CQWW SSB Soapbox built 12-4-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 1A3A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 14,631,066 The only one chance in our ham life to be there for the CQWW. A great experience, a lot of fun, new friends and a lot of antennas works !! We were jammed from over 20 hours from the begining of the Contest, and we forced to jump over the band to look for a free frequency, aplogies with who has called us, mainly on 40m. A good Field Style activity we cannot compete with EU big guns, even from a rare Entity, but we had the opportunity to give a chance to every one to work us, and the new prefix too. Thank's to every one called us ... Setup Antennas: 10m 4 el Yagi 15m 3 el Yagi 20m 3 el Yagi 40m 2 el Yagi + Delta Loop 80m 1/4 Wave Vertical + US Beverage + 4 direction K9AY 160m Inverted V dipole 20m high + US Beverage + 4 direction K9AY ICOM 781, ICOM 756PRO, ICOM 756PRO//, ICOM 756PRO/// ICOM 746PRO, ICOM 7400, ICOM 765, FT1000 TL922, ICOM 2KL, ALpha 99, Acom 1000 8 PC networked, 3G Flat Internet connection Win Test 3.16 Best 73 de Fabio I4UFH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3DA0WW Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,013,010 QSL via LZ3HI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L4WW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 608,580 Great contest… and great feelings (especially after it is over!). This is second time for me in the CQWW SOSB and first time on 80m.....again big enjoinment. The cyclone which came just few days before the contest and brought some heavy rains and associated few thunderstorms was something I was afraid most but luckily everything was over Friday evening and I enjoyed an excellent condition throughout the contest, almost no noise or statics. I can not say the same on propagation. The first day was far better than the second . Just compare only ca 300 QSOs , 3 zones and handful countries in last 12 hours to the rest. I was really struggling to copy surprisingly weakened signals from EU, though QRM from big European stations remained at almost the same level. At the same time the beginning of this very second day, thanks to gray line propagation (and 3 el. Yagi!) has produced few good LP contacts with zone 3. Sorry for K7… I started QSO with and he was really coming strong when suddenly my FT1000D went quiet and despite of all my efforts came back in only 2 minutes. Still wonder what has happened but had no problems for the rest of the contest. When I was back had no immediate replies and decided that it was not worth trying to struggle over 30.000 km to get more zone 3 (though zone 1 could be a great reward, but was not sure about) Sorry guys if I raised expectations there, will try to work you maybe in 2 weeks time when I plan to be in the village again. Both days had short but very good openings to VK and ZL and as aresult surprisingly easy 29,30, 32 zones. I guess I was lucky with zones 10 and 31 at the same time have missed easy 22 and 40. 3 el Yagi installed this summer worked very well and total 31 zones is probably good confirmation of that. Due to absence of the static noise almost all the receiving was done on Yagi. I head EU/USA beverage but my overall RX commutation still requires some further work, which I now understand much better after the contest. Great contest and to say last (and by far not the least), record of Asia from1999 was broken by more than doubling it. All the best to everyone and hope to meet you again soon. 73 Gia 4L4WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,208,470 New SO2R station layout with fully automation works fine and it’s really something I am proud about. This time was no lucky with weather. As station is very weather dependable ( hilltop and poor grounding ), huge thunderstorm put me in position to think about quitting contest and switching station off for grounding. But I decided to put in some risk. Low bands were so noisy, even on beverages and I did not use my advantage on low bands at all. Even on beverages I had noise on few S unit levels. It was funny that I was running on 160M first night, because on 80M and 40M I had terrible static. Beverages were only on 160M useful at that moment. In generally conditions were good. Second day I expected to have luck with USA conditions on high bands, but it was worse than first afternoon. Thanks’ to all for calling and see you in CQ WW CW. Ranko – 4O3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4X0V Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,812,256 This operation could not have been possible without the help of Mony, 4X6ZK, the architect of the club station at Mikveh Israel School in Holon, Israel. The 4X0V worked seemlessly together and the result speaks for itself. We believe that this might be the first M/2 operation ever in the CQWW test from 4X. The operators were: Steve, AA4V, Isle of Palms, SC, Gay, N4SF, Vista, CA, Mony, 4X6ZK and Jan, 4X1VK of Israel. Our dear friend, Aron, 4X1FQ provided valuable logistics assistance and Ros, 4Z5LA, did the computer networking and set up. We used N1MM for logging and it worked flawlessly as did the station itself. We had absolutely no station problems (other than tired operator errors) throughout the 48 hours. A combination of W3NQN and ICE bandpass filters kept everyone's signal in the right place. We couldn't have pulled this off without them. Rigs: 2 x Yaesu FT1000MP, 1 x FT1000MPMkV Field standby (but never needed) Amps: Acom 1000, Kenwood TL922, Heathkit SB220 standby (but never used) Antennas: Station #1 Cushcraft A3S, 2 el 40M yagi, full wave loop for 80M an d inverted V for 160. Pennant receiving antenna pointed at Europe Station #2 Mosley Classic 33, Butternut vertical for 40, 80 and 160. We dedicate this operation to Hanina, 4X4MU (SK) for his devotion to Amateur Radio in Israel and his mentoring and good influence on us all. Last, but not least, a big thank you to all who worked us...what a terrific weekend!!! CU next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,072,952 Inverted Vee @ 14m, FT890, FL-2100Z Compared with last year, bad condx this time. Almost useless to call CQ on other bands then 15m. Last year I was barefoot with the same antenna and had nice pileups even on 20m and 10m. Probably my signal was covered, because of the good conditions on the northern hemisphere. Some nice runs to NA on 15m. See you in cw. 73 Mike, 5H3EE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6F75A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,954,440 The 6F75A is special call for the 75th Anniversary of FMRE, Mexico's IARU Society. QSL info on QRZ.com. The contest team was Diego LU8ADX/AY8A who came to give us a great speech about Contesting on the FMRE's Acapulco Convention a week ago; Ismael XE1AY tree times expeditioner to Revillagigedo XF4 and Ramon XE1KK (me). This was the first phone multi-op operation from my station and everything worked well. We had a great time but our call was a real tongue-twister. As usual the best part is having Qs with all of you our good friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6I2AUB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 181,438 Team Contesting Vitamins ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6V7G Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 1,233,571 TS870 and 3 elements monoband yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1RY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,584,228 I made lots of plans to do better than last year, but the local QRN beat me down. Not having a rotating beam hurt the score, so I should be happy with the results. I did not run across as many familiar call signs this year, maybe they took the weekend off and are preparing instead for CW! Many thanks to all how called me and got into the log. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,916,192 I would like to thank our team of excellent ops (W2GB Steve, W1VE Gerry, CT1ILT Filipe, LU9ESD Manu) for making the journey to Jamaica for CQWW. A special thanks for our Young Ham Contest Program winner Manu, LU9ESD, who is an incredible SSB contester (now, if we can just get him to master cw). Another special thanks goes to Stacy (my wife) and Anna (Steve's wife) for all their hard work, preparing food, drinks, transportation and more! I would also like to express my sorrow for Robert, W5AJ, who was unable to make it due to illness. You were missed! Still experiencing growing pains, we were not without problems. When we arrived on the island we discovered many issues. We came prepared to fix the top ring rotor with 2 spare motors, gear boxes and sprockets. Manu (LU9ESD) was a real trooper spending long hours (some in the rain) on the top of the 140' tower fixing the ring rotor. Although it was repaired, the feedback indicator never provided true bearing information making it difficult to know exactly where it was pointed. To add insult to injury, the bottom ring stopped working with the antenna fixed at 23 degrees (could have been worse!). There was no Internet service when we arrived. We also lost a computer and had to buy a new one ($58,000 JM). Despite repeated calls and a visit to the Internet office in Mo'Bay, they never fixed our Internet connection until Saturday evening. Combined with two bad CT-17's and no working serial cables, we were without any rig control or packet. We finally got packet working late Saturday evening. This is evident by our low number of multipliers. Despite the station issues and the loss of W5AJ, we had 5 good ops and three working stations so it was decided we would maximize our fun and operate M/M. I must say this was a bold move because the station was designed for M/S or M/2 and we had only 5 ops! We got off to a great start. With three stations running all night, I woke to find we had nearly 4 million points in less than 12 hours. We were having fun! Early Saturday afternoon, we had nearly 8 million points when disaster struck. We lost an IC-7800. Poof! It just shut down and never came back on. Back to Icom for repair! We moved on, with only two radios. Too bad we couldn't switch back to M/2. Mid morning Sunday, we were blessed with a TS-870 loaned by 6Y5GC. After having only 2 rigs and no Internet for half the contest, we were back in business. A fantastic time was had by all. The stacks on 10/15/20 worked incredibly well. I only wish they were on separate towers as there is some interference between 10 and 15 meters and it would be helpful to point them in different directions. Thank you to everyone who put us in their logs! We appreciate the contact! Please take a moment to visit the 6Y1V website (www.6y1v.com) and if you know a young ham or someone who knows a young ham 21 or younger, tell them about the Young Ham Contest Program so we can make their dream come true! 73, David ~ 6Y1V/KY1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 12,651,856 Last operation from my cottage in Barbados. I will be able to continue in a compromise fashion and time will tell how well it will work. Except for Sunday morning, the contest went well. Low band QRN was very bad but the 10 meter opening to EU was a pleasant surprise. Besides an intermittent display on a TS-850, the station performed flawlessly. Very long story at http://tgeorgens.home.mindspring.com Thanks to all the stations who called in. Thanks to my wife Kathleen who makes this all possible QSL via NN1N (thanks to Dave also) 73, Tom W2SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 11,523,576 Wow what an weekend. As usual we ended antenna building friday afternoon and setup the station just in time for the start. Hot start with nice 40m runs, condx were quite good and much better than expected. Even 10m opened with great short skip condx and some DX qsos which brought us 106dxcc on that band. Everything worked fine and we had great time all together. Sunday afternoon in the middle of the US run a big t-storm visited us and we had to shut down for an hour and spent another hour in big qrn with no possibility to RX expect on beverages. At the end as usual I have to say: WE LOVE THIS GAME!!! Used FT1000mp's and OM-Power amp's 160m vertical with 30 radials 80m vertical with 60 radials 40m 4el OWA @20m 20m 5el OWA @23m 15m 6el OWA @18m 10m 6el OWA @24m RX >200m beverages 73 and cu in the CW leg Dave, 9A1UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 420,552 Operators: 9A3BEW 9A3BLY 9A3BED 9A3BBW 9A3BER 9A6XX 9A8MM 9A3BIM Rigs: 2x Kenwood TS-440S, later changed one 440S with TS-940S Power: 100W, Ant: Inv. V 160m, Inv. V 80/40m, Inv. V 40m, 2el Quad 20/15/10m Software: Writelog Great performance shown from 14 years hamlets, especially young YL 9A3BLY during 28MHz short skip to DL/PA. Great will showed from 9A3BER & 9A3BED who operated whole saturday nihgt. 9A3BIM & 9A6XX putted up fullsize inverted V during nights in center of town :) We did solid 85 qso (28 dx) during just few hours s&p work on 1.8MHz Unfortunatly we had two problems: Our Kenwood PS-50 power supply got wild and gave unexcpected 24V ? so our 440S broked down. Afterwards we switched to TS-940S who's bad modulation caused RF on our computers so cuputers crashed and that was about the end of contest. Many thanx to 9A8MM who brought Lafayette power supply to club. Sunday morning when taking down our 'night' antenna for 1.8Mhz I managed to broke fiberglass fole unfortunatlly. But in fact this was the first time that 9A7P was qrv on 1.8 MHz during the contest from this location. Many thanks to all involved in this contest. 