CQ WW RTTY Soapbox built 10-14-2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5K3R Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 427,200 LOG IS ALREADY UPLOADES INTO LOTW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6V7X Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,618,791 I did enjoy. Problem with RF feedback, i change the radio: operate for all time with a IC706 without CW/RTTY filter. Hard to copy anyone on 40/80 with 2,4KHz SSB Filter. Tnx to All 73 de Enrico IK2FIL/6V7X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y6U Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,477,543 Rigs: 2x IC7800 Amps: 2x Aco 2000A Antennas: 80M 4 square 40M Stacked SteppIR Monsters at 130/70ft 20M: 6/6 yagis at 100/50 ft 15M: 7/7 yagis at 65/32 ft 10M: 7/7 yagis at 55/28 The top SteppIR was fully rotatable; the yagis, due to an unfortunate snag with a guy wire, were rotatable from 20 to 120deg. They worked FB to Europe, not as good to USA or JA. Wow, that was a hoot! I arrived here a week early; talking to K1LZ, the station owner, no one had been there for over a year. I found that no antennas would rotate, the 80M Comtek relay was under water (luckily, turned out it wasn't), tops missing off two of the 80M verticals, the antennas switching panel unwired, 2 computers with dead BIOS batteries (which I didn't know about until I arrived on island), no Internet access (which I did know about), and other assorted little things that needed to be resolved. Good thing I arrived early, because those items and configuring/setting up the FSK keying on the computers took all of that time. I won't bore you with the details, but even finding the CMOS batteries in Montego Bay was a challenge! The contest started fairly slowly; I started on 15/20 then switched to 20/40 and had some good runs on 40. My SO2R style was to constantly CQ on the 2 bands of choice; my design of an SO3R system will have to wait another year, as I had my hands full just getting the SO2R system set up. I had planned to use my SO2R Box to do the FSK keying, but all the computer produced was gibberish through it. I found a way around it by buying two 1s1p add-in boards for the desktop computer; after I sent out a plea on the N1MM reflector, W5OV gave me a tip on finding new drivers for the Prolific chipset USB to Serial converters; that gave me back radio control for both radios. Getting to that point, however, with the rest of the work that had to be done, took me to Thursday. Started the contest and hit my first problem: the PTT on Radio 1 stayed keyed, and the radio in transmit, for an extra 5 seconds after the message was finished; okay, I've seen that before, so reboot the computer. Did so, then the PTT on Radio 2 would hang the same way. Rebooting again, radio 1 would hang. I then went back to the MMTTY setup and found a check box incorrectly set; 35 minutes into the contest, I was ready to go! Then, for some reason, the computer decided it wanted to reboot. This computer, when rebooting and I had to re-enter the programs, created 2 minutes of downtime. The computer would reboot itself every so often for the next 10 hours, until I decided that going into the morning runs with this was unacceptable. I then swapped out the AC power cord to the computer, and it stopped rebooting. Seems one of the power connections was just a little lose, and every so often it would lose connection, power, then not just shut off but reboot. If it had shut itself down and stayed off, diagnosis would have been easier. During the night, I tried to operate 80M, but the amp kept shutting itself off. No noise, no lights, no sound; I'd look over and it'd be off. It didn't turn off while transmitting, just while it was sitting there. Solved this problem by using the other radio/amp combo on 80M. I made it up all night, and didn't feel too badly. Had some nice morning runs, but surprisingly to me 20M just was never there. 15 and 10 were hopping from 7AM to 7pm local, but I could just never get anything going on 20M. Same with 80M; I could work anyone I could hear, there just wasn't anyone there to work! The first night on 80M was also noisy; the second night was much quieter. Not having beams that could fully rotate, and losing too much rate when substituting the SteppIrs on the high bands when I could, I stuck it out and figured that mults would just have to call me. There were 3 or 4 times that I hunted mults during the contest, and could only pick up a couple each time. I just stuck to CQing on my 2 bands of choice. All day that was 10/15M; at night it was usually 20/40 or 40/80. After working 28 hours straight, I finally crashed about 11pm local Saturday night after having dinner with the Queen of England. I started hallucinating badly, and had to think to operate the keys; the previous week's work got to me. I'm told I had dinner with the Queen of England, although I don't remember it. I finally decided I had to sleep, and slept through 2 alarms before the 3rd one got me up. After the 6 hour nap, I was good to go for the rest of the contest. Various stats: Average 96 Qs/Hr for the hours of operation. Top hour was 151 Qs Top clock hour was 136 Qs The Queen of England likes too sugar cubes in her evening tea. Many thanks to Krassy K1LZ for the use of his KB station. Analysis of this year's results have already started, to see what I could do differently. Congrats to K1FWE, who broke my USA SOABHP record set just last year. The only question is, did anyone beat him? Thanks to everyone for the Qs. Dennis 6Y6U aka W1UE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A3BIM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 972,552 TS-440S & IC-706MK2 @ Wintest @51% EU It was hard to get stations on CQ in QRM as LP, but all in all - it was fun. CU JARTS RTTY AND CQWW SSB 73s! Mirko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A4P Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 1,834,650 100 Watt only, hot and sunny weather, open bands to all over the world ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A4WY Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 248,655 This is my first RTTY contest ever. just try to test N1MM logger and my new AL-82 on RTTY What a blast on 10m!!! Like good old times on 10m in 23. cycle... west coast are came through 59+20 dB few hours on Sunday afternoon! worked 100 stations from CA...nice surprise....did not expect that! 73 Kiko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A6B Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 304,236 Wow! No meters like ten meters. West coast coming S9, Hawaii coming long path, Japan coming S9, this is like in the good old days. The band was filled with the signals from 28070 till 28150. The band stayed opened from sunrise until 2200 local time both days. Let's hope that the conditions will be equally good or even better for SSB and CW leg. Rig here TS-2000 + 400 W linear and 2 el. quad. Software N1MM + mmtty. CU in CQ WW SSB! 73 de Zlatko, 9A2EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4HP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,841,389 TT Omni VI+ Alpha 9500 C31/C31 @ 105'/65' on the high bands, both rotatable 40m rotatable dipole (actually the driven element of a 3-element beam) @ 110' 80m inverted vee @ 98' Obviously spent way too much time on the high bands and failed to maximize score on 80m (and 40m to an extent). Incredible to run JA's like this on 10m; it's been about a decade, at least for me. Too many notable propagation moments to single out all of them, but it was nice to work KH2 and F6 on successive CQ's on 10m Saturday evening about 2200z Saturday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 274,618 Limited effort. Great to hear 10M open...hope it stays that way for our AA4V/VP9 CQWW Phone contest effort next month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,870,408 There shouldn't be any doubt that this was the best ever contest in RTTY contesting history. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the SFI had jumped to 190 on Saturday. It has been so long since we've seen these kind of conditions on 10 and 15 meters that I forgot what it was like for these band to be totally open. Man, it sure was fun, huh? I beat my previous best score by more than 600k points. I tried going SO3R but the 3rd radio died hours before the contest. I don't know that it would have really mattered much as on the first night I didn't get the all-night 20 meter opening to EU I was hoping for. Actually, the band was totally dead. And it was barely open the second night although I was able to work some stations in EU, Japan and South America between 2-4 AM local time. Despite excellent high band conditions, I could not sustain any decent CQ runs on 10 or 15 meters until late morning and afternoon, then the runs came big-time on both bands. Before that, I was forced to do power S&P on both radios and that drained a lot of energy out of me because it's very difficult to do and you can't rest at all like you can if you are running on both radios. Despite that, I was able to maintain decent rates until the bands came to me later. I think the 10 meter JA run on Saturday night was the best I'd ever experienced from my home station. With all the action on 10 meters, 20 meters got left out and my numbers were way down. So I decided to leave 10 in the early after on Sunday to concentrate on 20. Operating way up in the band, around 14136 kHz, I had a tremendous run of stateside and EU (and a couple of JA's) the last few hours of the contest. Before the contest, I was greatly concerned how my body would handle a 48 hour contest. I did receive some suggestions from several contesters before the contest and read the Randy, K5ZD, webpage concerning sleep deprivation and contesting. I decided to try the 90-minute sleep schedule for each night and it seems to have worked well for me. After the contest, I felt pretty good. I got plenty of rest before the contest. I ate only small meals (one Friday before the contest and one Saturday night). Instead of eating breakfast and lunch, I drank a nutrition shake. I did not eat snacks. I had a can of whole cashews but didn't break it open until Sunday afternoon. Someone suggested drinking Gatorade instead of soda, but I went ahead and stuck with a constant flow of Diet Coke. I drank four 5 Hour Energy drinks during the contest when I felt myself dragging a bit. I limited my intake of BC powder to 2 each day to keep headaches at bay and ease the pain the headphones were inflicting on my ears. Might be time for a new set of headphones. Anyway, I like to report that everything I did worked. I did start to hallucinate in the last hour of the contest and knew I was losing motor skills. Hand-eye coordination became very difficult. But I knew there was only a short time to go so I was able to concentrate a little harder in order not to become a total zombie by hitting the wrong keys or forgetting to come back to someone. Sorry to those who I worked in that final hours. It was rough! hi Even though I had the best CQWW RTTY contest I'd every had, including my '92 trip to P4, I know it could have been better. The converted KT34 did not work well on 10 meters, but luckily worked very well on 15 and 20. So I was forced to keep the SteppIR on 10 meters nearly the whole time. The SteppIR worked just great as it should. But I wonder what would happen had I been on the USA east coast. I think I probably could have beaten the USA Low Power record. Regardless, what I scored this weekend is probably the best I could ever hope for with what I have (3 antennas and they are all low to the ground). I want to thank everyone who worked me. It was the best of times! 73, Don AA5AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA7A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,330,834 In word..."WOW". Conditions were the best we've seen in many years. It has been a while since it was practical to run EU from out here in the Tumbleweed Section (AZ). Thanks for all the QSO's. See you all in CQWW DX CW in Nov as EL2A. 73, Ned (AA7A) Mike (KC7V) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA8IA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 370,125 Wish I would have put more time into this one. Had a lot of fun though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB0RX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,351,616 Very nice to see 10 Meters wide open again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB1J/9 Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 228,514 There's not much more to be said about the incredible conditions in the WW RTTY, so I won't. I think the loud, crashing noise I hear is from records falling all over the world. I operated from the Goshen ARC station in Goshen, IN. I visit my family and friends there every autumn and included the contest weekend in this year's trip. I wanted to do this last year, but an ill wind blew down the club's tower, so I had to postpone it. This year I planned a 20M operation, but watched in amazement as the SFI climbed all week prior to the contest, so I changed to 15. Could have done 10, but I have a nostalgic attachment to 15 from my Novice days back in 1958 when I lived in Goshen. I want to thank the GARC members for letting me use their station and especially my old friend Sandy, W9JOE, for cleaning up the shack and making a lot of desk space available for me and my gear. Like a gas in a vacuum, I expanded to fill it all, but it was nice to spread out and not be cramped. Thanks to everyone who worked me for making it a fantastic weekend. CU in the WW CW and maybe a bit in the SSB if 10M does an encore. 73, Kermit, AB1J/9 in the land of soybeans and Amish buggies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB1OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 435,614 In the words of Mr. Hammerstein, the bands were alive with the sound of RTTY! Whoever bribed the propagation fairy to make this weekend possible deserves an award. I've only been licensed less than a year (and on HF since April), so this was my first experience with a good, prolonged opening on 10 and 15. I hadn't really planned to spend this much time playing in this contest. I had other plans for the weekend, and for some reason N1MM+MMTTY quit keying my rig in FSK mode (essential in difficult condx, as the rig's built-in Baudot decoder seems to work better than software+soundcard), which had me thinking my participation would be very limited..and that perhaps instead I'd focus on hunting Texas counties. However, the XYL is out of town for a funeral, and most of those plans were canceled due to weather. MixW is still willing to operate FSK, and with a bit of quick research, I figured out how to get the program configured for contest purposes. So, I decided to get started, and see how things would go. Boy, did they go. I had fun playing search-and-pounce (or more correctly "turn the VFO and see who comes up next") all weekend. It seemed like every time I said "just one more, and I'm done", that one more would be something unexpected, which just fueled my willingness to push on. My modest little station is challenged by topography and antenna orientation, which makes it difficult to get to Australia, and nearly impossible to get to East and South Asia. However, to my amazement I worked Australia, Japan, and India. I heard, but was unable to get through pileups for Israel, Saudia Arabia, the UAE, and Tajikistan. This contest also marked the first time I've heard China from my QTH (but sadly, I wasn't able to get more than a "QRZ?" from the other station). I haven't integrated the contest log into my main log yet...but I did work a few new ones and many new band-entities. If I can get some LOTW confirmations or cards back, I think this contest should get me eligible for DXCC-RTTY. In short, I had a blast. The propagation fairy should be this kind to us more often! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,305,194 Being away from radio for 27 years, today’s contest was the hottest I’ve seen the bands on a contest weekend since I was a kid. 77 DX �" almost a DXCC in a weekend (something I’ve always wanted to do but have not �" yet!). It was really great to see Sunday’s SFI/A/K numbers so ideal. Thanks to everyone for the Q’s. See you on the next big one! With these band conditions, Q-rates are going to be nice. Ed will probably have hit 10K Q’s with So3r going. hi hi. My Q-rate reflected first-time So2r jitters, macro adjustments on the fly, rig and hardware tweaks. Tough parts were lack of sleep as the push to finish the So2r setup took longer than expected and with some frustration for having planned on a 15/20m day-20/40m night contest - that turned out to be a 10/15 day and 40m night challenge instead. That’s one of the things I enjoy about contesting �" a chance to see if the work you did on the shack pays of on game day... ================================================================================= Equipment: FT-2000 with NS roofing filter, FT-dx5000MP SB-200 with Gi7b, Alpha 76pa Attic-based So2r 80m dipole, 40m 2 element phased, 20m 3-ele reversible, 15m 3-element bi-directional + 10m fixed east N1MM, 5B4AGN BPF, Microham The FT-2000 with the NS filter was an outstanding performer with about 1/2 the Q-count logged on that box. The FT-5000 worked great and has a lower noise floor than the 2K but I had really not noticed it much until the unique high SFI and low K/A condx we enjoyed this weekend. Ran some So2v with the 5K. The 2K with some sub mods is a better So2v box but I have not setup the sub rx AF loop yet. I much prefer So2v on the 2K because the interface is much easier. The width control on the 5K requires pushing a button to change between DSP width ranges which is very tedious (the 2K firmware is more logical from that standpoint). Hope Yaesu will fix that in a future update... After some trouble with the SB-200 amp (tracked to a lose wire on the bias pass transistor) earlier in the week, the gi7b-based amp was a real workhorse giving 900W all weekend with no complaints. I had been meaning to swap the tank in that amp but never had completed it and the amp’s been sitting for the last year since I picked up the Alpha. The Alpha was solid as well but it’s not nearly as filled with mods as the SB-200 is... Since the last contest, internal RFI improvements and variable fan speed algorithms have been updated. And following a small drop in HV, the PS caps replaced last month. It hummed along without complaint as usual. So2r and Antennas: The So2r facilities are new for this contest having been completed just a couple of days earlier. Having spent a couple of years building an attic system that decoupled all wires not in the current band, the requirement of So2r (with 2 active antennas) was a lot more complicated than is normally the case. To simplify the task, the FT-2000 is setup to work only on 20/40 as I had not expected 10m to be a factor. Now I have a lot more respect for the high-band magic the old-timers talk about but that I’d never experienced. And this contest was dominated by 10 and 15m yet my prior prep had focused on 20/40m. Clearly some revision of that design decision is in order! Some of the 10m Q-counts on the early 3830 posts are just unbelievable. The 40/20 beams were unchanged for this contest beyond being wired as “enabled” full time to support the So2r. I had planned to align the 15 and 10m antenna elements with the W8WWV RVM system �" the west-pointing direction has never worked properly but I ran out of time. And instead, the west facing element was trimmed as a director with a MFJ-259 a couple hours before contest kick-off with the hope of giving the beam a figure-8 bidirectional pattern. Nothing was done on 10m �" in fact that aspect of the array is essentially untested. It was great to see the west side contact count on 15m with a lot of JA and west US in the total. 80m was tough but a lesson from a prior contest was that 10/80m need to be worked because early on, almost all the Q’s are mults as well... So2r specific hardware added included a pair of 5B4AGN W3NQN-type BPF filter modules, KK1L 2x6 antenna switch and some switching interface retrofits to the attic control box. Guys interested in more details - please visit the ac0c.com web site - click on the So2r tab. There are a lot of gremlins remaining to be dealt with before the ARRL RU. Unlike a single TX effort, the big challenge of doing an attic-based So2r is tracking down all the items acting as harmonic generators. Prior to this, guys would laugh about a lose drain spout or rusty nail providing diode action �" but when your antenna is in the attic, the potential number of potential problems is just unbelievable. In the two days running up to the contest, devices that were re-radiating with some amount of harmonic energy included a down phone line, some inadequate common mode filtering on the 40m phased array, a couple of switching mode power supplies in the house - and even a neighbor’s digital to analog tuner. Big list of to-do’s compiled and as Don says, “Always Be Improving.” If I can get Don to come and do some attic work, that would be great as well. Let the rusty-nail-hunt begin! Oh, and time for a serious effort on the 15/10m antennas. Going to be a busy few months. The great thing about attic antenna farming �" fowl weather from the fall/winter onset is nothing a warmer shirt can’t address. 73, Jeff ACØC www.ac0c.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0E Class: M/S LP Total Score = 165,600 BEST SOLAR FLUX IN 15 YEARS !! DID NOT SPEND THE TIME I HAD PLANNED BUT SO MANY GOOD STATIONS ON THE AIR. DID NOT HEAR A61 BUT WORKED MOST EVERYTHING ELSE I HEARD. WEEKEND ACTIVITIES GOT IN THE WAY BUT XYL SAT DOWN AND COUNTED FOR 20+ QSOs SUNDAY AFTERNOON. 15 AND 10 METERS WERE LIKE BACK IN THE EARLY 1980's. THANKS FOR ALL QSOs. JIM AC0E AND PENNY KD0CYE GARDEN CITY, KANSAS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 683,892 Radio: ICOM IC-7600 (100W) Antennas: HyGain AV-640 vertical, 1/2 G5RV in attic Software: WriteLog Despite the conditions, this contest left me feeling weak and frustrated. More times than I can remember, loud guys just CQ'd in my face. I could not get any runs going, or if I did, it was all 1-pointers calling in. I totally screwed up 20m; I never worked very much Europe, and I did not work ONE SINGLE JA on the band! KH6 was scarce, but KL7 was plentiful. The 10/15 European opening on Sunday seemed better than Saturday. Nothing from the west on 40 except JA, not even KH6, VK or ZL. Thanks to everyone who came back to my call. I hope the conditions repeat themselves at the end of October and November. 73 - Jim AD1C p.s. I had not worked JA on 10 meters since 2002, when I lived in Massachusetts. The first one I worked Saturday answered my CQ. But no one else did. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1P Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 643,130 Family obligations kept me in the chair for just 18 hrs..Spent most of that time in S&P mode... had only 100w on 10m, but had a blast,its about time 15 & 10 were open to everywhere..20m was like a ghost band, wow, nice! If I ever get my 40 & 80m antenna's set up, I can be a bit more serious in these contests... Thanks to all for the Q's... 73 Neil AE1P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 70,550 Only had a few hours to devote to the contest. Great to hear 10 open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI9T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,282,048 Good conditions and lots of participation. This one was a lot of fun. Thanks everyone for all the Q's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ1E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 574,188 Great contest. Great band conditions. Great to see 10 meters in such good shape once again. A nice start to the fall season... Thanks for the Qs... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ4FM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 24,200 Operated 6.5 hours, mostly S&P. Never heard so many stations on 20M than Friday night. I heard that 15 and 10 were open also. All in all it was fun as W3LPL says. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ8B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 8,940 First time entering a contest. thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK7AZ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 1,019,712 This is the first RTTY contest for three of the four operators and the fourth is a rtty newbie. Our initial goal was to score 500,000 points... when we hit that relatively early... we stretched the goal to 1,000,000 and achieved it. If we could simply must a few more operators and motivate up to a serious effort for 2012, I am sure we could easily double the score... we shall try and give it a whirl... and see what happens. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 84,357 A part time effort on my part due to rehearsals, concerts and having to travel out of town on Sunday for a performance, but what fun to be on 10 meters on Saturday! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL9A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 948,078 Now we're talking a fun contest! And look, 10M has finally found it's way back to AK! Only a short opening on Sunday morning, but what the heck, it's better than we've had in a long time. Those 87 Q's on 10M took 89 minutes to log and represent the most log entries I've had on 10M since moving to AK in 2003. I can only hope this is the first taste of better things to come. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CG9HF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 252,255 Ft-1000MP, Alpha 87A, Hustler 6BTV ground mounted vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 11,058,000 Good propagation + great team = another great contest from CN3A! Very funny one. Young team but very motivated guys! Thanks to all for qso's, special thanks to Paolo IK3QAR to provide us such a good contest software!!! Thanks to Roberto I2WIJ for helping us till now with QSL, he is now busy with ARI Contest manager duties so IV3ZXQ will take over, Maurizio is the new QSL manager for CN3A direct and Bureau QSL. You can request also QSL on line there http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=cn3a soon qso's of RTTY CQWW will be on Lotw. best 73, Stefano IK2QEI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CR6K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,298,053 Beautiful conditions! Awesome working JA and USA at the same time on 15m and 10m!! This was my first full SO2R in RTTY. Thanks to dad for help setting up the beverage before the contest, new termination resistor and new ground rods... (still missing my 160m which the wire was stolen!). Cu next one. Filipe Lopes CT1ILT aka CR6K http://www.rep.pt/ct1ilt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3EN Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 1,177,920 Tks to all who contacted me. CU next CQWWSSB as CR3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 125,610 THANKS FOR RTTY CONTACTS, THIS WEEK END VERY GOOD 6 METERS OPEN AND MADE OTHER ACTIVITIES AT HOME. BEST 73 S DAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9ZP Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 502,379 thanks for the qsos, vy 73 jo df9zp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ3IW Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 619,442 What a thrill! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,779,462 Thanks for all contacts. Thanks also to DJ6QT for his station. AWESOME CONDX but I was not able to operate the hole contest due other activities. The main thing was to test the hole station for CQWW SSB in october. Murphy couldnt find me :-) nice. Cu in a month with hopefully the same condx Matt, DJ8OG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK5OS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 87,552 Just for fun! 73 Olaf - DK5OS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 443,479 ICOM IC-7400, Ameritron AL-80B Fritzel FB-53 5-ele beam, 2x23m dipole, DL3LAC-match Toshiba Portege R700, N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1IAO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,132,000 IC756PRO3(INRAD) + ICPW1 WT v3.23.0 / MMTTY on HP Omnibook XE3 HAL DXP38 in receive only on another Omnibook (80) DP with feedpoint 1m below tribander (40) Cushcraft Rotary DP spaced 1m above tribander (parallel to boom) (20/15/10) Optibeam OB16-3 @ abt 40m total height (on a university building with 17m crank-up tower on roof) 10M, finally! This was my first ever CQWW RTTY and the score may be good enough for a new DL record (among others, I guess). I'm thankful to the radio club members of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) allowing me to access their fine station. The new 40m antenna is an improvement over the previous wire dipoles but with high band condx so good it was hard to squeeze in enough time on 40/80! In RTTY there is no way to compensate for not being SO2R. But I didn't want to reconfigure the club station and put up additional antennas at this point, maybe next time. Scanning the RTTY band for multipliers often seemed to take forever. Many times I did not want to give up a nice DX run and this is reflected in my multiplier totals. Thanks for the QSOs, 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2IAN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 771,265 It was a BIG WOW !!! on the conds this time. Excellent were the openings on 10 and 15 m !! It was so looong ago i heard USA on 10. So Murphy was not in the shack that time, all things ran beautiful. BUT: I had the wrong strategy for this contest. I decided to begin at 00 UT with the low bands and take a rest during the day…. This was wrong. I’d better sleep until 04 UT and start on 40 and 20 m … Had a hard job week and for hat i could work only nearly 30 h. I had good runs on 15 and 20 m… so in the next contest WW SSB i will call more CQ and will do not so much S&P as this time. OK so far, it is a loong way to go to be perfect. Thanks to all for nice Q’s, especially KL7, FO, 6 and 7 Area (missed them so much) Station used: 2 x FT-950 PA: 1 x HL1.2Kfx (350 W) Ant.: TA-63M (20-10) Trap-Dipole 80/40, Kelemen 5 Band Dipole N1MM and MMTTY See you in CQ WW SSB and CW !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL8OBQ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 606,000 Thanks for the Qsos! I had a lot of fun. Great activity from Japan (more than 250qs)! On Sunday I had to quit early because I had to drive home and work the next day... I guess I missed about 200qs. But this score is more than I expected. 73, Uli www.dl8obq.