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Call: 3G1D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 420,903
GREAT CONTEST TU ALL GUYS.. 73
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Call: 3V8BB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,884,047
It wasn't in my plans to make a serious ARRL SSB participation this year, but a
call from Ali 3V8ESG suggesting me to do an M/S operation changed my mind.
Ali is a Communication engineering student and he's the chief operator of
3V8ESG ARAT Club in his school. Ali has became very enthusiastic to the hobby
and actively contributed in a lot of ARAT trainings and activities.
Operating M/S with Ali in his first contest operation was really fun and I'm
sure he learnt a lot from this experience. I tried to coach him before and
during the contest on how to predict propagation, contest strategy and band
changes, operating hints and tips... I think a new 3V contester is about to be
born!
The contest was great with a big activity on the bands. All mults were worked
except for YT and NU.
Propagation was better on Saturday. Low bands were deceiving; especially 80 and
160 with a low S/N ratio - No QSO made on 160!
This contest was a good opportunity for me to prepare for Boston WRTC in terms
of managing pileups. I'm getting very excited seeing the event approaching very
quickly. I hope I'll meet you guys soon over there "insh'Allah"!
73
Ash KF5EYY
Tunisian Op of 3V8BB, 3V8SS
www.kf5eyy.info
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Call: 5Q2T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 156,279
The SSB part was not so good as the CW part. I did only worked a few new states,
but it is still nice to have a pile-up mostly on 10 and 15 M.
5Q2T is still a rare call sign in NA. I had some stations that asked for my QTH
(DXCC). I was also called by some stations outside NA. Maybe theay need a new
DXCC list?
CU in the next contest.
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Call: 7J1ABD Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 216
Got on 25 minutes before the end of the contest from my car which was parked in
front of my house. 50 watts and a quarter wave whip. Tnx for the Qs ! 73, Dan
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Call: 8P2K Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,060,500
Still in building mode. Spent Friday erecting an 80m vertical but as it turned
out it was not a very effective radiator (especially with 100w) even though the
SWR was great. A new 80m vertical is definitely a priority.
Most things worked this time around. Did have a frustrating period when DVK
messages would not work on rig2 - this was a simple confoguration fix and all
worked well after that was solved.
Had some good hours but couldn't make a serious effort because of other
commitments. Best hour was at 1900hrs on day 1 - 181 Q's. Thanks to all the
stations that pulled my signal out of the clutter. See you next year.
Dean - 8P6SH / 8P2K
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Call: 8P5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,387,648
Contest started great with a 400 hour and was a couple hundred ahead of the NA
record pace by sunrise. However, the next morning conditions were so good, it
was hard to get the attention of the US/VE stations until 10 closed to Europe.
As a result, rates were slow all morning and I fell about 200 Q's behind the NA
record pace. A good second night allowed me to claw back to parity with the
pace. Unfortunately, Sunday morning was slower than Saturday and the late
afternoon high rates did not materialize like prior years. In the end,
finished just ahead of last year's score.
Still great fun and the station worked perfectly
Thanks to all for the Q's
73, Tom W2SC
QSL vi LoTW or NN1N
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Call: 9A1UN Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 403,149
I love this game!
73 Dave 9A1UN
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Call: 9A4M Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 345,240
Back to the big SSB event after long time. Amazing condition with good rate all
the time. I'm enjoyed ARRL DX SSB contest and really satisfied with result.
Many 9A's were SOSB/10. Congratulation to all especialy 9A8WW(s55m) @9a1p and
9A9A @9a1a for great scores.
Used equipment: FT1000mp, PA OM3500HF, 5el. yu7ef yagi @11m, Win-test.
73
Mate 9A4M
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Call: 9A5BWW Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 349,713
First time in ARRL. Great contest!
73's, Dave
9A5BWW
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Call: 9A5K Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,613,979
Nice conditions and lot of friends worked on the air.
Initially, the plan was to join E7A M/S team, but due some business and family
obligations during the weekend, I was forced to stay at home.
So, spent some time during both afternoons at location, to test new hardware on
location and new and improved features in DXLog.net v2.0.24beta (SO2R stuff,
contest recorder etc.).
Congrats everyone on scores and CU in next one!
73,
Chris - 9A5K
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Call: 9A5W Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 391,620
A lot of 9A1A team members were busy with their private&businnes
obligations.
So we did 2x SO SB entries. 9A9A on 10m and me on 15M.
Sunday afternoon propagation was different then on Saturday. From 1530Z I had
terrrible QRM from some EU stations. I was forced to exchange FREQ because
they
refused to reduce their bandwith. A lot of difficulties to find some free
one.
Congrats to LX7I and 9A1UN to their excellent scores.
Thanks to all who called me. See you in Rusisan DXC.
73, Nikola 9A5W
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Call: 9A6XX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 192,720
Part time operation from 9A1P. 20m seemed to be open all the time and that was
not how I wanted to spend my weekend.
Played a bit with cluster, watching my friend 9A1UN in battle with 4U1UN pile
up :-)
I hope we had enough of rain so we can restart antenna work and start Multi op
sessions.
CU in RDXC and WPX SSB.
73,
Hrle - 9A6XX
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Call: 9A7T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 543,393
Operated just Sunday afternoon and evening. Great conditions on high bands. See
you all in RDXC in two weeks!
73 de Zlatko, 9A2EU
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Call: 9A7ZZ Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 16,614
FT-450 ,Antenna Cushcraft A4S only 8m high.For any QSO must waiting all others
with KW !
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Call: 9A8M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,358,071
Very good score for us, frankly, better than expected.
Lot of tech problems still need to be solved, but all in all it was great fun.
Thanks to all calling us !
73 de 9A8M team !
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Call: 9A8WW Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 383,040
Again nice and solid competition. Congrats to Emil 9A9A and Mate 9A4M for their
scores. Conditions (or operators mood) much better on sunday. Some power
outages and a lot of rain and static noise.
Band opener on saturday was (as in CW leg) WE3C. Last heard on sunday evening
WB4AAA, wich is also the last logged station. Missed LB multiplier, but it
seams, i'm not the only one :) . All multipliers worked already during first
day. Enjoying nice company (sharing the 6x2m shack)with 9A1UN Dave (SOSB 15),
9A2NA Den (SOSB 40) and partialy with 9A6XX Hrle (SOSB 20). Great thanks to
Stevo 9A2CW for outstanding antenna work (started building antennas on
thursaday before contest).
Worked almost only in RUN mode, so great thanks to all W and VE stations for
answering my calls.
Equipment:
FT1000MV
2 x EF105M on 14m pole :)
OM POWER PA
Win-test SW
CU in soon!
S55M (aka 9A8WW)
Adi
www.s55m.com
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Call: 9L1A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 644,910
High SSN over the weekend and excellent propagation in the late evening/early
morning hours. I was able to run on 15/20/40m as I had big antennas. During the
day it was completely different - not easy to get NA attention when everybody
enjoys EU pile ups. Called many big gun stations on 80m, but my low wires could
not make it through the SSB QRM. No stations heard on 160m this time.
73 Ivo 9L1A
Rig - K3; RM300 Amplifier (300w)
Antennas: wire verticals on Spiderbeam pole (40-10m), Inv V @ 7m for 80/160m.
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Call: 9M6XRO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 109,512
My Rig: Transceiver Yaesu FT-1000MP and VL-1000 Quadra Linear @ 400w.
Ants up 27m (HF) 2-el Lightning Bolt Quad (LF) Butternut HF2V Vert.
Just a small time limited operation for me.
From all the bands 10m was really outstanding with amazing signals.
15m was also good but 20m and the lower bands were very disappointing.
I like to Search & Pounce so I wish more NA stations would call CQ!
The bands here were end-to-end with JA's running, mostly auto CQing.
Many thanks to the Contest Organisers & Volunteers. 73 from Borneo!
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Call: AA2ZW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,280
NOT A SSB PERSON- THATS FOR SURE.
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Call: AA3K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,161,699
This year's harsh mid-Atlantic winter prevented me from putting up my 160m
inverted-L thus causing the lack of activity there. Everything appears fine on
the HF6V for 80m but it does not tune there and no amount of coil adjusting
causes the SWR curve to shift and that prevented any significant effort there.
All 80m Q's were with 100W. I'll have to wait until everything thaws so I can
diagnose. Other than that the high band conditions were assume. I have never
worked DXCC on one band and I did so on 10m. Got a couple of runs going from
my small station which are always exciting. Multipliers seemed a little slow
but a concentrated effort Saturday night kicked them and the score up.
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Call: AA4FU Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 107,640
Didn't realize until Saturday afternoon that there is no category for SO/A
single band. Oh well had some fun working a few new countries on 10m.
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Call: AA7V Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 360,690
Lots of tuning, tuning, tuning looking for mults.
3 so-called runs, but short lived.
Seemed like way up in the band was a great place to be. Will be there next
time.
Thanks to all that worked me.
FT1000MP, Alpha91b, 2 ele at about 11.5 m / 38 ft.
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Call: AA7XT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 194,925
I jumped in the contest on and off during the weekend to see if I could get 100
countries on 10m. Packet was on. Got to 109. Wasn't able to break OD5ZZ and
XU pileups but worked pretty much everything else I heard. Conditions were
excellent!
Flex-6700
Dishtronix Prometheus DX-2400L1 amp
4O3A SSC-XL controller
prototype Force 12 XR6 6-band Yagi (12 foot boom) @ 25 feet
AlfaSpid RAK rotator
Win-Test
Enjoying getting back into low key contesting after a hiatus that started when
my daughter was born in 2003.
73
Bill AA7XT
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Call: AB2E Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 316,407
Rig: Icom IC-756Pro III/Acom 2000A amp
Antennas:
All wires - 160m Inverted-L, 80m Inverted-L, 40m loop, 20m loop, 15m loop, 10m
G5RV.
Had a great time. Got to operate Fri evening about 6hrs, very productive for
mults on the low bands. Rest of the time was late Sunday morning and again for
about 2hours before the end.
Fabulous conditions. It seems most stations this time were better at
identifying.
See you in WPX SSB !
73 Darrell AB2E
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Call: AB4B Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 348,327
Couldn't secure enough bodies (op's) for a multi effort so I and Paul,NT4H
(10mtr)played on the high bands in two single bands efforts casually. Caught
most of the EU and JA openings though didn't get in as much mult hunting as we
should have I venture to say. We both had a good time. Hopefully I will be
able to amass a crew for a multi-op effort for WPX coming up.
Good cndx in general all weekend. 15mtrs seemed to get drained due to the
activity on 10mtrs from my observation. Not complaining as it may be the last
time I experience good 10mtr prop in my life. TNX to all for being active this
weekend.
Tim, AB4B in NW AL
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Call: AB4UG Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 14,523
First time participating in the ARRL DX contest. 10m was doing so well I decided
to stay there for the entire contest. Was even able to hear Hawaii and a few
Alaska stations, which is something I don't hear too often here with my
antenna.
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Call: AB5XZ Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 6,669
Good to work old friends P40P(W5AJ) and OA4SS
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Call: AC4G Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 781,740
Bands were great except for 160m. Also, difficult to compete against high power
amplifiers on all bands, but persistence paid off finally making Q's after
several attempts with 100W on 160m thru 10m. Felt good to come out ahead in
pileup running only 100W. Thanks for the QSOs and meeting friends again around
the world.
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Call: AD4ES Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,975,349
Great fun for all, 10 was HOT, great to see 20M open at Saturday Midnight to the
entire world, lots of pulling to get some calls on most bands. Largest quantity
of low power stations and QRP that we have ever heard in a contest.
Out best rates:
5 QSO's per minute - K9ES
32 QSO's in 10 minutes - K4QD
132 QSO's in 1 hour - K9ES
Station: Yaesu FTdx5000 and LFA-2000 Solid State Linear
Antenna = 3 element SteppIR @ 55 feet (With 40M Driven)
75M Open Wire Dipole
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Call: AE7DW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,745
TX: FT897 @ 100w
ANT: OUTBACKER PERTH @ ground level
LOGGER: N1MM
Temp. QTH ~ Prescott, AZ
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Call: AE7VA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 127,746
A simple S&P effort. Highlight of the event was watching six of eight caps
in my Henry 2KD-5 amp go up in smoke just a few hours into the event Friday
night.
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Call: AF4RK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 19,809
MS Bike Ride RACES event on Sat, so only 9 hours. Made a few contacts, had a
great time! Next time I will use the N1MM voice keyer.
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Call: AG4W Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 67,860
FTDX5000, AL1200, 3 element 40M vertical array, NE and NW beverage. Part time
single band effort on 40 meters since I was checking QSL cards at the
Birmingham hamfest. Had a nice opening to Europe late Saturday night. Sunday
morning 10 Meters was so nice I couldn't resist making some contacts just for
fun.
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Call: AJ7T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 63,504
There were good conditions at my QTH but lost 10M on the beam during the rain.
Used a A99 instead. Will have to get to the bottom of why it was only 10M.
Spent a lot of time in and out of the shack so only really did S&P for most
contacts. Didn't try 80 or 160 but was happy to get a couple of Europe contacts
on 40.
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Call: AL9A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,742,976
Wow, am I ever going to miss the end of this solar cycle! My best outing in this
one ever. Almost doubled ny previous best. Beat my previous best score from 2010
by 622 QSOs, 73 mults and 870,900 points! Ten meters was gang busters all
weekend. Nothing left to say except man, that was fun!
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Call: C6AZZ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 150,234
Some great condx but no short skip to get the close in states.