73 es cu in WAE DX RTTY de 9A3BIM & 9A7P contest team _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 160m Summary Zones 9 14 15 16 20 Countries 1A 9A DL EA ER ES EU F HA HB I IT9 LY LZ OE OK OM ON OZ PA S5 SP T7 T9 UR YO YU YV 80m Summary Zones 14 15 16 17 20 21 33 Countries 1A 3V 4L 5B 9A CN DL EA EA6 EA9 EI ER ES EU F G GM GW HA HB HB0 I IS IT9 LA LX LY LZ OE OH OK OM ON OZ PA S5 SP SV T7 T9 UA UA2 UA9 UR YL YO YU Z3 40m Summary Zones 5 7 8 9 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 33 35 Countries 1A 3V 4U1I 5B 6Y 9A 9K CN CT DL EA EA9 EK ER ES F G GI GM GW HA HB HB0 HL HR I IT9 K LA LY LZ OE OH OH0 OK OM ON PA PJ2 S5 SM SP SV SV5 T9 TA UA UA2 UA9 UK UN UR YL YO YU Z3 20m Summary Zones 3 4 5 8 11 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 33 35 40 Countries 3V 4L 4X 5B 6Y 9A A7 C5 CN CT CT3 DL EA EA6 EA8 EA9 EI EK ER ES EU F G GM GW HB I IG9 IT9 K LA LX LY LZ OH OH0 OK OM ON OZ PA PY S5 SM SP SV SV5 SV9 TF UA UA2 UA9 UN UR VE YL YO YU Z3 15m Summary Zones 2 4 5 8 11 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 33 35 38 Countries 3DA 3V 4X 5B 9A C5 CN DL EA EA8 EI EK ER EU F G GM GU I IT9 K LA LZ OH ON OZ PA PY S5 SM SV TA UA UA9 UR VE VP5 YL YO ZC4 ZS 10m Summary Zones 14 15 16 19 20 Countries 9A DL EA EI ES EU F G GI GM GW I IT9 LA LY OE OH OH0 OK ON OZ PA S5 SM SP TA UA UA2 UR YL YO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A8MM Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 1,410 I was working QRP single band (20m)as usual with FT-857D and an inverted V antenna. Crowded bands, strong signals, but unfortunately not much luck with QSOs. Thanks to G3TXF for his effort trying to work me. See (hopefuly more of) you down the log in CW part :) Marko, 9A8MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,485,136 We had great time in this contest, 10m was not wide open but we made some qso with NA and this is good sign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CCO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 154,760 Surprisingly good band conditions on 15M this year. 40M was bad however. Thank you for all the QSOs. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 274,992 Station - IC 756 Pro 1, SPE Expert 1K amplifier @ 400W Antenna - Force 12 C3-S at 12m Highlights: 1. A 126 hour into Europe at 1500Z on the Sunday with S9+ signals. Sadly only for 1.5 hours... 2. Working K3LR half an hour before the end of the contest. Sadly no other East Coast worked Lowlights: 1. QRM 2. QRM 3. QRM The band was very noisy with splatter plus IMD from my Pro I. Most of the time I was unable to hear stations. Good participation from 9M2 - 9M2GCN, 9M2CCO and 9M4DXX all heard. Even better participation from HS and congratulations to Khun Champ E21EIC for beating my Single Band score running only LP - Khun Dej E21YDP's station rocks. Great score as well from Steve, V8FEO and nice to hear V8 back on the bands. Next contest will be CQWW CW with more focus on LF this time. Thank you for the QSOs. All QSOs will be loaded in LoTW during the week. 73 de Rich, G4ZFE/9M2CNC/HS0ZGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A45WD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,494,400 Nice surprise to see 15 m and 10 m bands open like in the "good old days". Although condx to North America were poor on all bands. I worked only few of the big guns from USA and some of the NA-SA multipliers. Chasing multipliers on 80 and 40 m bands was a tough job due to my power and wire antennas. Altogether, at the bottom of the solar cycle, I am happy with the final result. I am expecting better propagation for next year... Or not??!! See you in CQ-WW-CW from my home location (YO9HP). 73, Alex A45WD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A57AL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,225,437 Tnx for all contacts. I cant collect all off you, it was very noisy on the freq. CU in CW 73, Ivo S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A71BX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,295,700 Big fun in the sun in Doha, Qatar. Juma, A71EM, suggested a multi-single about two weeks ahead of the contest. He had been promising Ali, A71BX, they would multi-op together and invited me and Hank KI4MF to join them. His next words were we don't have a working 80 or 160 antenna. So we put up an Alpha Delta sloper on his fixed tower a week before the contest and got it working. Too much noise made us go the whole 9 yards and put up a short beverage for Europe/NA. Juma set up two stations so we could make faster band changes. He has a small tower on the house and a small crankup next to it, each with a tribander, one with the sloper and one with a rotary dipole for 40. The night before the contest we finished the beverage and began to cut and solder coaxial stub filters for the amplifier outputs which also went through full-power matchboxes, providing enough station isolation to work multipliers on the second station. Juma insisted we take time out for lunch each day, and we stopped a bit before the end (3AM start and finish). Good fun all around, and we even had some 10m condx! For the group, Dave K5GN in A7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,246,250 15 meters was a pleasant surprise. Made the switch to N1MM logging software about a week before the contest. Flawless interfacing with Orion 1 and Ft1000MP but only partial success controlling the DX Doubler and I was out of time to debug so used DXD in manual mode. But I had some audio problems with the mic connection to the Orion so this ended up being mostly about an SO1.1R weekend. But the logging went smoothly despite my limited advance practice. Did a major re-configuration of the monoband glass-tube amps this year, getting rid of the three grid-driven amps and now all (5 of them) are grounded grid, mostly single 4-1000's with one pair of 3-500z. Newly acquired Alpha filled in on the sixth band. Station details at www.aa1k.us. CQ WW SSB - 2007-10-27 0000Z to 2007-10-29 0000Z - 2379 QSOs AA1K Max Rates: 2007-10-27 1200Z - 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by AA1K 2007-10-27 1327Z - 3.2 per minute (10 minute(s)), 192 per hour by AA1K 2007-10-27 1330Z - 2.3 per minute (60 minute(s)), 136 per hour by AA1K Date Hour Total 1_8 3_5 7 14 21 28 Running Total 2007-10-27 0 51 35 16 51 2007-10-27 1 26 5 9 12 77 2007-10-27 2 35 25 10 112 2007-10-27 3 39 7 24 8 151 2007-10-27 4 56 3 53 207 2007-10-27 5 23 3 8 10 2 230 2007-10-27 6 16 13 2 1 246 2007-10-27 7 1 1 247 2007-10-27 9 22 22 269 2007-10-27 10 28 2 5 16 5 297 2007-10-27 11 78 37 41 375 2007-10-27 12 119 119 494 2007-10-27 13 125 125 619 2007-10-27 14 88 88 707 2007-10-27 15 118 118 825 2007-10-27 16 72 66 6 897 2007-10-27 17 39 6 23 10 936 2007-10-27 18 64 58 6 1000 2007-10-27 19 120 113 7 1120 2007-10-27 20 79 68 11 1199 2007-10-27 21 73 62 11 1272 2007-10-27 22 16 1 8 7 1288 2007-10-27 23 17 1 16 1305 2007-10-28 0 9 9 1314 2007-10-28 1 18 15 3 1332 2007-10-28 5 2 2 1334 2007-10-28 6 14 9 1 4 1348 2007-10-28 7 64 2 62 1412 2007-10-28 8 13 8 5 1425 2007-10-28 9 6 1 2 3 1431 2007-10-28 10 11 3 6 2 1442 2007-10-28 11 15 4 11 1457 2007-10-28 12 31 24 7 1488 2007-10-28 13 104 3 101 1592 2007-10-28 14 104 104 1696 2007-10-28 15 130 130 1826 2007-10-28 16 74 73 1 1900 2007-10-28 17 76 67 9 1976 2007-10-28 18 118 116 2 2094 2007-10-28 19 76 74 2 2170 2007-10-28 20 53 8 4 41 2223 2007-10-28 21 37 3 17 13 4 2260 2007-10-28 22 42 35 7 2302 2007-10-28 23 22 12 4 6 2324 Total All Hours 2324 43 153 172 804 1079 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,223,914 My X9 tribander was intermittent on 20M - I suspect the feed has a mechanical problem. Lots of other problems - I think my station is tired! Unexpected conditions - 15 and 10 were decent. I thought 80 was tougher than ususal. 73 Bud AA3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 173,160 Antennas: all wires, G5RV @ 35ft 10-40m, 80m Inverted L, 160m inverted V @ 50ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,160 Enjoyed the whole contest as much as I could work this time. I had to work, so will look forward to next weekend as my weekend off and time for CW :0) Propogation was a little strange in the beginning, but began to level out after a few hours. Thanks to N1MM contest software without which it would all be much harder to implement. 73 fer nw es gud DX, QSL VIA: LotW, BUR, e-QSL Bob AD5VJ Old calls: WB5ZQU/WY5L/KH3-KE5CTY-N5IET http://www.ad5vj.com/ Member: CTDXCC, NTCC, STXDXCC 10X#-37210, SMIRK#-5177 FISTS#-12637, SKCC#-2369 NAQCC#-1966, FP#-1141, RARS#-149 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 48,433 Only had a short time I could contest this weekend and most of that time was at night. At the last minute I decided to run QRO and dusted off the old Henry 2K2 figuring I could put out about 500W without setting off the neighborhood. Saturday morning I decided to check out 10M and 15M before going to the default of 20M. By the time I had worked all I could copy on 10 and 15 my time was up so ended up not working many on 20m. Had the most fun on 40M in a while once I convinced myself that split on 40M wasn't as bad as I remembered. Until next time, 73 AD6ZJ, Loren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8J Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 16,896 Be nice if all the DX stations low on 40 meters would listen up. You missed a lot of contacts by not doing so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG4RZ Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 68,904 Not bad for my first serious QRP entry. FT-817 and the ole' tribander at 42 feet. Thanks for the q's, gang!! Tim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI2N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 13,419 Wow; even with 15 opening up pretty good, 20 was STILL a mess. C'mon, sunspots! Thanks to everyone who dug me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4ME Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 70,664 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's CQ World Wide Log 2.6 CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB CALLSIGN: AI4ME CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 70664 OPERATORS: AI4ME CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club NAME: Don Michalek ADDRESS: 2437 Broomsedge Trail ADDRESS: Virginia Beach, VA 23456 ADDRESS: (e-mail) ai4me@cox.net SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0208 AI4ME 59 05 KC1XX 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0210 AI4ME 59 05 VP9I 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0213 AI4ME 59 05 PJ4E 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0215 AI4ME 59 05 K1SND 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0216 AI4ME 59 05 W1MAW 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0216 AI4ME 59 05 AA1ON 59 05 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-27 0226 AI4ME 59 05 K1TTT 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0250 AI4ME 59 05 K3LR 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0251 AI4ME 59 05 VP5T 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0256 AI4ME 59 05 N4EK 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0257 AI4ME 59 05 VP5DX 59 08 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-27 0315 AI4ME 59 05 WP2Z 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1345 AI4ME 59 05 DK5DQ 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1349 AI4ME 59 05 V26B 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1350 AI4ME 59 05 PY2NY 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1353 AI4ME 59 05 DR1A 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1355 AI4ME 59 05 S50A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1356 AI4ME 59 05 PA6Z 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1357 AI4ME 59 05 EI7M 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1404 AI4ME 59 05 S59N 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1406 AI4ME 59 05 9A1P 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1407 AI4ME 59 05 YT0Z 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1410 AI4ME 59 05 EB1BOA 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1411 AI4ME 59 05 G6PZ 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1413 AI4ME 59 05 LX7I 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1418 AI4ME 59 05 9A1A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1423 AI4ME 59 05 OM8A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1425 AI4ME 59 05 J3A 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1427 AI4ME 59 05 F8KDX 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1427 AI4ME 59 05 IV3HAX 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1428 AI4ME 59 05 K1TO 59 05 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1428 AI4ME 59 05 DL0WW 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1430 AI4ME 59 05 IO5O 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1433 AI4ME 59 05 DJ8OG 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1433 AI4ME 59 05 S53MM 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1438 AI4ME 59 05 N2IC 59 04 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1439 AI4ME 59 05 