CQWW CW Soapbox built 1-15-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3DA0ZO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,249,916 Thanks for Daniel ZS6JR for offering his Swaziland station for my use and making it possible to operate from zone 38. I felt quite (too) rare for contesting as Swaziland has not much activity on CW, and ended up working lot of split 1-2 kHz up high on the band. As I don't have home station and don't operate CW more than couple times a year I clearly had difficulties on handling pile-ups. I also experimented again on doing whole 48 hrs as Single Op, something I think I have not done in past 10 years. Especially both mornings my mind was wondering why I was doing what I was doing... I think it would actually have been more productive to sleep couple hrs. We worked hard during the week before the contest to make it possible to switch GP remotely between 160 and 80 m bands and had to improvise for that and we found 50 kW switching relay from local radio station. But at the end the switching capability did not do much as 160 was very poor during the contest. I made many more QSOs at that band on Friday morning sunrise before the contest. Also 80 was better during the week before the contest. I was lucky during the contest as only had 2 very short power outages that lasted as long as I got generator going. During the week before the contest we had multi hour power outages every day. And when we had power the 220 V pover was actually something less and went as low as 165 V at times... Station set-up: FT-1000MP + Alpha 78 80/160 GP with K9AY loop 40 Four-square around the tower 20/15/10 A4S trap beam It was slot of fun and see you next year from some new zone. This one was 11th for me. QSL via OH buro or direct via OH0XX Panama address. Marko N5ZO/OH6DO/PY2ZZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3G1X Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 572,011 Great Contest!! I enjoyed it very much, my score is a new 40 mts CW record in Chile. I hope next year to be monoband again. Thanks to all that called me and were logged and who I did not copied, my apologies, last day evening I had a strong QRN See you next year Nick, XQ1IDM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W3W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,075,410 Thanks to everybody to call us and for patience, because we didnt leave town for CQ WW DX CW Contest and we fight a losing battle with industrial city noise, specially on 80/40m. Sorry we havent antenna for TOP BAND and 10m were very poor. So, thanks anyway and see you seriously in CQ WW DX CW 160m 2008. 73s Stan/3W9R and Eddy/XV1X Running: FT1000MPMKVField + FT100D with Alpha 91B Antennas: Multi-band dipoles Notebooks with N1MM Logger + Microham interface ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3X5A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 39,201,852 80 & 160 totals way up due to a sea location. 10m down from 2006. This trip included a long two day drive from Bamako, Mali to Conakry, Guinee and four long work days in the heat and humidity to be ready in time for the contest. We'll be back as 3X5A in 2008. The Voodudes, AA7A, G3SXW, G4BWP, G4IRN, GM3YTS, K4UEE, KC7V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,051,472 I'm very thankful to Gia 4L4WW for getting me use his great station and also to Misha 4L4CR for helping me with all the equipment. Have used MK2R+ and Wintest software for SO2R for the first time and want to say that it works really great. Before have worked as SO2R in N6TR and N1MM with DXdoubler. It goes without saying, that MK2R+ is better. Have used FT-1000D and FT-2000. I'm very grateful to Gia's family for hospitality. Some words about Georgia: it is country with great history and culture and wonderful nature and people. All the best to all and see you again in contests. More information about the station you can find at www.4l4ww.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L2M Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 197,730 During Contest period Unfortunately, was broken my power genertaor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L8A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 5,110,860 RIG: Yaesu FT-2000, ACOM-2000, Optibeam OB-17/4 (40-20-15-10)Beam, 80m - Dipole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,201,320 Finally I had good weather during almost all weekend and better conditions than in SSB part. Station works fine and some improvements I did meantime. Now I can say that station is ready for serious approach, and at spring time I am planning to proceed with final stage - with third rotary tower and some additional antennas on it. Final station upgrade will give possibility to break some EU score margins, hopefully. Truly congratulation to Ben, DL6FBL on amazing QSOs total. He called me on 40M and asked to QSY on 80M, when I noticed that someone serious is behind. Really fascinating. I guess that Toni did better from CU2A? Many thanks to all who called me and you can confirm contacts on LoTW. 73 Ranko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,881,438 FT890 + FL2100z 20-10m: KLM-LPA @ 10m 80/40m: dipole @ 12m My first time operating a contest at the 5I3A-club & Murphy was not interested in me: No powercut, no noise, no nothing... First day I had a great run on 15m to EU & NA, 5 hours in a row with a average rate over 150/h. Second day improved conditions on 80/40m, but 15m was almost dead. Probably I missed an opening on early sunday on 10m. Date Total 3_5 7 14 21 28 2007-11-24 1747 48 46 413 1221 19 2007-11-25 1043 25 166 696 154 2 Total 2790 73 212 1109 1375 21 Nice surprises with KH7B on 80m and ZM3A on 40m almost 2hours after SR. I assume, not much more can be expected with the current setup. I am always jealous eying at the big 40m-scores of many others. Guess, a fixed wire-beam pointing north could be a first solution to this general problem. Had a nice time with you all, guys. Thanks a lot! Mike 5H3EE/DL4SM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5Q2T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 12,298 Now when Denmark has opened up for the use of new prefixes, I have decided to get one of those. My new call sign to be used in contests is 5Q2T. On the DX-cluster I could see, that 5Q2 have not been much on air in CW mode. It was amazing how many stations that did not get 5Q2T in the first hit. I guess that most of the stations that I called typed HQ2T in stead of 5Q2T. I could hear it when I sent zone 14 (Denmark) in stead of zone 15 (Hungary). Sometimes it was much queried on the frequency just after my report. I have decided only to work on a single band, cause to the bad conditions for us in the northern part of Europe. 20 M was a good band, where I could use a 3 element Fritsel FB33. My own shack is being rebuilt so I have moved my rig to the QTH of OZ2JBC / 5Q2J close to me. To put equipment from different locations together is always quite a challenge. After I have tried 2 USB to Com port adapters, 1 laptop and 1 stationary PC and 2 homemade CAT cables with CW-plug, I succeeded to send CW from the PC to the station. During the contest the laptop not always decided to transmit the correct CW. I guess that the laptop did get interference from the power amplifier. Sorry for anyone who get some unreadable Morse code during the contest. During the contest the conditions where not well but fair. There were no conditions to Asia on Saturday, but a little opening on Sunday. I tried to call Sunday beaming Asia, but without much luck. I called myself a few times during the contest, and I could work 1 – 2 QSO’s per minute. I got a mini pile-up just after the times I was put on the cluster. Thanks to all who worked me in my speed or higher. I will try to improve my CW-speed during the next years. QSL is via OZ0J, hope to meet you again in the 160 M DX-contest in January. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6V7D Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 2,702,672 Station: Elecraft K2, Titanex vertical 160-40, 3 element monoband yagis 20-10. See http://www.le-calao.com for details. When I finish typing this I need to pack for the trip home. I hate packing more than I hate writing so I'll ramble a bit. Maybe this wasn't the best year to try QRP. But I operated low power last year and wanted to do something different. High power wasn't an option and single-band means less chair time so I decided to go after the African QRP record. I really didn't know what to expect. I thought I'd run a bit on the high bands and spend most of the contest S&P. This turned out to be wrong. S&P was much more difficult than I expected (and I should have known better). The smart stations just called CQ in my face. The less smart stations would send a question mark, which began a half-dozen transmissions while they worked through BV7D, SV7D, UV7D, 647D, and a bunch of less common choices. Eventually most got it, some just gave up. The Titanex vertical with 5 watts was just not enough on 80 and 160, and even on 40 Europe was difficult. I never worked the US on 160 - I called KC1XX, W3LPL, K3LR, NQ4I, K1LT, KT1V, VY2ZM, and a few others, but nobody heard me. On 80 I called just about every European that called CQ and most never heard me. On the other hand KH6 on 80 was easy. On 40 I was able to get a run going early in the contest but could not repeat it later. 20 was OK but the competition was tough. I think I had my best hour there. 15 was the money band, with almost half of my QSOs. I was pleasantly surprised. Last year 15 was noisy and I spent more time on 20 and 10. This year 15 was quiet and productive. 10 was disappointing. Last year with low power I had over 900 QSOs there. This year it just didn't open well. I had one run Sunday. Thanks to everyone who heard my weak signal, and especially to Francois, 6W7RV for his help. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1RW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,870,776 10 and 160 m conditions much below last year's. A low dipole on 160 is not good to be heard in crowded European 160m. I had to use some split on 80m as Eu or US callers were certainly louder than me. Again an excellent contest. Thank you to all who called, often too many at the same time and on exactly same freq !. I'm lucky to have great hosts such as Daniel 6W7RP and Murielle 6W7RX. A big Thank You to them. 73 de Jacques, F6BEE / 6W1RW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1SJ Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 967,542 RIG: IC-756ProIII ANT: 2 x Dipole @ 75ft (one set for EU/JA/SA, and other for USA/AS) Great conditions on 40m band from West Africa. Unfortunately had a 2hrs power cut on second evening (at the peak of EU/JA opening), otherwise the score would be just over one milion. 73! Jovica 6W1SJ (T98A) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 11,522,940 What can I say, that was a blast! First, I would like to give a special thank you to Tony (W4OI/HK1AR) for his many hours on the towers making repairs. Finally, the 40 meter stack works! I would also like to thank my two Finnish friends for coming all the way to Jamaica and joining the team. My QSL manager, Kari (OH3RB), an excellent CW op, along with his friend Veikko (OH1NT), provided countless hours of their vacation time getting the station ready. Veikko came only to provide technical assistance and did not operate. His help is most appreciated! The bands didn't seem to be in too good of shape, particularly 10 meters, which never really opened to Europe. How we managed 23 countries and 13 zones is beyond me, but I am happy. Forty meters was the real treat. We worked stations around the world during their daylight hours and even worked some during our daylight hours. The band seemed to be open around the clock from this location. Signals were outstanding! Thank you to everyone who found our single run station and put us in your log. For those that weren't able to work us on all 6 bands, I apologize, it was difficult to be motivated to run on 80 or 160 when 40 offered non stop action. 73, David ~ KY1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S2E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,920,680 Conditions quite disturbed, but favoured NA on 20m in the evenings. Only 13 JA in the log, most of them via long path on 40m. TNX QSOs 73 Rainer SM2DMU Kurt SE2T Per SM2LIY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,568 Kenwood TS-850S/AT Ant: Wire in the dark @4m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7X0RY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,394,765 SRI, not enought time for serious entry. ....