and FT1000MP transceivers in SO2R configuration with N1MM logger and DX Doubler controller. Alpha 89 amp. Parasitic vertical array for TX -- 4-el to Europe, 3-el to SE, SW and NW. Also Inverted Vee at 95 feet. Multiple phased Beverage arrays for receiving. First contest using DX Engineering NCC-1 phasing box and found it useful for putting pairs of Beverages in combination. Thanks to ZL2IFB for hanging in till I could pull his call out. It must have been about 10 minutes -- till I finally tried the vertical array and he popped out of the noise. I have to remember that can be a good RX antenna too. Mults heard that got away: TA2, 9H1, HB9, VE5 and others. Station details at www.aa1k.us. Breakdown stats: Date Hour Total 1 Running Total 2008-01-26 0 104 104 104 2008-01-26 1 137 137 241 2008-01-26 2 89 89 330 2008-01-26 3 43 43 373 2008-01-26 4 41 41 414 2008-01-26 5 50 50 464 2008-01-26 6 100 100 564 2008-01-26 7 54 54 618 2008-01-26 8 73 73 691 2008-01-26 9 27 27 718 2008-01-26 10 27 27 745 2008-01-26 11 23 23 768 2008-01-26 12 29 29 797 2008-01-26 13 2 2 799 2008-01-26 22 21 21 820 2008-01-26 23 19 19 839 2008-01-27 0 18 18 857 2008-01-27 1 49 49 906 2008-01-27 2 39 39 945 2008-01-27 3 44 44 989 2008-01-27 4 21 21 1010 2008-01-27 5 26 26 1036 2008-01-27 6 36 36 1072 2008-01-27 7 26 26 1098 2008-01-27 8 30 30 1128 2008-01-27 9 18 18 1146 2008-01-27 10 18 18 1164 2008-01-27 11 25 25 1189 2008-01-27 12 32 32 1221 2008-01-27 21 13 13 1234 2008-01-27 22 22 22 1256 2008-01-27 23 24 24 1280 Total All Hours 1280 1280 CountryPrefix Total 2 5 10 4O 1 1 5B 2 2 9A 4 4 C6 2 2 CE 1 1 CN 1 1 CT 2 2 CT3 2 2 CU 2 2 CX 1 1 DL 41 41 E7 1 1 EA 7 7 EA6 1 1 EA8 1 1 EI 4 4 EL 1 1 ER 1 1 ES 2 2 EU 1 1 F 4 4 FM 1 1 G 16 16 GD 1 1 GM 6 6 GW 3 3 HA 10 10 HK 3 3 HP 1 1 HR 1 1 I 4 4 JA 11 11 K 935 935 KH6 2 2 KH8 1 1 KP2 1 1 KP4 1 1 LA 3 3 LX 1 1 LY 5 5 LZ 1 1 OE 2 2 OH 8 8 OH0 1 1 OK 21 21 OM 7 7 ON 3 3 OZ 2 2 P4 1 1 PA 9 9 S5 16 16 SM 6 6 SP 9 9 SV 1 1 TF 1 1 UA 4 4 UA2 2 2 UA9 1 1 UR 7 7 V3 1 1 VE 78 78 VP9 1 1 XE 1 1 YL 3 3 YU 3 3 YV 1 1 ZF 1 1 ZL 1 1 Total 1280 935 89 256 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 53,515 Antenna: Shunt-fed 15m tall tower Equipment: K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 90 watts Comments: Not really a full-time effort, but I had a lot of fun. operated a good bit Friday night, but Saturday I had to pull the plug after a couple of hours early. Got on both mornings as well, and an hour Sunday evening just before the end. Worked 45 states, missing AK, ME, ND, NE, and WY. Not sure what happened with the ME, NE and WY. I did near an NE station work someone else. Haven't worked ND on 160m since WB0O left for AZ, and I have NEVER heard an AK station on 160m. Heard several strong europeans on both evenings -- however, they appeared to be completely deaf. Calling CQ over and over, completely oblivious to all the stateside stations calling. Only managed a few DX stations: C6A, CM, KH6, XE, VP9, ZF. I did hear a JA calling CQ on Sunday morning. He wasn't quite loud enough for me to pick out the call out of the noise, and when someone else found him, all the callers covered him up. Managed a few good runs Friday and Saturday evening. Rate meter almost hit 200 a couple of times. Perhaps the most fun of 160m contests is running stations. Not bad for 90 watts and a short vertical. Dedicating this effort to the SEDXC celebrating 50 years as a club. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 391,664 This one is always fun...excellent conditions at the beach. CU from KH6 for the ARRL CW and Phone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5VU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 624 18 QSOs = 39 QSO Points x 16 Multis = 624 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 22,231 Ladder fed dipole @ 50ft. IC756ProII/Dentron DTR2000L Amp died 3 hrs into the contest. Thanks to all for a fun contest. 73 Darrell AB2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC4JI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,147 Very Part Time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6DD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 261,464 Equipment: FT1000MP, ACOM2000 Inverted L (approx 60' vertical section, rest sloping) RX 4 square (second night) The plan: Operate the CQ160 contest from the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, using a trailer mounted tilt-up vertical, set up on the waters edge for transmiting, and a rx 4 square located 1000' away for receive. Have the station completely set up at the site office on Thursday, and show up on Friday to flip the switch to operate. The reality on Contest day: It is early Friday morning after a sleeples night involving two little ones. I am still welding on the trailer antenna supports in my driveway, with light rain falling, getting a nip here and there from the welder, and the weather is getting worse. It's been stormy all week long, and I have not been able to get much done in getting prepared. I check the NOOA site which forecasts 30-40 knot winds, with 50 knot gusts, and a few inches of rain at the contest site. It looks bad. I drive out there anyway, I figure I can always turn around and go back home. At the site there is no way to erect my vertical antenna, in fact I get worried the wind will blow my trailer away. At 12:30 local time, 3.5 hours before the Contest starts I am still sitting in my truck thinking that after not doing much for the ARRL test and SP, this 160 contest season was just not meant to be. From here on it is a long story involving some questionable decisions, equipment problems, and the worst weather I ever experienced in doing a portable contest. I am writing this from home, where I have been drinking hot soup for two days trying to recuperate. On Sunday morning after I turned off the station I was certain I will get a pneumonia, and promised myself that will never attempt anything like this again. That turned out to be short lived, as after I caught a couple hours of sleep I already made arrangements with the site manager for next time. I am not going to get long winded here, but if someone is in a reading mode and wants to see some pictures please go here: www.ac6dd.com/Portable/2008_cq_160_cw.htm The band conditions to Europe were superb, and one can only think "what if " the weather was different and was able to do a good setup. I was a bit dissapointed in the JA total. My highest ever was 134 worked, and did not even come close to that number, working some 50 less. But the country total is something I did not even think was possible from here. COUNTRIES WORKED: 9A, CT, EI, G, OZ, EA, I, SP, OM, 4O, ON, DL, HA, CT3, CN, CE, HR, KP2, P4, TI, FM, KP4, PY, CU, CX, XE, V3, HK, ZF, C6, KH6, KL, VP9, ZL, VK, BV, HL, UA9, JA, KH2 DX STATIONS CALLING CQ WHICH WERE HEARD VERY WELL BUT I COULD NOT GET THEIR ATTENTION: DL8SCG DL3ARM IK1YDB 9A2AJ 1813.80 9A7A 18.10 DL1AUZ 21.10 RU0A 15.48 *! 9N7JO 40.00 Big signal, only working Asia. I called him many many times, I heard no US calling him at all. * B1Z 22.70 * SM0MDG 20.52 *! S59A *! YU1LA 25.16 Steady signal for hours, I called many times, no RX. OR2T 30.30 SK7DX 30.83 HG3DX Would not make a QSO, kept telling me QSO B4. I worked HG8DX earlier. I am not sure what the story is here. Maybe worked two HG*DX in one shot? IK4MGP 31.60 OM7M 32.33 S51TA 34.50 Big signal for a short time at our sunset, and big pile, only working strong east coast callers. DR1A 34.52 Good steady signal on both days, I called many times in vain, got a few AGN, but that was it. *! UA2FW 73.90 Weak, but steady for a while * GW3JXN 45.08 * 3W3W 13.00, 16.00 Auto CQ with 1 second listening time, called many many times. By the time I can get "A" sent he CQ's again. Many calling for nothing, never heard him working a US station. I also heard N6RO calling him in vain. Last year N6RO, K6NA and I were able to work him from the USA. I doubt he worked any USA this year. UA9UZZ Good signal both days DS4EOI 24.00 Good signal UA9PC 30.20 Good signal both days This is what I can read from my notes. * Would have been a new Multiplier ! Would have been a new one on 160 73, Niko - AC6DD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4MI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,040 Lots of fun! More skill and I could have done better. Conditions were good, and new radio helped. Wire over old oak tree could have been better. Thanks for all your patience with my new fist. 73, CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ANM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 453,573 Equipment problems Friday night created poor rate despite excellent conditions to EU. Constructed an Inverted-L near the beach. Rate improved but lost AC power during storm Saturday evening. JA's must have heard us and asked us to QSY below 1825, but we could not find any clear frequency. Did not find any Labrador, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. Best DX was Hawaii and Chile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE1NB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,764 CQ160CW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2008-01-24 CallSign Used : VE1NB Operator(s) : VE1NB Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 160M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : NS Gridsquare : FN84GO Name : Bruce Wade Address : 1610 Cow Bay Road City/State/Zip : Eastern Passage NS B3G 1L1 Country : Canada ARRL Section : MAR Club/Team : Maritime Contest Club Software : N1MM Logger V7.12.7 Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 1.8 100 542 27 15 Total 100 542 27 15 Score : 22,764 Rig : Yaesu FT1000mp Antennas : 1/4 wavelength wire in an L shape, 15 feet above ground Soapbox : The goal was work 100 stations I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2008-01-27 Signature : bruce Wade ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 2,480,598 Good condx the first night ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1JLZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,024,828 Longing gain victory over reason. It's idea race on 160 m only with 24 m Vertical without Rx ant. Thank all what me long and patiently called. 73! Jiri,OK1RF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT9M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 2,370,200 We would like to express our thanks to all members of the Madeira team CT9M especially to CT3EE and CT3BD for their technical support and enabling our participation in the CQ WW 160 m contest from Madeira Island. The CQ WW 160 m DX contest is increasingly popular every year and the activity of the stations also increases. Unfortunately, the width of the band stays the same so additional patience is also needed. Next to the European “big guns” it is very hard to achieve good results from this part of our planet. We have been expecting to pick up North American stations at earlier hours as in Central Europe. However, after 4 days of activity our experience was the same as in Central Europe and American stations opened up and closed up at the same hours. We started the contest on the beginning of the band but after about 2 hours we were forced to leave the frequency and look for a new place at the end the band. In the first day we made 300 QSO in the US incl. KH6, VK and JA. In the evening and the night of the second day the conditions worsened and there was a very strong QRN in the band. This caused us big problems with accepting calls. Little pistol stations from Europe were coming through only on the level of signal noise and they had to repeat their calls several times. We would like to additionally apologize to them for this. We began the Sunday night in the 1810-1825 segments to give a possibility to JA stations. After a short time we rather switched to a quieter place where were getting European QSOs. Towards the end of the contest some multipliers appeared but we had no chance to pass through European big guns from our position. So we opted for making simple QSOs. Thanks to everybody who called us and to the CT9M team from Madeira. Rasto OM3BH DL-197 EA-24 F-22 G-60 HA-34 I-36 USA-520 OH-27 OK-100 OM-29 PA-31 SM-26 SP-53 S5-38 UA-123 UA9-32 UR-54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D2NX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 525 I installed horizontal Inverted-L at 6m height on Saturday afternoon, grounding the earth to the metal roof panel. With only 100w not many stations heard me calling but managed to work 8 stations (7 EU, 1 Africa (CT3)). The best QSO was with GM3POI who came up very short period of time and copie my weak signal with just one call. Many stations heard me as N2NX or N2DX. I will try 160m for the next few weeks on 1823KHz QSX 1825KHz. Hope I can work some more stations before I take the antenna down again. Koji D2NX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DA0BCC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 645,876 Still room for improvement at our TX-antennas. Congrats to our competitors DK1O and DR1A for their superb scores! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 152,582 TS-850, TL922, 42m Sloper @ 25m OP time: 00z-07z, 23:30z-06z Very high local noise level. Could work what I heard, but that wasn't too much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 158,348 A very nice contest, I could beat my last years score quite easy this time. Very good sigs from the US this year but I could only get 22 of them with my 100W, heard quite more but they couldnt fish my sig out of the QRM. See a pic of my antenna on my webpage at www.dj8og.de.vu its already dismantled again. Thanks for all who heard my faint sigs, cu next time again, Vy73 de Matt - DJ8OG - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ9KM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 525,400 vy gd condx first night witzh high QSO rates, rather normal to bad in the second night and not so much new stations in the 3rd night; we worked this contest mainly to test and improve our RX-antennas and found by the way a very bad power supply of a notebook. Over all it was a lot of fun. 73 de Wolfgang DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ9VA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 368,466 CQ WW DX Contest 160m CW 2008 Result overview of DJ9VA Good Invalid Dupe Deleted Band QSOs QSOs QSOs QSOs Mul1 Mul2 Pts 160m 767 0 0 0 31 62 3962 all 767 0 0 0 31 62 3962 Final result = 3962 * (31 + 62) = 368.466 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK1O Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,148,000 Great weekend on Topband! We did a good run into North America in the first 7 hours with in total 700 QSOs (250 NA, 49 States/Provinces), later condx went down a bit. Otherwise the usual struggle to catch the multipliers, always cutting thru a lot of deaf crocodiles, and the usual European click and chirp championships, of course. A special Thank You goes to Hannes DK1NO - giving us the opportunity to use his excellent station, and to Stefan DK1MM handling the organization of this event. Congratulations also to DL6FBL and DL3DXX for their big effort at DR1A. They came close, but hopefully the new German record will finally belong to us. cu in SSB again ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 73.7% ! 21.8% ! 0.1% ! 0.5% ! 3.8% ! ! ------------------------------------------------------- Top Ten: 1. K 321 2. DL 287 3. OK 110 4. UA 108 5. UR 66 6. SP 62 7. G 58 8. S5 50 9. UA9/0 46 10. HA 43 TRX: FT-2000, FT-1000MP, Alpha-99 ANT: Phased Tower Array with tons of copper in the ground, 3x Beverages (abt. 200m, each bi-directional switchable) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK5OS Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 73,152 Only S&P with TS-850, ZZ-750, Dipol@21m, missing Vertical 73 de Olaf Contest : CQ World Wide 160-meter Contest Callsign : DK5OS Mode : CW Category : Multi Operator - Single Transmitter (MS) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 160 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : DL Locator : JO31MP Operating time : 11h53 BAND QSO DUP DXC S/P POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 318 3 48 0 1524 4.79 -------------------------------------- TOTAL 318 3 48 0 1524 4.79 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 73 152 Duplikate werden nicht mitgezählt und sind nicht in den Schnittberechnungen enthalten Operators : DK5OS + PACKET Soapbox : Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK6XZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 113,322 CONTEST : CQ-160-CW CATEGORY : SINGLE-OP 160M LOW CALLSIGN : DK6XZ E-MAIL : dk6xz@t-online.de NAME : Suad Zukic ADDRESS : Gymnasiumstr. 104 75175 Pforzheim Germany Band QSOs Points Multiplier ----------------------------------------- 1.8 515 2222 50 + 1 ----------------------------------------- TOTAL 515 2222 50 + 1 SCORE : 113322 =================== Remarks: ======== Hello there! I was hearing/reading much about "Top-Band" lately, but do not remember to have ever worked there very much myself. Even 20 years back, I remember, we found 160 m only important for multipliers in multi-operator efforts of 4N4C/YU4EZC. Yes, it was my first CQ WW 160 m contest! As I re-activated just couple of months ago, I was very keen to taste it - but previous planes changed: I was not able to work from the station intended. So I tryed to hear in a bit from my home... Great surprise, as I somehow brought my 6,8 m Al-whip with 15 m sloping wire ( vertical Windom ) into resonance, only with the built -in tuner of the FT-1000 MP. Fine, some of the stations were even able to hear me ... I started to work on 160 m, two days before. First night was making great fun. I was able to exchange reports with 86 stations, hearing some VE/W stations even very strong. On the other hand, I was disappointed making other guys problems to copy me trough my obviously very weak signal. Thus I had my fun, as every EU-QSO logged produced satisfaction like being a DX one... As the first night made reason to stay awaiken the whole time, I was encuraged to try something else: so, next day went to the shop and bought some 40 m wire! There is a location with power supply, on the hill-top, just few 100 m away from my home in downtown. Short after first band-openings antenna was up on the new location... Well, belive me, I was screeming from happyness: suddenly, i was heard by everyone I was hearing myself. Small action paid of... The antenna ( dipole ) "lays" just few meters above ground, but EU-sigs are enormous comparing to the night before. Next 15 hours fruited with following 365 QSOs... 7X, TA, CU, CT9, CN2 logged. The Highlight - VY2ZM ( K1ZM ): ------------------------------- Jeff, thank you for your Super-Station and congratulations on your antenna-system. You was the only NA able to hear my 100W. Sunnday morning I was already laughing: unexpected, I scored some 100.000 pts. Even a certificate could be hoped... Last contest night did not bring much, but some 65 Qs still made me happy and 2,5 hours before the end of the contest I was climbing the tries and poles to remove the wires, as it is a scool area I used ( thanks to the friends from my local club ) - the place should be cleared from any antenna-rests before the kids come to learn something. 25% of the total QSOs were DL followed by 13% OK. S5-6%, SP-5,6%, R3-5,2%, HA-4,1%... With that low dipole I was not able even to hear any DX. Congratulations to 4O3A and T93J stuffs for very fine job done. Thanks to "CQ Amateur Radio" for the organization and all of you who was able to contact me. Will see you soon in one of the coming contests... 73´s Suad, DK6XZ Equipment used: --------------- TRX: YAESU FT-1000 MP ( 100 W ) + KENT PADDLE + HEIL HC-4 HEADSET ANT: VERTICAL WINDOM ( 22 m ), DXSR VFD-4 ( 9-BANDER ) FED @18 m ANT2: 1/2 DIPOLE FED @9 M AGL - BOTH ENDS OF DP @3 m AGL PC: TOSHIBA SATELLITE PIII 1GHZ - UCXLOG 6.20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,864 ICOM IC-7400/746pro, N1MM, Toshiba Tecra M4, dipole 2x20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1ELY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 153,330 Big fun, operated the first two nights. Much Running, as S&P was too confusing at times when there are 3 stations within 270Hz filter bandwidth. Many times, the wrong station would answer (giving a deserved "B4"). Running was much nicer as long as i could hold a QRG. Not much DX (28 Qs). 150 DL, 77 OK, ... Antenna: FD4 full size dipole for 160m, S9+ noise in the city ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,881 First participation in this contest and it is great once you know what to do. I did S&P most of the time as I was running low power. Called CQ a few times and worked almost anybody in OK and OM. This event helped to gain more experience in how to handle a CW contest - a fun thing! Thanks to N3UA who was the only NA I worked and who took the time to pull me out of the noise. More to come... Maik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 108,295 Doing the CQWW-160 low power from a city lot is a real challenge! Building an inverted L for the contest took much longer than planned, as I had massive interaction with my 40 meter wire vertical which uses the same support. I ended up with a construction similar to the bizarre set-up I used during the Stew-Perry: 15m vertical and a zig- zag horizontal wire sloping from 15 to 3 meters height, covering all directions from South-West via East to North. Finished the antenna shortly before the contest while fiddling about wires in the dark black night … Happy to work 11 NA on Saturday morning although the antenna is completely blocked by the house in that direction. If I am in your log you have proof that your RX-capabilities are excellent, hi. I felt condx were much worse on Saturday night and early Sunday. No US at all and it was surely frustrating not even being heard by close in Europeans. Topband is always good for some surprises, though, and I was delighted to work UP0L right at his sunrise and to crush through the pile on 7X0RY shortly before the sun went up at my location. Thanks all who tried to hear me – I appreciated DX responding with a ?, indicating that they heard something at least even if they could not pull me trough. Sure enough, I had fun! Tnx all for a great experience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4MCF Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 240,779 Only a part-time participation (7 hours at the beginning of the contest an 6 hours at the end). Anyway it was a lot of fun - tnx to all callers - su next year - vy 73 de Tom, DL4MCF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,121,920 Two FT-1000 + PA in a Lock-Out-Circuit; Dipole @ 30m + Wire-Inverted-L along a 18m Spiderbeam Pole plus a piece of wire sloping down... We really have to put in some work and improve this for the next season... ;-) This was the last Topband exercise for DL3DXX + DL6FBL before leaving for VP6DX Ducie Island DXpedition next Sunday. See you all from there, 73 Ben DL6FBL http://www.dr1a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA2EA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 351,260 GREEAT WEKEEND....!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5BM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 455,760 A nice and fun weekend with field day style station. Setup: TX: 26 mh mast vertical, erected with only two persons. WAW RX: 220 M. beverage plus K9AY array. A nice and low noise qth, really no necesary RXing antennas. Rig: Icom 765 plus AL-1500 People is crazy with cluster spots. Countries listened and no worked: VR2,JA,PY,FM,IT,C6,3W,9M4 Thanks for calling me. Juan, EA5BM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI6IZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 627,402 TX antenna: Inv L Rx antennas: 2x reversible beverages Radio: Elecraft K3 Amp: Acom 1000 The k3 played really well, my E/W bev needs attention, I think it's broken someplace as there was nearly no F/B ratio. Conditions seemed to be pretty good, with the exception of polar path to the west coast of the states, KL7 & KH6. Heard quite a few JA's on Sunday evening but could not get though the rest of Europe to them. The K3 played very well indeed. On occasions with the K3's superb narrow filters and excellent close in dynamic range the limiting factor on RX was Keyclicks. There are quite a number of big contest stations with severe keyclicks, Both the causes for these and the cures are well known, please check your radios for Transmitted keyclicks and if there's a problem take appropriate action. see : http://www.w8ji.com/keyclicks.htm Excessive ALC action is another common cause 73's Brendan EI6IZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6DO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 156,988 Limited operation, but very good condition both nights, heard much more than worked. Also inverted L doesn't work well as no space for good radial system. Station: Icom IC756 HM amplifier w GU43 Inverted L w folded radials Thanks for the Q's and cul in next contest 73 Neil ES6DO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES9C Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,193,724 Target was 1 mio points but conditions were better than expected. Still a big struggle to work US but after all abt 150 NA logged, also 150 AS, out of which ca 70 JA. Our full size 4 Square played great, even little too great as it needs a lot of turning to copy guys calling from other directions. I am not using beverages as 4 Square almost always beats them. Counting all the mults that we heard but missed it might have been possible to work some 90-95 countries and a few more states. Congratulations to CU8A and 4O3A for outstanding scores in their own league. We seem to have a great battle in the 1.2mio points league with many other stations! Also congratulations to those great Single Ops making over 80 countries without packet. I know I would never be able to do that but would love to learn the tricks if someone would be willing to arrange courses. Wouldn't you - the human operators with 65-70 countries - love to learn the secrets as well? 73 ES5TV ES9C - Continents By band - CW QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 78.0% ! 