ZY7C 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1440 AI4ME 59 05 G4BUO 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1442 AI4ME 59 05 M8C 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1445 AI4ME 59 05 CQ3T 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1447 AI4ME 59 05 T93M 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1450 AI4ME 59 05 DR5Z 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1452 AI4ME 59 05 EB1WW 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1455 AI4ME 59 05 IS0/K7QB 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1457 AI4ME 59 05 T93J 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1500 AI4ME 59 05 AO8A 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1501 AI4ME 59 05 P43A 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1503 AI4ME 59 05 TM7F 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1504 AI4ME 59 05 DJ4PT 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1506 AI4ME 59 05 TM6M 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1512 AI4ME 59 05 LZ9W 59 20 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1514 AI4ME 59 05 PJ2T 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1515 AI4ME 59 05 GW4BLE 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1518 AI4ME 59 05 DQ4Q 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1521 AI4ME 59 05 4O3A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1522 AI4ME 59 05 PC5W 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1523 AI4ME 59 05 CQ9K 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1524 AI4ME 59 05 IZ4COW 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1525 AI4ME 59 05 DR5N 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1528 AI4ME 59 05 VO1KVT 59 05 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1530 AI4ME 59 05 S50O 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1531 AI4ME 59 05 TM2Y 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1532 AI4ME 59 05 XE2WWW 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1555 AI4ME 59 05 CT2HWP 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1557 AI4ME 59 05 EA4KD 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1557 AI4ME 59 05 IZ2DPX 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1559 AI4ME 59 05 PA0IJM 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1623 AI4ME 59 05 6W1RY 59 35 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1711 AI4ME 59 05 TI5N 59 07 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1713 AI4ME 59 05 NP2KW 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 1749 AI4ME 59 05 8P5A 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1756 AI4ME 59 05 ZX5J 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1758 AI4ME 59 05 WA7NB 59 03 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1812 AI4ME 59 05 CT9L 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1814 AI4ME 59 05 C50C 59 35 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1816 AI4ME 59 05 MI0LLL 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1822 AI4ME 59 05 CN3A 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1825 AI4ME 59 05 HI3K 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1825 AI4ME 59 05 P40A 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1829 AI4ME 59 05 6F75A 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1831 AI4ME 59 05 DP4K 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1836 AI4ME 59 05 VO1MP 59 05 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1840 AI4ME 59 05 NP4Z 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1841 AI4ME 59 05 9A4W 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1843 AI4ME 59 05 P40W 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1844 AI4ME 59 05 CU2A 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1846 AI4ME 59 05 CC0Y 59 12 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1939 AI4ME 59 05 KH6YR 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1940 AI4ME 59 05 ZF2AH 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1941 AI4ME 59 05 VE6AO 59 04 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1944 AI4ME 59 05 T48K 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1946 AI4ME 59 05 XE1CQ 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1948 AI4ME 59 05 HK6K 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1948 AI4ME 59 05 CU3A 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1954 AI4ME 59 05 ZY7EAM 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1959 AI4ME 59 05 HC8N 59 10 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2000 AI4ME 59 05 KH7Y 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2002 AI4ME 59 05 KH6LC 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2004 AI4ME 59 05 FY5KE 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2011 AI4ME 59 05 6Y1V 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2015 AI4ME 59 05 ZV5E 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2017 AI4ME 59 05 LS1D 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2020 AI4ME 59 05 CX1CCC 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2022 AI4ME 59 05 PJ4E 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2024 AI4ME 59 05 PY2BK 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2025 AI4ME 59 05 V47KP 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2031 AI4ME 59 05 ZS9X 59 38 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2034 AI4ME 59 05 VE6FI 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2038 AI4ME 59 05 C6AQW 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2042 AI4ME 59 05 WP2Z 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2043 AI4ME 59 05 VE6WQ 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2044 AI4ME 59 05 EA1WX 59 14 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2052 AI4ME 59 05 LR4E 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2053 AI4ME 59 05 P40PA 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2055 AI4ME 59 05 LR2F 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2057 AI4ME 59 05 HC8N 59 10 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2101 AI4ME 59 05 P40W 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2103 AI4ME 59 05 LP1H 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2106 AI4ME 59 05 P40A 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2109 AI4ME 59 05 HQ9R 59 07 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2110 AI4ME 59 05 PJ2T 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2138 AI4ME 59 05 FM/K9NW 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2150 AI4ME 59 05 PY2NA 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2152 AI4ME 59 05 PY3FOX 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2153 AI4ME 59 05 PZ5XX 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2200 AI4ME 59 05 HC1JQ 59 10 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2203 AI4ME 59 05 VC6S 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2212 AI4ME 59 05 9Y4D 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2223 AI4ME 59 05 PJ2T 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2233 AI4ME 59 05 VE7SZ 59 03 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2241 AI4ME 59 05 HI3C 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2253 AI4ME 59 05 VE7SV 59 03 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1842 AI4ME 59 05 8P5A 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1845 AI4ME 59 05 VP5DX 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1845 AI4ME 59 05 CU2CR 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1846 AI4ME 59 05 VE5UF 59 04 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1848 AI4ME 59 05 XE2S 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1850 AI4ME 59 05 PX2T 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1853 AI4ME 59 05 HQ9R 59 07 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1854 AI4ME 59 05 NP2B 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1900 AI4ME 59 05 VE5ZX 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1901 AI4ME 59 05 V47KP 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1907 AI4ME 59 05 VE2DXY 59 02 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1913 AI4ME 59 05 VE3CX 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1915 AI4ME 59 05 AO1O 59 14 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1919 AI4ME 59 05 VC3X 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1921 AI4ME 59 05 VE6AO 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1924 AI4ME 59 05 AO8A 59 33 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1928 AI4ME 59 05 VY2ZM 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1930 AI4ME 59 05 DR1A 59 14 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1931 AI4ME 59 05 CU3A 59 14 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1935 AI4ME 59 05 ZY7C 59 11 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1936 AI4ME 59 05 6Y1V 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1936 AI4ME 59 05 S50K 59 15 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1938 AI4ME 59 05 W5WMU 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1948 AI4ME 59 05 CN3A 59 33 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 1956 AI4ME 59 05 V47KP 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 1957 AI4ME 59 05 WP2Z 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2001 AI4ME 59 05 LQ5H 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2002 AI4ME 59 05 CE4CT 59 12 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2005 AI4ME 59 05 V26B 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2007 AI4ME 59 05 NP2KW 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2008 AI4ME 59 05 C50C 59 35 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2009 AI4ME 59 05 PJ4E 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2011 AI4ME 59 05 HP1AVS 59 07 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2019 AI4ME 59 05 J3A 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2021 AI4ME 59 05 FM/K9NW 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2028 AI4ME 59 05 XR6T 59 12 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2034 AI4ME 59 05 CO8LY 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2042 AI4ME 59 05 LS2D 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2043 AI4ME 59 05 LR2F 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2043 AI4ME 59 05 YV4A 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2045 AI4ME 59 05 LP1H 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2058 AI4ME 59 05 T49C 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2059 AI4ME 59 05 PY3DX 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2101 AI4ME 59 05 PY2GH 59 11 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2111 AI4ME 59 05 XE2S 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2116 AI4ME 59 05 KH7X 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2121 AI4ME 59 05 HI3T 59 08 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2317 AI4ME 59 05 IR4X 59 15 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2318 AI4ME 59 05 OT5A 59 14 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2320 AI4ME 59 05 HK6K 59 09 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2321 AI4ME 59 05 9A1P 59 15 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2322 AI4ME 59 05 VA3VO 59 04 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2327 AI4ME 59 05 VE2IM 59 02 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2337 AI4ME 59 05 VE3NE 59 04 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2341 AI4ME 59 05 LZ9W 59 20 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2343 AI4ME 59 05 V26B 59 08 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2345 AI4ME 59 05 DR1A 59 14 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2347 AI4ME 59 05 AO8A 59 33 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2347 AI4ME 59 05 VA3DX 59 04 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2355 AI4ME 59 05 9Y4W 59 09 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2356 AI4ME 59 05 VE3NWA 59 04 END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI6V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,257,200 Not the greatest conditions but our JA runs on 40 and 20 helped a lot. We had planned to be Multi Two but Carl's beloved Alpha 77 sputtered and died 10 minutes before the start. Working mults barefoot thereafter was really a challenge! Carl, by the way, was one of the OPs at the Vatican as HV50VR. He worked over 3k stations during the daylight hours. He said he has never heard pileups like that before! Jack, KF6T Auburn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL2F Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 71,340 Came up short compared to last year. I just moved and only have an 80m dipole fed w/ ladder line and dipoles for 40/15 and 20. Thanks to the stations that worked me. 73 - AL2F Kris in Anchor Point, AK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AM3SSB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,650,436 We lost one of the operators on friday so we face the M/S with 3 bodies, so the multipliers amount has been hited. Also due to work duties we couldn't finish the contest leaving the operation Sunday afternoon. No major technical problems and amazing propagation conditions in 10m and 15m. Thanks to everybody who contact us, spotted us and for your comments about our callsign (beatiful but loooooong) and our signal. AM3SSB Eugeni - EA3QP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AW2WFR Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 4,344 ! Hr ! ! ----------------- ! 