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Call: CA3LGJ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 24,156
Antenna: Vertical Monoband 10 Mtrs
Radio: kenwood ts-480 sat 100 w.
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Call: CA3MRD Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 46,650
Antenna: Vertical Monoband 8 Mtrs @ 100W. and Vertex VX-1700
Accesories: Heil ProSet 6 / F. Switch 2 for DX Mode
Computer: Windows 7 running N1MM
Band QSOs Pts Sec
28 311 933 50
Total 311 933 50
Score: 46.650
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Call: CE1TT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,081,404
ARRL DX SSB 2014 CONTEST OPERATORS CE1TT, XQ1UIC FROM ARICA CHILE.
73'S
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Call: CE3/OZ1AA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 435,174
First a huge thank you to Roberto CE3CT for the amazing stay in Santiago. I
arrived on Monday and thought I would stay a few days. I ended up staying a
week, enjoying several local BBQs, a few beers, good pile ups, and finally a
bit of fun in the ARRL DX SSB contest.
The station played beautifully and working the US guys is always a pleasure -
even with the long call sign. I hope everyone got it. It was also fun to
compare scores with Roberto doing SOSB 10 in the next chair.
Thanks for calling and see you in the next one!
73,
Thomas OZ1AA
http://www.cyclingtheglobe.com
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Call: CE3CT Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 523,746
Another great Contest in Chicureo, this time another option 2 X Single Band with
my very nice bicycleman friend OZ1AA Thomas.
Thomas worked 15m HP and me 10m HP, all things worked perfect, nice food, good
pileup and principal we realy enjoyed the weekend.
Thankyou very much to all for the QSOs and see you soon on CQWPX 2014.
73
CE3CT, Roberto
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Call: CO2RVA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 113,094
MI PRIMER CONCURSO DE SSB DE LA ARRL Y MUY BIEN SALUDOS A OTDAS LA ESTACIONES
TRABAJADAS POR MI 73S AMIGOS.
RENE/CO2RVA
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Call: CQ8X Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 454,755
First time in Azores. Really enjoyed; thanks for all QSO:s
73, Jaakko, OH8NJ
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Call: CR2A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 233,640
Traditional trip to Azores was once again a very pleasant one
Best thanks for nice company to Martti OH2BH and my brother Jaakko OH8NJ. This
year Jaakko was first time with Arkala team in Azores
This was my first low band ARRL contest effort ever
It was a very nice experience. Thank you much to all for QSO�'s.
Juha oh8nc
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Call: CR2X Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 667,035
RADIO ARCALA TEAM HAS SMASHED THEM ALL
One of the targets for Radio Arcala’s mission in the Azores was to capture
all single-operator high-power EU records at the team's Atlantic outpost. Now
this target has been achieved with eight (8) of their different ops holding EU
honors for ARRL SOAB and all single bands as well as for CQWW SOAB; CW, SSB and
RTTY. 2014 ARRL DX Contest activities produced more than 12.000 QSOs to USA.
While a variety of efforts and bands were assigned accordingly in the 2014 ARRL
DX Contest, I was tasked with a 10M CW/SSB job among other WRTC2014 related
testing duties, such as having our selected radio equipment put into rigorous
multiple signal presence.
10M poses an ultimate challenge from the Azores to the US East Coast as
coverage is rather limited, only for some sporadic hours. Working New England
or NJ/NY guys in this critical skip is rather challenging but enough of them
did surface to enable us to break the ancient 1991 record.
Also, a Virtual Radio activity was staged from the Azores as a showcase to test
simulated Amateur Radio (www.hamsphere.com) and its on-the-air impact on invited
guests while both the Azores (CU2KG) and Madeira (CT3EE) were activated for new
country fun for those active on Virtual Amateur Radio by this second Two
Worlds DX effort.
All objectives were met to the team’s full satisfaction, and it was all
capped off with a RadioTeam Azores WRTC kick-off at a wonderful seashore
restaurant near the capital Ponta Delgada. www.visitazores.com
The scene was set for a great adventure to come as the team will next meet in
Boston, MA in July.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this record breaking fun with my Arcala buddies and
friends; OH8NC, OH2MM, OH2PM, OH2UA, OH6KZP, N5TJ, ES2RR, ZS4TX as well as
important key supporters, such as Leena, OH2BE and Veijo, OH6KN together with
Fernando, CU2BV, Jose, CU2CE and Francisco, CU2DX from the Finnish Azores
Friendship Consortium. One era has now come to an end.
Special Azores QSLs will soon be mailed out in response to direct requests to
OH2BH QRZ.com address.
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Call: CR6T Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 492,453
Was great to be back to contest from new home QTH. Was expecting a bigger
number of QSO's. But after watching some claimed scores I'm happy with it.
Signals from NA were very strong. Sunday better than saturday. On Sunday worked
until the end of contest when some stations were peaking 59+20db.
It was dificult to keep frequency, some claiming they were using my frequency
for over 5 hours!?
Thank you for a great weekend.
Equipment:
IC 761 + ALPHA 91B
5 EL HYGAIN 155CA
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Call: CS2C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,922,030
Jiri, CS2C/OK1RF rang me up at the beginning of this year and invited me to run
ARRL SSB from Portugal.The target was clear, mainly to help him a little bit to
fix antennas and after that participate in ARRL SSB.We didnt repair much of it
due to poor weather and trouble with my health not long after my arrival to CT.
Jiri pushed me to participate in SOAB, but I am glad that I resisted his
pressure. So we started again in MS category (one oldtimer, one greenhorn) In
sort of way a bit nonsense - one RIG, two operators only and not complete ANT
setup, on 40m only dipol again. After all, Im happy that Jiri didnt convince me
to start in SOAB. For me it was in sort of way school and motivation to the
future to see oldtimer Jiri, how he was trying hard despite his age 68.
What can I say in the end, we didnt win in EU despite the fact it was an
achievable goal. We really enjoyed spending the whole week and the contest
together in harmony and we had a lot of laugh. Conditions on higher bands were
excellent, 80 and mainly 160m flustrating.I would like to thank very much to all
stations which gave us a call. I would like to also thank to those stations
which we captivated by our operation and which supported us with spot.
What next if the health let us to continue? Prepare station CT1JLZ for
top-ranking MS run, or hit the road somewhere into Caribbean area �" the
same team and with even more limited equipment. We both like that idea , so see
you soon ... maybe under some exotic callsign ...
(Jiri�'s opinion: Contesting has to be fun in the first place, to attend and to
win isn't mandatory...)
on behalf of CS2C
Pavel OK4PA
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Call: CT1FJO Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 78,120
good propagation on 15mt , but only 8 hours of operation :-(
73 all
nuno
ct1fjo
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Call: CW5W Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 140,592
just few QSO�'S on saturday before dismantling the station!
73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
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Call: CX2DK Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 226,554
Hi...
Happy with the score, better than 2013!
73
Marcelo CX2DK
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Call: DF7ZS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 472,290
Low power 100w.
Total different ballgame!
73
Helmut
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Call: DH8BQA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,370,547
Quite some fun!
Full story on http://www.dh8bqa.de
73, Olli
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Call: DK3T Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 383,904
That was fun. many thanks to all US/VE stations for calling!
Station info see: qrz.com/db/DK3EE
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Call: DK8EY Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 9,696
ICOM IC-7400
5-ele-beam Fritzel FB-53
N1MM Logger
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Call: DL1A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,658,258
After the great experience in the CW part, we did not want to miss the SSB leg.
But due to operator shortage we decided for a M/S operation rather than M/2.
Condx were excellent and activity great.
73 Maik DJ2QV for the DL1A team
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Call: DL3ANK Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 61,560
mni tks fer vy nice contest.
I testing my /p dipol up on
a hill abt 860m a.s.l. with 100Watts
(IC706).My working time was limited
by the power from my Netbook :-).
So I have only 4-5h on each day.
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Call: DL4YAO Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 34,050
IC7800, PA, 4el Mono
Can't believe I missed OR and WV, however was able to get several WY, NV which
is nice.
US west coast good on Sunday, many CA/AZ, but not so good on Saturday.
The ARRL Contest is always great fun.
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Call: DM9EE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,093,280
Rig: Elekraft K3, Optibeam 17-4, 80m 4-square.
Conditions were great. We had lots of fun, especially on 10m. Thanks to
everyone for the QSOs. See you again in the next contests.
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Call: E71A Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 332,052
SETUP: Ts-590 + amp, ant. C31xr - triband, up 30m.
QSLvia: QRZ.com
73... Emil
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Call: E7A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,845,205
Thanks to all who called this weekend. We were blessed with a shorter (and
perhaps easier to copy?) call: E7A. (we normally use E7DX)
Fantastic conditions on Sunday after a somewhat mediocre Saturday. With Braco
(E77DX) absent, we struggled a little on the technical front. The station has
been automated this summer and we're still learning about all the features
(bugs? :-)). This hampered us on the first day and meant we missed out on some
simple mults on the low-bands. Luckily the score was compensated with some fine
runs on the Sunday with the best hour showing 281. Ranko's and Vlado's sense of
humour and the improved condx on Sunday kept a smile on my face despite lack of
sleep.
Congratulations to our local competition! The live-score monitoring adds a new
dimension to contesting and I would strongly recommend all our competitors
(particularly those in western Europe) to join us online.
73
Richard 9A1TT
Ranko E70R
Vlado E70T
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Call: EA1FDI Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 222,720
Homemade triband yagi + Kw
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Call: EA3QP Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 214,389
Ant: KT-34
TX/RX: K3 + ACOM
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Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,845,440
Wow! Very funny. I don't know what is more amazing: the opening on 10m or to
find all the nigh 20m in nice shape. Maybe, for me, the last one. The 10m
saturday finnish here very late and this whas a handicap for the 15m result (I
miss to very easy mults on this band).
I needed to relocate the 80m. dipole saturday morning to fight with rf issues,
but I for a lot of time have a quite run on this band.
I spent most of the time running and I have 227 callsign with three QSO, 83 in
4 bands and 42 on 5 bands. Great operators from the other side of the pond!!
Many thanks for calling me.
73 de Jose
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Call: EA5ON Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 381,921
Once again fate conspired against us and not enough people available for a
multi-single. So, I decided to do 15HP with my own call and Victor EA5KV did a
relaxed 10LP with reduced operating time as ED5T. Also EB5KT came up during the
night and continued his experiments with the pennant and coaxial loop antennas
for 80 and 160m.
I rolled up on Saturday at 1015 local and we wound up the tower with the 15m
stack on it. I switched on and heard VE8EV in NWT and just about ripped out the
heaphones from their case in the anxiety to work him before the pileup got out
of hand! Managed to work him while the amp was still warming up but Victor was
not impressed about how I treated his cans :(. No other activity on the band so
I had an early lunch and Victor headed off to work. Band was slow to start and
took a while to get going. Fortunately I had a good run frequency and managed
to keep it for quite a while and get a whole load of mults worked between run
and second VFO. As usual it wasn’t until the band dropped out in the rest of
EU that I was really able to run, and the band stayed open until after 11pm
local! I finished the first day with 1090 qsos and 60 multipliers. I don’t
remember having ever had so many mults at that stage in an ARRL before.
Sunday the band was slower to start and I spent most of my time swinging the
top beam to EU so encroaching stations could hear I was there. I missed having
the Optibeam for that task so I wouldn’t have to use a rotator but we decided
it wasn’t worth cabling up the 10m stack for Vic’s limited effort so he had
the Optibeam on 10. A real tough time, QRM levels very high both from USA and
EU stations and I regretfully missed copying many weak stations who were
getting clobbered by my neighbours. It wasn’t until late again that I managed
to get a run going. The band was still open at 11pm, while I was in the advanced
portion of the band. I decided to QSY up to a clear spot to see if I could work
some generals. The result was immediate and I got a reasonable run going until
I had to go QRT about half an hour before the end of the contest. What a blast!
I do apologise to all those who I caught partials of but couldn’t complete.
Also quite a number I got the call but not the exchange. No autofill for this
operator, and I’m glad, I think this year its more noticeable than ever that
people licenced in one place end up someplace else and I prefer to copy the
exchange than risk getting dinged. In spite of what the solar numbers might
indicate, I found Saturday to be better than Sunday, although the late night
opening on Sunday almost made up for the rest of it.
As usual, a contest full of fun moments. Early on Saturday, got a call from
VK7FRJG giving me a nice report from Tasmania on the long path. Also “out of
contest”, got a call from Fred NA2U, I was all ready to hit “AZ” in the
exchange when he said no, he was in Hawaii and he’d just stopped by to say
hello! Good to contact with folks I know personally (K8IA, K7WP, N7IR, K1TO,
K0LUZ….) and folks I know on the air (VE8GER, WW1WW, K1TN…) plus many
familiar calls from other contests and the CQ Contest reflector.
Just one murphy attack, several times on Saturday the PC lost power for a
fraction of a second and rebooted itself. So I just logged on paper and filled
in when it came back on again. Otherwise everything worked just fine.
Congrats to José Ramón EA7KW at EF7X for the rivalry on the band (seems he
beat me again) and some other good scores turned in by fellow EAs.
Rig: FT1000MP MkV field
Amp: AL1200, old and tired like the op, still manages a KW if you kick it but
mostly running about 800/900w.
Ant: 4 over 4 monoband www.eantenna.es on a tower that’s even older and more
tired than the AL1200
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs!
73 de Duncan EA5ON
www.ea5on.com
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Call: EA6FO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,063,135
Nice contest. My first Phone contest in 30 years.
73
Julio, EA3AIR
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Call: EA8/OH2BP Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 5,184
Just a for fun operation. Fishing rod vertical on the hotel balcony and LP in
use.
