CQ WW RTTY Soapbox built 10-26-2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3V8SS Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 140,976 Thanks to all for calling! :) I submitted the whole log but my category will be SO/15 LP. I put a short story here: http://www.qsl.net/3v4-002/ vy73 Ashraf, 3V8SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3Z70RG Class: M/M LP Total Score = 429,730 3Z70RG is Special Event Station in a memory 70-th anniversary begining II war world and a provocation in a profesional Radio Station Gliwice at 31.08.1939 year Station start in a MULTI-MULTI class . Operators was SP9AUV , SP9CXN , SQ9CND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4Z8BB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,344,139 WOW! 15 meters was hot! I even worked FT5GA! Had a great time with huge QSO rates on 15 and 20 meters. Could have gotten a higher score but ran out of steam with 5 hours left in the contest. Equipment: Ten Tec Orion II Writelog Quad and Yagi antennas for 20-15-10 Wire loop for 40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y0FF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 185,415 This was a family vacation with the contest as a plus. My antenna was a High Sierra with two radials for each band mounted on a balcony next to our room at 25 feet some 25 feet from the sea. The "Num Lock" Curse hit us and gave us all sorts of problems which were not discovered until the day after the contest. It is always great fun to be rare. QSL will be direct via my home call or via LoTW eventually. The special call sign had one BIG unintended consequence. Many ops thought I was PY0FF. There is only one letter difference. I hope to do it again next year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A3XV Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 77,700 My first RTTY work ever. It was fun. I spend first day to learn how to tune RX to receive anything... hi... Fortunately things were starting to be better during the time.. :)))) (There is an amazing button in MMTTY - BPF) RIG TS-930S ANT 80 INV L 40-10 GP N1MM and MMTTY (nice stuff) 73 sale, 9A3XV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,327,997 Station: Elecraft K3 and IC-PW1 amplifier - 400W output 20/15/20m - Force 12 C3-S at 12m 40m - Cushcraft D-40 at 12m Software - N1MM and MMTTY An enjoyable contest but the SFI was not high enough to keep the bands open all day so only 30 hours on the air. Highlights: 1. Propagation to the US My highest number of States/Provinces ever in this contest. Very good conditions on 20m led to a total of 126 NA QSOs. Short Path NA and EU propagation happens at the same time. As EU signals are stronger some CQ NA calls resulted in welcome multipliers and additions to my RTTY WAS. Thank you! 2. 10m A welcome opening on Sunday evening (local time) into Europe helped my lack of country multipliers on other bands. Lowlights: 1. 40m Getting a run into EU is still very difficult and frustrating. Being spotted is the key to keeping the frequency. Thank you for the QSOs. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW when I return to the UK next week. QSL via G4ZFE 73 de Rich, G4ZFE/9M2CNC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9V1UV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 106,535 Sect Band 40 7 20 7 15 0 10 0 Tot 14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A73A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,693,704 CU in CQWW SSB es CW and 73 for the group de A71BX www.a71bx.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA2MF Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 141,930 First RTTY contest for me. Win-Test Logging Program with MMTTY. First night spent getting the bugs out of the computer system. Had allot of fun. Plan to do more RTTY contesting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4U Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 58,695 I sure had BIG plans for this contest and was prepared to spend alot of time in the chair. However, I got really sick on Thursday evening and spent most of the weekend somewhere other than the ham shack. Well, as you can see I did put in a small effort. Conditions seemed really good and I hated not being able to partake in more of the fun. There's always next year... thanks to all I did work though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,463,088 That was more fun than anticipated. The bands were great on Saturday with a good opening on 15 meters into Europe. Had a really nice run on the high side on 20 meters started at 1800Z, then 40 and 80 were really good Saturday night. Biggest thrill was tuning across FT5GA calling CQ on 15M Saturday afternoon and getting them into the log before the pileup got there. Overslept Sunday morning but it was nice to get the extra sleep. Propagation was not as good on Sunday so I took a lot of breaks and generally operated casually. It was a fun weekend! Thanks to everyone who worked me. Congrats to Bob, WA1Z, for a great score. 73, Don AA5AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB0LR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 584,865 I am back in the game again! and loving it !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0E Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 109,582 BEST PROPAGATION IN A LONG TIME.... VK3IR BOOMING IN FOR AN HOUR INTO WESTERN KANSAS ON 40 JUST ABOUT SUNRISE LOCAL.... BA4T... GOOD SIGNAL ON 40 SUNDAY MORNING BUT HAD HIS RCXVR GAIN TURNED DOWN FOR WESTERN KANSAS. GREAT OPENING INTO EUROPE SATURDAY ON 20. TNX FOR ALL THE Q's. . JIM AC0E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 42,408 Radio: ICOM 756 Pro III (100W) Antenna: half-G5RV in attic Software: WriteLog 10.73 I could not get that excited for this contest, even though I had the house to myself all weekend. It was great to see all the new callsigns. Best QSO was UA0FAI on 20 meters. Congrats to everyone who worked FT5GA. 73 - Jim AD1C 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total CM 1 1 CT3 1 1 DL 3 3 EA 4 4 EA8 1 1 2 F 2 2 GI 1 1 HB 1 1 HI 1 1 HK 1 1 HR 1 1 I 5 5 JA 2 8 10 K 50 80 130 KH6 1 2 3 KL 4 4 KP2 1 1 LU 1 1 LX 1 1 OE 1 1 OH 1 1 OM 1 1 P4 1 1 PA 1 1 PY 1 2 3 S5 1 1 TI 2 2 UA9 1 1 VE 6 12 18 XE 6 6 YU 1 1 YV 1 1 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD7XZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 42,884 This was they very first time I did RTTY. It took me hours to figure what the heck I was doing. Fun fun fun. Maybe next time I'll have a tad better score. 100 watts was difficult to break through at times. 73 to all, and the people I did work thanks for your patience. Joe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 654,154 I had too many commitments over the weekend and after experiencing good conditions you can believe next year I will clear some things before the contest starts. All in all it was a pretty decent effort. Some sort of atmospheric noise troubled me Saturday night on 80 meters and it cropped up on 20 during the day on Saturday. If you happened to call during that time I am sorry for not hearing. What a pleasant surprise to work into Europe on 15 meters. Even 10 meters wasn't dead although it may as well have been. Strictly N/S propagation there. I was hoping to work the FT5GA folks during the contest but no joy here. I thought that would be my best shot on RTTY. It was a lot of fun. See you next time. Rig: Ten Tec Orion and Centurion 500 watts Antennas 10-20 3 element Steppir at 72' 2 element Cush Craft at 85' for 40 and a high dipole on 80. Pennants are used for receiving on 80. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1P Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 709,716 Had fun!! Wish more op's would try 15m...was open most of the contest to somewhere. It was Nice having FT5GA call on 15m, and was nice to grab a few new DX spots. 1st time over 1K Q's, not bad for all homebrewed antennas. Now new goal for next year...1500 Q's!! 73 Neil AE1P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE5PW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 348,840 My goal for this year was quite simple - to make 500 QSOs and to have a higher score than last year. I surpassed the goal and ended up with 673 QSOs, as well as a new DXCC entity (Andorra) and a total of 15 new entities on various bands. My score doubled from last year. The conditions here in Arkansas were odd, as I didn't see much from the middle of the USA. Most of my domestic contacts were west coast or New England states. On the DX side, I was pleased (and surprised!) by the sheer number of DX stations that I saw. I would assume that the sunspots and increased solar flux caused more DX stations than usual to get on and see what those little black dots on the sun were causing down here on earth. I saw 10 meters open to South America for a while with an Argentina station that had a S9 signal for several hours on Sunday. Too bad not many stations (domestic or DX) were on 10m. On 15m, it was almost strictly DX. I made 45 QSOs on 15m and nearly all of them were outside the USA. 10, 15 and 20m all seemed long to me. 40m was a hotbed of activity, both local and DX. On 80m, I can't complain about making 100+ QSOs using a 25 foot tall vertical. I didn't see VT, ID, DE, SC, or OK on any bands. What I enjoyed most about this contest was the non-stop activity. I could tune through whatever bands were open and find RTTY from segment-edge to segment-edge. Each time I tuned through I could find new stations that I hadn't worked before. When I was tired of S&P, I could call CQ and get lots of takers. The typical Sunday afternoon slow time was not present for me in this contest. I stayed busy through the final couple of hours and made lots of great contacts! Other commitments took away a few hours of operating time on Saturday, or I could have easily reached the 700 QSO mark. Thanks to everyone who worked this little gun station. My very simple setup is a Yaesu FT950 running 100 watts to a Butternut HF9V ground mounted vertical antenna. No tower, no beam, no amp. Hopefully the solar conditions will continue to improve, and next year we will see much more activity on 10 and 15. 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 98 240 144 14 1 497 73.8 AF 3 2 3 2 0 10 1.5 EU 2 42 62 9 0 115 17.1 SA 1 11 7 18 5 42 6.2 AS 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.6 OC 0 1 2 2 0 5 0.7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AF4OX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,308,677 1200W, (20M,15M)=KT34A@40ft, (80M, 40M)=TX Homebrew Vert, RX Pennants ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG4W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,002,008 FT5GA called me on 20! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ4FM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 19,140 My first contest I've worked to submit a score in 48 years. I think I like this! Thanks to all that worked me. Now that I have this one in the books, it's time to get serious. David ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 148,674 After QSO number 389 my amp quit working, so the rest of the Q's are with 100 watts. Thanks to all who called me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL9A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 129,344 Well, that was certainly fun! My first RTTY contest ever - what a blast! Only played around part time due to family activities and considered this to be a learning exercise. Many thanks to Don AA5AU and his excellent web site that provided many valuable tips on installing the MMTTY plug-in for Writelog and a great primer on how to operate RTTY in a contest. As a bonus I got to work Don after I mustered up my courage and started calling CQ! Kudos too to the fine folks at microHAM for their excellent microKEYER II product that made getting on RTTY relatively simple and to Joe W4TV for all his excellent advice on configuration of both the MMTTY plug-in and Writelog. Now to start checking all the contest calendars for future RTTY events! Can't wait for the next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CR3L Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,735,588 Thanks for all OMs who worked us and sorry about those we couldn't hear. A lot of fun with only 4 Ops., next time we promise to be better. 73, Walter, DJ6QT "unchecked score" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3EN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,160,874 Thanka to all that contacted me and all the other participants. CU next contest CT3EN - Duarte ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX7TT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 690,690 Great to see propagation finally open on 15m. Tnx to all for Qsos. 73 Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 550,830 RIG TS 440 + amp 500 w ANT 10/40/80 DIPOLE 15 DIPOLE 20 SLOPER DIPOLE SOFTWARE N1MM WITH MMVARI INTERFASE BEST 73 QSL CARD VIA DIRECT DAN CX9AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9ZP Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 270,864 thanks for all contacts, band was better than expectet...Jo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,328,956 I missed almost the hole saturday (daylight), but from the early evening I had lots of fun working this contest. Its relaxing compared to SSB, but the rates are lower :-( I had a little problem to receive sometimes and I could not find the failure?! Anyway it was fun to work my 2nd CQWW RTTY. Thanks to everybody who heard my signal. Thanks also to Walter, DJ6QT, who gives me his great station for the contest. 73 de Matt - DJ8OG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 35,700 ICOM IC-7400, Ameritron AL-80B 5-ele-tribander, 2x 23m dipole N1MM logger, Toshiba Tecra M4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0NS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,416,146 DL0NS Setup: TS-850 + TL922 (running) + Microham MK2 TS-850 + SB1000 (multi) + Microham MK2 + ICE419 FB33 (20m/15m/10m) OB40-1 (40m) Windom FD4 (160m-10m) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1IAO Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 65,860 WT v 3.23 on HP Omnibook XE3 IC7400 + AH4 + 8+5m Aki Special with 10 short radials on balcony Suprised to work zone 3 on 40m! 73, Stefan DL1IAO http://www.dl1iao.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 205,616 rig: 1/4wl wire-vert. + 750w 73 de frank DL1REM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 18,426 Due to other comittments I was only able to work the last 4 hours of the contest. Tnx for all QSOs. Frank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL8MBS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 216,948 Luckily RTTY is so forgiving to the big number of family and work distractions during the weekend. Having had national election day on sunday I wondered that none of the parties tried to claim the bettering condx as a result of their interstellar performance... ;-) Even if it felt somtimes a bit like qrp it was more enjoyable for a little pistol than other contests of the last months. Only pity was that so many replies to the wealth of biig 40m-US-signals the second night earned cq in the face. But with activity up to 7080 there must have been some QRM, too. Rig: IC 718 + N1MM/MMTTY (fb!) Ant: 40m-doublet @ 8m Thanks for the Qs and best 73, Chris (www.dl8mbs.de) 73, Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DM5TI Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 531,100 My notebook went kaput. Fatel error w/o chance to fix it. I needed roughly 8 hours to come back on the air with a spare one. I lost a lot of operating time and necessary sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO3ME Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,090 ICOM IC-735, 2x 20m dipole, N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO9DMB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,456 - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,743,288 Good band conditions and a few sunspots made this a nice contest for us. Best QSO was FT5GA coming back to our CQ on 40 meters on Sunday evening. Good to see so many JA stations on RTTY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E79D Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 92,000 TS530, 2EL.moxon@21,IV@15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3GLB Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 352,824 Possibly the LAST contest as "EA" next in HI hoping to see you in the screen again from Antille zone Packo EA3GLB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4ZK Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 5,760 Not enough time for contest, my family and my job spent all my time..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EC1KR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 455,880 A nice Contest. 73 + DX FT1000MP-MKV + 400W + OB9-5 + 1 ELM 40M + DXE-WA135 80M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EF8M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,928,488 NOT SO2R ONLY SO1R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5Q Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,500,000 Congrats DQ4W! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 178,500 Very short participation this year due to QRL. Was looking for FT5GA and some other DX. 73, Nodir www.ey8mm.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F/VA2SG/P Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 96 60 minutes running QRP FT817ND and buddistick. Antenna location not good but thought it'd be fun giving some points. 73 Au revoir! Jean-Pierre ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5RD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 253,272 My eighth CQ WW RTTY DX Contest and the best Except on 10 m (just 3 QSO's), the propagation was good on all bands I contacted two new countries (C3 and A7) Thanks to all who worked me. See you again in 2010. F5RD Bernard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8DBF Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,186,776 Thanks all for QSO. Like last year, good sign to JA and west coast of NA most of the day. See u at SSB part with TM6M team. 73's de F8DBF Sebastien ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FO8RZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 153,470 Hi Only with 100 watts and 3 elets yagi up 6 meters for 15-20. Dipole for 40. Don't forget to listen ! I sent CQ during 45 minutes two times with few QSO but with very good signals. When I have been spotted on cluster, it was the pilup ! So remember that you have also to listen in order to find mults ! Some european station had a very good signals, but they had also a poor reception ! Another one had twice ! Thanks ! See you just a few moment for SSB, but very seriously for CQ WW DX CW ! All the best and remember that the cluster is not the only way to have multis ! 