(QRL busy) but I had a SUPER pile-ups!!! max rate was 541!!!N1MM told me it... of course with US guys - short calls and super ops !!! TNX. Frantisek, 7X0RY/OK1DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,883,885 Station logistics and holiday travel plans precluded a maximum effort. Combining CQWW with Thanksgiving family commitments makes this contest a less than optimal situation. However, after a successful effort on SSB, a low pressure weekend was just fine. Having to return the cottage I use back to the owners this weekend, I had to relocate the station to a small exterior room and clear out the house. I traveled from New York to Barbados on Monday morning to do all the normal precontest set up (160 Inverted L, 80 mter wire array, and receive 4 square), plus reroute/extend 10 cables to the new operating position. Although I got all of these done by myself, it was a hasty process and there was limited time for checkout before I left on Wednesday to return to New York for Thanksgiving. On Friday, my wife Kathleen, son Alex, and I returned to Barbados, arriving mid afternoon. After a brief station checkout, I went to the new apartment to get some rest. Despite the intent of having a low key effort, I still operated the full 48, although the last 5 hours were a struggle after 4, 4-hour+ flights in less than a week. The station performed well but I had a whole set of new RFI problems to solve, especially on 160. I also lost the 160 antenna the second night when the ground anchor pulled out, lifting the entire antenna off the ground and tangling the radials with the driven element. The other issue was the new station layout. With my back by the door, I was in the path of direct sunlight in the morning and heavy rain most of the weekend. The alternative to getting soaked was to close the doors, which made the room hot and stuffy. I ended up getting soaked and having a hot room. All of those items aside, outside of limited vigor for multiplier hunting, the RFI, rain, and fatigue issues probably only modestly impacted my score and my hat is off to W2GD and N2NT on great efforts. The good news is that the operations in Barbados can continue, albeit with a number of problems to solve. Best clock hour was 16Z at 247 (including 2 Q's on the second radio) Thanks to everybody for the Q's and the moves. Thanks to the CQWW committee for this great event. Thanks to my wife Kathleen for all of her support. QSL via NN1N or LOTW 73 Tom W2SC 10 5L @ 100', TH6, TH7 15 TH6, TH7 both at 50' 20 TH6, TH7 both at 50' 40 3L @ 90' 80 2L wire array, Inverted V @ 50 feet 160 Inverted L with 4 raised radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,401,300 Another great weekend with lot of fun. Condx were bad on the upper bands, 10m almost completly closed, 15m very short openings with NA and 20m was closing pretty early. 40&80m were quite good and 160m was excellent. We made about 100 north american contacts on that band (missed N7DD for zone 3 mult, as he didnt hear us). Of total 5747 qsos 2021 qsos are north america. Total number of 3 pointers is 2874 or 50% of the total nr. Thanks again for nice competition in M/S class. Congrats both of the teams that beat us this time OM8A with 11m pts and 9A7A with a great score of 11.5M pts. Seems we still have to improve mults hunting on CW as we never do as good as in ssb part of the game. Tnx for all stns who logged us and we apologize to the ones we didnt hear but qrm in EU is high. Used FT1000mp's and Alpha 86 + homemade amp with single GU43 Antennas are 4el 40m, 5el 20m, 6el 15m, 6el 10m owa yagis, 80m vertical and 160m inv L with 30m high vertical part. We love this game! cu in the next one 73 Dave 9A1UN www.9a1p.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 161,955 Kenwood TS-940S / 100W Inv.V 80/40 / 2el quad 20/15/10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7T Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,313,641 Mostly s&p with some occasional runs on 160/80/40. First time on with new Titanex V160HD vertical which performed very well with low power especially on 160 meters. Good mult score, but should have done better with more running, but with 10&15 poor as they were no chance for more running with low power. DX cluster spots made chaos on any rare mult. Thanks for all QSOs and see you all in 9ACW Contest on 15/16 December, Zlatko, 9A2EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9G5XA Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 518,490 K2/100, Moxon wire beam at 60ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9G5ZS Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 31,680 Hi, Thanks for patients with me. Lots QRM from local mine and noisy vertical antenna. If I had the skills, could easily pulled in +_ 1000 > Qso on 40M. Everyone agrees this was an excelent opening on 40M. Congratulation to my other buddies in 9G on their score: G3AXQ SOSB15 LP & DL1CW SOSB20M LP. Till next time. Emil 9G5ZS / ZS6EGB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9G5ZZ Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 579,272 Horrible condx during first night. Real first run started on 15:00 UTC on Saturday! Not comparable with what I remember from 2003, with exact the same setup. However, it was fun to meet my team mates on both continents. 73, de Arno ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9H1XT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 150,150 Again failed to erect the main antennae in time for the contest so I worked with Vlad's Hatted vertical on the lower bands and a G5RV for the midday bands at the time available between work and building the new 10meter antenna. Even the mustang tribander decided to go on strike. But of course we must sign the 9h presence. Great kick nevertheless. Someday we will give it a serious try. John 9h1xt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,839,530 A BIG BIG THANK YOU to Hamad and family for a wonderful experience. My new favorite location! SO1R. 73 KL2A/9K2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,556,840 Station (SO1R): IC-756 Pro and SPE Expert 1K (half power mode - 400W) 40/80 - Butternut HF2V at ground level with 30 x 33' radials 20/15/10 - Force 12 C3-S at 12m Lower score than last year - more QSOs but less mults and less 3-pointers. In bad conditions I realise that a beam at 12m doesn't cut the mustard. Highlights - 3X5A answering my CQs on two bands for my only QSOs with them. Thank you! - 599 strength Carribean stations on 40m after sunrise for 30 minutes. I spent more time listening after the QSO than I should have done but this is a nearly 11000 miles path from 9M2. Lowlights - Packet pileups. Not much fun for both sides. I get deluged by non-stop calling M/M stations and they get frustrated by me. However, on the plus side it does result in a stream of stations once the M/Ms have been worked. If only people scanned the bands for mults instead of using the cluster all of the time. - Split operations in contests. Surely this is not in the spirit of the contest? I was affected twice on 40m and ended up in the midst of split operations. On such a small band this is crazy. 160m I spent one day getting sunburnt trying to tune a 160m Inverted L. I failed as the antenna was too low. However, I used the antenna as an end-fed for RX on 80m and it allowed me to hear stations I couldn't hear on the vertical. I am now a believer in LF receiving antennas :-) 80m Thanks to my mini-beverage the static was bearable and I heard a lot more than I usually do on this band. I was even able to run for a short while which was great fun. The switching from TX to RX antennas was manual as I was worried about using the 756's RX antenna input as the RX antenna passed within 1 metre of the vertical TX antenna. To be fixed next year.... 40m Could do better. I was happy with the DX-ing ability of the Butternut but more is needed to break through the Eu wall and establish a run frequency. 20m Wall to wall CW from 14.000 to beyond 14.120 MHz. Who says CW is dead? Sadly very little East Coast US and Carribean but more heard from South America this year. 15m The first day's opening to EU was spoilt by another 9M2's poor TX signal that prevented me from hearing any weak stations when they transmitted. The second day was OK and I was happy to work so many EU stations at solar minimum. 10m Not much from here. Others - notably HS0ZAR and VK9AA - were working stuff I just couldn't hear. Good activity from S.E Asia. At least 3 other 9M2 stations were active (9M50MB is in 9M2 and not 9M6/8). However, this pales in comparison to the large number of HS stations that I heard and worked. Two XW stations were QRV as well with Khun Champ, E21EIC going great guns as XW1A whenever I passed by him. Also a pleasure to hear Fred, K3ZO contesting from HS0ZAR. Indeed, good to listen and learn from his contesting style. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW in 2 weeks when I am back in the UK. Next year the main upgrade will be an Elecraft K3. My K3 order placed on May 1st is being shipped this week. Hurrah! Thank you for the QSOs. 73 de Rich, G4ZFE/9M2CNC/HS0ZGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M6AAC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 735,405 Sometimes things don’t go according to plan…. I am in Asia on business over the CQ WW CW weekend and decided to operate from 9M6AAC in Sabah, E Malaysia. This would not only be a great opportunity to DX Contest but also a chance to try out some of the equipment and antennas I will be using for the N1UR Spratly DXpedition coming up in March of next year. The plan was to try and beat fellow YCCC club member K1XM’s SOABLP Oceania record that he set as H44MX in the late 1990s of approximately 2.8 Million. Well, that was the plan any way. There is full write-up on my blog page at http://www.n1urspratly.com/ It includes the discussion of how the contest actually turned into more of Spratly dry run for me and interesting propagation observations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9Y4AA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,806,779 Great to return to Trinidad and Tobago for my 3rd straight year. And many thanks to my kind host, Andy 9Y4W and to our friend Chris 9Y4D for his timely assistance, too. Wonderful of Chris to fly over to Tobago the day before the contest for a hand-shake and a couple of CARIB 807's. Goals this year were modest. See if I could hold together for another CQ WW CW, and take a shot at the 40 meter South America record set by my friend OH0XX from YV5A a dozen years ago. Both seem to have been accomplished. Definitely heartening to know that some goals can still be reached by very senior citizens. In my 50+ running of CQ WW, I dedicated this operation to our good friend Phil Goetz N6ZZ, and also to the memories of two other contesting friends recently lost to us: Jim Maxwell W6CF (my QSL Manager for all of my pre-1992 operations from ZD8Z, 9Y4AA, VR1W/KB6DA, etc) and Hillar Raamat N6HR (ex-ZD8HR, etc) who played such an important role in getting me on the road for so many CQ WW's, starting in 1967. Thanks to the many who called, especially finding me often running so high up the 40M band. Very pleasant surprise to be called by D2NX for my only Zone 36, and thanks to TF4M for giving me Zone 40 with 23 minutes to go. Conditions were great, and cannot ever remember 40 sounding like 10. Rig: FT1000MP MK V ALPHA 87A Antenna: 2 element rotary. Software: TRLOG Congratulations to the excellent A/B scores from John P40W, Andy V47NT, Tom 8P5A and so many other outstanding operators. Sorry I was not able to QSY to the other bands for the mult; all can take solace in knowing I QSYed for no one, deciding to treat everyone fairly and equally badly. I must say I was surprised that most of the big gun multi's didn't ask me to move. And many thanks to wife Marilyn and daughter Kristen that helped lug all the radio stuff to the Caribbean and back. Expecting to return to T&T for 2008. See you all then. 73 Jim Neiger N6TJ, 9Y4AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A71EM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,302,200 This contest as always was both a challenge and loads of fun. Juma, A71EM, is a great host and a great operator. So is Ali, A71BX. Thanks to both of them for inviting me to join with them in putting A7 in a bunch of logs. Local line noise and the buzz from wide-screen TV's is a major problem for Juma on 80 and 160. We made improvements to the single short beverage that helped bring the noise levels down a few more dB, but still not enough for really good reception. If you made it into our log on those bands you can call your signal very good! On the other bands, when they are open to Europe (and especially when open to Europe and USA) they really rock. 10m was not as good as it was during SSB (no surprise there) but did open up enough to work a few of the deserving. Six band QSOs: P3F, 9K2HN, LZ9W, OM8A, T93J, A45XR, IR4X We traded frequently between operators sitting at the run chair. Our best hour was on 40m across sunrise the first day, with the rate meter hovering above 200. This was total fun! The slowest hours were when it ws hard to find a hole in the band in which to CQ, or when we got into DXing, chasing some big pileups we couldn't break, or especially when Juma would bring in a steaming tray of local delicacies -- the radios were ignored as we tackled mountains of good food! All the best to all of you in 2008! Dave K5GN, A7/M0FGA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,218,890 Plans for SO2R were scrapped Friday afternoon when TX problems developed in the second radio and its backup, as well as in the SO2R switching box. Sure missed the chance to chase stations during runs -- conditions were ideal for that. The 40-meter 4-1000 amp came on with the rest when I turned them on midday Friday, but when I came back later to do final checks it was dead. So I switched the Alpha between 40/15. Nice to work a string of JA/VK/E5 stations two hours before sunrise on Saturday on 160, but the most exciting QSO was at 1405z on Sunday when XW1A answered by CQ on 15 meters. I wasn't expecting that one the way conditions have been! Ignored 15 meters until late in the say on Saturday, and was surprised to find some Eu stations still coming through. Station: FT-1000MP with Inrad IF filters, roofing filter. 