Removing my SO2R contest set up slowly hereto.
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Call: ED7W Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,571,935
Very hard night. Very noise 160m without rx antennas, I loss very multis in low
band.
Rig: Yaesu FT-2000 + OmPower
Ant:
10m: EAntena 28OWA6 6 element @ 25m
15m: EAntena 21OWA6 6 element @ 20m
20m: EAntena 14OWA4 4 element @ 20m
40m: CushCraft XM-240 2 elemento @ 20m
80m: Inverted V @ 20m
160m: Inverted V @ 20m
No Rx antenas.
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Call: EF7X Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 394,548
Thanks all for calling.
Hard to keep the frequency. Some people complained of QRM 2 KHz up or bellow
while they should look at his own bandwidth before. Others just think that
being for hours on a channel gives you the "acquisitive prescription"
of the frequency after coming from the bath. Keep Calm and have a cuppa!
It was a pitty that the conditions on Sunday evening didn't happen on Saturday,
it was wide open beyond the contest ending.
Nice fight with my mate EA5ON. Congrats Duncan, hope you can repair soon the
storm damages on the station.
Also great competition in Europe (CT, 9A, S5 ...). You cannot relax just one
minute!
TS590+OM Power+ 4+5 ele stack
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Call: EF8O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 54,900
100 Watts and a 40m dipole only was a hard job
hope to have my vertical back soon
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Call: EF8R Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 456,300
I planned to operate as SOAB LP but i was sick as ARRL CW too , i decided to
operate as SOSB just for fun this time.
FT950 + Acom
Ant: 4 elem
Station: EA8URL / EF8U
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Call: EI2CN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,008,509
Dear OMs and YLs
Never write having consumed Guinness. The contest is over so of course
one consumes a couple of pints of the Black Stuff.
Well my good friend Alain,F8FUA beat last years score despite not real
set up for the low bands. Last year we managed a claimed 1,980,984 but this
year the claimed score is 2,008,509. The TB antenna is down and all receive
antennas are bandjaxed (what a beautiful word). So as one can see we were
stinko on low bands. Still the sun saved our bacon. Twenty was literally
open all night long though not so great in the day time. Ten meters was a
Trojan for us with fifteen doing pretty well. On the last night we rode ten
till it died the final death and then went to fifteen riding it till the
ultimate demise around 22:30 or so UTC. Then surely we will not find a spot
on twenty but we did and continued to QSO till the closing of the contest.
Fortune was with us. We should have paid a far higher price for the lack of a
reasonable LF antenna system but the bands did the impossible. Not a great
score but we are not amongst the elite just yet. Perhaps Alain is but I am
not as as I age performance slows. Put all of this aside this was a fun event
and it is so good to share the job with a friend.
Radio Equipment:
K3, P3
Acom 2000A for power of 1500 allowed in EI for contesting only. Yes I am mad
to have stated the correct power as 1500 and not just KW in my exchanges.
Advice must be taken on this.
SteppIR 4 elements at 80 ft or 24 M.
SteppIR Big Vertical
WinTest
MicroKeyer II
Thanks to all the great people we worked. This was fun and now I can go
to the "scratcher" and crash. LG take a running jump; Life is Good
and it was so before the saying was commercialized.
73 Doug EI2CN
PS Special thanks to my long term friend F8FUA. Alain has too many African
calls to even start to list and these were not short term calls but lasted for
years. Also I must thank my good XYL, Anne who kept us all afloat.
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Call: ES5RW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,563,368
Nice contest, better than expected high band propagation on Sunday and decent
score considering my geographical location. Still amazed by Tonno's 15 meter
array of 8 x 5 el monobanders. This is the band I was able to compete with the
rest of Europe. Didn't even dear to leave for 10 meters as the pileup was
holding nice. Being assisted added only a little as most of the the spotted
mults were worked later in the course of the contest anyway. As for low bands I
have to agree with VY2ZM, my only 6-bander: " 160m was miserable! 80m was
marginally better."
73, Rein, ES5RW
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Call: EU1A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,866,942
Great condition on high bands. 40 wasn't so good as in the cw part. Missed
5,0,7's mults.
Thank's to all us stations for calling!
Great contest, great operators!
73! Serge EU1A
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Call: F6ARC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 201,348
Spent 4 hours in the contest. High bands were in good shape, but hard to find
and keep a clear spot. I couldn’t elbow my way for a long time with low power
on these crowded bands, so I had no choice but to QSY several times. Always a
pleasure to work NA stations. There is no waste of time to exchange reports…
73s de Oliver
Rig IC-7400 - 100W
Ant: DXBeam DXT201510-mx
Win-test
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Call: FY5FY Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 667,926
Hello,
Great contest fron FY5KE, using 2 yagis antennas : 5el@17m and 6el@24m.
Sunday was very poor during 7 hours with a real traduction in the score...
Thanks for QSOs
See you soon.
73's Did / FY5FY
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Call: G3R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 150,000
all bands was open but not strong,10m was open very long,first day had tower up,
but very windy second day tower only half way up, thank to jeff vy2zm for
working me on 4 bands missed him on 160m, cheers to all who worked me ....steve
G3R
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Call: G3Y Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 130,986
Great condx - high running rates - 10m open late - was I dreaming?
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Call: GW7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,097,000
Strange to submit a score before the end of the contest, but this wasn't a
particularly serious entry anyway. When the 3000 Qs rolled over it was a good
time to quit (I had thought that earlier at 2000, then 2500....)
No antenna for 160 at the moment and the HF aerials need some work to be done
on them so wasn't going to be competitive, still, it was fun to have a few runs
here and there and occasionally move some mults band-to-band.
As usual, contest audio will be available on the web site within 24 hours.
http://www.gw4ble.dxlist.co.uk
hmmmmm......45 minutes to go, perhaps I should stir up a few Qs as plain old
GW4BLE...
73
Steve
GW4BLE (op GW7X)
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Call: HA4XH Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,979,952
I intented to do this contest in LP category but after a hard start I rather
switched on our Henry 3K premier linear.
I wanted not to make confusion so I continued sending 59100 in the rest of the
contest.
Somebody told that" life is too short for QRP". Well I think it was a
good decision as finally could work with missing states on 10 meters UT,MT, and
ND.
Our new delta loop and K9AY opened new horizons on 160m being able first time
to work NA stations on top band.
6 band QSO with W2PV,K3LR,W3LPL,WE3C,
Rig:FT2000+PA Henry 3K premier
Ant:
Delta loop for 160m for USA
Delta loop for 80m-For USA
Lazy-H for USA
205BA, and X-Q.for 20m
155BA for 15m
105BA for 10m
K9AY for 160-80-40 mts (TNX HA5IW)
Thanks for calling me!
73's from Hungary!
Charlie HA4XH
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Call: HA8FM Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 167,664
I really enjoyed it thank you everyone!
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Call: HA8JV Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 300,015
setup: ft1000d, 4el.quad(19mh).
I also worked on 40m tree hours(245q send check log).
Thanks for all callers se you in next one!
73 Pali
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Call: HC2AO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 688,236
All big antennas down, I ventured to the contest with a 22ft wire attached to a
fiber pole on the shack�'s roof at 16 ft. 15m refused to work in FT1000mp, so
one band out as well as any serious claim to achieve anything =) Still I was
happy to contact many old friends and give away HC mult. BTW I had some great
runs. Thanks to all the Q�'s...
CU in the next one...
P.S. I heard US1I on 40m 59+10 sending 59 10. At the same time EU big guns had
signals of the same order or weaker. Till when is it going to be tolerated,
judges?
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Call: HG7T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,366,603
Vy 73 Tibi HA7TM
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Call: HK1NA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,912,802
Thank a lot for all Qs.. QSOs without dupes.
We had a great time like ever here at HK1NA..
Unfortunately we had a problem with energy.. Around of 10 hours operated low
power with a small generator , because the main generator is in maintenance…
However we were very close to the M/S record..
See you next contest..!!
73
Mark HK/LU8EOT
Sal HK1T
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Call: IB9T Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 366,300
Encouraged by the excellent conditionec on 10m (band I particularly preferred )
, I decided to participate in the ARRL ssb.Conditionec almost similar on both
Saturday and Sunday for a total of 16 hours of opening from 1° signal at
around 19.00 last rx.The peak between 17.00 and 18.30 , where I reached for
good strokes interest rate . Unfortunately both Saturday and even more Sundays
an annoying noise in s9 , caused by heavy rain , I was greatly slowed down not
allowing me to listen to any signal below the threshold.Distressing listen to
the band closed, stations of N.europa continue to run when down here was the
only sign of w3lpl ;-). Satisfactory , however, look at the result in the local
context where conditions are almost similar.A special thanks to dear Joe (
IT9BLB ) for his support and for giving me the opportunity to operate from
IB9T/IR9Y station , thanks to all the team members for their support during the
race.
ARRL DX SSB Contest - Summary and Statistic for IB9T
Time ON : 16:14 Ore
Time OFF: 15:43 Ore
Sommario QSO/Punti
BANDA QSO S/P DUP PUNTI MEDIA
----------------------------------
160 0 0 0 0 0,00
80 0 0 0 0 0,00
40 0 0 0 0 0,00
20 0 0 0 0 0,00
15 0 0 0 0 0,00
10 2035 60 40 6105 3,00
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TOT 2035 60 40 6105 3,00
Punteggio: 6105 Punti/QSO x 60 Mlt. = 366.300 Punti
Best Rates
Best QSO/ora QSO Time
10 min 270 45 1729...1738 01/03
20 min 264 88 1714...1733 01/03
30 min 256 128 1709...1738 01/03
60 min 254 254 1714...1813 01/03
120 min 228 456 1615...1814 01/03
73s de Alex IT9RBW one of IB9T/IR9Y
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Call: II9P Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,612,752
Many thanks for the QSO to all american friends. All time EU M/M record not
reached for 50 QSOs (sigh!)... but our low bands antennas are performing very
well. Also, we are preparing a low cost 40 meters' monster that we hope will
work to reduce QRM from/to EU on that band. In fact, when we run USA pile-ups
we have a wall of EU strong signals coming from the same direction and with
good skip ... so signals are very strong. In other stations in north and
central EU this is not true as they beam the antenna to the ocean taking
advantage from the F/B and F/S of the antennas. We are preparing a long wire
Yagi or a Rhombic antenna for that band.... better and sharper pattern... we
will see.
We had a lot of fun after hard work during the last weeks spent to rebuild
antennas damaged by storms.
Special guests for this contest our old friends I4UFH (aka one of D4C) and
IK1HJS (aka as our best WRTC italian operator), HB9DUR with his very good
chocolate and strong operating skill, IV3SDE best top band companion.
Conditions were not good with a lot of absorbtion and propagation to USA
closing one hour before on 10 meters than previous week. No any good path
trough North Pole so working rocky mountains and west cost was always a
challenge with very low and noisy signals.
Also, a very strong thunderstorm disturbed us during saturday afternoon with
strong static noise on higher bands.
Despite bad conditions we worked many states/provinces on low bands thanks to
our good ears (IV3YYK on Top Band) and long Beverage antennas.
We are at 90% of antenna work and 60% of internal setup work. We have to make
some advanced operating gear inside the station and to reduce complexity.
Equipment used: six x Elecraft K3 and 590s. 5/5 Yagi on 10, 5/5 on 15, 4/4 on
20, 4 Sq on 40, 4 Sq on 80, Inv.L on 160 and hundredS and hundredS of radials.
As always many thanks to Carmelo, Antonello, Marcello and Vincenzo for their
hard work under rain and low temperatures.
QSL as always via IT9CHU. See you in the WPX Contest.... why you don't join us?
The destination airport can be Catania and Comiso (low cost), contact me or CHU
or Carmelo IT9AUG for informations.
73 de Fabio, IT9GSF.
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Call: IO4W Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 249,978
Had big fun in this wonderful contest!
Many stations on the bands, propagation seemed better on Saturday, while on
Sunday the band opened (and closed) later.
Only missed YT and NU multipliers.
Nice run on Sunday evening when finally got a clear frequency...Splattering
seems to get worse and worse each passing day.
Thanks to all who worked (or tried working) me!
Ciao, 73
Fabio
IZ4AFW / IO4W / NZ1W
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Call: IQ1CN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,267,002
http://www.qrz.com/db/IQ1CN
http://www.aricuneo.it/
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Call: IR4B Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 141,246
I enjoied very much to enter ARRL DX Contest SSB, on 10m only, from
my home qth, with TS-590 plus 500W, tetrode tube lin.ampl., LP100A wattmeter,
antenna 3El Ultrabeam. A very good propagation on both days, on saturday
I managed to make more qsos and at fast rate, but I still needed some 7th
call area states and North Dakota and some Provinces of Canada. On sunday
I managed to work all missing states in 7th call area. Still missing North
Dakota. Conditions where very good with long openings after sunset. Very
pleased to be on 10meters only with such good conditions. Best 73 de
Sergio IR4B (IK4AUY). my website at http://ik4auy.xoom.it/
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Call: IR8C Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 309,819
After the excellent session cw of Tano iz8gcb, we had arranged to participate in
the multi-session ssb in the category, but luck struck us ... the day before the
contest there lightning damaged the automatic antenna system, sending air to our
the project. I decided last hour to send in the air in the category ir8c single
10-meter high power. The weather conditions during the contest were not the
best, it was mainly in the first day of a great opening band.
I thank all the friends that I have connected and heard, a special thanks to
Franco iz8gce, and all the friends of ir8c: iz8gcb, ik8und, iz8efd, iz8dfo,
iz8iev.