73 FO8RZ Phil ps: sorry for poor english ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0HVQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 469,612 Great fun, what a difference a few sunspots can make. Set a target of 500 QSOs and got 737, 15m much busier than expected and quadruple the usual QSOs on 80m thanks to the loan of a vert, rather than the usual low dipole. Hard work on 15m due to low power - heard but missed JA, E21, VU, V5, and several YBs. 73 Darrell G0HVQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3YBY Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 42,282 Time limited this weekend so very part time casual entry. Band stayed open later to SA than expected on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 519,162 Thanks for the Qs. See you next in SSB with Dorridge scout team M0XXT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,441,080 Serge arrived from the Ukraine for this one feeling pretty beat after his long journey. He wanted to catch some sleep before the start but only managed a couple of hours after some set up issues with the computers. I have been working hard to get our new 80m 4 square ready for Serge but it was not to be as the control and phasing units are still in Russia with Vlad RA4LW. We had planned on Vlad being here to set it to work but at unfortunately at the last moment a visa issue has delayed his departure. I decided to hook up one element of the new 4sq for the 80m aerial which worked very well with strong runs into NA and some good DX too. Generally tho' 40m and 20m were the money bands with 15 following up behind but 10m was almost non existant other than the usual batch of South Americans that we always seem to find no matter what. The first night was buzzing on 80 and 40m but unfortunately not to be repeated on the 2nd as the bands just died. Serge decided to get his head down and attack the bands again after some rest. 20M was not too bad during both days but 15 was always a struggle although some good DX was worked at times into the far East but never enough to keep any sort of rate going for long. To sum up then, generally poor conditions on the higher bands with some exceptions. The station worked well with a few issues here and there. Always great to see Serge and maybe learn a little more about RTTY operation from a great guy and op. 73 Paul G6PZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GA0FGI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 661,827 Great weekend. Conditions up on recent weeks, Saturday better than Sunday. 20 and 40m money bands, with almost limitless stations to work. Good run into west coast of NA on Saturday but I struggle to work SA. Interesting that more zones and countries worked on 40m [helped by only 2 VKs worked in Z29 and 30] than on 20m but reverse in states/province numbers. Struggled on 80 and 15m but good to see latter open at last. As always some good gotaways!. Thanks for all contacts and to organisers. EQUIPMENT: ICOM 7600, ACOM 1010 300 watts ANTENNAS : 20-10m VK2ABQ at 25ft; 40m Vertical, 80m Loop at 30ft SOFTWARE : N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GB50ATG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,014,027 Good to find decent conditions with Saturday very good here. Managed to miss the best of it on 15 due to a problem with RF getting in to the audio; first time this has happened and no changes to the gear. By the time I found that turning the PC by 90 degrees fixed the problem it was too late! Saw the problems with FT5GA which always happen with DXpeds in a test. Without split operation it must be impossible to get any sort of rate, with all the world calling and very few listening. Thanks to all who managed to work me despite my poor selection of verticals and wires ... should have the tower up next year :-) QSL and award info is on the BARTG website www.bartg.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GI5K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,156,269 Conditions were similar to last year, however achieved a higher hourly run rate on the first day, operated with less sleep and was lucky to access a slow but steady flow of DXCC and NA states on 15m. Once again spent way too long on 10m with the second radio, stretched over 48 hours it felt like i only worked 5 stations but the log shows 28. Three five banders CR3L, IZ0EHL YT0A, and only one JA for a double mult on 15m JR3IIR. Some stats below for furtre reference. See you in SSB QSL LOTW or direct via G3SWH 73s Chris MI0LLL / GI5K http://www.mi0lll.com GI5K - Continents By band - By mode QSOs (with dupes) | Band / Mode | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 80 RTTY | 70.8% | 26.6% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 1.1% | | | 40 RTTY | 62.9% | 30.5% | 2.1% | 0.4% | 3.1% | 1.1% | | 20 RTTY | 44.1% | 41.6% | 0.9% | 0.4% | 12.3% | 0.6% | | 15 RTTY | 60.7% | 25.4% | 4.0% | 1.3% | 7.4% | 1.3% | | 10 RTTY | 75.9% | | 10.3% | 10.3% | 3.4% | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by Win-Test 4.1.0 http://www.win-test.com GI5K All bands - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time | Hr | | ----------------- | 00 | 85 | | 01 | 116 | | 02 | 104 | | 03 | 98 | | 04 | 78 | | 05 | 74 | | 06 | 118 | | 07 | 123 | | 08 | 118 | | 09 | 121 | | 10 | 107 | | 11 | 90 | | 12 | 86 | | 13 | 77 | | 14 | 64 | | 15 | 77 | | 16 | 42 | | 17 | 88 | | 18 | 97 | | 19 | 98 | | 20 | 81 | | 21 | 97 | | 22 | 30 | | 23 | 86 | | 00 | 64 | | 01 | 67 | | 02 | 8 | | 03 | 20 | | 04 | 45 | | 05 | 70 | | 06 | 45 | | 07 | 55 | | 08 | 59 | | 09 | 55 | | 10 | 67 | | 11 | 81 | | 12 | 75 | | 13 | 49 | | 14 | 32 | | 15 | 51 | | 16 | 56 | | 17 | 92 | | 18 | 47 | | 19 | 57 | | 20 | 62 | | 21 | 72 | | 22 | 49 | | 23 | 46 | ----------------- | | 3479 | Powered by Win-Test 4.1.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM3SEK Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 344,400 Hardware: K3, GS35b amp, 4-square Software: N1MMLogger, MMTTY Support: McVities dark chocolate biscuits A fun contest - thanks to everyone for the QSOs. Conditions to NA were the best I've ever heard, but OC and the Far East have to be worked through the wall of European QRM and clearly I missed some multipliers. 73 from Ian GM3SEK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU0SUP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 380,035 Nice to see some propagation at last! Not great, but certainly better than recent months. A great opening to W6/7 and VE6/7 on Saturday afternoon, which I took advantage of, and just as well, as it wasn't repeated on Sunday afternoon. Had a few good runs on Sunday, but could not get a run going on Saturday at all. Hopefully there will be a few new band slots out of this! Thanks to all for the points, and the fun. My log is now on LoTW, but paper cards are always welcomed. Very best 73 Phil GU0SUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: H2E Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 992,082 Tnx all for a good contest. Didn't quite get to the million, better attempt next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,069,746 Nice Contest! TU! 73, Bela! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3TEJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,519,478 Thanks God and to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's... I finished shorted than last year score because my 80 meter 97q's not good even I worked everyone I called did not get any run on that band. On saturday spent a nice runs on 15 meter must of the time opened to EU and just a FEW BIG ONES FROM USA also JA been a long time. In 20 meter spectacular runs reached 120 QSO per minute rate so far I think is the faster lap I ever did. AMAZING is not the real word for this but JA,HL,VR,YB signals on 20 meter over the 30 dbs and passing thru my NA pile up my lifetime RTTY Pile up. Tnxs again to all the callers that make it posible found a very good tool on the FT2000 for the deliberating QRM a pity I discovered 2 hours b4 contest ended. ( Funny from the test Spent 2 hours calling for the Albanian station and the Glorioso Station came to my freq. for a QSO HIHI can not argue). SETUP 2- FT2000 (100) WATTS 2L 40 meter + 1 rotary dipole 1/4 80 meter vertical Blessing from the PUP Contest HQ 73's Ted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 17,073 Vy happy time in 2009 cq ww rtty contest. Cu agn next contest. G,L de HL5YI Chae 73.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HQ9R Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 307,662 Great contest! Thanks for the contacts. Big signals and great operators. Radio: K3 Antenna: 43ft Zero-Five vertical, on the beach, 60 radials Logging: N1MM Thanks to The Radio Club of Honduras for their support. See everyone in the CQWW SSB! Ray, WQ7R..HR9/WQ7R..HQ9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9RBW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 130,048 Just activ the first night,and some hours on saturday,nothing sunday. Good condx to usa,much qrm from europe,big difficolt on vertical. Good Experience for me on this mode. Rigs Icom 756 Pro 3 Ampl 300 w Ant Vertical Home made Rtty whit sound blaster Softw. Qartest 73s de IT9RBW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3TMV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,539,214 Hello everyone, and 'was a good contest organized at the last moment not to miss the opportunity' to participate in CQWW test. Excellent propagation conditions in the first part of the test, unfortunately, an incident, we did lose the first 4 hours of testing on 80 meters because the radio showed an anomaly of TX moved down. Then replaced the radio through IV3ZXQ, everything 'back regularly. Pity about the result will be 'for the next time. Excellent condition setup, everything worked out for the best, No 'was the time to install additional antennas, but this' already' in the thinking of the next test of 2010. Thanks to all the participants for their long availability 'to operate from a station unknown to them. Good system to have a cook (emanuele) available for meals in turn. I hope that everyone will have enjoyed and I hope eventually to replicate perhaps during the WAE test cu in the next test Flavio iv3tmv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IY1NGM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,557,644 First thanks very much to Federico (IW1QN) that come and join us during this contest. We have had many problem during the contest…interface sometimes didn’t work properly and once the system crashed. But as usual lot of fun and it’s very nice to hear 15 m a little bit open. Contest: First hours were amazing. After 1 hour of good running on 80 m we move on 40 where we had a very good pile up to NA. There we never hear (and work so) many State as this weekend. Just before sunrise we move on 80 m where there was also some interesting NA signal on the band. Morning was (as usual) disappointing there. There was no possibility to make a good run and so we search mult quite all time. Then when bands open to NA everything change…again good rate and signal from west coast 59+20/59+30. Second night were not good as first one but we worked many mults. The second day was quite as the first one… Thanks very much to everyone that call us! Filippo IZ1LBG (and IY1NGM group) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0IR Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,543,048 Ralph Fedor, KØIR was making final connections and adjustments to his station while Bob Chudek, KØRC finished configuring the local area network for the 2009 CQWW DX RTTY Contest. There was not much time remaining before the launch of this new Multi-Operator station in central Minnesota. Six operators would put the KØIR callsign on the air for the shake down cruise. And this would be the first RTTY event for several of the operators. The station has three operating positions. Two are equipped with FT-1000D's and a SO2R position with a pair of IC-756 Pro-3's. A fourth workstation is used for administration tasks and is not interfaced to any radios. The amplifiers consisted of an Alpha 9500, Alpha 8410, Acom 2000A, and an Ameritron AL-1500. These were run conservatively at 1,000 Watts output. Ralph had an Ameritron AL-1200 in reserve and a new Alpha 9500 was sitting on a pallet in the garage. The software used was N1MM and MMTTY configured into a 4-node network. This software ran without issues while the operators learned how to use it "on the fly." The KØIR qth is populated with a half dozen towers with stacks of antennas for 40 through 6 meters. Two of these towers rotate while the remaining towers use traditional rotators. One older tower remains barren of antennas at the moment. Overall the results were beyond all our expectations. Certainly there were issues that needed attention, but the problems were resolved or worked around with minor impact. No smoke was released from any of the equipment and our log shows 46 hours of operating time. One of those hours was lost late at night when one of the amplifiers developed a T/R switching problem that attenuated RX signals by 40 dB or more. Some 40m operating time was lost due to rain static drowning the band with noise that covered every signal. Because this was a maiden voyage into unknown waters, we did not set any hard goals for the contest. We did exchange ideas on a "it would be nice" basis. My idea was to make WAS and DXCC. These were achieved. Mark, WAØMHJ had the most aggressive goal. This was to beat the total Minnesota Wireless Association club score from last year. This was achieved. As a matter of fact, our claimed score beat the combined total of the two best years on RTTY by the club. Most important, everyone had a good time and learned a lot over the weekend. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 343,608 First try at a major RTTY contest. Took a while for my CW-oriented brain to get into the groove! Did primarily a 20m single-band effort with an occasional foray to other bands for a needed country or two. Had first QSOs w/EU on 15m in several years. Also had FT5GA on the screen briefly, but no workie! Thanks for the Q's! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 848,804 This is my second entry into the CQ World Wide RTTY Contest, the first being last year. I had no specific goal other than to beat last year's score, which is the default goal of any operation. I also did no advance planning, or even checking to see if everything (or anything) works. Checking might have been useful. About 45 minutes before the test, I fired up the equipment, but there is no keying of the radio by the computer. After some furious troubleshooting, I replaced the chip resistor in the RS232 to TTL adapter that I made to interface the computer to the radio. If you apply too much heat when soldering the chip resistors, all of the silver plating boils off and then solder won't stick for more than a year (apparently). The lessons I learned last year about "continuous duty" operation still apply. Its still amazing how warm and cranky various components become after CQing for a while. I think after last year, all of the famous IC765 wax dribbled all over the BFO trimmer caps, which has caused the radio to sometimes "passband tune" away from the signal of interest at random times. Power cycling the radio temporarily fixes the problem. I've become adept at poking the power button between transmissions. Last year I blamed a perfectly good Potter and Bumfield relay for some intermittent high SWR glitches. Turns out the culprit is me, for failing to solder the center pin on the PL259 from the 40 meter vertical. Since last year, I've built a 20 meter vertical on top of the pole-barn's metal roof, and reverted the 4-BTV to a full sized ground mounted 40 meter vertical, which also sort of works on 15 meters. 80 meters is still a bunch of wires forming a cage around the 160 meter "T" vertical. The cage wires have 2 lengths, to give a narrow low SWR band on 80 meters and another on 75. So, the SWR around the RTTY frequencies is a little high, which makes the amplifier cranky. One of these days, I need to get an antenna tuner. Also, the SWR on 15 meters is a little high, again making the amplifier cranky. One of these days I need to get an antenna tuner. Surprise last minute multipliers: A61OO on 40 meters in the last hour, J39BS in the last 15 minutes, and WW3DE for the Delaware multiplier on 80 as my last QSO during the last minute. Multipliers on 80 were way down this year, 80 versus 107 last year. But multipliers were up on all the other bands, so the net result is only down by 5. Made more than 10% more QSOs, so I'm hoping that I can squeak into a top ten USA high power single op unassisted category that I just missed last year. RTTY contesting is fun! I'd never be able to do this on CW, even though I like it better. elderly IC765, K8ND's ETO 91B (thanks, Jeff) 80/160: 65 foot "T" with extra wires for 80 and 75 40/15: ground mounted full sized vertical with 32 radials 20: full sized vertical on metal pole barn roof 10: beam laying behing the barn (it isn't a vertical) MMTTY 1.66G, WriteLog 10.54C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1PY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 108,252 Tks to Larry W2LB, Tom WD8CQB, and Paul K2DB for antenna help without which I could not have participated. That's part of what makes Rochester DX Association a great club! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,657,364 Good tight race to watch on getscores.org, several lead changes and close all the way to the finish. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DSL Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 344,120 Bested last years score by 50 Q's and a lot more mults. Only worked a short time late Fri because of other commitments but worked a good day on Sat and Sun. Seemed to have a nice pipeline on Sunday between NJ and Alaska as all AK stations were booming in. Lots of strong EU stations on multiple bands. Add a nice NY Giants football win and it was a good weekend! Kenwood TS-2000 with 100w to a G5RV. 73 all and thanks for a fun contest! David - K2DSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PO/7 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 123,760 Licensed for 38 years - finally braved RTTY. I shouldn’t have waited so long… It would have been nice to start the contest at the beginning, but other commitments prevailed. Finally got to the shack 6 hours after the starting bell and heated up soldering iron for finishing touches on the serial interface. Then fought computer for too long – trying unsuccessfully to find a driver that would allow me to use a wireless keyboard. Finally sat down to operate – only to waste a further 40 minutes trying unsuccessfully to make a contact. When even the locals replied AGN AGN I finally figured out I was upside down. (More reading of AA5AU tutorial and TS-850 manual…) Eventually, at 1:30 am (0830Z), made my first RTTY QSO: YW5T on 40m. Enjoyed the 20m opening on Saturday. (My low dipole didn’t really cut it on Sunday morning.) Nice to work Africa (CR3L) and Pacific (FO8TZ) back to back on 15m Saturday afternoon – like old times. Among the countries heard but not worked were U.A.E. and Armenia. Resolutions for next year: (1) Get ready before start time, and (2) Have something more than paralleled dipoles at 35 feet for antennas!! Thanks to those who took time to patiently dig out the weak ones! 73, /Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2YG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 87,828 Elecraft K2 @ 5 watts, Tibander/Dipole/RITTY-RTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ZC Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 258,500 Thanks all for the contacts. 