10.9% ! 0.2% ! 0.5% ! 10.2% ! 0.2% ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ES9C By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ---------------------------- ! 00 ! 112 ! 112 ! ! 01 ! 117 ! 117 ! ! 02 ! 94 ! 94 ! ! 03 ! 54 ! 54 ! ! 04 ! 67 ! 67 ! ! 05 ! 66 ! 66 ! ! 06 ! 44 ! 44 ! ! 07 ! 65 ! 65 ! ! 08 ! 10 ! 10 ! ! 09 ! 5 ! 5 ! ! 10 ! 12 ! 12 ! ! 11 ! 9 ! 9 ! ! 12 ! 25 ! 25 ! ! 13 ! 32 ! 32 ! ! 14 ! 43 ! 43 ! ! 15 ! 43 ! 43 ! ! 16 ! 42 ! 42 ! ! 17 ! 37 ! 37 ! ! 18 ! 41 ! 41 ! ! 19 ! 52 ! 52 ! ! 20 ! 40 ! 40 ! ! 21 ! 40 ! 40 ! ! 22 ! 53 ! 53 ! ! 23 ! 35 ! 35 ! ! 00 ! 40 ! 40 ! ! 01 ! 48 ! 48 ! ! 02 ! 36 ! 36 ! ! 03 ! 39 ! 39 ! ! 04 ! 37 ! 37 ! ! 05 ! 39 ! 39 ! ! 06 ! 22 ! 22 ! ! 07 ! 7 ! 7 ! ! 08 ! 4 ! 4 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 10 ! 1 ! 1 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 13 ! 17 ! 17 ! ! 14 ! 23 ! 23 ! ! 15 ! 10 ! 10 ! ! 16 ! 17 ! 17 ! ! 17 ! 23 ! 23 ! ! 18 ! 34 ! 34 ! ! 19 ! 30 ! 30 ! ! 20 ! 24 ! 24 ! ! 21 ! 39 ! 39 ! ! 22 ! 21 ! 21 ! ! 23 ! 13 ! 13 ! ---------------------------- ! ! 1662 ! 1662 ! Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 355,446 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6FYA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 506,472 I was as multi-op, second op was the cluster ! Lot of fun, as usual on top band. K9AY has stop to work last evening. On strike ? Hopefully, I have also two beverages. The result is quite the same than two years ago, that time I had a dipole, this year a shunt feed. First night was not great with US/VE. Better the second one. I met OK, MO, MT, CA, MS and ZL sunday morning. I did not heard any JA because of eastern noice. Well, I will try to be better next time ! Thanks to all of you for contacts. CU Soon. Jean-Paul-F6FYA/TM4Q./. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 400 HI, just a few minutes to gives points to biggests signals. 73's david F8CRS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 319,384 Rig: IC-756 (100W) Ant: Vertical(28m) Rx ant:2x50m LW Nice contest! 73&DX from Bela ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8JV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 915,865 station setup ts870+pa, vertical 36mh, 6 pieces beverages, statistics: 196 NA, 48 JA(second evening 46)and many good dx(3W,9M4,9M2,EL, P4,C6,FM,etc..). Its was nice contest and thanks for all callers. see you on arrl cw 73 pali ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9CT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 138,970 No chance to come up with a full effort, nevertheless we enjoyed this one night in the contest ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG7T Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 196,838 My Rig FTDX-9000D Ant:Titanex V160HD and K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 427,728 Rig:IC-781 + 800W Ant:inv.vee dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 53,704 Not so bad for 100w and a windom antenna for 80 M!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK3SSJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,539 RTX JRC 135 ANT 80M LONGWIRE QARTEST.LOG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK4XCL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 235,998 Radio: YAESU FT-1000MP Tx ant: VERTICAL 42m (balloon helium) INVERTED L 42m (15m vertical + 27m horizontal) Rx ant: BOG 220m NW-SE BOG 180m N - S EWE 27m 6mh NE LOW DIPOLE W - E My best record in cq 160m cw ! Nice prop. for US during saturday morning. I appreciate very much LOW DIPOLE to receive (my first time). As usual, really vy funny. MNI TKS to all, and CU next year. GL de IK4XCL Roberto ...one of IO4T ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0AV Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 24,138 Great conditions the first night allowed me to hear and work some DX. Low power into 40 meter beam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 16,356 Only on for a while Saturday evening - running the 756pro3 and Alpha374A to an inv L(up 65' out 65') and no recieve antennas. Loaded up to about 700W and wifey pooh came down and said the dining room lights were blinking on and off - so I turned it down to about 500W and that seemed to cure the problem. Heard a couple of European but didn't work any. Only DX was KP2 and C6A. But it made for an entertaining couple of hours. All S&P. Thanks for the Q's. 73 de K0OU Steve in MO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 69,660 In spite of conditions not seeming quite as good as last year from this QTH, I managed to improve my score by a little better than 10% over my 2007 effort. The 2007 CQ160-CW was my last "paper log" contest, so I'm sure computer logging helped. A loop RX antenna and second radio also made a difference. The first 300 Qs were easy and I thought making my goal of 500 Qs was a cinch, but I had to work like a dog for the last 200! Almost made WAS again but didn't hear KL7. Worked CE,CU,KH6,VP9,XE and R3 m/m. There was a fair opening to EU both nights but they weren't hearing my QRP sig. Thanks to all the ops who did the "heavy lifting" in pulling my signal from the noise. You're the ones who make QRP worthwhile! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 39,856 I always enjoy the 160m CW contests. Even as a low power station I can usually find a spot to call my own and run stations. I did get chased off frequency by a HP East Coast station that insisted on slowly drifting down frequency to run me off. It work for him. A couple of weeks ago "something" in my area was creating +60 dB line noise that erased any hope of hearing stations on 160 or 80 meters. Fortunately, whatever it was must have fried up and fallen to the ground. That noise was finally gone. I have never heard so many European stations on 160m. I had to check my radio to make sure I wasn't listening to 80 meters! For TX I use a low, full size 160m inverted vee with the apex at 70 feet. As you know, that configuration is not known as a great DX antenna. I also have a 450 foot Beverage pointing at EU. This time the Beverage antenna didn't provide any advantage in reception. The signals were really strong. My remaining problem was running in Low Power class I couldn't be heard through all the pile ups. Although I was hearing plenty of EU I couldn't work many of them. I did got lucky and worked 3 DX stations: CT9M, CU8A, and KH6LC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RF Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 440,610 Great conditions the first night with 50 Europeans. The second night was poor with only 4 more EU in the log. JAs were poor with a total of 46 although some were quite strong. It was fun to have W0UA and W1XE over for the test. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 59,598 Best Eu conditions I have ever heard from Co. Glad I didnt go to Denver this weekend..LOT same old song. See ya in Sprints. PTL bill UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0XI Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 49 Almost WAS50 #4 on 160 QRP! First time ARRL94 (39 hours), second time ARRL06 (12 hours), third time ARRL07 (8 hours) and ALMOST #4 but 49 in six hours not bad! Does anyone in ND know how to RUN??? KH6LC ... Thanks for hanging in there with me ... QSB took both of us down. Thanks Wayne for WY! ... thot that one was gone too. ... 73 k0xi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1EP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 163,344 Friday night conditions were a lot better to Europe. I heard quite a bit more than could hear me. Maybe it was my K3 that was hearing so well! Thanks for all the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 100,800 Decided at the last moment to turn the amplifier off and go low power. A humbling experience but fun when I got through. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 553,758 The 2008 CQ World Wide 160 Meter Contest started with the awful discovery of S5 power line noise on the S and SE (150 degrees) Beverages. Fortunately, the noise was not particularly audible in any of the other directions. But the noise affected the phased array receiving system. While dropping my child at her grandparents for the weekend, I drove past some utility work that was taking place about a mile from my QTH. I tuned the car radio to a relatively empty frequency (1630 kHz, SWACO Radio, all trash, all the time). The noise started rising as I approached the work area and peaked adjacent to a pole with temporary rigging. Since the contest started in only an hour, I didn't perceive any opportunity to affect the situation (like crashing the car into the pole). During the contest, I intended to test the refinements I recently added to the Steerable Phased Array receiving system ("phased array" for short). See k1lt.com for prior soapboxes about the development of this system. Since the Stew Perry test, I improved the sensitivity by replacing the op-amps in the "front-ends" with lower noise devices, decreased the latency by numerous computer configuration changes (process and interrupt priority, etc.), and added a headphone audio switch box to conveniently route audio (no more mousing). I tried to add automatic IQ balancing, but that still doesn't work correctly. During the CQ 160, I did not notice any interference from image signals, even though contest activity spans both halves of the 96 kHz of spectrum the SDR presents. (I set the center frequency to 1855 kHz, which means signals above 1855 might image into the range below 1855.) The configuration that seems to work most conveniently is to use the Beverages and main radio for the anticipated "most difficult" direction (usually east toward Europe) and use the steerable system for western directions. Then, when running, I can listen in two directions simultameously, and usually all callers are audible. The problem is that a caller from the west who is off frequency requires that I grab the mouse and tweak the SDR passband, while a caller from the east who is off frequency requires that I mess with the RIT control on the main radio. Although receiving requires more manual effort, I don't miss callers who happen to be coming from the wrong direction. The first night, conditions were good. However, the power line noise that affected the S and SE Beverages also wiped out all but NE and SW on the phased array. So, I tried to use the phased array for Europe, and the Beverages for other directions while operating 2-receiver mode. However, the lack of the equivalent of RIT on the SDR receiver made it difficult to using tuning as a signal discovery process. After a while, I reverted to traditional single radio operation. Sometime after sunrise Saturday morning, the noise went away. The second night, I thought conditions were better, perhaps even superb. I was able to run Europeans during my sunset, and again during their sunrise. Greg, NZ8R, came over Saturday evening. He deferred to my experience with 160 DX contesting during European sunrise, but he did take the controls during the 0800-1100Z slow time while I napped. Then, being of sound mind in the sunrise time frame, I was able to run JAs for the second time ever, if you can call 5 JAs a run. (The first time was a run of 2 JAs, last year). While I was napping, Greg insists that he worked RV6CC at 1013Z, which seems unlikely to me. However, I can't figure out any way a mis-copy would result in that callsign. For now, the contact remains in my log, although I might delete it before submitting the log to the CQ scoring committee. We need a way of marking questionable contacts so that the scoring committee can either delete or award them without a penalty, or at least use them for credit for the other station. Greg liked the phased array second receiver as well. He would like to see a mechanism of setting the transmitter frequency via SDR-Shell. That would make the steerable receiving system into an excellent spotting and multiplier hunt radio. Of course, he doesn't know that the