4-1000 monoband grounded-grid amp on 160 meters Pair 3-500 all-band GG amp dedicated to 80 meters Alpha 89 dedicated to 40/15 meters 4-1000 all-band GG amp dedicated to 20 meters 4-1000 monoband GG amp for 10 meters N1MM logging software Antennas: 160 -- Parasitic vertical array; 4-el to Eu, 3-el to SE/SW/NW, 600 radials 80 -- Single 1/4 wave vertical, 30 radials 40 -- HyGain 3-el Explorer @ 100 ft. 20 -- HyGain 204BA 3-stack @ 98/65/35 ft. Bottom two fixed on Europe. 15 -- Wilson 415M 2-stack @ 98/65 ft. Bottom fixed on Europe. 10 -- HyGain 105CA (W3XU redesign) @ 100 ft. Fifteen Beverages received antennas or Beverage phased pairs for RX on 160/80/40. More on station at www.aa1k.us. AA1K Max Rates: 2007-11-24 1429Z - 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by AA1K 2007-11-25 1343Z - 3.1 per minute (10 minute(s)), 186 per hour by AA1K 2007-11-24 1508Z - 2.5 per minute (60 minute(s)), 149 per hour by AA1K Hour Total 1_8 3_5 7 14 21 28 Running Total 0 60 60 60 1 56 56 116 2 32 13 19 148 3 39 39 187 4 50 12 34 4 237 5 30 30 267 6 26 26 293 7 64 4 60 357 8 31 23 8 388 9 20 4 16 408 10 22 6 16 430 11 45 13 4 28 475 12 119 119 594 13 137 137 731 14 143 143 874 15 118 118 992 16 93 93 1085 17 88 88 1173 18 61 5 56 1234 19 32 17 13 2 1266 20 45 32 13 1311 21 72 66 6 1383 22 89 89 1472 23 36 9 27 1508 0 45 4 33 8 1553 1 23 23 1576 2 21 7 12 2 1597 3 20 3 17 1617 4 65 65 1682 5 38 3 35 1720 6 36 5 17 14 1756 7 35 14 21 1791 8 3 3 1794 9 10 4 6 1804 10 8 1 3 4 1812 11 23 23 1835 12 95 95 1930 13 128 4 124 2058 14 98 97 1 2156 15 66 66 2222 16 22 4 18 2244 17 93 93 2337 18 34 29 5 2371 19 25 18 7 2396 20 31 31 2427 21 41 40 1 2468 22 29 29 2497 23 34 3 27 4 2531 Total All Hours 2531 145 453 481 1056 369 27 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 258,826 Antennas: Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m (40-10m) Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 100 watts Comments: I didn't expect to operate this contest at all. Family was supposed to travel to my father's place for Thanksgiving. However, my eldest daughter managed to contract a very serious GI infection and wasn't fit to travel 12 hours in a car. So, we made do with Thanksgiving at home. Off and on Saturday and Sunday, I managed 20 hours of operating. The 1/4 million points is a personal best from the home QTH in this contest. Worked virtually all S&P. The one time I managed to CQ, I was called by a KH6 portable W7. (Drat!) That one was a mult for me, so I can't complain. Although conditions weren't anything to scream about (10m never seemed to open at all. The only station I heard there was NQ4i CQing endlessly on several occasions), there was plenty of good DX to work. Europe was there in force, and I was surprised at the number of africans as well. I worked four different stations from 6W alone. And high marks for the op at 3X5A. He was managing an enormous pileup all the time, but I somehow got through on three different bands. Breaking big pileups with 100 watts and a big of skillful calling makes for some satisfying operating. The only problem were the stations who didn't identify very often. I think many stations have gotten too dependent on spotting networks to do their identifying for them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,369,762 Operated off and on for 18 hours, mostly S&P with a few CQs. There seemed to be better conditions early in the contest, especially on the low bands. Thanks to all for the contacts and a very enjoyable week-end. Set-up here is FT1000D, Alpha 87A, 3 el SteppIR @ 60 feet, 40M full size vertical and Titanex vertical on 80M and 160M. The Titanex vertical is mounted on the end of a 150 foot long pier over salt water with 2 tuned elevated radials per band over the water. I built two new pennants using mix 77 toroids for the transformer and common-mode choke. Both did a very nice job for receiving. The 250 Hz crystal filters in the '1000D sure came in handy...the bands were packed. CU you all from KH6 for the ARRL DX CW and Phone in '08. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 200,960 Antennas: 160-15M :160M halfwave dipole fed w/ladder line @50ft. 80M: Inverted-L Murphy struck bigtime. Saturday morning, the laptop harddrive crashed. All QSOs up to that point were lost, not to mention everything else I had on there. Turns out to be a mechanical hardware failure and the data is not recoverable (except perhaps by an expensive service). Luckily I had backed up the disk about a week before, so my other data is OK. Continued the contest using another laptop. Tried to take time to work everyone on the low bands again on Sat night, but I'm sure there will be a few I did not work again....my apologies. Some refused to log me, citing "QSO B4", oh well, I tried. The new ladder-fed 160 dipole worked well on the other bands, so is a great antenna until I get the permits to put a tower or 2. 73 and thanks to all for a great contest, Darrell AB2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 146,048 Got sick with the flu the day before the contest and just played S&P between naps throughout the weekend. My new tower and antennas have arrived but are still on the ground, so I just limped along with low power and Inverted-V's for one more year. Low band conditions were pretty good, but I wasn't impressed with 20m or 15m most of the time. 73, Dave AB7E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 13,320 Had fun as usual. N1MM free contest software made this a really enjoyable time this year. I did not have allot of time to spend because of work obligations and family visiting from Austin. Thanks to all for the contacts. All contacts were made from my FT1000MP MKV (100W) into my modified Butternut 3band Vertical from the 70's. A few important (rare) contacts for me were patient due to QSB and it was much appreciated. QSL via LotW or bureau as usual. tnx fer a great time Bob AD5VJ http://www.ad5vj.com/ --- --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 129,506 AD6ZJ Single opp high power with packet assistance, all S&P. I'm not much of a CW opp (yet) so my goals for this contest were to better last years score of 13,013, get enough new DX to complete my CW DXCC award (only need 7 more) and to pick up a few missing zones for the mixed WAZ. I beat last years score (and then some), picked up over 30 new CW DX entities but I was unable to work those two elusive zones (22 and 34). I ran about a KW on 80, 40 and 15, about 400W on 20 and barefoot on 160 and 10. I had to cut down my power on 20M as I still haven't moved the tribander and it is about a wavelength away from the rig. A KW on 20M = RF in the audio and the USB keyboard to hang. Maybe I will get it moved this season. On both 160 and 10 I could work all I could copy with 100W but I didn't copy much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AO3T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 705,588 This year I was again in the portable qth located in Ebro’s river delta, and after working so well last year in 80m I wanted to see what can be done in 40 from there, having as a refererence what I did in the 2005 contest from my home qth (abt 600Kpoints). As a portable station it was not possible to have a big yagi and enough high to be useful with the very good ground there. So I decided to give the chance to vertical dipoles slopped from a 20 meter mast. Arrived to the qth on Thursday and started to install the antennas. It was a windy day and had to keep the mast up to 15 meters only. It was much lower than the expected 22 meters and dipoles would be too horizontal, but had no chance to install it higher. On Friday installed the dipoles and arranged all the station. The results were better than I expected, with more qsos and mults than 2 years ago with my c4sxl @ 30 m., abt 100kpoints more and 500Q more. During the contest I found conditions were poor than in 2005. First night quite poor running to usa, big fading, better second night, and maybe best condx last hours of the contest. To JA very poor all the contest. Worked a couple dozens, when I did 150 two years ago. Was first time using a 2x1 callsign, AO3T, much easier than my own callsign. I will prepare a new qsl card to confirm the contacts. Some conclusions: a)Install receiving antennas for 40m. I think some beverages would have helped a lot to have less noise from the vertical dipoles and hearing weaker stations. b)The 756proII it’s not good for this band overcrowded with so big signals, so will look for a K3 for next year contest. c)I need more time to rest before the contest than some years ago. I’m 45 old, and working hard 2 days before the contest its not a good idea. I was very tired last evening, and my ears and hands were not working fine. d)I need to find an antenna able to hear Asia/Oceania stations through the EU mass of stations calling them, any idea ?, some times was impossible to hear who was there (the EU stations calling and calling without listening also helps). Last, thanks to my father, EA3LL, who helped me to install the antennas and gave me logistic help during the contest. See u next year Josep EA3AKY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B3C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,809,017 80/160 GP(20M) 40M 3 ele 20M 4 ele 15M 5 ele 10M 5 ele 500W IC 756PRO3 TNX QSO with us and we will try better next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 18,746,208 Visit us on Web: http://www.c-4-n.com/ With the best regards, Sandy RW4WR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AQQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,330,800 Some technical problems with AC/DC supply were tough to overcome. Mini-beam on 20/15 really helped--pointed NE in the day and NW in the evening. Couldn't work strong EUs on 160 with only 100w and trapped dipole. Thanks to all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ARR Class: SOSB/160 QRP Total Score = 138,768 Contratulations to Tom, N6BT who smashed the World QRP 160m record. I suggested to Tom that he go QRP, as conditions were good, and I had set the 160m QRP record in 2003 and knew the right strategy. He done good. He passed the world record after 5 1/2 hours! We had a great QTH on Eleuthera, Bahamas. We had a great water shot to USA, EU, AF, and the northern Pacific and JA. The QTH was super quiet, and the new 55' top loaded antenna was a killer. The antenna was on a bluff overlooking the ocean, about 20m back from the surf. No beverages were used, they weren't needed. Tom wants to thank all those who heard and worked him. Special thanks to all the mults who called in from around the world, and the amazing QRP QSO with VK6HD. Mike, you have great ears! We didnt get set up on 160 until late due to bad WX. Sorry to all the JA's who we promised to get on and work them before the contest. Luckily, we got on the morning after the contest and worked 6 JA's with 100w. That's a tough one from C6. 