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ED1R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,944,452 Until last week didn�'t know if it is finally make the Contest... but in the last days we get a nice Team that like the RTTY mode. The propagation was fantastic, with the SFI over 190, I really never have imagined having such good condition at 10m and 15m with good openings to NA and AS, to a point where we overcome the barrier of 1000qso on 10, 15 and 20. The statistics about Continents, 47% EU, 42% NA, 8% AS, 1% OC, 1% SA and 1% AF. WAS (states) according to statistics from band: 10m (55), 15m (55), 20m (54), 40m (47) and 80m (12) Murphy's visit from the first moment where the Icom7000 nor could connect to the Run because we were missing a cable, later left the QRT Run2 comprehensive (Acom 1010), finally on Saturday night the amp Kenwood TL922 replacement wasn�'t given a more than 300/400w so we had to and hold all the Contest, the Multi station was forced to work 100w LP, in our view the ratio dropped sharply from qso Saturday morning and we hit the final result is very possible ... have achieved a better result (we estimate more than 500 QSOs have been feasible). Part of the team that came on Saturday to help with the shifts (EA4TD. EA4GBV and EA4GEL) had to leave us unexpected force majeure. So had to do double shifts, yet solved it well. It is remarkable that at noon there was a break "Black Out" where the spread dropped sharply as we get qso penalties, but once past those 2h rates again returned to continue as before. It's amazing and I think a colleague at EA could see. Our challenge was to overcome the EU Record made in 2010 the station IT9BLB and got ... well we have been aware that if we we could overcome it in the United States would have more stations than they would ... so We're happy about that and see what happens at the end ... Otherwise, as always, we found a good binge, take a few drinks in our line and we do not lose this custom is perfectly compatible with a good answer ... In the coming days will be available on the website of Radio Club Henares the possibility of requesting QSL via the Web and it will be sent by the Bureau: http://www.radioclubhenares.org/rch-qsl-services/ Thanks for the visits to our colleagues EA4SV and EB3CW + XYL. Congratulations to many EA Friends who have made a good result: EF8M, ED5CEF, EA3CCN, EF7R, EE2K, EA1DR, EB2AM, ED1A, EF3A, etc ... See you next time, (CQWW-DX-SSB). 73 ED1R Team - CQWW RTTY 2011 www.ed1r.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES1HJ Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 43,440 pwr 10 W, ant vertical 59 QSOs with different continent ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES9C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,699,486 Propagation on 10 and 15 was obviously amazing. Running US on 10 close to local midnight was extremely hard to believe. Score also greatly exceeds our expectations. An experienced team of Latvian RTTY-ers joining us was an important factor here. Great and continuous cooking by ES2DW had no lesser importance as always. 73 Tonno ES5TV ES9C By band - By mode QSOs (with dupes) - By time | Hr | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | Total | | | RTTY | RTTY | RTTY | RTTY | RTTY | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 00 | 70 | 81 | 9 | | | 160 | | 01 | 86 | 57 | 1 | | | 144 | | 02 | 71 | 86 | 8 | | | 165 | | 03 | 55 | 68 | 9 | | | 132 | | 04 | 21 | 91 | 2 | 60 | | 174 | | 05 | | 28 | 63 | 76 | 6 | 173 | | 06 | | | 66 | 74 | 7 | 147 | | 07 | | | 23 | 63 | 31 | 117 | | 08 | | | 5 | 71 | 58 | 134 | | 09 | | | 2 | 56 | 52 | 110 | | 10 | | | 23 | 56 | 25 | 104 | | 11 | | | 89 | 49 | 8 | 146 | | 12 | | | 31 | 81 | 29 | 141 | | 13 | | | 5 | 72 | 57 | 134 | | 14 | | | 9 | 99 | 64 | 172 | | 15 | | | 7 | 115 | 72 | 194 | | 16 | | 3 | 56 | 97 | 23 | 179 | | 17 | 4 | 3 | 80 | 83 | 1 | 171 | | 18 | 2 | 2 | 65 | 94 | 6 | 169 | | 19 | 5 | 5 | 63 | 70 | 3 | 146 | | 20 | 4 | 11 | 53 | 46 | | 114 | | 21 | | 24 | 63 | 23 | | 110 | | 22 | 15 | 78 | 59 | | | 152 | | 23 | 27 | 58 | 19 | | | 104 | | 00 | 29 | 42 | 10 | | | 81 | | 01 | 21 | 39 | 8 | | | 68 | | 02 | 16 | 44 | 8 | | | 68 | | 03 | 9 | 66 | 27 | 4 | | 106 | | 04 | | 54 | 65 | 2 | 1 | 122 | | 05 | | 54 | 37 | 6 | 3 | 100 | | 06 | | 28 | 63 | 5 | 2 | 98 | | 07 | | | 21 | 69 | 27 | 117 | | 08 | | | 10 | 52 | 53 | 115 | | 09 | | | 9 | 39 | 62 | 110 | | 10 | | | 32 | 20 | 71 | 123 | | 11 | | | 63 | 9 | 32 | 104 | | 12 | | | 66 | 12 | 17 | 95 | | 13 | | | 65 | 27 | 1 | 93 | | 14 | | | 57 | 40 | 6 | 103 | | 15 | | | 48 | 15 | 19 | 82 | | 16 | 2 | 28 | 47 | 6 | 5 | 88 | | 17 | | 49 | 40 | 2 | 3 | 94 | | 18 | | 1 | 32 | 24 | 79 | 136 | | 19 | | 3 | 5 | 57 | 43 | 108 | | 20 | 16 | 4 | 40 | 21 | 4 | 85 | | 21 | 54 | 10 | 43 | 1 | | 108 | | 22 | 9 | 22 | 57 | | | 88 | | 23 | 6 | 33 | 57 | | | 96 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 522 | 1072 | 1720 | 1696 | 870 | 5880 | ES9C - Continents By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) | Band | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC | -------------------------------------------------------------- | 80 | 91.0% | 4.0% | 0.2% | 0.8% | 4.0% | | | 40 | 59.5% | 31.0% | 2.5% | 0.7% | 6.2% | 0.2% | | 20 | 50.1% | 30.4% | 2.2% | 0.5% | 15.3% | 1.5% | | 15 | 34.7% | 37.2% | 2.3% | 0.9% | 23.3% | 1.6% | | 10 | 31.6% | 29.8% | 5.2% | 1.7% | 29.2% | 2.5% | -------------------------------------------------------------- Worked States/Provinces | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL ================================================ CT | 1 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 31 MA | 2 | 26 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 81 ME | | 4 | 5 | 3 | | 12 NH | 2 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 40 RI | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 VT | | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 NJ | 1 | 17 | 21 | 21 | 17 | 77 NY | | 22 | 28 | 29 | 15 | 94 DE | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 PA | 2 | 23 | 33 | 25 | 17 | 100 MD | 1 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 9 | 52 AL | | 3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 23 FL | | 20 | 17 | 23 | 10 | 70 GA | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 24 KY | | | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 NC | | 15 | 18 | 21 | 10 | 64 SC | | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 TN | | 9 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 38 VA | 4 | 18 | 30 | 34 | 23 | 109 AR | | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 LA | | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 18 MS | | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 NM | | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 8 OK | | | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 TX | | 2 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 37 CA | | 3 | 30 | 28 | 3 | 64 AZ | | 2 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 26 ID | | 2 | 1 | 4 | | 7 MT | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 NV | | 3 | 1 | 3 | | 7 OR | | 1 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 32 UT | | 2 | 3 | 2 | | 7 WA | | 1 | 12 | 19 | | 32 WY | | | 2 | 2 | | 4 MI | | 4 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 35 OH | 2 | 16 | 12 | 22 | 9 | 61 WV | | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 19 IL | 1 | 10 | 10 | 21 | 11 | 53 IN | | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 21 WI | | 4 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 25 CO | | 5 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 33 IA | | | 4 | 9 | 5 | 18 KS | | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 22 MN | | 6 | 18 | 22 | 8 | 54 MO | | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 17 ND | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 NE | | | | 4 | 2 | 6 SD | | | | | | NB | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 4 NS | | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 NF | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 PEI | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 LB | | | | | | QC | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 22 ON | | 13 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 57 MB | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 SK | | 1 | 1 | 3 | | 5 AB | | 1 | 1 | 6 | | 8 BC | | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 16 NT | | | | | | YT | | | | | | NU | | | | | | ================================================ | 19 | 302 | 479 | 590 | 246 | 1636 Worked DXCC DXCC | CT | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL ====================================================== 1A | EU | | | | | | 1S | AS | | | | | | 3A | EU | | | | 1 | | 1 3B6 | AF | | | | | | 3B8 | AF | | | | | | 3B9 | AF | | | | | | 3C | AF | | | | | | 3C0 | AF | | | | | | 3D2 | OC | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 3D2/c | OC | | | | | | 3D2/r | OC | | | | | | 3DA | AF | | | | | | 3V | AF | | | | | | 3W | AS | | | | | | 3X | AF | | | | | | 3Y/b | AF | | | | | | 3Y/p | SA | | | | | | 4J | AS | | | 1 | | 2 | 3 4L | AS | 1 | | | | | 1 4O | EU | | | | | | 4S | AS | | | | | | 4U1I | EU | | | | | | 4U1U | NA | | | | | | 4U1V | EU | | | | | | 4W | OC | | | | | | 4X | AS | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 5A | AF | | | | | | 5B | AS | | | | | | 5H | AF | | | | | | 5N | AF | | | | | | 5R | AF | | | | | | 5T | AF | | | | | | 5U | AF | | | | | | 5V | AF | | | | | | 5W | OC | | | | | | 5X | AF | | | | | | 5Z | AF | | | | | | 6W | AF | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 6Y | NA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 7O | AS | | | | | | 7P | AF | | | | | | 7Q | AF | | | | | | 7X | AF | | | | | | 8P | NA | | | | | | 8Q | AS | | | | | | 8R | SA | | | | | | 9A | EU | 6 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 38 9G | AF | | | | | | 9H | EU | | | | 1 | | 1 9J | AF | | | | | | 9K | AS | | | | | 1 | 1 9L | AF | | | | | | 9M2 | AS | | | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 9M6 | OC | | | | 1 | | 1 9N | AS | | | | | | 9Q | AF | | | | | | 9U | AF | | | | | | 9V | AS | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 9X | AF | | | | | | 9Y | SA | | | | | | A2 | AF | | | | | | A3 | OC | | | | | | A4 | AS | | 1 | | | | 1 A5 | AS | | | | | | A6 | AS | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 A7 | AS | | | | | | A9 | AS | | | | | | AP | AS | | | | | | BS7 | AS | | | | | | BV | AS | | | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 BV9P | AS | | | | | | BY | AS | | 1 | 15 | 25 | 15 | 56 C2 | OC | | | | | | C3 | EU | | | | | | C5 | AF | | | | | | C6 | NA | | | | | | C9 | AF | | | | | 1 | 1 CE | SA | | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 CE0X | SA | | | | | | CE0Y | SA | | | | | | CE0Z | SA | | | | | | CE9 | SA | | | | | | CM | NA | | 17 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 39 CN | AF | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 CP | SA | | | 1 | | | 1 CT | EU | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 21 CT3 | AF | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 CU | EU | | | | | | CX | SA | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 CY0 | NA | | | | | | CY9 | NA | | | | | | D2 | AF | | | | | | D4 | AF | | | | | | D6 | AF | | | | | | DL | EU | 79 | 114 | 132 | 72 | 35 | 432 DU | OC | | | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 E3 | AF | | | | | | E4 | AS | | | | | | E5/n | OC | | | | | | E5/s | OC | | | | | | E7 | EU | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | | 9 EA | EU | 12 | 24 | 40 | 36 | 56 | 168 EA6 | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 EA8 | AF | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 EA9 | AF | | | | | 1 | 1 EI | EU | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | | 13 EK | AS | | | | 1 | | 1 EL | AF | | | | | | EP | AS | | | | | | ER | EU | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 22 ES | EU | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 ET | AF | | | | | | EU | EU | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 26 EX | AS | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 EY | AS | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 EZ | AS | | | | | | F | EU | 6 | 27 | 25 | 40 | 4 | 102 FG | NA | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 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 | | | | | | FS | NA | | | | | | FT5W | AF | | | | | | FT5X | AF | | | | | | FT5Z | AF | | | | | | FW | OC | | | | | | FY | SA | | | | | | G | EU | 19 | 29 | 51 | 49 | 3 | 151 GD | EU | | | | | | GI | EU | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | | 12 GJ | EU | | | | | | GM | EU | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 23 GM/s | EU | | | | | | GU | EU | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 GW | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | | 6 H4 | OC | | | | | | H40 | OC | | | | | | HA | EU | 10 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 45 HB | EU | 6 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 43 HB0 | EU | | | | | | HC | SA | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 HC8 | SA | | | | | | HH | NA | | | | | | HI | NA | | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 HK | SA | | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 HK0/a | NA | | | | | | HK0/m | SA | | | | | | HL | AS | | 2 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 33 HM | AS | | | | | | HP | NA | | | | | | HR | NA | | | | | | HS | AS | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 HV | EU | | | | | | HZ | AS | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 I | EU | 31 | 53 | 99 | 94 | 13 | 290 IG9 | AF | | | | | | IS | EU | | 1 | 2 | 2 | | 5 IT9 | EU | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 27 J2 | AF | | | | | | J3 | NA | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 J5 | AF | | | | | | J6 | NA | | | | | | J7 | NA | | | | | | J8 | NA | | | | | | JA | AS | | 19 | 149 | 270 | 163 | 601 JD/m | OC | | | | | | JD/o | AS | | | | | | JT | AS | | | 2 | | | 2 JW | EU | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 JW/b | EU | | | | | | JX | EU | | | | | | JY | AS | | | | | | K | NA | 18 | 276 | 455 | 554 | 236 | 1539 KG4 | NA | | | | | | KH0 | OC | | | | | | KH1 | OC | | | | | | KH2 | OC | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 KH3 | OC | | | | | | KH4 | OC | | | | | | KH5 | OC | | | | | | KH5K | OC | | | | | | KH6 | OC | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 KH7K | OC | | | | | | KH8 | OC | | | | | | KH8/s | OC | | | | | | KH9 | OC | | | | | | KL | NA | | | 4 | 1 | | 5 KP1 | NA | | | | | | KP2 | NA | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 KP4 | NA | | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 KP5 | NA | | | | | | LA | EU | 10 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 37 LU | SA | | 5 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 43 LX | EU | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14 LY | EU | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 LZ | EU | 7 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 33 OA | SA | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 OD | AS | | | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 OE | EU | 4 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 29 OH | EU | 16 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 63 OH0 | EU | | | | | | OJ0 | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 OK | EU | 17 | 20 | 30 | 15 | 9 | 91 OM | EU | 13 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 52 ON | EU | 4 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 36 OX | NA | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 OY | EU | | | | | | OZ | EU | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 26 P2 | OC | | | | | | P4 | SA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 PA | EU | 14 | 33 | 62 | 17 | 2 | 128 PJ2 | SA | | | | | | PJ4 | SA | | | | | | PJ5 | NA | | | | | | PJ7 | NA | | | | | | PY | SA | | 10 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 51 PY0F | SA | | | | | | PY0S | SA | | | | | | PY0T | SA | | | | | | PZ | SA | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 R1FJ | EU | | | | | | R1MV | EU | | | | | | S0 | AF | | | | | | S2 | AS | | | | | | S5 | EU | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 63 S7 | AF | | | | | | S9 | AF | | | | | | SM | EU | 14 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 44 SP | EU | 22 | 22 | 30 | 20 | 13 | 107 ST | AF | | | | 1 | | 1 ST0 | AF | | | | | | SU | AF | | | | | | SV | EU | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 24 SV/a | EU | | | | | | SV5 | EU | | | | | 1 | 1 SV9 | EU | | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 T2 | OC | | | | | | T30 | OC | | | | | | T31 | OC | | | | | | T32 | OC | | | | | | T33 | OC | | | | | | T5 | AF | | | | | | T7 | EU | | | 1 | | | 1 T8 | OC | | | | | 1 | 1 TA | AS | | | 1 | 2 | | 3 TA1 | EU | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | 6 TF | EU | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | | 10 TG | NA | | | 1 | | | 1 TI | NA | | | 1 | | | 1 TI9 | NA | | | | | | TJ | AF | | | | | | TK | EU | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 TL | AF | | | | | | TN | AF | | | | | | TR | AF | | | | | 1 | 1 TT | AF | | | | | | TU | AF | | | | | | TY | AF | | | | | | TZ | AF | | | | | | UA | EU | 48 | 68 | 79 | 23 | 23 | 241 UA2 | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 UA9 | AS | 18 | 29 | 50 | 48 | 28 | 173 UK | AS | | | | | | UN | AS | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 36 UR | EU | 64 | 61 | 60 | 24 | 18 | 227 V2 | NA | | | | | | V3 | NA | | | | | | V4 | NA | | | | | | V5 | AF | | | | | | V6 | OC | | | | | | V7 | OC | | | | | | V8 | OC | | | | | | VE | NA | 1 | 28 | 36 | 52 | 12 | 129 VK | OC | | 1 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 35 VK0H | AF | | | | | | VK0M | OC | | | | | | VK9C | OC | | | | | | VK9L | OC | | | | | | VK9M | OC | | | | | | VK9N | OC | | | | | | VK9W | OC | | | | | | VK9X | OC | | | | | | VP2E | NA | | | | | | VP2M | NA | | | | | | VP2V | NA | | | | | | VP5 | NA | | | | | | VP6 | OC | | | | | | VP6/d | OC | | | | | | VP8 | SA | | | | | 1 | 1 VP8/g | SA | | | | | | VP8/h | SA | | | | | | VP8/o | SA | | | | | | VP8/s | SA | | | | | | VP9 | NA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 VQ9 | AF | | | | | | VR | AS | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 VU | AS | | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 18 VU4 | AS | | | | | | VU7 | AS | | | | | | XE | NA | | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 XF4 | NA | | | | | | XT | AF | | | | | | XU | AS | | | | | | XW | AS | | | | | | XX9 | AS | | | | | | XZ | AS | | | | | | YA | AS | | | | | | YB | OC | | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 YI | AS | | | | | | YJ | OC | | | | | | YK | AS | | | | | | YL | EU | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 YN | NA | | | | | | YO | EU | 9 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 53 YS | NA | | | | | | YU | EU | 5 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 28 YU8 | EU | | | | | | YV | SA | | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 YV0 | NA | | | | | | Z2 | AF | | | | | | Z3 | EU | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | 6 ZA | EU | | | | | | ZB | EU | | | | | | ZC4 | AS | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 ZD7 | AF | | | | | | ZD8 | AF | | | | | | ZD9 | AF | | | | | | ZF | NA | | | | | | ZK2 | OC | | | | | 1 | 1 ZK3 | OC | | | | | | ZL | OC | | | 4 | 7 | | 11 ZL7 | OC | | | | | | ZL8 | OC | | | | | | ZL9 | OC | | | | | | ZP | SA | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 ZS | AF | | | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 ZS8 | AF | | | | | | ====================================================== | | 522 | 1070 | 1716 | 1695 | 868 | 5871 Worked zones | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL =============================================== 01 | | | 4 | 1 | | 5 02 | | | | | | 03 | | 18 | 76 | 94 | 7 | 195 04 | 3 | 92 | 159 | 239 | 97 | 590 05 | 17 | 192 | 245 | 256 | 144 | 854 06 | | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 07 | | | 2 | | 1 | 3 08 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 65 09 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 27 10 | | | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 11 | | 10 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 51 12 | | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 13 | | 4 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 50 14 | 178 | 277 | 377 | 277 | 117 | 1226 15 | 149 | 182 | 265 | 208 | 89 | 893 16 | 122 | 137 | 151 | 58 | 44 | 512 17 | 14 | 25 | 38 | 34 | 13 | 124 18 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 71 19 | | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 20 | 19 | 23 | 40 | 36 | 18 | 136 21 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 22 22 | | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 23 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 24 | | 2 | 17 | 26 | 19 | 64 25 | | 21 | 156 | 273 | 170 | 620 26 | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 27 | | | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 28 | | 1 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 30 29 | | | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 30 | | 1 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 26 31 | | | | 1 | 1 | 2 32 | | | 5 | 8 | 2 | 15 33 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 30 34 | | | | 1 | | 1 35 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 36 | | | | | 1 | 1 37 | | | | | 1 | 1 38 | | | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 39 | | | | | | 40 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | | 16 =============================================== | 514 | 1043 | 1669 | 1649 | 855 | 5730 Powered by Win-Test 4.8.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EU1AZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,875,315 CU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4ERS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,758,000 good contest tks @F6FYA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5QE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 68,125 fun but to short 73 all paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5RD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 416,075 A wonderfull contest with a nice propagation on all bands with however a short black out Saturday morning. 10m was open during the two days of the contest. I had a lot of fun this week end Thanks to all who worked me. See you again next year. F5RD Bernard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 443,100 FT1K MP mark V+ G5RV Amazing propa on 15m and sure on 10m. never seen that for the last 4 years. 73 F8CRS david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TBK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,887,054 Great to have 10m playing again, although suspect I was too far North. Superb 15m opening to JA on Sunday morning, best I've heard for about 10 years. The 10m Stateside opening was very localised - plenty of 9's and 0's a few West Coast but not a single W1 or W2! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,290,144 Am I the only one who "struggles" to get his RTTY set-up working properly before each major RTTY contest? Spent well over one hour just fiddling about trying to get it all working correctly for logging etc. But once it all finally worked, CQWW RTTY was great fun as usual. The sun-spots were back too, with even a few West Coast worked on 10m. RTTY Contesting does really become addictive! The antennas were all at 50ft/60ft: 10-15-20m : Rotary trap dipole 40m : Wire dipole 80m : Wire Dipole 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 73,616 Casual daylight hours single band entry on 21MHz. Band open both days and particularly good to the west on Sunday. IC756 ProIII, 100w, 5/8 vertical and sloping half wave dipole hanging from the usual oak tree. Lots that got away of course, particularly to the east but very enjoyable anyway with the good conditions. Almost did the VE clean sweep with VE2-7 all in one day but no VE1 to complete the set. Thanks to all for the QSOs. Hopefully a few new mode slots. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0FGI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,333,724 What a weekend, great conditions and marvellous activity. 15m was the best band for DX here, 20m was disappointing, did everybody disperse to 15 and 10m!. 10m was difficult, many stations heard but unfortunately a high proportion were too weak to work and I spent too much time trying.(I need a better antenna!). Thanks to organisers and for all contacts. Equipment: IC7600, ACOM 1010 300 watts Antennas: VK2ABQ 10 15 and 20m, 40m 1/4 wave vertical,80m full wave loop Software N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,047,128 Great conditions = Great FUN :-) First major RTTY entry from GM7R. Had some visitors for the contest Tom GM4FDM and Adrian MM0TAI so we decided to try M2. Were going to do MS but M2 lets everyone have a run. Not ideal antenna setup with the 10/15/20 tribander so only ran 2 stations when 40 or 80 were good. Thanks to Ian GM4KLN for helping with RTTY equipment choice and de-bugging the setup. Looking forward to our next RTTY test. Hope conditions are as good for the SSB and CW legs!! Thanks for all the QSO 73 Jim GM0NAI / GM7R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU0SUP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 806,616 Wow, the sun co-operated, apart from the two flares that caused me to check the antennas! Great fun, and so good to see 10m properly open. Thanks to all for the fun and the points. 73 de Phil GU0SUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW4SKA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 2,700,430 Finally got a beam up at 60ft after years of dreaming. I think it works well ... but a piece of wet string would have been fine this weekend! Great to see 10 and 15 open both days and well into the evening here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Total Score = 76,260 FT-990 8el.LOG.PER. Thanks for all QSO's over! DX 73, Bela! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8TEM Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 343,500 Another WW RTTY has passed and I am still happy!!! Finally I have increased the operations hours and the time in running mode... I am aware that I can stay in running mode and have many qso with European stations and less qso with DX stations, but in this weekend the propagation was ok also in 20m. I have read many spots in 10m, but I decided to run only 20m because I need to do a comparison with last year's operations, concerning basically about the strategy and the my skill level. Sometimes a bit of luck helped me to have good runs with DX stations (many of them new multipliers for me). When I heard Ed W0YK from Aruba in 10m and 15m on Friday morning, I was happy because I could have a possibility to have Aruba also in 20m (last winter I had two qso in 40m and 80m rtty with him). A big surprise was FO5QB on saturday morning, followed by ZL3GA and some other from AS and OC. On sunday afternoon/evening the surprises were not finished, because 2x HL and ZM2A (aka ZL2AMI) called me... Surely I cannot say that it's all about the antenna, but antenna + skill improvments + good propagation make possible this big result. Last year I had only 560 qso and a half points... So, I will come back to shack only for WAE RTTY or CQWW CW. Some words about the numbers: my first goal was to have 40 qso per hour. I have mantained this rate only during first day, because on Sunday many people were in running mode: I have also done several running times, but my rate was lower. The number of DXCC and zones has increased, because usually I don't have qsos with ZL, FO, VU, 9M2, P4, JW, OX and some other.. I don't know if 40 qso per hour can be a good rate, but it's my maximum (I will work for doing better), because I see that many stations repeat also my call when answering and when passing report. Obviously, some stations were not agree about this message: " XX0XX 599 15 15 XX0XX K", but for increasing rate, I need to do qsos in a quickly way. If someone in Europe complains that the average points of the contest is 2.10 or 2.20 per qso, maybe he don't remember that a qso between two USA stations counts only one point.. So, for me is ok to have 2.15 points per qso!!!! Now, I want to thank all the people who called me and who have spotted me on cluster. I remember that I answer QSL via direct (also via bureau, but it takes some months because of troubles with local bureau) in less time. Also is possible to send a mail to cococosti@alice.it for just request QSL without send yours. Hope to do better in future. Best 73 es gl. Costy IC8TEM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1DFH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,155 73" FOR ALL DE ROBY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ1RY Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,065,051 What's up? 10m band was more than wide open during daylight here and somewhat more as we get time to check in, In years we have never seen a 10m band like this. On 20m and 15m we also have had great times. 80m and 40m went so so leaving us with some doubts about newest aerial, during the winter we will have a better check out. But still the workout must have been done now, so CU there, may be not as the last years. N1MM and the other logical and physical items of the M/2 went out working pretty well. Operators where friendly, HI, and we meet ours goals enjoying a lot this Contest, the rules and the crowd. Somehow we managed also to have a QSO with a lot of friends on several bands. So what's better? TU all. CU in the next game, over the same or even better playground. 73 de IQ1RY team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9BLB Class: M/M HP Total Score = 10,403,416 After the UFB Multi/Two run on 2010, few days before the contest we decided to setup a sort of Multi/Multi effort, just to test some new hardware solutions, on the way of the incoming contest season. Excellent conditions on high bands gave us more fun than we expected: everybody had his own real RTTY "overdose" ! Many thanks to IK3QAR for joining us and to all members of the team for the big effort, before the contest, in collecting and assembling all available RTXs, PAs, PCs and other stuffs needed for this new experience. See you in next SSB & CW legs! Joe, IT9BLB & IR9Y crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3JCC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,746,889 hi The attempt was to stike the score of the past year...it is done. MNY TNX to all that called me and to the sun for the prop. See you in the next test iv3jcc gianni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3TMV Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 621,560 hello guys tnx for calling me , have job with my new antenna system ,is very great best 73s de flavio iv3tmv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JM1XCW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,540,148 80m RDP 35mH 40m 3ELyagi 32mH 20m 6ELyagi 32mH 15m 5ELyagi 27mH 10m 6ELyagi 35/27mH IC-7800 IC-756RPO JRL-3000F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JQ1BVI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,722,879 Comeback to the 10m!