At the next contest
73" iz8tdp
Member ir8c metropolitan station contest
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Call: IT9SPB Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 270,108
TNX TO @LL
73'
IT9SPB
www.italiancontestclub.it
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Call: IV3BCA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 160,380
Unfortunately for commitments always related to our beloved Hobbies
(Saturday Test Operations Emergency Radio, Radio Sunday service at a marathon)
I was able to operate for about 12 hours total.
Setup Yaesu FT 1000 + PA Smart Cube SGC 500 solid state.
I called a lot in 15 and I thought for a better result on that band.
Vy 73 de IV3BCA Paolo
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Call: J75Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,155,480
With every passing contest, my respect grows for the leaders who muster their
winning combinations of station-building expertise, operating skill, physical
stamina and sheer determination. My hat is off to you all!
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Call: JH3PRR Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 153,282
Again thanks to the Sun, I enjoyed very good condition on 10m. The first evening
(morning in JA) I could not run. The second and third evenings, I had some good
runs but had difficulty in maintaining good run frequencies. It was difficult
to defend even 28650 and I had to move upward to over 28700. I missed DC, LB,
NF and NU but I was lucky enough to be called by ME, NS, NB, PEI, NT and YT.
The total of 59 multipliers was probably my best on 10m. Anyway, I enjoyed 10m
very much and would like to thank all who worked me. See you in Dayton contest
dinner and contest super suite.
IC-7800 + 1kW amplifier, 5 el Yagi side-mounted at 80 ft. The station is
located at the north side of the ridge about 2600 ft above sea level.
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Call: K0AP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 624,240
Great band conditions.
2el HEX Beam, TL922A, IC765.
73 Dragan K0AP
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Call: K0MD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,793,106
Operator: K0MD
Rig: Icom 7800
Amp: Acom 2000a
Antennas: C49XR stack on 10-20, Magnum 240n on 40, dipole on 80, Force 12
Magnum 160vx2 on 160
Comments: First time I have done this contest from my home QTH in a long time.
I enjoyed working a number of friends in Chile and VP5H.
I was impressed at the significant number of DX stations running low power or
QRP. One station ran 73 watts. Such precision is amazing.
I had a good time following W1MD and K3MD in the pile-ups. I often asked the DX
station if they realized how amazing it was two work 2 MD's in a row! I
suggested it was a paradox or a pair of Docs for some!
Fun contest with unusual band conditions. 20 meters was amazing Friday night
with runs open to Europe at 0700 GMT!
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Call: K0PK Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 564,984
Had fun with a casual S&P operation between domestic interruptions. Ten
meters was great! 160, not so much.
Someday I'll get my DVK set up and give this a serious effort.
Thanks for the Q's! 73 - Paul, K0PK
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Call: K0RF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,386
Not really in this contest. Just wanted to see what I could do on top band. Just
combed the band and worked mults I could hear. There is a kinda funny twist in
this one because between qsos, during the dry spells, I worked on an FM
transmitter that belongs to a friend of my daughter. Got it working on Saturday
before going to church so I borrowed the dummy load from my 160 4-square and set
the transmitter output at 135W to run on test.
After church, I got on the band and struggled through the night feeling very
weak and failing to complete QSOs with several loud guys including PI4DX, IR4M,
TO5A, E7A and others. Many that I did work were tough to get to. I couldn't
understand it because on Friday night I felt like I couldn't hear because
everything came right back no matter what the pile up was like or how weak they
were. Saturday night was just the opposite. After one of my middle-of-the-night
naps I came back out to the shack about 1100Z and thought I smelled transformer
so I made a tour around the shack and found that the FM transmitter was still
working FB but 10 hours of 100 plus watts had really heated up my dummy load.
All of a sudden I realized why everything had seemed funny the second night
compared to Friday.
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Call: K0RI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 435,000
All S&P. Strange weak prop on 20m when 10/15 were going great.
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Call: K0TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,317,524
Great conditions on all bands. Nice 0200AM 20m opening to EU and AS on Saturday
morning, similar to conditions for the CW contest two weeks ago, but no good
opening on Sunday morning.
Power company fixed the power line RFI issue just before last week's 160m
contest, so I am able to hear again on 80m and 160m. 160 was open nicely to
Carribean and western EU, but I did not hear any KH6 or KL7.
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Call: K0TV Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,362,632
We had great conditions for this year's running of the ARRL SSB classic.
Everyone here had a wonderful time. Everyone who came over to operate got some
chair time. I usually encourage anyone interested in contesting to come over
and have a taste of what it's like to operate at a moderately big station. We
had three new operators for this contest in NM1C, KB1SNB and W1OHM. We were
unexpectedly joined by WO1N who helped out with some of the overnight
operation.
In the week prior to the contest, we lost a very well respected and popular
member of our team, Michael Bernock, N1IW who succumbed to multiple myeloma on
February 25. Mike was a regular operator here for many years before he got his
own station up and running. He was a teacher, mentor, leader, and all around
great guy. His loss at the young age of 54 was tragic. As a tribute, YCCC
members exchanged "Italy Whiskey" instead of the usual "Kick
Butt" for this contest. Stations who had voice keyer recordings of his
voice used them. K0TV was one of those stations. We used his voice whereever we
could. If you worked us this time, chances are you heard Mike's voice.
Prior to the contest, I had to fix one of the amps here. The plate choke had
literally blown up during a previous contest. When I opened up the amplifier
deck, there were bits of wire everywhere. I decided to take the form out and
rewind it with some new wire. When I cut the wire that was left, I found that
it had been glued to the form and there was a very messy residue on the form.
Luckily I had another choke and was able to put it in. That choke blew up too
so I rewound it again and got the amp up and running. I decided to keep the
plate voltage low and run at reduced power rather than risk another failure. As
a result, the 20 meter station was operating at reduced power for this contest.
We might not have been quite as strong as usual due to our lower output, 7-800
watts instead of 1500.
Up on the tower, a bad connection forced us to use only the four square on 40
meters. A frigid week prior to the contest prevented us from making the
necessary repairs. We will now take the time pressure off and make the
necessary repairs when the weather warms up. Other than having to run reduced
power on 20 and not having the big 40 meter beam, everything else worked well.
The high point for me was 10 meters. The station was performing well and
conditions were stellar. At times the pile up we were working was 10 deep.
Pulling calls out was difficult at times. I usually identify at the end of each
QSO but this time, in order to keep the pile up manageable, I ended many
exchanges with a simple "QRZ?". I identified at least every third QSO
to allow everyone to verify who I was. I apologize to those stations who had to
wait to hear who I was.
MVP for this contest goes to NM1C. Matt made the largest number of QSOs on 10,
20, and 160 meters. Matt is a new operator here and he will hopefully be a
member of the team for years to come.
Thanks to those who called in and thanks for a real fun contest.
73, Jerry - K0TV
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Call: K0UK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 240,792
We had fun hunting multipliers and pushing buttons. Worked well. PTL bill brown
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Call: K0VXU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 347,760
IC-746PRO, TH6DXX, 40 M slopping vee, 160 Inverted L
Great conditons, lots of activity, great fun. Thanks to all who picked out my
weak signal. Hours before the contest my linear went down, so this one was a
low power attempt. Except for NAQP, I always have been high power. The
adjustment took a while, especially in trying to work through mini pile ups.
Many times I was surpised to work stations in a pile up without too much
difficulty. Of course, most of my activity was on 10 and 15 where power isn't
as meaningful. 20 and below was another story.
All Q's were made 2 March. I wasn't sure I would have any time for this test,
but a winter storm blew in that put a damper on other activities which gave me
time to play.
Nonetheless, it was lots of fun. See you next year.
73,
Russ - K0VXU
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Call: K1DG Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 796,416
IC7700, AL1200
5 Element yagi at 90 feet
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Call: K1ESE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 868,395
Had a great time for a part-time effort. Ten meters was super. Managed to get
the 10 minute rate near 200 and the 30 minute rate about 170 during a run on
ten. Only minor equipment issues.
This is far better than expected with a couple of wires in the trees. Setup -
K3, Herc II amp (500w), two doublets.
73 de K1ESE
John
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Call: K1HI Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 401,544
Used NaP3 panadapter software. What a GREAT TOOL for 10M.
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Call: K1KNQ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 24,522
XCVR - FT1000D, Alpha 87A (TenTec Omni VI+)
Antenna - 4 square Vertical array + beverages
Software - N1MM
It was one of those Murphy weekends for me.
My venerable Omni VI failed on Friday night.
I busted my Heil headset and my foot switch stopped working.
3V8BB kept CQing in my face..
73
Jack
K1KNQ
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Call: K1LT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 877,716
I didn't consider this contest until it had been running for a couple
of hours. When I remembered I got on the air to see how many
multipliers I could accumulate by pointing and clicking. At first I
thought I would stick to just one QSO per country, but that made
pointing and clicking a bit boring at times. So I worked other
interesting stations, and after a while it became almost every station
that showed up on the band map.
I was surprised how often I cam across other stations that were doing
the same thing. Interestingly, there were too few spots on 80 and
especially 160, so I had to go tuning for some QSOs. Hopefully the
guys doing the tuning and spotting will keep on tuning and spotting.
After a while I decided that my goal was to work DXCC on at least 1
band and make a million points. I got the multipliers but fell short
on the QSOs and points.
I was required to take a half-day break Saturday to look at a job
related problem. I also had household chores and a child to look
after. But I did stay up too late each night and slept for at least 8
hours, so I didn't work as many of the European multipliers as I might
have otherwise.
Other than 3V, CN and ZS, I didn't hear any Africans. I saw spots for
9J2T but I though someone was spoofing PJ2T, especially since a couple
of times the spots were for the same frequency. But apparently 9J2T
was real. Oh well.
No suprise multiplier since I called them all myself. I did work a
new country though, FW on 10 meters, on the first call, no pileup,
after he had already been spotted. Lucky break.
Six banders: PJ2T, 8P5A, VP5H, TI8M, V26M, T48K, II9P, TM6M, PJ4G,
P40L, and HK1NA. I had 14 5 band QSOs. I volunteered to move to 160
in the first hour!
DX worked 3V, 6Y, 7X, 8P, 9A, 9K, 9L, BY, C6, CE, CM, CN, CT, CT3, CU,
CX, DL, E5/s, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EI, ES, EU, F, FG, FM, FR, FW, FY, G,
GI, GJ, GM, GW, HA, HB, HB0, HC, HI, HK, HZ, I, IS, J7, JA, KH2, KH6,
KL, KP2, KP4, LA, LU, LX, LY, LZ, OA, OD, OE, OH, OH0, OK, OM, ON, OZ,
P4, PA, PJ2, PJ4, PJ5, PJ7, PY, PZ, S5, SM, SP, SV, SV5, SV9, TA, TF,
TG, TI, TK, UA, UA2, UA9, UN, UR, V2, V3, V4, VK, VP2M, VP5, VP9, XE,
YB, YL, YN, YO, YS, YU, YV, Z3, ZD8, ZF, ZL, ZP, and ZS. 110
countries and 103 were on 10 meters.
Equipment: K3, P3, Alpha 8410 with extra fans to suppress the internal
blower; Cushcraft X7 at 60 feet; Cushcraft A3S at 30 feet; 40 meter
vertical with 32 32-foot radials on the ground; 80 meter "cage"
wires
around the 65 foot 160 meter "T" antenna with 70 125-foot radials on
the ground; and receive antennas and phased arrays and stuff.
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Call: K1RV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,104,480
Great band condx. I really enjoyed myself even though CW is my preferred mode.
Rig K3, P3, KAT500, KPA500. Antennas: Steppir BigIR vertical and 160 meter
inverted L with 2 raised radials.
Pi - K1RV
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Call: K1RX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,033,223
Very limited time but really enjoyed the great runs. Looked to be another
excellent weekend for conditions.
Pileup behavior is getting so much better - thanks! Still finding a lot of
dirty transmitters though.
73, Mark, K1RX
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Call: K1SD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 833,976
K3 @ 100w
SkyHawk @ 70'; A4S @ 42'; Inverted Vs.
73 James K1SD
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Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,312,172
After making over 10,000 QSOs as W1AW/4 during the 7-day period that ended just
3 days before ARRL SSB began, my thought was just to operate ARRL SSB in a fun
way. Remembering how excellent 10M was during CQ WW SSB 2011 during the first
hump of this double-hump sunspot peak, and given the unresolved noise problems
here locally, I decided to maximize 10M and minimize the low band pain. Condx
were tough during the W1AW/4 week, with the K-index peaking at 6 and often
above 2, so it was refreshing to have better condx for this weekend.
I really enjoy working JAs (over 1000 as W1AW/4), so instead of going for max
score by starting on 40 to work EU, I started on 10 and had over 100 JA QSOs,
then had close to 100 more on 15 in the 2nd hour. The opening to the Far East
on our Saturday evening was not good here, though. Tried a bunch of different
run freqs on 10 & 15 and never got much going. Only 365 total JA QSOs this
weekend, despite CQing in that direction for quite a few hours.
I never have managed to set up SO2R on SSB, and this weekend was yet another
SSB contest with just one radio. Thanks to the many ops who willingly tried
another band with me to boost the mult count.