73, Kenny K2KW (for N6BT) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ATA Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 1,226,554 Another Team Vertical operation with C6ARR/N6BT and C6AKX/KE7X. I decided to try and beat the 40m LP World Record I set last year from the same location. If my UBN is OK, I might squeek out a few more points for a slightly higher world record. I thought I had the strategy down to add another 200-300 QSOs and another 10-15 mults as compared to last year's record. But my implementation and poor frequency choice set me back. But the 244 1st clock hour rate was fun, but nearly all USA. The antenna was a 2 ele 20' high top loaded vertical on the beach aimed at EU. I also had another 2 ele full size 2 ele parasitic array on US/JA (also on the beach), but it was never really better than the EU antenna in all directions, so I didn't use it. One of the toughest QSOs was with 4U1ITU, who I worked at 11:50Z! Many thanks for all the QSOs and all my friends who called in from around the world. We stayed on Eleuthera Island, and it's a wonderful place to visit. Your YL/XYL will love it too. 73, Kenny K2KW - C6ATA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,679,136 Once again, my special thanks to CE4CT. I worked with N1MM program, and It was great chasing multipliers and comfortable during the contest, the only problem was 10m opening, Europeans Stations are not in my 10m,anyway, It was great to find OM´S. 73 ES CUL XQ4CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2AW Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 1,363,054 First day 2360/36/124 Second day - 10.10-17.50 gmt - NO QSO...no power and no back up generator Shit happens... The result should be 3900-4000/38/145 = 2.0 mln. points Thanks Jim CN2R (W7EJ) for letting me use this station...some hours 200+... It was long way travel from Far East (UA0L) 73! Andrey RV1AW/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2FB Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 1,648,080 CN2FB Statistics CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 0 1050 0 0 0 0 1050 30.4 South America CW 0 29 0 0 0 0 29 0.8 Europe CW 0 2112 0 0 0 0 2112 61.1 Asia CW 0 208 0 0 0 0 208 6.0 Africa CW 0 31 0 0 0 0 31 0.9 Oceania CW 0 26 0 0 0 0 26 0.8 K 934 DL 363 UA 304 UR 166 G's 141 OK 121 I 115 SP 101 UA9 96 VE 82 F 73 EA 72 HA 68 OH 60 S5 49 SM 47 PA 46 YU 39 YO 33 HB 31 OM 30 9A 26 LY 26 ON 26 LA 25 OZ 23 YL 18 LZ 17 PY 12 UN 12 ZL 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2FF Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 648,810 Some statistic: TIME ON: 30h50' TIME OFF:17h10' TIME ON CQ: 20h48'(67.5%) QSO:1543(95.6%) COUNTRIES:80(74.1%) TIME ON S&P: 10h02'(32.5%) QSO: 71(4.4%) COUNTRIES:28(25.9%) Missed calls: FM5BH, HS0AC, XE2EJ, XE2QQ, CM6xxx. Missed zones: 06, 26. Can't break EU pileup on FM5BH. No problem with others Carribian except CM6, who call CQ and don't hear me :-( The only one Oceania station - VK6HD but 42-JAs! Total: EU-979qso(59.4%) NA-542qso(32.9%) AS-94qso(5.7%) AF-17qso(1%) SA-16qso(1%) OC-1qso(0.1%) USA-483qso(29%) DL-187qso(11%) UA3-102qso(6%) G-68 OK-68 SP-52 UR-52 OH-43 JA-42 UA9-36 F-35 VE-35 SM-33 S5-31 I-30 EA-25 OM-23 PA-22 HA-17 OZ-15 YO-14 ... From a close thunder-storm the column a supporting elevated radial has lighted up :-) 73 and CU again de Vlad UA2FF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,403,153 First time from CN3A in a cqww cw, I will never forget this one!!! Thanks for the contacts! Single op 2 radio is amazing, during the contest the wx was very bad, big thunderstorm a lot of noise, and I lost the power electricity for 21 hours... but this time I was lucky the generator works well so I don't miss the contest. Two days before the contest I lost also the TH7DXX due to a big wind storm. But not execuses, I have a lot of things still to learn... so next year I will be back for sure at CN3A during CQWW CW! Congratulations to all the guys especially W2GD,N2NT,CT1BOH,W2SC,A45XR,KL2A, YT1AD,VK9AA,VY2ZM,F6BEE,OH2UA,CN2R,D4C. It's very hard to manage, travel and put a station on air from a distant locations. Thank you very much to SV8CS my very good friend Spiros, he help me a lot to prepare the 80m verticals, he was active on eme in 2m and 6m and he did the first qso USA - MOROCCO on 6m Eme. Thank you to Said CN8WW for the usual outstanding support! Special thanks also to Matteo IK2SGC, Ahmed CN8WK and ARRAM. 73 Stefano IK2QEI, CN3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3NT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,215,282 The contest was over for me Saturday, at exactly 18:45, when a big storm, shut down the electrical power on the eastern side of Madeira. Unfortunately when about 30 minutes later, power was restored, CQ9K QTH up the mountain (750 meters ASL) remained in the dark. An electrical company emergency crew went to the QTH, and quickly located the posts where the cables were damaged by the wind, but because of the strength of the wind, they just refused to climb them and fix it. I could not persuade them to climb the posts under 90km gust winds and heavy rain... It wasn't until Sunday afternoon, when the winds calmed a bit, and everything was fixed. By then I dind't even had the motivation to listen to the bands. I packed things up and went on a tour around the islands wth the guys. As my lovely wife Lara says the (bad) thing about contests, in there is always a next one... Special thanks to Madeira Team (CT3BD, CT3DL, CT3DZ, CT3EE, CT3EN, CT3IA, CT3KU, CT3KY), for letting me use CQ9K QTH, and particularly CT3BD, who endured very difficult weather conditions to assemble the station with me the days before. You can check here how the station set-up looked like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9NzXcrOhw 73 José Nunes CT1BOH / CT3NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,314,680 Comparing propagation with last year I would say Low Band were awsome and higher bands were not as good but not bad, of course a lot of work was done on the low band antenas and this year I had Beverage for RX which worked absolutelly gorgeously. Very good runs to USA on all bands except 160 & 10m. 42% NA 51% EU Only opening on 10m was sunday morning, I heard WE3C on 10m and PZ5X couldnt hear me :P Everything worked perfectly, WIN-TEST never Fails and SO2R Rocks (CT1BOH WX0B box ;) ) CU next one 73's Filipe Lopes CT1ILT aka CT6A 6Y3T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT8T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,041,287 Very similar condx than last year on 20m. A bit more qsos and multipliers, a bit less US worked. Band was open 0600-1900z on both days with sporadic short opening later in the evenings - the nights were long and quiet. Maybe the highlight was my last qso: 2227z E51A was super loud while calling CQ with no takers. Missed zones 19 (again, short path it is difficult and no luck with long path) and 36 (never heard D2 or ZD7). This was my 7th CQWWCW and 8th contest operation from CT8T. Thanks again to my great support team: Teresa/CT1YQM, Santos/CT1DVV, Tony/CT1ESV, Andre, Carla + others. 73, Timo OH1NOA Cont. 2006 2007 No.Am 1228 1178 So.Am 63 62 Eu 1592 1782 Asia 183 222 Af 33 35 Oc 22 24 Last year's claimed score: 2964/36/132 = 985,320 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,824,050 What a contest it was! A great battle of European SOAB stations this year. Congratulations to DL6FBL (@SV9CVY), YT6A (@4O3A) and many others for very nice scores under difficult conditions. It seems that propagation was not that favorable to Azores this year, both on SSB- and CW –leg. 10 meters remained closed and I couldn’t get advantage of long NA runs on 15 or 20 either. I knew that I had to pay attention to work all those European multipliers on as many bands as possible because there was no way to get to Asia this time. So I did concentrate on “easy ones” instead of chasing 9M2s’, BYs’ and many other hard-to-work multipliers and asked a lot of QSYs’ even from quite common stations that I saw I was missing on some other band. That cost me some Qs’, but I was counting that I have to do it to stay in the game because rates were so low most of the time. I guess that mainly because of bad conditions, other Europeans were playing together and for me it was quite hard to be in the game from the one end of Europe. Especially on low bands, were I was calling many European stations without even having a question mark back. Something about top band propagation tells that I worked only one PY (PY2WC) on 160m and got P40W as a double multiplier there just 15 minutes before the end of the contest (just to mention that both were QSYs’ from 80 meters). This time it was the worst conditions I’ve ever had from Azores. 20 meters closed about 3 hours earlier than last year and overall I had 11 hours of QSO –rate less than 100 Qs’. 2nd night I had huge difficulties to stay on chair when rates dropped to 60Q’s/hour or so. It was a loooong night. Fortunately at the end I’m more than happy to claim just a little bigger score than my worst competitors under difficult conditions. But guys are getting so close that maybe we have to upgrade our setup for next season... As always, big thanks to my great host family, CU2CE & CU2YL and to entire CU2A team! Let you fingers talk! 73 de Toni, OH2UA www.cu2a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D2NX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,664,476 Rig: IC756pro (100W) Ant: Cushcraft R7 Vertical (stood directly on the ground) Software: N1MM Meal: Authentic Japanese 4 times a day It was my second attempt after YJ0NX in the late 80’s to participate in a contest with a single multiband vertical. It was, however, only with 100W this time. Largely different from the ones I did in the past, like 3DA0NX and JY9NX, I found it very difficult with this system to let the callers turn their beam to South. Many people first heard me as D2DX, N2NX, ND2NX, DJ2NX, etc., and as a result, S&P was particularly very very tough. I heard so many double mults such as 6, 7, 22, 24, and 29, but it was in vain. I would have rather call CQ hundred times to make someone aware and that was indeed much more effective to increase both QSOs and Mults. Initially, I set my goal with 2,000 Q’s and over 2 million points. But it was a bit too ambitious. The first day condex on 15 and 20 were plausible and I thought it would have gone more than 2,500 Q’s, if that condex continued. Well, the second day opening was much shorter and it did not bring me up to the goal. But I had a lot of fun. Particularly, 10m opening was interesting. I heard V51AS “running” U.S. on the second day while I heard only some. But it was nice to work them under such a poor condition. Other surprising thing was that I heard JA’s on 40m extremely loud at 8 a.m. their time, which was the time often considered to be too late. Their signals were much louder than any other EUs and Ws. After all, I reaffirmed that contesting is interesting. I hope I was able to make some of the guys excited a rare Zone 36. QSL route is JH7FQK. 73, Koji D2NX ex. JM1CAX, JI2UUS, K0JI, JY9NX, 3DA0NX, 3DA5A, YJ0NX, VK9NX, VK2FCA, ZS6CAX, S514U and OJ4S and others. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D4C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 26,800,000 First try from Monteverde and has been a great experience never lived in the past. The team worked as an experienced team before, during and after the contest even if 50% of it was composed by newcomers. More details will be pubblished on www.d4c.cc with pictures of this opearation. Congratulations to our competitors and thanks to all whom called us. CU next time! D4C team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF0HQ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 14,517,690 It was fun but we hope there will be some sunspots in 2008! Congrats to LZ9W team for their super score! 73 Lothar, DL3TD/DF0HQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF3KV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 514,944 Used 100% S&P with CwGet for verification (still improving listening capability) 73 Peter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9CY Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 14,490 First time after years I made so many QSOs... This contest was a new experience with the monoband 40m dipole. Only a few stations came back on CQ calls. Others - in DX - returned easily. Sometimes I even had no chance getting stations that came with a big signal. Those were the moments, where I missed a PA. I heard a lot of DX, but this was unrechable for me at all. In this contest I used my new software WIN-TEST for the first time which worked like a charm... I had great fun throughout the 5-1/2 hours I was on altogether. ... and CW IS NOT DEAD AT ALL !!! Christoph DF9CY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9OX Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 369,920 Cndx not that fine like 2006, quite normal here this year. Heard 2 more zones, and 21 more countries. Some 100Hz Split would be fine for the rare multis. EU-QRM was heavy in spite of using beverages and sharp filters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH3RB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 85,500 The contest was great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH6JL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 344,250 bad condx during whole weekend, it was a hard fight to work dx wid only 100 watts from my IC-746. i hung up just for fun a endfeed wire for 80 mtr and it was my bonus-maschine. next cqww i will try to have a better one and i can hopefully work than 40 & 160 also (for EU-traffic) when i find enough space for a gd antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,877,800 FT2000, ACOM 2000A; TT Orion, Expert 1k Optibeam OB-804020 @ 30m (2el 80m, 3el 40m, 5el 20m), OB 9-5 @ 20m, 4el SteppIR @ 25m, Dipole for 160m. Win-Test. SO2R for the first ten hours only, then the antenna switching for the 2nd radio failed (turned out to be easily fixable later..). I switched to the "just for fun"-mode (and had some!); thus the low number of multipliers. The new Optibeam tribander (80/40/20m) worked very well; running 80m has never been so enjoyable for me before. Running a bunch of Zone-3-QSOs there on at sunrise was among the best moments of this contest. 48h straight for the first time; turned out to be easier than I thought. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ5MW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 5,507,328 Best multi score ever from my QTH despite some technical problems. IC781 smoked up in the first hours, replaced by IC735. Burned trap in 2nd Beam (A3). Had a lot of fun anyway due to excellent activity. Congrats to ER0WW, who entered assisted unfortunatelly :-) Long live CW! 73 de Manfred, DJ5MW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK0ED Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,595,628 RIG: TT Orion IC-7400 Single SB-1000 Amp @ 300-500W Cushcraft R7 (10/15/20/40) Dipole (160/80) RX Loop (80) Loaded GP (160/80) We are quite satisfied with our result. One station running at 100W all the time, the second one with 300 to 500W depending on RFI. The little R7 worked pretty well, 110 Countries on 40 was great. We were able to break most of the pile ups sooner or later. US signals on 40 weak during the night, W4's stronger than 1's and 2's. JA's loud in the evenings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK1BN Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 358,245 RIG: TS950SD - YAESU FL7000 500Watts - Ant: 2El 35mtrs up - Doublet 2 x40mtrs ....heavy storm and snow on this hill (657mtrs ASL) got a lot of static noise during the snow fall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK2GZ Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 60,120 Station: K2/100 AL80A Antenna: inverted-L built on friday lost the antenna sunday afternoon, no chance to repair in the darkness, only two nights active and quit the contest sunday evening 73 de Harry, DK2GZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK3GI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,660,796 Sudden QRT due to failure of voltage regulator in the transmitter a few hours before contest finished. 10m: signals below the noise could be worked 15m: not any JA or any zone 25 160m: local noise S9+ only missing zone was zone 1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK7ZH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 183,148 Antennen: GPA-3 auf einem 6 mtr. Mast. Dipol für 40m, Strahlung N/S Richtung. ICOM IC 765, 100 Watt. Am Samstag leider nicht qrv, am Sonntag ging nicht viel auf 15m. Auf 10m teilweise gute Signale (S7-S9), aber kein "Drankommen". Auf 80 und 160 "gequälte" QSOs mit 40m Dipol, aber immerhin reichte es zu einigen Multis. Aus diesem Grunde auch kein eigener CQ-Ruf, alle QSOs mit S&P. Aufgefallen ist mir insbesonders dass viele Stationen mit dem "H" in meinem Ruhzeichen Probleme hatten. Habe aber mit Sicherheit kein "S" gegeben. Wurde dementsprechend mehrmals korrigiert. Danke für die Geduld. Es waren wieder TOP-DXer unterwegs, danke an Alle... Insgesamt musste ich mit diesen Möglichkeiten wieder recht gut kämpfen, aber bin wie immer zufrieden und Spaß hat es auch wieder gemacht. Bis zum nächsten mal... 73/55 es agbp/cuagn de Manfred ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 225,680 ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, Fritzel 5-ele-tribander, dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1ELY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 209,952 RIG: 3Bander, FD4, TS850, FL2100 Amplifier Just my little, little share of points for the RRDXA. My first Single-OP-Contest, and my first CW-contest on HF ever. I was on for 5 hours on saturday, and 10 hours on sunday, mostly daylight. So emphasis was on 15 and 20m. 80 and 160m were multi-picking without amplifier only just to maximize the score somehow. I made the usual bunch of mistakes every single-op-Rookies makes (e.g. staying to long on wrong bands, and so on...). Nevertheless, i enjoyed it very much and i want to thank the guys that lend me their equipment so that i could become QRV with my own callsign. Vy 73 es 55 de Stefan, DL1ELY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1IAO Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 788,508 TS870 + AL1500 Optibeam OB16-3 (4el on 20m) @ abt 40m on a building (university campus) WT v3.16 on Omnibook XE3 Thanks to Marius DF1MA & Winfried DK9IP for their help at the station! After a 3-year break it´s good to be back in CQWW CW. The Optibeam played very well, especially into far-east and pacific. Due to the downtown location of the university club station the noise floor is somewhat elevated into certain directions. I know that I missed some of the weaker stations. Lots of fun with those fluttery DX signals - CU next year! 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1KSE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 115,962 Operating from friends garden. Setup: Using 10W FT-7 and analog signal processing filter, ANT EFW-40 Longwire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 523,566 very low score but a lot of fun to work 80m with the short vertical! Rig: FT-1000MP mkV Field Ant: 12m long wire vertical 73`s de Frank DL1REM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,644,925 Station played superbly after some major hardware improvements were implemented over the course of the last 5 months. Most significantly I enjoyed great flexibility from a new all solid state amp for the second radio that Wolf, DF2PY built from scratch. We checked the SO2R-wiring the weekend prior to the contest which was good – no glitches from RFI into the SO2R-box this time. Could keep up with my pre-set goals for most of the time but lost momentum during the last hours, probably paying tribute to a very busy schedule at work. Funny thing is I felt pretty much alert right through the 48 hours I spent in the chair (except for a few runs that were not radio related…), but my low rates towards the end tell a different story, hi. Congrats to DJ1YFK for a good score and edging me out yet again. Like always special thanks to Wolf & family for being super hosts and my XYL and 2 boys for letting me play radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4AAE Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 132,334 99 Country and 28 Zone multipliers using LP and a sloper antenna were more than I had expected during the bottom of the solar cycle! 73 Uwe, DL4AAE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4LBK Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 89,780 Band does not really open to SA/NA in Northern Germany in November during sunspot cycle minimum. 73 Klaas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL5KUD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 664,517 ICOM728 80 watts and dipole 2x30 up 10m as an horizontal V to north, perfect logging system N1MM, many hams with great ears - that´s make fun every years last November weekend. 73 "Jo" DL5KUD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL5RMH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 842,372 I went to our local fieldday location and participated with 100W and a multiband dipole. Unfortunatly the antenna tuner didn't get 160m tuned, so some must-have multis there are missing. Because there was no power connection I needed 120 liters of Diesel to keep the power engine running...! Equipment used: IC-706 MK II AT-700 antenna tuner multiband dipole Win-Test/Linux 73s Martin, DL5RMH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL9JON Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 195,108 nice conds on 40 and 15m,poor conds on 10m. thanks to all fer QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO9ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 39,160 Nice to work some new DXCC... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,910,110 Hello, dear Contest friends ! First of all many thanks to Klaus, DJ4PT for offering his nice station for us again for the CQ-WW-CW. It is always a pleasure to operate with such nice antennas and put out the "lovely Quad sound" of the DJ4PT station. Klaus did put in a lot of time and energy in putting all antennas in order right before the contest. Especialy all beverage antennas take a lot of time to put up. Also We want to thank the XYL of Klaus Helga. She always provided us crazy Contest guys all the weekend with great meals and drinks.Especialy a lot of Coffee ;-) We realy feeled to be very welcome. Thank you Helga ! This was the 3rd operation as M/S from DJ4PT station and again the team spirit was nice. Even so we operated together only for the 3rd time, everyone knew what to do and everyone gave his very best. This year we had only 3 active operators who did the operating and so it was a bit hard to do the 48h, but We managed to have the 2 stations maned all the time. The propagation god was not on our side this year. Lady Aurora did a big inpact on the band conditions. Especialy 10,15 and 40m bands were in pretty bad shape from here and closed very early or did not open at all. Anyway, we had a lot of fun and the fun will even be bigger, if we have the sunspots back again. Hopefully soon ! PLEASE ! Last but not least a big THANK YOU to all for the QSOs and we hope to meet you soon again ! For the DP4T-Team Heiko, DK3DM Equipment: RUN: FT-1000D & ACOM 2000A MULT: TS 850 SAT & ACOM 2000A Antennas: 160m : Fullsize Vertical & 5x beverages 80m : 3ele Quad up 42m , vertical & 5x beverages 40m : 5ele Quad up 42m , Delta Loop 20m : stack of 2x6 ele Quads on 37m Tower 15m : stack of 2x6 ele Quads on 37m Tower 10m : stack of 2x6 ele Quads on 37m Tower 20/15/10 : Optibeam 16-3 on 30m Tower ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,763,049 Conditions better than expected. Nice surprises were JA6WIF calling in on 10m and 5H3EE calling in on 80m 15 minutes before the end. Note from DK9TN: In memory of Erich, DL9DW who once thought me the code and passed away two days before this CQWW CW at the age of 87. Thanks for all the QSOs! 73 de DQ4W. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 12,853,500 Looking for Murphy? Unfortunately he decided to stay with us :-( Time to fire up the sunspots again - propagation can't get worse anymore, can it? Congrats to DF0HQ for their great effort. Visit us @ http://www.dr1a.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,782,080 We reached nearly 400 QSOs more than last year but missed some 40 Mults. Seems to be because of the bad condx on 10 and 15m? The new antennas did very well on the low bands and are the reason for the higher QSO-Number: Run : FT-1000MP + OM-PA Mult: FT-1000MP + Alpha 91b 160m: Inverted-L 80m: 2 El. Vertical Array 40m: 4 El. Vertical Array 10-20m: Mosley 4 El. + Cushcraft X7 Without Murphy it was pure fun. CU next year 73 de Wolfgang DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E51A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,442,594 Operation from Rarotonga, S. Cooks, by George, K5kg/E51MMM, and Ron, KK9K/E51NNN. We probably did better than we expected. Condx were excellent. 60% of our Q's were with NA, 30% with AS. Lots of 6-banders in the log, including HI3A, YEA!!! 10m had some nice openings. 15m was the money band. No Chinese Dragon on 40, so we have concluded that the Chinese General who runs the Dragon must be a ham!!! There is justice afterall. JA and BY statiions were everywhere all bands all weekend. Also jucy DX from many directions. Had lots of wind that played havoc with the beach verticals. Had several antenna failures due to salt spray. Had to make some repairs on the fly. In the middle of the night our Sigma 40 vertical lit up the night sky with sparks. Put it on the orphan pile, and Ron cobbled up a 40m dipole and hung it low from balcony. Worked like gangbusters the rest of the contest. It felt like we were loud most of the time, and several stns commented about the strength of our sigs. Only ran 500 watts with the Acom 1010's, so the beach verticals really played well. Lots more to say, but Internet time here on Raro is pretty expensive, so 73 for now. Now to see more of the island with time to spare. We QSY for home next weekend. Geo... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E7/9A5K Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 557,118 Big thanks to Ivek, T96Q for using a station and everything else he did to support this operation. 73, Chris - 9A5K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,366,295 Conditions in low bands were great. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3ALV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 206,496 With 100 E, a vertical, some wires... and a lot of electric noise, it's still a good job! Fortunately, many nice people have very good ears. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5RS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 585,934 Casual operation Spent half the weekend working on shunt feeding the tower on 160m (worked well) and testing some other low band antennas. Great to QSO many good friends. 73 Juan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA6IB Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 15,053,309 Another effort from the lovely island of Ibiza. This year with rain and win, the external work was really hard, but ground planes were improved by the rain. Propagation was clasical on the bottom of the solar cicle, on 10 really poor propagation, only two of the USA big guns were listened for a few minuts as EME signals on that band......but no chance :-(((( The chinese radar must be terrorific in Fair East. Stations from that part of the world were calling and calling on 80/160 with great signals and nobody can work'm. Our antenna setup 160: Inverter L up to 31m h. 80: 25 m.h vertical GP 40: 2 el yagi 31 m.h. Horizontal V (75m x side) pointing USA 20: 5 el yagi 21 m.h. 15: 5 el yagi 24 m.h. 4 el yagi 28 m.h. 10: 5 el yagi 18 m.h. RXing: 2 x beverages 250 and 180 m.long RIGs: ICOM 3x765 1x756proII 1x756 and Yaesu 1x920 Amps: 1xAL1500 1xSB220 and 4xTL922 PCs: CTwin with ethernet "Old fashion" PCs (wath a messe !) we need to improve our PCs !!! JUST NOW !!! This contest was in the memory of Margarita (wife of our host Vicente,EA6FO) who passed away two months ago. !!We never forget you Margarita !! Thanks to all of you and specially to the european M/2 groups for a great and competitive weekend. EA6IB team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RM Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 157,800 73s, Nino EA7RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7TN Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 468,006 Band performed well all the weekend, but closing early. Missed a couple of mults from South East Asia, but never heard them... usually they come strong here... I don´t know what happened this time. I planned to beat the LP 20m EA record, standing since 1998, and I did. RIG: Kenwood TS-2000 (90 W) ANT: Spiderbeam 5 bands @ 18m I love this contest ! 