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0BX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 230,256 Nice to see 10 and 15 meters open. Maybe the Sun Gods are shining on us. Rig: 756PROIII Amp: TT Centurion about 600 Watts Ant: 4 element monobander for 20 at 48 feet 7 element dualbander, 4 on 10, 3 on 15 on common boom at 40 feet. Writelog with MMTTY plugin. Joe K0BX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 366,660 Wish I could have spent more time on this one, but apple harvest and other family obligations consumed all of Sunday. What a nice treat to have the "money band" in a contest not be 20 meters! Great JA/Oceana run on 15 from deep in the black hole of Zero-Land. Now need to rig ship for the RealRadioman contest, SSCW, in just a few weeks. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- "Just a boy and his radio" -- Proud Member of: A1 Operators - http://www.arrl.org/a-1-op Minnesota Wireless contesters - http://www.W0AA.org Arizona Outlaws contesters - http://www.arizonaoutlaws.net Twin City DX Assn - http://www.tcdxa.org Lake Vermilion DX Assn - http://www.lvdxa.org CWOps - http://www.cwops.org SOC - http://www.qsl.net/soc Twin City FM Club - http://tcfmc.org -- Sea stories here ---> http://k0hb.wordpress.com/ Request QSL at ---> http://www.clublog.org/logsearch/K0HB All valid QSL requests honored with old fashioned paper QSL! LoTW participant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0MD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 133,008 Part time effort but a lot of FUN. Best parts were the band to band DX stations on 10 and 15 meters. These bands are opening again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 136,641 Wow! Ten meters really woke up for this one! Worked lots of easy DX with good runs to EU & JA. Haven't done that in a l-o-n-g time. Stateside QSOs were tougher with mostly weak backscatter and competition from strong EU stations. Noticed some interesting skew paths to JA and SA. Sometimes the short path didn't work nearly as well as straight west or east. Station: FT2K, Drake L7 @ 500w, 2x3el.yagi stacks on EU & SA, 1x3el. rotary. Thanks for the Q's! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1FWE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,266,813 Great conditions. Great weekend. Thanks to all for the Q's. K1FWE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 612,700 Great start, great moving along until a 4-hour break at the hospital (false alarm). Second trip to the hospital on Sunday afternoon probably cost me 200-300 Qs, but I still WON!!! I got a brand-new grandson, so it was a VERY good trade-off!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 647,364 The plan for this contest was to work band countries on 10 and 80 meters, and operate the other bands if I got bored with 80 and 10. 80 seemed to be about the same as the last couple of years, but 10 was a little better. Ha! Last time I was able to work the world on 10 meters was in the 1972 ARRL DX contest! (Note that I missed a couple of sunspot cycles between then and now). Prior to the contest I made a list of countries not confirmed on 80 and 1- that I though should be reasonably easy to work. The 80 meter list had 33 entities and the 10 meter list had 46 entities. I worked 2 new 80 meter entities, and all but 7 of my 46 10 meter entities. If most of those new 10 meter entities confirm via LoTW, then I can apply for 5BDXCC. Lets hope. They say RTTY operators are pretty good at confirming contacts. Took a few hours off in the middle of Saturday to repair my 30/210 degree Beverage and repair the 30 meter vertical. Had a blast running Europeans most of both days. Had a couple of short JA runs on 10, including about a dozen JAs in the last 30 minutes of the contest. The surprise multiplier was FR4NT, Reunion. The 10 meter single band score is 436,898. Equipment: K3, ETO 91B (thanks, Jeff), X7 at 60 feet, verticals for 40 and 80, Beverages, both kinds. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1XM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 726,784 I connected a sound card to the K3 Saturday morning figuring I would work Dennis at 6V6U and make a few points for the club. I tuned around and worked people when I had a chance. My Sunday antenna work was postponed so I called CQ a bit. It was really nice to hear 10 meters open to Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2CYE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 393,448 Plenty of activity for this contest. It was great hearing 10m wide open! 73, Mike K2CYE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 858,168 I just experienced ham radio heaven. 100w, wire antennas, 1 radio and a world of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PLF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 720,366 My first RTTY contest. I had a ball except for some equipment failures. I am looking forward to future RTTY contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PO Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,143,504 Wow - Cycle 24 made up for lost time this weekend. 10m was the money band: 130+ Asians, 50+ Europeans, and gratifying runs. (I'd never even *heard* a European on 10m since moving to the west coast.) A surprise multiplier was VP8NO, who came back to a 10m CQ. An unexpected family commitment kept me off the air from Saturday evening into Sunday morning, and at a few other times. And Murphy struck repeatedly. (I couldn't get the second TS-850 to key - so no hope for SO2R. Also, I'd transposed coaxes to vertical and SteppIR - which I didn't discover until after the contest. 'Room for improvement for next year... Great fun - thanks to all! 73, /Bill, K2PO Portland, Oregon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ZC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 20,315 Flex 1500 5 watts into HF Packer amp w/ average 25Watts out Antenna... dipoles Only operated a little over 3 hours. Spent a lot of time trying to interface FLdigi and N1MM to Flex 1500. Both worked great but N1MM is a better contesting log. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3FH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 56,511 Enjoyed my very limited operating time. Nice to hear all the activity on 15 and 10. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3FIV Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 129,204 Wow, I had forgotten what good conditions were like. Couldn't do more than 15 hours spread out over the 2 days, and spent much of it on 10M. I've never seen so many signals on 10. With lots of space, I even did some CQing, getting answers from JA, ZL, and even a KH0. It was fun to work a ZL followed almost immediately by EU. Even worked the African islands and Senegal. Not bad for 100W and a dipole. Then just after the contest when all the activity had disappeared, I saw a lone USB signal on 10, and it was Gordon at T32C, with the advance party just setting things up on the beach on Christmas Island, checking out how things were working. I spotted for him, and the pileup formed in seconds. Should be a good DXpedition. Keep those sunspots comin' and see you next weekend in the CA Qso Party! 73, /Jack de K3FIV Point Arena, CA Rig: Flex-3000, 100W Ant: 135' Carolina Windom at 35', all bands ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 213,348 Even a RTTY contest is fun when both 10 and 15m are open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,127,456 10 Meters... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,611,420 The wrong use of AFC is still rampant. As a geezer I would surely like a shorter operating period for M/S. 48 hours is required to compete but too much for me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,607,418 What a difference, we went from the bottom to the top in like no time flat. I was up after a nap working 80 and 40, I thought I would flip over to 20m at 3:30AM local just for grins, and there were signals every where. 20 died just before sunrise and as soon as the sun came over the horizon, back again. Worked JA's on 20-15-10 by the dozens. Last time I worked this many on ten meters was the 10m contest. I was trying out a new SO2R setup and I was running stations so fast it was really hard to get the openings to work a station on the S&P rig. That is a good problem to have. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 809,370 Rig : TS-2000 @ 90 watts. An old MFJ Versa Tuner. Antennas : 160M Inverted "L", 40M 1/4 Sloper & Dipoles. Lots of wire. Great contest. Missed 1/2 a day Saturday And didn't do much operating at night. This Oldtimer needs his sleep HI! Nice to see the bands coming back. Thanks to all who worked me and my skinny signal. The N1MM Logger and MTTY engine worked fine. 73 Tom Colyard K4MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 51,625 Squeezed in a few hours after returning home from the FB SEDCO/W4DXCC convention in east Tennessee. What a surprise to hook everything up and find 10 meters wide open to Europe! Lots of fun. Log submitted. Confirmation #: 1260116.cq-ww-rtty 73, Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 84,900 WOW! TEN WAS HOPPING! I SURE DO MISS MY STACK..lost in the April storms. Low power to a KT34 at 45 ft is a big difference. Mostly S+P... simply couldn't get any kind of run going. Missed several countries... just couldn't get thru the pile-ups. It was great to work Euro's and Ja's once again.... hope this stays awhile! Thanks to all ... 73's Cort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 164,416 Good conditions. At one time I commented that RTTY operators had the ability to compete, while being considerate. I may need to rethink that comment. I had several instances of working a station, then having them start calling CQ within 30-60 Hz of the frequency that we had just worked on. Also several instances of what I suspect was SO2R "newbies" not being ready to send their exchange. I suppose they need to practice, but not in a contest with good conditions and high participation. Regardless, I operated as much as I wanted to, and had some fun, while taking time to do other things. Thanks to all, for the contacts, and to the sponsors for their hard work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5WW Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 233,478 Things didn't start too good on Friday. Good conditions, but very crowded bands. That's good, but I couldn't find a single spot to call CQ... S&P for the most time, sloooooow. Saturday was OK for a few hours, then I found myself listening to a whole lot of nothing. Found out soon enough that we got hit by one or more fabulous solar flares. Great... Saturday night and Sunday were good though! I ended up with about 20 % less QSOs than last year; but thanks to many more multipliers (mainly on 10 m) my total score is about 20 percent higher than last year. Can't complain about that!! I had a great time, thanks to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,313,980 I was a single parent of a 9 year old this weekend so didn't plan much operating. Conditions were so good, I couldn't stay away from the radio. Forgot just how good the bands could be! Amazing to work UA3 and other European stations on 10 and 15 meters at 4 hours past their sunset. Most studly QSO was YB4IR on 10 meters beaming Northeast over Europe. Then YB1ALL on 15m. Also worked VR2, BV, and BY on 15m. Installed a new computer over the summer and this was the first real RTTY contest. Discovered that my logging software couldn't copy when two RTTY windows were active at the same time. Spent several periods during the contest trying to debug what was happening. Two MMTTY windows would work, but not when feeding into WriteLog. That made me SO1R all weekend. Too bad as it was perfect conditions for running on 2 bands or for mult chasing on the off bands. I was tormented by the decision of trying to run for rate or tune around for cool DX contacts. Quality of RTTY operating keeps getting better and better. A few guys still send their call too many times, but that's the only complaint. Nice to be able to have over 100/hour running with one radio. Best 60 minutes was 114. 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 98 142 236 396 298 1170 67.6 NA 88 127 73 97 62 447 25.8 AF 4 3 7 5 4 23 1.3 SA 0 4 10 9 9 32 1.8 AS 0 0 14 35 3 52 3.0 OC 0 0 2 1 3 6 0.3 QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime 00Z --+-- --+-- 20/31 24/18 --+-- 44/49 44/49 01Z - 6/9 - 17/7 - 23/16 67/65 37 02Z - 40/33 - - - 40/33 107/98 03Z 46/37 18/11 - - - 64/48 171/146 04Z 34/11 3/1 15/16 - - 52/28 223/174 05Z - 21/11 - - - 21/11 244/185 41 06Z - - - - - 0/0 244/185 60 07Z - - - - - 0/0 244/185 60 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 244/185 60 09Z - - - - - 0/0 244/185 60 10Z - - - - - 0/0 244/185 60 11Z - - - - - 0/0 244/185 60 12Z - 1/0 - - 48/24 49/24 293/209 33 13Z - - - - 104/13 104/13 397/222 14Z - - - - 69/27 69/27 466/249 15Z - - - 58/39 16/0 74/39 540/288 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 23/5 --+-- 23/5 563/293 44 17Z - - - - - 0/0 563/293 60 18Z - - - - - 0/0 563/293 60 19Z - - - 2/1 - 2/1 565/294 45 20Z - - - 50/4 - 50/4 615/298 32 21Z - - 89/23 3/0 - 92/23 707/321 22Z - - 98/21 - 9/8 107/29 814/350 23Z - - - 20/12 9/3 29/15 843/365 32 00Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 843/365 60 01Z - 2/0 39/13 15/4 - 56/17 899/382 02Z - 78/22 - - - 78/22 977/404 03Z 65/13 8/2 - - - 73/15 1050/419 04Z 7/1 - - - - 7/1 1057/420 48 05Z 12/8 15/5 12/2 - - 39/15 1096/435 12 06Z 18/11 25/1 - - - 43/12 1139/447 12 07Z - - - - - 0/0 1139/447 60 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1139/447 60 09Z - - - - - 0/0 1139/447 60 10Z - - - - - 0/0 1139/447 60 11Z 8/2 31/5 20/3 - - 59/10 1198/457 12Z - - 11/3 74/7 - 85/10 1283/467 13Z - - - 84/10 - 84/10 1367/477 14Z - - - 22/2 37/4 59/6 1426/483 15Z - - - - - 0/0 1426/483 60 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1426/483 60 17Z - - - - - 0/0 1426/483 60 18Z - - - - 70/10 70/10 1496/493 9 19Z - - - 53/5 17/7 70/12 1566/505 20Z - - - 82/7 - 82/7 1648/512 11 21Z - - - - - 0/0 1648/512 60 22Z - - - 16/8 - 16/8 1664/520 45 23Z - 28/2 38/8 - - 66/10 1730/530 Tot: 190/83 276/102 342/120 543/129 379/96 Worked 16 stations on 5 bands! CN3A DL1IAO DQ4W EA3CCN ES9C HG1S IT9BLB K0IR LM9L40Y LX7I LY5E N5RZ S50XX S57AW SN7Q TM0T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 475,974 Conditions were generally good - sf 190, with low A and K indices. A little M3.7 flare showed up at 1530Z on Sunday, putting a damper on the European opening, but the fairly loud EU stations were still workable. The east coast guys were working tons of EU that were totally inaudible here. I had a radio failure (buttons stopped working), but this was a one-radio event, so I switched to the other side of the so2r setup. The main 200A breaker on the power panel tripped on Sunday morning during the Eu opening, and a burning smell permeated the house. We carefully powered the house circuits back up in stages, and everything came up working. I still haven't found the cause, but I suspect some device has died, and I just haven't discovered it yet. I think this was my first serious entry in the CQWW RTTY. I'm glad I chose SB 15. Telnet contributed a few mults, but spotting activity was generally light. I'll bet that within a couple of years, someone will come up with a RTTY Skimmer, and the whole mature of assisted RTTY contesting will change, as it already has on CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 132,060 Missed Saturday. Planned on cherry-picking a few needed 10M DXCC entities today. The band was wide open all day today. Great propagation to all continents, especially Europe. Decided to just stay on 10M just for the sheer fun of it and enter as SOSB/10. Even jumped down to the CW portion of the band for about 20 non-contest QSOs. Hope this is a good sign for the rest of the year. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John, K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 205,403 It was great to see 10 and 15 open and productive. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TA Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 120,204 K3, ALPHA-91B, 4EL @ 75ft, 6 EL @ 35ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6WSC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,016 This was my first ever RTTY operation. It was great fun, and I will be back for more! 73 Bill K6WSC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BTW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,013,997 This year the team of n9adg, k7edx, and k7btw moved back to the qth of Brian's, located high in the jet stream above Preston, WA. The equipment included Brian's SteppIR DB-36 and his SteppIR MonstIR and an 80 meter wire antenna. Thanks to SteppIR for the use of the tower trailer which we used for the MonstIR. We fought the usual computer problems, the heat (90's) in Brian's closet ham shack, and high winds Sunday which kept making our 4 el yagi a 4 el vertical. Fortunately, we planned for that and we were able to pull it back to level. Brian left for the Seahawks football game (messed up priorities), and while he was gone, his Alpha 87 hard faulted off. It was lost for the last 5 hours of the contest. We operated barefoot on the run station for a while until we got the mult station amp switched over. When Brian returned (he got rained out at halftime) he fired up the old Hillar, n6hr, amp. That great old amp was used on the mult station for the remainder of the contest. Major ventilation is a must for that closet room for next time. 15 and 10 meters were fabulous. 20 was not quite as good. 40 was good at night. Brian worked a VU2 and Dick worked the OJ0 when operating barefoot. We all had a great time and each year there seems to be a positive correlation between the number of 807's consumed and the final score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,080 Contest was a wipeout for me. Caught a few Q's Friday PM. Between solar storm, out of town guests, and a big area-wide power failure Sunday, it was a bust - too bad as this contest is a favorite. Oh well - next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 134,550 Let's see, solar flux 190, low A & K indices, more Q's on 10 than on 20 meters, well that's more like it. de K7HBN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 893,970 I've not been a contester long enough to have ever seen 10 & 15 meters like they were this weekend! Just how did all of the Big Dogs of Contesting ever survive the recent lean years, knowing that things could be like this?? I've got a lot to learn about how to budget operating time between the high bands, if they are all going to be open at the same time... Other than a couple of QSO parties and minor contests, this is the first event I've operated since a new tower and antennas were raised almost a month ago. Just over a year ago, the SteppIR's driven element stepper motor failed for the third time, and I scrapped it and its 30/40 trombone, replacing it with a standard driven element. A year is a long time to go without much of an antenna on 40m, but the new M2 2 el at 92 feet is now making up for the loss. Even an 20 year old HyGain TH5 that I picked up for a song and rebuilt, sitting within the guy cables at 60 feet, worked extremely well. The 4 el SteppIR is now the lone occupant of its 50 foot tower (soon to grow to 70'). High band beam directions are as simple as turning a switch, if those directions are first thoughtfully set (more study needed there!). This event seemed to be better attended than in recent years. Are the conditions responsible, or are there more digi operators? Probably both. Many AFSK ops are in need of some Elmering regarding how to set Tx audio gain--I have never heard so many badly distorted signals--some were impossible to copy (using MMTTY engine and default DSP/FFT settings). The most memorable contact came late on Sunday afternoon: VK3WDX called as I was running on 20. Using the old tribander, pointing towards EU, he had a booming signal, and I thought he was a K7 in 1-land. Nope, SuperCheck Partial said "VK," so I worked and logged him, and we exchanged a few comments--he was long path, and there was no evidence of warble, echo, etc. at either end. This hobby is really something. Many thanks to the gurus of N1MM Logger--there are so many automated features built into RTTY mode that all exchanges can be accomplished by only three fingers: mouse (2 fingers), and a macro for {grab}. And they call it "radiosport?" Thanks also to CQ for sponsoring the WW (and other) events! Next up: California QP next weekend and Arizona QP after that. I'll be on an Arizona county line and will hope to see you (dunno which line--my usual line was burned up last Spring). 73, dan k7ia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7MY Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 43,008 15 meters was active 24 hours/day. Good EU and JA few SA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ULS Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 49,677 Powder Mtn. (9000') FT-897D (100w) ANTRON 99 Nice contest with all continents worked. Some JA runs in the evening and EU in the morning till mid afternoon. Nine new DXCC. I wish I would have had a yagi but maybe by CQWW SSB. de K7ULS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7VIT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 222,372 I want to welcome the "SUN" to the party. It was a treat to hear all those RTTY stations on 10m. Thank you to all who answered my calls. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 166,881 FT1000MP/ AL811H/ Force12 6BA @ 70'/ N1MM:MMTTY/ SO1V Great time on 40m; some nice surprises, but some missed mults. Terrific to have condx on the way up. All-in-all, this contest is a great way to start the CQWW season. Thanks for all the Q's, and thanks for Mother Nature for keeping the monsoon winds down over the weekend so I could keep the tower raised! As always, thanks to CQ and everyone who makes this event happen. CU in the contests this fall... John K7WP Go Arizona Outlaws...! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8KI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 231,673 More fun than ever this time. Equipment worked FB. Propagation terrific! Sure wish I had more time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 408,483 Ten meters returns! Wish I had been able to operate full time but was very limited this year. First contest for the new FTDX5000D. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9OM Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 489,398 CQ-WW RTTY is a fantastic contest! 15-meter band conditions in Wisconsin were outstanding which made operating a real joy. It wasn't easy staying in the chair knowing the Green bay Packers were playing but I'm glad I did as condx to Europe and Asia were terrific at the time. Thank You for the Qso! 73, Dick- K9OM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1CQR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 73,162 What a day, huh?! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2D Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,252,632 What a difference with decent propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2KON Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,869,885 Lots of fun. A little too old for more chair time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA4PKB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 321,441 AA4YL left on Saturday evening, so KA4PKB had it by himself the last 24 hours. Great to see 15 and 10 open. Thanks for the contacts and repeats. The R8 and G5RV did a great job, but the goal for next year is to have a tribander up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA4RRU Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,435,504 Lots of fun! See you in WPX! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB2HSH Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 78,110 Great contest! 10 was open like I haven't seen in years. This was my best contest showing ever. The addition of a vintage 1972, fully refurbished and reconditioned Hustler 4BTV and a random wire, and the deletion of an aged and worn-out off center fed Zepp made ALL the difference. Looking forward to the WPX RTTY now! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB3LIX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 818,424 100 % Search and Pounce. 100 watts, a 4BTV and a chunk of zip cord. Nice to see so much activity on 10 & 15 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB8OCP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 176,381 Great fun! Had more off time than I had hoped. The Bonus 10M band opening was great! Worked Japan on 15 haven't done that in many years! Low power & crappy antennas worked with my old TS-520! Someday I will get a beam...but still had fun with my OCFD! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC2KY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 203,720 Was only able to operate Sunday, and at that, took a 4 hour break to attend local hamfest. 10 and 15 meters were wide open on Sunday. I haven't seen 10 so hot in a very long time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC2LST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 275,240 Choose any superlative you like and it applied to this contest. All bands open? Yes! Ten meters open to Europe (as well as elsewhere)? Yes! Band conditions fantastic? Yes! Lots of stations to work? Yes, on every band! It would be hard to imagine better conditions here on the east coast of the U.S. To top it all off, in the last 5 minutes of the contest, a VK popped up on 20m and gave me zone 30 - a rare one indeed in this shack. Thanks to all who participated and to CQ magazine for a very memorable event. I won't be surprised to see record scores for this one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 128,226 One Radio (FT2000D), Centurion Amp running about 500 watts, and the antenna was a 204BA at 108'. This was never intended to be anything but a part time entry. Friday night (about 1.75hrs) it was mostly ST/PR QSO, will only a bit of DX. Saturday morning (about .75hrs) it was about 50/50. Saturday evening, it just was not much to talk about. Sunday had a little more time to put in and actually 20m was not to good until about 2030Z when all of a sudden 20 came alive. I am not sure what happened, but perhap 10m and 15m went away for the EUs and SAs. Because there were alot of them on 20M after that. I did manage to work one JA. Heard the 9M and YB but they could not hear me... The 10m and 15m antennas were broke and on the ground. Perhap I can get them back in the air real soon. I am sure it was great fun for those that were on those bands. Worked alot of familiar calls and plenty of new ones as well. I enjoyed and thanks for all the Qs. Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 210,663 Lots of fun. Grabbed an hour here, ten minutes there and wound up logging about 11 hours operating time. Was great to have a lively and vibrant 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD7MSC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 325,260 Rig was TS 930, Henry 2K-3, low dipole. Maybe next year I will try the contest with an antenna. hihi. First time in years that I had more Q's on 10 then on 20. I was unable to get on 40 meters due to my 40 meter antenna being down. Shared the station with my XYL, KD7ODG for her first RTTY contest. She had a blast. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD7ODG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,187 My first RTTY contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE7AUB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,360 What a blast from the home station where I contested a few hours each day, before trekking off the the effort at the club station. I worked Europe on 10m for the first time - that was fun. Thanks to all who allowed me to work them. At the multi where I did my share to accumulate the real points, I had to almost be forcibly removed from the 10M band - it was that much fun running and s&p on 10M with real antenna and power. But rate matters - so I moved to 15M where the fun continued - and the all important rate. All in all, another great global on the air Amateur Radio party, co-hosted by our friends the Sun with spots and the Ionosphere. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI1G Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 6,690,672 What more can be said..."Theres no meters like 10 Meters", glad to see that it has taken it's first step toward waking up. I was surprised to have HS0ZDY and YB1AR call in Saturday morning on 10 meters while I was runnning Europe. There was lots of great DX activity, Asia seemed well represented this weekend, not as much from Oceanea. It was tough to decide on when to rest. The middle of the night openings to Europe at and after their sunrise has been missing for a number of years, but returned this weekend. Thanks for all of the QSO's and QSY's, see you all again next time around. 