73 and gud dx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,013,868 Not bad for two well matured ops. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,189,325 Lot's of activity, was pleasantly surprised at 19:10 on 20M when FT5GA called me in the middle of a run, man that was easy compared to the 3 long days of calling him on 20 RTTY before working him for my 3rd QSO (20m SSB CW & RTTY) last week... I appreciate all the QSO's and I hope to see you all in the next one! Gear: Icom IC-756 Pro II Heathkit SB-220 @ 500 watts A4S @ 75 feet OCF dipole @ 65 feet MFJ-989D tuner Homebrew interface Homebrew CT-17 clone Dual Core Pentium /w XP-PRO and N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,892,278 That was fun. Hope you also had fun. Finally, a decent 15 meter opening from East Coast USA to Europe. The Saturday opening was better than Sunday's. Both days were good compared to what we've had in recent RTTY contests. Equipment operated okay at the start and for the first 12 hours. Then the rain came with the weather breaking one leg of the 80 m inv. vee. All the 80 meter contacts were made during the first few hours of the Contest. Use a couple of Beverage ant. to listen so didn't realize the transmitting ant. (inv. vee) was damaged until tried to transmit on 80 m Sat. evening and had a plus 5 to 1 SWR. During the latter part of Sat. noticed a random noise showing up on both radios (SO2R). Not sure if the noise was caused by some type of rectification when the broken leg wire was hitting the tower while transmitting on either of the Yagis. The noise didn't start until Sat., which leads me to think the broken wire has something to do with the problem. Will find out this week when the inv. vee is repaired. Thanks for all the contacts - your working me is appreciated. 73, Mike, K4GMH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 66,357 With plans for attending 50th High School graduation reunion, over the weekend, I knew it would be a very limited effort. I was really hoping to either find, or get called by FT5GA, but it didn't happen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5AM Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 74,806 Location: Horse Mountain, 2400 m elev. Generator power. Dipole at 12 m. Photo: www.zianet.com/k5am/cabin.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 145,957 Sure wish I could have played some more in this one but had a out of town race this weekend and could only play Friday evening and some Sat morning before leaving. How cool was it to be called by FT5GA on 40m!! Didn't think I would have a chance to chase them for a RTTY new one, so a very nice gift! All the help from W0YK's CTU info has me feeling pretty confortable with SO2R now... I was having a blast working 20/40 Friday night.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 772,992 Great fun! RTTY ops just keep getting better. Was able to have 90+/hr rates while running with one radio. Biggest suprise was RW0A calling me on 40m. Then just as suprised to work 3 JA stations on 40m more than 40 minutes after sunrise! Only SO1R for the first day. On Sunday I decided to have some fun chasing mults so fired up the second rig. Lots of transmitting time in RTTY so the second radio provides lots of extra listening time! 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 73 130 104 21 3 331 35.3 AF 3 1 5 2 0 11 1.2 EU 41 166 298 23 0 528 56.4 SA 1 9 12 15 2 39 4.2 AS 0 6 15 1 0 22 2.3 OC 0 1 3 2 0 6 0.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6BL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 358,800 My first CQWW RTTY. Wow, did I learn a lot. Biggest challenges: tuning, sorting out whose frequency it is, and new software (new to me). Most fun: CQing and running. Thanks for the Q's, I'll be back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6KR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 50,949 First RTTY contest. Had a great time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 303,450 It was my first time ever in this contest, because I'm usually not in Arizona at this time of year. It was just a casual, fun, part-time effort. 20 was quite good, but 15 was disappointing. With a few sunspots, I had hoped 15 would be better. The station is back together after some equipment failures and taking part of the equipment on the road this summer. Everything is working now. 73 Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 165,087 Nice openings to Europe both mornings from West Coast. Always a fun contest. Elecraft K3 + 500 watts to SteppIR (40/20/15) + G5RV (80M)+ N1MM/MMTTY. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 90,804 2nd RTTY contest I ever entered. Spent to much time S & P, running is easy and a gas. Also, low power does not cut it, ran 500-700w and got everything i called. Lineup: FT-1000MP 80b 3 ele tribander at 60' dipole for 40m at 70' Inverted Vee and vertical for 80m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 38,874 BIG thanks to K9YC for use of his station. My main objective was to add a few new ones to my DXCC count - I bagged 6 new ones plus a few I don't have confirmed yet. And it was fun to try out some of that hardware (the tower and Steppir) I had helped Jim put up this summer! Was I the only one who printed "ELVIS IS ALIVE"? Thanks for the Qs! Barry, K6RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 124,848 K3, ALPHA 91B, N1MM SOFTWARE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 185,055 Great contest! Finally, a DX contest where DX could be worked from the NA West Coast. Thx to SV9CVY for calling for NA west coast. Tnx to all for the QSOs and CU in California QSO Party next weekend. 73, K6TD -KR- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 158,574 Started late. Quit early - 15 hrs. Had to overcome a couple of technical malfunctions. Good NS and Asian paths. EU was poor Sat but good Sun. As always rtty is favorite contest mode followed by cw. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 162,180 Fun contest, 20 meter activity level unbelievable both days. I even managed to work all continents on 15 thanks to EA8 and IT9 and a couple of timely JA's. Low power can be frustrating at times but all in all I had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 508,389 My second CQ WW RTTY. This time I mustered up some "stamina (for me)" and gave it a good go, improving last year's Q count by over 50 percent. 80m was a nice surprise--quieter than in the past couple of months of contesting and producing some nice Q rates until "everybody" was worked. 40m was also quieter but jam packed with ops. It was a tough job to find a hole to squeeze into for some running time. Considerate digi ops left the Texas QSO Party to themselves until the Texans quit for the evening. I should have checked 15 meters more often on Saturday--there could have been a bunch of mults on Saturday that weren't available during the hour I spent on 15 on Sunday. The few I worked on Sunday (11 of them) were all in America del Sur. Most of the ones I called never heard me--they were listening (and working) EU ops. Heard only one America del Norte op, but he never heard my call--he was listening to SA!! I won't make this mistake again during the CQ WW CW! Never bothered to check 10 meters--the rates on 20 were just too good to pass up, and the mults on 15 just took too much time away from the "action." The biggest surprise of the weekend came when my neighbor, N2IC, answered my 20 meter running call on Sunday afternoon--using RTTY mode yet! Things must have been awfully boring around his mountaintop QTH this weekend!! Thanks Steve, for handing me a mult from our home state! With RTTY tones hypnotically in my ears, my wife Erin (KB5ZKE) wants to know why I spend my break times answering the telephone only to get a dial tone... Thanks, CQ Magazine, for sponsoring this, and other, fine worldwide contests! A great warmup for the CW event! Thanks also to the worldwide ops who provided the fine action! 73, Dan k7ia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7QQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 835,737 Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec 3.5 62 73 3 4 27 7 409 727 44 24 52 14 583 1377 74 27 47 21 82 164 21 15 19 Total 1136 2341 142 70 145 Score: 835,737 Big surprise with 15 on Saturday morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7VIT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 122,304 Got off to a very slow start. Band conditions were pretty good, but I think a day or so earlier they were better to Europe from my QTH. All-in-all, I think things are improving band-wise. I'm pretty sure I have at least one busted call in the log. ... And then there was my last QSO just before the closing bell with OH6R (599+++) when I thought Europe was out to the West Coast. Was someone pulling my leg? Maybe it was really OH6R using one of those Radio Arcala antennas! CU on agn soon. 73, Jerry K7VIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 212,256 Rig: FT1000MP / AL811H / Force 12 6BA @ 70' / Classic 33 / 80m Sloper/ N1MM (MMTTY) / MicroHam USB Interface II. Technical issues and a busy weekend hindered a serious effort, but much fun was had as always in this contest! Great to hear some propagation as well as a bunch of activity. Due to the times that I was able to operate, I missed the normal west coast JA runs, which are always a pleasure to hear and work...hope to work all of you next time. Thanks for all the Q's and C U all in the CQWWSSB! 73 from AZ, John K7WP .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 509,328 Only operated Friday night and Saturday. Wow, Saturday was like the good old days - EU still rolling in as JA reopened. It was non-stop. GREAT to see RTTY becoming more popular with Sound Cards making it SO easy. Also, the little uptick in sunspots and a seemingly instant improvement in propagation didn't hurt. THIS will increase interest in our hobby - a little DX! 73, see you in RTTY Roundup! Kevin K7ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 779,726 Lots of fun and better condx. Nice DX surprises. Tnx for the q's 73, Craig K9CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG/4 Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 416,976 Thanks to all who q'd. Couldn't answer the bell for the second day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 197,225 Small effort. Hope to finish antenna rebuild soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9OM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 354,207 My first RTTY Contest and what a blast! Sorry if I sounded like a novice- I was one! 73, Dick- K9OM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2KON Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 354,042 It all started pretty badly. The new computer, that seemed to work fine before the contest, decided to be a problem. Looks like a combination of a serial card not functioning properly and some rfi that never bothered the old computer. Trip to the computer store on saturday at least made things somewhat workable if you consider I had to reboot the computer more than 25 times during the contest. Had a lot of fun and did better than last year which is the goal. Looks like I am now getting limited by the Icom 746 that had a hard time with adjacent signals. Eeven a moderate station close by will wipe out the decoding. So a lot of time with the pre-amp and agc off trying to keep my run frequency. Did about half running and half s+p. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA4RRU Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,191,760 Had a great time and we did not break anything! 73 de ka4rru - Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 44,100 Thanks for all the Qs! Used a Cushcraft 40-2CD at 118' and 100 watts. Had big static for about 1.5 hours last night. Noise was S9+, but then quitened down to somewhere around S4. But band conditions did not seem to good after that. First time to use the MK2R+, MMTTY and Writelog in combination. It all seemed to do OK. Took a little while to sort out all the parameters but managed to do so on the fly. Actually the first time to use the FT1000D on RTTY since getting it back from repair. OK, hope to see everybody in the next contest. Take care! Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,234 2009 CQ WW RTTY DX Contest KD5J Zone: 04 Multipliers: 20m 14 ON! 05 QC DL FL PA! 15 I VA 03 UT MA E7 16 UA MD 04 SD G 08 HI 01 KL7 13 LU NY CA NV NJ NH OH! AB WA 06 XE MT CM BC AZ 31 KH6 ID 15m 13 33 EA8 14 EA 15 05 NS OK! 09 HK SP 11 PY 06 10m 13 09 P4 04 AL Total: 63 Mults identified with ! are DX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD7MSC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 121,095 Tough going with low dipoles but still had a great time. Rig was a Kenwood TS-930, Henry 2K-3, and temporary dipoles. See ya in the next contest. 73, Sean ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD8GOX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,588 Goal in this contest was to build 15M and RTTY count for DXCC and maybe snag a good dx contact. Station really not set up for serious RTTY action - "cat with a long tail in a room of rocking chairs" - you get the picture. Goal was acheived with Zone 28, 38 and 25 QSO's. I hope I helped a few contesters and the club out. See you in WAG. 73 de Karl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1F Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 65,520 Lots of activity on 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4UW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 93,625 I really enjoyed the contest, despite not being able to spend as much time as I had hoped. Had to spend most of the daylight hours helping one of the kids move--why do these things always happen on contest weekends? I was too beat to stay up all night, so lost a few more hours catching some shuteye. Because of the limited hours, I just stayed on 40m. Antenna was a double bazooka dipole. I had recently relocated the ham shack to a new (and improved) room, and this was the first test of the new setup. Spent the first half hour of the contest ironing out software/computer issues on a system I thought had been thoroughly tested. Another good reminder to test EVERYTHING in advance. Propagation was OK, but not great. Worked a fair number of Europeans, but very few Pacific/Asia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE7YF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 60,356 IC-746 PRO 100W. HOA Antenna Restrictions. 20M ANT: Rotatable dipole made from Hustler Sticks 3 meters off the ground. 80M, 40M, 15M ANT: Ground mounted Hustler mast plus band resonator, no radials. Rigblaster Pro, MMTTY. Saturday Morning EU stations on 20M were as high as S-6 into my dipole. Sunday Morning EU stations were only S-4 at best. Heard many more EU than I could work with 100W. Had fun anyway....thanks to all....73....Paul KE7YF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 116,572 Emergency amp repair job in the middle of the contest kept 15m QSOs lower than they might have been. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4JGQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 196,040 Excellent contest. Tnx to everyone for the Qs. Look forward to trying for 48 hrs next year. 73, Rusty ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 142,600 Limited time, just worked a few USA high rate hours on 20 and gave out the mult on 80 to the Eastcoast and 15 meters to Europe. Heard KL8DX, AL1G and AL7R working the contest so most stations should have got the double mult at least on 20. I will be in this one serious next year when we finally get better prop on 10 and 15. Yeah, I said that last year. 73 Rich KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 104,562 A nice opening to Central & South America on Saturday on 15 meters but Sunday yielded nothing on that band for me. I had to work the weekend due to the end of our fiscal year. Denali is once again quiet and Winter has arrived. It was 16 degrees this morning with 4 inches of snow on the ground. Even though it is chilly outside the bands were hot. Wall to wall on 20 meters. Thank goodness for RTTY filters! With Winter arrives the contest season so looking forward to many more contests and contacts. Was asked for my state several times but we were DX in this one. Lots of fun and especially seeing many old friends and familiar callsigns. RTTY is sure a popular mode but that's one of the many reasons I enjoy it. See ya in the next one! Phil KL8DX Denali National Park, AK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 37,406 I almost didn't work the contest. So many things have happened since February. We moved from WPA to EPA, just got an OCF dipole put up in the backyard, and not permanently installed yet. Then last Saturday I was taking my son to his first ever Penn State football game and 2 miles from the stadium I was involved in a multi-vehicle accident and spent the day in the E.R. with a dislocated right ankle and 11 staples on my right knee where it hit my 2 meter rig (tore it right off the mounting bracket and the front of it came apart from the impact with my knee). And, I totaled my Jeep in the accident. It was very uncomfortable to spend much time in the shack with not being able to put any pressure on my right foot. This was the first contest since moving to Lancaster, PA (not counting any contests before 1996 when I lived here before as KA3LUW or WY3X). The OCF Dipole worked much better than my G5RV did when I lived in Pittsburgh. The band conditions to Europe were pretty good any time I was able to get into the shack. Hope I can spend more time in the shack for the next major contest. 73 Scott Kenwood TS 450SAT OCF Dipole 75 Watts N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4QD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 152,280 Didn't get to operate the whole contest, but was able to put in some good time on Sunday. 95% S&P. Thanks to all for participating and providing the QSOs. Highlight of the contest for me was probably when I worked R1ANC in Antarctica within the first 20 minutes or so of the contest. Just happened to stumble across him calling and was able to get him without too much difficulty. See you all in the rest of the upcoming 'tests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN5O Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 97,890 Note to self - don't upgrade N1MM 30 minutes before contest and think you'll have it under control - bad move.. Got into contest late.. Worked only 2 bands, but entering in SOSB(A) catergory. Alpha amp in for repair - blown bandswitch wafer.. 30S-1 was acting up b/c it was getting too hot, so ran LP for a lot of Q's. Operated 40M for only 8 hours.. Thanks to all the stations that called.. Especially FT5GA who called me on 20M! What a surprise! This was my second year operating in this contest, but the first year I made a half-hearted attempt at it. The XYL doesn't like to see me at the radio for long periods of time, so it was interspersed with plenty of honey-dos - but - I really like this contest! GL to all - Ted, KN5O. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4AH Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 7,400 Poor conditions, see you in the next contest! 73' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,301,200 KR7X - 2009 CQWW RTTY Contest Fall is here and another installment of the CQWW RTTY contest has been completed at the Smoke Ranch Contest Station. As always; a heartfelt thank-you to Brad and Ruth who hosted me yet again for this madness, they are the best. This year’s operation was without any major hitches, and I am more comfortable with SO2R and the station set-up was just about perfect. I have come to realize that ergonomics are what makes it easier to have significant "butt in the chair" time. This is what helps to attempt a serious effort in any 48 hour contest. The conditions were very good and a great improvement over the last couple of years. 20m and 40m were significantly better than the last several years, especially in the early afternoon where the DX used to disappear for several hours from here until the JA's and Pacific would start to show up. 15m was not so good, 10m sucked and I’ve got to get more serious about 80m! My goals were to improve from last year’s 1400 Q's and 1,100,000 plus/minus points. I accomplished this and feel that, on the whole, I did the best I could given the conditions. I must close with the observation that it was FUN, and that is what this is all about. Thanks to all the stations that shared in the festival and to those I QRM’d or couldn't work, sorry. Brad/Ruth thanks for hosting me yet again. Ciao and 73 Hank / KR7X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 120,393 My best effort in this contest. I had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS7S Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 186,420 What a blast that was! A few sunspots sure helped. This was a 100% better effort than any I'd had before in this contest (220 Q's previous best). Now for an 80M antenna and better high band antennas before next time. Elecraft K3 AL-811 at 250W R7000 Vertical microKEYER/N1MM ver 9.9.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0DX Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 83,517 Just testing the waters this time around. I have not done this contest that I could remember. It was a lot of fun for the short time that I could put in this year. Will plan to do this one next year as a full effort from this station if the man above will allow me to be around next year. Great working some of the stations that I have worked in other contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1I Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 30,976 It was a busy weekend so I operated very much part time. Also had technical problems that resulted in operating only on 20 M. enjoyed the action. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT6YL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 110,166 First time participating in CQWWRTTY. Only 14 hours could be spent operating from the home QTH. But I had a good time 'playing radio' in my favorite mode. Many thanks to all who responded to my CQ's or S&P. Hope to see you in the next contest. 73 es 88s de Tiny KT6YL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 158,096 73, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV7DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,390 GP vvert = dummy load = tough going. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7L Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 17,721 After the news of the previous week, a song by the Police was stuck in my head "There's a little black spot on the Sun today.." I was originally going to just see what new dx I could find, but I was having so much fun I couldn't stop. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 65,940 Wow what activity. Guess I need to get up to speed on this mode. Just S&P'd when I had time. 40mtr ant broke so just three bands. Didn't check 10mtrs however...my bust. Wrkd some pretty juicy stuff DX for any mode. Fiddled with adjusting the radio as 1st time I have used it on RTTY. Got it sorted out now I have to work on the op Hi Hi. I and my station are "in" fer more seat time on this mode this season for sure. GL to all and TNX fer putting up with a "green" op... 73 Tim, KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA3BO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 108,188 My first RTTY contest ever! Very relaxing compared to CW and SSB.. Main activity this weekend was SAC SSB, so this was just to fill the spare time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN9Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 132,822 Just 8 hours of operation prior to the SAC SSB Contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LP2F Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 257,584 A big storm force me to give up on saturday nigth. Very good log path conditions. 73 LU1FDU - LP2F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LT0H Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 843,150 HI Regrettably the 40 or 42 hs that I had planned could not work, only 33 hs Family problems and an electric power cut during the Sunday they made it impossible to complete But I am very happy because a lot of time ago that I did not work a contest AB Low SO2R and it is really very comfortable and less exhausting that to work HP SO2R ( less intrumentos to control, everything is more simpler ) Thank for QSO's.- 73 Juan LT0H (op LU3HY) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU1BJW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 594,130 Cycle 24 is here! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU4HH Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 14,152 THE FIRST CQWW RTTY FROM THE ANTENNAS FIELD OF RADIO CLUB CORDOBA, WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE, SEE YOU IN THE CQWW SSB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 8,865 Hi everyone, The condition on 10Mts. was very poor here during the contest, I used N1MM+MTTY program and running 80W with my Yaesu FT-747GX and monoband 4el Yagi... I thank a lot guys that called me in the contest... I hope to hear all in the CQWW SSB!!! Mark LU8EOT.- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,496,862 Thanks for all the QSOs. This year we were not able to realy improve our score from last year. As some team members were only able to join us on Saturday and had to leave earlier, we were not able to run 2 Stations during the full contest. As I plan to change a lot the antenna layout, which will only be ready for the CQWWSSB 2010, the performance of our 80M Antenna was not very good. Informations about the ongoing changes on antennas and towers are available on our website. LX7I will also start to be active on VHF and UHF, cu you in the next contests ! 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I www.lx2a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,697,508 Little bit better result compared to last year. Thanks to all who worked with me! 73, Boyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,454,355 TS850SAT and Icom720A (used for band map fill). Antennas: RUN 80 - INv.Vee 40 - 3el.Vert array 20/15/10 - 2el Quad MULT 80/40 - Short Vertical 15/10 - 4el. yagi Thanks for all QSO's. 2009 edition of CQWW was my personal best so far. 73, Nasko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0EOP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 13,224 Bands stated out bad on Friday nigt. Saturday was the best and Sunday wasn't to bad. Lots of QSB all three days. Wish I felt better and had a better antenna system. Used FT-920, MFJ Versa Tunner V, and G5RV. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 114,359 S&P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2QT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,519,392 What an absolute blast! Improved my score by 27% over last year with an extra 4 hours of operating. Lower country count on 80, but that was more than made up for by the 15M opening and even a bit on 10M. I'm still fretted by some external mix products that hurts me when running 40/20M concurrently but SO2R still makes things move along well for me. Highlight was finding FT5GA cqing on 15 and working him with 1 call at 100w after failing with a KW before the contest! Many thanks to the sponsors and the participants and congratulations to WA1Z for another great score this year! Station: K3, FT1000 MKV Field, KT34A at 60 ft, 3 el Steppir at 48 ft 40M rotary dipole at 54 ft Shunt fed tower on 80 M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 76,255 Had limited time to play due to SEDCO and TenTec Hamfest. Sunday was lotsa fun particularly with 15M and some nice Asian DX on 20M. Added a few new RTTY DXCC and one new mixed mode DXCC. Had hoped to catch the FT5, but never heard them. Learned a lot from Jim, AD4EB's RTTY presentation at SEDCO. Modified some of my script already and also my screen layout for N1MM (which really didn't like either my check file or something I was doing, particularly with Hawaiian stations, minor glitch for me). Still a lot to learn! Elecraft K3 4 El SteppIr dipole and delta loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3CHX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 194,936 ICOM IC-746 feedibg Kenwood AT-200 Tuner to a Inverted Vee @ 50Ft > 20Ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BCD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 38,121 HAD SO MUCH FUN I'M STUCK WRITING IN ALL CAPS! First RTTY Contest. Used the event to get used to the mode, new hardware, and the exchange. Operated off & on for several hours. FT-950 w/RigBlaster PnP, SB-201 Amp, 147m Horiz Loop fed w/ Ladderline. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 473,922 Dry hacking cough all weekend turned into Swine Flu Monday. NOT FUN ! Highlights included: A73A 15M (new?) C37URE 80,40,20,15 EA8 80,40,20,15 EX 20 FO 15 (all time new one) FT5GA 15 (all time new one) HS 20 HZ 15 JD/mt 40 OD 40,20 (all time new one on RTTY) OY 80 SV9 80,40,20 TF 20 UK 20 (all time new one) UN 20 VQ9 15 9M2 20 (all time new one) Just getting over Swine Flu. Avoid it if possible ! Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OGW Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 460,920 Note: the qso total includes some dupes, but the point total should be ok. This was my first time seriously operating a RTTY contest. I operated most of the time when 20 was open although I did miss a few prime hours Saturday morning due to thunderstorms. Conditions on 20m were better than I expected. One high point: FT5GA called me. Low point: I completely missed my own state for a multiplier! Radio:K3; power about 750W; antennas 4 element yagi at 100 feet, 4 element yagi at 50 feet fixed on EU. 73 Tor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,206,576 Missed the first 2 hours and Saturday Morning so it was catchup the whole way! Very few contest dxpeditions opn RTTY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CCH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 247,500 Murphy was along for the ride. Tried to open on 20m early in the day PDT on Saturday, but WL was having fits with sound card for RTTY copy. Lots of fun none the less, thanks for the spots and contacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 54,240 First RTTY contest, with restricted antenna - wait 'til next year!!! Thanks to the patient ops that dug me out of the mud!....73, Ray N6HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 5,146 QRP 2 Watts, End-Fed 20 foot random wire antenna thrown in a tree out my window. First RTTY contest, First Cabrillo log submission. Learned a LOT! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6PE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 398,671 Amp fried on 10 meters and ran barefoot after that. Did better than last year so I'm happy. Thanks to all that copied my tiny signal. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 103,592 Just a few hours on to verify that all the equipment/software still worked. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 105,792 In 1966, I made my first RTTY QSO. It didn't tickle my fancy then and not for the next 43 years! Three days ago I made my second RTTY qso and participated a few hours in CQWW RTTY to see what the attraction could possibly be. I figured, I started contesting in 1957 and avoided RTTY all these years, so what could I possibly be missing? A lot of fun and, by present day hardware requirements, an interesting and easy mode to get on, that's what I missed! Gone is all that heavy iron from that first qso in 1966 at my university club station. A large and very noisy Model 19 TTY with tape reader, a cobbled together TU and a old, large scope. All replaced by a small, simple, interface and MMTTY software. Humm... Cajoled, for several years, by good friends KC7V and K7WP to try RTTY contesting, "It is a contest, Bob, you like competition". To, "You'll like RTTY contesting, its a lot of fun", I typically dismissed all their coaxing and continued to focus only on my cw and ssb contesting activities. But the crowning blow to my resistance was from xyl and Arizona Outlaws Contest Club Webmistress N7RQ, who, two days before CQWW RTTY, posted a email on the AOCC Reflector titled, "RTTY Contest Resources - Try Something New!!". Uh oh, I am in trouble now. How could I set an example for the membership by ignoring that? And from my wife no less....ugh. ;-) Using the MMTTY and MMTTY w/N1MM links in her email, I found setting up for modern day RTTY to be surprisingly easy. I was decoding RTTY signals within 10 minutes of downloading and transmitting a short while later. The MMTTY marriage with N1MM Logger is smooth as well, although it will be a while before I am super efficient all the RTTY contest features there. Neat. Because of other previously planned family activities, I only had only 7 hrs to play CQWW RTTY this weekend, and don't really have a competitive score for even those 7 hours, especially since my goal was 100 q's on each band operated and to learn the software and RTTY procedures. But I did have a blast, learned something about RTTY Contesting and for sure will be back again. RTTY holds an interesting perspective now.This seemd like a very natural, and effective, SO2R or multiop possibility for a major effort My weekend highlight was when N7RQ walked in the shack to see what I was doing. Exactly the same time I was beginning a contest qso with Nodir EY8MM. As his exchange printed on the monitor, her eyes got big and she just smiled. Small yagi here, 100w this weekend, most assuredly would have been a tougher qso on cw and probably not at all on ssb. Humm...."What's RTTY?". Words you wont hear from me again. Try it! 73, Bob K8IA, President Arizona Outlaws Contest Club Club Call; N7AT Website: www.arizonaoutlaws.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BV Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 104,520 Due to other committments, didn't have any time Saturday, so did a casual 20m SB 13 hour effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7MQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 140,595 Limited time to operate; only 10 hours. But conditions much improved, and great fun. Thanks for QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7NM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 284,934 Had a great time as usual! Just not enough time for other than single band Very similar conditions to last year but beat my score by 20K. Huge participation and seems to be building every contest. Definately my favorite mode! CU next contest, 73, Doug - N7NM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8AGU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 214,149 Great contest. We've come a long way from Model 28 teleprinters and 88mH toroid filters ! 73 Alan N8AGU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,081,600 Pretty darn good conditions on 20 and 40. 15 was not great yesterday but opened a bit to EU later today. The extra mults helped. P49X is the only 5 bander - 10 was the tough one. Test drove a Dishtronix DX2400 amp - nice to be able to run full power on RTTY for as long as I wanted/needed. Nice to have the antennas all working for a change. Most of the pileups were pretty civilized. FT5GA seemed to be having difficulty on 15 - never did work him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 142,146 Scored using RUMped and CocoaModem.. Lot of fun in the Contest and got a few good DX Qso's along the way.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND9E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 139,536 Very P/T effort. Lots of visits from Mr. Murphy. 6 hours contesting time. 12 hours repair time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 164,700 First contest with new call...(ex KD4HXT) An actual DX Contest with DX to work. What a blast. Personal best in any WW effort. Wonderful conditions Friday and Saturday from the West Coast. (at least the best in a very long time) The number of great DX stations that called me kept me going. (9M2, Z3, 6W) Nice juicy mults on 15 meters for a change. Never heard a peep on 10 meters. Somewhat part time due to work on Sunday. Also got to bed early on Saturday night. N1MM did have problem recording stations in HI and AK. Had to change prefix and zone and go back and edit. Don't know what the deal is. This was a good FT950, FSK through Digi Keyer, 40 Meter Full Wave Loop at 25 ft, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI6T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 135 With social engagements, a K3 to stuff, and CQP to pack for, this minimal entry had two purposes: give some points to P49X and work C37URE; both occurred. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 253,638 15M was a lot better than I had expected. Good runs to Europe both days, many strong signals from the middle east, lots of activity from the south, numerous VK/ZL, and a nice JA run on Saturday kept me busy. As always, more activity from Africa would be nice. Biggest surprise was being called by RW0A (z18)long path with a huge signal on Friday night. The only multiplier heard but not worked was a KL7. I found him calling a PY. I waited until he had made several attempts and could not resist calling him. I called several time but he never responded. The one (or two) that got away! Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NO2T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 937,512 Started slow, but picked up fast. Saturday was fun! Running on 20 with the rate meter over 120/ hour was so so good. Wish that I could have held it there for the entire contest. Saturday eve (local time) was a bad. First my 80 meter dipole developed a short, followed by the 40 meter one. Very high humidity with not enough rain to wash the insulators may have been the culprit. The net result was no operation on 80 and only a few watts (about 60) on 40 meters. Sunday afternoon and evening also the antennas were poor. Therefor the major effort was 20 meters. The band, here in New Jersey, opened early and lasted a long time into the evenings. Lost much time trying to find out what was wrong with the low band antennas. Fortunately did not damage the amplifier. It (Acom 1000) ran at 600 to 800 watts with no problems. Most important, thank you for all the QSO's. Thannk you for putting up with and answering my weak signals on 40 meters on Sunday evening(local time). One big problem that must be noted. Many stations did not tune to my signal. I ran with 300 hertz pass band using an SDR-1000 with very very steep skirts. If you were more than 50 Hertz off frequency could not decode your signals. Had to use AFC on receive. This means it took time to lock onto your signals which slowed down the QSO rate. Please try to tune close to the signal before answering. Many stations are not in log because of this off frequency tuning. Hope to see you again in the contests - Jerry NO2T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,154,975 Still getting our feet wet with rtty as a group. Kind of a laid back effort. Everyone had fun and all the equipment held up well. The K3s are a sweet rig on all three primary contesting modes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 337,344 This year was good and had lots of fun even with all of the interruptions. Everything worked good with no problems. Glad to see 15 open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2GEN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,000,930 On 15M and 10M it was quit hard with LP. Nice openings on 20M late evenning to USA. No chance to work FT5GA. Wintest works great! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG8A Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 164,298 Huh what a contest. It was nice to see that 15 was open! I broke my old Ameritron linear on early Sunday morning so half of the fun was barefoot! Next year again! BR. Pentti OG8A&OH8VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2BP Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 156,294 ICOM IC-7700 + 1 Kw MosFET PA JRL-2000FH + Cushcraft XM240 @ 26M It never opened really to the States. Thanks for all valuable Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 414,756 Very limited time to play, and poor conditions did not help. Thanks to all for the points. Jarda OK2SFP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 225,078 ok2zc.nagano.cz FT-1000MP N1MM 2el QUAD MK2R+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,597,319 ONLY ONE RADIO FT1000MP + PA 1kW .... and fine weekend with Friends .... No stress, but tranquility ..... CU IN CQWW SSB and CW 73 de Pavel OK4RQ (OK1DRQ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6X Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,572,344 Thanks for a nice contest, it was my first all band entry in CQWW RTTY after some SB in the past. I still have to improve the traffic significantly, i was despartely missing a 2nd radio. 73's and CU in CQ WW SSB Daniel OL6X ( OK7M,OK1DIG ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 257,744 more on http://www.ok1kvk.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM1VA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 304,434 Impression from the contest on http://www.kanich.net/radio/site/contests/72-cq-ww-rtty-2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM8A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,360,041 See you in CQ WW SSB contest ! 73 ! Tibi OM3RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP4A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 130,977 just worked on saturday some houres, IC746, 100watts, trapdipole for 80/40m and a ECO multiband vertical. N1MM loggingsoft 73 to all OP4A Francis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OY3JE Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 132,153 Conditions where not good, verry few stations outside EU. But great fun as usual. Station: Flex-5000A Acom-1000 N1MM + MMTTY Antenna vertical (20m tower) 73's Jan, OY3JE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 8,600,000 Mother Nature nearly prevented me from making it to Aruba for this contest. The normal harvest period for my Pinot Noir vineyard is early September, but this year the last full day of harvest ended up being just prior to our 6am flight the next day. I was exhausted getting on the plane and thankfully I had planned to do an M2 this time with K6AW and W6OTC. Despite depressed band conditions, we are pleased with our effort effort from Aruba. It was fun to extend my normal SO2R configuration to Multi-Two. The three of us entered this category from HC8N in 2007, and decided to try it from this more modest station. Although the details differ, the overall results above are similar to what has been achieved in recent years from HC8N in this contest. We were, of course, disappointed in the ten-meter numbers. Mid-week, the band opened to the US late in the day but the subsequent solar disturbance kept the band closed until Sunday when it simply teased us with a very few contacts. We listened on 10 meters for hours and gave it every chance possible on Sunday but we could hear very little to work. Another disappointment was 80-meters where yours truly probably left another 100 QSOs on the band. The conditions on both 40 and 80 were challenging, with most signals just below the decoder's threshold and sounding very hollow and mushy with lots of QSB. We changed AGC and MMTTY decoder algorithms with little relief. This, coupled with my fatigue, resulted in less than sterling numbers. I was fine on the higher bands, but the tough conditions on 80 were more than I had energy to deal with! Thanks to John, P40L (W6LD), and Andy, P49Y (AE6Y), for use of their station. Also, to local managers and friends J-P, P43A, and his wife Chris, P43C. Finally, I had a ball this weekend with Steve and Glenn! Ed - W0YK/P49X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 239,260 FT-920 100W TH3-MK4 10/15/20M ANTENA@10M UP N1MM+MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PU4MAI Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 255 TRX : Kenwood TS440SAT TRIBAND 10-15-20M INTERFACE HOME MADE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PW2B Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 697,788 RADIO FT 857D YAESU ANTENA 5 EL 28MHZ MONOBAND ANTENA 5 EL 21 MHZ MONOBAND ANTENA 4 EL 14 MHZ MONOBAND ANTENA DELTA LOOP www.cantareiradx.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2EB Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 17,287 RADIO: FT897D YAESU ANTENNA: YAGI MONOBAND 5 ELEM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 948,864 My God! Lost entire Saturday, leaving my home and going take part of my Mom's party at Sorocaba !! 700km in one day !! I can imagine how much QSOs I lost during the trip. I began the contest at 20m LP and almost stay there, to try single band low power classification. But propagation was a little bit better than months before and I left 20m, doing all bands. 15m was the big surprise at last night with good runnings for a low power station... N1MM + MMTTY fantastic job! I had lucky on 80m and 10m... At Sunday, we lost one friend that was fighting against cancer. PY2EPC was a good one, and loved VHF and UHF Contests. I stay with your family and friends at night, loosing something else on the bands... Like you can see, only 24 hours on the air, with 40 Q/hour in average, what isn´t bad for RTTY Contest. FT1000-MP Field 100w, KT34XA, 40-2CD, AlphaDelta Sloper DXA. See you next contest... Numbers: Max Rates: 2009-09-26 0055Z - 3,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 180 per hour by PY2NY 2009-09-27 2054Z - 2,1 per minute (10 minute(s)), 126 per hour by PY2NY 2009-09-27 2122Z - 1,6 per minute (60 minute(s)), 93 per hour by PY2NY Off Times >= 30 Minutes 2009-09-26 00:00Z - 2009-09-26 00:00Z 00:01 (1 mins) (Start late) 2009-09-26 01:16Z - 2009-09-26 03:32Z 02:17 (137 mins) 2009-09-26 05:58Z - 2009-09-26 09:19Z 03:22 (202 mins) 2009-09-26 12:57Z - 2009-09-27 00:52Z 11:56 (716 mins) 2009-09-27 01:41Z - 2009-09-27 02:20Z 00:40 (40 mins) 2009-09-27 06:03Z - 2009-09-27 08:52Z 02:50 (170 mins) 2009-09-27 15:14Z - 2009-09-27 17:24Z 02:11 (131 mins) 2009-09-27 18:47Z - 2009-09-27 20:21Z 01:35 (95 mins) Total Time Off 24:52 (1492 mins) Total Time On 23:08 (1388 mins) PY2NY Runs >10 QSOs: 2009-09-26 0001 - 0040Z, 14099 kHz, 45 Qs, 69,4/hr PY2NY 2009-09-26 0048 - 0115Z, 14111 kHz, 36 Qs, 77,6/hr PY2NY 2009-09-26 0333 - 0507Z, 7075 kHz, 84 Qs, 53,7/hr PY2NY 2009-09-26 1021 - 1055Z, 21075 kHz, 24 Qs, 42,5/hr PY2NY 2009-09-26 1120 - 1152Z, 21076 kHz, 20 Qs, 37,5/hr PY2NY 2009-09-26 1202 - 1256Z, 21078 kHz, 66 Qs, 73,4/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 0053 - 0117Z, 14105 kHz, 21 Qs, 53,2/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 0236 - 0423Z, 7035 kHz, 76 Qs, 42,4/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 0437 - 0521Z, 7033 kHz, 19 Qs, 26,2/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 1105 - 1323Z, 21074 kHz, 103 Qs, 44,6/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 1350 - 1409Z, 21069 kHz, 20 Qs, 60,7/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 1418 - 1513Z, 21069 kHz, 32 Qs, 35,1/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 2022 - 2139Z, 14130 kHz, 114 Qs, 88,4/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 2141 - 2317Z, 21100 kHz, 127 Qs, 79,2/hr PY2NY 2009-09-27 2326Z - 23:59, 14119 kHz, 50 Qs, 90,3/hr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY3KN Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 120,750 First operation in RTTY Contest. Used N1MM/MMTTY (fantastic). Problems with RF return on 40m and 10m band, turning off my PC many times. Strong Storm and rain all saturday's night and all sunday. TU fer all for the contacts anf hope cul agn into next Contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RA9CB Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 9,112 Hi! Just learned what my new rig (ten-tec orion) and antenna (vertical) could hear. Thank you for QSO's and see you next year for much more serious entry. 73's, Alex/ra9cb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RK4WWQ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,074,780 RIG: Yeasu FT 1000 MP Mark-V Yeasu FT 990 + PA 500W ANTENNAS: RQ-23E + IV LOG: MixW 2.19 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53M Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 191,130 No time for full participation. Tnx for all calls. Miha / S51FB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S58M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 867,140 Setup: Rig: Icom IC-781 PWR: 150 Antennas: 3,5: INV V 20 m 7: 2 ee. Quad 24 m 14: 3 el. quad 17 m 21: 5 el. Yagi 9 m 28: 6 el. Yagi 11 m I had a lot of fun in RTTY test. See U in WW SSB from same location. 73 de S58M JN76ID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM2JUR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 541,580 My loop horisontell antenn woked just fb Bennthy - sm2jur ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SU1KM Class: M/S LP Total Score = 419,058 A few hours CQWW RTTY to bring Z34 and the SU Mult in the air. Many thanks to Mohamed, SU1KM, for this joint effort! 73 from Cairo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SX5R Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 134,512 Had fun! What started as a full time effort ended up a part-time participation due to social obligations and commitments. Ended operation on Sunday late afternoon and lost all good mults of Carib and the Americas. Best highlight was being called by HI3TEJ. Equipment used was a Yaesu FT-2000, an SPE Expert 1K-FA @ 600W, a 12m high vertical base-loaded and a 30m Delta Loop fed w/ 10m of 450Ohm Ladder Line. CU in the SSB & the CW parts. 73s! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3AO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 535,456 Real fun as always. Sure the ACOM 1000 makes a big difference. Target was 1000 Q´s and got it at 1900 on Sunday. Conditions pretty good on Saturday, but we had some Aurora at Sunday night so first of Sunday was tougher. Thanks to those who worked me as well as spotted me. Spotting makes a big difference. Also thanks to the organizers. 73 Seli TF3AO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5/NP3D Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 506,800 Tried to beat my own NA record made in 2007 from KP2-Land. Basically, the same amount of QSO's and multipliers, but went to Assisted category since I was in Telnet by an error for several hours on the first day. Huge pileup from Japanese stations both mornings; I had even to ask JA operators to go by number at times. There are plenty of JA's Contest operators, just the propagation is not cooperative these years. I used new IC-7200 Radio and was pleasantly surprised with this small piece of art. The Radio worked flawlessly during 4 days, no problems ar all. Filters are great and the Radio itself is very easy to operate, will keep it. Thanks to every one who called me and answered my calls. Many thanks to CQ Magazine, to K4GMH and W0YK for hard work, this Contest is one of the best RTTY Contests we have. Special thanks to my friend and partner on this DX-trip - Fred TI5/WW4LL. Fred showed fantastic result on 20 meters despite of some issues and bumps which took place on our way, he is a great operator and has nice sense of humor :) Keep on going Fred! See you all in the next one! 73's Andrei TI5/NP3D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5/WW4LL Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 593,712 Pileups were great and EU seemed to just keep coming one right after another from start to finish. Lost tube in amp Sat night and had to pull one from another amp to replace it. Used K1ZZI's K3 because it was light to travel with and worked well. I did have one problem that is probably not associated with the rig but for some reason, the frequency jumped on me about 6 times and I found myself on someone else's run frequency. My apologies to W2FU station as I know that once I ended up on their run freq. There seemed to be an unusually high number of dupes this contest. As others have mentioned, it was great being called by FT5GA but there were several other surprises like Antartica. Saturday night, the run to JA was awesome. Thanks to everyone who worked me. 73'....Fred TI5/WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM0C Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 770,040 Thanks to all to have answered my calls. It is my first contest on RTTY mode and I enjoyed well myself. See you on SSB mode. Bests 73 Gildas F/TU5KG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: US0HZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 715,922 RIG: FT 2000 ANT: 1/2 Vertical romb all bands Thank you very much for a contest. It was a great pleasure to meet old friends. QSL MNG: W3HNK 73 Stan US0HZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2UP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,637,972 Wasn't sure I could take part in this one until the last minute so not too ready for it but I gave it my best shot and it still is a very demanding contest. I think last years conditions were better but it's good to see some solar activity even if still marginal. Lost my freq many times to more powerfull stations but that's the name of the game. It was a 50/50 run and S&P for me and I must say it gets pretty tyring spinning the wheel all those hours. A touch lower than last year's effort but I am happy with the result, it could have been a lot worse. Hope everybody had fun, I sure did. Thanks CQ and all involved for making WW a successful event. 73, Fabi va2up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 756,378 Casual operating, 90 % of the time , just tuned the bands and called folks... 7Z1SJ called in on 40 meters, got FT5GA on 15 meters, 5H3EE called in, missed KG6DX on 40 .. New 80 meter Delta Loop worked well, aktho condx seemed poorish and noisy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7AM Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 130,158 Lots of fun!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7HZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 4,968 A great contest The propagation God's were with me for a change. Managed to work RTTY Guru AA5AU and some good DX stations. My pet peeve is still stations that continually send CQ and not listen for returns. Thanks to those of you who did. See you all next year 73 Ron VA7HZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 473,184 * FT-2000, N1MM Logger + MMTTY * 3-ele SteppIR at 47' * 40M SteppIR dipole, mostly at 47' * 80M two-vertical array (SE-NW, broadside NE-SW) * 80M Beverage 270' aimed due east * No cluster 2009 Flux: 72 | Ap: 2>9 | Kp: 2>0 2008 Flux: 67 | Ap: 3 | Kp: 1 2007 Flux: 65 | Ap: 26>13 | Kp: 4>1 Went into this as a low-power entry, knowing I'd have a struggle but wanting to see how the new antennas fare against performance from previous years. Figured on putting in 36 hours or so, but only got in 26.5 and still felt tired at the end. Hoped two sunspot groups would spark conditions a bit (opening with a 24 count not seen in what must be several years). Flux was at 76 a day before the contest but settled in at 72 for the duration. A welcome rise from SFI=67 that has been the norm for months now. Alas, from here 20M didn't show noticeable improvement, higher bands were still dead, and the lower bands were perhaps worse that they have been recently. Finished Day 1 with just over half of my final score.... QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec Total 401 966 85 48 96 Day 1 Score: 221,214 Finished with my best low-power totals since 2004, and wasn't too far off my best high-power totals from last year. Would have closed the gap with a stronger 80M performance this year but that band just wasn't in good shape. Second-best mult totals from here, so the antennas work even without high power. Special congratulations to Fabi VA2UP for an awesome low-power score from QC in these conditions. Highlights include: * working Phil GU0SUP for the first time in many, many moons. * working a couple new RTTY DXCC including Lebanon and San Marino. * watching my good friend Ed VE4EAR make hay with those new antennas! This was the pay-off for all the time and effort he put in over the past year adding a tower+yagis to the Winnipeg QTH. Great outing Ed. Lowlights: * the sun. Ironic, huh? * not having the FT-920 fixed to work SO2R. Would have made a difference. 80M ---------------------------------- Had to work the heck out of the knobs to get anything this weekend. Conditions felt really bad. Those I worked had great signals, but seemed there weren't many on. Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec 2009 >> 3.5 110 214 8 9 36 LP twin verticals 2008 >> 3.5 205 398 9 10 46 HP twin verticals 2007 >> 3.5 106 209 7 8 37 HP delta loop 40M ---------------------------------- Band was weak to EU from here, but managed a few polar-path Qs. Not good to Asia or the Pacific, and only so-so to the rest of North Americal. Worked pretty hard Saturday evening to bump up the total to 160 Qs. Pleased to equal the State count of last year using only 100W this time. Running the amp would have punched through to a lot more EU countries, but even with low power this year I'm down by 8 country mults and only 2 zones, so I think the dipole works just fine. Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec 2009 >> 7 160 339 26 17 42 LP rotary dipole @ 47' 2008 >> 7 204 441 34 19 42 HP twin half-squares 2007 >> 7 145 296 13 11 36 HP Single half-squares, EW/NS 20M ---------------------------------- Not quite sure what to make of conditions down in the real world (20M and down). 