03 ! 141 ! ! 04 ! 113 ! ! 05 ! 77 ! ! 06 ! 33 ! ! 07 ! 85 ! ! 08 ! 107 ! ! 09 ! 208 ! ! 10 ! 99 ! ! 11 ! 48 ! ! 12 ! 7 ! ! 13 ! ! ! 14 ! ! ! 15 ! ! ! 16 ! ! ! 17 ! 157 ! ! 18 ! 186 ! ! 19 ! 158 ! ! 20 ! 191 ! ! 21 ! 55 ! ! 22 ! 61 ! ! 23 ! 89 ! ! 00 ! 35 ! ! 01 ! 47 ! ! 02 ! 30 ! ! 03 ! 86 ! ! 04 ! 21 ! ! 05 ! 21 ! ! 06 ! 95 ! ! 07 ! 78 ! ! 08 ! 118 ! ! 09 ! 86 ! ! 10 ! 87 ! ! 11 ! 130 ! ! 12 ! 142 ! ! 13 ! 232 ! ! 14 ! 167 ! ! 15 ! 166 ! ! 16 ! 121 ! ! 17 ! 130 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B7P Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,681,778 We first time run CQWW DX SSB contest in M/M. Many funs! Thanks for the QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: BA4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 775,008 This time we planned to get more new comers involved,so we've done a field day style operation.Condition was so bad,only big guns could work,but we had a lot of fun,looking forward to the next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: BG1ND Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 32,339 I think the condition very bad .and missed it some station due to very strong noise for all band not QRV on 80/160meter band .thanks for bg1fo bg1chm and my sister.working 34 hour hehe thinks lot VY 73&88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4M Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 270,048 Good Contest! Thanks to all. This yaer many Carribean - may be help add 6 meter up no my previous Vertical 30 meters hihgh? Like usually, noise+spark+local trub from electrical sparky on hotels and restoraunt. I confused that many USA station call me, but noise level time and nime was S+10 db. Congratulations to all participants with great CONTEST! It's my 50th CQWW, first was in 1957. Used my old IC-706, which gift to me by Vadim UA9CLB and home made PA 1KW output. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C50C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 29,529,080 We have a great time in Gambia. Arrived on 16th October and start to build the station for the contest. After about 36k QSO b4 the contest we enjoy another 12k QSOs in M/2 category. Thank to you guys for all QSOs and hope to see you in other contests. More info http://www.om0c.com/gambia 73 de Rich OM2TW & C50C team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6APR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,398,086 Thanks to all for the QSOs and to the many who found for us for multi-band QSOs. We more than tripled our last year's score, even with low sun spots. The rig was an IC-7000 and THP Amp. The antennas: 160m - two phased Inverted Ls; 80/40m - two phased HF2Vs verticals; Home made receiving loop for 160m/80m; 20m,15m,10m - 2 R5s verticals phased broadside to US/JA; and - 2 R5s verticals phased broadside to EU We had a backup IC-7000 and amp but never needed them. In total we transported 500 pound of rigs, antennas, and coax in a private plane for our second CQWW SSB from the site: Crooked Island Lodge,Pittstown Point, Crooked Island, Bahamas. QSOs are also good for IOTA NA-113 and ARLHS Lighthouse BAH-005. It was a nice surprise to find 10m open several times. 15m was our best band. We confirmed that verticals play very well near salt water and phased verticals play very well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,910,842 Nice Contest, thanks to all Contesters ¡ ¡ ¡ 73 CE4CT Roberto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 277,900 700 QSOs in first day. Last 6 hours was a washout with QRN storm. 160M peaked on 22 October for me. Downhill from there and throughout the contest weekend. Better luck next time. Thanks to all who worked me through the QRN on the second day. The faster you could say your call, the better it was through QRN. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 20,875,728 Finally is arrived and in a while is gone. CQWW SSB 2007 was the contest we was wait for the entire year after our first experience with the new Morocco Contest Station project we started in mid 2006. Last year CQWW SSB was our first test and we got the second place WW in the M/S category. Good result, great experience but not enough. FK5KE team was, last year and this year, our main competitor, the great French team had a lot of experience, the already optimize the French Guiana contest station in the last years with incredible results in the CQWW SSB M/S in the last 4 year ( 2003 2nd WW, 2004 3rd WW, 2005 1st WW, 2006 1st WW). After 2006 CQ WW and our 2nd place WW , we decided to be more concentrate to optimize some important aspect : operators, antennas, contest strategies. In the mean time we tested some change in the ARRL CW, ARRL SSB, WPX SSB, WPX CW during entire 2007. Last Sept. we were in Morocco again to work and prepare the station for the CQWW SSB effort and the intention was to put the new 5 el. 20Mt. monoband on a new higher tower and to work the WAE SSB, but at the end we didn’t made any qso’s……only 4 days of very hard work. With two rotators blocked, a lot of little troubles and the second fixed 3 el. 20 Mt. antenna on the ground we come back to Milan, Italy destroyed and with the moral under our foots. But….after one week, without discuss about radio, we start to built the CN3A team for the SSB. IK2SGC Matt, IK2QEI Steve, IZ2FFK Luca, YO3JR Andy, I2WIJ Roberto, IK2EAD Romeo, IK2BCP Guido and CN8WW Said. We made a great improvement on each band especially on 10mt. with 9mt. higher antenna tower respect the past, 20Mt. new 5 el. @22mt. and a fixed one at 9 mt. , 4 square verticals on 80mt. For this new 80mt. antenna we have to thanks Romeo, Guido and Roberto. They fixed all the 4 square system in 1 day with an incredible result during the contest utilizing home-brew QEI/BCP phasing antenna system. Matteo made one of his career best qso with these antennas contacting KH7X on 80m during the contest. Stefano spent 2 days fixing with Luca the broken rotators, while in the mean time Andy, Matteo with the Said support “invent” a 24+20 mt. vertical inverted L 160mt. antenna. (we lost it the second day after a big wind storm).... :-(( We start the contest tired as always but concentrated to do the best on runner station and in particular on the multipliers. At 04:00 we got a power failure covered by our new power generator, no good opening on 10Mt. band even if we got e-sporadic conditions with only some EU countries, no US and North America, after 24 hour with about 4600 qso’s we started to understand we were in a way to overachieved our 2006 result. We had a very interesting grow on 80Mt. with our great 4 square antenna we change completely our presence on the band and our ability to get more multipliers. The morning of the second day we were at the right time on 20Mt. during opening period with the JA. We made JA long path for more then 2 and half hours with great fun. After that we moved to 15 Mt. with great EU opening. We checked continuously 10 Mt. with a big effort to catch multipliers on this band and we got at the end 93 countries. KC1XX was the first US station in our log on 10Mt with VY2LI after few minutes. After the late afternoon 15Mt. band drop we move on 20Mt. to make the usual US/EU pileup. We finish the contest running US on 40mt. With more than 8500 qso’s and 659 Multiplier, we beat our 2006 claimed result with more than 1400 qso’s and about 3 M points. We registered a drop in term of multiplier respect last year. Finally we would like to thanks the participants all the over the world, all the team components, Spiros SV8CS, ARRAM Society of Morocco, Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Omar and our fellow Jim W7EJ/CN2R and CQ Amateur Radio Magazine for “The Contest” organization. And cu the next one!!! 73's to all de CN3A aka 5D5A Matt IK2SGC - Steve IK2QEI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1ENQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 220,980 After 13 years since last my CQWW, here I am. No real preparation, came late from work and cleaned the shack table for the laptop etc. My main goal, due to my conditions was to make more than 100k points. Only had a long wire, turned into dipole, antenna (30m longwire = 24/6 dipole) and an Icom 706MKIIG with 1.9kHz SSB Narrow filter. First hours only scored a few big-guns and then went to sleep (busy working week). Tried to wake up early (6/7 hours sleep) and start fresh to achieve my goal. Higher bands opened a few hours after and went from 40m to 10m, 20 meters were too crowded for a litle gun like me. Although my conditions were bad i still could manage nice mults, failed to get IM0/IK0FMB on 10m. The 15m were great, 20 and 40m was the place where chaos ruled. Must thank to the good ears from some stations that pulled me out of noise where others tried once and prefered to call cq test over and over.... Failed to get the Sunday US 10m opening, it was lunch time but my main goal was already achieved by that time. Since i've been away from contesting this was like a training exercise. Big thanks to Paulo, CT1ETE for the PS50 so that saturday afternoon I could output 100W. Highlights: .Could hear YB0ZZ but was on the same frequency of some US station. .Worked a couple of new DXCCs. .Hearing the "Thanks for Multiplier" from some stations, specially sunday night, from VE2Z, also a new mult for me on 40m(zone 2). He tried hard to get my call :) Thanks! Not so good: .Some bands too crowded! (20 and 40m) .high static noise on lower bands (80 and 160) .Stations using the same frequencies. .Extra High Power and over-modulation. Some stations took too much bandwith. Had to use the attenuator a few times. Conclusion: 557 QSOs and over 200k points was not bad for a small long wire and a radio without many filtering capabilities. Thanks all. C U on the bands. PS: Super Duper did not count 4U1WRC !?!? It gave me 0 points and no Multiplier. I think that at least 1 point it should give. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1JLZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,201,446 Thanks to all for calling. 73! Jiri, CT1JLZ / OK1RF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,213,760 I felt that conditions were really odd this year. On Sunday I could not get any stateside runs on 15 or 20 until last couple of hours of the contest. I have amazing number of EU QSO overall, even I tried to beam to NA when ever there was any propagation to that direction. 10mtrs was a disappointment also. I heard EU stations working each other but from CU the skip was quite local and it didn’t make sense to run 300 DL stations on 10 when 15m was producing some DX Q’s at the same time. There’s always room for improvement. I felt that this time I could have been using 2nd radio more efficient way. Also I’m not that satisfied with my multiplier, even it’s something like 50 mults more than year ago. Thanks to all for QSO’s and many QSY’s during the contest. Special thanks once again to my great hosts Paula (CU2DX) & José (CU2CE) and to whole Azores-Finland Friendship Consortium for great support. See ya on CW again as CU2A! 73 de Toni, OH2UA Ps. more details coming soon at www.cu2a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,491,608 First night a big thunderstorm so needed to stop, happy to sleep, hi hi... Great to find so many friends. First time in SOAB!, great to move to another bands and excelent with the topband QSO´s, instead a very big QRN!... See you in CQWW CW... 73, Jorge CX6VM QSL VIA W3HNK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 181,396 73´s Dan QSL via KA5TUF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF0HQ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 15,783,666 Congrats to the DR1A team! CUL in CQWW CW 73 Lothar, DL3TD/DF0HQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF1DX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 236,328 Murphy was here. :-( cu next month. 