73, Rick KI1G Hour 80 40 20 15 10 Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 39/43 27/21 29/35 95/99 95/99 D1-0100Z - 67/44 8/5 42/28 - 117/77 212/176 D1-0200Z 17/22 55/24 16/18 - - 88/64 300/240 D1-0300Z 33/25 31/17 7/4 1/1 - 72/47 372/287 D1-0400Z 31/15 58/17 3/2 - - 92/34 464/321 D1-0500Z 24/10 53/8 9/3 - - 86/21 550/342 D1-0600Z 24/14 45/6 - - - 69/20 619/362 D1-0700Z 22/6 38/8 - - - 60/14 679/376 D1-0800Z 1/1 13/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 14/3 693/379 D1-0900Z 2/1 22/7 1/1 1/1 1/1 27/11 720/390 D1-1000Z - 5/0 33/16 40/29 - 78/45 798/435 D1-1100Z - - - 64/15 61/28 125/43 923/478 D1-1200Z - - - 5/7 100/7 105/14 1028/492 D1-1300Z - - 2/2 5/5 80/11 87/18 1115/510 D1-1400Z - - 1/1 32/11 47/7 80/19 1195/529 D1-1500Z - - 1/1 64/8 31/9 96/18 1291/547 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 2/3 37/7 18/10 57/20 1348/567 D1-1700Z - - 11/2 20/5 32/7 63/14 1411/581 D1-1800Z - - 21/8 57/0 10/1 88/9 1499/590 D1-1900Z - - 3/3 59/3 7/5 69/11 1568/601 D1-2000Z - - 35/12 42/2 11/1 88/15 1656/616 D1-2100Z - - 5/5 74/5 4/5 83/15 1739/631 D1-2200Z - - 70/6 12/7 5/1 87/14 1826/645 D1-2300Z - 19/2 10/6 19/3 8/2 56/13 1882/658 D2-0000Z --+-- 36/3 14/6 5/2 --+-- 55/11 1937/669 D2-0100Z 3/0 22/4 21/3 23/2 - 69/9 2006/678 D2-0200Z - 18/1 17/3 - - 35/4 2041/682 D2-0300Z 60/5 4/1 18/1 - - 82/7 2123/689 D2-0400Z 1/0 - 1/1 - - 2/1 2125/690 D2-0500Z 2/1 - 35/3 - - 37/4 2162/694 D2-0600Z 27/3 36/0 13/3 - - 76/6 2238/700 D2-0700Z - 9/0 - - - 9/0 2247/700 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2247/700 D2-0900Z 1/0 1/0 19/0 - - 21/0 2268/700 D2-1000Z 3/0 2/0 47/1 19/3 - 71/4 2339/704 D2-1100Z - - - 80/3 13/4 93/7 2432/711 D2-1200Z - - - 3/2 105/2 108/4 2540/715 D2-1300Z - - 5/3 9/5 48/4 62/12 2602/727 D2-1400Z - - 1/1 42/0 34/6 77/7 2679/734 D2-1500Z - - 1/2 28/1 35/5 64/8 2743/742 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 2/2 21/0 65/2 88/4 2831/746 D2-1700Z - - 3/1 37/1 33/2 73/4 2904/750 D2-1800Z - - - 46/2 45/0 91/2 2995/752 D2-1900Z - - 32/1 44/4 2/0 78/5 3073/757 D2-2000Z - 1/1 64/4 23/1 6/1 94/7 3167/764 D2-2100Z - 11/0 73/1 1/1 7/1 92/3 3259/767 D2-2200Z - 1/2 42/1 20/4 7/0 70/7 3329/774 D2-2300Z - 72/1 15/0 3/0 2/1 92/2 3421/776 80 40 20 15 10 Total % NA 159 236 185 207 117 904 26.4 OC 0 4 8 6 8 26 0.8 EU 85 347 446 676 667 2221 64.9 SA 3 12 18 17 28 78 2.3 AS 0 11 35 87 18 151 4.4 AF 4 9 8 12 8 41 1.2 80 40 20 15 10 Total 3D2 1 1 4J 1 1 4X 1 1 2 5Z 1 1 6W 1 1 1 1 4 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 5 9A 3 5 5 12 25 9H 1 1 9K 1 1 9M2 1 1 A6 1 1 1 1 4 BV 1 1 BY 1 1 CE 3 1 2 6 CM 1 12 6 8 2 29 CN 1 2 2 2 2 9 CP 1 1 CT 1 2 1 2 4 10 CT3 1 2 2 2 1 8 CX 1 1 1 3 DL 15 63 73 149 134 434 DU 1 1 2 E7 2 1 3 EA 4 12 19 21 20 76 EA6 1 1 1 2 5 EA8 2 3 2 3 1 11 EA9 1 1 EI 1 2 4 1 1 9 EK 1 1 ER 2 2 4 7 6 21 ES 1 1 2 3 2 9 EU 1 4 6 4 7 22 EX 1 1 EY 1 1 2 F 4 15 12 16 22 69 FG 1 1 2 FM 1 1 G 4 20 29 42 6 101 GI 2 1 2 5 GM 1 3 3 4 1 12 GU 1 1 1 1 1 5 GW 1 1 4 2 8 HA 4 10 9 9 20 52 HB 1 4 5 6 5 21 HC 1 1 HI 1 1 2 1 1 6 HK 2 2 2 2 8 HS 1 1 1 3 HZ 1 1 1 3 I 6 23 41 64 89 223 IS 1 3 1 2 7 IT9 3 2 5 5 15 J2 1 1 2 J3 1 1 1 1 4 JA 5 1 55 6 67 JT 1 1 JW 1 1 2 K 135 196 150 165 91 737 KH2 1 1 2 KH6 1 1 2 KL 1 1 3 2 7 KP2 1 1 1 1 4 KP4 1 2 1 2 6 LA 4 7 8 2 21 LU 2 4 1 6 13 LX 2 3 2 4 2 13 LY 1 3 5 2 3 14 LZ 3 4 6 10 23 OD 1 1 1 3 OE 4 2 8 9 23 OH 2 6 9 14 9 40 OJ0 1 1 1 1 4 OK 5 13 13 26 26 83 OM 1 8 8 11 13 41 ON 6 5 12 5 28 OX 1 1 1 3 OZ 1 1 3 7 3 15 P4 1 1 1 1 1 5 PA 4 13 19 25 17 78 PY 1 5 3 7 11 27 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 5 S5 3 7 9 10 12 41 SM 1 7 12 12 8 40 SP 6 17 23 35 42 123 ST 1 1 SV 2 3 2 9 16 SV9 1 1 1 1 4 T7 1 1 TA1 1 1 1 3 TF 1 3 2 1 7 TG 2 2 TK 1 1 1 3 TR 1 1 UA 3 25 32 63 63 186 UA2 1 1 1 3 UA9 3 18 13 4 38 UK 1 1 UN 1 6 2 1 10 UR 7 33 37 61 63 201 VE 19 16 13 20 11 79 VK 3 4 1 2 10 VP8 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 1 4 VR 1 1 VU 1 2 4 1 8 XE 1 4 4 2 4 15 YB 1 1 1 3 YL 4 3 2 3 12 YO 2 8 9 8 13 40 YU 1 4 5 4 5 19 YV 1 1 2 2 6 Z3 1 1 1 1 4 ZC4 1 1 ZL 1 2 1 2 6 ZP 1 1 2 ZS 1 1 1 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI6DY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 844,132 Been away for a while. Good to be back. 73 de KI6DY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ7NO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 56,056 Part-time effort as usual. GREAT to have the DX bands open, and I do mean open for a change! Wonderful to see old faces (calls) again! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK7PR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,055,792 WOW! What a nice surprise - solar flux hitting new Cycle 24 heights, solar flares, loaded bands. THIS is fun! And, great demonstration of the increasing popularity of RTTY! Fun weekend with time taking off to sleep and recharge the body. Thanks to Jim KI7Y, Joe KT7E, Andy KE7AUB, Steve KE7IHG, Billy KF7DSN and Steve N7BEF for their support of our club efforts! Fair share of MURPHY this weekend, RTTY contests always find the weakest link in the chain! Spent a few hours on Tower One to replace a coax connector, made a mistake and took out the front end of the mult station radio while tuning the run radio, antenna switches failing. You know, all the normal stuff! Thanks for all the QSO's, see you in the SSB contest in 4 weeks after fortifying the station! 73 Kevin K7ZS and the Portland Radio Contester Club gang, AKA KK7PR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK9A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 605,200 This was my second CQ WW RTTY contest and fourth RTTY contest of all time. During the 2011 CQ WPX RTTY in February, I became very interested in improving my RTTY setup. After reading various posts from top scoring stations and talking with my former Aruba renter, N4RR, who has done very well as P40J and PJ4R, I decided to add a Hal DXP38 as a second decoder along with a JPS NIR-12 audio filter to the station. Over the next few months I kept an eye out for these devices on various classified sites and I had little trouble acquiring everything that I needed over the summer. I purchased a new computer for the shack and changed the operating system to XP Professional. It took me a while to find the proper drivers, but eventually the computer was running well. About a week before this contest I installed the RTTY hardware and software on the new computer and after struggling with it for a few days it was running great. I would like to thank AA5AU, W0YK / P49X, and N4RR for their advice and assistance with this complicated setup. Luckily the station performed perfectly over the weekend, unfortunately 20m conditions, the weather and the operator did not do as well. After working a full week prior to the contest and staying up late working on the RTTY setup, I did not go into the weekend well rested. At the start of the contest the band opened into the U.S. and Asia as expected, but other than Japan I worked very few countries in Asia. I had a few Europeans also call me at the beginning, but the opening there was not that good. I was really surprised not to work a single station in China. Later in the evening 20m improved into Europe, but it was hard to penetrate their local QRM while they were busy working each other. The rates were slow so I decided to take a nap as I was very tired from my work week. When I woke up I had a nice European run around my sunrise and I obtained my best 60 minute rate of the contest making 71 QSOs. Soon afterwards, things became very slow. I am guessing that 10m and 15m were very hot during this time and everyone one was on those bands. In the late morning and early afternoon I was only able to work the US, however the rates were slow so I took a lot of small breaks while waiting for a better opening. I did notice a midday long path European opening, but it did not produce very many contacts. The short path to Europe was closed at the time and I do not recall ever seeing conditions like this. It was so slow that I considered shutting down and doing something else, however it was a rainy day so I stayed inside near the radio. Finally in the late afternoon 20m opened nicely into Europe and I started having fun running stations. A little later the static level increased due to local storms making it a struggle to decode many weaker stations. This became very frustrating after waiting all day for this European opening. On Saturday night the rates dropped so slow that I fell asleep. I planned to wake up very early to catch more of the morning European opening, but unfortunately I just did not wake up. I took some time off on Sunday because it was so slow and waited until the afternoon European opening. The last European opening of the contest was excellent and I was logging stations as quickly as possible. Then suddenly the noise level jumped to S9 +10dB as another thunderstorm approached. Sunday’s storms were much worse than Saturday and I contemplated unplugging the station while listening to the thunder. The thunderstorms did not get any stronger so I continued to operate. Copying stations through the QRN was tough. The weather in North Carolina is usually pretty nice, but the storms sometimes come at the worst times. The same thing happened during my last serious contest, the 2011 WPX Phone http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2011-04/msg00753.html . Despite the QRN from the rain and thunderstorms and missing both early morning European openings, my final score is still pretty competitive. This was definitely not the best year for a single band 20m entry however it was still enjoyable and it was really nice to test out the new RTTY hardware. It was interesting to watch two decoders running simultaneously over the weekend. Thanks for the QSOs! Please QSL via WD9DZV. I look forward to operating CQWW Phone from Aruba as P40A in three weeks. 73, John KK9A / P40A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7AC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 914,480 Nice to see Alaska so well represented in this contest. I beat my old HP score by a wide margin which was my goal. 10M was a lot of fun but alas no openings on 10 to EU. Did not have the time this summer to do anything with low band antennas and my score reflects it. Maybe I can think of something before it gets too cold. Congrats to Gary (AL9A) for a fine score. Hope the propagation continues to get better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 129,858 I had to work for most of the weekend but I was able to operate a few hours here and there. My Sunday experience with 10 meters was the best by far! When I checked 10 meters, I could not believe my eyes with the signals I saw on my spectrum scope. Lots of highlights in a short period of time. Looking forward to another contest season especially if 10 meters is gonna be anything like it was this past weekend. Log has been uploaded to LOTW. Rig: Icom 756PRO Antenna: 4 element Mosley TA-34-XL @ 40 feet Amp: Ameritron AL-1500 @ 500 watts Software: N1MM Interface: Rigblaster Plus 73, Phil Denali National Park, Alaska. Website: http://www.kl8dx.com Work: http://www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm Blog: http://kl8dx.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,014 Just a couple of hours at the end of the day. Decided to use 50 watts max power. Kenwood TS-450SAT Dipole @ 25FT 50 Watts N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN5O Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,523,178 Well, had planned a multi-op, but was not to be. I don't like long single-op contests - not enough stamina to go the distance. But anyway, was having dinner Friday when the foster daughter called crying her eyes out.. That was an hour long plus phone call that took the wind out of my sails for doing anything serious for this contest. Saw 15m was hot Friday when I did get on, so I just decided to play. When I moved to 20M, it was awful for me, so I just went on to 40M. Quit 40M early when I got tired and remembering the earlier phone call, just said the heck with it. So I never even got to 80M - zippo.. Got back on Saturday, on and off. 10M was really surprising. Best I have ever heard it in some time. Stayed on 10M and then moved to 15M and then found 20M just dead.. So went back to 10M and 15M, back and forth. Quit Saturday evening early when one of my 2x8 Matrix switches blew out 1/2 section. Had to recable and then said the heck with it - just was not going to be my weekend. I got back on Sunday for a while, on and off, while trying to watch the ball games. I talked this morning with Don, AA5AU and got his thoughts on what was happening with the bands our way. Similar findings. He was hoping I would do well, but I was just not up for it. I wished him well for another 1st place finish. Was not going to post my score, but after our conversation, what the heck.. It is what it is.. In retrospec, I should have selected either 10M or 15M single band effort. Congrats to all the winners. Thanks to all for making it a busy contest. 73, Ted KN5O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 704,941 I hadn't planned to operate, but on Monday my wife told me she had to work a long shift on Saturday. It has been a few years since my last RTTY contest, and I couldn't even remember how to run RTTY with my various radios. I do have an OMNI VII now though, so I had TenTec FedEx out a USB-to-ACC port cable. Amazingly unbelievebly simple hookup! The monsoons (thunderstorms every evening) keep me off the air all summer, but they ended last week. I usually disconnect and unplug EVERYTHING at the tower and in the shack, so it was nice to see everything holding up to high power RTTY contesting after sitting idle for 4 monthes.... I wish I had SO2R running, but I'm not very technical, and it would have taken me a long time to figure it out. There were some slower times CQing on 10/15, it would have been nice to have worked more than 15 DX countries on 20M :) Distance based scoring would sure be nice. Especially in a totally computer dependent mode like RTTY. How tough could it be to have N1MM set up to calculate this? Thanks for the Q's !! 73 Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 219,165 IC-746 PRO AL-811 400 Watts 80M Ant - Inverted L, 18ft vertical 48ft horizontal 40M Ant - 14AVQ ground mounted, two 33ft radials 20M Ant - 14AVQ ground mounted. two 33ft radials 15M Ant - Mobile dipole at 10ft; Dipole at 15ft 10M Ant - Vetical dipole, ground mounted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,416,136 Methinks he doth ‘diddle’ too much … Another CQWW RTTY Contest done and gone. I went, yet again, up to Smoke Ranch to operate this contest. Brad and Ruth, as always, made me feel right at home and even ‘Winston’ the cat welcomed me. ‘Winston’ looks like a brick with legs. The conditions were very interesting with high bands open and solar flares and low bands not as productive as the past. There seemed to be a lot of new signals on the bands and that is great news. It also seems that the level and quality of operating technique has elevated to a newer level which makes the contest even more enjoyable. I bettered both my total score and number of Q’s from the previous years, actually they were personal bests. This, along with the enhanced openings on 10 and 15 were the highlights of this running of the WW RTTY test. There were a few issues encountered mostly with operator error and some quirkiness with N1MM and MMTTY. I will consult the N1MM reflector about but in total very little time was lost but the air was “blue” a few times as I tried to escape out of the lock-up I got myself into. N1MM-MMTTY-Yaesu MkV’s-Amps-MicroHam MkIIr+ all played nicely with each other for the most part and when you are SO2R you need all the cooperation you can get. I thank all for stopping by for a Q and look forward to the seeing you all in the next test. Ciao and 73 Hank / KR7X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS2G Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 62,266 Now I remember - THAT's what its like on 10 meters! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS7S Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 318,010 Elecraft K3 - AL-811 @ 250W - R7000 Vertical - N1MM/MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1I Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 120,652 I had a lot of other stuff to do this weekend so only operated part time. It was great to see 10 meters back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7E Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 86,200 Fun, Limited mostly at night, some rig issues. But I'm getting the hang of it. This score is my personal best, thanks to all that I QSO with, and thanks to K7ZS for teaching us folks how to get envolved with radio and contesting. The club call KK7PR and the name sake was fun. Glad I wasn't the one 100 feet up the tower fixing the coax fitting. I was the grunt ground crew hihi. I hope I got my numbers right from N1MM. For a newbe it's a great software. 73 Joe KT7E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT9L Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 476,427 What a great weekend for a RTTY Contest. I really enjoyed it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,862,588 What a difference a year make... Last year it was my first serious concert from my shack, still babying a borrowed SB-220 (Thanks Mike !) . In 24 hours on the air I got 597q, for over 400k points. This year - just wanted to beat that.. That. I was ahead in 23h; then it was raising the bar. In addition, my focus was to take advantage of 10m - my work schedule currently limits my radio time, so it was my chance.. that. Then it was - can I get a 1k Q? can I get 1 mil points ? and further and further.. some spectacular events - pipeline to Japan on 15m around 01z, EU wide open on 10m - it was 200Q before first US station got to me on 10... All in all, that was first time I was in the thick of things with a very good conditions. Thanks for all the Q's - really thanks. vy 73, de ku1t _zjt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 205,666 Spent most of the weekend rebuilding a tower that had a large tree come down over the guys during hurricane Irene. Snapped the guys and bent it over. So limited antennas and daytime operating was just during breaks. Really nice to see 10 open. Beam was fixed to EU, bent over so at 45 degree polarization hi hi. In the end, did get the tower secure but will need to rebuild the beam. Put up a temporary vertical for 40M that played well. 73, Eric KV1J (portable in Maine) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7L Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 35,280 What a great time! Best fun on 10m in a very long time! Europeans on 10? - I'd almost forgotten it was possible :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY7M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 79,913 It was fantastic to hear Europe on 10 meters again. Amazing conditions! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA5LJA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 450,240 Exelent conditions. My g5rv worked dx like a yagi antenna. Hope this conds will stay for the upcomming cqww contests also. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LM9L40Y Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,023,244 WOW :) This was so much fun !!! Managed 46 hours in the chair and I was not ever really that tired.. 10 is back and we excpect more from you in the following years We just love it here at our modest station when we are able to compete with our dear neighboors in Scandinavia. See you all again in CQWW SSB! 73 de Olaf LB8IB@LN8W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN5O Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,706,197 Made my own class :D Single Op Multi Transmitter = Multi 2 :p Extreme Challenging hi hi Had a rookie on RTTY with me in shack for few hours on Saturday, Svein LA3CLA got his first tries with RTTY and Pileup! Thanks for all the best EVER conditions, but I couldnt stay in chair as much as I could wish as I been affected with Pneumonia for a long time so I needed long rest.. New antennas was 5 el 20 yagi, 6 el 15m yagi and 40 m 4 Square. 15/10m: KLM KT34XA +Mosley PRO 67 40m: 2 el 40 m yagi + 40m 4 Square Rigs TS850 + TS2000 + microham box for RTTY See you in SAC SSB 8-9 October and CQ WW SSB from DX1M. 73 LA6FJA Rag http://www.la6fja.eu/la5o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LQ5H Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 73,953 Hello, my second contest in RTTY mode, i enjoy this mode, i hope folow making cq ww contest, see you in the next ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LS1D Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,162,122 We were active again, for maintenance and engineering restructuring 2 months ago we decided to lower all antennas. On Friday morning we had no antenna, we started the contest with a monoband 15M and dipoles on 40 and 80 meters, this time we decided to test the station on M2 for future operations. In these conditions of operation were until 18z on Saturday where the finish installing a tri-band with the testing could start in M/2. Unfortunately despite the antenna with extreme care, its fault!, The SWR bands were less than 1:3.1 but the balun is sprayed within minutes of starting to use it with 1KW, to change the balun Sunday morning by one of the same make and again on the air the 15z, but again caused us problems the balun, began to climb and descend the reflected power at 500 W to continue to finish the competition and test the station. We did not make the objective, but at least enough to claim the record score in LU M/​​2. Thanks to all for the QSOs and CU again on the WW SSB October! 73 Team LS1D "Six Stars Contest Station" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 8,627,262 Thanks for the great contest and the many QSOs. The station worked very well and nearly all antennas are up. (except the beverages) This is up to now the only RTTY contest we participated this year. We still need more experience on this mode to improve our result. cu in the next contests 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I www.lx2a.com (will be updated soon with some more details on the new setup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY5E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,585,568 Nice conditions! More than 2 bands were open to more than single direction all the time. My congratulations to ES9C team! Just amazing! My thanks go to Petras LY1PM for letting use his great antenna farm! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ5R Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,253,020 Propagation was incredible on 10m. I did not hear this band at this shape from long time ago. Most of the time operator was Val/LZ3RR, I had to work at my job both days-Saturday and Sunday. Activity was great on all bands. As always it was nice pleasure to be in the game. Thanks to Krassy/K1LZ for all the antennas and equipment in Milara Intl Radio Club. Thanks to Chris/LZ1YQ for letting us to operate again from such a nice place. Thanks to Vlady/LZ1VLM for technical support before the contest. 73 de LZ1UK/Savi RIG: IC 7800 100w carrier SWR: N1MM/MMTTY ANTS: 80m-4SQ, Delta loop NW/SE, Inv V 40m-3 el SteppIr 20m-6 el monobander, 3 el SteppIr, Force 12 15m-6 el monobander, 3 el SteppIr, Force 12 10m-7 el monobander, 3 el SteppIr, Force 12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 5,690,412 10m opened band changed my initial plan at all:) It seems most of the people were mainly on 10/15m enjoing the condx, so the low bands count is much lower compared to the previous year. Thanks to all who worked with me and CUAGN. 73! Boyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,921,500 Thanks for contacts,it was a great contest. I got some virus at Saturday morning and take several extra breaks. Later in the night I felt much better, but it was clear that too much time was lost in sleep and recovery.Than I turn on a gprs connection and switch into DX mode.With my first full SO2R operation, 2.5M pts. were quite possible to reach, but there always is next year :) Second radio is old veteran IC720A , which seems to TX a little bit off frequency( I has some complaints about that ). 73, CU in next one de Nasko , LZ3YY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 521,332 Thanks for all the qso's. Been a long time since I worked that much DX in a contest. 73, Mike N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0GZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 243,922 Very good conditions. I wish I has more time to operate. Radio: Flex 5000A Amp: THP HL-1.5KFX Antennas: K1KIO Hexbeam 20, 15, 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,765,731 10m is back big time! 30 QSOs on 10m last year vs 448 this year. 10m was basically tied with 15m for me this year. Last year total QSOs 1101 vs 1529 this year. Nice to have ST2AR call on 15 as I was CQing around 21130. Also found OD5NH on 10m way above the crowd. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0UJJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 42,192 Yaesu FT-950 and Butternut Vertical and Dipole Thanks for the Q's 73---Tim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IW/8 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 59,169 Just got on the air a bit from my cabin in MI to see how well I could get out with 100W into a dipole. Working Europe on 10M was a blast (while calling CQ no less)! Just an IC-7000 and 80M OCFD. Thanks for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MGO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 80,990 Just 4 hours to operate on Saturday. 10Meters was the best I have seen in a long time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1QD Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 276,720 Wow! In the 9 years I've been licensed I have never seen the bands this good. The 10 meter openings to EU and JA were wonderful. I made use of the Northeastern U. club shack for this contest, operating on Saturday only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1SNB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 844,123 I had lot's of fun in this one. This is the most contacts I've ever made in a RTTY event. Made the decision to not do SO2R in favor of a leisurely one radio operation that would afford me time to watch some football and baseball throughout the weekend as I CQ'd. 90% of QSOs were CQing. I like RTTY but hate RTTY pile-ups - so enjoyed my time CQing. I still can't get my RTTY run rate north of 60 per hour - probably a skill and signal strength issue. Operated assisted - though would only go chase spots on Sunday if they were both a new zone and country. Conditions, of course, we very good. 10m is never my best band but I was happy to get some QSOs there. 15m was exceptional - open early, closed late with strong signals from all over the world. All very exciting. These were the best conditions I remember for a major contest going back to 2002 or so. I hope they are here to stay now! Thanks for the contacts. My next contest is the PA QSO party. Station: FT-920 and AL-811 amp. 80m Inv V 40m Inv V/Vertical 20m Delta Loop/Mini Beam 15m Delta Loop/Mini Beam 10m Delta Loop/Mini Beam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2BJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,268,323 Major Windows 7 hardware BLUE Screen took me off air almost 3 hours prime time Sunday Morning! Many chores Saturday and Sunday prevented full time effort. 10M was amazing! Only disappointment was 20M was poor here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,201,356 WOW!!! SFI at 190 and now it's back to 169 after the contest. Conditions were fantastic and that's an understatement. I think conditions were probably better the second day. My goal was to make over a 1000 QSO's and million points and I did it. When I look at the log I see I had as many QSO's the second day as the first. It is usually not that way. I could not believe how long ten and 15 stayed open on Sunday. I notice two other things: The band seemed to fade as if were going out and then slowly came back up. Also, with some stations it did not matter where I pointed my quad; they were just as loud. It was really nice to be able to work deep Asia, but the BV100 eluded me for a new entity on RTTY. I sure wish all RTTY contests could be like this. I wonder how many new bees or first time RTTY contesters there were? They probably think this is the way every RTTY contest is. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2JDQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 429,598 Enjoyable Condx.. Had issues running a QRG.. so much qrm with no yagi.. hard to keep a spot..but not complaining... 90% S&P..and again.. All wire dipoles Inv V or Inv L, no yagis. Thnx 4 q's.. see you all durring the next big contest. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2QT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 2,781,680 Well as everyone now knows, 10M is back (and so is 15!). It was a great thing to have two or even three bands open at a time. While I handily beat last years score (which was unassisted, more about that later) I didn't get the increase in qso totals that I was sure would result from having two bands open. There were extended periods where I could not get a run going, although I could work stations when I called them. S&P on two radios is productive, but not as much as running, it also wears you down. I think this is why I shutdown earlier on Saturday night than I should have. I entered assisted since it was new, and I've always liked packet. However in general the off frequency spotting done by many made most spots pretty worthless. The other issue is that running low power made it pretty hard to work a fresh spot effeciently. As a dxer I was also prone to picking off some juicy dx instead of contesting. Assisted really is better stated as Single Op Distracted. My total q's were only up 23 from last years unassisted effort. I think a non packet effort would have had more than enough q's to make up for whatever mults I missed. However, as the contest was winding down and I was still short of the 2K qso's I wanted, there was someone spotting pretty run of the mill stations. His spots were on frequency and I was able to get the 3-4 extra q's from that that let me make my goal! I ran multiple decoders in N1MM this year and found it useful. However it did push cpu utilization up on my 3Ghz P4. I changed the mmtty profiles to get the utilization in the 30-40% range, but a new computer is in the offing. With the panadapter it was easy to see the ratty signals that some stations are emitting. Some stations emit a 2-3 khz blip of noise on key up, key down or both. Others have extra images of the rtty tones that are offset from their main signal. There images are at double or triple the shift, but since they are at the right cadence you can't tune them in although they sound 'right'. These stations may be hot switching their amp, overdriving the amp or the audio for AFSK. It makes the contest congestion worse than it needs to be. Radios Elecraft K3 (external fans) KT34A at 60 ft, 3 el Steppir at 48 ft 40M rotary dipole at 54 ft 80M dipole 50 feet shunt fed 60 ft tower on 80 M Mark n2qt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WK Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 545,055 I had to look at the radio several times to make sure I was on the right band. I thought I was on 20m it was so busy. Thanks for all the Q's. 73, Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 84,882 With limited time this weekend, didn't get on until Sunday. Played on 20 and thought I'd check to see if 10 was open... Boy was it! I can't recall the last time I ran anyone on 10, much less EU. Many new calls in my log and good rates almost every time I popped in the shack. EU died off towards the end of the contest and even most of California was weak. WA7LNW was one of the loudest signals, then ran across KL8DX booming in. He started fading pretty quickly, but managed to make a QSO before he disappeared. Only my second Alaska ever on 10. Big thrill having 7Z1SJ call in, working KG6DX and managing QSOs with Japan. I'm sure there were more than a few QRPers in the mix and probably more than a few who even need TN on 10 hihi Need to get the word out to new ops about exchanges. Many were waaaay too long and/or run together breaking the rhythm or just plain hard copy. Timing was off too on some folks when trying to call in, repeat your call two, maybe three times, six, seven and eight times is ludicrous. It's worth listening to someone running and getting a feel for how to do it. after a while, you'll find you'll start recognizing the sound of your own call and exchanges faster than the decode ;o) Sorry I didn't respond to Greg, AB7R's greeting, heard a number of folks calling you and the band sounded like it was fading. Glad to have caught you. No ND yet on 10 *sigh* It was fun and look forward to the next RTTY event! Thanks for all the QSOs, repeats and runs... 73, Jules n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 15,010 ICOM 756 PRO3 Ameritron AL-811H Force 12 C-3SS Inverted L Ewe Receiving Antenna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3DXX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 342,528 10 meters...WOW!