SDR guys intend for their software to work as a transceiver with the approriate converter and power amplifier. The array performance seems to have reached a level where other factors that accompany the SDR receiving system become significant. For example, SDR-Shell needs an "incremental tuning" control, so that the receive frequency can temporarily be adjusted for a caller that is off frequency. Also, the filters built into SDR-core are not as sharp as the filters in my IC765. That is, the filter skirts are wider, even though the filter can otherwise be made very narrow (down to 10 Hz). Theoretically, an 8 element broadside/end-fire combination (about 15 db peak to average directivity) should significantly out-perform my Beverages (around 12 db directivity at best), but I still don't hear it. Sometimes, the array can beat the Beverages, and sometimes it can't. The phased array continues to improve, but I'm not ready to start rolling up my Beverages. Besides, one can never have too many receive antennas (switching and searching not-withstanding). Breakdown summary: UTC 160 rate total 00Z 80 80 80 01Z 87 87 167 02Z 94 94 261 03Z 63 63 324 04Z 46 46 370 05Z 45 45 415 06Z 74 74 489 07Z 53 53 542 08Z 27 27 569 09Z 12 12 581 10Z 0 0 581 11Z 46 46 627 12Z 33 33 660 13Z 0 0 660 14Z 0 0 660 15Z 0 0 660 16Z 2 2 662 17Z 0 0 662 18Z 12 12 674 19Z 21 21 695 20Z 32 32 727 21Z 44 44 771 22Z 45 45 816 23Z 21 21 837 00Z 38 38 875 01Z 61 61 936 02Z 23 23 959 03Z 65 65 1024 04Z 40 40 1064 05Z 28 28 1092 06Z 29 29 1121 07Z 19 19 1140 08Z 16 16 1156 09Z 12 12 1168 10Z 10 10 1178 11Z 22 22 1200 12Z 22 22 1222 13Z 16 16 1238 14Z 21 21 1259 15Z 6 6 1265 16Z 0 0 1265 17Z 0 0 1265 18Z 0 0 1265 19Z 12 12 1277 20Z 18 18 1295 21Z 19 19 1314 22Z 11 11 1325 23Z 25 25 1350 2 point QSOs: 1057 5 point QSOs: 101 10 point QSOs: 192 DX: 4O, 5B, (5) 9A, (2) C6, CE, CN, CT, CT3, (2) CU, (2) CX, (40) DL, (2) E7, (7) EA, EA6, EA8, (3) EI, EL, ER, ES, (2) F, (8) G, GD, (2) GM, GW, (8) HA, HB, (2) HK, HP, HR, (5) I, (5) JA, KH6, (2) KP2, KP4, (3) LA, LX, (4) LY, (2) OE, (5) OH, OH0, (18) OK, (6) OM, (3) ON, OZ, P4, (7) PA, PY, (13) S5, SM, (6) SP, (2) SV, TF, TI, (4) UA, (2) UA2, (5) UR, V3, VP9, (3) XE, (2) YL, (2) YO, (3) YU, YV, and ZF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,560 Congrats to everybody who heard my 66-foot end fed wire, 15 feet above ground, and 100 watts. Worked CU8A and VP9I. Heard many more that I couldn't work. Jim Cain Atlantic City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 472,995 Didn't lose too much sleep -- went to bed at European sunrise both nights. Really enjoyed the conditions to EU the first night! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 77,964 Great conditions. Wish I had more time to spend... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2WK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 166,415 Rig : IC-765 Pro III; Alpha 87A -1.5 Kw out. Antenna : 1/4 wave Inverted-L, 2 tuned elevated radials, no RX antennas yet. Soapbox : 7 hours on, part time effort. On Friday afternoon ran 1000' of coax (500' antenna & 500' feedline) thru the woods as a sereptitious BOG/Snake beverage. After all that, no woiky-woiky. Used Xmit antenna for RX, hence the very low country count. By 1 AM Saturday & Sunday, sleep got the better of me. All in all, I had a Great time. Nice to hook up with old friends. 73 de K2WK/4 - Gordonsville, VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2YR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 188,195 Antennas: 2 inverted L's, half wave spacing w/ 8 elevated radials on each, phased with PVS-2 Comtek array switch, 3 directions: E&W,N,S. 720 ft Beverage towards Europe. Next year, more Beverages, and more chair time! First contest w/ Beverage, so thanks for your patience if I didn't hear you off the back right away. Got to keep the rcv switch and the array switch going! Rig: FT-990 (now retiring the 990, just got a 1000MP this week) ICE Pre-amp. Alpha linear. 73 -Carl, K2YR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3JT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 217,701 Awesome conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 134,850 A very fun contest, and thanks to the sponsors. This was my first attempt at CQing & running in CW - at 20 wpm. Many thanks to the ops who answered my call and especially for their patience. It also was my first time using GetScores.org. This REALLY added a lot to the fun of the contest. I was always reluctant to have my measely score posted, but there were a whole bunch of us with measely scores, and the real-time competiton was great. It probably kept me in the chair several hours longer than I planned. Unless you are a paranoid Top Gun station, you really should try GetScores. Now to get ready for the MOTHER of all state qso parties - the Delaware QSOP next weekend. Give me a call (QRS pse). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,498 Conditions were good for the low long wires. Did not get very far, but did have fun. K3 behaved well and was fun to use. :) PK (Paul - K3MZ K2 #3135 K3 #84) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,696 Imagine that! A 75m dipole about 12 ft in the air actually makes a few QSOs on 160 with my trusty old tuner! It ain't pretty, but it let me have a little fun over the weekend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 113,544 Conditions into Europe seemed great the first night, but the QRN was pretty bad. On the second night, I barely heard any Europeans at all, and the QRN was down. Go figure!?!?! paul TS-850S with AL-811 amp, about 400 watts Inverted L, about 70 feet vertical, with about 20 radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,061 Antenna: Inverted L 30'H x 75'L Part time S&P - lots of fun, but not much time to operate due to honey do list. Somehow missed close by LA and MS - never heard them. 73, Tad, K3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 560,371 Enjoyed the scoreboard..still need a guest op or 2 to make Multi op more productive. Just packet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 110,755 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW output, "t" vertical. Best conditions I ever heard on 160 in a contest. Was out of town Friday night, attended a wedding Saturday night, Sunday School and churcn Sunday morning, and a tennis match Sunday afternoon. Got in just over 7 hours between 11 PM and 4 AM the second night, about 45 minutes Sunday morning, and about 90 minutes at the end. Thanks for the QSOs. Congratulations to Southeastern DX Club upon celebrating this year its 50th anniversary of founding. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,488 Rig: Yaesu FT 897D MFJ-969 Tuner Ant: Inverted Vee (I added 65 ft extentions to my inverted vee to tune 160) This was my first time on 160 meters. I discovered three shortcomings during this contest; Antenna, power and sleep. I had a great time. Thanks to all those who took the time to dig me out of the noise. See you next year. Jim, K4BK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 53,460 Missed most of the first night. Conditions seemed good. Preserving my "amateur" status. Thanks for the contacts. TS-570DG, AL-811H - 400 watts, Inverted L, few short radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DLI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 57,723 Saturday night had very good sigs from Europe. Worked limited number of hours due to other commitments. First ever CW contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4KO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 40,698 -- Tennessee QSO Party 9 September 2008 www.tnqp.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,398 Rig: FT-897D Antenna: EWWBS Dipole Missed RI, ID, WY, and ND and all but 2 of the Canadian provinces. Couldn't hear anything but VE3 and VE2 stations up there. Worked N4PN, K4BK, KU8E and a slew of others but somehow missed John, K4BAI. A bunch of SECC members raised their heads for this one! All in all..... I loved every minute of it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 32,922 Not much operating time this weekend. Too bad, as conditions to Europe were simply fantastic during the short period I operated. Looks like a record-setting weekend for the CQ160 CW. Glad to hear all of the great reports from areas that don't often experience decent 160m propagation. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 453,629 Thanks for all the QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 91,910 By far my best effort. My fitst goal was to exceed last years effort. That was accomplished at 0132, Saturday night. The next goal was 500 contacts. That was accomplished at 2220, Sunday afternoon. I would have liked to have made 100K points, but that was not to be. More time in the chair, and the space for a good receive antenna, would have "done the trick"! I'm not accustomed to being called, by DX stations, on 160, so it was quite a pleasant surprise being called by SP, PA, DL, EI, CT9, CU2, and CU8. Last contact was with 9A2AA, which was also the last multiplier. Thanks to all for the contacts, and I can honestly say: "with few exceptions, the courtesy, while remaining competitive, very closely resembles RTTY operators"! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 94,958 My belated 3830 report for CQ WW 160. I love 160M, and it's nice to see 29 countries in two days -- it took me about 6 months to get my first 29 on top band! Lots of family stuff going on limited my operating time, but I enjoyed every minute. As many commented, the conditions to EU rocked! Unfortunately I only got to enjoy the first night's, as I was out with family the second evening. But what a nice combination of low QRN and great propagation. I heard a couple of JA's but didn't work any, but a few days later on 2/2 I managed my first JA on 160M at local sunrise here. Quite the thrill!! Thanks all for the Q's. 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 78,926 Conditions don't get much better than they were Friday night. Heard several Eu. A pleasure to have it coincide with a contest weekend ...for a change! Missed NL LB YT Mb Thanks to all who came by. 73, Dick k4xu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5AF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,850 Great conditions, heard many JAs on sunday morning, just none of them calling CQ! For a very part-time effort, I was happy to pick up a couple of new ones. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,684 Between other activities, had 3 short periods to play. I'm not much of a CW op, and only had LP (amp needs tubes), so it was all S&P. Still lots of fun on top band. See ya'll next contest! 73, Mark, K5ER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5EWJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,036 What a great way to try out a new inverted L that I installed in the 42 F rain on Friday. The fact that the field was standing in water didn't hurt a bit. Conditions seemed good, the noise fairly low. I sure would have liked to work all 50 states in this one, but I missed Alaska, Wyoming and North Dakota. (also DC). I finally worked Idaho in this one (Thanks KG7H). I have been trying to complete WAS on 160 since I finished the 5 Band WAS in 1976 and Idaho kept eluding me. I do love the TOP BAND!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 548,926 Thanks to Doug and Marlene again for allowing me to operate at their fine station and for the great hospitality. Conditions were good but could not create any excitement in Europe with the CQ approach. Worked 126 Europeans and probably called 100 of them without every hearing a France station. Missed about 4 multipliers that I heard, but am very pleased with my best effort and score in this contest. Used FT-1000MP and Al-1500 to quarter wave vertical and several beverages. Thanks for all the contacts. Will load the log to LOTW in the next few days. 73 and look forward to working all this DX again in the ARRL DX Contest. Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5HP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 69,552 Beautiful quiet conditions Friday night. Not quite as good Saturday. Many stations acitve. A lot of fun for a single band contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 43,450 Best condx I've ever heard from Oklahoma to Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 169,344 Conditions were very good. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 64,285 Only one night here. Condx sounded great, got tired and went to bed b4 EU sunrise but still picked up some nice mults. Back on for my sunrise and worked handfull of JA's and a KL7. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 266,628 3 hours late Friday night. 