73 Jürgen, DF1DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH0GHU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 845,852 Rig: TT ORION, ACOM1000. - endfed wire antenna (34m), 3-8m agl, used for 160m and for 80m-RX - Doublet 2x10m for 40m-10m, Inverted-V, peak at ca. 10m - Inverted L for 80m, also used with success on 15m/10m - Wire-GP for 20m (+10m with forced matching) @Roof Condx surprised with good openings on 15m/10m, partially through Sporadic-E within and around Europe, partially through F2 propagation mainly to Africa, South America, the Carribean, and the eastern part of North America. Condx to all other regions were as bad as to be expected while being just at the bottom of the solar cycle - I hope things will improve soon. See you all in CQ WWDX CW, Uli DH0GHU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH0MA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 790,128 DH0MA (17 Yrs, Lic since 2006) and I did a small M/S. TT Orion, 8877 PA 2 Ele for 10/15/20 @ 10 meters L/4 Sloper on 40 T-Ant for 80/160 12m high. From the US, worked mostly east coast. Except for W7WA and K7RL on 20, no west coast was worked. Nice 10m opening on SUN afternoon adding a few South American Multis. Also great signals from SE Asia and Arfica. N4PN and K4ZW very strong on 40. Heard N0NI on 80 but couldnt reach him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH8BQA Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 54,740 Quite nice E-skip openings all over Europe on Saturday almost all day long with very good activity. Had a ball running virtually hundreds of Europeans with my small station (IC-7000, 100 W + 3 ele Mononband Yagi). Also had a small but very nice Caribean opening on Saturday evening providing quite a few extra mults not even dreamed of before the contest. ;-)) Also quite good South America signals on the first afternoon. Sunday saw just a few spotty ES openings, but it was rather difficult to run then. The rest of Europe seemed to be more favoured with propagation the second day than north-eastern Germany. Besides listening to VO1MP at S2 signal levels (plus a stupid 59+ EC2 station on the same frequency who had no sense concerning what was going on) the double/triple hop E-skip opening on Sunday afternoon was not usable from my location (simply no right 1st hop into the other two ES clouds). :-(( Anyway, to put it in a nutshell: had a fu..ing lot of fun! :-)) Who said 10 m was dead in sunspot minimum? Just rely on some ES and there we go ... ;-)) 73, Olli ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1OJ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 300,720 Running low power with vertical (FT-1000MP/GAP-Titan) really is a hard job. Sure will be better in CW operating EA8OM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,722,898 I could work again at DJ6QT´s station. It was very nice to run the contest from this station. It was real fun to run high rates almost all the time. A nice surprise was the last hour on 40m. Very strong signals from US and VE made it a real pleasure to work in that incredible high QRM. I planed to go QRT some hours before the end but now Im happy that I stayed on. Thanks for all who called me. Sorry for those I couldnt pick out of the QRM. Hope to see you again in the next contest. Vy73 Matt, DJ8OG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 335,808 Icom IC-746pro, Heathkit SB-200, 5-ele-tribander, dipoles, Toshiba M4, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0TUM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,633,320 CU in the CW leg! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,789,499 Nice to meet so many old friends again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 499,476 RIG: 12m long vertical + 100 W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 575,352 It was hard to run on any band for me so I did S&P most of the time. The lesson I have learned once again is that monobanders make the difference.... However, the new vertical works well on the low bands but I need to get a decent receive antenna for 160. Sorry for those which I could not hear on 160 due to the noise here in my QTH. Maik DL2AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2ARD Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 1,252,080 RIG: FT 1000MP MKV , ACOM 2000 , KT34XA + JP2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2MWB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,262,275 First entry in M/S class. IC-756 PRO III 10/15/20m SteppIr 3el 40m rotary dipole 80m 1/4 vertical 160m dipole 66m Nice openings on 10 & 15! vy 73s DL2MBW & DD1MAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL6UAA Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 3,610 YAESU FT847 + horizontal V dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL7AOS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 672,465 Only 36 hours of operating time due to time constraints, no antenna for 160m, no cluster assistance and only two operators. Had much fun anyways, conditions were better than expected, nice short skip on 10m. Thanks to Mary for the hospitality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DM7A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 108,432 TS850 / TL922 / tribander, dipoles Only QRV for the first few hours of the contest. No fun. See you in CQWW CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO1SAR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2 Hard to work the Station with a wet nail. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO9PL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 36,936 FT-897, Wires, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO9ST Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 94,956 Nice portable Contest. Only Wireantenna with Kenwood TS-480SAT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4Q Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 808,338 better conditions than expected... thanks to all callers... vy 73 Jo dq4q@df9zp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,724,650 Condx on 40 not good, but 10 was a surprise with openings on both days. Enjoyed operating in a large group with 4 hour shifts - this way, SSB - even on 40 meters - is tolerable. Looking forward for CQWW CW next month! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,137,732 Thanks for all QSOs, and also thanks for the competition to the other M/M teams. We are a little bit proud to act as some kind of reference: we know that numerous stations are monitoring our Realtime Online Score on our website http://www.dr1a.com all 48 hours (!) to get an idea of how we are doing... :-) That's fine. Only from time to time we would wish to see how our competition is doing, too. Like in a horse race where every jockey can see his peers. Maybe we can encourage our serious competitors to let us know how they are doing - by telling us on the band, signing our guestbook or sending an E-Mail with the actual band-by-band breakdown every few hours... ;-) We'll hope and see. See you soon in the CW contest ! 73 from the DR1A Team Ben DL6FBL (I will be SOAB HP from SV9CVY in CW...) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DV1JM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 289,760 start late due some commitment but able to work as many as i could. not as good as last year but the fun is stiil the same. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E21EIC Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 322,872 Band Very Noisy !! Thanks E21YDP and HS0EHF. CU in CQ WW CW from Zone:26 73, Champ, E21EIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E7/DK6XZ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 891,440 CLUB : BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA CONTEST CLUB ( BHCC ) NAME : Suad Zukic, DK6XZ ADDRESS : Gymnasiumstr. 104 75175 Pforzheim LOCATION : SMETOVI, NEAR THE CITY OF ZENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Band QSOs Points Multiplier ----------------------------------------- 21 2626 5065 139 + 37 ----------------------------------------- TOTAL 2626 5065 139 + 37 SCORE : 891440 =================== Remarks: It was a great time - after more than 18 years! I enjoyed fully the 38 hours of contest activity. Thank you all for the contacts and your pation. My special thanks to Danny, T93M who have repaired our old clubs linear amplifier just days before the contest and have supported me generally at my contest revival. I thank also to my Radio Club, T91EZC, allowing me to use our contest location on the mountine Smetovi. I became also greatest support by the guys of the BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA CONTEST CLUB, who have giving me usiful advises for the contest ( T93J, T99W, T93Y, T94CT, T90T etc. ). Thank you all! Something about E7 prefix: Due to the fact, that my BH-License with callsign T94XZ have expired 3 years ago - and respectively the discussion in the contestmen circles about E7 prefix - I requested the country COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AGENCY - CRA ( www.rak.ba ) for an advise: The responsible officer concluded and confirmed to me, that the only legal way for my amateur radio activity from Bosnia and Herzegovina could be using the German licensed callsign with by ITU dedicated country pefix E7!! So I did it that way... This made a bit troubles for a number of logging software and forced me to explane during contest, "what" and "who" is E7. It was sometimes a hard job to call stations: much of repeating and explaning was needed. But sorry for losed time of some of you as well... Interesting: The highlight for me was successful call to 8P5A to the end of the contest: I screamed E7..E7..E7... in the middle of his US-pile-up - as he finaly recognized me asking "who is E7?" and turned his antenna to Europe - to be my new multiplier. I was waiting for him since last night, as he was booming at first, to "disappeare" second later by turning his ant. system to NA and starting there an extreme pile-up. I tought, no chance to work him any more... Many of interesting countries came on my CQ frequency and "gave me multis" - thank you very much for that. About location and equipment: Contest location: SMETOVI by Radio Club Zenica, T91EZC ( ~ 1.020 m ASL ) Antenna: X7 by CUSHCRAFT, 7 EL Tribander @30m ( sponsored by T93M - tnx ) Transceiver: YAESU FT-1000 MP ( INRAD filter 1,8 KHz ) Headset: HEIL PRO-SET 4 Amplifier: KENWOOD TL922 ( output ~ 700 W PEP ) Computer: TOSHIBA Satellite PIII 1GHz ( WIN XP ) Logging software: UCXLog by DL7UCX The contest location and the antenna were proven matter. Both worked properly. First day, nice sunny weather - the rest of the snow desappears slowely. Next day foggy and colder ( but I was able to see all of that only for some minutes ). I was disappointed to realize saturday morning that the switching from TX to RX works not preperly. I actualy did not have ears in first seconds and was able to copy only sigs coming to me with over S-7. Later I found out "technic" to solve the problem by pressing the brake button on the rotator!!! That made -trough some induction - the sensitivity of the receiver comes back. It was funny needing to do it a couple of hundrets of times druing the contest. Many of worthy time was losed that way and several weak ( especialy JA ) signals gone probably away. On the first day the amplifier switched 4 times to stand-by ( in order to cool down abt. 20 minutes !! ). That happened again and again - in the middle of NA pile-up! I losed that way my nerves completely ( working rithm and frequencies as well ). No problems any more, since I have started to drive the PA with only 60 - 80 W. That was the story. Do hope to see you in CW. Hopefuly my FT-1000 MP is coming back from its reparation at the right time. Best 73´s and thanks to the contest organizers Suad, DK6XZ PS: I would appreciate very much any comment regarding my signal during the contest ( resp. some records )... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1DDO Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 150,000 Yaesu FT Dx-9000 Contest Acom 2000A Sennheiser HMD-280-Pro Home made dipole on the balcony... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3EYO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 85,608 Second year in this contest ( first year 14.700 ponts) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,700,000 I need some improvement on 160 meters. 73 de Julio EA4KR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5AER Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 42,750 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest Callsign : EA5AER Mode : PHONE Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 40 m Class : Low Power (LP) Zone/State/... : 14 Locator : JM08BU Operating time : 15h32 BAND QSO CQ DXC DUP POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 40 352 15 75 4 475 1.35 20 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 15 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 -------------------------------------- TOTAL 352 15 75 4 475 1.35 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 42 750 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,984,878 Becase last minute family duties, I can't be at AM3SSB MS with my friends and I apologize them for that. I can be on only 24 hours, but I enjoy the bands conditions: 10m was a big surprise with the nice EU sporadic, 15m wide open to NA the sunday afternoon. I find 20m less crowed that the past contests and 40m... well, impossible, but I'm sure that in the near future I will remember this split operation on this band. Thanks very much for the calls and ear me. 73 de Jose. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,193,840 Overall competition in general. As always thank my good friend George EA7HZ the great assistance provided to me by making the point season for competitions. Bad conditions in 10m two days. In 15m and 20m good condition especially Saturday. On Sunday, a few stations NA except the most potent. In 40m, 80m and 160m lot of static noise due to storms. Thank you all for the contact. See you next contest. 