73, Nacho. Go QCAO ! "E pluribus ignoramae" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,734,000 2 wire-yagis (3el), 2 bewes, MK5-Field, Al-1500 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8BEX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,359,408 Transceiver: FT2000 Power: 100 w. Antenna: Vertical 10 to 80m Software: N1MM Logger Interface: MicroHam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8BVP Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 16,995 My first CQ CW Contest and I enjoyed it. Regular propagation but good contacts. Most of time doing S&P and testing some antennas. TS480SAT@50W Vertical and Low dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EB3EPR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 232,200 Conditions very poor here. 10m completely close Saturday and only a 30 minutes operture on Sunday. 40m surprise me Saturday evening Have been low power and vertical but again lot of fun. Thanks to all for another fantastic weekend. Esteve EB3EPR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE2W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,019,460 First of all, many thanks to EB2BXL and his father for giving us the chance to operate from their QTH. EE2W is NOT a good cw contest callsign at all. we are not EI2W, I2W...that was our main problem: to be copied correctly by weak dx stations. Nice weekend contest. New ham friends. Tnx fer QSO cu agn 73 de EE2W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 957,864 I'm very happy with 1600 Qs with no directional antennas, and in spite of imperfect antenna SWR (3:1 on 40 because it's too high off the ground, worse on 80 because the 80 Coil has resonance at 3700 in the 3500 switch position), all band were possible and pretty good at that; much better than 2006 CW when I only had 900 Qs (mostly because I didn't know I could run on 7001!) But that won't make the top ten LP from Europe; last year 1.1 Million made 10th place. With only the IC756PROIII, a BigIR Vertical (with the new 80 Meter Coil working, but resonant at 3700, so the Icom Tuner made 80 possible!) and the 252-foot end-fed long-wire (fed with 35 feet vertical small 300 ohm twinlead, so it's almost an Inverted L, but no radials), I was able to run 20, 40, and 80 quite effectively, with 13 hours of over 60 Q's and two peaks at 125/hr. Fifteen very spotty, and 160 is always a challenge to be heard with 100 watts in USA, with only 7 zone 5's worked, no 4's. I heard K5RX several times around 0500-0600 on Saturday, calling others, tried calling both sides of where I heard him, but he never heard me. I got up at 4am Friday, so I could sleep Friday evening from 1900 to 2330, operated until 0630-0930 Saturday morning sleep, then until 2300-0630 Sat/Sun, took an hour nap at 1200 on Sunday, plus a couple of 15 minute interruptions for total on air time of about 36 hours - longest since 1971 CQ WW as KG4CS when I was much younger and did all 48 (but with help from a legal script for Bennies the Navy Dr. for whom I ran patches: Rx said - use as needed to stay awake!). Runs on 80 were a REAL challenge with UA's in particular contining to call over top of directed partial call of USA stations, and the pile-up was often 8-10 deep during last two hours on Sunday. DX-Summit shows only eight times I was spotted during runs; I felt two spots when a new pileup showed up during moderate-rate run periods. Did a fair amount of S&P for multipliers and only skiped a half dozen pileups I knew I couldn't break, so doubt I could have done much more mults unless 15 and 10 had opened, or I have directional antennas, or go HP. Could not work the HS0 that I heard, never heard BY, JA, or VKs. But boy oh boy could I be heard in the Carribean, and Atlantic Islands, almost always on first call. Band changes were excellent since the Tuner was on ANT 2 slot, and the Big IR for 80 is at the same (max) length as 40, and also on 10 and 15 (where it is a 3/4 wavelength vert). Only moving to/from 20 took 20-30 seconds to move the metal from 16 feet to 33 feet. I lost my run freq several times when a louder European station who probably did not hear me took over; first clue was K1TTT calling for what I thought was a dupe until I realized they weren't calling me! Heavy storm on Saturday evening that came up with no warning led to a real thrill: The twinlead feed to the long wire drops 35 feet to near the ground for a raindrop loop, then thru a nearly-closed window to a two-foot section that was solder-spliced to reach the MFJ-969 Tuner, which is connected to the Icom by a one-foot section of RG58 coax. The tuner and rig are on the dining room table as the new radio shack construction is not quite finished. Weather had been very calm on Friday and during the day on Saturday, so I had forgot to tie the twinlead to the window handle. A massive wind gust put so much force on that 35 feet of vertical twinlead that it dragged the tuner off the edge of the table, and was pulling the ICOM over the table edge as well, barely grabbed the Icom in time, and then when I grabbed the twinlead at the back of the tuner to keep it from hitting the floor, the wind was still so strong that the twinlead separated at that soldered splice! Sure am glad this happened while I was at the rig and not napping! 73 Barry, W5GN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI4HQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 169,670 S&P for the entire contest. Zone 32 escaped several times (ZL3BIJ) & I simply couldn't copy HG1S correctly (my fault - not HG1S'!). Gave the new station a good shakedown & had a hoot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI6IZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 994,707 My first contest with my new elecraft K3. The K3 preformed superbly and is a really nice contest radio. conditions seemed good and there was a lot of nice DX active during the contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ER0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 6,876,608 Even with aurora,made a good run on 40 to US.Need a lots to improve the station on low bands. Enjoyed the contest a lot.Congratulations to all my friends,who made a good score with difficult condx. So up set about Jose,CT3NT.You will be more motivated for next year,hi. Ben,DL6FBL,nice score!!!and thanks for all bands greetings. See you next years with,I HOPE,better 160 and 80 receving antenns. Serge,UT5UDX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5RY Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 410,000 Concentrated to Mult.Heard about 165 countries & 39 zones. Missed Zone 1,6,12.Heard lots XE,only one CE and nothing in Alaska. Calling CE4CT about 35min,nothing.Good signals come also XE2GG,XE1MM,XE2WWW-also nothing .First day nice Aurora opening to West Coast,but no chance work with low power. RiG:IC775DSP+6el mono 30m/h + 4el QUAD. Specially thanks HK1AR,VP2MSC,AH2R,J3A,KG6DX,T88WV,VK4QO and others ,who calling me. 73!Tom ES5RY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,466,044 I was wrong thinking conditions can't get any worse than they were during SSB. This time 10-40m were all horrible. Only 200 US on 20m says all. No night time US propagation like in SSB and thus I had probably the worst possible QTH in EU for this contest as OH's were working US on 20m during the night. I was lucky to catch W3LPL for double mult on 15m, stumbled on a very weak CQ and it was coming from EU direction 90 degrees off, worked him and he was gone, no other US ever heard. 80 and 160 meters were nice surprise at the same time. Many nice DX's (KL7HBK calling in, ZS4TX with QSY from 80m, PS2T calling in 15min before the end for double mult) and out of the 100 JA worked on all bands more than half are on 160m:) QSO point average is higher on 160m than on 40 meters! I don't know what was wrong with 40m, it was completely dead all the time. The most suprising QSO was a double mult TI8II calling me on 40m at 17z at his noon. I could not believe it as the signal was huge. Missed many easy mults. I can't understand how I did not find 3X5A on 20m, never heard. No ES on 10m:) Never heard anywhere those S7 guys or E5 or KH6 or A3 or 5J0 or many other mults people are talking about. Congratulations to Toni, Ranko and Ben for great scores and thrilling battle. I hope I can put up little stronger competition from my side after a few years.. 73 tonno es5tv statistics: ES5TV By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 !Total ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! 9 ! 65 ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 01 ! ! 27 ! 70 ! ! ! ! 97 ! ! 02 ! ! 26 ! 60 ! ! ! ! 86 ! ! 03 ! ! 27 ! 49 ! ! ! ! 76 ! ! 04 ! ! 43 ! 33 ! ! ! ! 76 ! ! 05 ! 1 ! 93 ! 16 ! ! ! ! 110 ! ! 06 ! ! 96 ! ! 17 ! 2 ! ! 115 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 66 ! 18 ! ! 84 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 69 ! 24 ! 2 ! 95 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 27 ! 60 ! ! 87 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 36 ! 37 ! 2 ! 75 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 92 ! 16 ! ! 108 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 96 ! 9 ! 1 ! 106 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 101 ! 5 ! ! 106 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 75 ! 9 ! ! 84 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 56 ! 4 ! 4 ! ! 64 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 94 ! ! ! ! 94 ! ! 17 ! ! 8 ! 111 ! 1 ! ! ! 120 ! ! 18 ! 15 ! 127 ! ! ! ! ! 142 ! ! 19 ! 19 ! 92 ! ! ! ! ! 111 ! ! 20 ! 67 ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! 81 ! ! 21 ! 96 ! ! ! ! ! ! 96 ! ! 22 ! 12 ! 1 ! 6 ! 22 ! ! ! 41 ! ! 23 ! 3 ! 39 ! 19 ! ! ! ! 61 ! ! 00 ! 8 ! 81 ! ! ! ! ! 89 ! ! 01 ! 9 ! 44 ! 1 ! ! ! ! 54 ! ! 02 ! ! 37 ! 20 ! ! ! ! 57 ! ! 03 ! 16 ! 29 ! 6 ! ! ! ! 51 ! ! 04 ! 81 ! 3 ! 6 ! ! ! ! 90 ! ! 05 ! 66 ! 2 ! ! ! ! ! 68 ! ! 06 ! 8 ! 2 ! 55 ! ! 1 ! ! 66 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 10 ! 40 ! ! 50 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 36 ! 10 ! 53 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 19 ! 2 ! 43 ! 64 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 88 ! 2 ! ! 90 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 94 ! 3 ! 1 ! 98 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 30 ! 35 ! 1 ! 66 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 77 ! 3 ! ! 80 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 97 ! 1 ! ! 98 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 10 ! 28 ! 2 ! ! 40 ! ! 16 ! ! 45 ! 5 ! 9 ! ! ! 59 ! ! 17 ! ! 58 ! 16 ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 18 ! 3 ! ! 45 ! ! ! ! 48 ! ! 19 ! 4 ! ! 55 ! ! ! ! 59 ! ! 20 ! 1 ! 1 ! 51 ! ! ! ! 53 ! ! 21 ! ! 1 ! 37 ! ! ! ! 38 ! ! 22 ! 41 ! 3 ! 10 ! ! ! ! 54 ! ! 23 ! 56 ! 3 ! ! ! ! ! 59 ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 506 ! 911 ! 896 ! 1065 ! 309 ! 60 ! 3747 ! Powered by Win-Test 3.18.0 http://www.win-test.com ES5TV - Continents By band - CW QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 76.3% ! 2.2% ! 0.8% ! 1.6% ! 18.9% ! 0.2% ! ! 80 ! 73.7% ! 11.3% ! 0.9% ! 1.8% ! 11.5% ! 0.9% ! ! 40 ! 80.2% ! 7.0% ! 1.9% ! 2.3% ! 7.3% ! 1.2% ! ! 20 ! 63.7% ! 21.2% ! 1.4% ! 1.3% ! 11.5% ! 0.9% ! ! 15 ! 53.4% ! 1.3% ! 6.5% ! 7.4% ! 27.2% ! 4.2% ! ! 10 ! 91.7% ! ! ! 3.3% ! 