The downside for me in SSB contests is the intense QRM. Finding a run freq on
any band but 10M was a struggle. And even 10M was difficult with the frequency
often being taken over by W2s who cannot (or just refuse to) hear us and
immediately generate a pile-up in EU. I think I got bounced around 8 times on
Sunday. Then there are the jammers of various types - bursts of tones on 10M,
net operators who think that they own a freq, etc. Then there are the ops in
various categories who leave a run freq that I unknowingly take over who come
back after I've already made a few QSOs and battle to get it back. Had
particular struggles with ops in NY and VT, the former of whom decided to QRM
me from 800 Hz below relentlessly and the latter of whom said something like
"OK, we can battle it out". Sheesh. Not the ham radio spirit at
all.
The real highlight of the SSB contests is the ability to say hello to friends
around the world. Thanks to everyone, including those in rarer countries, who
took the time to work us Americans, especially on multiple bands. Those things
absolutely override the downsides and keep me coming back for more SSB.
Having made over 17,000 QSOs in the past 16 days, it's time to rejoin the real
world and leave the radio off for a while. May have to skip WPX SSB, meaning
that the next contest on the calendar is the FL QSO Party at the end of April.
vy 73, Dan
P.S. Fine scores from K4XS Unlimited up the road from me and from VY2ZM who
deserves his own category, as well as the growing K3LR dynasty.
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Call: K1VSJ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 237,888
I chose to do a single band 10 since I had family commitments that took care of
Friday night and Saturday from 20:30Z on. Probably didn't miss too much since I
was on Sunday for the last 3.5 hours of the contest. However I also had an
important band(not amateur) rehearsal from 17:30 to 20:30 on Sunday and when
left EU was still strong. Had a 152 hour Sat. morning which was the best run I
ever had. Should've had a few more mults but it's tough to leave a good run !!
One suggestion to the ARRL contest committee is to have separate category for
assisted and unassisted for single band entries like the CQWW.
My station: Icom 756 pro3 and a Mosley CL-33 (vintage 1966) at 55 ft. No
internet, etc., just an old windows 98 computer with CT-9. I guess the
advantage of single band 10 is that I can actually get some sleep !!!
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Call: K1ZO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 128,310
Although I operated Single Band/Low Power, I did use the DX Cluster.
Entry reclassified as Single Op Unlimited - High Power
Doug - K1ZO
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Call: K1ZR Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 664,848
Casual single band effort....work demands have prevented me from running SOABHP
in the ARRL DX tests this year. Can't wait to finish the last major phase of
the station build this upcoming off-season!
TNX for all the Q's.
Shane K1ZR
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Call: K1ZW Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 38,880
IC-7100, Tennedyne T-8, Gap Titan
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Call: K2AX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,223,310
Thanks guys we beat last year by a meg
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Call: K2DSL Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 305,955
Lots of fun when 10m is active. Great to work the world on 100w.
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Call: K2HN Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 18,228
Wrecked my back before the contest - did this for a while standing up:)
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Call: K2LE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 163,500
Had to fly home from P40LE QTH a day earlier because of the predicted snowstorm
in NY
Got on the air for a few hours on Sunday, just for fun
Tnx Andy K2LE
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Call: K2NV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,640,853
Wow! Conditions on 10 meters were unreal. Wide open!!
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Call: K2PI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 89,856
FT-817ND, ZS6BKW dipole @40FT, Ground mounted Vertical, and Inverted L @50 FT.
Took the K3 and Amp offline for this run, a bit of practice for VAQP later in
the month. I'd forgotten how satisfying working QRP was and how amazing it
could be. While I am sure many monster stations did the work on many of my
QSO's (and were extremely patient with my weak signal) I also worked quite a
few with low power and wire antennas themselves. I especially liked the dozen
or so times when I managed to break a fair sized pileup with a call or two.
That was a heady feeling.
I will never get over the miracle of HF operation, inducing a tiny amount of
voltage into some other persons antenna from 7,000 miles away, and having them
respond to that.
Thanks to everyone who listened hard for me through the huge amount of
activity.
73,
Harv
K2PI
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Call: K2PS Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 225,504
Now that was a good contest! Got the 10M yagi up in the backyard for the
weekend again (antenna-restricted), convincing the XYL to help me guide the
mast into the rotator (which is only about two feet off the ground) as I lifted
the mast/beam into place. And this time I even managed to extend the mast so
that we cleared the eaves of my one-story house! How nice to be able to rotate
the antenna 360 degrees once more. I'll be sad to take it down today, but I
sure can't complain about the weekend.
A lovely opening to Asia lasted about an hour the first night, and with 100
watts and a 17-foot high yagi, working JA is a joy. Snagged about 20 until the
band closed. Then helped the XYL (paybacks) get ready to host the
"progressive" dinner Saturday night (appetizers in one place, dinner
in another, and dessert in a third home) for folks in our new neighborhood.
The morning EU opening started with a loud CR2X at 1130Z, about 20 minutes
before sunrise, and I poked along until about 1530Z when I finally got a small
run going. That took off when I got spotted, and that was amazing! Had the
rate meter up to 321, and it stayed in the 200s for probably 20 minutes. What
a blast! Had to quit at about 2200Z for the dinner, a small price to pay.
Sunday repeated the EU experience, although the run peak came a couple hours
earlier, again boosted by a spotter, just a bit less intense.
Glad to be able to contribute my score to the Florida Contest Group. But sure
did miss giving out the DC multiplier - I got a number of disappointed people
needing to confirm that indeed it was "59 Florida" that I was handing
out.
73, Pete, K2PS/4
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Call: K2QO Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 47,526
Yet another short QRP effort this season. It has been super windy this winter
and especially the past few weeks. My Yaesu 800DXA braking system bit the dust
and the antenna stack has been wandering around. Luckily, this weekend was
fairly calm so I had some idea where the Yagi was pointed. More to fix.
73,
Mark K2QO
FN03ra
K3 at 5W, Force 12 C4E and a 220' center fed dipole up about 40', Skookum
Logger 1.7.18.
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Call: K2TE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,749,492
Not a big fan of SSB, but I was pleasantly surprised at the rates I was able to
sustain, especially on 10. Sure is nice to have all that room, hi. Working a
bunch of JAs plus some rare mults in the Zone 27 & 28 on the first call in
the last few hours made it a lot of fun. Reminds me of the last sunspot peak
when I ran JAs for two hours as part of a M/M. I remember working just 3
stations in an hour at midday on 20 back then - everyone was on 10!
73 de TE
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Call: K2ZR/4 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 73,008
Rig: K2 @ 75W Ant: 40M Windom Log: N1MM
Friday night I a 40M audio issue. P40L noted I had a badly distorted SSB signal
which almost impossible to understand. I had been on 15 & 20 and all was FB.
Saturday morning I found a loud signal on 40 from W4COT on a near dead band.
Bob, not in the contest took a few minutes to listen to my tests running only
10W. Both of us agreed it was RF getting into the K2 via the mic. Clipped on a
ferrite, tested at different power levels and bingo, 40 SSB signal was now
clean. Thanks to P40L & W4COT for their patience and taking a bit of time
to help!
My first ARRL DX SSB in a very long time: I had fun but true love is CW.
Thanks for the Qs.
73,
Dick, K2ZR/4
Key West, IOTA NA-062
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Call: K3BZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 420,651
Had a good time in spite of Murphy. Thanks to all who worked me .. or tried to.
73, Jerry K3BZ
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Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,526,340
Just practicing phone ...
Thanks to Jim, WA3FET for letting me use the station and fixing the 80m antenna
in the super cold weather last week.
73, Alex
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Call: K3KU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 19,950
Just casually calling the loud ones Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Interesting QSO:Mult ratio. In retrospect, I should have tried to get at least
one QSO on 160 so I could qualify for QSOed All Bands. Biggest thrill was
hearing friend VE4EA work somebody, giving Cary a quick "up 2", and
getting to chat with him for a moment.
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Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 19,554,609
Another great run in the USA DX Multi Multi competition during the ARRL
International phone DX contest. Congratulations to the W3LPL team for an
outstanding score! Year after year they set the standard for comparison for
Multi Multi competition here in the USA. Their continuous string in major
efforts in DX contests is simply unmatched. Also congrats to the WE3C team for
a super score as well.
The frozen weather and changing solar conditions in this contest tested the
operators and the hardware at K3LR! This is one reason we run full out in these
major DX operating events - you never know what will happen!
The contest activity was great this weekend and there was lots of DX for all 48
hours. Sharing our friendship via radio with others around the world is what
makes this the most amazing hobby in the world.
My thanks to the talented K3LR contestmen - good friends - that traveled from
all over to be a part of this special weekend at K3LR. Great operators are the
secret to doing well in a radio contest and these guys are the best!
No K3LR effort happens without the dedicated hard work by Dave, W9PA
who puts the entire computer network together for each contest and helps with
many of the K3LR station projects. Also thanks to Greg, W8WWV for is help with
new switching systems that worked really well this weekend.
The K3LR station description is at http://www.k3lr.com click on HARDWARE
K3LR QSL cards are available on ARRL LoTW, eQSL and via the QSL Bureau.
Also via direct mail. We QSL 100 percent. K3LR is up-to-date on Club Log.
We look forward to hearing you in the CQ WorldWide contests this Fall.
Hope to see you at Visalia, California in April or in Dayton, Ohio this May!
Follow Team K3LR on FaceBook - click from the K3LR home page for the latest
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>From the K3LR Contest Team
Very 73,
Tim K3LR
K3lr at k3lr.com
http://www.k3lr.com
BAND QSOS COUNTRIES OPERATORS
160 133 60 N2NC
80 458 90 N5UM + K3LR
40 1499 117 KL9A + W2RQ
20 2246 148 N2NT + K1AR + N3SD
15 2418 140 K3UA + DL6LAU
10 2679 136 N3GJ + NP4G
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Totals 9433 691 = 19,554,609
Continent Statistics
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 25 40 69 141 117 149 541 5.6
South America 6 18 50 101 111 272 558 5.8
Europe 98 376 1162 1625 1917 1921 7099 73.6
Asia 0 10 114 211 256 289 880 9.1
Africa 2 6 24 37 35 35 139 1.4
Oceania 4 16 131 180 53 45 429 4.4
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 4/4 24/17 125/39 119/56 57/30 84/19 413/165 413/165
1 8/7 46/15 48/8 60/18 56/8 29/3 247/59 660/224
2 7/7 14/6 34/11 51/11 56/1 . 162/36 822/260
3 13/8 47/6 54/13 47/6 27/2 . 188/35 1010/295
4 15/3 30/4 41/3 56/0 . . 142/10 1152/305
5 12/9 28/7 59/3 48/2 . . 147/21 1299/326
6 9/4 26/7 76/6 57/5 . . 168/22 1467/348
7 1/0 18/2 91/7 123/7 . . 233/16 1700/364
8 2/1 9/4 87/3 120/4 1/1 ..... 219/13 1919/377
9 1/1 6/5 49/0 85/1 . . 141/7 2060/384
10 2/2 4/0 32/3 50/2 55/20 1/1 144/28 2204/412
11 . . 20/2 100/4 172/26 77/30 369/62 2573/474
12 . . 17/1 53/4 239/13 264/29 573/47 3146/521
13 . . . 44/4 169/10 307/16 520/30 3666/551
14 . . . 9/2 121/3 230/4 360/9 4026/560
15 . . . 13/0 131/1 166/4 310/5 4336/565
16 ..... ..... ..... 16/0 100/0 115/0 231/0 4567/565
17 . . . 75/1 111/3 116/3 302/7 4869/572
18 . . . 71/2 101/0 48/0 220/2 5089/574
19 . . 1/0 65/1 56/2 34/3 156/6 5245/580
20 . . 1/0 83/1 59/1 38/4 181/6 5426/586
21 . . 31/1 96/3 37/3 55/3 219/10 5645/596
22 . 1/0 75/2 72/0 19/1 67/0 234/3 5879/599
23 1/1 17/2 56/0 11/0 12/0 66/5 163/8 6042/607
0 ..... 15/2 31/0 21/0 29/2 27/0 123/4 6165/611
1 . 11/0 32/3 12/0 52/0 8/0 115/3 6280/614
2 2/0 12/1 25/2 22/1 7/0 1/0 69/4 6349/618
3 2/0 14/2 25/3 14/1 1/0 . 56/6 6405/624
4 13/2 19/2 29/0 22/1 . . 83/5 6488/629
5 17/5 23/0 20/1 15/0 . . 75/6 6563/635
6 4/0 38/1 72/0 16/0 . . 130/1 6693/636
7 1/0 15/2 67/1 11/0 . . 94/3 6787/639
8 ..... 4/0 42/0 8/0 ..... ..... 54/0 6841/639
9 1/1 3/0 26/0 14/0 . . 44/1 6885/640
10 3/1 2/1 38/3 44/1 . . 87/6 6972/646