3 hours in mid Sat evening. 1 hour Sunday morning. 1.5 hours on Sunday evening. Fantastic European signals. Especially from CU2A, CU8A, and CT1JLZ. My best run was up around 1882 Khz! Working Europe and USA. Great to see so much activity to go with the good conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,670 This was my 1st CW outing with my new FT-450. Wow!I couldn't believe I was on 160. What a difference from my IC-707. I exceeded last years score and distance including HI and PEI. Thanks to all who answered my call, especially those who took extra patience with my probably poor signal, considering my only antenna for this is my stealth 40M Delta Loop, which is about 1/8th wave on 160. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 9,554 This is my second CQ 160 CW contest. Last year I got hooked using an 80 meter dipole and made 44 QSOs. This year I put up a very reclined, collapsed inverted vee up with the apex at 50 feet. I haven't been on 160 much, but I think that was what you call excellent conditions. Much better than during the Stew Perry event. I worked a lot of states for WAS. Not many of them on LOTW, though 8-(. New Hampshire is my farthest now. I couldn't work any DX except XE and KH6. Heard the C6A, TI, KL7 & P43. Used the N3FJP software, and it worked fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,726 Good propagation conditions, but not much time this weekend. Homemade helically wound vertical worked well. 73, John K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 31,845 Short spurts on and off during the event. I had never heard S9 signals from the East Coast on 160m here before until the wee hours Saturday morning. Incredible. Wish I would have been in Alaska for this one! Murphy caused my AL-80B output to drop slowly to 250w so not sure what's up with that since the tube is only 2 months old. Checked the HV readings and no problem there. Hooked my TXRX up to another AL-80B and that worked fine. QLF Department (and apologies to RW0CWA). I thought it was W0CWA who kept sending 'RA' as I kept asking for a QTH/State repeat. Finally, I heard the 'R' at the beginning of the call and then things made sense. There were some pretty Monster signals on 160m this weekend, with undoubtedly many hefty power company bills coming soon. 73 & Tnx for the Q's... Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 125,248 Is this a forum for excuses? Okay, I had the sinus infection from H E triple L so wasn't able to give 'er my best shot. Even if I had been feeling better I was away at my daughter's high school basketball for several hours last night. Seemed like condx were about the best I have seen even though I wasn't around for a large part of the time. I'm sure many records fell. I had all states but Kansas so when I got home this afternoon I thought I'd go get on for the last hour. Thanks W0EB for the last one. He said I was his last one also so we had a chuckle. Then, S&Ping found W0BH for another KS. Congrats to the diehards!! Matt--K7BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7JJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 12,426 QTH: Champoeg State Park, Marion County, Oregon. Rig: IC-7000 to ALS-500M, 400 Watts. Antenna: Hustler 4BTV trap vertical with 110 foot wire bolted to top and running horizontal to a tree. 25 feet to 10 feet high! Oh well! I did not hear W1, W2, worked one W3. I am a full time RV'er and do what I can! HI! Thanks to all who heard me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7OA Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 113,387 Did a lot better then last year tryed to work DL, I but they could not here us with 100 watts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7OX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 159,621 Used Packet in hopes of finding the two remaing countries I need for DXCC from WA. With 103 worked and 98 confirmed just can not seem to pick up the two remaing countries out of Europe with "Green Stamps" or IRC's. Speaking of Europe I have never heard some many Europeans coming through all the contest QRM. Signals very loud and heard SM5CEU at 0236Z and all the others followed. Nothing new heard or worked for my DXCC and spent to much time chasing spots and trying to work the Europeans through the East Coast wall. I would love to work this contest from New England, what a blast that would be. Nice to work familar calls and friends but the Q count was down from last year and the ARRL test. However, great fun and looking forward to next year. Thanks for the Q's and HNY to all. 73 Gary K7OX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RAT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 293,174 Just beat last year's score by a few QSOs. Excellent conditions to the east coast the first night. Felt like we were in the black hole for Europe however - only working ON4UN and GM3POI. Worked 90 JAs - but many of them were stronger on a different beverage than the one you would expect. Radio: K3 + Viewstart PT2500A (pair 3-500z) + TS850 Spotting RX Spotting receiver used a RX loop about 700 feet away from the TX antennas - with the null pointed at them. New parasitic reflector/director was seldom used since we didn't have an opening over the pole. Had about 3" of snow come down the second morning. Many thanks for the QSOs. Activity seemed really good the first night. Second night was pretty painful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 117,292 Great conditions. I worked many new ones. Amazingly, I never heard a SD station, so missed that multiplier, but got the rest, all but DC and the rare VE Provinces. Put in about 18 hours. Noticed many stations replied way off frequncy. In a well attended contest like this one, many use very tight filters, a word to the wise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7TJR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 237,492 I have never before heard so many DX stations on during the contests. Wish I could have worked all that I heard. Two new countries in the log, one each from 9A and CN. Noise was very low except for the clix and phase noises of a few. Only had one frequency fight where somebody called me a Joker for being on the same freq for several hours? This contest had the longest runs on a single freq. ever from here. Very good conditions to JA with 106 in the log. Only a hand full from VK/ZL and one station I just could not pull out from there but they gave it their best shot anyway. This contesting has more lasting bodily effects every year I age! Thanks for all the signals sent to Oregon. I am very glad the noisy snow held off till the morning after! Hmm, maybe I could use just a few more RX antennas. Lee K7TJR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 120,120 Rig: K2, Alpha 76A, Sloper Great time with great condx! Low country total is truly motivating me to get that RX ant up! First real contest try with the new 160 antenna. Other obligations limited some critical operating times. Thanks for all the Q's, "160 courtesy", and an all around great time! 73 from AZ, John K7WP .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 75,740 Score : 75,740 Rig : IC-746, Alpha 78 @ 700W Output. Antennas : 175' Long, 35' High, Inv L. No Separate Rcv Ant Soapbox: Absolutely Increadible Conditions! I forgot about the contest until Saturday Morning. Worked just under 100 Q's and went off to do other things. Was still hearing stations 2 hours after Sunrise. Checked the band for locals around 2PM and found weak but workable signals all the way to the East Coast / Carribean! Once the sun set, the band was like 20 meters! I completed 160M WAC in 3 hours! This was one for the record books! A personal best on 160M in a contest!! The only state I missed was North Dakota, brings back memories of SS... Using N1MM Logger, the DX Cluster, and full radio control is the only way to go. I'll never look back! THANK YOU N1MM!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 161,268 Rig: FT1000MP + ALS-600 500 watts Ant: Helically-wound vertical, 204-foot G5RV Software: WriteLog 10.58e ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 142,760 Good condx and lots of activity!! Station: IC-756P3 and Inverted L 25M V and 15M H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8FC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 309,366 Thanks to the crew here Dick K9BWI Terry K7TD and Tom W0GG , we had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 32,900 The first time on 160 this contest season. The radials never did get down, but still some fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8KS Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 519,600 To our best recollection, DX conditions were noticeably better than in past CQ WW 160M CW contests. Noise levels were down considerably and signals from EU, SA, and Japan were quite strong. It was fun running DX from the other end of the pileups for a change. It was frustrating, though, that a few DX stations that we heard so loudly on our Beverages could not hear us until later into the night. Hopefully, it was because we had better ears, but who knows? Maybe we were puny, hi. It was certainly a lot of fun for our crew of seven ops. Also, thanks to everyonefor all the K8KS cluster spots.... Kaz, K8KS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 119,028 A serious effort was, with some effort, averted. Most of my operating time was spent in S&P with a couple of runs. Precip static from snow marred my Saturday night operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 105,460 I was planning to operate Friday night with my own call, but when I finished up Saturday morning with 85K, I decided to spend the extra hour or so to make it to 100K, which I don't think I had ever done before in a 160 test. Can I claim the PJ2 multiplier? Had dinner Saturday night with W0CG/PJ2DX/PJ2T and W8WTS, who had planned to be at PJ2T this weekend (with K8ND) until a major work project intervened. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9AY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 326,028 Good to hear many friends on the air! Got my winter-damaged antenna farm sorta working and had some fun. Needed to get a few other things done, so no 30-hour effort. Got all 50 states, but no DC. Decent DX total from the Upper Midwest, but heard a lot more -- would have been nice to get them into the log. I expect to see some BIG scores with these condx! 73, Gary K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MMS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 59,968 Only 28% of QSOs were via CQ runs. Wasted a lot of time in S&P mode. Worked a CWAS (contiguous "WAS"), but missed working all 50 states by never hearing KL7. Wasted a lot of time tuning for a KL7 station. Missed DC -- heard W3DQ only once, but not able to catch him before he moved on. Heard loads of DX, but my low power station, with mediocre "160" antennas, could just not get through to most of the DX heard. The small receiving antennae seemed to work rather well this time, but my "160" ERP is another issue. Very frustrating. :) Need to do more work on the "160" antennas this year and may also have to finally give in to running an amplifier once in a while. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 193,000 Great conditions, great fun! Thanks to all for the QSO's. 73, Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 138,320 Back out in the desert on the AZ/CA border flying the balloon vertical over 32 radials of fine #17 fence wire from my RV. What a great DX-fest! Actually the best conditions I've ever heard. Often hearing Europe loudly and at the same time listening to KH6LC run. Rain static slowed things down a bit toward the end, who would have thought this parched piece of BLM heaven would get a soaker?! Best DX CN2R and ZL2IFB. 73, Gene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 775,161 That was fun! We enjoyed a pretty good EU opening on the first night putting nearly 200 stations into the log. We had short bursts of EU callers on the second night and could never really get a good run going. The highlight of the contest was KM3T logging the first JA ever worked on 160 from the KC1XX station. Thanks for all the contacts. Also, a big thank you to the Strelow family for opening their home again this weekend so we could have as much fun as we did! -73 Stations 1 & 2: TT Orions interlocked with Ameritron AL-1200 Station 3: TT Orion RX-only spotting station Antennas: TX Array: 3 element inline array RX: 4 two-wire Beverages, NE or SW endfire RX vertical array 160 percent North America 1215 78.1 South America 8 0.5 Europe 316 20.3 Asia 7 0.4 Africa 5 0.3 Oceania 5 0.3 HOUR 160 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 121/34 121/34 121/34 1 115/11 115/11 236/45 2 106/13 106/13 342/58 3 72/22 72/22 414/80 4 78/9 78/9 492/89 5 99/11 99/11 591/100 6 89/5 89/5 680/105 7 50/4 50/4 730/109 8 75/2 75/2 805/111 9 34/1 34/1 839/112 10 24/0 24/0 863/112 11 29/0 29/0 892/112 12 14/0 14/0 906/112 13 15/0 15/0 921/112 14 12/0 12/0 933/112 15 13/0 13/0 946/112 16 3/0 3/0 949/112 17 1/0 1/0 950/112 18 7/0 7/0 957/112 19 8/0 8/0 965/112 20 23/0 23/0 988/112 21 22/0 22/0 1010/112 22 41/2 41/2 1051/114 23 35/1 35/1 1086/115 0 32/1 32/1 1118/116 1 32/1 32/1 1150/117 2 40/1 40/1 1190/118 3 43/0 43/0 1233/118 4 28/0 28/0 1261/118 5 37/1 37/1 1298/119 6 19/0 19/0 1317/119 7 30/1 30/1 1347/120 8 16/3 16/3 1363/123 9 14/0 14/0 1377/123 10 9/0 9/0 1386/123 11 15/2 15/2 1401/125 12 8/0 8/0 1409/125 13 10/0 10/0 1419/125 14 14/0 14/0 1433/125 15 5/0 5/0 1438/125 16 3/0 3/0 1441/125 17 3/0 3/0 1444/125 18 6/0 6/0 1450/125 19 13/0 13/0 1463/125 20 9/0 9/0 1472/125 21 8/0 8/0 1480/125 22 17/1 17/1 1497/126 23 21/3 21/3 1518/129 DAY1 1086/115 ..... 