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 630,540 Got Steppir 36 up just in time. First contest with yagi in 12 years!! Great to hear 10 and 15 open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 297,036 VERY nice to see 10m open so well! WOW.... Very limited time do to work (QRL)... But spent some quality time on 10m...This would have been a fun one!! 73 Jose - N4BAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 408,642 EVERYTHING at N4KG is Broken, Damaged, or Seriously Out-of-Date, including the operator :-( My primary amp died before the contest while calling a DXpedition on 12M RTTY and there was only ONE tube lit in my old SB-220 after a Loud Bang which I ran at 400 Watts during the contest. I used an Icom 746PRO Friday and Saturday and my trusty Icom 746 on Sunday. The Adjustable DSP Filters in the 746PRO worked well, even when reduced to 250/300 Hz Bandwidth. My Focus was on working New RTTY Band Countries, especially on 10 and 15 Meters which meant that I completely ignored the Low Bands Friday night. Saturday I installed my old Field Day corner fed Delta Loop with an apex of 48 ft for 40 Meters (since the coax has still not been replaced to my CC 2L40) and was pleased how well it worked into Northern and Eastern Europe and even off the side to JA/SA. Most (>95%) contacts were made S&P and I worked very few USA stations. I was thrilled to pick up 48 new RTTY countries on 10 Meters including 32 Europeans, 4 Asians (A6 HZ JA OD), and 3 from Oceania (KH2 KH6 KH0). 15M produced 15 new RTTY Countries including BY CP ER ES JW OD OJ0 OX Overall, I worked 3 All Time New Ones on RTTY (BY CP EY) I expect that every RTTY record will have been broken after this outstanding weedend! Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TB Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 125,664 10 is back! Great condx to EU and JA. Only worked a few NE USA stations. Had to shut down several times both days for T-storms. 73 Terry N4TB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZZ Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 142,110 Great fun with the 10 meter opening. Hope this will continue. 73 Don-n4zz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW/0 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 128,025 Started out to work the Texas QSO party but when I found 10 and 15 wide open I never got back to TQP. With 100 watts and my poor antennas here at our vacation home in Colorado it has been tough to work much DX the last six or seven years. What a pleasure it was to work lots of it this weekend even if I'm not much of a RTTY fan! No RTTY interface - just the K3 memories and my paddle so all search and pounce. Radio: K3 at 100 watts Antennas: G5RV at 8 meters, roof mounted 20 meter ground plane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5RZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,503,148 Say that was fun!! Outstanding condx. Decided to do a single radio single op this time. Haven't got things set up for SO2R yet on RTTY, but that sure would have helped. With 10M open, there wasn't enough of me to cover everything with one radio. Outstanding activity. Elecraft K3 + Alpha 87 TH6DXX@ 50' Rotary 40M Dipole @ 50' 80M inverted Vee @ 50' NE & NW 580' beverages. N1MM software. Sure could have used a second antenna for 20-15-10 --- I was riding the rotator the whole time! Thanks to all for the QSO's. 73, Gator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UWY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 99,034 The N1MM summary window has confusing column headers, so not sure if this is right. Holy cow, were 10 and 15 hot! I've never worked so many JAs! Lots of fun! Thanks for all the Qs!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 36,975 Just fooling around. Great to work KC0REN and W0TUP in ND for RTTY WAS and TPA #150. How wonderful it is to have 10 meters back. May it stay with us a loooong time! Special treats were working ST2AR and VU2LBW on 15 meters. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, David N6AN@W6UE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,128,105 No time Saturday evening or all day Sunday due to Family commitments. But Friday night and Saturday morning were a blast! 10 Meters is back! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 454,215 Very fun conditions. Great hearing the high band openings. Helped spread the contesters over more bandwidth. Thanks for all the q's! 73 Greg N6CK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6ML Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 115,620 K3, KPA500 (~600W), 103BA Part-time effort, some remote and some onsite. Missed most of Saturday morning due to planned station maintenance. So apparently there's a 10m band, and it opens to EU from the west coast. Who knew?! First time I've seen it really open during a contest (licensed since 2007), and it was a blast on Sunday morning. Mostly interested in working new 10m DXCC, and managed to add 16 new ones to the count (now 148), and many LotW users from unconfirmed ones. Hope the trend continues.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 79,891 Wow, 10m opened to EU. Music business limited me to about 1.5 hours during the EU openings. Did this test to check out the re-built 10m stack, it worked fine. I found that RTTY contesting can become addicting! Mucho tnx to N6ML for setting up the N1MM logger, and some coaching on rtty operating. CU all in CQP, listen for N6O. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6VH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 161,000 Not a great score, but my personal best for this contest. "High" power for me was 200 watts. Tribander at 20 feet and ground mounted SteppIR vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AT Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 465,186 This was only my third major RTTY contest. Lots to learn yet, but I think I am on the right path. 15 was in great shape most of the weekend and this was fun! CU all CQWW SSB and CW. 73, Bob K8IA Arizona Outlaws Contest Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7MQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 184,011 Limited time to operate. Great to see 10 open. Tnx for Q's. 73, Mark N7MQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7NM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 667,290 FT-1000mp 500w 43ft Zero-five vertical Prop the best in ten years and the activity levels were unbelievable! Exciting to have 10/15m back but will take a little time to relearn the limitations here in the PNW. The vertical performed beyond my wildest expectations but will need to add a few more radials as it heard very well but being heard, even with 500w was challenging. Nice runs to JA on Sunday on both 10 and 15 while 20 was really poor the whole weekend. surprisingly 40m and 80m were productive also. CU all is the other WWs from W7VJ, 73, Doug - N7NM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7VEA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 206,816 Conditions were pretty darn good, nothing broke, and work didn't call. I had a lot of fun. Thanks to all of you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,565,510 I hope this is a sign of good things to come. Started out doing SO15 until things got slow on Saturday morning. Though maybe conditions were changing so I checked 20 which was flat. Went to 10 and it was full of very strong EU stations. Found a hole and called CQ and the pileup lasted for 165 Q's in about 90 min. Most fun I've had in a RTTY contest. Gave up on the single band thing and spent most of Saturday swapping between 10 and 15. Nice JA run on 15 on Saturday night. Heard 1 JA on 10 but could not work him. Low bands were pretty quiet but never could get much going. Almost identical score as last year but in 2010 the low bands were great and nothing on 10. This year it was just the opposite. Quit 4 hrs early to have dinner with my son, grand daugher and great grandson. The K3 is much nicer on RTTY with the P3. Much easier to find a hole to CQ. K3 & Pro III DX2400L Tribander stack for 10 + 4 ele SE 4 ele 15 at 95' 4 ele 20 at 80' 2 ele 40 at 100' Vertical and dipole for 80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8HM Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 1,344 Great to hear 10 meters wide open again! Very casual operation. Thanks for the QSOs. Station: Radio - Yaesu FT-817ND Antenna - AlexLoop Walkham Portable Magnetic Loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,468 Lost my PK-900 for the Weekend, and thought I'd lost my Tuner. Made some Nice QSO's and had some fun. Log sent to LOTW/eQSL.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9LAH Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,233,444 Wow, and did I mean WOW? Have never done M/S here since putting the tower up in anything but the RTTY RU. We have never broken 1 million before and it was a blast. Next year we might actually have to get serious about this contest and schedule the whole 48 hours with operators. Worked every JA there was on 10 meters Saturday afternoon and re worked them all on 15 Sunday afternoon. Maybe just not in the same order. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9OK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 249,964 CQWWRTTY Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2011-09-24 CallSign Used : N9OK Operator(s) : N9OK Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : RTTY Default Exchange : 04 IL Gridsquare : EN52SJ Name : Joe Robin Address : 4410 Billingsgate Ln City/State/Zip : Woodstock IL 60098 Country : USA ARRL Section : IL Club/Team : Society of Midwest Contesters Software : N1MM Logger V11.9.3 Band QSOs Pts Zn DXC 7 80 164 26 10 23 14 92 195 34 16 24 21 128 326 40 14 14 28 114 303 34 15 3 Total 414 988 134 55 64 Score : 249,964 Rig : Antennas : Soapbox : Bands were in really nice condition. I had a lot of fun in t his contest. This was my best RTTY effort so far but wasted several hours trying to get N1MM properly configured. Thanks Jim N7US for your assistance! I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2011-09-26 Signature : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 213,044 Rig: Elecraft K3 Antennas: 160/80 Inverted "L" 40M Loop R5 Vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2U Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 32,368 73 from the desert, Fred/NA2U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA3M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,928,500 Good conditions. It was my best all time score for this contest. The N1MM logger worked well, no real issues were reported on the reflector so I spent more time on the air. Thanks for all the QSOs. Nick NA3M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA6G Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 17,066 This was fun. Bands were good. Only did S&P. Just wish I could have had more time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND2W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,580,677 Great outing Great conditions wonderful team work... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF3C Class: M/S LP Total Score = 17,628 Telnet on, so entered as MS. Why no SOSB(A) Low power? Seems to me SOSB LOW would NEED help! I didn't use it, but it was on, so ... MS! Thanks for the Qs Vic,NF3C/W4VIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 198,324 I wasn't able to spend as much time as I'd hoped. Family issues arose which were unavoidable. Nice to see 10 and 15 be really productive. Been a long, long time. Score is just over half of last year's. Thanks for the Q's Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI7R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 130,190 RTTY is really a tough mode for a contest using HOA restricted antennas. All S&P here, which made it twice as slow as CW for me. With limited antennas, I had trouble copying the weaker stations and many could not copy me even running 500 watts. However, the opening to Europe on 10 meters this morning was nice, especially since almost all of the Europeans copied my little signal on the first call. A pleasant surprise. 15 meters turned out to be the best band though. RTTY contest are fun, but not near as much fun as a good old CW contest. IC-736, AL-811H 500 watts Portable Transworld TW20-10 for 10/15, and a portable screwdriver vertical with a 12 foot whip sitting on top of an aluminum ladder hidden away in my courtyard for 80/40/20/15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN6NN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 28,633 The NN6NN RTTY Team will be active during the 2012 ARRL RU from PJ2 as PJ2N. N6EE and I look forward to your many RTTY QSOs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NO2T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,108,878 Wow!! 10 meters was a blast. Probably spent more time on the band than I should have, but after the long long time without the band it was super! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP4BM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 784,980 Great propagation on 10m and higher bands.Very loud signals from Asia and Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,389,440 Can't really add to what has already been written about the FANTASTIC conditions. Everything was open all the time, it seemed. Some of the EU signals on 10 and 15 were super loud! Being a RTTY contester with limited experience, W4PK and N2QT, showed me how they were using two digital windows, each with a different antenna source. Thought this was really a neat thing. Got it set up on 80 with the 4 sq and Beverages, but never could make it work on 40. I suspect a sound card issue. It really made working 80 a blast! A minor 'correct freq' issue caused us to change out the 15 meter rig. But, other than that, all the equipment worked very well. (from K7SV) It would have been difficult to ask for better condx. 80 was pretty decent despite the fact that 10 meters was just incredible. QRN on the low bands was not a large factor. To work Southeast Asia and a huge number of JAs on ten meters in addition to endless Eur runs was thrilling. In the midst of the Eur run fairly early Sunday morning, two JA6s called in on the long path. To be working all of Eur on 15 during the very middle of the night their time was a blast. Whether muf rising about 20 meters was the reason or the fact that folks were gravitating to 10 and 15 was the cause, 20 meters wasn't the bedlam that it has been for a number of years. Working 10 was sometimes frustrating. As the band was opening up and signals were just tickling the S-meter the pile up sound like white noise. Later when we were dealing with S9 signals the pileup still sounded like white noise, just louder! While several of last years crew couldn't make it this year, we still had a super team. One change from last year is we switched to using N1MM and it with MMTTY was fantastic on RTTY. Bring on CW! Thanks for the patient people who put up with me (NR4M)fumbling with macros, etc. This was our first time using N1MM at NR4M. Although some of the ops were already familiar with the program, this was my first time using it. There were things like 'Oh, I didn't know that..." and 'Why did it just do that?...' and '&%+@#!' that I said way too often. Thanks for all the QSO's and looking forward to next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX8G Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 164,372 IC-746PRO, SignaLink USB into a center fed dipole at about 30 feet. Ham Radio Deluxe/DM780 v4.0. Found it difficult to run so did S&P about 85% of the time. 10 meters and 15 meters were open and a lot of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ4O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 70,224 Rig- Icom IC-756 Pro III Power- 100 watts Antenna- 300 foot long horizontal loop up at 35 feet. Software- MixW v3.01b I lost allot of operating time in the contest due to passage of many lightning storms. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2E Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,368,820 What a remember, 10 Meter so wide open! Great openings to JA on 10 and 15 mostly on Saturday! Also to USA and a lots of West Coast! Sunspots are coming again, or just a short Interlude? 73, Gerald OE2E, OE2GEN, ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG8A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 33,217 With GP and FT-100MP MARK-V Field + AL-1200 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH1F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,001,783 FT1000D + WinTest + MMTTY + Microham Keyer II + Alpha 91b + antennae The best condx for 10 years! The highlight was to work KH6MB during the daytime on Saturday at 10 meters and then at 22z on 15. Propagation was not as good at Sunday although it was still ok. It was also challenging to work European multipliers on high bands. As I was SO1R this was just relaxed "just for fun" operation. Chasing DX spots and chatting on WWYC IRC. I had some techincal issues like BSoD of my mini laptop 4 times during the contest. Also WT had its own tricks and someway I feel that I am not totally understanding all the features of MMTTY yet (= I should have more qsos). CU all in SAC SSB contest 8-9 October, 2011 from OH1F M/M. 73 Timo OH1NOA, OJ0M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2BP/M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,400 Due to other family efforts (visiting a Vip wedding) this time a Mobile session on the event parking lot some 700 km from home. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH4A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,705,558 Contest was fun, thank you! Thanks Jukka OH6LI & Merja and other enablers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8KA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 203,728 Great to see 10+15m wide open! Glad to see so much activity, tnx for all Q's and multipliers. Yaesu FT-990, 100W, 19m long end-fed sloper wire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,522,400 Good condx on 15 and 10. Maybe a bit too good as I'm not too satisfied with my performance on the other bands. Lost some valuable operating time due to a technical problem, but fortunately was able to carry on. My biggest mistake was to take a "short 45 min nap" on Sunday night. Woke up 4 hours later to find out that I had just lost my Sunday morning sunrise hours. All in all I'm quite satisfied with my performance. This was my 3rd RTTY contest and there's still much room for improvement. If the contest started now, I would definately do some things differently. :) Congrats to Kari OH4KA operating at OH4A, as well as to the gang at OH8A. Great scores guys! I'll be back! :) 73 de Pasi OH6UM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,308,960 Tnx fer QSO, 73! Jarda OK2SFP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Total Score = 330,512 nice condx saturday open till 21:45 UTC sunday till 21 UTC 43% QSO with USA - 289 QSO but only 55 QSO with JA thanks for all QSO 73 Ludek OK3C (OK2ZC) ok2zc.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,205,420 Problems with antennas ... very good condxs on 15 and 10 m. Thanks for QSOs and cu in CQWW SSB and CQWW CW 73 Pavel OK1DRQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,148,794 Nice contest, nice condx, nice wheater. Thank for the QSOs! some photos you can found on out web site: http://www.ok1kvk.cz/web/index.php/zavody/kv/506-cq-ww-dx-rtty-2011 73 de Michal, OK1WMR Radio club OK1KVK/OL7C http://www.ok1kvk.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,109,390 Although we are mostly CW/SSB operators (except of "African Tiger" OK1DF - 7X0RY), we desided to participate in this contest. We wanted to try M/S for the first time at OL7M. Everybody was also wondering how will work new stacks 6/6 for 15 and fixed 5/5/5/5 for 10 which were installed this summer. We met a bit late before the contest and started to set-up the station. After some necessary hectic and chaos we Were ready for action just seconds before the contest started. Everything went fine until Saturday morning. Problems occured just when 15m pile-up started... Instead of working JAs one by one in JA prime time we were changing PCs, instaling SW and etc etc... Finally all the problems have been solved and since that time we only enjoyed great condx and contest itself. Both stacks performed extremely well, better then expected. Everybody was smilling and running pile-ups was real fun. 10m was a pleasure surprise. Nice signals from U.S. and even couple of W6/7 were logged. Nice to be called by FO5QB, OJ0X and others. Thank You guys. All in all it was another memorable weekend. Thanks everyone for call, see You in other contests. 73! on behalf OL7M Zdeno OK2ZW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM5M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,050,760 Great condx on higher bands and lot of fun. Few problems with PC, interfaces which we definitely solved I hope. Team age average this time was 22 years. FT-1000MP, IC-756 2x home made PA, 1x Alpha 91B QTH is student hostel (8 floor building) 10m 5 el. 15m 6 el. 20m 5 el. 40m 2 el. HB9CV, dipole 80m dipole, delta loop 2 beverages on near meadow See you in next contest. Radioclub of Slovak University of Technology. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP4A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 169,100 Just spend a little time hope next year have some more, nice openings on 1 0meter. Rig: IC746, Dipole 80/40m 2el Yagi 20/15/10meter. 73 to all, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ1ADL Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 75,870 Wow .... OZ4VW Arne, had borrowed the Shack for the CQWW RTTY Contest this year, as I was away on family business most of the week-end. He ended up doing very well, somewhat above previous danish records - He will post results later. But after Arne had left the building and after a week-end of Birthdays etc. I sat down in the operating position - turned the radio on at 28 MHz and started CQing, as I only had one US state on 10 m RTTY on my Lotw WAS account - and man, was I in for a treat ! After app. 3,5 hours of very intense operating and 287 Q�'s later I now had 45 US-states in my name - and even a couple of more contacts around....That was FUN !! I hope some of them will end up on LoTW. I wish I had been on 10 m the whole week-end - Great to see 10 m back in shape ! 73 de Jan, OZ1ADL http://www.thogersen.dk/Site_2/What_is_happening_at_OZ1ADL/What_is_happening_at_OZ1ADL.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ4VW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,013,842 First time on this reflector Working from OZ1ADL�'s station, nice setup. After I stopped Jan worked app. 300 more US stations Fantactic propagation to the US Have a nice day Arne OZ4VW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 15,223,728 10 meters delighted us in the 2010 CQ WW RTTY contest by supporting some QSOs. This past weekend it dazzled us, providing worldwide propagation just like some remember from the last solar high. For newer contesters the 10 meter band must have seemed mystical. The extent to which 10 meters was really back is demonstrated by how poor the lower bands performed with the MUF so high. 20 meters seemed virtually blacked out at times during the day while 10 and 15 were jammed with QSOs. At night, 40 and especially 80 were big disappointments compared to how they've been in recent years with the last solar cycle low. This dramatic shift in bands was undoubtedly accentuated by migration of activity to the higher bands. In Aruba, 10 and 15 were open before local sunrise and held up well past local sunset. There were periods of diminished signal levels, close to blackouts, particularly on Saturday, where signals faded into the noise floor mid-QSO. These temporal blackouts were forecast along with the solar activity. CQ WW RTTY records surely fell as a result of this long-awaited high-band propagation. Because RTTY contest participation is so much higher than at prior solar peaks, it is hard to predict just how high contest records can be pushed. Clearly, though, one limitation is QSO rates which in turn are contrained by the excessively long messages being sent. Until the majority of participants evolve to short exchanges as in CW and SSB contesting, maximum QSO rates will be stuck at just over 100/hour per radio. P49X operated M2 with K6AW on 15/80, W6OTC on 20 and W0YK on 10/40. N4RR rotated between the three positions to give everyone a 3-hour break every nine hours. 10 meters had been so outstanding the days prior to the contest that we decided to start on 10 and 15, switching to 20 when 10 dropped off. After the first half-hour, the rate on 10 did drop, or at least it faltered, so we moved to 20. 