11 . 4/1 16/0 83/1 81/1 12/0 196/3 7168/649
12 . 1/0 15/0 47/1 98/3 118/1 279/5 7447/654
13 . . . 12/0 98/0 163/3 273/3 7720/657
14 . . . 10/1 58/1 129/1 197/3 7917/660
15 . . . 16/1 69/1 123/2 208/4 8125/664
16 ..... ..... ..... 20/0 46/0 84/2 150/2 8275/666
17 . . . 39/1 59/1 85/1 183/3 8458/669
18 . . . 33/0 43/2 36/0 112/2 8570/671
19 . . 1/0 63/1 64/1 31/0 159/2 8729/673
20 . . 10/0 69/0 54/0 39/0 172/0 8901/673
21 . . 51/0 55/1 28/0 30/1 164/2 9065/675
22 . 2/0 72/1 55/1 28/2 52/0 209/4 9274/679
23 15/4 25/2 30/0 21/1 24/0 44/1 159/8 9433/687
DAY1 75/47 270/75 897/102 1524/134 1579/125 1697/124 ..... 6042/607
DAY2 58/13 188/14 602/14 722/13 839/14 982/12 . 3391/84
TOT 133/60 458/90 1499/117 2246/148 2418/140 2679/136 . 9433/691
QSO Counts By Band-Country
K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi
PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10
3A 1 1
3B8 1 1 1
3DA 1 1 1
3V 1 1 1 1 1
4J 1 1 2
4S 2
4X 2 5 6 4
5H 1 1 2 2 2
6W 2 1 3 2
6Y 1 2 1 1
7X 1 1 2 2
8P 1 2 3 5 3 3
9A 1 4 13 17 25 25
9H 1 2 1
9J 1
9K 1 3 1 3
9L 1 1 1 1
9M2 1
9M6 1 2 1 1
9V 1 1 1
9Y 2 2 1 1 1
A4 1
A6 1 1 1 2 2
A7 1 2 1
A9 3 1 2
BV 1 1 1
BY 8 4 2
C6 2 2 2 4 3 3
C9 1 1 1
CE 5 12 10 31
CE9 1
CM 2 4 7 6 11 8
CN 1 2 2 4 3 2
CP 1 1
CT 1 2 8 15 15 18
CT3 1 2 2
CU 1 1 2 2 2 3
CX 2 3 7 9
D4 2 2 1 1
DL 14 54 178 234 323 287
DU 1 3 2 2
E5/s 1 1 1 1
E7 2 2 5 6 5 7
EA 5 20 51 87 97 97
EA6 1 1 2 6 5 5
EA8 1 1 8 10 9 10
EI 3 8 16 19 22 19
EK 1 1 1
ER 2 3 4 2
ES 1 4 6 9 6
EU 1 5 10 12 13 11
EY 1
F 2 21 72 85 90 81
FG 2 2 3 4 2 4
FK 1 2 1 1 1
FM 1 2 2 4 4 3
FO 1
FR 1 4 1 1
FW 1
FY 1
G 10 43 148 184 192 199
GD 1 2 2 2
GI 1 2 6 13 12 10
GJ 2 1 1
GM 1 7 13 16 19 29
GU 1 2 2 1 3
GW 1 5 16 15 16 27
HA 5 7 20 20 24 28
HB 2 5 17 19 28 32
HB0 1 1 1 2 2 1
HC 1 1 3 3 3
HI 2 2 2 12 3 8
HK 1 2 5 9 7 10
HL 3 1 3
HR 1
HS 1 4 5 3
HZ 1 3 5 4 5
I 10 43 159 191 222 253
IS 1 1 1 1 1 3
J3 1
J6 1 1 1
J7 1 1 1 1 1
JA 7 93 100 189 235
JT 1 1 1
KG4 1 1 1 1
KH2 1 3 2 3 2
KH6 3 4 8 16 10 11
KL 1 3 7 7 14 14
KP2 3 3 3 4 4 6
KP4 1 2 11 61 49 73
LA 1 5 17 20 21 21
LU 1 2 3 16 27 96
LX 1 2 1 4 3
LY 1 7 7 12 11
LZ 1 4 17 13 15 25
OA 1 2 1 1 1
OD 1 1 1
OE 1 3 7 22 21 24
OH 12 20 33 21
OH0 1 1 1 1 2
OK 3 11 22 29 43 39
OM 1 5 8 16 23 18
ON 2 13 34 48 47 67
OX 1
OY 1
OZ 1 6 17 27 29 29
P4 2 2 2 2 4 2
PA 7 16 60 128 113 152
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1
PJ4 1 1 1 3 1 3
PJ5 1 1 1 1 1 1
PJ7 1 1 1 2
PY 4 20 40 33 97
PZ 1 1 1 1
S5 2 6 22 35 39 28
SM 10 33 55 64 46
SP 7 22 48 59 86 71
SV 3 8 18 26 26 36
SV5 1 1 2 1
SV9 1 1 1 1 1
TA 4 8 10 11
TF 4 3 1
TG 1
TI 1 1 1 1 1 2
TK 1 1 2
UA 3 21 77 80 68
UA2 1 3 3 3
UA9 1 6 48 20 9
UN 8 1 1
UR 2 9 25 26 53 45
V2 1 1 1 1 1 1
V3 1 1 1 2 1 1
V4 2 2 2 2 1
VK 1 7 91 111 12 14
VK9X 1
VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 1
VP2V 1 1
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1
VP8 1
VP9 1 1 1 1 1 1
VR 1 1 1
VU 3 2 2
XE 3 4 11 11 7 9
XW 1
YB 13 8 14 4
YL 1 2 4 5 6 7
YN 1 1 1 1 2
YO 1 10 23 23 39 35
YS 1 1 1 1 1
YU 2 5 13 13 18 10
YV 2 5 6 11 12
Z3 3 1 5
ZD8 1
ZF 1 1 1 2
ZL 2 11 34 10 8
ZP 1 2 4
ZS 6 7 6 6
ZS8 1
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Call: K3OO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 765,072
I don't think I have ever heard contest activity as high on the 10m band as this
past weekend..What great cdx on 10m.
73,
Rick K3OO
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Call: K3OQ Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 101,007
Had not planned to participate anticipating to be at Spring Training in FL.
However a family emergency prevented me from making the trip...so got to spend
about 6 and 1/2 hours. All S & P and Click and Pounce. Rig: FT2000 and
antenna is 170 foot long wire. Had fun.
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Call: K3PA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,675,440
Conditions not so good; lacked good EU runs in KS.
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Call: K3PP Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,269,385
My best showing ever in this contest! I set a goal of 2000 QSOs and 3 million
points, but I was pretty tired at the start. I did have to sleep both nights,
but I pushed to sleep less than my body wanted. QSO goal: Check! Points goal:
Check!
Conditions were good. I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of my
low-band antennas, although I really DO need to do something better there.
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs!
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Call: K3TUF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 488,268
Got some time to have fun, boy 10 meters was loaded with signals and a real
blast. Worked the Flex 6000 into the mix.
Phil K3TUF
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Call: K3WA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 137,376
Soapbox: Given my absolute enjoyment of SSB contests, I put in about 4 hours of
S&Ping working new
mults and a few old friends. Even shoveling snow this morning was more fun.
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Call: K3YDX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 149,076
My intention was to casually look for needed DXCC entities on 40 and 80 meters
and did some of that Friday night but then was made aware of how open the other
bands were so I began working the others. Great fun even with limited antennas.
Thanks for all the QSO's and good time.
73
Hank
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Call: K3ZJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,050,073
FT1000MP MKV > Acom 2000A.
Antennas were tribander & wire: TH7DX @ 48 feet (15 meters) for 10-15-20
& trap inverted V with center @ 69 feet (21 meters) for 40-80-160 using
Unadilla traps.
Short story: excellent propagation and weekend. Long story: lots of problems,
but got it done. This was my re-introduction to SOAB, after a 20-plus year
hiatus doing single-band entries or being absent due to parenting duties.
Arrived back from Europe very late Wednesday night due to cancellation of the
transatlantic portion of my booked flight. Last year I got back on Tuesday and
had adjusted to the time difference by Friday, but that one day made a big
difference -- I put in a 14-hour work day Thursday and was still out of synch
when I got to the K3ZJ WV mountain cabin/station late Friday morning. The
ground was still covered with snow although much of the 3 1/2 feet from the two
previous weeks had melted earlier in the week when temperatures were in the
40's. But Friday it was 20 degrees outside (-11 C) and 23 degrees (-9 C)
inside at 11am .... welcome to West Virginia!
Unlike last year, the TH7DX was still in place and rotated, but its SWR had
shifted from 14.165 to 13.780 and on 15 meters the "dip" had
disappeared with SWR pretty much 2.5-1 across the band. 10 meters was OK. But
the antenna rotated and took power, which was better than the low band antenna.
The 40/80/160 trap inverted V had one leg lying somewhere under a snow drift.
There also were several large trees and some huge branches down from the ice
storms.
First thing was to get the wood stove fired up. Then I had to chip through
ice-covered snow to get to the water valves so that I could have water for the
weekend, as well as pull up one leg of the inverted V that obviously had
severed before the snow fell. Immediate back-up plan was to single-band 10 or
20 using TH7DX, but by 4pm the temperature had risen just above freezing so the
ice on the snow and tower rungs was melting. Dug up the wire, climbed the tower
to retrieve the inverted V center point, made repairs, and by dark at 6:15p the
dipole was back up and resonating on 40 & 80. But 160 was well below the
band and it was too dark to continue working.
Unexpectedly, rig and laptop problems were still ahead. The Flex6500 that
worked flawlessly on its maiden outing the weekend before in Denmark would not
move out of transmit mode when activated, although the receiver seemed fine.
Fortunately the FT1000MP Mark V that it was to replace remained on the shelf,
so it was pressed into service even though it couldn't be connected to my
laptop so I had to remember to change bands manually in the log all weekend.
All was set, and only a few minutes late ... but then the footswitch would not
activate the FT1000! A quick check showed the footswitch to be working, but
wouldn't key the transmitter through the Heil adapter. This was a mystery, but
I started setting up VOX since the contest already had begun. At least this
would be better than the mic taped to a wine bottle that I had used the weekend
before at OZ/K3ZJ. And with the contest already started, it would take too long
to cut a phono connector from a TV connecting cable -- my only source for
connectors fitting the rig to key the transmitter because Heil uses a different
plug on the footswitch than most manufacturers use on their rigs. Another
problem was that when fixing the inverted V I had determined that there no
longer was any solder in the house -- it probably is still in Denmark -- so
attaching the connector to the footswitch was going to be a problem. As I
struggled to set up the VOX, I noticed a second Heil adapter for Yaesu rigs on
the shelf in its original wrapping, so I tried it -- and it worked! Something
is wrong with the first Heil adapter wire/plug, never would have thought of
that!
To further complicate matters, a blizzard was predicted to start at about the
time the contest would end, and I needed to be at work Monday afternoon, so I
knew I had to leave the mountain immediately after the contest if not a little
earlier before the road down became impassable. The drive also would require
my staying awake, so I would need at least 3 hours sleep each night to make the
drive halfway safely. So this would be a casual operation.
Friday night and Saturday morning several stations asked me to be on 160, so I
decided to close down Saturday afternoon and trim the dipole for 160. Since
the ends terminate near the ground, this was relatively easy and didn't require
tower climbing. Saturday evening I was rewarded with a decent EU opening for a
change, so that was a good move.
In the end conditions were excellent on all bands, I got the sleep needed to
avoid being stranded on the mountain, and I made it back home safely Sunday
evening just ahead of the snow. Of course, the government closed down on
Monday due to all the snow so I didn't have to be back after all, but who would
have known?
After two-plus decades doing single-band entries, this weekend was an
experience to re-learn SOAB. The excellent conditions help hide my errors, and
the results also reflect my sleep and the TH7DX's 15-meter problems. But 10
meters was hot!
Best SOAB score I have ever achieved, but there are many more participants than
20+ years ago when I last entered SOAB so its impossible to compare.
73, Dave K3ZJ
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Call: K4AB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,314,328
Awesome conditions!
Missed 10 hours during the day Saturday because of work
but still had a bang-up time.
73,
Larry K4AB
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Call: K4EU Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 177,177
Very neat to hear 10m wide open 28300 to 28999.... Some of those QRP signals
were loud - worked 57 stations running less than 100w and 32 stations running 5
watts or less.... I5KAP wins 1st prize running 1w while PA3HDM is a close 2nd
running 2w..... Thanks for all the QSOs.....
73.....//Steve K4EU
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Call: K4HQK Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 2,800
Armed with a search-and-pounce strategy to finish DXCC Phone, this CW operator
plunged in with 100w, a vertical, dipoles, and a longwire--and nabbed the
needed new entities. Ten meters was so hot I thought it was 1958 all over
again. What a joy!
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Call: K4IKM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,766,952
My personal best in this event. I am not a good phone contester but I get in
there and slug it out with S&P. Didn't run at all in this event.
As always, thanks to all the DX who gave me the Q's! Without them my score
would be ZERO.
Steve...K4IKM....73!....Go FRC!
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Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 99,225
Loving ten meters while the sun is shining! These kind of conditions will soon
be a memory.
Confirmation #: 4252167.arrl-dx-ssb
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Call: K4TOJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 14,616
Once again, enjoyed the contest. Used a TS-590S with Carolina Windom Compact 80
at about 10 Meters. All S&P. Thanks to those who responded to my call!
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Call: K4VV Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,601,216
Because of a serious, impending storm and a crippling problem with the Internet,
our best-laid.vast plans, ended up being only half-vast.
Bill-W3UL and Mike-W0YR operated both as ROs (remote operator) and ISOs (In
Shack Operator) during periods the Internet connection was useful.
Astounding and sometimes, very odd conditions on 10 and 15, but then, everyone
experienced this.
Contest Sponsors might consider issuing an advisory to US ops about operating
LSB on 7.125 MHz. Many US ops think since the band ends at 7125 and their xcvr
dial reads "7125" that they are still in the band. LZ4# sat on 7.125
for hours, luring the ignorant into illegality. Here's grist for those who
deny that Amateur Radio has been dumbed down in some respects. And, Oh! the
arguments! Tsk, tsk! Clearly, US stations whose logs show operation on 7.125
MHz, LSB should see those QSOs deleted and penalities applied.
On 20 meters, US stations were operating with seeming impunity on 14.248 and
14.249, USB! Those fancy SDR recordings can bear this out.