73` de EA7RU Cris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7TN Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 372,446 I love CW ! TS-2000 (90W) Spiderbeam tribander @ 18m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 847,448 2 wire yagis (3el), 3 beverages, Yaesu-radios, AL-amplifiers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8BEX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,359,408 Transceiver: FT2000 Antenna: Vertical 10 to 80 m, 110 m high and 2 miles from sea. Software: N1MM Logger Interface: MicroHam mk2r ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA9LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,153,409 Unfortunately I cannot finish contest, I've got cold, the headaech was horrible and I cannot support one second more actived during the contest. Propagation was better than last year but I cannot give a full opinion, but okay, will see what happened in WPXssb. One more time thank's to everyone call me. 73 ea9lz Jorge ea9lz@hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EB4HCI Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 147 ¡Hello!. My first CQWWDX SSB.My Score is very poor,but to have a good time. My working conditions: TX: YAESU FT-817 + 40W ANT: Dipolo tagra DDK-20 73,S and good DX. EB4HCI Segismundo Doñate Vaquero Spain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ED5ON/6 Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 48,894 My first time in EA6, first time on SOSB 80. Did not make my expected goal but had great fun anyway. A full writeup will follow in due course. Thanks to all for your patience in pulling me out of the noise. 73 de Duncan ED5ON/6 (EA5ON) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE2W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,828,913 Antennas: - Explorer 14 Tribander. - TH3 Tribander. - Dipole 40m. (EA5BRE). - Fullsize Vertical 80m. - Shorted Vertical 160m. Thank you for all the QSOs. See you on the CW part. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI4HQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 55,918 FT-2000. 160m: Inverted L & K9AY, 40m: GP, 20m: GP Mediocre conditions but good fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,197,097 After sveral years with no major problems, we had several this year which certainly impacted on the final score. The main problem was a couple of hours in the rotator for the 40m beam and the mult stations tri-bander failed, thankfully it failed pointing at NA which at least was a usefull direction. Conditions were down on last year with nowhere near as good a propagation. 10m score down and didn't get the SP-E propagation to NA which others have reported. 80m very good on Saturday night with long NA runs and 40m in good shape as well. JA's hard to find this year with no substantial runs. We were in general pleased with the result this year considering the problems we had, Q's are up on last year but mults down which was not surprising being not able to turn the antennas, but the overall score was up. Thanks to all that called us and hopefully we will be on for the CW leg depending if we can get enough operators. Neil EI3JE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EK0B Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,017,696 Great test and big step ahead from us next year should be really much much better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ER0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,204,346 Nice opening on 15,unfortunatly,lost last 4!!! hours. Anyway,nice to hear a lots of friends. CU in CW part,Serge UT5UDX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES375UT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 557,024 Limited operation time!Very funny call and interesting heard how good ears has operators.Joke was: one operator says "You have very long call and sorry i not copy You"!? Best rate was on 10m at 8z =143QSOs See all on CW part! 73!Tom ES5RY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5MC Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 163,718 Rig: TS-850 + PA (GU43) Ant: wire vertical, dipole, 1 beverage 200m long @240 deg Was willing to make better than an old ES best score on 80m SSB - and luckily succeeded. The plans to improve significantly my antenna set-up for 80 did not come to reality and a 4SQ would probably be the next year's project. As the propagation was also rather lousy, then most of the QSO-s were made with Europe, accompaning with single DX-s from other continents. No chance to have anybody coming back on my cq from the US or Japan... (so, e.g. 9 US and 4 Japanese stations in my log only :) And also - evidently, contesting has become a "festival of serious tubes", a GU-43 level is history... CU around! Arvo, ES5MC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,942,199 It was the easiest full 48 hours I have done I guess, no problems to stay up with the help of ca 5 cans of energy drink. No food for 3 days and lost ca 5 kilos:) Propagation was terrible towards NA and JA. I am very amazed to have so many QSOs but luckily EU helped out. I have only 500 US contacts on all bands together!! Can it be any worse than that? Most of the 450 US on 20m came during midnight opening that I have never had before. Pretty unusual to end the contest with 110 QSOs in the last 30 minutes!:) That surely helped to keep the eyes open. Just ca 100 JA on 20m and only 1 strange LP QSO to JA on 15m! Was aiming for 40 zones on 20m but missed CE. Tried to QSY CE4CT from 15m but no propagation. Big thanks to Ramon, XE1KK for giving me double mult in the last hour from 6F75A! The new 45m rotating tower with Optibeam antennas installed in autumn really gave me more flexibility in choosing antennas and helped a lot, especially 3 el yagi on 80m that usually beats 4 Square noticably. Antennas used were: 160m: full size 4 Square and wire vertical 80m: full size 4 Square and 3 el yagi at 36m 40m: 2 stacks of 3 over 3, both at 42/22m 10-20: stack of 4 JP2000 tribanders (3 el 20, 3 el 15, 4 el 10) on 45m tower and another stack of 3 tribanders at 34m tower. 20: 5 over 5 at 42/22m 15: 5 over 5 at 29/15m 10: 6 over 6 at 26/19m Unfortunately my 2nd Radio amplifier ACOM 2000A developed a relay problem and kept triggering protection saying relay open or sth and that meant I could not go on transmit sometimes. I lost a few mults because of that. Still ca 550 2nd Radio QSOs. ES5TV - Continents By band - SSB QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 92.0% ! 0.6% ! 0.4% ! 1.4% ! 5.6% ! ! ! 80 ! 88.2% ! 2.7% ! 1.2% ! 1.7% ! 5.8% ! 0.5% ! ! 40 ! 80.8% ! 4.1% ! 4.3% ! 1.6% ! 7.1% ! 2.2% ! ! 20 ! 54.3% ! 25.3% ! 1.3% ! 1.8% ! 13.8% ! 3.5% ! ! 15 ! 86.3% ! 1.6% ! 4.3% ! 3.5% ! 3.4% ! 0.9% ! ! 10 ! 92.1% ! ! ! 6.3% ! 1.6% ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! 18 ! 67 ! ! ! ! 85 ! ! 01 ! ! 24 ! 92 ! ! ! ! 116 ! ! 02 ! 1 ! 63 ! 38 ! ! ! ! 102 ! ! 03 ! 38 ! 135 ! ! ! ! ! 173 ! ! 04 ! 21 ! 98 ! ! ! ! ! 119 ! ! 05 ! 4 ! 90 ! 31 ! ! ! ! 125 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 124 ! 53 ! ! ! 177 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 152 ! 4 ! ! 156 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 226 ! 12 ! ! 238 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 87 ! 107 ! 16 ! 210 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! ! 151 ! 34 ! 185 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 27 ! 35 ! 51 ! 113 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 142 ! 6 ! ! 148 ! ! 13 ! ! ! 5 ! 79 ! 4 ! 2 ! 90 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 2 ! 83 ! 10 ! 4 ! 99 ! ! 15 ! ! 13 ! 123 ! ! ! ! 136 ! ! 16 ! 70 ! 54 ! ! 12 ! ! ! 136 ! ! 17 ! 105 ! 1 ! 10 ! 4 ! ! ! 120 ! ! 18 ! 36 ! 14 ! 4 ! 42 ! ! ! 96 ! ! 19 ! 1 ! 3 ! 109 ! 12 ! ! ! 125 ! ! 20 ! 10 ! ! 96 ! ! ! ! 106 ! ! 21 ! 1 ! 3 ! 95 ! 3 ! ! ! 102 ! ! 22 ! ! ! 25 ! 162 ! ! ! 187 ! ! 23 ! 3 ! 2 ! 24 ! 66 ! ! ! 95 ! ! 00 ! ! 9 ! 65 ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 01 ! 28 ! 20 ! 2 ! ! ! ! 50 ! ! 02 ! 1 ! 5 ! 70 ! ! ! ! 76 ! ! 03 ! 5 ! 2 ! 53 ! ! ! ! 60 ! ! 04 ! 86 ! ! 6 ! 4 ! ! ! 96 ! ! 05 ! 17 ! 5 ! 1 ! 40 ! 2 ! ! 65 ! ! 06 ! ! ! ! 109 ! 6 ! ! 115 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 14 ! 132 ! ! 146 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 164 ! 1 ! 171 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 79 ! 59 ! 139 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 110 ! 1 ! 18 ! 129 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 136 ! ! 1 ! 137 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 96 ! ! 5 ! 101 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 150 ! ! 157 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 4 ! 90 ! ! 94 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 142 ! ! 148 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 38 ! 59 ! ! 97 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 11 ! 92 ! ! ! 103 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 95 ! ! ! ! 95 ! ! 19 ! ! 101 ! ! ! ! ! 101 ! ! 20 ! 74 ! ! ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 21 ! ! ! 54 ! 4 ! ! ! 58 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! 67 ! ! ! 67 ! ! 23 ! ! ! ! 161 ! ! ! 161 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 501 ! 660 ! 1202 ! 2045 ! 1154 ! 191 ! 5753 ! Worked DXCC DXCC | CT | 160 | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL ============================================================= 1A | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 1S | AS | | | | | | | 3A | EU | | | 1 | | | | 1 3B6 | AF | | | | | | | 3B8 | AF | | | | | | | 3B9 | AF | | | | | | | 3C | AF | | | | | | | 3C0 | AF | | | | | | | 3D2 | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/c | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/r | OC | | | | | | | 3DA | AF | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 3V | AF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 3W | AS | | | | | | | 3X | AF | | | | | | | 3Y/b | AF | | | | | | | 3Y/p | SA | | | | | | | 4J | AS | | | 1 | | | | 1 4L | AS | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | 3 4O | EU | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 4S | AS | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 4U1I | EU | | | | | | | 4U1U | NA | | | | | | | 4U1V | EU | | | | | | | 4W | OC | | | | | | | 4X | AS | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | | 19 5A | AF | | | | | | | 5B | AS | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | | 13 5H | AF | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 5N | AF | | | | | | | 5R | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 5T | AF | | | | | | | 5U | AF | | | | | | | 5V | AF | | | | | | | 5W | OC | | | | | | | 5X | AF | | | | | | | 5Z | AF | | | | | | | 6W | AF | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 3 6Y | NA | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 7O | AS | | | | | | | 7P | AF | | | | | | | 7Q | AF | | | | | | | 7X | AF | | | | | | | 8P | NA | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 8Q | AS | | | | | | | 8R | SA | | | | | | | 9A | EU | 5 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 64 9G | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 9H | EU | | | | | | | 9J | AF | | | | | | | 9K | AS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 9L | AF | | | | | | | 9M2 | AS | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | | 5 9M6 | OC | | | 3 | 1 | 1 | | 5 9N | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 9Q | AF | | | | | | | 9U | AF | | | | | | | 9V | AS | | | 1 | 3 | | | 4 9X | AF | | | | | | | 9Y | SA | | | | | | | A2 | AF | | | | | | | A3 | OC | | | | | | | A4 | AS | | | | 2 | | | 2 A5 | AS | | | | | | | A6 | AS | | | | 2 | 3 | | 5 A7 | AS | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 A9 | AS | | | | | | | AP | AS | | | | | | | BS7 | AS | | | | | | | BV | AS | | | 1 | | | | 1 BV9P | AS | | | | | | | BY | AS | | 1 | 7 | 23 | | | 31 C2 | OC | | | | | | | C3 | EU | | 1 | | | | | 1 C5 | AF | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 C6 | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 C9 | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 CE | SA | | | 3 | | 2 | | 5 CE0X | SA | | | | | | | CE0Y | SA | | | | | | | CE0Z | SA | | | | | | | CE9 | SA | | | | | | | CM | NA | | | | | | | CN | AF | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | | 12 CP | SA | | | | | | | CT | EU | 1 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 11 | | 37 CT3 | AF | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 CU | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 6 CX | SA | | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | | 12 CY0 | NA | | | | | | | CY9 | NA | | | | | | | D2 | AF | | | | | | | D4 | AF | | | | | | | D6 | AF | | | | | | | DL | EU | 80 | 76 | 153 | 209 | 323 | 17 | 858 DU | OC | | | 3 | 7 | | | 10 E3 | AF | | | | | | | E4 | AS | | | | | | | E5/n | OC | | | | | | | E5/s | OC | | | | | | | E7 | EU | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 20 EA | EU | 3 | 15 | 60 | 74 | 85 | 1 | 238 EA6 | EU | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | | 12 EA8 | AF | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | | 21 EA9 | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 5 EI | EU | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 EK | AS | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 2 | | 6 EL | AF | | | | | | | EP | AS | | | | | | | ER | EU | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 ES | EU | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 19 ET | AF | | | | | | | EU | EU | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | | | 26 EX | AS | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 4 EY | AS | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 EZ | AS | | | | | | | F | EU | 11 | 23 | 39 | 53 | 30 | 6 | 