20M EU opening was really strong -- and surprisingly early -- on Saturday morning, well underway by 1430z and good until after 1800z. Sunday it opened later (1500z to 1900z) and never hit the fevered pitch of Saturday's opening. Still, wall-to-wall signals almost from 14050 to 14150 both days. Found the bi-directional yagi mode worked well when JA and US were both calling in, though splitting 100W two ways doesn't make you feel very strong anywhere. Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec 2009 >> 14 408 1027 64 22 41 LP SteppIR 3-element 2008 >> 14 358 876 64 22 39 HP Mosley CL33 2007 >> 14 320 726 48 20 39 HP Mosley CL33 15M ---------------------------------- For some out East, the slight solar flux bump offered some 15M openings over the pole, but from out West high-band conditions were not improved one bit. 15M did not really open other than the expected useful propagation to South America. Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec 2009 >> 21 25 63 9 7 7 2008 >> 21 17 35 4 4 8 2007 >> 21 28 64 6 7 7 ---------------------------------- TOTALS QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec Score 2009 Total >> 703 1643 107 55 126 473,184 2008 Total >> 784 1750 111 55 135 526,750 2007 Total >> 599 1295 74 46 119 309,505 ---------------------------------------- Year-over-year Qs Mult Score ---------------------------------------- 2009 CQWW RTTY SOABLP 703 288 473,184 SteppIR enhanced :) 2008 CQWW RTTY SOABHP 784 301 526,750 2007 CQWW RTTY SOABHP 599 239 309,505 1st HP entry 2006 CQWW RTTY SOABLP 561 242 300,322 2005 CQWW RTTY SOABLP 365 221 189,840 2004 CQWW RTTY SOABLP 760 220 482,062 1st contest w/tower 2003 CQWW RTTY SOABLP 257 168 101,304 73 and thanks for the contacts, -- Bud VA7ST http://www3.telus.net/va7st ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,453,197 SO1R, FT1000 Mark V, 450 watts, Tri-Bander, Dipoles, N1MM Had full intentions of a 36-40 hour effort in this one, but found myself finding it hard to stay interested a few times, so took many, many breaks and got 2 full-nights' sleep...Ended up in the chair for 21 hours...Kind of wish I had tied myself down a couple times as I could easily have reached my last years score of 1.76 M, or even my personal best of 1.87 M...Oh well, the lawn got mowed, chainsaws got winterized, kitchen taps got fixed and the contest was very relaxed... Highlight...Excellent propagation to Asia both Sat and Sun between 2000 and 2200...Snagged some tough mults... Lowlight...The IW5 station who decided he liked my frequency enough to try and steal it from me...Wasted 10 minutes getting rid of him...Ruined my morning, took a long break... Avg points/Q - 2.4, too low... Avg score/Q - 1,042 OK Avg Q/hour - 64.5 - Happy with this. Best hour - 105 Q's Best 10 min rate - 144 Q's/hour All-in-all, had some fun, the station works well, ready for contest season... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2SB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,501,848 First time in SO2R. It is not my final score, I lost 154 qso in my log and I'm trying to recovered them (God damned Elmer. 73 Daniel VE2SB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3AP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,629,840 Station Run: Yaesu FT-1000MP, H-B Amplifier 1Kw, PK-232, PC Pentium 233 MHz DOS w/WF1B Station S&P: Kenwood TS-870, Alpha 87A, PK-232,PC Pentium 150 MHz DOS w/WF1B Antennas: Bencher Skyhawk, TH-5, XM240, 80 meter dipole Comments: THANKS AGAIN to Don-VE3RM for his great host, Thanks to all for QSOs, sorry for some people that I was slow answering your call, because I have lot of problem until Saturday afternoon because RF in the shack and I need to reboot the PCs MANY times, these rebooting cost me some QSOs (they dissappears from in the log) I need to improve my SO2R operation, few multipliers in second radio, and as I was using two keyboards (I fell like Rick Wakeman) many times I was answering/calling stations in wrong radio, anyway trying SO2R using old stuff as 2 PK-232, and 2 DOS computer running WF1B was a lot of fun indeed Nice to being called by FT5GA and more than 50 JAs are in the log together with 3 QSos in 10 meter means new Solar Cycle is arriving. See you in CQWWSSB I'll be @ K3LR for more contesting and lot of fun ! 73, Claudio VE3AP-LU7DW-VE2DWA-N6LU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 910,488 It's the first my contest with Elecraft K3. Great radio! Thanks all who called me. Setup: K3 Elecraft + PA 500 Wt A4S 5BTV 73, VE3KF Alex. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,022,641 WOW, So thats what sunspots can do!!! Friday night 80m was a pleasant surprise, relatively low noise and was more productive for me than in past contests. The 1/4 wave sloper is limited but not much else can be done on the small city lot. As soon as 20m opened on Saturday morning (1245z) to EU, so did 15m. Not strong but did work several of the big guns. Unfortunately had to QRT in the middle to deal with family commitments. (Timing is everything) 15m was not strong to the Caribbean or SA and no AS or AF was heard. Stateside was non existent on Saturday. Some great runs on 20m which stayed upen to around 0000z to zone 14. It was nice to get called by some DX for a change. Clearly not all DX runs a frequency. 40m and 80m were not as good the second night. Higher noise levels but did manage to work some EU on 80m at my sunset. Unlike the east coast gange, EU on 80 is a real rarity from here. Consider everything north of +/-60 degree Azimuth is a polar route and subject to all the wonderful things that can happen to the signal. On Sunday 20m opened a little later and there was no 15m opening to EU. However 15m did provide better SA and CAR propagation. Again no AS and only 1 QSO to AF and the ZL areas. Stateside were limited to a few FL stations but did hear several others from MN and WI on backscatter. They couldn't hear me unfortunately. 10m was dead both days here, at least whenever I checked. Had a lot of fun and I am sure looking forward to sunspots returning! The greates thing was running the entire contest at 400W with no complaints of RFI. New neighbors=no problems. I know I left a little more score out there but without the propagation to EU or AS on the low bands and limited 15m openings, VE$ is not the optimum place for these worldwide contests. 73 and thanks for the Q's and the repeats! Ed, VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5CPU Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 19,800 A few hours of operation. Nice to work some DX. Highlight was South Korea! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 740,886 Fairly good conditions this year up here in Alberta. Beat my all time best score by 30k. Operating from Don's superstation is always fun. Used the new 4 stack for 20m with top 5 element at 200ft. Having 7 20 m monobanders meant I never had to turn an antenna. Don is a great host always making sure I was well fed and woke up for the over the pole openmings which were pretty good this year. Equipment: IC-7800, Alpha 77 Amp Antennas 5 element monobanders at 200ft, 160', 120' and 80' on Tower 1 5 element monobanders at 160', 120' and 80' on Tower 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK6HZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 44,320 Finally some sunspots and some decent propagation! Now, what can I do about the family??? Spent more time with the family than on the radio, but hey the SSB test is only 4 weeks and it will be the reverse! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2LBW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 220,170 Quite a bit of fun, as always. Found the band conditions were slightly better than the last time. I spent my limited operating time on 15m and 20m. My home is located in a high noise environment and it is sometimes difficult to dig out the weak stations. I would like to thank all of you have worked me and a special thanks to the stations from NA (VA3DX, K0PY and others) who had to try numerous times to get through the stronger EU stations. 40m was a disappointment for me as my vertical was misbehaving with high SWR. The station: Rig: IC-756PROIII + SB-200 Ant: Create CD-318Jr 4 ele, tri-band yagi up 70', CP-6A vertical Interface: Microham USB Interface II Software: Writelog 73 and see you on the next contest! -- Lucky / VU2LBW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2NKS Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 594,044 Radio: K3/100 Ant: 3 El Steppir with 30/40 PWR: 100W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2PTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 50,508 This was a casual operation to test out things. Murphy finally struck and took out my main station antenna - the Force 12 C3S beam (20, 15, 10) just the day before the contest. Used my small Sigma-5 vertical which was slightly better than a dummy load on 20m when installed on my roof. But must take it to the beach one day to really check it out :) Station: Icom-746PRO + SB-200 Amp (200 Watts) Antenna: 40m Inv-vee @ 55'(nice on 15m), Sigma-5 Vertical (20, 10m) Interface: MicroHAM MicroKeyer II Software: N1MM Logger version 9.9.6 Given the makeshift nature of the antennas I used for the high bands, it was great to see 15m open up and even managed to work 3 US stations, and a few new RTTY DXCC counters. Thanks to W2FU, W3FV & NR4M for hearing me along with some of the other nice multipliers like P49X, YW4V, CX5TR, 5C5W - all on 15m which was my main band. A remarkable signal on 15m was UX0FF - pounding in here at all times when the band was open. It was good to hear the VU Digital specialists VU2LBW & VU2NKS rocking :) Hope to have the antennas fixed before CQWW SSB & CW. 73 de Prasad VU2PTT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 80,878 As usual, not a lot of time for this one and I really wanted to do my best to mark the 10th anniversary of our first-place world finish in M/S at station VY2SS.Since it was not to be, I focused on 40SB to assess my new antenna(pleased with results) and another go at N1MM vs.Writelog.Jury is still out.Pre-contest and post-contest still goes to Writelog;however,I am giving the edge to N1MM in the operational section.Both programs could use some improvements/updates, but it may be lack of knowledge on my part. Otherwise, a fun test and thanks to CQ organizers for the continuing good job of fostering radiosport.New calls keep popping up(not that long since I was one) which is a healthy sign.Logs uploaded to LoTW and eQSL; hope we got into yours.73,Bill EQUIPMENT: FT-990,SB-220 driven el of my 2el Cushcraft @70' N1MM,Rigblaster ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,138,456 This was the first contest for my new K3. It's going to be a while before I reach for a knob and get the right one. It performed very well on RTTY but the real test will be CQWW CW. The contest started badly for me. I made only 18 QSOs on 40M in the first hour. I should have started the contest on 20M. I hope I read this next year. I surpassed my 2008 score by only 11,000 points in the last few minutes of the contest. That is about 10 QSOs. I was in the chair for 30 hours. This was much more than last year but necessary to make up for problems with my yagi. I had to point it at Europe and work NA/SA off the back. An intermittant connection up there had to have the wind on it just right to keep the SWR down low enough to use it. The KT-34A and saltwater environment don’t mix very well. My overall rate was 41.4 QSO/hr. My best hour was: 09/26 1600Z - 1.4 per minute - 84 per hour Although I brag about the performance of my two dollar 40M elevated vertical made from 5 x 33 foot pieces of wire hanging from my 56 foot tower, I am starting to think I need more tools on that band. My 80M tower vertical worked great but 80 and 40 would both benefit from a higher angle antennas to get the regional multipliers. Well , VA2UP Fabi did it to me again. Is it the SO2R? Or he is just a better operator than me. Maybe both? I did mangage to close the gap by a small amount. Next year Fabi! Thanks to all who made it into my log (30 from Japan). And also thanks to the contest sponsors. -Robby VY2SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LSD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,138,024 Had a great time operating, ears are still ringing, but that will get better. :) Thanks to Ken, W0LSD for hosting us at his fine station in the mountains of Colorado. Also to our fine in house support crew Jan, KB0QEP and Kate, K0YV. There was no going hungry. Someday 10 and 15 will get better. 73, John K0TG for Ken W0LSD and Bob W0BV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 12,800 Murphy reared his ugly head. Somehow a nasty virus hit my system and it ended my participation in this contest. I did manage a few contacts after I got things up and running again, but by then I had kind of lost interest if for no other reason than just mental exhaustion after chasing down this nasty virus most of Saturday night and almost all day Sunday. All seems to be pretty much back to normal at present, but I'm still leery, As for Band Condx, they wera a mixed bag here. Some signals just did not decode enough to be readable. A friend called and said the same thing and wondered if it was just him. On Sunday, condx had improved, but I was just out of it by then. Next time has got to better. It sure couldn't get any worse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AJT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,280 RIG: K3 ANTS: 20M AND 40M HAMSTICKS ATTACHED TO A FENCE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1IG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 92,400 Had some good runs. Ran the FT857D. Hope they add the QRP Category next year! Bob W1IG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 292,978 Rig: FT-1000D, Amp: AL-1200, TU: MicroHAM microKeyer, Software: MixW 2.19 (Registered) Antennas: Cushcraft X-9 Log at 42 feet. Homebrewed linear loaded Inverted V dipole with apex at 75 feet. 99.9% S&P. Worked my second ever Zone 26 contact (from the U.S. that is) in this contest. 3WIM, is my first (and right now only) Viet Nam QSO in almost 30 years of hamming...just running up the dial and copied a 3W. It's a big deal for me just like the Cambodian QSO I had a few months back. The new amplifier sure made a big difference in this contest. First time ever running a KW...well 900 watts. Didn't want to run full legal limit as I wasn't sure if the trees would catch fire or it the dipole would handle it...and twice I had incidents of arcing at 1100 watts. But...I worked almost everyone I heard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,705,500 I'd like to thank Krassy K1LZ, for the use of his great station. There were a few glitches, but overall the station performed excellently, and any shortcomings were the fault of the operator and not the station! I know I checked that I was SO2R, but I was for only a short time. Turns out there was a problem with the audio decoding for the right radio; maybe 1 out of 4 signals would decode in RTTY. Couldn't figure out hot to get it to work, and I didn't want to undertake any rewiring of the station, so I spent most of the contest using only 1 radio. I would like to have seen the score if two radios had been fully available, but going back to 1 radio sure leaves one with lots of spare time during the contest! Happiness is having FT5GA call you on 20M for a double mult! Nice to see a decent 15M opening. Saturday was better than Sunday, but it was still nice to get a couple of runnable hours. LU1HF had an S9+ signal on 10M, but he was the only non-local in the log on that band. It will be interesting to see how many stations K1TTT has in the log on 10M. Congrats to K4GMH and AA3B for great Assisted scores. Thanks to everyone for the Qs, and hope to CU again next year! Dennis W1UE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 81,512 Wish I had more time, was real fun. Great SO2R workout. Jay W1UJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2FU Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,760,593 Great contest in spite of real tough conditions on most bands most of the time. Our first M/M on RTTY and only the 2nd RTTY we have participated in. Other was M/S back in 2002. Great battle back and forth with K1TTT and congrats to our "neighbor" team over in Peru for a spirited competition that unfolded on GetScores for the full 48 hours. When the overnite crew left us Sunday AM with nearly 300K lead, we were pretty confident. BUT that evaporated over the next few hours as 20 just never opened to EU here in WNY until 11 am or so. It took all afternoon and then a great last three hours with some 10 meter Qs and Ms and quite a few new mults on other bands to push us back in front by a narrow margin. Quite a bit of learning and some start-up issues, but overall, stuff worked well and we only "lost" one amp (a 1960s 3-1000Z non-amateur) to the duty cycle, and one computer. (P3 just won't cut it on RTTY apparently) The new K3 worked extremely well on 40 meters. Both 20 and 15 had startup problems that prevented QSOs for the first 30-40 minutes on each of these bands until we got them cleared up. FWIW - It took about 5 minutes to get the amp replaced and running with most of that the warm-up time on the AL-1500. It took nearly an HOUR to swap the computer, get all the interfaces working and the 80 meter log recovered! We had a great team of experienced W2FU operators and we did a lot of swapping around from band-to-band to keep stations on the air. Getting the station "ready" this early in the season, should help us later too. The Beverages went up Friday, the new 15 meter stack is only 1/3 completed with 2 beams still on the ground. Thanks to the RTTY experience of N2WK, the setup and integration of everything went pretty well. I spent most of the contest fixing, making better, and installing the TIC Ring for the middle 15 antenna. Great operating by all....N2WK, WA2TMC, K2TJ, N2ZN, K2DB, K0SM, N2CU, WB2ABD CU you in CQWW - Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,068,756 K3,MonstIR, 80M Vertical, 4 Way Beverages, N1MM, MMTTY, Dell. A fun contest with lots of activity. Glad to see 15M open again. Thanks for all the Q's. Bud ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4GAC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 882,238 This was the last club contest from our present location. Moving to a new location with more antenna room and very low line noise. Hopefully we will be up and running for next years contest with better equipment. This was our best effort in CQWW. The MULT computer died with 5 minutes to go and we didn't lose any date. Everything else held together. Hope to se you all in 2010. 73 Ron KP2N SPARC contest group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HOD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 208,132 Great contest. The IC-746 Pro and MFJ 998 tuner worked flawlessly. Best score for W4HOD yet. Lots of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,291,138 Had a ball, a personal best score for this contest. Last year I managed 1155 Q's in 29 hrs 43 mins, and this year I got 1380 Q's in 29 hrs 12 minutes. Last year I ran in the assisted catagory, but this year as an experiment I left the packet off to run unassisted. Given my results, I probably will forego packet usage in future contests. Also, I used Writelog last year and N1MM Logger this year. Maybe that had something to do with my results too. I run SO2R but I am not all that comfortable running with one radio while S&Ping with the other. Invariably, if things are going slow on the run radio and I call a station on the S&P radio, then I will have at least a couple of stations call me on the run radio. Plus, I find that if I leave the run radio off for something longer than about 3.5 seconds someone will invariably steal my run frequency. I do find SO2R to be very effective for dual S&Ping, even on the same band. I spent about 60% of my time S&Ping and 40% running. 