Nice to hear so many QRP operations. Must say those ops are indefatigable and
have excellent technique!
Thanks for the QSOs. We could use some help in shoveling snow.
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Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 431,244
had a BLAST!, still having problems with staying in the chair; have to get up
every 30 or 40 minutes and walk around! 10 was wide open: mid-east well
represented:SV,3V8,4X,A61,A71,TA,SV5,SV9,TK5,and HZ1; Far east pretty gud too:
HL,RT0,JA,YB,BG2,DU4,9M6,V85,KH2! Been a long time since I wkd V85 on 10!
Sunday morning suddenly had a major pileup show up on me: next 25 stations in
the log were all dupes... finally stopped the pileup and stated my call 5 times
and announced I would work no more dupes! I don't know what was going on but
took another 10 minutes for the wkd B4 to stop! Another peeve that is a time
waster is the west coast guys calling in to give a contact, they get mad if you
don't work them so i give them a report but don't log them, fastest way around I
guess! Thanks for all the contacts! 73's Cort
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Call: K4XS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 7,442,385
Conditions = WOW!
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Call: K5EWJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 257,796
Conditions were very good, particularly on 10 meters. Time was limited because
of Saturday morning meeting. Antennas used were 3 element SteppIR @ 21 meters
and combined 75 meter vertical and 160 meter L. Equipment was TS-480SAT and
SPE Expert 1K-FA. Logging Software was N1MM with HP Win7 Computer.
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Call: K5JX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 100,320
Elecraft K3
Ameritron AL82
Inverted V at 30 feet
N1MM Logger
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Call: K5NA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 337,554
I had a bad cold with a sore throat at the end of the week. It was obvious that
any serious or semi-serious effort was out of the question.
So I thought I would just do some search and pouncing using the voice keyer in
the K3 to help out the club score. That didn't work so well because I had old
friends asking me "how are you?" when I would call them. Then I would
scramble to pick up the microphone to respond. I admit it was pleasureful to say
"hello" to so many old friends.
I didn't make many QSOs until Sunday afternoon when I started feeling better
and could use my own voice to call and give reports to folks. My low-band
totals suffered the most because I went to bed early both nights.
My congratulations to all the high scorers.
73, Richard - K5NA
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Call: K5TR Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 612,522
Thanks to George K5TR for the opportunity to really enjoy the 10M action this
year. I haven't been focused solely on 10M in a SSB contest since some CQWW
multi-ops 10+ years ago with N6AA, N6ZZ(SK) and the team as EY2A, TK4Z, C5Z, et
al. This year certainly didn't disappoint. Fun!
Station
http://www.k5tr.net
Elecraft K3 & P3
Alpha 99 amp
TR-Log(Linux)
10M antennas:
+ 26' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 130'
+ 24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 60'
+ 24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 30' fixed NE
+ 4-element Yagi @ 40' fixed SE
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Call: K5YAA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 227,610
Great conditions rained down on us again.
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Call: K5ZD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 352,512
Business travel had me heading for the airport at 1530z Saturday. That only
meant a few hours of operation on Friday night. Wasn't going to turn the radio
on (and be tempted to spend too much time), but couldn't resist. Used the
Cluster so I could maximize the mults and work my friends on multiple bands.
Definitely time to do some antenna work this summer.
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Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 19,320
A new station record for this event. Conditions were great, except for 20m which
seemed to be really difficult. The Mid-West and East Coast were like a wall. So
I didn't spend a lot of time there. 40, 15 and 10 were the most productive for
my power and antennas. I bought and installed a new Maldol HVU-8 Compact
Vertical 3 weeks ago. I had tried to get it operational for ARRL DX CW but it
came missing 4 of the tiny Allen set screws for adjusting its multiple tuning
elements and it took a week to get them from the distributor. Then after a week
of working with it I found that I was unable to accomplish its extremely
complicated tuning. It is on its way back to HRO in Oakland and will be
replaced by a HyGain 12AVT vertical for 10, 15 and 20M. It is only 12ft long
and I will be able to hide it behind my mobile home. So hopefully it will help
improve my scores. I would not recommend the Maldol HVU-8 Compact Vertical for
any small station owner who does not own an Antenna Analyzer. Bert, K6CSL
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Call: K6GHA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 337,386
This was fun! But you can have too much fun, so I couldn’t put a full time
effort into this event. Late to start, family activities, and unexpected events
around the QTH only allowed for a part time effort.
Key highlights included; 3V8BB Tunisia, ZR9C South Africa, RA22A Kaliningrad,
and a few other fun DX locations.
10M was the strong player this year and I improved from last year with about 10
less hours. So, it must have been really good for everyone. Hope you had fun
too.
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Call: K6RIM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 346,545
Solar storms caused generally poor propagation EXCEPT for 10 meters, which had
great openings from the West Coast to EU.
73,
Al, K6RIM
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Call: K6SCA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 243,270
10 meter being open like it was to Eurpoe on Sunday morning wawas open
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Call: K6YK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 150,234
All S&P, Had to work on Saturday eve and Sunday afternoon/eve.
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Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 422,304
well what fun, with our wx -20 plus below zero, I was not about to rotate the
beam, so before the wx got bad, pointed it at 45 Degrees and never turned it
for 2 days...only when the temp got up to 0 did I turn it for South America
sunday afternoon...10 meters was great, amazing what I could work with the beam
in only one direction...guess my old TH-6-DXX does not have great F/B hi hi..had
a great time and ten was super from 7 am til sundown...tnx to all for the q's
and a great place to spend my time when the wx was so nasty..everything worked
fine so i was pleased...tried 3 different headsets until i settled for the
Yamaha CM-500 as being the most comfy...k7abv..waiting for spring
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Call: K7BVT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 101,088
Great conditions. RF getting into laptop prevented using wav files for calling
CQ so 95% search and pounce. Will have 75 meter antenna working next time.
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Call: K7EG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 131,400
Casual effort. Least favorite mode. Hope modest effort helps toward trophy
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Call: K7FA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 348,672
Missed first night (Thunder storm & high wind).
Upper-band propagation was exceptional on Saturday.
Supported our Contest Expedition (KH7M, aka NA2U)
by working him on 5-bands, but over-slept and
missed him on 160m.
Thanks - 73, Tom
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Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 100,980
I am not a big fan of phone contests, but this one was interesting due to the
contrast in propagation from Saturday to Sunday. Almost like night and day on
10 meters. too much work for QRP, but still fun. Just turned 70, so should be
able to claim senility for even starting this one.
73,
George K7HBN
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Call: K7JA Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 205,920
Very part time, didn't really get on for Europe either morning (had a better
offer). Had a nice run after 17Z Sunday morning above 29 MHz.
TS-990
7-element OP-DES Yagi @ 70'
73 de Chip K7JA
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Call: K7JQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 311,850
Limited time available...had to work on Saturday. Turned into a 10 and 15 meter
contest for me...tough punching into Eu on 20 meters. Was even a workout to Eu
on 10 and 15, when they were sufficiently open. As mentioned previously, SSB DX
contests using a screwdriver antenna is not a good combo. Still beat last year
by a comfortable margin, with 5 less hours invested. Kudos to my xcvr voice
keyer...it did 95% of the shouting for me. Still had fun, and thanks for the
Q's!
73, Bob K7JQ
Icom IC-7600; THP HL-1.5KFX; Ground mounted screwdriver.
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Call: K7ULS Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 1,260
Powder Mountain 8000'
From the winter condo
FT-897d (100w)
LDG-Tuner
Heil Proset 4
DX-EE dipole
Just Fri night to KH7 and had a brief opening to EU on Sun
to Germany and France heard 9A's but the pile was to big on their end
to hear my little station. Sunday afternoon to SA and a few
Caribbean stations.
de K7ULS
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Call: K7ZS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,366,800
What can you say? 10 meters was in INCREDIBLE shape! Can't say the same for
20
meters, even 15 meters
Another fun outing at the PDXRCC Contest Clubhouse!
Many thanks to Joe KT7E, Steve KE7IHG, Steve #2 N7BEF, Andy KE7AUB, Hank KR7X
and Mark W7ZB for helping keep the station running most of the weekend. The
station played well, everybody got along and we had some nice runs, especially
on 40 meters into Japan on Friday night.
20 meters was a disappointment, 15 was only OK, and of course 10 meters this
weekend was the Money Band.
Special Thanks to Mark W7ZB for his contributions of food, many hours in the
chair, and coaching!
73 Kevin K7ZS
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Call: K8AZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,161,216
The normal multi-op at K8AZ was cancelled due to operator illnesses, vacations
and the impending bad-travel weather, and this was strictly a part-time, have
fun operation due to personal illness.
Superb high band conditions and activity made this especially fun for a
part-timer.
73
Tom, K8AZ
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Call: K8ERS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,426
GOOD BANDS DIDNT HAVE MUCH TIME TO PUT IN TO THE CONTEST BUT HAD FUN DOING IT
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Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,251,936
I've pushed the 4BTV as far as I can. SSB was a lot of work. I slept a lot the
second evening as I was exhausted. Conditions were great! Thanks for the good
time. Thanks for the QRP check ins. I need bigger antennas!
IC765 + LK500ZB 600W 4 BTV and 2 el 80 meter wire vert. Many radials.
K8GL
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Call: K8MR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 41,184
Still enjoying snowbird status in Florida. I once again took the KX3 out to a
small park overlooking Sarasota Bay on Sunday morning. Antenna was a MFJ whip
plunked down in the edge of the water. I was pretty happy with the results,
especially on 10 meters.
While sitting there in a beach chair a few feet from the antenna, a fellow
walked up and asked if I was catching anything. Sure, I replied, I've caught
Ukraine, Croatia, Poland, Germany, etc. Not what he meant - he thought the
antenna was a fishing pole, and was wondering if I had some extra bait he could
use.
73 - Jim K8MR
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Call: K8ND Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 230,076
I just pounced multipliers once in a while during the weekend. No CQing at all.
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Call: K8PGJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 547,344
Due to 2 feet of snow on the ground, only had use of a pair of SteppIrs mounted
in the attic.
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Call: K8PP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 147,678
Very frustrating phone contest LP. Almost every Q required what seemed to be
endless repeats First 4 Qs took almost an hour.
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Call: K9CT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 206,382
It was not practical to do a M/2 this year after coming back from FT5ZM. So
after spending some time with the family, I operated a while on 10m with
assistance to see how quickly I could get to 100 countries....less than five
hours later mission accomplished. Lots of fun and good activity.
73, Craig K9CT
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Call: K9FY Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 439,824
Happy to have experienced condx almost like the ones I thought were the norm
when I got started in the late 50's.
It's amazing how many 1- and 5- watters that made their way into the log.
Even have one 0.5 watter in there.
The only thing that got me a bit concerned were the many MikeGain / Processor
maximizers who were hootin'and shootin' themselves in the foot with distorted
audio.
Many thanks to everyone in my log for the enjoyment of the contact!
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Call: K9GY Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 290,130
Wow my ears are hurting after wearing a Heil headset....ouch! Maybe time to go
back to the old style desk mic? My ears are too big or the headphone cushions
are too small or both, hah!
Love the conditions on the high bands :-) This might be my best S/O showing for
this contest? All S+P with a cushcraft vertical and 100 watts (FT-857).
Best of health to all,
Eric
CQ CONTEST!
DAYTON!
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Call: K9LA Class: M/S LP Total Score = 652,860
We had FUN!
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Call: K9NW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 523,032
IC-746 100w
40m dipole @ 25'
My original plan was to join the P40L team but I had to cancel early in the
week.
So making a few QSOs from home was plan B, with the only antenna currently in
the air being a 40m dipole, itself being a bit lower than usual due to a quick
re-hanging job after it fell down in the ice storm a few weeks back. Made a
whole bunch more QSOs that I would have expected - even forcing enough watts
out on 80 for a handful of QSOs/Mults!
Given the current weather, I'd rather be wrapping things up in Aruba, but this
was quite a bit of fun. Condx were FB!
73, Mike K9NW
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Call: K9RS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,040,885
Still with wires in the woods, had to leave on a trip Sunday morning. Had fun
even though pretty tough going on SSB with these wires, thanks for all the
QSO's.
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Call: K9YC Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 118,275
Although I made a few Qs on 20M (and they are in my log), I chose to enter as
single band 10M. My real objective was to pick up countries on 10M, and
succeeded in adding two.
I started over on DXCC when I moved to CA from Chicago in 2006, and I've now
got 221 worked and 201 confirmed on 10M. Not bad, considering that I didn't
hear a single EU signal until 2010, and put the first EU in the log in 2011.
73, Jim K9YC
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Call: KA9MOM Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 88,128
Should have spent more time on 10 meters. Nice and wide open. Could not hear a
thing on 80 meters. 40 was wall to wall.
IC-718 G5RV
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Call: KB0EO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 252,588
10, 15 and 40 meters were really hopping. As our time is limited on 10 meters
this solar cycle, I spent the majority of time on that band. All the cold
weather drained most of my enthusiasm - hence the meager 7 hour effort.
I chased the boys from VP5H and got them on every band except 40 meters - was
in bed at that time.
It's always fun to hear the MN stations in the pileups - K0TT, K0MD, K0KX and
many others always seemed to be in the middle of the action.
Hopefully we'll get out of this lousy winter soon.
Dan - KB0EO
Northfield, MN
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Call: KB1H Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,876,144
Well, I don't know how many years in a row we have put together an effort in the
four major contests but every one has been fun.