1086/115 DAY2 432/14 . 432/14 TOT 1518/129 . 1518/129 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX CQ 160 METER CONTEST Multi Single 27 Jan 2008 2359z PRFX 160 4L 1 4O 1 5B 2 7X 1 9A 6 A6 1 C6 2 CE 1 CM 1 CN 1 CT 2 CT3 1 CU 2 CX 1 DL 54 E7 1 EA 7 EA6 1 EA8 2 EI 5 ER 1 ES 3 EU 1 F 5 G 28 GD 1 GI 1 GM 4 GW 6 HA 14 HB 1 HK 2 HP 1 HR 2 I 9 JA 2 KH6 3 KP2 2 KP4 1 LA 4 LX 1 LY 5 LZ 3 OE 2 OH 9 OH0 1 OK 29 OM 8 ON 4 OZ 1 P4 1 PA 12 PJ7 1 PY 1 S5 19 SM 11 SP 11 SV 2 TF 1 UA 11 UA2 2 UA9 1 UR 16 V3 1 VP9 1 XE 3 YL 2 YO 1 YU 8 YV 2 ZF 1 ZL 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4D Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 378,566 OUR BEST OUTING YET IN THE CQ-160-CW DESPITE LOSSING THE ORION II AND ABILITY TO POINT AND SHOOT ON SATURDAY MORNING ---MOST PLESANT SURPRISE WAS A SATURDAY EVENING CALL FROM VQ9T---THANKS TO A LATE SUNDAY CALL FROM W3DQ WITH DC, MISSED ONLY WY IN LOWER 48 --- 50 DXCC ENTITIES WAS ALSO A NEW STATION RECORD --- OUR THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO GAVE US A CALL ---LOOKING FORWARD TO 2009. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,536 My first time to use N1MM and it worked pretty good. I was just fiddling around with it... Not really much of a station here, running 100w and a dipole at 65'. Thanks to everyone for the contact.. Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2RD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 115,218 Thanks to everyone for the contacts! This was my first 160 m test & hope everyone had as much fun as I did ! >Antenna: Full Wave Loop/Max. Ht. 70 Feet >Rig: FT-1000MP Mark-V Field >Low Power-150w See You Next Year! 73's John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 457,632 I don't think I'll ever figure this contest out! :-) Thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use his station again. I only "killed" one amplifier. I worked not one but TWO JA's - my first on 160. Great fun as always. Missed KL7 - I've never worked Alaska on 160, VE4, LB, NT, and the Yukon. 2008 CQ 160 CW KD4D HOUR 160CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ----- ----- 0 111 111 111 1 85 85 196 2 60 60 256 3 29 29 285 4 55 55 340 5 66 66 406 6 73 73 479 7 60 60 539 8 42 42 581 9 23 23 604 10 35 35 639 11 23 23 662 12 31 31 693 13 0 0 693 14 0 0 693 15 0 0 693 16 0 0 693 17 0 0 693 18 0 0 693 19 0 0 693 20 0 0 693 21 7 7 700 22 38 38 738 23 36 36 774 0 36 36 810 1 38 38 848 2 44 44 892 3 33 33 925 4 31 31 956 5 32 32 988 6 23 23 1011 7 21 21 1032 8 29 29 1061 9 18 18 1079 10 12 12 1091 11 20 20 1111 12 1 1 1112 13 0 0 1112 14 0 0 1112 15 0 0 1112 16 0 0 1112 17 0 0 1112 18 0 0 1112 19 0 0 1112 20 0 0 1112 21 15 15 1127 22 33 33 1160 23 41 41 1201 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,243 2008 CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest KD5J SINGLE-OP-LP QTH = AR QSOs QSO pts. Mults. -------------------------------------------- TOTALS 145 323 41 Claimed score = 13243 2008 CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest KD5J Section = AR Multipliers: 160m WV SD MI MT WA UT IL OH TN TX MN AR FL AL OK CO MO GA IN NY ON WI SC NC KS DE KY MS VA MD CT NJ NH LA PA NM IA QC AZ XE BC Total: 41 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 68,800 I used this contest to boost my meager count of 160m countries, and it certainly did - doubled it. I felt bad about using spots until those countries started rolling in. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG7H Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 130,498 Once agina a heavy snow storm hit during the contest, I had sagging radials and beverages as dawn arrived, but that goes with north Idaho. Had a good but brief opening to eu - worked G, 9A and CU all within a few minutes. Many JAs in morning but no VK/ZL or other pac than KH6. All states plus DC; no VE4. First night was great. 73 to all de Craig KG7H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 726,602 Great conditions, especially the first night. Thanks to all who worked us. Learned that a poor beverage is still better than no beverage at all. Where were the Carib, SA, VK & ZL stations? Station: FT-1000D (2) Emtron amp Shunt-fed tower on transmit Beverages for receive Sorry, no Hawaiian rooster sounds on CW. CU in the ARRL DX CW. 73 & Aloha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ0G Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 100,782 LOOKS LIKE THE POSSESSION OF LING BEVERAGES TO EUROPE WAS KEY TO SUCESS THIS TIME. INTERESTING CONDITIONS AND WE ENJOYED IT NEVER THE LESS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7Z Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 36,729 Fellow Contest Freqs, Here is our log and break down. This was our first use of the new antenna. A gamma fed 125' tower with a gin pole on the top. The gamma cap only would get the swr down to 2:1 so we used a tuner in the shack to keep the tubes happy. I wasn't impressed with the band conditions. The band was full of stations but most were weak. And with a zero noise level it is frustrating to hear them and they not hear us.More radials, more radials...and then some more radials will be added this spring. And feeding of the other 125' tower ( it looks hungry! ) Thanks to Randy for al the time he spent and all the KL7's that called us. It was a blast! N5XZ we missed you Man! LOL 73 Frank and Randy QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band Hour 160 Total Cumm OffTime D1-0200Z 7/4 7/4 7/4 4 D1-0300Z - 0/0 7/4 60 D1-0400Z - 0/0 7/4 60 D1-0500Z - 0/0 7/4 60 D1-0600Z 14/7 14/7 21/11 3 D1-0700Z 36/7 36/7 57/18 D1-0800Z 28/6 28/6 85/24 D1-0900Z 2/0 2/0 87/24 56 D1-1000Z 12/3 12/3 99/27 6 D1-1100Z 5/0 5/0 104/27 43 D1-1200Z 7/1 7/1 111/28 D1-1300Z 9/1 9/1 120/29 3 D1-1400Z - 0/0 120/29 60 D1-1500Z 25/0 25/0 145/29 9 D1-1600Z 3/0 3/0 148/29 50 D1-1700Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-1800Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-1900Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2000Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2100Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2200Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2300Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D2-0000Z --+-- 0/0 148/29 60 D2-0100Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D2-0200Z 2/0 2/0 150/29 22 D2-0300Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0400Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0500Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0600Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0700Z 8/1 8/1 158/30 5 D2-0800Z 3/0 3/0 161/30 42 D2-0900Z 5/0 5/0 166/30 41 D2-1000Z 2/1 2/1 168/31 44 D2-1100Z 6/0 6/0 174/31 D2-1200Z 1/0 1/0 175/31 35 D2-1300Z 12/1 12/1 187/32 43 D2-1400Z 6/1 6/1 193/33 D2-1500Z 13/0 13/0 206/33 Total: 206/33 160 Total % NA 184 184 89.3 OC 1 1 0.5 AS 15 15 7.3 SA 1 1 0.5 EU 5 5 2.4 160 Total ES 1 1 JA 12 12 K 160 160 KH6 1 1 KL 9 9 OH 2 2 UA 2 2 UA9 3 3 VE 13 13 XE 2 2 YV 1 1 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 ARRL-SECTION: AK CALLSIGN: KL7Z CATEGORY: MULTI-ONE 160M HIGH CLAIMED-SCORE: 36729 CLUB: Alaska DX Club, CONTEST: CQ-160-CW CREATED-BY: WriteLog V10.63H NAME: FRANK HURLBUT ADDRESS: 2003 ROOSEVELT DR. ADDRESS: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 99517 OPERATORS: KL7FH KL7Z SOAPBOX: What a blast! Heard the 3W3W beacon. Thanks everyone SOAPBOX: who worked us. END-OF-LOG: Rig FT-100 MKV Field Amp Drake L-7 Ant 1/4 vert tuner Drake MN-2700 Vodka and Sprite Zero Porthouse steaks for dinner with the works. Makers Mark Bourbon for dessert.. 73 Frank KL7FH Randy KL7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 6,931 Really need some rcv antennas... Sri for all the fill requests and missing the ones that called and I just couldn't pull out... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,680 Band conditions were nice on Friday night, unfortunately I had to work Saturday so apparently missed some good Europe opportunities. My G5RV is only allowed to be out during winter months because of antenna restrictions, so this year I did it slightly different, and what a difference it made. I worked The Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Slovak Republic, Azores, Bahamas, Bermuda and Virgin Islands. Thanks to everyone with the good ears out there. 73 Scott KN3A Kenwood TS 450SAT @ 75 watts G5RV @ 30 Ft. N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,106 It was fun doing what I did to get what I got. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 35,626 I sort of made this into a Sprint contest, only putting in just over 10 hours. I had a great time! Worked my first ever California (N6AA followed by AC6DD), Washington (WA7LT), Oregon (RAT), AZ (N7DD), and NM (N5IA) using QRP on 160m; and I've been qrp on 160 a looooong time! Rig: Elecraft K2/qrp only version (1st K3 is in transit, should be here Jan 30; 2nd one to ship later, ordered Nov 21, 2007) Antenna: 1/2 wave horizontal wire with center at 44 feet and ends at six (6) feet. I like the description that KU2M gave it: "A clothes line." Perfect! Best "10 QSO rate" was 169.8 per hour, while calling CQ. Too bad it only lasted 10 qso's. LOL de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 177,025 Elected to go withoug packet assuming mostly CQing to stateside. Instead, spent most of time S&P to Europe. WONDERFUL cndx to Europe. Should have used packet! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 666,666 Haven't been able to do this contest, even semi-seriously, for 3 years. It's one of my favorites, along with ARRL DX CW and CQWW CW. Wasn't TOO serious. Slept a couple hours the second night. Didn't mess with any daytime operation even though I could have added maybe 75-100 QSOs by starting a couple hours before sunset Sat and Sun night, took breaks to make coffee and get food. Didn't sleep during the day much, played with kids instead, which doesn't help. Basically made merry and had fun, and very happy with my score too. First night became good to EU - started with weaker stations 50 miles south as well as the midwest kicking my butt. 2nd night was mediocre, very mediocre, to EU, although late sunrise was good. I can honestly say I doubt anyone had more fun than I did this weekend! Hope you all had lots of fun too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 535,150 73 Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 506,732 Missed JA's big time-did not hear them first night and took a nap on the second night... Otherwise pretty good contest with minor mistakes made and good result for the 0-land-looks like new W0 record. Thanks for the Q's. 73. Alex KU1CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 179,211 Icom 756PRO , AL811H - 500 watts , Inverted L with four 130ft radials Just put my 160 meter Inverted L back up this week. Just had two 130 ft radials up at the start but added two more on Saturday. Condx were good to EU on both nights although they were probably better on Saturday. I screwed up when I laid down for a short catnap(?) around 0530Z on Sunday morning and didn't wake up until after sunrise. That caused me to miss the end of the EU opening (darn !!) Both KH6's I worked - KH6LC and KH6AT were very strong here in GA. Probably the loudest I have ever heard KH6 on 160. Most interesting QSO was working CM3GW at 1312Z when it was daylight at both of our locations. 73, Jeff KU8E Multiplers : NA - C6,CO,FM,KP2,V3,VP9,XE SA - CE,CX,HK,P4 AF - CN,CT3,EA8 EU- 4O,9A,CT,CU,DL,EA,EI,GM,HA,I,LA,LX,OH,OK,OM,ON,PA,S5,SM,SP,SV,T9, UA,UA2,UR Missed - ND,MT,LB,MB,NB,NF,NU,NWT,SK,YT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV0Q Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 423,920 The conditions were the best I ever experienced from Colorado on 160m during a contest. I regularly had Europeans coming back to my cqs which rarely happens out west. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7L Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 3,942 This time I decided to get up early rather than staying up late, and enjoyed the "quiet hour" at 4 a.m. local and managed to get some new mults to hear my QRP signal. Thanks for your patience! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 158,655 Well whats a phone op to do? CQ 160 SSB a month away. I got taken up in the wave of Top Band activity on the "Morse mode" which was generated buy a lot of proposed activity in the ACG. Just cudn't sit on the sidelies so I put in a part time effort in an attempt to catch a few new countries(6ea)and hand out the rare(naught) AL mult. Started 2hrs after kickoff to a great souding band that went sour to EU shortly after. Saturday night not spectacular but fairly consistent and predictable. Daytime activity good hr in the "Heart of DIxie" also with K8KS the beacon of the daylight. EQPT - Ten-Tec "O" machine/Alpha 78/ 2ea Bi-dir beverages(650')/ inverted -vee 75'/ Top loaded Vert w/32 1/4 rads. Ant impovement program still in the works. TNX to ya'll fer QSO's, Tim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY7M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 326,417 Great condx to EU and Asia on Friday night were not duplicated on Saturday night. FT2000D Emtron Amp Full Size 1/4 Wave vertical DX Engineering 4 Square RX Ant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 829,571 Had a good time in a crowded band. There is no such thing as a free frequency, but "dont worry - be happy !" Cya in the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 860,265 Thanks for a wonderfull contest. Great fun! Missed some multipliers again to be among top-10 but worked more QSO and more DX than last year! Frustrated to hear so many great DX but was not able to work them. Our north-west beverage worked great! It was really hard to stay awake the second night. Thanks to all that called! 73 de Lech LA7MFA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 226,982 RX/TX antenna - dipole, PA 500W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 791,452 Little more than 50% time operation only this time. Conditions were great. NA statations had fluttering signals and were skewed south most of time, HK1 was skewed south. 220 USA + 17 VE. 66 JAs (per 100 minutes). Best runs: 04:43-05.42 51 USA + 4 VE + UA9 + FM + 35 EU 20:22-21:21 52 JA + UA9/0 + 58 EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 150,423 TS850SAT 100W Two Inv.vees ( very low ) Saturday morning were the Best NA conditions as I remember.About 30 US/VE stations were heard well over the EU noise. Eight of them were into the log! Congrats for great ears to (chronologically) :KT1V,KC1XX,K1TTT,VY2ZM,N2NT,K3ZM,W3BGN,K1LZ . 73 de Nasko,LZ9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M2D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,180,718 Wow that was fun. Again beat my previous best score. What a set of great operators on 160. Considering the numbers active its a tribute to the tenacity of them in keeping the qso,s flowing. Must again thank John G3LZQ for allowing me to operate his fine station. Thanks to all the lil pistols for joining in the fun and mayhem. I hope they return next year. I do so enjoy reading the Comments on the Highs and Lows experienced. Apart from a small Amp glitch towards the end of the contest all went extremely smoothly. Tried some SO2V but no time to search between quick CQ,s. If you leave more than a 3 second gap you loose the freq.Its that competitive. Rig: Orion II + MicroHam SO2R Interface Unit. Alpha 87A amplifier. Antenna: 28Mtr Top loaded Vertical over Km of radials. Various antennas for RX. Band Condx Very good on first night with good steady USA opening. Second Night was not so good propogation to the USA Although another late burst in the last hour again helped the score along. See you all next time. Thanks for the fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 146,965 WOW! I've never heard or worked so many Europeans on 160 in or out of a contest from Colorado! 28 Europe QSOs (The first night was the best with 18) in the log including a few new ones. Also 18 JAs, UA0, CE, HK, KH6, KL7, CN, EA8 and CT3. I got all US multipliers but a real shortage of VE with only 5 of 9. I even missed the closest two, VE4 and VE5. With less than an hour to go I still needed KL7. I was running in the JA sub band and suddenly noticed someone had moved in about 150 Hz above me but they were not real strong. Tuning up with the RIT to see who it was and KL7Z was CQing. I worked him for WAS in the contest and moved my run freq down another 500+ Hz so others could have a shot at KL7. I also managed WAC and a personal best contest DXCC for 160 of 33 (counting US and VE). Another interesting QSO was WA6CDR/MM Region III on the way to Ducie. Rig here Icom 756PROIII, Dentron Cliperton L 800w feeding 2 1/4 wave slopers thru a WX0B Stackmatch with two beverage RX antennas. QTH in the sticks of Western Colorado South of Silt. Phil N0KE DM69em ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0RU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 53,199 Worked 8 new countries, missed several states for WAS. Condx on Fri were very good, did not see repeat on Sat/Sun. Just 10 hr effort and 100% S/P. Made 90% of Q's at low power even though entered as HP. Lost SE beverage on Sat night due to wildlife, really needed that for Caribbean stations. High winds raised the noise level, but remaining bevs seemed to play well. 100ft shunt-fed tower really gets out well. Thanks to all. Robb NØRU Woodland Park, CO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1EU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 494,043 Definitely a CQ160 test “for the ages” with overall quite good conditions and low noise here, although there was a fair amount of QSB at times. I’ve been severely hampered the past two years by an adjacent housing development to my NE with 5 year-old high pressure street lights that began to all fail at once. Somehow, mercifully, the noise abated (repairs?) recently and I can hear again. I began the contest Friday night and initially decided to make this a very casual effort - the “déjà vu all over again” frustration of USA run stations right on top of EU run stations. But later that evening, I got drawn in by the outstanding conditions and gave it a go. My total time of 17 hours reveals not much chair time on Saturday night however. Conditions to Europe were much improved late Friday night (local) 0300-0700Z as compared to earlier Friday or Saturday/Sunday. I worked 135 ten pointers Fri night/Sat morning, 54 on Sat night/Sun morning and 17 on Sun eve to finish off the contest. There was deep qsb on the EU signals Sunday eve which made it a bit tricky. Albany NY to Japan is a very difficult path on topband, and this season has been particularly challenging with only a few QSOs in the log. Sunday morning was certainly one of the highlights of all my contesting endeavors to be called by seven JA’s (worked six) and end the morning by calling/working another one after sunrise here. I’ll have a soundclip of the JA QSOs up on my n1eu.com Web site later today. What else made the JA QSOs challenging was having my run freq encroached on by pronounced key clickers. Yes, the cw bands are getting cleaned up, but the improvements have plateau’d and there are still many prominent topband signals that are wide with clicks and/or spurs. Other than its subreceiver that folds quickly under pressure, the Orion acquitted itself quite well. Having dual receivers and the ability to listen in two Beverage directions simultaneously is a huge advantage when trying to listen selectively for European (or Japanese) 10-pointers . Thanks for all the q's and apologies to callers I couldn't pull out. 73, Barry N1EU Equipment: inverted L, elevated radials Beverage rx ants NE, SE, SW, NW (one wavelength) Ten-Tec Orion Acom 2000A N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 133,250 Lot's of fun as usual. I had to work Saturday so I missed the good conditions to europe on Friday night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 534,690 What a great time!! CQ-WW 160 CW is one of my favorite events and I thought it would be one more year before I could participate from the new QTH. However, after spending some time listening to the ARRL 160 CW on my 40 or 80 mtr dipoles, I decided to put up something to give it a try. As the new antenna farm is still under construction, with 160 antennas being the last to go up, the decision was focused at what I could do quickly. The result was an Inverted-V for TX and a couple of short beverages at compromise compass headings for RX. My wife (Laurie – N1YXU) again offered her support as ground crew so the I-V and beverages were quickly completed. Next was to do some recruiting to be able to enter as a Multi-Op with another operator. The first person I thought of was Jack (W0UCE). Thanks Jack for being willing to give it a try. Due to the temporary compromise antennas we agreed to focus on FUN – not necessarily to be competitive. As it turned out, we did much better than we thought. Yes, the conditions were really in our favor. Based on our end score we knew there would be some HUGE scores turned in from the big stations. The numbers already posted on 3830 support our opinion. We started off great. I opened up with rates for the first hour peaking at 198 with an actual total of 165 Qs. Jack then took over for hour 2 while I ate dinner The activity kept up and delivered a fun 145 hour for Jack. After that, as expected, the rates went down but those first two hours easily delivered on our original goal of having fun. Having achieved goal 1 we decided to see just how good could we do. Overall Summary: The inverted-V did better than we thought. However, were able to hear at least 10 countries that we could not work. Additionally, the 10 point Q count was probably down even though we were able to put 165 in the log. What happened to VE4, VE5? No VK, ZL or KL7. Probably directly related to our antennas. Pleasantly surprised to be able to hear and work (2) JAs. Thought we were not going to work DC, but eventually we found 1 with S/P and another called us Sunday evening. Best of all – Jack agreed to come back next year! We are both anxious to try it again with the completed 160 TX and RX antennas. Equipment: FT1000MP / AL1500 / WriteLog / Inverted-V at 100’ / ENE and WNW short beverages. 73, Bruce – N1LN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2BA Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 204,630 OK, that was pretty much fun except that I kind of wish I hadn't used packet. I'm running low power with a dipole at 45 foot (at the highest point) wrapped around a bunch of trees on a lot that measures about 65 by 150 foot! I feel like packet only suggested a few multipliers that I didn't stumble across on my own and mostly I couldn't work them if they were weak, had any sort of pileup or were more than about 4,000 miles away. I've got a better station at a cabin in the country but it is a long way away, cold and lonely. It sure is nicer to have meals with the family and sleep in my own bed, even if it is mid-day. See you next year. Brooke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 283,400 Sunday night was fantastic to Europe. Best conditions in quite a while. FT1000MP, Drake L7, 46' Inverted L, K9AY loops, N1MM. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,673 All contacts were made on an indoor antenna (a 40m dipole in the attic/loft fed as a Marconi). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 202,600 Part time effort. Very good condx Friday nite to EU, very weak Saturday night. Missed ID, NE, Ve4, Ve5, and of course KL7. Still lots of work needed on 160m. Thanks for the qso's Carol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 696,240 Best conditions ever heard, but strange. Friday night was bad early to EU then 05z the band opened wide. Saturday night poor to EU all night in the NE, but the south and west USA seemed to be working EU OK. Then before sunrise had my first ever JA "run" of 8 stations :). Nice mini run to EU at the end of the contest. All in all, best score ever by far. 