15 wasn't moved to 40 until the third hour Friday. On Saturday, the band changes occurred earlier and on Sunday we left 10 more than three hours earlier than Friday, finishing the contest on 15 and 20. Sunday afternoon was blessed by nearly every QSO coming from Europeans who had not yet been in our log on any band. We encouraged each to go to the other band (10 or 15) and many did. Because of this and other aspects of the highly skewed high-band proportion of QSOs, for the first time at P49X, more QSOs were made with Europe than North America. The station setup used my SO3R configuration which is three networked computers, one on each of three radios (Elecraft K3s). For this M2 we dedicated radios to bands: 10/40, 15/80 and 20. The K3 Band Map feature was used to enable only those bands on each radio, minimizing the chance to inadvertently get on the wrong band. We replaced the ICE419 bandpass filters with individual W3NQN filters which N4RR brought. This required manual swapping of band pass filters on the 10/40 and 15/80 positions. Band changes were simply executed by stopping operation at one position and starting on another. There were few, if any, times when we were band changing between 15 and 80 or 10 and 40. Forseeing that there could be significant 10 meter operation, Elecraft built two prototype pre-amps based on their PR6 6-meter preamp which is fully integrated with the K3. It was engaged on the 10-meter position almost exclusively and really helped as signals faded in and out of the noise floor. This station has three small towers on a city lot so we've been fighting inter-band RFI for years. The antennas are just too close for serious multi-op, even SO2R, operations at high power. On the low bands, the Beverage array is 800' from the transmitting towers on another property. This virtually eliminates the RFI problem on the low bands. But with the 40 and 20 Yagis on the same mast, 20 meters is rendered nearly useless when 40 is transmitting, especially doing RTTY on the low end of 40 which puts the harmonic right in the middle of 20 meter RTTY action. Our main objective in the week prior to the contest was to solve the high-band RFI problem. We brought a 12AVQ vertical to put out at the Beverage feedpoint for an RX antenna on the high bands. Ultimately, it was never used ... As one step in our RFI troubleshooting, we found that using the C31 on a separate tower from the 40 enabled us to coexist on those two bands. In parallel, the 10 and 15 Yagis share the same boom and had similarly intolerable RFI between those two bands. Again, using the C31 for either 10 or 15 nearly eliminated that problem. So, one alternative that emerged was to use the C31, but it had to be shared between 10 and 20. We didn't want to restrict ourselves to choosing between those two bands however. The solution came to us indirectly in the form of a newly designed high-power triplexer build by K2NG for his PJ4 contest station over in Bonaire. Roger, N4RR, used this trip to swing through Bonaire to deliver the triplexer to that station. In return, K2NG agreed to let us "burn-in" the new triplexer at P49X. Initially, this was a low priority in my mind because I didn't see the utility of band-sharing the C31 as being worth the additional complexity of not only the triplexer but also the three StackMatches to allow 10, 15 and 20 to simultaneously use the C31 with their monoband Yagis. Instead, we used the triplexer to solve our RFI issue by simply sharing the C31 between 10 and 20 at the same time. The 10 and 20 meter Yagis were not used. There was some constraint by not having seperately rotatable antennas on these two bands, but it turned out not to be a problem. Antennas here are pointed north most of the contest anyway. The net result was that the high-power triplexer worked flawlessly. We found no RFI contributed by it and it worked magically all weekend at full legal-limit RTTY. In my mind, this is a must-have addition to the station here so that the C31 can be fully deployed, not only for RFI relief but also as a second antenna that can be phased or selected with the monobanders for the three high bands. In fact, it might make sense to replace the 10/15 duo-band Yagi with another tribander and deploy two triplexers with three StackMatches. This should finally allow us to do SO2R, MS and M2 from this modest station. Multi-multi, though, is still hard to imagine! Thanks to all the other participants who played the game with us! An amazing number (yet to be counted) worked us on all five bands. And, thanks to station owners P40L (W6LD) and P49Y (AE6Y) for supporting our "RTTY thing" here in lovely Aruba. Ed - W0YK Glenn - W6OTC Steve - K6AW Roger - N4RR 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 135 423 701 833 785 2877 44.4 AS 0 46 96 218 98 458 7.1 EU 72 393 570 931 1005 2971 45.8 SA 4 18 17 28 27 94 1.5 OC 0 8 10 14 7 39 0.6 AF 3 5 13 12 8 41 0.6 QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 45/37 98/48 58/35 201/120 201/120 D1-0100Z - - 100/27 104/19 - 204/46 405/166 D1-0200Z - 43/35 91/18 12/8 - 146/61 551/227 D1-0300Z - 102/33 81/12 - - 183/45 734/272 D1-0400Z 16/19 86/16 46/6 - - 148/41 882/313 D1-0500Z 4/4 95/16 60/7 - - 159/27 1041/340 D1-0600Z 12/15 65/7 64/12 - - 141/34 1182/374 D1-0700Z 15/14 45/8 56/8 - - 116/30 1298/404 D1-0800Z 6/4 23/3 25/3 --+-- --+-- 54/10 1352/414 D1-0900Z 13/2 26/8 5/3 - - 44/13 1396/427 D1-1000Z 13/2 47/2 4/2 19/14 3/5 86/25 1482/452 D1-1100Z - - 3/3 114/22 77/25 194/50 1676/502 D1-1200Z - - 2/3 102/11 112/18 216/32 1892/534 D1-1300Z - - - 60/5 89/9 149/14 2041/548 D1-1400Z - - 2/0 32/1 87/7 121/8 2162/556 D1-1500Z - - - 79/7 113/9 192/16 2354/572 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 85/5 110/4 195/9 2549/581 D1-1700Z - - - 68/1 119/5 187/6 2736/587 D1-1800Z - - 5/3 108/5 103/3 216/11 2952/598 D1-1900Z - - 5/0 88/7 109/5 202/12 3154/610 D1-2000Z - - 33/7 92/4 38/8 163/19 3317/629 D1-2100Z - - 76/2 93/3 3/4 172/9 3489/638 D1-2200Z - - 40/1 91/0 50/3 181/4 3670/642 D1-2300Z - - 10/1 59/1 63/4 132/6 3802/648 D2-0000Z --+-- 5/6 84/7 49/3 1/0 139/16 3941/664 D2-0100Z 2/2 44/5 67/7 20/3 - 133/17 4074/681 D2-0200Z 26/13 43/1 54/0 - - 123/14 4197/695 D2-0300Z 9/1 69/1 33/0 - - 111/2 4308/697 D2-0400Z 49/12 55/2 9/0 - - 113/14 4421/711 D2-0500Z 27/5 45/2 34/2 - - 106/9 4527/720 D2-0600Z 3/1 57/2 55/3 - - 115/6 4642/726 D2-0700Z 3/0 17/0 29/0 - - 49/0 4691/726 D2-0800Z --+-- 18/1 9/0 --+-- --+-- 27/1 4718/727 D2-0900Z 11/2 8/0 7/1 - - 26/3 4744/730 D2-1000Z 5/1 - 24/3 21/1 1/0 51/5 4795/735 D2-1100Z - - 7/0 60/2 87/2 154/4 4949/739 D2-1200Z - - 24/0 13/1 84/0 121/1 5070/740 D2-1300Z - - 8/0 34/5 79/3 121/8 5191/748 D2-1400Z - - 6/0 13/1 19/8 38/9 5229/757 D2-1500Z - - 2/0 26/0 56/3 84/3 5313/760 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/0 61/3 97/3 5410/763 D2-1700Z - - 5/0 55/1 85/0 145/1 5555/764 D2-1800Z - - 7/0 53/3 97/2 157/5 5712/769 D2-1900Z - - 7/0 73/1 107/2 187/3 5899/772 D2-2000Z - - 7/1 83/3 95/2 185/6 6084/778 D2-2100Z - - 53/1 68/2 11/0 132/3 6216/781 D2-2200Z - - 66/2 67/1 7/1 140/4 6356/785 D2-2300Z - - 58/2 62/0 6/0 126/2 6482/787 Total: 214/97 893/1481408/1842037/1881930/170 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 3D2 1 1 4J 1 1 4X 1 1 2 6W 1 1 1 3 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 5 9A 3 6 7 7 23 9H 1 1 9K 1 1 9M2 1 2 3 9V 1 1 1 3 A6 1 1 2 4 BV 1 1 BY 1 1 2 CE 1 2 4 7 CM 3 14 11 10 1 39 CN 1 2 2 1 1 7 CT 1 2 4 4 5 16 CT3 1 2 3 4 1 11 CU 1 1 CX 1 1 1 3 DL 14 65 93 212 203 587 DU 2 2 E7 2 1 3 1 7 EA 4 14 30 26 42 116 EA6 1 2 1 4 EA8 1 1 6 4 4 16 EA9 1 1 EI 3 6 6 6 21 ER 3 1 6 6 16 ES 1 1 1 3 5 11 EU 4 10 7 4 25 EX 1 1 2 EY 2 2 4 F 2 22 20 21 42 107 FG 1 1 2 FO 1 1 G 1 21 34 52 48 156 GI 3 5 7 15 GM 1 3 5 9 8 26 GU 1 1 1 3 GW 1 1 4 5 11 HA 3 3 3 14 23 46 HB 6 7 10 17 40 HC 1 1 2 HI 1 1 2 1 5 HK 2 2 2 1 1 8 HL 1 5 1 7 HS 1 1 1 3 HZ 1 3 4 I 7 23 56 76 109 271 IS 1 2 1 2 6 IT9 1 2 3 5 5 16 J3 1 1 1 3 JA 36 49 171 75 331 JT 2 2 JW 1 1 2 K 114 371 623 757 715 2580 KH0 1 1 KH2 1 2 1 4 KH6 2 2 4 KL 3 1 2 1 7 KP2 1 1 2 KP4 1 2 4 1 8 LA 1 5 9 12 13 40 LU 1 4 3 6 9 23 LX 1 3 3 2 4 13 LY 1 1 4 7 5 18 LZ 1 3 4 8 10 26 OD 1 1 OE 4 7 7 18 OH 6 11 12 22 25 76 OJ0 1 1 1 1 4 OK 1 17 20 32 25 95 OM 6 7 15 14 42 ON 7 11 16 15 49 OX 1 1 1 3 OY 1 1 OZ 2 4 6 7 10 29 P4 2 1 1 4 PA 4 19 31 40 54 148 PY 1 8 5 11 8 33 PZ 1 1 1 1 4 S5 2 10 13 12 16 53 SM 1 13 13 27 18 72 SP 7 23 27 52 48 157 ST 1 1 SV 4 6 7 11 28 SV9 1 1 2 2 6 T7 1 1 TA1 1 1 1 3 TF 3 2 1 6 TG 3 3 TK 1 1 2 TR 1 1 UA 3 34 50 87 72 246 UA2 1 1 3 5 UA9 6 27 21 12 66 UK 1 1 2 UN 1 6 5 1 13 UR 5 32 38 71 69 215 VE 11 24 50 54 55 194 VK 5 5 4 14 VP9 1 1 1 1 1 5 VU 1 3 1 5 XE 2 3 1 6 9 21 YB 2 2 2 6 YL 5 3 6 7 21 YO 2 9 5 10 17 43 YU 3 6 5 5 19 YV 2 1 3 2 8 Z3 1 1 3 3 8 ZC4 1 1 ZL 2 1 3 6 ZP 1 1 2 ZS 1 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 435,953 Rig: Yaesu FT-2000, 100w Cushcraft R7 vertical DX-A twin-sloper PG7V Contestcalendar: http://www.cqcontest.eu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PI4CC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,087,432 He, did you notice that 10m was open? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP1CZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 521,860 This was my first RTTY Contest ever. I enjoyed it so much. Propagation bring us a wonderful party. Thank you all for the patience with me and my first adventure in this kind of Contest. All the best from PP1CZ - Léo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PX2V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,789,914 TS2000 PK900 ACOM 1010 - 400 WATTS 8 EL LOG PERIOD 2 EL 40M 80M DIPOLE QSL VIA PY2KJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,200,060 Amazing opening on 10m, after a long long time. I did some stops, to be in a party with our friends on Saturday and a nice lunch on Sunday, with Jeep ride around our city... Anyway, more then I could expect about!! Hope to find you next contest!! Radio FT 1000 MK-V Field, KT-34-XA Triband, 40-2CD 40m yagi. N1MM + MMTTY PY2NY Max Rates: 2011-09-24 0012Z - 3,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 180 per hour 2011-09-25 2301Z - 1,9 per minute (10 minute(s)), 114 per hour 2011-09-25 2309Z - 1,5 per minute (60 minute(s)), 89 per hour ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2SEX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,132,544 WOOOOOOOOOW!!!! Watta contest??? I never saw something like that on RTTY. I was out of bands since the WAE SSB, I have tried contact 4W6A ON 10M two days before and could see good condx, but no luck and I didn't even checked the SFI and it was AWESOME. On Friday I had to pass thru a Lithotripsy to pulverize my kidney stone and I was drugged and I slept all afternoon long. I didn't know wich category I would try, maybe SOSBLP because you have some time to sleep or SOABLP where you must be awake more time and that was my choice. I'm little bit regreted because 10m was sup and I still don't know what category should I send my logs. As K1EA said, Do the contest first and decide the category later. :D As SK2T, I also prefer CW than RTTY but I couldn't move my ass off the chair, the bands were completely full, 10m kept me awake all the time, but unfortunately I Slept too much on sunday and I lost the good opening at morning on 15m and 10m. hi hi hi hi. But was good work Europe via Long Path on 15m, long long time I couldnt do that. As usual, I lost some time trying configure the Win-test and MMTY together, since I have lost my HDD, nothing was configured since then, and would be my first time using both softwares on RTTY contest, and ran like a charm, easy and fast. 40m was too hard to be printed was a really P.I.T.A. 20m as on 40m was hard, but I could make some good stuff there. 15m I've got disappointed a little, just a few QSOs nothing else. Hard to be printed as well. 10m No comments, wide open band on whole weekend, no complaining, after reach the CQ WW RTTY World record on 10m last year with just 315 QSOs, this new score was FANTASTIC! I never worked so many JA's on 10m as on this contest. Well, this probably was my last Contest on PY2SEX Station, Since I'm with a good possibilities to move out to Germany (Koeln) at end of October. So if Any German Station is reading this Bible, please get in touch because, I'd like to be part of any team in Europe to participate of some contests. My Congrtats to K1KO for his new Grandson borned and thanks to all that had some patience to print me and get my replies. I've got this today on WIN-TEST list sent by N6TV and this is very true! "Please note that top RTTY ops such as W0YK advise everyone to keep all RTTY messages as brief as possible. Do on RTTY what you would do on CW. Repeating received exchanges, or sending "UR" during every QSO, just wastes time. Do it only when necessary." Log was uploaded to LoTW and will soon on my contest statistics page. Work Condx. ANT. 2 el for 40m and 7el. for 10x15x20 YAESU FT-950 Signalink USB Interface Softwares: Win-test with MMTY PC: Vaio Notebook i7 8Gb RAM 640Gb HDD running win7 Ultimate Edition. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PZ5RA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,075,747 Thanks to all of you for a great contest. 73 Ramon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RT9S Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,533,042 Rig: FT-1000MP, ANT: AD-347, GP-80m, INV VEE on 40m. Nice propagation on 15 and 10 meters bands! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW4WZ Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 309,622 First time in my HAM Radio life see what is Radio blockout is. At 0935Z it just looks like somebody switch off all the HF bands. No one signal on any band from 80m to 10m for about 30 minutes ! Then till the darkness it was R1 level of blockout. Next day the level of all signals during the daylight was small :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50B Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 14,220 On saturday visit S50XX location. Congratulation for the score! After inspiration, tray to see situation on my location! Very good propagation on 10 and 15m till late evening! IC-756PRO2, WINDOM (8m up), MK2, N1MM! See you nex year with new tower, antennas and more power! 73 Borut ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,344,888 RIG: (only) FT2000 + ACOM 2000 40,20,15,10m: OPTIBEAM 12-4 @ 25m 80m: DIPOLE N1MM Our best result ever. After last year S50PTUJ activity with 3M points we broke our goal of 4M. Thanks to all for Qso's and see you in next one! Sandi S52OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50XX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,789,688 FT1000MPMkV/K3 Alpha powered 80: Inv V 40: 1/4 vertical with elevated radials 20/15/10: C31XR 4O3A BPFs, SACX, WX0B sixpak 24', 22' and 2x17' LCDs with few old single core PCs No major tech failure, just a 22' LCD panel. Expected some more from 20m, but 15/10m was probably just too much fun. Did I hear a "WOW"? Great weekend! Kristjan, S50XX 80 40 20 15 10 All % North America 43 211 237 501 423 1415 37.1 South America 2 8 16 17 24 67 1.8 Europe 456 414 415 398 170 1853 48.5 Africa 5 5 6 10 12 38 1.0 Asia 15 26 64 174 143 422 11.1 Oceania 1 9 8 6 24 0.6 Top5 DXCC 80 40 20 15 10 All United States 35 185 199 441 384 1244 Germany 87 50 44 40 36 257 Japan 0 3 26 113 97 239 EU Russia 36 54 44 83 19 236 Ukraine 46 53 41 35 4 179 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51CK Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 287,245 Bad propagacions. 73 de S51CK -Ivo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 564,510 Operation limited to Saturday afternoon / evening. Thanks for calls 73 de Miha, S51FB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S55O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,892,192 First time so2r. The experience was good, the problems made me unable to do a good score. The filter for 28mhz died on the first hour of the work in the contest, so i used 28 for a limited time and since the conditions were as they were it was realy a bad thing :). Lost most of saturday on problem solving and troubleshooting. The hours i spent operating were mostly pracitce of so2r work and next time will do much better. It was a good learning experience and so2r is realy something different from the so1r. I appologise for some stupid mistakes i did during so2r, specialy when one of my interfaces got stuck and some of you waited 1 minute for the raport (it was happening a lot :/ ) Utah on 28 was realy the best qso of the contest, since it's realy hard to get it there, also 2 ND made me happy a lot. It's hard to get you guys, so thanks! I used the equipment at S51F location and have to thank Frenk for the great hospitality and support during this experience. It was wonderful, to get a cup of hot coffe when i needed it!! I thank all the hams that helped me with the equipment and precontest preparation. Hear you in the next one Log will be on LOTW soon. My congrats on the very ufb scores of S57AW and S50XX team, my hat is off... Best of luck and good dx Boštjan S55O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 251,363 I bet on 10 m good condx! However, I woke up before midnight on Friday and started assisted operation on lower bands with FT-1000MP being dead on 15 m. TH6DXX caused some intermittent faults when rotated South so no zones 36-39. I was chassing OA6 for zone 10 in wain. Never heard zones 1, 2, 7 and 19. KH6MP and HS0 also missed. Meager runs but I am used to S&P from previous QRP operations. QSO to remember was W1PL! I was briefly testing MMVARI in 3 kHz multi-RX mode but my CPU seems to be weak for it. I developed SDR RTTY decoder for 48 kHz bandwidth with YT7PWR but didn't use it due to archaic rtty rules lacking Expert class. 20 m CW Skimmer recording was made for further research. RTTY is fun as we are still dealing with changing radio propagations and our goal is always the same to send big Cabrillo file with high claimed score :-) UE DE MARIO, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AW Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 3,701,235 SO2R setup: IC-7800 / IC-756 PRO III Microham MK2R Writelog / MMtty + stereo soundcard / DXCluster ANT: 80m: 3el Yagi + Inv V 40m: 3el Yagi + 2el Yagi 20m: 5el Yagi + C31XR 15m: 5/5el Yagi + C31XR 10m: 5/5el Yagi + C31XR WOW! Great weekend and great conditions with SFI 190 - already mentioned by others. SOAB Low power was definitely a good choice in those circumstances. I felt loud and had also decent runs with Low Power and good antennas. Using SO2R most of the time, 250 QSOs logged on 2nd radio �" mostly S/P, I didn’t practise dual CQ-ing. Great activity as well. No problems with the setup, software and hardware performed flawlessly without a single issue. Worked more DX than EU - that tells all about propagation, I don't remember any WW contest in the past with such a statistics. 42% EU, 58% DX - most of them US (43% NA). 850 K's and 67 JA's. TNX to Tine, S50A for using his station and his wife Maca, S56MM for a great hospitality as always. 73 & CU in SSB part Robert, S57AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 474,624 Few hours for fun. 73 de Slavko S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57U Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,263,535 Catch a heavy could friday afternoon! Results are much better than last year, 1om is really back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK2T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,166,004 The X-flares and M-flares during the weekend really helped the higher bands. Was some aurora on saturday evening making 20m very hard to decode, but 15m and 10m did not suffer from the distortion. 20m was better on sunday evening. The lower bands had not much activity, probably because of the good high band conditions. Really like CW better than RTTY, but the good conditions kept me in the chair ;-) Thanks for the QSOs. 73 Per SM2LIY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM5FQQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 709,004 Was on a ham-meeting until 14:00Z on sept 24th. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM5MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 28,809 Rig: TS-850SAT Ant: 2x10 m dipole w open feeder S/W: N1MM+MMTTY First RTTY Contest ever - great fun! 73, Rolf SM5MX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN2K Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 600,660 CU in CQWW SSB Contest 2011... www.sn2k.pl Regards SP2DWG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP9LJD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,085,096 Unfortunately luck of time ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ8J Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 11,323 rig:FT-1000D power: 150W ant: GP7DX- multiband vertical I made a few QSOs on 15m, but just to give stations to points, very good propagations, I heard many stations from middle states and west coast with my little antenna...what with the current propagation does not happen often great fun!!! although I did not have too much time that I could spend on radio thank's for all contact 73, Jakub SQ8J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ8JX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 58,088 TS 590, Ant. Dipol @ only 6 m up for 80/40m + 8 beverages about 300 m long. Tnx for all qso's. 73 Kornel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ST2AR Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 1,076,955 All in all very good �" with plenty of room for improvement! I set my mind at beating last year’s LP2F score which happened already at 13:34 Sunday afternoon and ended up with breaking the record by a hefty margin. I’m sure there will be many record breaking scores this year. Having said that, apologies to all that I, radio and the MMTTY could not copy. My old IC746PRO has a completely defunct receiver that could not be fixed in several attempts and needs urgent replacement. The RX level drops abruptly and in random pattern for most of the time in the range of 20-30dB and the weak ones just don’t make it through. But will have to survive with it until the import paperwork for a new radio is approved. With conditions generally being excellent in this area, band being opened nearly round the clock, a surprise came this morning when I was checking the country statistics. JA! I knew I only did work a few, but with nearly 2000 QSO in the log, 25 JA is difficult to understand?! This is an easy, although a rather long path from here and hundreds are usually worked in any contest, let alone running pile-ups in any mode. I kept on turning the antenna in that direction but endless CQs did not produce much of a result. My head still is buzzing from all the diddle, but it was a great, action packed weekend! 73 Robert, ST2AR / S53R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SZ1A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,585,122 Excellent propagation on 10m, especially Sunday. It was the first contest in their life for some of our operators. Welcome and tnx for any possible patience. We has RF problems in the station because of a last minute change. This affected our operating time. 73 and tnx for all qsos. On behalf of SZ1A team Kostas SV1DPI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3AO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 726,600 Good to see 10m opens at last. Couldn't operate much on Saturday due to family commitments, but about 900 Q's on Sunday, not bad. 73 Seli ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM0T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,281,902 After my effort last year in SOSB/40 HP, this year I decided to go for SOAB HP. As usual, I checked out last year’s scores and it was clear that the best SOAB scores are all made using SO2R. This lowered my hopes and I thought I might change strategy and go for SOAB/15 HP, but in the end, seeing the great conditions and 10m openings just before the contest, I went back to my original plan : SOAB HP ! I also thought it would also be a good exercise in terms of band-change strategy, resting hours, and mult chasing, in addition to testing the station’s reliability with two new DXBeam antennas (and just for the fun of the contest, of course:!). 80m : good propagation and a quite acceptable noise level, in particular at the grey line. 40m : the band was its good old self, no surprises… 20m : the most disappointing band for me, but given the great conditions on 15 & 10, I’m not surprised many stations stayed on the higher bands. 15m : a real “3-pointer reservoir”, mainly to the US and JA 10m : much to my surprise, this band was great, with a superb opening to North America on Sunday afternoon. In the end, I realize that the best places will go to SO2R stations, but for a first effort in this new category (for me), my final score is well beyond my expectations! Since I didn’t use SO2R, I hardly didn’t S&P for any mults, and just ran 99% of the time. Thanks to all who called me. Apologies to those who called but didn’t get into the log ! My thanks go to DXBeam for two new 15m & 10m yagis which arrived just a few weeks before the contest. They really performed well through this first test. See you in the SSB part. Gil, F/TU5KG, aka TMØT Setup : ICOM 7800 + ACOM 2000A Win-test. 80m: two top-loaded delta loops (1 sloping to the east + 1 sloping to the west) 40m: 3 el. DXBeam yagi @ 24m 20m: 4 el. SteppIR yagi @ 27m 15m: 6 el. DXBeam yagi @ 22m 10m: 7 el. DXBeam yagi @ 18m TM0T - Continents Par bande - Tous modes QSOs (avec doubles) | Band | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC | -------------------------------------------------------------- | 80 | 75.4% | 20.5% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 2.9% | | | 40 | 43.5% | 53.3% | 1.5% | 0.2% | 1.5% | | | 20 | 29.3% | 47.5% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 20.0% | 1.8% | | 15 | 32.7% | 58.5% | 0.8% | 0.5% | 6.8% | 0.7% | | 10 | 34.3% | 50.0% | 2.5% | 0.5% | 12.0% | 0.7% | -------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by Win-Test 4.2.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 950,607 Good week end. the propag was very good on 15 meters. TU from TM6M (@f6khm station) F4DXW Stéphane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA5F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,424,648 FT5000DX MP(the fine transceiver)+ ACOM 2000(700-800 wats in RTTY) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY7C Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 653,575 First time ever tried SO2R effort, it's very enjoyable. Many troubles with RFI, QRM & other things, so result is not so impressive, but great fun is achieved. Tnx to Leonid UT7CL for providing second radio, Mother-nature for the conditions, and everybody for QSOs :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2UP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,183,752 It was a great contest. Having 5 bands to play with made this 2011 edition a memorable one. Thanks all for the Qs and hope the good conditions keep up. 73, Fabi va2up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 468,060 * FT-2000, N1MM Logger + MMTTY * 3-ele SteppIR at 27' * 40M SteppIR dipole at 27' * 80M two-vertical array (SE-NW, broadside NE-SW) * Beverage 270' aimed due east * No spotting network Flux 190? I had to look at the propagation dashboard twice to make sure I wasn't imaging that. Just when the bands light up, I had to work for one of the two days of CQWW RTTY. Missed all of Saturday daylight, and ended up with only 18 hours in the chair, down from 29 last year. Still, managed to bag more mults than last year (way more sections and a few more zones) and fell just 180 Qs behind 2010's PB. If I'd had that extra 11 hours, I would have been over the top by a wide margin. Despite conditions hitting a high note, this is only my 5th-best (4th-best with low power). Band QSOs Pts DXC Zn Sec 3.5 78 151 5 5 37 7 92 201 25 14 30 14 144 302 21 16 43 21 179 404 32 18 37 28 126 287 27 14 24 Total 619 1345 110 67 171 Score: 468,060 TOTALS QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec Score 2011 Total >> 619 1345 110 67 171 468,060 18.0 hrs 2010 Total >> 799 1846 128 63 155 638,716 29.0 hrs 2009 Total >> 703 1643 107 55 126 473,184 26.5 hrs 2008 Total >> 784 1750 111 55 135 526,750 29.0 hrs HP 2007 Total >> 599 1295 74 46 119 309,505 23.0 hrs HP Highlights: finding 6V7X for a double-mult on 15M after failing to work Enrico through a wall of east-coast RF on 20M. I beat last year on 10, 15 and 80, but for some reason 20M was extremely poor here. I was down by more than half on Qs there (376 vs. 144), and only landed 21 countries vs. 61 last year. Almost fired up the second radio on Saturday night -- this test is ideal for it -- but I was already tired and figured I should keep things as simple as possible. N1MM Logger and MMTTY were great, though I noticed a persistent lag when using the INS key to grab a call when CQing (not helped by turning off call history lookup, or setting process priority to High). Still, what a pleasure to operate with such great software. Thanks for the contacts. -- Bud VA7ST http://www.va7st.ca/home.html http://orcadxcc.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1BVD Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,161 Unfortunately, especially with the wonderful band conditions, I had a previous engagement for most of the weekend; hence my poor showing. Maybe next year... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 112,230 In and out of the shack - sure seemed like great conditions! Thanks for the QSO's Tom - VE3CX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,739,688 Rig: FT1000MP Amp: SB200 (@ 300 watts) Ant: TH6DXX @ 60', MA5B @ 35', HF2V, Slopers for 40 and 80 m. Logger: MixW2.19 with RigExpert Stnadard USB Interface. Great conditions on 10 and 15! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FDT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 571,102 Radio: Ten-Tec Jupiter Antennas: 5 band hexbeam @ 40ft & DX-LB+ short dipole @ 25 ft Software: N1MM + MMTTY Best 10 m opening I have experienced in ages. Time management lessons learned: 1- Decide BEFORE the contest whether you do casual operating or try a serious effort (and stick to it!); 2- Attempts to run are hereby BARRED until better antennas are in place (CQing for long stretches of time to have 3 "locals" answer is not worth it - 100% S&P is more effective); 3- Uninterrupted time in the chair is essential - more physiotherapy needed to get rid of the post-surgery back pain; 4- Appreciate the futility of most "multiplier dreams" and do not waste time on them: that you can hear "rare ones" does not mean they will hear your weak signal in a pile-up... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3JI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 551,150 Great contest and glad to see 10 was wide open first time in years. Wish I could have spent more time in the chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 46,080 Wish I had more time. Great conditions. Lots of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,113,969 No other words but WOW! I had always thought that 10m contact with EU wa just some east coast folk lore, but it really does exist. Until this contest I had never logged zones 14-21 on 10m. That all changed this weekend! I just wish I could have put more effort into this contest but way too many other family obligations meant missing a lot of prime time operating on Saturday and Sunday. I know this contest is about rate, but for me it turned into a search for 10m DXCC. Should have run more but spent way too much time S&P. With the bandscope on the 7700, it is easy to spot signals. 15m was the money band this time out. Everybody left 20m for the higher ones and it was almost like a contest wasn't going on. Heard some great VU signals on 20 but couldn't get their attention. Unfortunately 10m did not open up to NA from here. With the exception of some back scatter signals, the only F@ skip from NA was from Florida and AK. No JA on 10m were heard but they were plentiful on 15m Friday night. This is my first HF experience with Solar flux this high. Normally 15 and 10m are north/south only, this weekend it was mostly east/west and N/S was much weaker. Even 40m didn't have the auroral tone as it usually does. There was plenty of strong EU stations to work, which I have never experienced before. With all that solar activity, is it safe to go outside? Hopefully the conditiosn are like this for CQWW SSB next month! 73 Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5MX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,589,210 What a weekend !! Thanks to everyone that QSYed for me. Seetest move of the weekend had to be K0RC moving from 15m to 10m for the mult. He was LOUD on 10m !! Didnt work anybody else that close in on 10m. Also thanks to VU2LBW for the patience to stick with me on 20m for the double mult. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6SQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 327,691 WOW - only wished that I had been able to operate longer.... although the noise was certainly rising Sunday.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 658,230 Its been a long, long time since 15m was this good up here in northern Alberta. With the flux at 190 on Sunday made for great openings in all directions. The band was basically open 24hr. If only we didn't have to compete with east coast during the day and if the Europeans would listen for NA at night we could be a lot more competitive. Some interesting sidelights. At 0940 on Saturday morning the band was filled with Eu. At 0941 not a signal to be heard. Checking later revealed a X flare and we had a total radio blackout. On Sunday morning at 1100z could only hear zone 33 stations, all well above S9, but nothing further north. Started the contest an hour late as heavy traffic delayed getting out to Don's QTH. Then we had computer interface problems and it took over an hour to get everything communicating correctly. Equipment ICOM 756, Alpha 77 and 6 element stack 6/6/6/6 As always Don was a great host. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,627,974 Thanks to all for the qsos. What fun!! A special thank you to the VE7SV operators for taking time from their busy lives to join the fun. Like everyone is saying, 10 and 15 meters provided great fun and more DX than we have heard for many many years. We will look for everyone in CQ WW SSB. 73 Dale VE7SV and team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7UF Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,090,608 Regular team operators VA7FC, VE7AX, VA7RN joined myself, VE7UF, for another CQWW RTTY DX contest. Al, VE7JO, was in the area and we talked him into joining us for his first RTTY experience. With more than two bands open at a time we could have used more operators. We were fatigued at the finish line (time). We were greeted by another storm, which is all too typical but it wasn't severe and only caused lots of rain noise. The storm got worse the day after the contest and my power was out for 4 hours. Besides having one amp failure the station was perfect and N1MM was flawless except our spots were off frequency. It cost us some mults and it was to bad it took us so long to figure out what was wrong with the band map. It was great to have sun spots back. 80M was the same as last year. Lots of NA Qs but little DX. 40M was much worse than last year. Worked more EU but very bad DX and general activity the first day. The first JA we worked the second day was a double mult! 20M was intermittently good. Had the best run to EU for years the first evening. 15M was the best band and we could have done better if we had more than one stack of antennas all in the same direction on the one tower dedicated to it. 10M was a pleasant surprise. I'm getting closer to being able to use the two tribander stacks here on all bands at the same time. I didn't get the new switching finished in time. Our thanks to all that called. CUL in the CQWW DX CW. Duane VE7UF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK3TDX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,916,175 Wonderful to see propagation raging again. In VK3 there was always a band open to DX 24 hrs. At sunrise all five bands were open to DX - what a nice change from past contests! Ten meters was wide open here in all directions well past sunset and gave the most points. Thanks to many fine operators participating making this contest so enjoyable. Let's hope this is a sign of things to come. Thanks to all who called. 73 Steve VK3TDX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK6HZ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 43,512 2 weeks before the contest my FT-2000 died...then last week my amp died. So 10M low power using an IC-7000 seemed the obvious choice right? I love 10M and I cant remember the last time I worked so many NA stations on 10! Thank you all. I managed a few new states for my Triple Play, esp OK. Next time I try a 10M contest entry I will remember to put up my 5 ele mono bander. The 3 ele tribander just missed the mark more than once. And when the kids need to go to Birthday parties on a contest weekend, that will be up to their mother right? Well maybe not. It was a great weekend, even the 2 birthday parties I took my kids to were fun. Looking forward to the OC contest next weekend and the SSB and CW legs of the WW! To all that I managed to work, thank you for the QSO's. For those I didnt, maybe in the SSB or CW...look out for Zn 29.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9I Class: M/S LP Total Score = 3,690,603 Yaesu Ft-920 and FT-2000 microkeyer interfaces N1MM software ICE bandpass filters G5RV 40m dipole Cushcraft A4 Mosley TA-33 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2LBW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,252,642 Had a great time on the weekend! 10m was at the best I've experienced in a very long time. Power failures cost me 3 hours during the contest period. Other VU's I heard in the contest were Prasad/VU2PTT, Ramesh/VU2RMS, Aravind/VU2ABS, Nandu/VU2NKS and Arasu/VU2UR. Thanks for all the QSO's. Thanks too to OX4OK and CO3JN for all time new ones for me. Special mention to K7scx, CO3JN and VE3MX for their patience in making a qso through all the qrm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 278,980 Surprised to find 10m so open,I had to make a few contacts to upgrade my RTTY country status.I did,however,settle on 15LP for the rest of the contest.I was late out of the gate both days,but managed to work just under 18 hours according to N1MM.Those hours mostly flew by.What a pleasant change.Logs on both 10 and 15 will be uploaded to eQSL and LoTW.Hope we got into your log.73,Bill EQUIPMENT: FT-990,Rigblaster,NIMM Wilson SY-1 @20M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 325,818 K3 - P3 - Homebrew amp - Tribander at 56 feet. Wow. What a blast! I thought I'd do 10M so I'd have lots of free time on the weekend. Wrong! Special thanks to Bob VE7SK for motivating me. When I decided I had enough at 2230Z I phoned him and he sent me back to the radio for 10 more mults and a nice 38Q run on JA. I always feel a bit guilty using the P3 in RTTY contesting. It really should be illegal. In particular, using peak hold on S&P. This is a very powerful tool. -Robby VY2SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0EM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 287,408 An excellant contest other than letting the smoke out of the finals of my amp.....my own stupidity. Great to see 15 and 10 meters open to Europe. My first really serious SO2R effort. Nearly doubled my Q's and quadrupled my score over SO1R last year. It was a fun and learning experience. Worked about 20 hours this contest. My thanks to the contest sponsors for a terrific contest again this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LSD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,996,577 That was great fun! 10/15 were wide open. Running JA's on 10 and had the beam pointed at JA and still had strong signals stateside from 3, 4,& 5 land off the side. We got our short skip opening that we were wishing for last year on 10. Big time! We managed to get most of the technical problems fixed early in the operation. No serious glitches the rest of the time. Just trouble with the multiplier station right off the bat. Tested that a couple of hours before the contest, then went up to sue it and after some testing found that the keyboard was causing strange problems. We were really trying hard to get the score over 3 mill at the end. There were just no more multipliers to be found. So close! For a look at the station and equipment go to: http://lostcreekcabin.com/ 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,357 Nice to see the bands opening up for a change. See you in the next one. 73, Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PV Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 104,715 Wow, great propagation makes for fun! Even part-time and limited to an old IC-735 and an R7 vertical up only 20 ft!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RDS Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 476,431 Multi 2 with 3 ops... Rookie ops at rtty. W0RDS and N6LO came in plopped down at NC7Ms QTH and learned in an hour. They did great. We learned so much about operating RTTY this weekend. Were revved up now. Thanks to all who were forgiving our blunders and wrong key pushing and for all the QSOs. First couple hrs spent figuring out what the heck we were doing {:-) Had a fun time. FT 950, FT920 4 ele mono 20, 4 ele mono 15, 5 over 5 mono 10, vert 40. Morgan Mfg Inc (Formally ICE) bandpass filter (Morgan was instrumental in getting this station running with quick turn around on my broken bandpass filters) not a whisper out of the other stations running together. Pulled my hair out trying to get N1MM to network. Still no dice. Working on it still (until hair is gone - then I'll give up or look for a new source of hair) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AJT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 270,119 K3/ACOM 1000 43 ft. vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1DX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,059,260 What fun! It was good to see 10M alive and well! We also had a great time introducing three brand new hams to the contesting world. Steve KB1VEZ and U.S. Coast Guard Cadets Laura KB3VQN and Ryan KB3VQM were all smiles during their times in the chair. "When is the next contest?" was their question when going out. K1DM, W1PN and NG1G deserve a lot of the credit for getting the computers, antennas and stations ready, recovering from a recent lightning hit. Thanks for working us and see you in the next one. John, W1AN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 470,250 Great conditions on 10 and 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MAT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,064,360 73, Matthew W1MAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ZK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 566,475 Murphy struck hard. First the 80/40 antenna. Next our well pump. I didn't know Murphy had branched out. But, on the plus side -- 10 meters was open! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ZT Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 16,786 Very limited time but always great fun. OJ0X a new one on RTTY. Thanks for all the Qs and good operating fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2YC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,614,968 On Sunday, when the K went to 3, the bands really degraded quickly here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3FV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,291,392 Teriffic band condx (especially on 10M)great to see ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,227,580 An exhilarating contest. I was waiting for 10M followed by 15M to close for the evening but that never happened. So, kept up on the high bands working JA's. The 80M 4-SQ worked well in its first contest helped by quiet conditions. However since all the bsnds were hopping it didn't get enough air time. Both 80M Beverages are down under tree limbs from Irene so glad for the quiet conditions. I was startled at about 9 AM Saturday EDST when a loud Klaxxon horn sounded. It was from IonoProbe running in the background. It was red with a warning "Solar Radiation Storm - Radio Blackout". Then band went dead for nearly an hour. Hard to find time to sleep without feeling guilty. A promised chauffer trip cost two hours of operating time during Sunday afternoon action. SO1R. MonstIR, 80M 4-SQ, K3, Alpha 9500, N1MM and MMTTY all played well for best CQWW RTTY contest score - helped mostly by band conditions. Thanks for the Q's! 73, Bud W3LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3MF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 836,106 Had planned to do a bigger effort, but things just didn't work out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4DXX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,378,365 10 and 15m made the contest. 10m was almost like the good ole days and 15 was the workhouse band. Upper bands were so good didn't really concentrate too much on 20m. Wish for more activity from Africa and SE Asia. Thanks to everyone for the activity and enjoyed it immensely. After 37 hours, I think I can copy RTTY by sound now without a computer screen, hi. 73 & DX ! Eric / W4DXX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 306,900 G5RV TS-440S Tnx for the Q's 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4JAM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 376,896 First rtty from home and first contest. LOTW shows 50 dxcc in 2 days, love it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,834,006 Wow! 10 and 15 Meters was hopping on both days! What a difference from the SARTG contest a month ago where I couldn't make one QSO on 10 meters and they were hard to come by on 15. Highlight of the contest was being called by VU2KNS toward the end of the contest, which is always a though path from here. This score is a personal best for me and I do thank the good conditions and of course all of you for allowing me to accomplish this score. I did have a problem with my logging software where several times during the contest I would get a 'Run Time Error 91'. This of course caused the program to terminate. This invariably happened while I had a nice run going and I apologize to those of you I had left hanging when this happened. I did go through and reload the full version of the program and the update that I had used back during the CQ WPX contest. I had no problem with it then so this makes me think something has changed on my computer since that time. I elected to not use packet this year as I have found that I couldn't break the pileups that they would cause on semi-rare stations. Somebody must have spotted me on 20M toward the end of the contest as I had bedlam when I finally showed up on that band after spending all day on 10 & 15M and started CQing. Of course this was one of the times that my logging program decided to hang. It seems to me that I had more than the usual number of dupes when I was running this year. I logged them regardless as I know that sometimes people forget to press the right key on their logging program. But overall I had lots of fun and didn't lose too much sleep. About 30 hours is about all that I can do these days. 73, Sam W4PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,583,308 What a great RTTY contest! First of all, thanks to CQ Magazine for sponsoring this contest and all of the hard work that Ed, W0YK puts into this one each year. The conditions on 10 and 15 meters were awesome! It was a blast to gets calls from all over the world on 10 meters without even moving the antennas. The only bad conditions for me were the usual S9+20 static crashes on 40 and 80 meters for this time of year in SFL. This was a real test for me and my station! I expected to be exhausted, but I do feel I did a little better with the fatigue than expected. I did have several issues with my station that cost me a few hours of good solid runs. As soon as I got into a good run rate and rhythm several times my computer would lock up with a run time error and I would be off the air for 5 minutes getting everything back up and working again and then I had to find new run frequencies. Also had a problem with one of my Alpha 89s dropping off line about 8-10 times without me noticing for sometime. Low power does work but it sure did affect my run rate until I noticed that it was tripped. I could never find a reason for the trips, but it went away on Sunday. My results were much lower than my goal was for sure, but no excuses! The lower score problem was with me and not the conditions or equipment problems. This was to be a learning lesson for me with SO2R and 48 hours and it sure was. It had been 25+ years since I had worked a full time effort in a 48 hours contest. Lesson 1: I am getting too old for 48 hours. Lesson 2: Do not try to change things when the station is running in the Dueling CQ mode. I caused a few issues there and several periods of off of the air to get things working again. Lesson 3: I spent way too much time looking for multipliers and not using the advantage of SO2R. As it turned out most rare ones called me, go figure! Overall this contest was a blast! 10m was awesome, lots of activity, good operators, and I increased my SO2R experience a lot. Thanks so much to everyone for all of the contacts it was very much appreciated! 73, Dan W4UH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5AP Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 49,920 Just played for a short time using a wire antenna from my Colorado cabin. Enjoyed great conditions on 15 with the band opening at sunrise Wish I could have operated for more hours, but I did snag some great Q's with multipliers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6PK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,720 Not much time but good conditions and lots of fun! Thanks for the Q's! 73 de Phil W6PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 533,862 K3, ACOM 2000A, wire antenna at 46 feet with Matchboxes, MMTTY, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6WRT Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 18,760 First time in 17 years of contesting a hardware failure knocked me off the air. About half way through, the T/R relay in the amp failed. Wouldn't go back to receive and couldn't fix it so went to LP for the duration. Guess I can't complain, though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,187,136 Our goal for the weekend was to break the highest W6 record in any operating class in this contest, and become the first W6 to 2M points. It was completely unexpected to exceed 4M points! Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! Here are a few comments from our operators: Both Friday night and Saturday morning, 10meters generated far more points per hour and multipliers than the "traditional" 20 meter band. 20m seemed to suffer from "radio blackout" as well, where there would just be no workable stations to be found. During all this angst about 10m vs 20m, 15m just rolled and rolled and rolled along. It appears all the equipment kept working for the long 48 hrs, which allowed the score to build nicely. 10m sounded like 20m. It was crowded, sometimes hard to find a spot. It stayed open till about an hour before dark. I had to keep looking at the clock and VFO to remind myself this was 10m, not 20m. CX3CCC had a particularly good op. The pileup on him was usually pretty huge. He managed to pull out a call and stick with it, till the QSO was in the log. Below are the statistic tables: 73... -Dean - N6DE 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 287 389 331 392 303 1702 55.7 AS 33 239 49 190 156 667 21.8 SA 3 13 23 21 29 89 2.9 OC 1 11 6 12 17 47 1.5 EU 0 64 123 201 126 514 16.8 AF 2 10 5 10 8 35 1.1 QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 78/49 68/41 146/90 146/90 D1-0100Z - - 20/22 83/14 33/16 136/52 282/142 D1-0200Z - 1/3 80/31 45/12 - 126/46 408/188 D1-0300Z - 54/40 72/16 - - 126/56 534/244 D1-0400Z - 34/11 61/9 - - 95/20 629/264 D1-0500Z 36/27 45/19 6/2 - - 87/48 716/312 D1-0600Z 36/16 29/11 2/0 - - 67/27 783/339 D1-0700Z 29/8 27/12 - - - 56/20 839/359 D1-0800Z 16/9 31/8 --+-- --+-- --+-- 47/17 886/376 D1-0900Z 15/6 46/1 - - - 61/7 947/383 D1-1000Z 19/2 46/5 - - - 65/7 1012/390 D1-1100Z 19/1 60/4 - - - 79/5 1091/395 D1-1200Z 10/0 29/3 10/4 - - 49/7 1140/402 D1-1300Z 22/1 22/0 6/4 - - 50/5 1190/407 D1-1400Z - 20/1 39/6 7/9 2/2 68/18 1258/425 D1-1500Z - - - 26/25 9/7 35/32 1293/457 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 32/17 43/13 75/30 1368/487 D1-1700Z - - - 26/9 48/14 74/23 1442/510 D1-1800Z - - 5/1 23/2 33/5 61/8 1503/518 D1-1900Z - - - 32/4 16/7 48/11 1551/529 D1-2000Z - - 6/2 31/6 2/2 39/10 1590/539 D1-2100Z - - 2/0 54/3 37/1 93/4 1683/543 D1-2200Z - - - 37/9 41/4 78/13 1761/556 D1-2300Z - - 3/3 29/1 50/1 82/5 1843/561 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 26/17 46/0 --+-- 72/17 1915/578 D2-0100Z - 12/2 4/0 23/2 - 39/4 1954/582 D2-0200Z - 20/2 20/3 11/0 - 51/5 2005/587 D2-0300Z 6/0 22/8 1/0 - - 29/8 2034/595 D2-0400Z 15/1 41/3 6/2 - - 62/6 2096/601 D2-0500Z - 22/2 31/9 - - 53/11 2149/612 D2-0600Z 28/3 13/0 2/0 - - 43/3 2192/615 D2-0700Z - 18/0 13/6 - - 31/6 2223/621 D2-0800Z 14/5 8/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 22/6 2245/627 D2-0900Z 15/0 16/1 - - - 31/1 2276/628 D2-1000Z 22/1 31/3 - - - 53/4 2329/632 D2-1100Z 21/1 27/2 - - - 48/3 2377/635 D2-1200Z 2/0 29/3 18/0 - - 49/3 2426/638 D2-1300Z 1/0 23/0 25/4 - - 49/4 2475/642 D2-1400Z - - 26/0 37/4 - 63/4 2538/646 D2-1500Z - - 6/2 36/3 16/4 58/9 2596/655 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 12/1 16/1 14/7 42/9 2638/664 D2-1700Z - - - 34/0 36/7 70/7 2708/671 D2-1800Z - - 4/0 9/0 34/1 47/1 2755/672 D2-1900Z - - - 10/2 34/5 44/7 2799/679 D2-2000Z - - - 29/0 29/3 58/3 2857/682 D2-2100Z - - 2/2 20/1 42/0 64/3 2921/685 D2-2200Z - - 1/1 43/1 30/0 74/2 2995/687 D2-2300Z - - 28/5 9/0 22/4 59/9 3054/696 Total: 326/81 726/145 537/152 826/174 639/144 Pts by hour and band. 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 131 102 233 233 D1-0100Z - - 23 183 83 289 522 D1-0200Z - 1 100 115 - 216 738 D1-0300Z - 73 165 - - 238 976 D1-0400Z - 51 156 - - 207 1183 D1-0500Z 39 84 16 - - 139 1322 D1-0600Z 42 59 6 - - 107 1429 D1-0700Z 38 49 - - - 87 1516 D1-0800Z 19 69 ---+- ---+- ---+- 88 1604 D1-0900Z 17 123 - - - 140 1744 D1-1000Z 22 93 - - - 115 1859 D1-1100Z 22 147 - - - 169 2028 D1-1200Z 26 85 14 - - 125 2153 D1-1300Z 61 57 9 - - 127 2280 D1-1400Z - 39 45 21 5 110 2390 D1-1500Z - - - 74 17 91 2481 D1-1600Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 87 76 163 2644 D1-1700Z - - - 51 100 151 2795 D1-1800Z - - 7 52 53 112 2907 D1-1900Z - - - 71 30 101 3008 D1-2000Z - - 11 55 3 69 3077 D1-2100Z - - 2 114 92 208 3285 D1-2200Z - - - 87 116 203 3488 D1-2300Z - - 6 68 138 212 3700 D2-0000Z ---+- ---+- 47 108 ---+- 155 3855 D2-0100Z - 19 7 49 - 75 3930 D2-0200Z - 26 42 25 - 93 4023 D2-0300Z 7 40 3 - - 50 4073 D2-0400Z 18 57 17 - - 92 4165 D2-0500Z - 40 91 - - 131 4296 D2-0600Z 33 33 6 - - 72 4368 D2-0700Z - 30 32 - - 62 4430 D2-0800Z 22 22 ---+- ---+- ---+- 44 4474 D2-0900Z 16 36 - - - 52 4526 D2-1000Z 25 58 - - - 83 4609 D2-1100Z 23 46 - - - 69 4678 D2-1200Z 6 62 19 - - 87 4765 D2-1300Z 3 66 39 - - 108 4873 D2-1400Z - - 34 95 - 129 5002 D2-1500Z - - 13 91 29 133 5135 D2-1600Z ---+- ---+- 20 35 38 93 5228 D2-1700Z - - - 42 87 129 5357 D2-1800Z - - 5 18 86 109 5466 D2-1900Z - - - 21 61 82 5548 D2-2000Z - - - 42 52 94 5642 D2-2100Z - - 6 26 83 115 5757 D2-2200Z - - 3 69 66 138 5895 D2-2300Z - - 60 22 39 121 6016 Total: 439 1465 1004 1752 1356 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 3D2 1 1 2 4S 1 1 5Z 1 1 6W 1 1 2 6Y 1 1 1 1 4 9A 1 1 5 5 12 9H 1 1 9M2 1 1 2 9M6 1 1 9V 1 1 BV 1 1 1 3 BY 6 8 4 18 CE 1 2 2 5 CM 1 14 4 7 1 27 CN 2 1 2 2 7 CP 1 1 CT 1 2 3 4 10 CT3 1 2 2 3 1 9 CX 1 1 2 1 5 DL 7 5 32 19 63 DU 3 1 2 6 E7 1 1 EA 7 4 14 15 40 EA6 1 1 EA8 1 3 2 2 3 11 EI 1 1 2 4 ER 2 1 3 ES 1 1 1 3 EU 2 2 4 EX 1 1 F 6 2 11 9 28 FG 1 1 2 FM 1 1 2 G 3 3 6 11 23 GI 1 1 2 GM 3 1 2 1 7 GW 1 2 1 4 HA 1 1 4 1 7 HB 2 1 4 7 HI 1 1 1 2 5 HK 2 2 3 4 11 HL 1 14 9 6 30 HS 1 1 I 5 4 21 13 43 IS 1 1 2 IT9 1 2 1 2 6 J3 1 1 1 1 4 JA 31 212 29 158 140 570 JW 1 1 K 252 324 276 334 258 1444 KH0 1 1 2 KH2 1 1 2 KH6 2 1 3 KL 2 6 2 4 5 19 KP2 1 1 1 3 KP4 1 1 2 1 3 8 LA 1 4 2 3 10 LU 1 2 6 5 4 18 LX 1 1 3 1 6 LY 1 1 1 1 4 LZ 1 1 2 3 7 OA 1 1 OD 1 1 OE 1 3 1 5 OH 3 4 6 2 15 OJ0 1 1 2 OK 1 8 1 10 OM 1 3 1 5 ON 3 4 5 12 OX 1 1 1 3 OZ 3 2 5 P4 1 1 1 1 1 5 PA 3 2 9 8 22 PY 4 6 5 14 29 PZ 1 1 1 1 4 S5 1 1 9 4 15 SM 1 1 2 4 SP 3 6 9 3 21 ST 1 1 SV 1 2 2 5 SV9 1 1 T7 1 1 T8 1 1 TF 1 1 TG 2 2 TK 1 1 UA 1 33 3 37 UA2 1 1 2 UA9 1 2 16 8 3 30 UN 2 2 4 UR 1 23 8 32 VE 25 35 38 33 23 154 VK 1 5 3 4 5 18 VP9 1 1 1 1 1 5 VR 1 1 1 3 VU 1 1 XE 4 3 1 5 7 20 YB 2 1 1 1 5 YL 2 2 YO 3 2 1 6 YU 1 3 2 1 7 YV 2 1 3 2 8 Z3 1 1 1 1 4 ZC4 1 1 ZL 1 1 1 4 7 ZP 1 1 2 ZS 3 1 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ZL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 108,647 Limited effort, spent on 10 and 15. /73 W6ZL FT-1000MP MK V @ 100W KT-34 M2 @ 30 ft. N1MM 11.9.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7LD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 236,314 NO AMP ON 10 METERS (K3 @ 70 WATTS) 15 METERS @ 350 WATTS BEST WEEKEND BAND CONDX I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS. TNX FOR YOUR Q'S DE JACK / W7LD / LUCKY-DOG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7PP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,123,000 WOW, what more can be said! Wasn'r it nice working EU on long path! I really need more than a dipole on 40. A DB36 would do! Had a great time, got lots of sleep between midnight and 6AM (local time, see comment on 40 antenna!) so wasn't beat all day. (This is a young mans sport!) Thanks for all of you that corrected my call, I'm not W7VP!! Look to do better next year, God willing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,599,030 I worked the one and only RTTY station in Manatoba! The highlight next to the 10M and 15M explosion. Station: K3 x 2, Emtron Amp x 5, u2R, WriteLog/MMTY 80 - Phased Ground Plane Array 40 - 4el @ 70', 2el @120' 20 - 6/6 on 140' tower 15 - 6 el @ 40' 10 - 6 el @ 35' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WEC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 202,530 It was fun. Still lots to learn and the propagation sure helps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 204,088 First Europeans ever worked on 10 M RTTY!! FB condx! 73, Bob W7YAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 284,696 With great anticipation I awaited Sunday to be a repeat of the fun on Saturday. Never happened but still was the best fun in a long time. Day 1 624 1181 48 53 23 Day 2 337 692 7 17 4 No Idaho or Vermont for US mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AKS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 282,150 Enjoyed the great conditions, makes contesting fun vice work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,429,100 It's about time 10 mtrs came alive. My last cycle ja on 10 was ja1ely march 2002. 9 1/2 years ago. This is a personal best score of any contest ever. with propagation as good as it was this is probably not even in the top ten low power scores. Now its time to figure out a game plan for CQ WW CW ! 73 BoB WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 129,310 Limited time this weekend. Fun to see 10 Meters back! Highlight was having VK7AD call in on 10 Meters before I turned the amp on in the first couple hours of the contest. First VK on 10 Meters in about 9 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4PGM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 57,608 Used a Inverted L for antenna. High bands sounded great! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7LNW Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 182,343 Outstanding band conditions on 10 meters. Made the decision to operate 10 meters single band out of my own schedule convienience....but now I am happy I was present this year to experience the exceptional propagation conditions! Operated from the Goodrich-Hurricane Mesa Test Facility, elevation 5,300 ft. and located just 8 miles west of Zion National Park. Station: K-3, Alpha 76A, 2 element HEX beam mounted at edge of 1,200 ft. cliff overlooking Virgin River Valley to the east. Best of 73's de Jack, WA7LNW www.cwskimmer.wa7lnw.com 28.288 Mhz 10 meter CW propagation beacon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2OQQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 162,325 I WANT TO THANK N2MUN, PHIL FOR GIVING ME HIS OLDER COMPUTER TO USE AND KA2D FOR HIS HELP WITH MICRO-KEYER EVERYTHING WORKED WELL. IT WAS EXCITING TO HAVE 10 METERS SO ACTIVE, THANK YOU ALL FOR THE FUN. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2RHM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,010,754 SO1R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4YDL Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 318,843 I decided with the recent increase in SFI to just sit on 15M and see what happens. The band was awesome - and I really didn't go all out. I could have broken 1000 Q's if I didn't get so wrapped up in all the great football ! Also, I had to shut down for awhile with approaching thunderstorms. Lots of DX to be had and everybody seemed loud. 73, Jamie WB4YDL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB6JJJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 244,557 Ahhh, sunspots... It was great to see 100 KHz worth of RTTY signals on the 10 meter band this weekend. And, the 20 and 15 meter bands were still open late into the evening allowing some fantastic DX contacts. The bands are definitely looking up... This should be a good contest season. Thanks for the Qs, it was fun, Bill WB6JJJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 24,552 Just couldn't resist the temptation of staying on 10 meters. It's been a long time since the Contest Sun Gods have shined like this upon 28 MHz! Encore??? 73 - Rick WB8JUI IC746Pro @ 50 watts 1/4 wave ground mounted vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE6Z Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 787,163 CQWWRTTY Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2011-09-24 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator(s) : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : RTTY Default Exchange : 03 CA Gridsquare : CM98JS ARRL Section : SV Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club Software : N1MM Logger V11.9.3 Band QSOs Pts Zn DXC 3.5 37 43 2 3 20 7 115 214 14 11 32 14 244 376 35 18 47 21 303 614 49 23 45 28 351 716 45 22 35 Total 1050 1963 145 77 179 Score : 787,163 What a blast on 10m! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF7T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 171,476 Stole away time from chores to play and I am glad I got a few hours to play on 10M...so cool to hear/work EU and Asia again! At the very least I wanted to work 50 or so per band over the weekend. Just S&P sometimes just up/down the band one time before I had to go do something. Cool to hear Market Reef on 15M but just couldn't get through in the time I allotted. I made a few mistakes during the contest: I was neglecting to log some contacts due to my choice of macro/keystrokes. Once I discovered my error I fixed my log handling and tried to rework anyone that was obviously not in log. Thanks to many for working dupes (note to self: work all dupes). Thanks all for the Qs and my apologies for any occasional LID/QLF. 73 Brad WF7T Nashville, TN --- IC-7600@100W Doublets at ~40', 40/80M Vertical N1MM v11.9.3, MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ2D Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 442,974 Great condx on 15m. I did this test on 40 last year but that was a drag staying up all night! I got to sleep when the band (15 mtrs) was down all night! Lots of fun!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 266,682 Ahh, contesting season has started at last. This year the big heavy lifter was the 10 meter band putting 15 meters in a close second with 20 meters a very distant third. I was able to finish my antenna work in the nick of time so we should be good for the rest of the season. Bettered my score from last year by a bunch. Now if I could just get this SO2R thing working... Great fun for all!