162 FG | NA | | | | | | | FH | AF | | | | | | | FJ | NA | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 3 FK | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 FK/c | OC | | | | | | | FM | NA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 4 FO | OC | | | | | | | FO/a | OC | | | | | | | FO/c | NA | | | | | | | FO/m | OC | | | | | | | FP | NA | | | | | | | FR | AF | | | | | | | FR/g | AF | | | | | | | FR/j | AF | | | | | | | FR/t | AF | | | | | | | FT5W | AF | | | | | | | FT5X | AF | | | | | | | FT5Z | AF | | | | | | | FW | OC | | | | | | | FY | SA | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 4 G | EU | 19 | 28 | 35 | 51 | 21 | 17 | 171 GD | EU | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 GI | EU | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | | 16 GJ | EU | | | | | | | GM | EU | 3 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 32 GM/s | EU | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 GU | EU | | 1 | 2 | | | | 3 GW | EU | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 H4 | OC | | | | | | | H40 | OC | | | | | | | HA | EU | 3 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 57 HB | EU | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 39 HB0 | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 5 HC | SA | | | | 2 | | | 2 HC8 | SA | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 HH | NA | | | | | | | HI | NA | | | | 1 | 2 | | 3 HK | SA | | 1 | 1 | 3 | | | 5 HK0/a | NA | | | | | | | HK0/m | SA | | | | | | | HL | AS | | | | 5 | | | 5 HM | AS | | | | | | | HP | NA | | | | 2 | | | 2 HR | NA | | | | | | | HS | AS | | | 1 | 7 | 2 | | 10 HV | EU | | | | 1 | | | 1 HZ | AS | | | 3 | 2 | 1 | | 6 I | EU | 23 | 22 | 105 | 106 | 91 | 25 | 372 IG9 | AF | | | | 1 | | | 1 IS | EU | | | 1 | 5 | 7 | | 13 IT9 | EU | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 34 J2 | AF | | | | | | | J3 | NA | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 J5 | AF | | | | | | | J6 | NA | | | | | | | J7 | NA | | | | | | | J8 | NA | | | | | 1 | | 1 JA | AS | | 1 | 7 | 108 | 1 | | 117 JD/m | OC | | | | | | | JD/o | AS | | | | | | | JT | AS | | | | | | | JW | EU | | | | 1 | | | 1 JW/b | EU | | | | | | | JX | EU | | | | | | | JY | AS | | | | | | | K | NA | | 11 | 32 | 457 | 5 | | 505 KG4 | NA | | | | | | | KH0 | OC | | | | | | | KH1 | OC | | | | | | | KH2 | OC | | | | 3 | | | 3 KH3 | OC | | | | | | | KH4 | OC | | | | | | | KH5 | OC | | | | | | | KH5K | OC | | | | | | | KH6 | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 KH7K | OC | | | | | | | KH8 | OC | | | | | | | KH8/s | OC | | | | | | | KH9 | OC | | | | | | | KL | NA | | | | 6 | | | 6 KP1 | NA | | | | | | | KP2 | NA | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 5 KP4 | NA | | 1 | 2 | 2 | | | 5 KP5 | NA | | | | | | | LA | EU | 6 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 3 | | 35 LU | SA | | 1 | 11 | 7 | 15 | | 34 LX | EU | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 LY | EU | 15 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 39 LZ | EU | 6 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 46 OA | SA | | | | | | | OD | AS | | | | | | | OE | EU | 3 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 28 | 2 | 67 OH | EU | 30 | 20 | 6 | 24 | 13 | 3 | 96 OH0 | EU | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | | 4 OJ0 | EU | | | | | | | OK | EU | 26 | 34 | 54 | 50 | 51 | 2 | 217 OM | EU | 8 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 67 ON | EU | 6 | 11 | 15 | 27 | 28 | 3 | 90 OX | NA | | | | | | | OY | EU | | | | | | | OZ | EU | 3 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 2 | | 44 P2 | OC | | | | | | | P4 | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 PA | EU | 8 | 14 | 25 | 43 | 41 | 4 | 135 PJ2 | SA | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 6 PJ7 | NA | | | | | | | PY | SA | 1 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 24 | | 59 PY0F | SA | | | | | | | PY0S | SA | | | | | | | PY0T | SA | | | | | | | PZ | SA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 R1FJ | EU | | | | | | | R1MV | EU | | | | | | | S0 | AF | | | | | | | S2 | AS | | | | | | | S5 | EU | 11 | 10 | 24 | 18 | 27 | 7 | 97 S7 | AF | | | | | | | S9 | AF | | | | | | | SM | EU | 10 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 54 SP | EU | 31 | 31 | 69 | 50 | 16 | | 197 ST | AF | | | | | | 1 | 1 SU | AF | | | | 1 | 2 | | 3 SV | EU | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 38 SV/a | EU | | | | | | | SV5 | EU | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 SV9 | EU | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 | | 7 T2 | OC | | | | | | | T30 | OC | | | | | | | T31 | OC | | | | | | | T32 | OC | | | | | | | T33 | OC | | | | | | | T5 | AF | | | | | | | T7 | EU | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 T8 | OC | | | | | | | TA | AS | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 TA1 | EU | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 TF | EU | | | | 2 | | | 2 TG | NA | | | | | | | TI | NA | | 1 | | | | | 1 TI9 | NA | | | | | | | TJ | AF | | | | | | | TK | EU | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 TL | AF | | | | | | | TN | AF | | | | | | | TR | AF | | | | 1 | | | 1 TT | AF | | | | 1 | | | 1 TU | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 TY | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 TZ | AF | | | | | | | UA | EU | 58 | 83 | 110 | 85 | 23 | 9 | 368 UA2 | EU | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 UA9 | AS | 18 | 21 | 35 | 93 | 3 | | 170 UK | AS | 1 | | | | | | 1 UN | AS | | 3 | 2 | 8 | | | 13 UR | EU | 26 | 40 | 44 | 43 | 27 | 7 | 187 V2 | NA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 V3 | NA | | | | | | | V4 | NA | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 V5 | AF | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 V6 | OC | | | | | | | V7 | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 V8 | OC | | | 1 | 2 | | | 3 VE | NA | 1 | 1 | 4 | 39 | 5 | | 50 VK | OC | | 3 | 12 | 31 | 2 | | 48 VK0H | AF | | | | | | | VK0M | OC | | | | | | | VK9C | OC | | | | | | | VK9L | OC | | | | | | | VK9M | OC | | | | | | | VK9N | OC | | | | | | | VK9W | OC | | | | | | | VK9X | OC | | | | | | | VP2E | NA | | | | | | | VP2M | NA | | | | | | | VP2V | NA | | | | | | | VP5 | NA | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 5 VP6 | OC | | | | | | | VP6/d | OC | | | | | | | VP8 | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 VP8/g | SA | | | | | | | VP8/h | SA | | | | | | | VP8/o | SA | | | | | | | VP8/s | SA | | | | | | | VP9 | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 VQ9 | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 VR | AS | | 1 | 3 | 2 | | | 6 VU | AS | | | 5 | 6 | 8 | | 19 VU4 | AS | | | | | | | VU7 | AS | | | | | | | XE | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 XF4 | NA | | | | | | | XT | AF | | | | | | | XU | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 XW | AS | | | | 2 | | | 2 XX9 | AS | | | | | | | XZ | AS | | | | | | | YA | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 YB | OC | | | 3 | 14 | 7 | | 24 YI | AS | | | | | | | YJ | OC | | | | | | | YK | AS | | | | | | | YL | EU | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 29 YN | NA | | | | | | | YO | EU | 10 | 10 | 24 | 22 | 32 | 17 | 115 YS | NA | | | | | | | YU | EU | 3 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 70 YV | SA | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 5 YV0 | NA | | | | | | | Z2 | AF | | | | | | | Z3 | EU | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 ZA | EU | | | | | | | ZB | EU | | | | | | | ZC4 | AS | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZD7 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZD8 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZD9 | AF | | | | | | | ZF | NA | | | | | | | ZK2 | OC | | | | | | | ZK3 | OC | | | | | | | ZL | OC | | | 4 | 9 | | | 13 ZL7 | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 ZL8 | OC | | | | | | | ZL9 | OC | | | | | | | ZP | SA | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZS | AF | | | 1 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 27 ZS8 | AF | | | | | | | ============================================================= | | 501 | 659 | 1201 | 2044 | 1154 | 191 | 5750 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com CU in CW 73 Tonno ES5TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 286,520 IC775DSP + Acom 2000A Bi-Square Weast-East @ 55 m tower Bi-Square North-South @ 55 m tower 3 el Delta Loop to EU between two 28 m towers 4 Beverage antennas Everything worked great and no Murphy visits. Only problem is too much noise on BV to Pacific cost me few mults. Nice experience! Main problem to keep CQ freq. Instantly somebody from EU comes on. QRM inside EU are too high and to keep frequency you need to produce realy strong signal. Overal goal was to set Zone 17 record as my QTH is deep in continent and not really competitive on Low Band contesting. Great condition second morning to Carribean. Signals were so strong that it was easy to hunt. Prop did not open to EU from Carribean and my signal was quite competitive. Missed V4 mult from Carribean. Second night was dissapointing. Band was noisy and no real good signals even from big guns. No NA signals at all. Loudest signals: NA-WE3C EU-RU6LA SA-HK6K AS-UA9PC AF-TS6A OC-KH7B and KH7X. Quite a few outstanding Mults came to my CQ. I will put some expanded results, audio, photos and statistics shortly on my WEB. Now looking for audio recording of my signal to put audio of qso's from both points. Please contact me directly if you have it. CU in CQ WW CW! 73, Nodir EY8MM www.ey8mm.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4BKV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,670,886 As usual, great fun in this contest, and i enjoy for the first time a 'real' antenna on 160m (a 168m loop wire), that is also working fine on 80/40m. Others antennas this year are a dual-band dipole for 80/40m and a Yagi KT34 for 20/15/10m, Rig is a FT1000MP and second rig for SO2R is FT897 connected to a multiband dipole. Still have to improve my home made interface for SO2R but i'm happy with my multi score at least (i still have to improve the strategy of EU-QSO vs DX-QSO ...). Till next year !! Vincent F4BKV http://www.f4bkv.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4FDA Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 41,600 FT 920 :100w antenna vert mono 10M still playing with my small conditions, but i had lot of fun. see you in next contest. David ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4FLQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,003,472 Tnx for all QSO's it's my first cqwwdx contest. See you next. Best 73's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 136,521 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5LCU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 132,192 Nice contest on 15M. nothing on 10M, the zoo on 40m in Europe (usefull RF gain knob set to minimum HI). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 58,480 Hi, using FT1kMPmarkV fiel, 100w,Heil HC4, G5RV & Vertical 1/4 7mhz. Made only 8hours because of family visiting.........hi and my objectif was to made new-one/band/mode. and I did. extra conditions on 10m with my best dx LT1F on my g5rv real 59, also HA8.. 59+50. also 15m good opennings to SA with 59+10 with PY stations. just regrates with some stations heard but to weak or to much people calling like P4,VP2,HC8...... but a few new one: 3DA0,4U1. see you on cw F8CRS david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM/K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,112,679 Another great CQWW event!! Decent condx and great activity. Added a new DX Engineering noise cancelling box to the mix which made it possible to work through the local QRN on the low bands. Thanks once again to Laurent, FM5BH for providing a great station and great hospitality! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FS/K1XM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,025,332 Station: TS-2000, Alpha 78 Antennas: Tennadyne Log, 40 dipole, 80 and 160 inverted vees Special thanks to Mort, W1UQ/PJ7UQ/FS5UQ and his family for the use of the station, equipment, place to stay, and their help overall. This wasn't intended to be a very serious operation, which is good because a few things went wrong. Among them: 3. The Alpha 78 had a fried bandswitch section. I jumpered it and could use it in manual tune mode on 160-15. It wouldn't tune on 10 (too much capacitance). I had an Alpha 374 that would run on 10 meters but when I turned it on it tripped the main breaker for the building. Note that it did not blow the fuses or trip the breaker for the circuit. The problem is that this is a commercial installation and the main breaker has ground fault protection. The 374 has a 120 volt fan and the fan is wired between one leg of the power and the neutral. This caused the amp to draw current on the neutral wire and the breaker shut down the building. 2. I had to put up the 40 meter antenna Friday morning in the rain. My original antenna plan proved too dangerous due to the weather so I built and installed a dipole. I started the contest wiped out. 1. The beam was facing the wrong way (West, I think) for most of the weekend. Sunday morning I was missing such rare mults as HA, SP, and UR on 20. After the rain stopped I got it aimed at Europe and left it there. 