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 232,155 Part time effort, other stuff to do including a RTTY test. Mostly S&P with 3 shorts runs. 73, Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 143,290 Was only able to put in a serious effort Friday night, but what a night it was. DX conditions were outstanding and the band was very quiet (compared to TBDC noise conditions) Looks like my friends all put in outstanding scores, congrats to all AND welcome to the new folks, lotsa new calls heard. CU in the next one! 73, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3GJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 99,675 Started off as a casual S&P effort but condx were good and I ended up putting in more time than I expected. Vy strong sigs from Eu and I was able to work a few but most couldn't hear my 100w sig. Although I did work a few new ones so that was nice. Quite a race at the finish when it looked like I could crack the 100k mark, but came up a few Q's short. Good to hear everyone and it was nice work a lot of friends. Equipment: IC-756 Pro III at 100w Inv L for TX/RX 50 feet up the tower and 70+ feet out to the top of a pine tree with 10 radials on the ground 73! Geo N3GJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3UA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 593,989 Would like to thank Bob W4DR for having me at his home for the contest.Really enjoyed his excellent 160m setup. Sejo , N3UA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 60,384 Band quiet all weekend. Best score ever. Great first night as others mentioned. 73 de Moe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 256,858 I was delighted to hear all the great DX on the band; I only failed to work a few that I heard. Nothing fancy here, just an inverted vee with apex at 90 feet, and no low-noise receiving antennas. Rig is an MP (all filtered up) and and Acom-1000, so no max power here! I don't have the stamina to last thru the wee hours, so I probably missed a lot of good DX... But it's always fun running into old friends. Thanks. Bert, N4CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GN Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 58,320 Had packet on in the office and noticed there seemed to be a lot of DX spots on 160, including a couple that would be new countries for me, so I decided to jump in an make a few Qs. Guess that puts me in the multi-op category. I did one quick S&P sweep on Saturday night, then picked a spot and ran a 153 hour and went to bed. Did a little more S&P in the last hour. Band sounded pretty good to me. K4WW (practically line-of-sight) was definitely the loudest guy on the band. :-) 73 de N4GN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 74,277 WOW! WHAT SUPER CONDX. ONLY OPERATED 6 HRS. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. 73s JERRY N4JF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 181,812 Fairly Good Conditions with Low Noise contributed to good propagation to NA, SA, Europe and North Africa both nights. Friday Night seemed to peak from 0100 to 0400Z for DX, then dropped off. Beverage only needed once or twice Friday night. Saturday Night was good for DX from 2300 to 0200, then dropped off some, followed by a Before SunRise Peak in Europe. Signals not as strong Saturday night except for later (pre-sunrise) peak from Europe. Beverage used more Saturday night. Missed N.Dak. VE4,5,8 VO2 VY1 (and KL7) NA = C6 FM HR KP2 V3 VP9 XE ZF SA = CE CX HK P4 EU = 4O 9A CT CU DL EA EA6 EI ES F G GD GM GW HA I LA LX LY OH OH0 OK OM ON OZ PA S5 SM SP SV T9 TF UA UR YL YU AF = CN CT3 EA8 AS = C4 (=5B) OC = KH6 Only One Hour of Run Time with the rest spent in S&P mode and chasing Packet Spots for Multipliers. Took LOTS of Breaks of 20 to 40 minutes Saturday night. Slept in Both Mornings so NO Pacific / JA (except KH6 after midnight). Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 357,198 Amazing what some wire in a pine tree and on the ground can do. Still can't get the Beverage working like it should and used the inverted L for TX and RX. Power should say medium power as used an AL-811H at 500 watts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 480,975 Strange condx but good strange...never have heard 160 so good both nights of a contest ever. Signals were outstanding....best dx was RU9TO, some JA's and TF3CW (which is always difficult from here). Longest call - but signal was strong - so no problem - 9A50KDE (24 dots/dashes). Sure the most 10 pointers from this location with only an inverted vee... 66 - 10pointers first night and 103 second night.... See that SV2AVP/A was spotted this evening....sure could never have broken the EU wall with that one...but would have been nice as that's my last country in Europe on 160... Thanks for all the calls....for a change, could pull almost everyone out. 73, Paul, N4PN FT1000MP/(Started with Titan 425 Amp but it crapped out early Friday evening and went to old standby, AL-1200.... Inverted Vee - apex in a pine tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 79,458 Nice opening to Europe & Africa Friday evening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 101,970 Just got on to look for new band countries. Fabulous conditions. By far the most DX I have ever worked on 160 in a contest. Only states missed were AK and ND - heard neither. "Ran" only for a short while Sunday morning - the rest was all S&P. Equipment: Tentec Orion 100 watts TX and sometimes RX Antenna: 42m tower with elevated radials RX Antenna: 160m long beverage NE QSOs MADE IN EACH COUNTRY CQ160 CW 2008 - N5AW Prefix 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Percent ------ --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------- 4O 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 9A 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 C6 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CE 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CN 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CT 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 CT3 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CU 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 CX 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 DL 4 - - - - - 4 1.87 EA 4 - - - - - 4 1.87 EA6 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 EA8 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 EI 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 F 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 G 4 - - - - - 4 1.87 GD 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 GM 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 GW 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 HA 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 HK 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 I 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 JA 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 K 125 - - - - - 125 58.41 KH6 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 KP2 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 LA 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 LX 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 LY 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 OH 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 OH0 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 OM 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 ON 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 OZ 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 PA 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 S5 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 SP 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 SV 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 UA 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 UA2 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 V3 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 VE 14 - - - - - 14 6.54 VP9 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 XE 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 YL 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 YU 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 ZF 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5IA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 487,200 Quite and outing. WA6CDR couldn't come: He's on the Braveheart headed for VP6DX; WA5Y had business on the left coast; NI5L had a rifle match; so K7IA was recruited to the group for his first outing in a TopBand multi-op. Together with N2IC and W7MCO the team was complete. There were great conditions both nights with the exception to the Pacific the 2nd morning. 68 Ja's the first night and only 11 the 2nd night. No other PAC area stations on night 2. We left about 8 mults on the table; all heard well but not worked. Gotta get some more TX antenna somehow. We had 50 less Q's than last year but 11 more mults. This is our best score ever. The real highlight of the contest was working WA6CDR maritime mobile in region 3 near the International Date Line. He is on the Braveheart as it cruises from ZL land to Mangareva in French Polynesia. Overall Q count Stats: K, W = 1005 VE = 64 DX = 197 Short Q count per Mult breakdown report: CA = 124 JA = 79 TX = 55 WA = 51 OH = 43 Continental Mult breakdown EU = 33 NA = 11, + K&VE states & Provinces SA = 5 AF = 3 OC = 4 AS = JA + 1 Equipment: FT-1000 MPs Alpha 99 1/4 WL Groundplane Beverage farm A short report this time around as there is still a bundle of things I have to do and get ready for the DXped of a lifetime. A week from right now I will be two hours out of Papeete, Tahiti on the flight from LAX. The VP6DX team boards the Braveheart in Mangareva on Tuesday, February 5th. From there it is 72 hours of cruise time to Ducie. We anticipate off loading to the island the morning of the 9th. Three days are allocated to install the entire operation and bring all 7 stations on the air near simultaneously around sundown local time on Monday, Feb. 11th (~0500Z 12 Feb). Let's all hope it goes as planned with weather being the most uncertain element. So, look for us on TopBand and all others from Ducie Island, VP6DX. We will operate in the CQ 160 SSB contest. Thanks for the Q's in this one and an apology to those we couldn't pull out. 73 de Milt, N5IA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 84,630 In spite of S-9 line noise the first night, worked CU2, CU8, and CT1. Didn't get on the air until 07:30 the second night, but when I did, the band was incredibly quiet. Added EI, EA, G, and GM, which alone are probably more Europeans than I've ever worked on 160 from California in total. East coast USA stations were loud and astonishingly easy to copy. Even worked one JA station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 70,216 Still fighting AM BC Interference to main TX antenna forcing me to use only a 6 ft loop to RX. Hope to resolve BCI before next 160 contest ! Though I could not copy a the ZL4, I saw him spot me around 0900Z early Sunday morning and traded some e-mail AFTER the contest and found out I was a true 579 report in New Zealand ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 220,809 Original plan was a full bore single op effort, but the weather did not cooperate. Rain static on all antennas started as the contest began, so I watched tennis on TV until the rain stopped. Got on late (0330Z) in the best EU opening I've ever heard from CA, logging 11 EU including 9A, CT, DL, EA, G, OM, ON, SP, CN, CU. Rain started again, so watched hockey on TV until about 06Z, worked US for 1.5 hours, went to bed with 3 hours total time. Got on early Saturday morning for the last 3 hours before sunrise; logged 55 JAs and 15 other Asians incl. BY, HL, UA9, VR, JT. Ended first day with 300Q/52M/18C, with 6 hours on. Saturday night featured intermittent rain all night until about 10Z Sunday AM. Whenever the precip static went below S7 I got on in spurts and connected to packet to go for mults. Condx, even with no noise, were not as good as Friday night, only heard a few EU that I already worked. But picked up 5 more mults (missed Nt, Yt, NS, Lb, Mb) and 14 more countries. So the revised goal of a personal best in country mults was met. Can't complain too much about the rain; it was not there for the 2007 ARRL 160 and Stew Perry, and I did fairly well in those events. I plan to build a receiving loop with umbrella for rainy days before next 160m season! Continent List 2008 CQWW CW N6RO 160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 538 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 538 VE calls = 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 N.A. calls = 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 S.A. calls = 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Euro calls = 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Afrc calls = 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Asia calls = 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 JA calls = 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 74 Ocen calls = 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 U