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 525,617 Absolutely the best RTTY venture in years. It was a nice change to 'run' EU and JA, have missed that since the early 2000! Thunderstorms right of the the shack on Sat.night put the skids on operation for about 5 hours, but picked it up again 2am Sunday. Bands started getting a bit tinny for copy on Sunday afternoon, so I decided to do a bit of paying work! Hope for good conditions for this season and many hours of fun. Thanks to everyone for a great time. WT6P - Mark - Kingman, AZ Elecraft K-3 Writelog & MMTTY DX Engineering HexBeam @ 25' Dipoles - 40 and 80m at 40' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WU6W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 350,980 Ten Meters made the Contest - good conditions on all the bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW4LL Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,192,184 As one of our ops said, "when's the last time you heard someone say, Ten Meters was the money band"? What can I say about conditions that hasn't already been said? Simply phenomenal! I'm not crazy about entering low power in contests but if there was ever a time to do it, it was this past weekend. What a joy it was to get this group of guys together for the weekend, all of which did an outstanding job. This was the first RTTY contest that we've done since our old friend and regular 3rd shift operator, Dennis K4ZJ (sk) passed away. Our apologies and thanks to everyone for bearing with us during the exchanges. 73'....Fred, WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WY7SS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,344,234 This was the first contest from the new location. WY7LL, KC7FCS and WY7FD worked hard to get the tower up on Thursday and the shack in working order before the contest started on Friday. This was also Conrad's (KF7QYA) first exposure to contesting. Unfortunately he had prior commitments and was only able to make a few Qs. I think the bug has bitten him. He is 16 so we will be training the next generation of contesters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2K Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,766,852 My first RTTY contest with over 2k Q's, static and thunderstorm make 80 very hard and low in mults, broken AC and running most of the day the station around 105 F. Deg. the Amp and equipment provide a dry Sauna environment but I survive. Incredible 10m, the super sexy band , all the people was there, running EU with my cubical Quad at 20m high was the best antenna , my yagi at 120ft do not perform so well. Thanks guys for all the contacts giving me new band mode and new DXCC mode . I hope most of the contacts with me and not XE2KN , XE2KW , etc etc when receive those confirmations I return my call several times to clarify the error, no one like to loose a mult or a single QSO. CU in the next. Hector XE2K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE3N Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 126,334 Great Contest, greats openings and lot fun. I was only half time of contest, but very glad to hear many stations from Europe and Oceany in 10m band. See You on the next time!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,914,435 Thanks for QSO's. Fantastic conditions on 10m ... 73 Marko YT2T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU7U Class: SOSB(A)/80 LP Total Score = 14,000 Low power! 50 wats enough for P49X! FT 2000, Microkeyer, Inv vee and N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: Z36N Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 87,630 '73 Tone Z36N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 626,572 SO1R Antenna:- C/craft A3S @ 50ft Rig:- Icom-756 Pro 3 Amp:- Acom-1000 Software:- Win-Test V 4.8 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's. I managed to put in 18 hours, I would have liked to have been able to put in more as the condx on 15 were excellent but due to commitments, an Army Spec Op reunion on Saturday being the main one, put a cap on my time. I thought that I would get in a full day on Sunday, but a power cut and a bloody great thunderstorm cut my time on yet again. 15m opened here around 0230Z and closed around 1730Z. Gripes. Not being able to put in more time, And many thanks to UZ2M for wiping me out and not listening to my pleas to QSY. Log is on LoTW and EQsl, for a card please see QRZ.COM 73 and hope to see you in the TARA PSK RUMBLE on Saturday and/or the RSGB 21/28 on Sunday. Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZY2C Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 123,321 Holiday Style operation. Tnx PY2XB for help. 73�'s all Index of Calls Call: 4M1F Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: 5K3R Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: 6V7X Class: SOAB LP Call: 6Y6U Class: SOAB HP Call: 9A3BIM Class: SOAB LP Call: 9A4P Class: M/2 LP Call: 9A4WY Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: 9A6B Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: 9M2CQC Class: SOAB HP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA4HP Class: M/S HP Call: AA4V Class: SOAB HP Call: AA5AU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA5VU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA7A Class: M/S HP Call: AA8IA Class: SOAB LP Call: AA8LL Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AB0LR Class: SOAB HP Call: AB0RX Class: SOAB HP Call: AB1J/9 Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: AB1OD Class: SOAB LP Call: AB2ZY Class: SOAB HP Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB HP Call: AB6L Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AC0C Class: SOAB HP Call: AC0E Class: M/S LP Call: AC0W Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AC4CA Class: SOAB HP Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB HP Call: AD5LU Class: SOAB LP Call: AE1P Class: SOAB HP Call: AE1T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AF3I Class: SOAB LP Call: AI9T Class: SOAB HP Call: AJ1E Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AJ4FM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: AJ8B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AK7AZ Class: M/M HP Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP Call: AL9A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: CF7AM Class: SOAB LP Call: CG9HF Class: SOAB HP Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Call: CR3L Class: M/M HP Call: CR6K Class: SOAB HP Call: CT1EEK Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: CT3EN Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB LP Call: DD1A Class: M/S LP Call: DD1JN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DF9DD Class: M/S LP Call: DF9ZP Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: DG3FAW Class: M/S HP Call: DJ1OJ Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ3IW Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: DJ5HB Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ6JH Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DK5OS Class: SOAB LP Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Call: DL1IAO Class: SOAB HP Call: DL1QW Class: SOAB HP Call: DL2IAN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB HP Call: DL8OBQ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: DL8SCG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL9YAJ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: EA1AY Class: SOAB LP Call: EA2BNU Class: SOAB LP Call: EA5DKU Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: EB2AM Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: ED1R Class: M/2 HP Call: EF8M Class: M/S HP Call: EI2GLB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EO3Q Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: ES1HJ Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: ES9C Class: M/2 HP Call: EU1AZ Class: SOAB HP Call: F2LZ Class: SOAB HP Call: F4ERS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: F5CQ Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: F5QE Class: SOAB HP Call: F5RD Class: SOAB LP Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: F8DHB Class: SOAB HP Call: G3TBK Class: SOAB HP Call: G3TXF Class: SOAB HP Call: G4FKA Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: GM0FGI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: GM7R Class: M/2 HP Call: GU0SUP Class: SOAB LP Call: GW4SKA Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Call: HB9CRV Class: SOAB HP Call: HB9SVT Class: SOAB LP Call: HK1NA Class: M/M HP Call: HL1VAU Class: SOAB LP Call: IC8TEM Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: IK1DFH Class: SOAB LP Call: IQ1RY Class: M/2 HP Call: IT9BLB Class: M/M HP Call: IV3JCC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: IV3TMV Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: IZ4AFW Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Call: J49XB Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: JM1XCW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: JQ1BVI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0BX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0HB Class: SOAB HP Call: K0IR Class: M/2 HP Call: K0KX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K0MD Class: SOAB HP Call: K0PC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0PK Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: K1FWE Class: SOAB HP Call: K1GU Class: SOAB LP Call: K1KO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1LT Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: K1LZ Class: SOAB HP Call: K1VU Class: SOAB LP Call: K1XM Class: SOAB LP Call: K2CYE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2DSL Class: SOAB LP Call: K2PLF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2PO Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K2SI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K2ZC Class: SOAB LP Call: K3FH Class: SOAB LP Call: K3FIV Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K3RMB Class: SOAB HP Call: K3SV Class: SOAB HP Call: K3TN Class: SOAB HP Call: K3UK Class: SOAB LP Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4CX Class: SOAB HP Call: K4FJ Class: M/S HP Call: K4FTO Class: SOAB LP Call: K4FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4HAL Class: SOAB HP Call: K4IU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4MM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K4WW Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: K5DU Class: SOAB HP Call: K5WW Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Call: K6LL Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP Call: K6MM Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: K6RB Class: SOAB HP Call: K6TA Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: K6WSC Class: SOAB LP Call: K7ABL Class: SOAB HP Call: K7BTW Class: M/S HP Call: K7EG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB LP Call: K7IA Class: SOAB HP Call: K7JQ Class: SOAB HP Call: K7MKL Class: SOAB LP Call: K7MY Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: K7RF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K7TQ Class: SOAB LP Call: K7ULS Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K7VIT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K7WP Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K8GT Class: SOAB LP Call: K8KI Class: SOAB HP Call: K9NR Class: SOAB LP Call: K9OM Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: KA1CQR Class: SOAB LP Call: KA2D Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KA2KON Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA4PKB Class: M/S HP Call: KA4RRU Class: M/M HP Call: KA9MOM Class: SOAB LP Call: KB1EFS Class: SOAB HP Call: KB2HSH Class: SOAB QRP Call: KB3LIX Class: SOAB LP Call: KB8OCP Class: SOAB LP Call: KB9S Class: SOAB LP Call: KC2KY Class: SOAB LP Call: KC2LST Class: SOAB HP Call: KC4HW Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB HP Call: KD7MSC Class: SOAB HP Call: KD7ODG Class: SOAB HP Call: KE7AUB Class: SOAB LP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KH6GMP Class: SOAB LP Call: KI0F Class: SOAB HP Call: KI1G Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KI6DY Class: SOAB HP Call: KI6QDH Class: SOAB LP Call: KJ7NO Class: SOAB LP Call: KK7PR Class: M/S HP Call: KK7Z Class: SOAB HP Call: KK9A Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: KL7AC Class: SOAB HP Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB HP Call: KM4JA Class: SOAB LP Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Call: KN5O Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Call: KP2DX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KR2E Class: SOAB HP Call: KR7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KS1J Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KS2G Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KS5A Class: SOAB LP Call: KS7S Class: SOAB HP Call: KT1I Class: SOAB LP Call: KT7E Class: SOAB LP Call: KT7G Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KT9L Class: SOAB HP Call: KU1T Class: SOAB HP Call: KU8E Class: SOAB LP Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KV7DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KW3W Class: SOAB LP Call: KX7L Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KX7YT Class: SOAB HP Call: KY7M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: L40E Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: LA3BO Class: SOAB LP Call: LA5LJA Class: SOAB LP Call: LM9L40Y Class: SOAB HP Call: LN5O Class: M/2 HP Call: LQ5H Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: LS1D Class: M/2 HP Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Call: LX8M Class: M/S HP Call: LY5E Class: SOAB HP Call: LY775D Class: SOAB HP Call: LZ5R Class: M/S LP Call: LZ8E Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: LZ9A Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: LZ9R Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB HP Call: N0GZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Call: N0UJJ Class: SOAB LP Call: N0XR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1IBM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1IW/8 Class: SOAB LP Call: N1JM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N1MGO Class: SOAB LP Call: N1QD Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N1SNB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1SV Class: SOAB HP Call: N1SZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2BJ Class: M/S HP Call: N2EIK Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2JDQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2MUN Class: SOAB LP Call: N2NF Class: SOAB LP Call: N2NS Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2QT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2SQW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N2WK Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: N2WN Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: N2YBB Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: N3BM Class: SOAB HP Call: N3DXX Class: SOAB HP Call: N3MK Class: SOAB HP Call: N3QW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N3RC Class: SOAB HP Call: N3UA Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: N4BAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4DWK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4MM Class: SOAB HP Call: N4MUH Class: SOAB LP Call: N4TB Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: N5AW/0 Class: SOAB LP Call: N5RZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N5UWY Class: SOAB LP Call: N6AN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6AR Class: SOAB HP Call: N6CK Class: SOAB HP Call: N6ML Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: N6QQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6RO Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: N6VH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N7AT Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: N7MQ Class: SOAB LP Call: N7NM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N7TT Class: SOAB HP Call: N7VEA Class: SOAB LP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Call: N8HM Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB HP Call: N9LAH Class: M/S LP Call: N9OK Class: SOAB HP Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: NA2U Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NA3M Class: SOAB HP Call: NA6G Class: SOAB LP Call: NB4M Class: SOAB HP Call: ND2W Class: M/2 HP Call: NF3C Class: M/S LP Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB HP Call: NI7R Class: SOAB HP Call: NN6NN Class: SOAB HP Call: NO2T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NO7T Class: SOAB HP Call: NP4BM Class: SOAB LP Call: NR4M Class: M/2 HP Call: NT0F Class: SOAB LP Call: NX0I Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: NX8G Class: SOAB LP Call: NZ4O Class: SOAB LP Call: OE2E Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: OG8A Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: OH1F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OH2BP/M Class: SOAB LP Call: OH4A Class: SOAB HP Call: OH8A Class: M/S HP Call: OH8KA Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: OH8KVY Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: OH8X Class: SOAB HP Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP Call: OK3C Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Call: OL3A Class: M/S HP Call: OL7C Class: M/S HP Call: OL7M Class: M/S HP Call: OM5M Class: M/S HP Call: OP4A Class: SOAB LP Call: OZ1ADL Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: OZ4VW Class: SOAB HP Call: P49X Class: M/2 HP Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Call: PI4CC Class: M/2 HP Call: PP1CZ Class: SOAB HP Call: PX2V Class: M/S HP Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Call: PY2SEX Class: SOAB LP Call: PZ5RA Class: SOAB HP Call: R7LV Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: RG3K Class: SOAB HP Call: RG9A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: RT9S Class: SOAB LP Call: RW4PL Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: RW4W Class: SOAB HP Call: RW4WZ Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: S50B Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: S50W Class: M/S HP Call: S50XX Class: M/2 HP Call: S51CK Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S53M Class: SOAB HP Call: S55O Class: SOAB HP Call: S56A Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: S57AW Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: S57DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: S57U Class: SOAB LP Call: SK2T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: SM5FQQ Class: SOAB LP Call: SM5MX Class: SOAB LP Call: SN2K Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: SN3C Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: SN7Q Class: SOAB HP Call: SO4M Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SP6IHE Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: SP9LJD Class: SOAB HP Call: SQ8J Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: SQ8JX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: SQ9UM Class: SOAB LP Call: ST2AR Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: SZ1A Class: M/S HP Call: TF3AO Class: SOAB HP Call: TF3PPN Class: SOAB LP Call: TM0T Class: SOAB HP Call: TM6M Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: UA4ALI Class: SOAB LP Call: UA4WLI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: UA5F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: UN1L Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: UT2IV Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: UU1K Class: SOAB LP Call: UV0I Class: SOAB LP Call: UV5U Class: SOAB HP Call: UW1M Class: SOAB HP Call: UW8I Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: UY7C Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: UZ2M Class: M/S HP Call: VA2UP Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB LP Call: VE1BVD Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE2AXO Class: SOAB LP Call: VE2EBK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE2SB Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: VE3AJ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3CX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3FDT Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3FJB Class: M/S HP Call: VE3FWA Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3JI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3SS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB HP Call: VE5MX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE6SQ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: VE7BC Class: SOAB LP Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Call: VE7TG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE7UF Class: M/M HP Call: VE9MY Class: SOAB HP Call: VK3TDX Class: SOAB HP Call: VK6HZ Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: VP9I Class: M/S LP Call: VU2LBW Class: SOAB HP Call: VU2PTT Class: SOAB LP Call: VY2LI Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: VY2SS Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: W0EM Class: SOAB HP Call: W0LSD Class: M/S HP Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Call: W0PV Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: W0RDS Class: M/2 LP Call: W0TUP Class: SOAB LP Call: W1AJT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1BYH Class: SOAB LP Call: W1DX Class: M/2 HP Call: W1EQ Class: SOAB HP Call: W1MAT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1ZD Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: W1ZK Class: SOAB HP Call: W1ZT Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W2GG Class: SOAB HP Call: W2JU Class: SOAB LP Call: W2YC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3BUI Class: SOAB LP Call: W3FV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3KB Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W3LL Class: SOAB HP Call: W3MF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4BCG Class: SOAB HP Call: W4DXX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4EE Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W4GDG Class: SOAB LP Call: W4GHD Class: SOAB HP Call: W4JAM Class: SOAB HP Call: W4LC Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: W4PK Class: SOAB HP Call: W4TTY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4UH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5AP Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: W5JBO Class: SOAB LP Call: W5KI Class: SOAB HP Call: W6PK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Call: W6TK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W6WRT Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: W6YX Class: M/2 HP Call: W6ZL Class: SOAB LP Call: W7CT Class: M/2 HP Call: W7LD Class: SOAB HP Call: W7PP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7RN Class: SOAB HP Call: W7SO Class: SOAB HP Call: W7VXS Class: SOAB HP Call: W7WEC Class: SOAB LP Call: W7WW Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Call: W7ZR Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: W8AKS Class: SOAB HP Call: W9CF Class: M/S LP Call: W9MU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WA1FCN Class: SOAB LP Call: WA1Z Class: SOAB HP Call: WA3AFS Class: SOAB LP Call: WA4PGM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: WA5ZUP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WA7LNW Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: WB2OQQ Class: SOAB LP Call: WB2RHM Class: SOAB LP Call: WB4MSG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WB4YDL Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: WB5TUF Class: SOAB LP Call: WB6JJJ Class: SOAB HP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: WC3O Class: SOAB HP Call: WD8RYC Class: SOAB HP Call: WE6Z Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WF7T Class: SOAB LP Call: WI9WI Class: SOAB HP Call: WJ2D Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: WM5DX Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: WO7V Class: SOAB LP Call: WT6P Class: SOAB LP Call: WU6W Class: SOAB HP Call: WW4LL Class: M/S LP Call: WY7SS Class: M/S HP Call: XE2K Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: XE3N Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: YL5T Class: SOAB HP Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB HP Call: YT2T Class: M/S HP Call: YU7U Class: SOSB(A)/80 LP Call: Z32XU Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: Z36N Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: Z36W Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: ZY2C Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: ED1R Call: ES9C Call: GM7R Call: IQ1RY Call: K0IR Call: LN5O Call: LS1D Call: LX7I Call: ND2W Call: NR4M Call: P49X Call: PI4CC Call: S50XX Call: VE7SV Call: W1DX Call: W6YX Call: W7CT Class: M/2 LP Call: 9A4P Call: W0RDS Class: M/M HP Call: AK7AZ Call: CR3L Call: HK1NA Call: IT9BLB Call: KA4RRU Call: VE7UF Class: M/S HP Call: AA4HP Call: AA7A Call: CN3A Call: DG3FAW Call: EF8M Call: K4FJ Call: K7BTW Call: KA4PKB Call: KK7PR Call: LX8M Call: N2BJ Call: OH8A Call: OL3A Call: OL7C Call: OL7M Call: OM5M Call: PX2V Call: S50W Call: SZ1A Call: UZ2M Call: VE3FJB Call: W0LSD Call: WY7SS Call: YT2T Class: M/S LP Call: AC0E Call: DD1A Call: DF9DD Call: LZ5R Call: N9LAH Call: NF3C Call: VP9I Call: W9CF Call: WW4LL Class: SOAB HP Call: 6Y6U Call: 9M2CQC Call: AA4V Call: AB0LR Call: AB0RX Call: AB2ZY Call: AB4GG Call: AC0C Call: AC4CA Call: AD4EB Call: AE1P Call: AI9T Call: AL1G Call: CG9HF Call: CR6K Call: DK8EY Call: DL1IAO Call: DL1QW Call: DL4ME Call: EU1AZ Call: F2LZ Call: F5QE Call: F8DHB Call: G3TBK Call: G3TXF Call: HB9CRV Call: K0FX Call: K0HB Call: K0MD Call: K1FWE Call: K1LZ Call: K3RMB Call: K3SV Call: K3TN Call: K4CX Call: K4FX Call: K4HAL Call: K4RO Call: K5DU Call: K5ZD Call: K6LRN Call: K6RB Call: K7ABL Call: K7IA Call: K7JQ Call: K8KI Call: KB1EFS Call: KC2LST Call: KD5J Call: KD7MSC Call: KD7ODG Call: KI0F Call: KI6DY Call: KK7Z Call: KL7AC Call: KL8DX Call: KO7AA Call: KR2E Call: KR7X Call: KS7S Call: KT9L Call: KU1T Call: KX7YT Call: LM9L40Y Call: LY5E Call: LY775D Call: N0BUI Call: N0GZ Call: N0KE Call: N1SV Call: N3BM Call: N3DXX Call: N3MK Call: N3RC Call: N4MM Call: N5RZ Call: N6AR Call: N6CK Call: N7TT Call: N8BJQ Call: N8NOE Call: N9OK Call: NA3M Call: NB4M Call: NG7Z Call: NI7R Call: NN6NN Call: NO7T Call: OH4A Call: OH8X Call: OK2SFP Call: OZ4VW Call: PP1CZ Call: PZ5RA Call: RG3K Call: RW4W Call: S53M Call: S55O Call: SN7Q Call: SP9LJD Call: TF3AO Call: TM0T Call: UV5U Call: UW1M Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3EY Call: VE3FWA Call: VE4EAR Call: VE9MY Call: VK3TDX Call: VU2LBW Call: W0EM Call: W1EQ Call: W1ZK Call: W2GG Call: W3LL Call: W4BCG Call: W4GHD Call: W4JAM Call: W4PK Call: W5KI Call: W6SX Call: W7LD Call: W7RN Call: W7SO Call: W7VXS Call: W8AKS Call: WA1Z Call: WB6JJJ Call: WC3O Call: WD8RYC Call: WI9WI Call: WU6W Call: YL5T Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB LP Call: 6V7X Call: 9A3BIM Call: AA5AU Call: AA5VU Call: AA8IA Call: AB1OD Call: AD5LU Call: AF3I Call: CF7AM Call: CX9AU Call: DJ1OJ Call: DJ5HB Call: DJ6JH Call: DK5OS Call: EA1AY Call: EA2BNU Call: F5RD Call: GU0SUP Call: HB9SVT Call: HL1VAU Call: IK1DFH Call: K1GU Call: K1VU Call: K1XM Call: K2DSL Call: K2ZC Call: K3FH Call: K3UK Call: K4FTO Call: K6WSC Call: K7HBN Call: K7MKL Call: K7TQ Call: K8GT Call: K9NR Call: KA1CQR Call: KA9MOM Call: KB3LIX Call: KB8OCP Call: KB9S Call: KC2KY Call: KD2MX Call: KE7AUB Call: KH6GMP Call: KI6QDH Call: KJ7NO Call: KM4JA Call: KN3A Call: KS5A Call: KT1I Call: KT7E Call: KU8E Call: KW3W Call: LA3BO Call: LA5LJA Call: N0UJJ Call: N1IW/8 Call: N1MGO Call: N2MUN Call: N2NF Call: N4MUH Call: N5AW/0 Call: N5UWY Call: N7MQ Call: N7VEA Call: NA6G Call: NP4BM Call: NT0F Call: NX8G Call: NZ4O Call: OH2BP/M Call: OP4A Call: PG7V Call: PY2NY Call: PY2SEX Call: RT9S Call: S57U Call: SM5FQQ Call: SM5MX Call: SQ9UM Call: TF3PPN Call: UA4ALI Call: UU1K Call: UV0I Call: VA2UP Call: VA7ST Call: VE2AXO Call: VE3AJ Call: VE3FDT Call: VE3JI Call: VE6SQ Call: VE7BC Call: VU2PTT Call: W0PC Call: W0TUP Call: W1BYH Call: W2JU Call: W3BUI Call: W4GDG Call: W5JBO Call: W6ZL Call: W7WEC Call: W7YAQ Call: WA1FCN Call: WA3AFS Call: WB2OQQ Call: WB2RHM Call: WB5TUF Call: WF7T Call: WO7V Call: WT6P Class: SOAB QRP Call: KB2HSH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA3B Call: AA8LL Call: AB6L Call: AE1T Call: AJ1E Call: AJ8B Call: AL9A Call: DD1JN Call: DJ8OG Call: DL2IAN Call: DL8SCG Call: EI2GLB Call: F4ERS Call: GM0FGI Call: IV3JCC Call: JM1XCW Call: JQ1BVI Call: K0BX Call: K0PC Call: K1KO Call: K2CYE Call: K2PLF Call: K3WW Call: K4GMH Call: K4IU Call: K7EG Call: K7RF Call: KA2KON Call: KG4CUY Call: KI1G Call: KN5O Call: KT7G Call: KV7DX Call: KY7M Call: LZ8E Call: N0XR Call: N1IBM Call: N1SNB Call: N1SZ Call: N3QW Call: N4BAA Call: N4DWK Call: N4KG Call: N6AN Call: N6QQ Call: N6VH Call: N7NM Call: NA2U Call: NO2T Call: OH1F Call: RG9A Call: S57DX Call: SK2T Call: SQ8JX Call: UA5F Call: UW8I Call: VE1OP Call: VE3SS Call: VE5MX Call: VE7TG Call: W1AJT Call: W1MAT Call: W2YC Call: W3FV Call: W3MF Call: W4DXX Call: W4TTY Call: W4UH Call: W6PK Call: W7PP Call: W9MU Call: WA5ZUP Call: WB4MSG Call: WE6Z Call: XE2K Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AC0W Call: AD1C Call: DL9YAJ Call: EA5DKU Call: F8CRS Call: GW4SKA Call: J49XB Call: K0KX Call: K2PO Call: K2SI Call: K3FIV Call: K4MM Call: K5WW Call: K7VIT Call: KA2D Call: KP2DX Call: KS1J Call: KS2G Call: KV1J Call: KX7L Call: LZ9R Call: N1JM Call: N1QD Call: N2FF Call: N2JDQ Call: N2NS Call: N2QT Call: NA2M Call: NX0I Call: OE2E Call: OH8KA Call: S50B Call: S57AW Call: UA4WLI Call: UY7C Call: VE1BVD Call: VE2EBK Call: W3KB Call: W4EE Call: W6TK Call: WA4PGM Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: 9A6B Call: K0PK Call: K1LT Call: K6TA Call: LZ9A Call: N6ML Call: N6RO Call: SQ8J Call: ZY2C Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: CT3EN Call: DF9ZP Call: DJ3IW Call: IV3TMV Call: K4WW Call: K6LL Call: N7AT Call: R7LV Call: TM6M Call: VE6WQ Call: W7WW Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Call: IZ4AFW Call: OK3C Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: EO3Q Call: KC4HW Call: RW4WZ Call: SN2K Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: RW4PL Class: SOSB(A)/80 LP Call: YU7U Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: 9A4WY Call: F5CQ Call: K6MM Call: L40E Call: N3UA Call: N4TB Call: N4ZZ Call: OZ1ADL Call: VY2SS Call: W0PV Call: WA7LNW Call: Z32XU Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: 5K3R Call: CT1EEK Call: K4WI Call: K7ULS Call: LQ5H Call: N2WN Call: N8HM Call: S56A Call: UT2IV Call: VK6HZ Call: WB8JUI Call: XE3N Call: Z36N Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: DL8OBQ Call: EB2AM Call: K9OM Call: N2WK Call: SN3C Call: ST2AR Call: W5AP Call: W7ZR Call: WB4YDL Call: WJ2D Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: AB1J/9 Call: G4FKA Call: K7MY Call: OH8KVY Call: VY2LI Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: AJ4FM Call: KK9A Call: N2SQW Call: SO4M Call: UN1L Call: VE3CX Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: IC8TEM Call: N2YBB Call: W1ZD Call: W4LC Call: WM5DX Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: ES1HJ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K7WP Call: S51CK Call: W1ZT Call: Z36W Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: 4M1F Call: SP6IHE Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N2EIK Call: OG8A Call: VE2SB Call: W6WRT