73, Sam W4PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,360,032 A very enjoyable contest with way more participation than I remember from past years. The higher sunspot numbers sure helped. I found 10m open Sunday afternoon and I was able to add some multipliers that I was not expecting. I had to QRT at 2200z for family stuff. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 38,352 40 was excellent...20 was very good, even with a KT34XA at 17 feet! Highlight was working SV9CVY. My maternal grandfather was born on the island of Crete so this first-ever SV9 QSO was special for me. Took an hour of calling...20 minutes on 40 and 40 minutes on 20, which is where I eventually got the Q. Thanks! Lots of fun...I'm getting hooked on RTTY (W0YK, take note)! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 122,850 K3, ACOM 2000A, 80-meter dipole at 46 feet with Matchbox, MMTTY, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6TQG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 32,092 Casual part-time effort. Thank you for the QSOs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ABC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 41,580 kenwood ts950sdx, alpha 89, steppIR 3el with 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7MRC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 282,492 What a hoot that was! Wall to wall signals. Best score ever in a RTTY contest. Running 500W this time sure made a big difference. Nice surprise to get a call from 7Z1SJ in Saudi Arabia. First time ever working SA. Thanks for the Q's Paul NG7Z (W7MRC) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7NNN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 205,000 Great contest. Pretty good condx on 20 meters. 40 meters wasn't so hot. Nice to work Kuwait and other DX from that part of the world. See you next year. 73 - Eric W7NNN Ten Tec Jupiter AL-80A Extended Double Zepps ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7VP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 222,704 Very wide range on 20 meters from 14,030 to 14,145. Sporadic 15 meter action. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 19,305 Not much time for this one. Just got on for a few minutes here and there when coming into the shack. Missed al lthe high band actitity, if there was any, by having to work Saturday. Seems like 40 and 80 were pretty noisy here Friday and Saturday night. Missed alot of easy DX on 40 that I usually work that just wasn't hearing me. 73 and thanks for the Q's. Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AEF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,018,290 Fun contest. Many new countries on RTTY. Thou shalt not run equipment at their maximum power rating for a RTTY contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9ILY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 291,305 I really had a fun time. Conditions were not bad and I worked a new one (C3) on RTTY. On Sunday I worked ZC4LI and heard A7 but he faded before I could get him in the log for another RTTY new one. I conquered a severe RFI issue on 80M so I had fun there, too. Thanks to the organizers for another great contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 742,980 This contest showed why I like RTTY. The last hour on 40 was the most exciting in a number of years. I could not believe the number of EU calling me, with my low power and only a dipole at 65 ft. Only bummer was losing 2 hours Sat. morning due to sever storms. Almost same exact score of last year. 73 BoB WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,743,273 Always fun...Nice to see 15 open more. Thanks for all the QSOs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7NPX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 264,136 After a hectic work week I only planned to do a casual op. I even began preparing a new computer only 2 hours before the start of the contest. Imagine my surprise when I found my normally loud power line noise was abnormally quite for some reason and the propagation seemed to be wide open to EU. I had only planned on making a hundred q’s or so but after hitting 100 q's and having a ball I just kept going. What a fun contest. Not trusting my equipment I started out only with S&P. Only after realizing that I could work anyone I heard did I try my first run. This surprised me as I was only running 400 watts to save the linear. One item of interest though, there seemed to be very few South American and Caribbean stations. Not sure if it was propagation or a true lack of stations but enjoyed all the EU contacts for a change. Looking forward to next year and will plan accordingly! 73's de WA7NPX Rig : Yaesu FT-950 & Ameritron AL-811 Antennas : 2 element Qubex Quad at 10 meters and Hustler 6BTV vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2RHM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 553,159 SO1R - It makes a difference! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 22,440 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC2Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 74,029 THX FER A GREAT RTTY CONTEST 73 TILL NEXT YEAR. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 173,232 FT1000mp + Amp 700w TH7DX at 15m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE6Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 311,866 CQWWRTTY Score Summary Sheet CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator(s) : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : RTTY Default Exchange : 03 CA Gridsquare : CM98JS Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club Software : N1MM Logger V9.8.4 Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN Sec 3.5 80 97 7 8 30 7 86 139 18 16 27 14 345 716 55 25 45 21 60 144 21 15 12 28 2 6 2 2 0 Total 573 1102 103 66 114 Score : 311,866 Rig : FT-857 Antennas : Force 12 C3, 40m Vee, 120ft long wire Soapbox : Wow this was a fun contest. I beat my goal of 350 contacts and worked many new countries. Lots of DX, I worked Africa and China for the first time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF7T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 99,153 An hour here, an hour there. Thanks to all for the contacts. ---- G5RV @ 10M high, 100W N1MM/MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI2E Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 101,400 My first CQWW RTTY contest. I enjoyed it and am planning on a full time effort next year. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs! Rig: K3 Antennas: two phased verticals (20-10M), 43 ft. vertical(40M), and inverted-L (80M) 73, Joe WI2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 150 First ever RTTY QSOs. Used the CW/Data function of my K-3. Sorry for any lidlike behavior. 73 Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 156,392 A kind of a part-time effort this year. Since the bands were also part time, the effort seemed to match the mood of the bands. Sometimes the band (20m) seemed impressive only to wane about an hour later. 15m never seemed good to me - it seemed to play like 6m sporadic e type - wagging the antenna for backscatter and when you worked two or three in rapid fire...it was in a specific area and then it went dry. Bad habits are creeping into RTTY contesting...I can't tell you how many times I had to call guys AGAIN right after the QSO to get a confirm. They don't acknowledge and go on to work the next guy and you are wondering if you worked him or not....RTTY is slow enough without having to redo Q's ... oh well. Diddle diddle dee, WN6K, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO1N Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 24,079 Station: FT1000D, C3-SS@38', DX-LB@50', N1MM/MMTTY Just a few Qs to work some bugs out of the station and drive the family crazy. Ken WO1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WV0T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,024 Windom antenna laying on the ground (don't you just "love" HOA rules). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 255,629 Had a lot of fun, nice opening on 15, too short for me hi hi tnx to all participants ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,079,750 My First chance to operate this RTTY contest, happy to meet a lot of friends on the Air, will need to learn a little more to improve my skills and set up, The openings in 20 and 40m where good for my location, happy to work A61BK and A73A and be called by FT5GA in 40m, also DP1POL give me Antarctic, I was not in the idea to make all the contest but try to have the most time to give the Z 6. After the contest the log was uploaded to LOTW and give me several new ones and getting very close for the DXCC RTTY LOTW only, for that please upload your logs and or enter to the program. C U in the SSB and CW versions HECTOR XE2K / WT6J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2WK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 153,790 A great contest this year, spread the good new countries allowed me to get my DXCC-RTTY award, thank you all for points and QSO, we read in 2010. 73 de XE2WK RIG: TS2000LE TL922A TRIBANDER AND DIPOLE WRITELOG 10.71 MMTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,335,616 I had a lot of fun this weekend. Enjoyed the moderate openings towards JA and W on 15 m bands, enjoyed the 3 band QSO-s with FT5GA, enjoyed working a lot of new stations attracted by RTTY mode. Disappointed by poor management of pile-ups by some DX operators.. Thanks everybody for calling me and for giving me the chance to make it again (I hope..) to Top Ten of SO-HP category. See you in JARTS Contest! 73, Alex YO9HP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT5W Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 817,190 TNX for all. 73 de YU1AU Miki ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1ZZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 69,600 73`s Milan YU1ZZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU7AE Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 371,124 Great contest, thanks for nice weekend. Rig: TS950sd with Inrad roofing filter and DSP-9+ Home made PA with 8877, about 600-1000w on rtty. Antenna is 2el 3band Quad on 10m Software RCKlog v.3.10 (5+) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU7U Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 72,000 Equipment: Yaesu ft2000 + Om power + MKII + Inv vee 30 m up. Work from home in the center of the city is very hard. Anyway, lot of fun. Thank you for all call's. QSL is sure via the buerau. YU7U, Brane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV1CTE Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 233,282 TX/RX : YAESU FT-950, INTERFACE: SIGNALINK (MODEL SL-1) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 259,065 Great and fun Contest... Thanks to all who contacted my station. Unfortunately 5 hours without electricity during the contest, of which 3 were in good propagation. My setup: IC-746PRO 100W, MK2, N1MM software. See you in the next... YV1FM - Franco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV1JGT Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 185,103 TX/RX: YAESU FT450. INTERFASE: MFJ 1275 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV5VD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,023,316 Very nice contest in RTTY the station radio Yaesu FT 897 100 watt, antenna yagi Mosley for 40, 20, 15, 10 meter about to 19 meter hight, interface homemade YV5KG, in 80 meter bad condition with antenna G5RV. Location Cua state Miranda south of Caracas capital about 60 km. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YW4D Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 339,813 My 1st intention was to chase the FT5GA while YV5JBI was running the contest, being with the FT1000 mkV still damaged and only the FT847 available turned to be a challenge, also the 20m stack was out as the lower antenna was full of swr, out to be in low power (seems that life is too short for low/qrp power.. I take the hat off to this ops, really not easy running a contest in lp or qrp !). I turned into the contest just to not be bored while waiting for the DX. Lost a lot of time on the Glorioso chase, even 4 hours on 12m saturday, one of them fully S9 and not a single smile. Do the dxpeditions hear for the qso minority like caribbean, africa, vk/zl at least 1 time in their life or just enjoy the pile ? The good thing was that I enjoyed a lot the few hours contesting, even got 2 needed countries in the LOTW so I would like to say THANKS to all who called (some of them a cool stuff) and hope to had gave them points and mults ! As usual thanks to YV5AMH for the YV4A station 73 Paul YV1DIG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 331,500 SO1R Antenna:- C/Craft A3S @ 50ft Rig:- Icom-756 Pro3 Amp:- Acom-1000 Software:- Win-Test V3.27 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's. I kicked off eventually at 0546Z after sitting around for half an hour wondering why it was so quiet, it took me that long to realise that I hadn't hooked up my antenna. I did however manage to work UN1L on 80ft of coax !! The Alzheimers must be setting in faster than I thought! Apart from that small mishap 15m stayed open on day 1 until around 1500z and until 1700z on day 2 with a bit of a drop out between 12 and 14z I even managed to work a few guys stateside late on in the day although the signals were pretty weak. Gripes Why do some stations send the complete exchange after the initial CQ !! I did mention it to a few guys so hopefully they will take note. Log is on LoTW for paper cards pse see QRZ.COM 73 and hope to cu in the TARA PSK Rumble next weekend, Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL1BYZ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 143,405 Entering as SOSB/15 Assisted, but made a few QSO's on 20 & 40 when 15m wasn't playing. The particular interest in 15m was bought about by the HF Challenge on Club Log, adding 26 new entities to the total on 15m for September to 66 so far. See http://www.clublog.org/hfchallenge.php Thanks for all the Q's, was a lot of fun. 73 John ZL1BYZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZV2C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 348,696 SETUP TX/RX YAESU FT 950 MIC HEIL PROSET PLUS IC HC4 ANTENNA : TRIBANDI BY PP5UA AND MONOBAND 2 ELMENTS BY PP5UA www.cntareiradx.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZX2B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,364,060 Thanks to everyone for the contacts. See all you on the bands. Index of Calls Call: 3V8SS Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: 3Z70RG Class: M/M LP Call: 4Z8BB Class: SOAB LP Call: 5C5W Class: SOAB LP Call: 6Y0FF Class: SOAB LP Call: 9A3XV Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB HP Call: 9V1UV Class: SOAB HP Call: A73A Class: M/S HP Call: AA2MF Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA4U Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: AA5AU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA5VU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA7A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA8LL Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AB0LR Class: SOAB LP Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB LP Call: AB7R Class: SOAB LP Call: AB9H Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: AC0E Class: SOAB LP Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB HP Call: AD7XZ Class: SOAB LP Call: AD8P Class: M/S HP Call: AE1P Class: SOAB HP Call: AE5PW Class: SOAB LP Call: AF4OX Class: SOAB HP Call: AG4W Class: SOAB HP Call: AI4G Class: SOAB LP Call: AJ4FM Class: SOAB HP Call: AK0A Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP Call: AL9A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AY8A Class: SOAB HP Call: BA4T Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: CR3L Class: M/2 HP Call: CT3EN Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: CT3FQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: CX4AAJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: CX7TT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB HP Call: DD0DRK Class: SOAB LP Call: DD1JN Class: SOAB HP Call: DF9DD Class: SOAB LP Call: DF9ZP Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: DJ0MCZ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DJ3IW Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: DJ6JH Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DK0EE Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Call: DL0NS Class: M/S HP Call: DL1IAO Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL1ZBO Class: M/S HP Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB LP Call: DL4MCF Class: SOAB HP Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB HP Call: DL5AXX Class: M/2 HP Call: DL8MBS Class: SOAB LP Call: DL8SCG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DM5TI Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: DO3ME Class: SOAB LP Call: DO6SR Class: SOAB LP Call: DO9DMB Class: SOAB LP Call: DO9ST Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Call: DR5N Class: M/2 HP Call: E79D Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: EA3GLB Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: EA4ZK Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: EA5DKU Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: EC1KR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EF8M Class: SOAB HP Call: EO3Q Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EO5M Class: SOAB HP Call: ES5Q Class: M/2 HP Call: EY8MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: F/VA2SG/P Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: F4JRC Class: SOAB LP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: F5RD Class: SOAB LP Call: F8DBF Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: FO8RZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: FT5GA Class: M/S HP Call: G0HVQ Class: SOAB LP Call: G3YBY Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: G6PZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: GA0FGI Class: SOAB HP Call: GB50ATG Class: SOAB HP Call: GI5K Class: SOAB HP Call: GM3SEK Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: GU0SUP Class: SOAB LP Call: H2E Class: SOAB LP Call: HA0ML Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: HA3LI Class: SOAB HP Call: HA7TM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: HA8BE Class: SOAB LP Call: HE8AWS Class: SOAB LP Call: HE8TOC Class: SOAB LP Call: HG3FMZ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: HI3TEJ Class: SOAB LP Call: HL5YI Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: HQ9R Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: IT9RBW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: IT9RGY Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: IT9STX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: IV3TMV Class: M/2 HP Call: IY1NGM Class: M/S HP Call: J39BS Class: SOAB LP Call: J46J Class: SOAB LP Call: JA7ZP Class: SOAB HP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0HB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0IR Class: M/2 HP Call: K0PC Class: SOAB HP Call: K0PK Class: SOAB HP Call: K0TK Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K1FWE Class: SOAB HP Call: K1GU Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: K1IB Class: SOAB HP Call: K1LT Class: SOAB HP Call: K1PY Class: SOAB LP Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Call: K2DSL Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K2OGD Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K2PO/7 Class: SOAB LP Call: K2QMF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2SI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K2YG Class: SOAB QRP Call: K2ZC Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K3WI Class: SOAB HP Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4CX Class: SOAB LP Call: K4EDI Class: SOAB HP Call: K4FJ Class: M/S HP Call: K4FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4HAL Class: SOAB HP Call: K4IU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4MIL Class: SOAB LP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: K4WW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K5AM Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K5KA Class: SOAB HP Call: K5NZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Call: K6BL Class: SOAB HP Call: K6KR Class: SOAB LP Call: K6LL Class: SOAB HP Call: K6MM Class: SOAB HP Call: K6NV Class: SOAB HP Call: K6RB Class: SOAB HP Call: K6RM Class: SOAB HP Call: K6SRZ Class: SOAB HP Call: K6TA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6TD Class: SOAB HP Call: K7AR 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: K7MY Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: K7QQ Class: SOAB HP Call: K7RF Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K7RSM Class: SOAB HP Call: K7VIT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K7WP Class: SOAB HP Call: K7ZS Class: SOAB HP Call: K9CT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K9MUG/4 Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K9NR Class: SOAB LP Call: K9OM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K9OR Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KA2D Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA2KON Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA4RRU Class: M/M HP Call: KB3LIX Class: SOAB LP Call: KC4HW Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Call: KD5LNO Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: KD7MSC Class: SOAB HP Call: KD8GOX Class: SOAB LP Call: KE1F Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: KE4UNA Class: SOAB HP Call: KE4UW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: KE7AUB Class: SOAB LP Call: KE7YF Class: SOAB LP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Call: KG4JGQ Class: SOAB LP Call: KG6DX Class: SOAB HP Call: KH6GMP Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: KH6MB Class: SOAB HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB HP Call: KL7RA Class: SOAB HP Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB HP Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Call: KN4QD Class: SOAB LP Call: KN5O Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: KP4AH Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: KR7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Call: KS7S Class: SOAB HP Call: KT0DX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: KT1I Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: KT6YL Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: KT7G Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KV7DX Class: SOAB HP Call: KW3W Class: SOAB LP Call: KW7N Class: SOAB LP Call: KX7L Class: SOAB LP Call: KY5R Class: SOAB LP Call: LA3BO Class: SOAB LP Call: LN9Z Class: SOAB HP Call: LP2F Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: LT0H Class: SOAB LP Call: LT5X Class: M/S HP Call: LU1BJW Class: SOAB HP Call: LU4HH Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: LV6D Class: M/S LP Call: LW9ETQ Class: SOAB HP Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Call: LY9Y Class: SOAB HP Call: LZ8E Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: LZ9R Class: SOAB LP Call: M5AEX Class: SOAB HP Call: N0EOP Class: SOAB LP Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Call: N0KM Class: SOAB LP Call: N1SV Class: SOAB HP Call: N1SXL Class: SOAB LP Call: N1WR Class: SOAB HP Call: N2MUN Class: SOAB LP Call: N2QT Class: SOAB LP Call: N2WN Class: SOAB LP Call: N3CHX Class: SOAB LP Call: N3UA Class: SOAB HP Call: N4BCD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4DW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4OGW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N4VV Class: SOAB HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6AR Class: SOAB HP Call: N6CCH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6CK Class: SOAB HP Call: N6HE Class: SOAB LP Call: N6HI Class: SOAB QRP Call: N6PC Class: SOAB LP Call: N6PE Class: SOAB HP Call: N6QQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6TV Class: SOAB HP Call: N7AT Class: SOAB LP Call: N7BV Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N7MQ Class: SOAB HP Call: N7NM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N8AGU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB LP Call: N9ID Class: SOAB LP Call: N9LYE Class: SOAB LP Call: N9XX Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: N9YH Class: SOAB LP Call: NA3M Class: SOAB HP Call: NB4M Class: SOAB LP Call: NC4CS Class: M/S HP Call: ND9E Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NF6P Class: SOAB LP Call: NI6T Class: SOAB HP Call: NI7R Class: SOAB HP Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: NO2T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NQ4U Class: M/S HP Call: NR4M Class: M/S HP Call: NT0F Class: SOAB LP Call: NX5O Class: SOAB HP Call: OE2GEN Class: SOAB LP Call: OG8A Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: OH2BP Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: OH8A Class: M/S HP Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP Call: OK3C Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OL3A Class: M/S HP Call: OL3Z Class: M/S HP Call: OL6X Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OL7C Class: M/S HP Call: OM/SQ9UM Class: SOAB LP Call: OM1VA Class: SOAB LP Call: OM3KWZ Class: M/S LP Call: OM8A Class: M/S HP Call: OP4A Class: SOAB LP Call: OY3JE Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: P49X Class: M/2 HP Call: PI4CC Class: M/2 HP Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: PT9PA Class: SOAB HP Call: PU4MAI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: PU5AAD Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: PU5ATX Class: M/S LP Call: PW2B Class: SOAB LP Call: PW2P Class: SOAB HP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: PY2EB Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Call: PY2VM Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Call: PY3KN Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: PY4XX Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: RA9CB Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: RK4WWQ Class: M/2 HP Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Call: RL4R Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: RO4W Class: SOAB HP Call: RX0AW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: S52OP Class: SOAB HP Call: S53M Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S53NW Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: S58M Class: SOAB LP Call: SM2JUR Class: SOAB LP Call: SM7BHM Class: SOAB HP Call: SO6I Class: SOAB HP Call: SO9S Class: M/S HP Call: SP4TXI Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: SU1KM Class: M/S LP Call: SV2BFN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: SX5R Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: TF3AO Class: SOAB HP Call: TI5/NP3D Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: TI5/WW4LL Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: TM0C Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: UA0QBR Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: UN1L Class: M/S HP Call: US0HZ Class: SOAB LP Call: US5IQ Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: UT2UZ Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: UT8EL Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: UV5U Class: SOAB HP Call: UW8I Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VA1CHP Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: VA2UP Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VA7AM Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: VA7HZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VA7KO Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB LP Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE2SB Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3AP Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3EJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3JI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3JM Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3KF Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3KI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3XD Class: SOAB LP Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB HP Call: VE5CPU Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VE7CF Class: SOAB HP Call: VE7KS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE7UQ Class: SOAB LP Call: VK6HZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VU2LBW Class: SOAB HP Call: VU2NKS Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VU2PTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VY2LI Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Call: W0BR Class: SOAB LP Call: W0LSD Class: M/S HP Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP Call: W1AJT Class: SOAB LP Call: W1BYH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1IG Class: SOAB LP Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB HP Call: W1NR Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W1UE Class: SOAB HP Call: W1UJ Class: SOAB HP Call: W1ZK Class: SOAB HP Call: W2FU Class: M/M HP Call: W2OO Class: SOAB HP Call: W3/NH7C Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: W3FV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Call: W3MF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4BK Class: SOAB LP Call: W4GAC Class: M/S HP Call: W4GHD Class: SOAB HP Call: W4HOD Class: M/S LP Call: W4LC Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: W4PK Class: SOAB HP Call: W4RK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4ZE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6EU Class: SOAB HP Call: W6NF Class: SOAB LP Call: W6SX Class: M/S HP Call: W6TQG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6WRT Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W6ZL Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: W7ABC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7CT Class: M/S HP Call: W7MRC Class: SOAB HP Call: W7NNN Class: SOAB HP Call: W7VP Class: SOAB HP Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7ZR Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: W8AEF Class: SOAB HP Call: W8DQ Class: SOAB HP Call: W9ILY Class: SOAB LP Call: W9IP Class: SOAB QRP Call: WA1FCN Class: SOAB LP Call: WA1Z Class: SOAB LP Call: WA5ZUP Class: SOAB HP Call: WA7NPX Class: SOAB HP Call: WB2RHM Class: SOAB LP Call: WB5TUF Class: SOAB LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: WC2Z Class: SOAB HP Call: WD5K Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: WD8RYC Class: SOAB HP Call: WE6Z Class: SOAB HP Call: WF7T Class: SOAB LP Call: WI2E Class: SOAB LP Call: WI9WI Class: SOAB HP Call: WK6I Class: SOAB HP Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Call: WO1N Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: WO4D Class: SOAB LP Call: WQ6O Class: M/S HP Call: WT9Q Class: SOAB LP Call: WV0T Class: SOAB LP Call: WX4TM Class: SOAB HP Call: XE2AU Class: SOAB LP Call: XE2K Class: SOAB HP Call: XE2WK Class: SOAB HP Call: YB4IR Class: SOAB HP Call: YL5T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YL7A Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YL9T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YO3ZA Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YO4UQ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB HP Call: YT0A Class: M/S HP Call: YT5W Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: YU1ZZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: YU7AE Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: YU7U Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: YV1CTE Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: YV1JGT Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: YV5VD Class: M/S LP Call: YW4D Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: ZL1BYZ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: ZV2C Class: SOAB LP Call: ZX2B Class: SOAB(A) HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: CR3L Call: DL5AXX Call: DQ4W Call: DR5N Call: ES5Q Call: IV3TMV Call: K0IR Call: LX7I Call: P49X Call: PI4CC Call: RK4WWQ Class: M/M HP Call: K1TTT Call: KA4RRU Call: W2FU Class: M/M LP Call: 3Z70RG Class: M/S HP Call: A73A Call: AD8P Call: DL0NS Call: DL1ZBO Call: FT5GA Call: IY1NGM Call: K4FJ Call: K7BTW Call: LT5X Call: NC4CS Call: NQ4U Call: NR4M Call: OH8A Call: OL3A Call: OL3Z Call: OL7C Call: OM8A Call: RL3A Call: SO9S Call: UN1L Call: W0LSD Call: W4GAC Call: W6SX Call: W7CT Call: WQ6O Call: YT0A Class: M/S LP Call: LV6D Call: OM3KWZ Call: PU5ATX Call: SU1KM Call: W4HOD Call: YV5VD Class: SOAB HP Call: 9M2CNC Call: 9V1UV Call: AD4EB Call: AE1P Call: AF4OX Call: AG4W Call: AJ4FM Call: AL1G Call: AY8A Call: CX9AU Call: DD1JN Call: DK8EY Call: DL4MCF Call: DL4ME Call: EF8M Call: EO5M Call: GA0FGI Call: GB50ATG Call: GI5K Call: HA3LI Call: JA7ZP Call: K0FX Call: K0PC Call: K0PK Call: K1FWE Call: K1IB Call: K1LT Call: K3WI Call: K4EDI Call: K4FX Call: K4HAL Call: K5KA Call: K5ZD Call: K6BL Call: K6LL Call: K6MM Call: K6NV Call: K6RB Call: K6RM Call: K6SRZ Call: K6TD Call: K7AR Call: K7IA Call: K7QQ Call: K7RSM Call: K7WP Call: K7ZS Call: KD7MSC Call: KE4UNA Call: KG4CUY Call: KG6DX Call: KH6MB Call: KJ6RA Call: KL7RA Call: KL8DX Call: KR7X Call: KS7S Call: KV7DX Call: LN9Z Call: LU1BJW Call: LW9ETQ Call: LY9Y Call: M5AEX Call: N0KE Call: N1SV Call: N1WR Call: N3UA Call: N4VV Call: N6AR Call: N6CK Call: N6PE Call: N6TV Call: N7MQ Call: NA3M Call: NI6T Call: NI7R Call: NX5O Call: OK2SFP Call: PT9PA Call: PW2P Call: RO4W Call: S52OP Call: SM7BHM Call: SO6I Call: TF3AO Call: UV5U Call: VE2SB Call: VE3AP Call: VE3KF Call: VE4EAR Call: VE7CF Call: VU2LBW Call: W1KQ Call: W1UE Call: W1UJ Call: W1ZK Call: W2OO Call: W4GHD Call: W4PK Call: W6EU Call: W7MRC Call: W7NNN Call: W7VP Call: W8AEF Call: W8DQ Call: WA5ZUP Call: WA7NPX Call: WC2Z Call: WD8RYC Call: WE6Z Call: WI9WI Call: WK6I Call: WX4TM Call: XE2K Call: XE2WK Call: YB4IR Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB LP Call: 4Z8BB Call: 5C5W Call: 6Y0FF Call: AA5AU Call: AA5VU Call: AB0LR Call: AB4GG Call: AB7R Call: AC0E Call: AD7XZ Call: AE5PW Call: AI4G Call: DD0DRK Call: DF9DD Call: DL3EBX Call: DL8MBS Call: DO3ME Call: DO6SR Call: DO9DMB Call: F4JRC Call: F5RD Call: G0HVQ Call: GU0SUP Call: H2E Call: HA8BE Call: HE8AWS Call: HE8TOC Call: HI3TEJ Call: J39BS Call: J46J Call: K1PY Call: K2PO/7 Call: K4CX Call: K4MIL Call: K6KR Call: K7HBN Call: K9NR Call: KB3LIX Call: KD5J Call: KD8GOX Call: KE7AUB Call: KE7YF Call: KG4JGQ Call: KN3A Call: KN4QD Call: KS0M Call: KW3W Call: KW7N Call: KX7L Call: KY5R Call: LA3BO Call: LT0H Call: LZ9R Call: N0EOP Call: N0KM Call: N1SXL Call: N2MUN Call: N2QT Call: N2WN Call: N3CHX Call: N6HE Call: N6PC Call: N7AT Call: N8NOE Call: N9ID Call: N9LYE Call: N9YH Call: NB4M Call: NF6P Call: NT0F Call: OE2GEN Call: OM/SQ9UM Call: OM1VA Call: OP4A Call: PW2B Call: PY2NY Call: S58M Call: SM2JUR Call: US0HZ Call: VA2UP Call: VA7KO Call: VA7ST Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3JI Call: VE3JM Call: VE3KI Call: VE3XD Call: VE7UQ Call: VY2SS Call: W0BR Call: W0RAA Call: W1AJT Call: W1IG Call: W3LL Call: W4BK Call: W6NF Call: W9ILY Call: WA1FCN Call: WA1Z Call: WB2RHM Call: WB5TUF Call: WF7T Call: WI2E Call: WN6K Call: WO4D Call: WT9Q Call: WV0T Call: XE2AU Call: ZV2C Class: SOAB QRP Call: K2YG Call: N6HI Call: W9IP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA3B Call: AA7A Call: AA8LL Call: AL9A Call: CX7TT Call: DJ8OG Call: DL1REM Call: DL8SCG Call: EC1KR Call: EO3Q Call: EY8MM Call: F5CQ Call: G4MKP Call: G6PZ Call: K0HB Call: K2QMF Call: K3WW Call: K4GMH Call: K4IU Call: K5NZ Call: K6TA Call: K7EG Call: K9CT Call: K9MUG/4 Call: KA2D Call: KA2KON Call: KT7G Call: KV1J Call: LZ8E Call: N4BCD Call: N4DW Call: N4KG Call: N4ZZ Call: N6CCH Call: N6QQ Call: N8AGU Call: N8BJQ Call: ND9E Call: NO2T Call: OL6X Call: SV2BFN Call: UW8I Call: VA3DX Call: VE1OP Call: VE3EJ Call: VE7KS Call: VU2PTT Call: W1BYH Call: W3FV Call: W3MF Call: W4RK Call: W4ZE Call: W6TQG Call: W7ABC Call: W7WHY Call: YL5T Call: YL9T Call: ZX2B Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: 9A3XV Call: AA2MF Call: AD1C Call: DJ6JH Call: DL1IAO Call: DO9ST Call: EA5DKU Call: FO8RZ Call: K2DSL Call: K2OGD Call: K2SI Call: K2ZC Call: K7VIT Call: K9OR Call: PU4MAI Call: PU5AAD Call: PY2BRZ Call: PY3KN Call: UT8EL Call: VA7HZ Call: VU2NKS Call: WO1N Call: YU1ZZ Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: DF9ZP Call: IT9RGY Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: DM5TI Call: SP4TXI Call: TI5/WW4LL Call: TM0C Call: UA0QBR Call: YU7AE Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: DK0EE Call: KN5O Call: RL4R Call: TI5/NP3D Call: US5IQ Call: W3/NH7C Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Call: PY2VM Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: LU8EOT Call: PY2EB Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: CX4AAJ Call: EA3GLB Call: G3YBY Call: LP2F Call: NJ4U Call: OG8A Call: W7ZR Call: ZC4LI Call: ZL1BYZ Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: 3V8SS Call: PY4XX Call: VA1CHP Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: CT3EN Call: CT3FQ Call: F8DBF Call: HA7TM Call: IT9STX Call: K0TK Call: K4WW Call: K7RF Call: K9OM Call: KH6GMP Call: KT0DX Call: KT6YL Call: N4OGW Call: N7BV Call: N7NM Call: RX0AW Call: SX5R Call: VE5CPU Call: VE6WQ Call: VK6HZ Call: W1NR Call: WD5K Call: YT5W Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: AA4U Call: AK0A Call: DJ0MCZ Call: EA4ZK Call: HA0ML Call: HG3FMZ Call: HL5YI Call: K7MY Call: KP4AH Call: KT1I Call: N9XX Call: OK3C Call: PR7AR Call: VA7AM Call: W4LC Call: W6ZL Call: YO3ZA Call: YO4UQ Call: YV1CTE Call: YW4D Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: F/VA2SG/P Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: AB9H Call: BA4T Call: GM3SEK Call: IT9RBW Call: K5AM Call: KE4UW Call: LU4HH Call: OH2BP Call: S53M Call: W6WRT Call: YL7A Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: E79D Call: HQ9R Call: K1GU Call: KC4HW Call: KD5LNO Call: KE1F Call: UT2UZ Call: VY2LI Call: WB8JUI Call: YV1JGT Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: DJ3IW Call: OY3JE Call: RA9CB Call: YU7U Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: S53NW