5.0% ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by Win-Test 3.18.0 http://www.win-test.com Worked DXCC DXCC | CT | 160 | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL ============================================================= 1A | EU | | | | | | | 1S | AS | | | | | | | 3A | EU | | | | | | | 3B6 | AF | | | | | | | 3B8 | AF | | | 1 | | 2 | | 3 3B9 | AF | | | | | | | 3C | AF | | | | | | | 3C0 | AF | | | | | | | 3D2 | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/c | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/r | OC | | | | | | | 3DA | AF | | 1 | | | | | 1 3V | AF | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 4 3W | AS | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 3X | AF | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 5 3Y/b | AF | | | | | | | 3Y/p | SA | | | | | | | 4J | AS | | 2 | | 1 | 3 | | 6 4L | AS | | 2 | | 1 | 1 | | 4 4O | EU | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | | 3 4S | AS | | | | | | | 4U1I | EU | | | 1 | | | | 1 4U1U | NA | | | | | | | 4U1V | EU | | | | | | | 4W | OC | | | | | | | 4X | AS | 1 | | 4 | 1 | 2 | | 8 5A | AF | | | | | | | 5B | AS | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 5H | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 5N | AF | | | | | | | 5R | AF | | | | | | | 5T | AF | | | | | | | 5U | AF | | | | | | | 5V | AF | | | | | | | 5W | OC | | | | | | | 5X | AF | | | | | | | 5Z | AF | | | | | | | 6W | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 3 6Y | NA | | 2 | | | 1 | | 3 7O | AS | | | | | | | 7P | AF | | | | | | | 7Q | AF | | | | | | | 7X | AF | | | | | | | 8P | NA | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 8Q | AS | | | | | | | 8R | SA | | | | | | | 9A | EU | 4 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 45 9G | AF | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 9H | EU | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | | 3 9J | AF | | | | | | | 9K | AS | 1 | | | | 1 | | 2 9L | AF | | | | | | | 9M2 | AS | | | 1 | | 3 | | 4 9M6 | OC | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 9N | AS | | | | | | | 9Q | AF | | | | | | | 9U | AF | | | | | | | 9V | AS | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 3 9X | AF | | | | | | | 9Y | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 A2 | AF | | | | | | | A3 | OC | | | | | | | A4 | AS | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 A5 | AS | | | | | | | A6 | AS | | | | | | | A7 | AS | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | 3 A9 | AS | | | | | | | AP | AS | | | | | | | BS7 | AS | | | | | | | BV | AS | | | | | | | BV9P | AS | | | | | | | BY | AS | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | | 20 C2 | OC | | | | | | | C3 | EU | | | | | | | C5 | AF | | | | | | | C6 | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 C9 | AF | | | | | | | CE | SA | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 CE0X | SA | | | | | | | CE0Y | SA | | | | | | | CE0Z | SA | | | | | | | CE9 | SA | | | | | | | CM | NA | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 CN | AF | 2 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 5 CP | SA | | | | | | | CT | EU | | | | 2 | 2 | | 4 CT3 | AF | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 8 CU | EU | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 3 CX | SA | | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | 4 CY0 | NA | | | | | | | CY9 | NA | | | | | | | D2 | AF | | | | | | | D4 | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 D6 | AF | | | | | | | DL | EU | 67 | 108 | 105 | 92 | 18 | 9 | 399 DU | OC | | | | | | | E3 | AF | | | | | | | E4 | AS | | | | | | | E5/n | OC | | | | | | | E5/s | OC | | | | | | | E7 | EU | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 EA | EU | 1 | 14 | 26 | 20 | 18 | | 79 EA6 | EU | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 6 EA8 | AF | 1 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 2 | | 24 EA9 | AF | | | | | | | EI | EU | 6 | | 2 | 4 | 1 | | 13 EK | AS | | | | | | | EL | AF | | | | | | | EP | AS | | | | | | | ER | EU | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 ES | EU | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | 14 ET | AF | | | | | | | EU | EU | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | | 30 EX | AS | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 3 EY | AS | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 3 EZ | AS | | | | | | | F | EU | 12 | 17 | 22 | 31 | 5 | | 87 FG | NA | | | 1 | | | | 1 FH | AF | | | | | | | FJ | NA | | | | | | | FK | OC | | | | | | | FK/c | OC | | | | | | | FM | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 FO | OC | | | | | | | FO/a | OC | | | | | | | FO/c | NA | | | | | | | FO/m | OC | | | | | | | FP | NA | | | | | | | FR | AF | | | | | | | FR/g | AF | | | | | | | FR/j | AF | | | | | | | FR/t | AF | | | | | | | FT5W | AF | | | | | | | FT5X | AF | | | | | | | FT5Z | AF | | | | | | | FW | OC | | | | | | | FY | SA | | | | | | | G | EU | 16 | 18 | 20 | 55 | 2 | | 111 GD | EU | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | | 4 GI | EU | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | | 4 GJ | EU | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | 3 GM | EU | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | | 18 GM/s | EU | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 3 GU | EU | | 1 | | | | | 1 GW | EU | 2 | | | 6 | 1 | | 9 H4 | OC | | | | | | | H40 | OC | | | | | | | HA | EU | 9 | 21 | 27 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 79 HB | EU | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 28 HB0 | EU | | | | | | | HC | SA | | | | | | | HC8 | SA | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 HH | NA | | | | | | | HI | NA | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 HK | SA | | 2 | 1 | | | | 3 HK0/a | NA | | | | | | | HK0/m | SA | | | | | | | HL | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 HM | AS | | | | | | | HP | NA | | | | | | | HR | NA | | 1 | | | | | 1 HS | AS | | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | | 17 HV | EU | | | | | | | HZ | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 I | EU | 6 | 24 | 48 | 47 | 7 | 1 | 133 IG9 | AF | | 2 | 1 | | 2 | | 5 IS | EU | | | 5 | | 1 | | 6 IT9 | EU | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | | 4 J2 | AF | | | | | | | J3 | NA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 J5 | AF | | | | | | | J6 | NA | | | | | | | J7 | NA | | | | | | | J8 | NA | | | | | | | JA | AS | 52 | 11 | 8 | 26 | 3 | | 100 JD/m | OC | | | | | | | JD/o | AS | | | | | | | JT | AS | | 1 | | 2 | | | 3 JW | EU | | | | | | | JW/b | EU | | | | | | | JX | EU | | | | | | | JY | AS | | | | | 1 | | 1 K | NA | 6 | 92 | 57 | 205 | 1 | | 361 KG4 | NA | | | | | | | KH0 | OC | | | | | | | KH1 | OC | | | | | | | KH2 | OC | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 KH3 | OC | | | | | | | KH4 | OC | | | | | | | KH5 | OC | | | | | | | KH5K | OC | | | | | | | KH6 | OC | | | | | | | KH7K | OC | | | | | | | KH8 | OC | | | | | | | KH8/s | OC | | | | | | | KH9 | OC | | | | | | | KL | NA | 1 | | | | | | 1 KP1 | NA | | | | | | | KP2 | NA | 1 | | | | 1 | | 2 KP4 | NA | | | | | | | KP5 | NA | | | | | | | LA | EU | 5 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | | 26 LU | SA | | | 2 | 3 | 7 | | 12 LX | EU | 2 | 1 | 2 | | | | 5 LY | EU | 7 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 42 LZ | EU | 2 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 39 OA | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 OD | AS | | | | | | | OE | EU | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 OH | EU | 14 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 59 OH0 | EU | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 OJ0 | EU | | | | | | | OK | EU | 30 | 37 | 51 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 148 OM | EU | 14 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 56 ON | EU | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 OX | NA | | | | | | | OY | EU | | | | | | | OZ | EU | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | | 18 P2 | OC | | | | | | | P4 | SA | 1 | | 1 | | | | 2 PA | EU | 9 | 11 | 10 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 59 PJ2 | SA | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | | 4 PJ7 | NA | | | | | | | PY | SA | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | | 25 PY0F | SA | | | | | | | PY0S | SA | | | | | | | PY0T | SA | | | | | | | PZ | SA | | | | | 1 | | 1 R1FJ | EU | | | | | | | R1MV | EU | | | | | | | S0 | AF | | | | | | | S2 | AS | | | | | | | S5 | EU | 10 | 16 | 23 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 78 S7 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 S9 | AF | | | | | | | SM | EU | 9 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 5 | | 48 SP | EU | 28 | 35 | 47 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 136 ST | AF | | | | | | | SU | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 SV | EU | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | | 16 SV/a | EU | | | | | | | SV5 | EU | | | | | | | SV9 | EU | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 T2 | OC | | | | | | | T30 | OC | | | | | | | T31 | OC | | | | | | | T32 | OC | | | | | | | T33 | OC | | | | | | | T5 | AF | | | | | | | T7 | EU | | | | | | | T8 | OC | | | 1 | | | | 1 TA | AS | 1 | | 1 | | | 1 | 3 TA1 | EU | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 TF | EU | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 TG | NA | | | | | | | TI | NA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 TI9 | NA | | | | | | | TJ | AF | | | | | | | TK | EU | | | | | | | TL | AF | | | | | | | TN | AF | | | | | | | TR | AF | | | | | | | TT | AF | | | | | | | TU | AF | | | | | | | TY | AF | | | | | | | TZ | AF | | | | | | | UA | EU | 49 | 131 | 97 | 105 | 30 | 4 | 416 UA2 | EU | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 6 UA9 | AS | 34 | 66 | 35 | 62 | 33 | 1 | 231 UK | AS | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | 3 UN | AS | | 6 | 3 | 9 | 8 | | 26 UR | EU | 20 | 58 | 43 | 54 | 6 | 1 | 182 V2 | NA | | | | | | | V3 | NA | | | | | | | V4 | NA | | | 1 | | | | 1 V5 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 V6 | OC | | | | | | | V7 | OC | | | | | | | V8 | OC | | | | | | | VE | NA | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | | | 21 VK | OC | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | | 20 VK0H | AF | | | | | | | VK0M | OC | | | | | | | VK9C | OC | | | 1 | | | | 1 VK9L | OC | | | | | | | VK9M | OC | | | | | | | VK9N | OC | | | | | | | VK9W | OC | | | | | | | VK9X | OC | | | | | | | VP2E | NA | | | | | | | VP2M | NA | | | | 2 | | | 2 VP2V | NA | | | | | | | VP5 | NA | | 1 | | | | | 1 VP6 | OC | | | | | | | VP6/d | OC | | | | | | | VP8 | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 VP8/g | SA | | | | | | | VP8/h | SA | | | | | | | VP8/o | SA | | | | | | | VP8/s | SA | | | | | | | VP9 | NA | | | | | | | VQ9 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 VR | AS | | | | | 1 | | 1 VU | AS | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 10 VU4 | AS | | | | | | | VU7 | AS | | | | | | | XE | NA | | | | | | | XF4 | NA | | | | | | | XT | AF | | | | | | | XU | AS | | | | | | | XW | AS | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 XX9 | AS | | | | | | | XZ | AS | | | | | | | YA | AS | | | | | | | YB | OC | | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | | 14 YI | AS | | | | | | | YJ | OC | | | | | | | YK | AS | | | | | | | YL | EU | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 36 YN | NA | | | | | | | YO | EU | 9 | 16 | 13 | 18 | | | 56 YS | NA | | | | | | | YU | EU | 8 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 58 YV | SA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | 5 YV0 | NA | | | | | | | Z2 | AF | | | | | | | Z3 | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | | 10 ZA | EU | | | | | | | ZB | EU | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 ZC4 | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 ZD7 | AF | | | | | | | ZD8 | AF | | | | | | | ZD9 | AF | | | | | | | ZF | NA | | | 1 | | | | 1 ZK2 | OC | | | | | | | ZK3 | OC | | | | | | | ZL | OC | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 ZL7 | OC | | | | | | | ZL8 | OC | | | | | | | ZL9 | OC | | | | | | | ZP | SA | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZS | AF | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 14 ZS8 | AF | | | | | | | ============================================================= | | 507 | 911 | 896 | 1065 | 309 | 60 | 3748 Powered by Win-Test 3.18.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6DO Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 47,479 Wow, what a interesting weekend. Building inverted L two weeks before contest. First morning only S&P, first 6 hours - 52 countries and 10 zones. But evening and Sunday morning was terrible. I copied well all Caribians, later eveninh Far East and Pacific, but not one answer me, legal 1kW was not enough. Ohhh propagation???! Thanks for Qs and see you in next contest Neil ES6DO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY7AF Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,054,284 score entered by EY8MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 356,932 Excellent activity and number of DX from all parts of the world. My goal was setting new Zone 17 record which I did. Excellent condition to NA first night. Logged over 50 NA/SA stations during 2 hour pile up. When OA4/N6XQ followed by PJ5NA called me I thought that I am dreaming. :) Electricity still a big problem on country QTH because of flactuations. Krassy K1LZ got his report on 200 W when ampifier protection shut it down. Many very special signals from NA. Most of qso's made on CQ and I am really appreciate everyone who found my signal on the band. I had a lot of fun! Setup Vertical Quad with Reflector Screen to EU/NA Half Square 5 direction Beverages IC775DSP + ACOM2000 Win-Test 73 Nodir EY8MM www.ey8mm.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4DNW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 173,864 thank's to all who have logged me what a real pleasure to meet some friends this year again working with ft1k mk5, acom 1010 700W, 1/4 wave verticale 6 beverage , but with a probleme on 2 of enter they thanks to: tf8sm,n6ar,pp5jr,j88dr,yc2www for calling me special thanks to my friend N0NI you where stronger than our last contact ARRL 2006. 