0. It was a phone contest. For the CQ WW CW I'll be on as 6V7D, probably SOAB QRP. See you all then! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5KE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 19,922,175 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com It still was a very hard job to set up the station and beverages (high temp and high humidity). We have set up a 4-square on 40m this year in addition to the existing 20-m high 2el yagi, hoping that it could help us improving our score on that band. This new antenna was made using 4 Dx-Wire fiberglass masts and a home made Collins hybrid phasing system (F1HAR, F5HRY). The dummy load was built with a 50-ohm non-inductive resistor designed to support 1kW when immersed into an oil bath. Unfortunately, we didn't find any non-conductive oil in Kourou and we tried to substitute it with some Demineralised Water. SWR was not perfect on 40 but it was just enough to do the job! This new antenna enabled us to increase worked Q and DXCC, compared to 2006. As usual, we installed 6 beverage receiving antennas which worked as great, as expected. The lowest point is actually to being able to localize the ground rods because of the dense vegetation which covers them now. In addition, the tropical rains caused a driving in the ground of the rods. Despite of the help of a GPS, it is necessary to clean out the area where the rod is supposed to be with a machete, and to carefully look around for something which could be the ground rod! In spite of lots of efforts in filtering (RX and TX filters, stubs), we suffered some inter-band interferences which handicaped the runners in their labor. It was necessary to be attentive to the band openings, especially for the very capricious 10. The main band was 15, on which we achieved third of the total Q and the best rates (6 hrs over 250 Q/hr). We finally achieved more Q, but less mults, than 2006. The overall claimed score is a bit lower than last year, and is under the amazing score of CN3A! Congrats, guys! Thanks everybody for calls and points, and CU next year! 73 from all the FY5KE contest team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 621,120 Friday : Erected a 3-el 20m yagi on a crank-up at 80ft at Devon QTH. Started off at 02z on the Saturday. Surprised to hear some short-skip to Europe at this time as well as the usual assortment of weak South Americans. Stayed working on 20m throughout much of Saturday up to 23z, by which time 20m was all but washed out. But also took a few lengthy rest breaks during the day, particularly when the wall-to-wall noise on 20m (with all those splattery signals -- mine probably included!) became just too much to bear in the headphones. Presumably the new world of DVK (of which I am now an avid devotee!) and the associated sound-cards are as much to blame for the splattery QRM as the more traditional flat-topping of severely over-driven linears? After about four hours sleep, Sunday started at 05z, by which time 20m was already quite lively. Stuck at it through to about 22z, but again with several breaks during the day in order to give my head an occasional rest! Propagation was patchy. JAs were all but unworkable on the Saturday, whereas a dozen or so appeared in the log on Sunday. It was quite the opposite with the West Coast. A good handful of W6/W7 were worked on the Saturday, admittedly with mostly quite weak and fluttery signals but hardly any W6/W7 were worked on the Sunday. Luckily just one KL7 and one KH6 made it into the log to save the day for Zones 01 and 31. Missing Zones were 19 (none of several UA0's worked was sufficently far East), 23 (JU1F hrd but not wrked), 29 (never hrd a VK6), 36, 37 and 39 (looked for VQ9X, but never found). Station : FT-1k MP MkV, Acom 2000 amp, 3el-yagi at 80ft, Win-Test (magic!). A microHAM was used for the DVK. Ian G3WVG saved the day. Without Ian's help I would have never been able to set up the DVK etc. But once set, it worked fine. 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 19,458 My father, Bill, (G4EHT) put a 1/4 wave wire for 40M up last week and invited me to test his 'fishing pole' antenna. And when the XYL said go and play radio, you never question her judgement. Phone isn't my cup of tea generally, so I viewed it as a chance to casually work a few entities on SSB. Conditions seemed average - but better than I expected, as on the Friday I thought it could be an unmitigated disaster working 40M phone low power. Besides, I haven't got a 2.0 kHz narrow SSB filter in the transceiver! Fortunately I surpassed my expectations and Searched & Pounced to 58 countries from 11 zones. I heard more though, VK7GK (Z30) was booming at Saturday breakfast but couldn't crack his pile. ZS9X (Z38) was borderline both evenings but unruly rabble so never bothered. V47KP (Z08) was good each night but always a big pile-up. HC2AQ (Z10) was consistently strong and largely in the clear just below 7200 kHz but I figured he had high QRN/QRM. ZY7C (Z11) could not hear me either. Only North American beyond the east coast was W9RE who was genuinely strong but couldn't hear my puny 100W. On CW it would have been a VERY different story with most of the above! Whilst not generally considered DX, Guernsey and Shetland were unexpected bonuses. Thanks Colin, FAL. Murphy visited twice; Dad showed me the his heath-robinson feed arrangement and the feeder went open circuit when we returned to the shack. Later, I somehow managed to over-write a previous QSO. I knew it was a Mult as the country total had decreased by 1. By a process of elimination - manually recalling which countries I thought I'd worked I found 9Y4W had been overwritten. And yes, I hadn't turned the automatic backup feature on! Lesson learned. Roll on next month for THE contest mode! 73 Dez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,400,868 SO2R with FT1000MP and IC735. First time with rig control and antenna switching working on both radios. Win-Test worked a treat but swapping with Ctrl-S was a bit scary at times! Antennas: 160m shunt fed tower 80m delta loop 40m 4-square 20m 4el up 73ft, delta loop 15m 4el up 83ft 10m 4el up 78ft K9AY receive antenna for 160 & 80 Really hard work in the low power section - on 20m in particular it was impossible to find and hold a run frequency, so just about all the QSOs were S+P. Things were much easier on 15 and 10m. Didn't get C50C on 40m. He was listening on 7.270 and seemed to be working a number of Europeans! Dave G4BUO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FAL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 531,257 Great bonus to have 15m in such good shape and plenty of local Qs on 10m too. I have recently put up a dipole for 160m and this was a bit disappointing - mostly heating the clouds I guess. I tried using SO2R and on the few occasions that I managed to hold a run frequency, I did manage to have a handful of Qs on another band - and even if it doesn't improve my score it at least it kept me awake! 73 and thanks to all for the contacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 236,592 IC756ProIII; MFJ993 auto-tuner; 30m inverted V doublet at 10m; half wave 12m sloping dipole, top end at 10m. Great conditions on the higher bands. 15 was something like its old self. Greatest pleasure was 10m which was open for some time on both days, particularly Saturday. As you can see from the QSO totals, I concentrated on the two higher bands to take advantage of the conditions. Mainly S&P, but some useful runs into EU on 10m as well. Highlight (and shock!) of the weekend was being called and and worked by B4B in Zone 24 on 10m whilst otherwise working a run of EUs on the sloping dipole. Simple station as usual but amazing what some good conditions can bring with a bit of patience through the wall of noise. Just keep calling and calling and if that doesn't work call again! As ever, pleased to give points to the serious entrants and hope you all do well. Hope also that conditions stay up for the CW leg. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,388,430 Conditions much better than expected, in particular 15m and 10m; in addition, weather conditions much better than expected as gale force winds were a possibility and could have resulted in lowered towers. Luckily, this was not the case and we were able to keep all towers at full height. Some alterations to station setup prior to the contest so we were able to use the MonstIR yagi on the higher bands for the mult station and being able to use said yagi on 40m on either the run or the mult operation positions. First night 80m was good and we had good runs to NA. We had unexpected sp-E EU opening on 10m and 15m was in excellent shape also to NA; 20m produced some good W6/W7 runs however these were not experienced on the second day. However, lack of JA run on the first day was made up for on the second day. Murphy did not pay us a visit this year and the only real issue experienced was one leg of the 80m phased vertical array making contact with the boom on one of the SteppIRs. Also, the local curry house not delivering 5 rice dishes with our now standard contest curry. Highlights included 10m opening to NA on the Sunday, good 15m runs, good cluster connectivity, MonstIR performance (including on HF) and the winds (or lack thereof). We could have perhaps run more on 40m but we just could not get any serious runs going there to NA -- the exception being the last two or so hours of the contest where we were able to keep a decent rate. See you in CW. G6PZ CG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 510,120 Sadly, this year's CQ WW SSB was a complete non-event. I had a few issues which really put a damper on my enthusiasm (which doesn't take much to dampen these days) and my score. I entered the Assisted section. I don't know why, when you're given your mults on a plate, the rate just falls through the floor. I think it's essential to ignore the cluster until at least midnight on Saturday night! Strangely, as others have said, it's not Single Op Assisted, it's Single Op Distracted. This was borne out by my rapidly failing score on Saturday morning. Using the wonderful WinTest objective facility I could see that I was falling behind after 0400 without any let-up on my enthusiasm up till then (compared to 2005). My 15m signal was awful. Apologies for that. I was given a couple of 'bad audio' reports when I started running on 15m, although I was unaware of the cause. I listened on my second radio, and sure enough, it was awful. I disconnected everything that might have allowed RF in, but to no avail. I tried running using the second radio (FT1000MP + Collins 30S1) and it was as bad. Very strange when you get RF feedback in the same manner on two separate radios! It looks like it's the antenna. I had to repair the feeder last week, so perhaps there's more to the problem than meets the eye. So 15m was out of the frame. I couldn't copy stuff on 20m. This was a real pain. Conditions were good and the band was busy. I now realise that I am not better than the radio. I've always refused to buy additional SSB filters for my radios. I now realise that I'm not better than the radio, and that filters are an essential part of a decent transceiver. I nearly bought two new ones last night! 160m set the phone off. Every time I transmitted on 160m I set the house telephone off. It's done this in the recent past but I never really dwelt on it. This was serious and I couldn't go on. As to why, I have no idea. Was it doing it to the next door neighbour's phone too? Up until July this year it was not a problem, and nothing on 160m (or the phone system) has changed. In fact I actually removed the phone line from the shack earlier this year. It must be RF getting in to the actual phone line, which passes by the antenna field at about 20 feet high. Very simply, it must be over-powering the phone. So, no 160m either. 10m was open and was jumping, but for me, only with lots of Europeans. I called CQ and worked strings of DL's and OE's. I felt this wasn't as productive as it might have appeared at first. I have some horrible bug which I caught in Ghana a few weeks ago which I can't shake off. Have now been put on a course of some extremely potent anti-biotic. I'm run down. (Just adding this to the list of excuses!) But it was the 20m and filtering problem which finally did it for me. I find it incredibly difficult to walk away from a contest. It takes me to a place I don't want to go (mentally). I am tired for a start, which I am not good at handling these days, as mild paranoia seems to creep in (I think - I'm not an expert). Then I just get so depressed once I have had a sleep because I feel that I could rescue the situation, but then another side says - no way, you're .5 mil points behind already. So, last night I booked my flight to operate at CT9L in November! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0IIO Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 104,416 Ft-1000MP and 20m EDZ. QRM from all directions, but still had a ball. Great contest. 73, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,755,320 The contest itself was a bit disappointing to be honest. For me, conditions were NOT very good. I am always amused by how high activity is interpreted as 'good conditions' d