73 Jerome F4DNW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 77,448 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5LCU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 215,047 Nice contest for me. Best result for me, But no propagation on 10m. Hope get more efficient antennas next time. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5PHW Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 75,973 Waouh ! This contest is really the best one. Not really happy of this score. Only 4000 points (and 60 QSO) more than last year and I spent more time at the station. I spent too much time in trying to find non-worked station. Run was impossible with my poor GP and 100 watts. My signal is too low. I did not work between 00h00 utc and 05h00 utc. See you next year ! Best 73 de F5PHW Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5VHJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 356,286 Lots of fun! Biggest thrill was working BZ1Z on 40. CW is such a pleasure compared to SSB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CMF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,030,751 My initial plan was to do a SOSO40 effort. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to set up the station (inband receiver, receiving antennas...). I then took part to the contest in the SOAB(A) HP [SO1R] category mainly for fun. I spent ca. 27 hours running and tried to maximize the score within my limited time. The propagation was rather good on low bands. Even though I could not get any serious runs to NA the first night, 40M was fine (at least with mid- and long-skips) with a high number of DXCC and Zones. It was even possible to work some NA and JA stations at noon. Conditions were difficult on 15M. I mainly did S&P. As I had to take my off times on both mornings, I lost several multipliers in Asia and Pacific area on 20M and 15M. On 10M, after the first DX spots of African stations (and while all other european stations seemed to be able to work them) were received, I had to wait at least 1 hour before getting a decent propagation and to be able to work them (a short 45 minute opening with 6W, 3X, ZS...). The 4U1ITU station is located a few kilometers away from my QTH. This is not only an easy-to-work multiplier but also a good beacon -especially on the highest bands- to know if it is possible to get any runs :-) As expected, the 160M inverted-L is a simple and efficient way to get multipliers on Topband but performance remains of course limited. 73 de Sebastien, F8CMF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 500,490 Hi, 1st contest in HP with 400w into a G5RV. good operation on 80m and new band 160m. 73's CU david F8CRS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FG/F6ARC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 325,102 Spent only a few hours on the air in the CQWW at FG5JK's station, in memory of Gerard who passed away in August 2007. My sincere thanks to his widow Veronique for allowing his equipment to be used for the last time during this contest. Rig: TS-870S + FL2100Z 1/4 vertical with 2 radials First contacts were made the second night of the contest, and the last ones about 2 hours before the end. What should I say about the bad behaviour of some operators that call out of turn? It is a waste of time which slow down traffic… See you in another contest (QSLs are not printed yet!) Oliver, F6ARC http://www.dxbeam.com http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,694,600 Great experience contesting from Caribbean for the first time! So much difference from contesting from the other side of the globe, JA or 9M6. I really learned a lot this opportunity, and enjoyed the contest very much. I made a lot of mistakes during this contest. But the biggest one was that I tried to stay up 48 hours. I was able to stay up for the first 45 hours, and I suddenly collapsed. Contesting from the Caribbean was a so much fun even in the solar cycle bottom. But where were Europeans and US West Coast stations on 10m? I did not hear any of them there. Maybe I should have known the propagation better in advance. Working JA from here was also a fun, but ended up with 58 QSOs on 40m and only 1 QSO on 20m. No other JAs. Many thanks to Laurent FM5BH for his hospitality and for making this great station with his callsign available to me. I hope to be able to stay here longer next time. 73, Saty JE1JKL / 9M6NA -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 184 0 0 0 184 184 3.5 0100 0 0 191 0 0 0 191 375 3.7 0200 0 0 179 0 0 0 179 554 3.4 0300 0 0 167 0 0 0 167 721 3.2 0400 0 0 182 0 0 0 182 903 3.5 0500 0 116 25 0 0 0 141 1044 2.7 0600 0 172 0 0 0 0 172 1216 3.3 0700 5 117 0 0 0 0 122 1338 2.3 0800 80 1 6 0 0 0 87 1425 1.7 0900 1 1 80 0 0 0 82 1507 1.6 1000 8 1 5 119 0 0 133 1640 2.6 1100 0 0 52 23 35 0 110 1750 2.1 1200 0 0 0 0 154 1 155 1905 3.0 1300 0 0 0 125 1 0 126 2031 2.4 1400 0 0 0 94 40 1 135 2166 2.6 1500 0 0 0 214 0 0 214 2380 4.1 1600 0 0 0 208 0 0 208 2588 4.0 1700 0 0 0 5 179 1 185 2773 3.6 1800 0 0 0 0 208 0 208 2981 4.0 1900 0 0 0 104 26 3 133 3114 2.6 2000 0 1 10 42 17 1 71 3185 1.4 2100 0 0 37 85 0 0 122 3307 2.3 2200 0 14 0 48 3 0 65 3372 1.2 2300 0 87 0 0 0 0 87 3459 1.7 0000 9 43 0 1 0 0 53 3512 1.0 0100 0 0 113 1 0 0 114 3626 2.2 0200 0 2 94 0 0 0 96 3722 1.8 0300 0 88 0 0 0 0 88 3810 1.7 0400 54 0 19 0 0 0 73 3883 1.4 0500 0 0 136 0 0 0 136 4019 2.6 0600 0 4 68 2 0 0 74 4093 1.4 0700 0 1 68 0 0 0 69 4162 1.3 0800 0 0 58 0 0 0 58 4220 1.1 0900 0 35 27 0 0 0 62 4282 1.2 1000 0 10 52 0 0 0 62 4344 1.2 1100 0 0 21 54 2 0 77 4421 1.5 1200 0 0 0 68 58 0 126 4547 2.4 1300 0 0 0 32 34 2 68 4615 1.3 1400 0 0 0 77 1 2 80 4695 1.5 1500 0 0 0 41 2 7 50 4745 1.0 1600 0 0 0 34 4 0 38 4783 0.7 1700 0 0 0 4 66 5 75 4858 1.4 1800 0 0 0 27 59 0 86 4944 1.7 1900 0 0 0 0 144 0 144 5088 2.8 2000 0 0 0 45 1 0 46 5134 0.9 2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5134 0.0 2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5134 0.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5134 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 157 693 1774 1453 1034 23 5134 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FO5RU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 226,944 no miracle with G5RV and 100W, good propagation on 15 m and 40m, 75% of qso are US 73 FO5RU/F5IRO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5FY Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 2,185,804 Great contest in QRP. QTH Cayenne. Congrates to K1XM in 6V7D for the QRP CW effort, I know wath it is!! Poor 10m this year but some amazing QSO on 160m with 5 watts... 15m and North America give me the better runs, as usual. Thanks for QSO with me. CUAGN soon. 73 Didier / FY5FY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0AZS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,522 Thanks to all for the QSO's. Used 15W to a G5RV in a part time effort around family activities like swimming, cycling, shopping and a christening! US stations definitely have the best ears. Pretty much all that I heard and called completed with me. I can't understand why EU stations who were 9+30 with me couldn't hear me depsite repeated calls when no one was replying to them?? Also, do not rely too much on your Super Check Partial feature. Most stations got my call right when they first replied and then started to question it on completion of the QSO. No doubt wondering if the call suggested in Super Check might be right instead. Take it from me... your ears were better! :-) Look forward to the next time when I can put a bit more time in. 73 Marc G0AZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0CKV Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 138,824 Great fun even with low power and wet strings at low height but also frustrating to have so little oomph at lower elevation angles thus no long path stuff or much in S and SE Asia, not even VK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 642,220 G3TXF first entered a CQWW CW Contest in Nov 1968. Only three CQWW CW contests have been missed in the intervening forty years. This year's entry was 20m SOSB (no-packet). There's a few pix and notes on... http://www.g3txf.com/G3TXF%20at%20home/CQWW-CW-Nov-07/CQWW-CW-Nov-07.html 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 520,000 Got the impression propagation improved Day 2 but was sadly forced to QRT. My litte daughter got taken ill Sunday morning so called it quits with 12 hours still to run. Sometimes we forget radio is just a hobby, and let's face it, there's always next year to try again! 73 es tnx fer the q's Dez FT-1000MP, 100W & Doublet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3YMC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 259,056 Hard going on QRP this time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FAL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 651,192 Used FT2k with Quadra and FT1k. Aerials were dipoles for 160, 80 and 40 with 2 ele for 20, 15 and 10. No VK/ZL or West Coast US but plenty of other DX. 10m was entertaining on Sunday and 15m was quite good both days. 20m was good enough to run to east coast with small station. Lower bands ok but only got across the pond once on 160m. Thanks to all for QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 464,427 Main aim this year was to break the 1000 QSO barrier and that was duly achieved. However to ensure enough rate I spent less time than I normally would calling (and calling!) the more interesting DX/mults on the higher bands. 99% S&P as usual with just a few mini-runs. 80/40/20 were an S&P'ers dream with a constant turnover of new stations to work. 15 had activity but was not as easy as last year to S&P from end to end. 10 had its moments but again was lots of effort for little return. Band of the weekend for me was 160. Great to work "across the pond" again and to work a good number of other stations on the band. Must be some good receive antenna systems out there! IC756ProIII, 100w, 30m inverted V doublet plus sloping half wave dipole on 10m. Great fun as ever and very pleased with the result. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 152,425 I ran 100W for first 12 hours and 400W for remaining 8 hours. A marked difference in response and run rate with the amp! I think that in future I will take part in SOAB HP rather than LP. I was able to crash right through the pile-ups with my amp rather than making a dozen or so calls and sometimes giving up using LP. Commendations from me go to the superb operator(s) at 3X5A, 9Y4AA. I listened to the pile-ups and was amazed at just how well they handled the 'wall' from Europe. Cheers, Terry G4MKP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,015,218 Rather an indifferent performance from some bands, which I think reflects in our score this year. Great activity, but really hard overnight on Saturday on LF. 40m seemed to be suffering from high absorption and we had some difficulty getting the runs going that night. Nice to see 10m spring into life on Sunday A minor panic on Sunday morning when we lost one bank of antennas on the mult station - SWR went crazy and for a moment we thought we had had a visit from the local wild-life and that the antenna switching control cables had been eaten (which has happened here in the past). In the end it was simply a fractured cable in the relay box that changes over the two banks of antennas between stations here. Fixed after about 30 minutes, but 30 minutes of lost multing time ! Some great LF mults, but hard work to hear some of them with the wall of Europeans calling. Everything else worked well - WinTest was bomb-proof as ever, and we ran five computers on the network, to allow for analysis etc. We ran with a third (spotting) operating position this year, and it was good to be able to listen on all bands (even the active bands) within a few kHz of the G5W signal. Thankfully the previously forecast winds did not materialise (at the beginning of the week it was predicted to be rough for the weekend) and the worst we got was a gentle breeze. Thanks to Chris (G3SJJ), Dave (G4BUO), Justin (G4TSH) and Marios (G0WWW / 5B4WN) for making the journey over to Shropshire to join in the fun - a great team. Station was: Run: FT1000MP MkV + linear (See below for antennas) Mult: FT1000MP + linear (See below for antennas) Spot: FT1000MP MkV + Cushcraft R5 (but works well as an rx antenna on other bands) Antennas: Bank A: 40-10m Force 12 yagi at 80 ft; dipoles for 80/160 Bank B: 20-10m SteppIR at 60ft, Titanex V160HD for 40/80/160 Banks A and B can be changed between the two stations K9AY loop on both stations Win-Test v 3.18 networked ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,565,685 Spent a fair few hours in the field prior to the contest sorting out the 80m TX antenna and also erecting the DX Engineering receive 4-square; got everything up and running first time, something we're not used to ;-) The receive 4-square worked very well and we found it to have amazing F/B which really helped when running NA amongst all the European QRM. It still needs some optimisations (spacing etc). Switching to the west resulted