SSB not our favorite mode but we give it our best. The core group has held
together for some 20+ years. Operators and workers
all have the same goal. Have fun and make points. Once again we decided on M/2
even though we had what I say is a small crew.
It's amazing the number of stations that compete in this category with less
operators than us but there are some really good
and well manned stations out there. Our crew this contest was KB1H, W1UJ, NB1U,
K1EBY and N1WK. Kim, N1WK put in quite a few
hours on the overnight which was a big plus.
Crisis number one before the contest started - our coffee machine was not
working. W1UJ arrived an hour after the start and
determned that the last contest when we emptied the water reservoir we had
thrown away a crucial part. Jay went digging
in the snow and found what was missing. Ahhh! We might survive. Jay also
brought his K3 to replace a failed FT-1000. Failures
were not so bad. The biggest hurt was the vacumn relay in the HF Commander amp
went south. NB1U thought 15M was awful slow
to open but it turned out to be the faulty relay. Only few and weak signals!.
For the second contest in a row KB1H had serious seat time. Normally other
commitments and just keeping things rolling means
not much seat time.
One of the first DX contest was in 1984 and that started the string of
consectitive contests. After all these years so many
callsigns have become familiar. We thank all the stations for the QSOs and
especially the stations that helped when asked to
QSY to a second band. I am pretty sure we set a station record for achieving
the moves.
Lots of food. Everyone shows up with a crock pot prepared by the wives and KB1H
XYL provided breakfast and a homemade turkey
rice soup. Needless to say the weather out here has been great
"soup" weather.
Thanks for all the QSOs and now to start planning what we need to work on for
next year!
73
Dick
Dick Pechie - KB1H
The Barnstormers Contest Group - NZ1U
www.qsl.net/KB1H
DXC.KB1H.COM 7300 DxSpider Node
DXC.KB1H.COM 7303 CW Skimmer
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Call: KB5JC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 221,352
Yaesu FT-950 - 3 element 10, 15, and 20 meters - Tri-bander at 50 feet - Dipoles
on 40, 80, amd 160 meters
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Call: KB7V Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 17,112
I operated casually in the contest working a total of 4 1/2 hours when time
permitted. 10 meters was in great condition both days and stayed open to EU
late. 15m also very good. SSB not my favorite mode but I'll "work 'em if
they're there".
Thanks for the QSOs.
FT-2000
AL-80B
Inverted-L (80, 40), Vertical (15), Delta loop (10m)
Wintest
73 de Paul KB7V
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Call: KC0DEB Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 454,530
Freezing temperatures and snowing in Kansas, what a great reason to stay at home
and work DX!
1 hour into the contest I had to dust off the old Icom IC-761, as the 746PRO
started to have some issues... I had no doubt: The old beast still rules !
Search & Pound all the way.
Except for the fact that I had to go shovel snow off the driveway, I enjoyed
this weekend!
Tnx, cu next time ! 73 de John KC0DEB
Band QSOs Pts Cty
7 24 72 21
14 102 306 58
21 210 630 61
28 359 1077 78
Total 695 2085 218
Score: 454,530
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Call: KC2WUF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 64,515
100W dipole
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Call: KC4TEO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 296,496
Unlike the ARRL CW DX Contest, it was DRY here, therefore the traps on my A3S
didn't cause the SWR to go off into never-never land. Conditions seemed to be
decent, although my waning energy levels kept me from late nights and early
mornings.
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Call: KC9UJS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 37,800
[log removed from comments]
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: IL
CALLSIGN: KC9UJS
CLUB: Society of Midwest Contesters
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 37800
OPERATORS: KC9UJS
NAME: Josh Golladay
ADDRESS: 212 Edwards Dr
ADDRESS-CITY: Normal
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: IL
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 61761
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.1.0
END-OF-LOG:
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Call: KD2JA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 260,124
Great band conditions during the whole contest! Too bad I had only a limited
time to work the contest. I did 100% S&P operating and worked everything I
saw in the cluster. Equipment: Icom IC-7700, Icom IC-PW1, Palstar AT5K, Mosley
TA-53M 4 ele. Yagi, Dipole for 40M & 80M, Mac Mini running Windows 7
Ultimate, N1MM Logger.
Had a great time and loved the fact that I heard everything and was heard, even
in pileups! Can you beat that?
73,
Glenn Belkin KD2JA
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Call: KD4VVC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 43,632
[log removed from comments]
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: TN
CALLSIGN: KD4VVC
CLUB: Tennessee Contest Group
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 43632
OPERATORS: KD4VVC
NAME: Scott Gray
ADDRESS: 1314 Arrowhead Drive
ADDRESS-CITY: Brentwood
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: TN
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 37027
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.2.0
END-OF-LOG:
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Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 166,470
Unbelievable propagation. This score is a personal best for me. Ten meters made
it fun. Could not believe the great shape 20 was in when I got on Saturday
night.
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Call: KD7MSC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 409,590
TS-930, Homebrew amplifier, A3S and HF2V.
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Call: KD7VFC Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 341,712
I had a lot of fun. It is good to be back on the air after 15 years abstinence.
My last contest was operating from Germany.
Thanks to Mark NA6M for the use of his station.
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Call: KD9MS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 774,336
Oh my! The sun was good to us this weekend. Excellent conditions! Lots of fun.
The ice storm we are in as I write this locked up my beam antennas at 45 and 60
degrees respectively at about 1600Z so I spent the last 8 hours of the contest
talking on two bands in the same direction. At least they were pointed toward
EU.
73,
Craig KD9MS
P.S. I hope the antennas stay up!
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Call: KE3X Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 37,386
Made a handful of contacts on other bands to accommodate QSY requests and hand
out DC multiplier for an hour on 15-M. This log submitted under 40-M Single
Band category - all other contacts considered Checklog. 73,
Ken
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Call: KG7H Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,612,248
Great conditions on 10 and 15 meters. My best score for this contest. After it
was all over I looked outside and see we had 6 inches of snow - nice time to be
inside - now back to the real world. 73 to all de Craig KG7H
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Call: KG9Z Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 55,404
No beam or amp. Dipole and vertical. FT-857.
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Call: KH2/N2NL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,433,574
Like it or hate it, packet has distinctly changed contesting in North America.
For more than 45 minutes the 1st night, I called CQ on 40m and had three
callers. I was never spotted. I gave up, moved to 20, got spotted, and made
more than 100 QSOs in short order. On the second day, I got spotted early on
40 and had close to a 200 hour. Later, I moved to 20, never got spotted, and
didn't have a single caller after more than twenty minutes of CQing. Once you
get spotted - the rate takes off, achieving a state of "critical
mass" where repeat spots sustain a pileup. Not sure I like this... but at
least on CW you have Skimmer users so you can usually get something going more
quickly. Being outside of the NA-EU bubble of contest activity doesn't help as
significantly fewer people are actually looking this way.
From here in the W. Pacific, 10m was the band that kept on giving. There was
noticeable absorption on 15m, getting worse down the bands. 40m was mediocre at
best. 80 was poor and I never heard a single station on Topband the entire
weekend, even with an 800ft Beverage.
Somewhat bittersweet, this is my last ARRL DX contest from Guam. Not sure
if I will operate in RDXC as W1AW/KH2 - I'll have to see how the pileups play
out. Likewise, I am not sure that I won't be burned out after our W1AW/KH2
week to spend much time in WPX SSB. Since I'm transferring to Honolulu this
summer, we will probably have to get packed out before the WPX CW weekend.
Regardless, I hope to remain active until shortly before I get on the airplane
to KH6.
Thanks for the QSOs...
73, Dave KH2/N2NL
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Call: KH6CJJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,256,472
Good conditions and a new rig made for my all-time best results of any contest.
Now if only I could improve my antennas (Hexx beam at 25 feet and G5RV at 35
feet)...Unfortunately, my subdivision controls that.
10 was great on Friday and Saturday, but dried up for me on Sunday. 20 did not
seem open very long for me but maybe that was because everyone was on other
bands. 80 was a disappointment, as I could hear lots of DX, but few W/Ks or
VEs. The guys from the Caribbean and Central and South America were strong,
but not those from the interior US and Canada.
Thanks to W3LPL, K3LR, N6RO, W6SA, and W6WB for five bands.
It was great to hear so many other KH6s in the contest.
Aloha, Kent
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Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,473,640
This was quite a bit more casual than our usual efforts. When dinner was ready
we stopped and ate...right in the middle of some big runs. Oh well. Everyone
got plenty of sleep. Ross Forbes K6GFJ ex-WB6GFJ flew out to join us and
kicked
butt. Gene KB7Q started the contest and put in a few hours with us before
heading off to the airport. We also had Leigh WH6DZX join us. Leigh is a
newish ham and this was her first time EVER on HF. She mentioned how polite
and supportive everyone was with her. Thanks guys! Conditions seems great,
especially on the high bands. The low bands seemed a little sparse, but then
again, we were sleeping at optimum times.
Thanks & Aloha
de Ross K6GFJ, Rob NH6V, Gene KB7Q, Leigh WH6DZX, Lloyd KH6LC
www.KH6LC.com
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Call: KH7M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,097,600
First, I have to thank my hosts, Max and Kathy, for their splendid hospitality.
This includes a Spam sandwich on white bread with Dijon mustard for Saturday
lunch! (There's an inside joke about the sandwich) And, Max's station really
ROCKS!!!
I've flown many flights over many years and I have never missed a flight. The
pilots for my Phoenix to Honolulu flight showed up about 15 minutes after
scheduled take-off time delaying take off by about 45 minutes. Then we faced
125 MPH head-winds. Flight attendant said it was the longest flight he had
ever experienced on that route. I had scheduled a 2-hour lay-over in Honolulu
before my flight to Hilo on the big island. I missed it. Got another flight
in half and hour but I was hoping it was not a bad omen for what would be.
I have always preferred CW contests to phone contests. That is until this one.
This was my second trip to KH6, the first was CQWW CW last November. That was
my first single-op DX effort. I had a great time then but did not experience
the high rates I got on phone. I didn't know I could talk that fast at all,
let alone for so many hours. It didn't get to look at the N1MM rates often but
at one point it was 437 or 473 for the last 10 Qs! This was personal high for
me in any contest: first time at rates this high, first time over 1K Qs on
three bands, first time over 2K Qs on any band, first time over 5 Meg. It
almost leaves me breathless thinking about it.
When I broke for sleep at about 1220 UTC Saturday my voice was still strong.
When I took time to scarf down my dinner around 0400 UTC Sunday my voice was
still strong. But not long after dinner my voice started to crack and steadily
declined until I decided to take my sleep break an hour early around 1100 UTC.
At that point I needed to rest my voice almost as much as I needed sleep,
although I would have stayed in the chair a while longer if I could have
talked. As soon as I woke up the first thing I did was speak out-loud to see
if I had any voice left. It was there but not really strong. I hadn't been
using my "outside voice" or even my usual aggressive phone-contesting
voice but with as much talking as I had already done I needed to tone it down.
Fortunately, the rig has great audio so I adjusted it so I needed little effort
to get adequate ALC level. This saved me and my voice actually got a little
stronger as the day progressed. At least I had recorded CQ and call sign
messages to use!
At the high rates I was trying to ID every 3 or 4 Qs, sometimes more often.
IDing after every Q is out of the question at rates like that. To all who
found they couldn't wait for me to ID: Move on if you can't wait a few
seconds.
At one point I all of a sudden started getting a string of dupes. It turned
out that at some point I was spotted as KH6M by mistake. Then when I was
spotted as KH7M some stations already worked came back again. Not a problem
for me because I work all the dupes, but....
Many have already commented on low band (or top band, depending on your point
of view) conditions. I was equally surprised. Lots of CQing at the top of
hours. Worked stations I could hear except for K3LR who was very strong but
couldn't copy me calling them or when they called me after I was spotted. Yet,
a station from Nova Scotia answered my CQ nearly blowing me out of the chair. I
don't what happened to everyone between me and NS. The 160m setup was good but
conditions were not. This is where I failed to get enough mults for sure.
My initial goal was 5,000 Qs. Late Sunday I began thinking that I might
actually make 6,000. Close but no cigar. I did not know what to expect
mult-wise but my flexible goal became 300. I almost made it. Rates like this
were never in my wildest dreams. I couldn't do this with my tower and yagis
back in NJ and it's not even on the radar with my ground-mounted screwdriver in
my HOA
home it AZ.
Thanks to all I worked. It was a really a hoot working guys I know from the DX
side.
Thanks again, Max!
Let's contest!!!
73 and aloha,
Fred/NA2U@KH7M
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: KH7M
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: NA2U
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 0 0 224 0 224 224 3.9
0100 0 0 0 0 261 0 261 485 8.4
0200 0 0 0 138 0 0 138 623 10.8
0300 0 0 2 208 0 0 210 833 14.5
0400 0 0 22 159 0 0 181 1014 17.6
0500 0 0 0 198 0 0 198 1212 21.0
0600 2 108 2 0 0 0 112 1324 23.0
0700 0 59 61 0 0 0 120 1444 25.1
0800 0 0 151 0 0 0 151 1595 27.7
0900 0 0 90 0 0 0 90 1685 29.2
1000 1 47 0 0 0 0 48 1733 30.1
1100 2 12 0 0 0 0 14 1747 30.3
1200 0 10 1 0 0 0 11 1758 30.5
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1758 30.5
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1758 30.5
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1758 30.5
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1758 30.5
1700 0 0 0 0 8 102 110 1868 32.4
1800 0 0 0 0 0 250 250 2118 36.8
1900 0 0 0 0 0 262 262 2380 41.3
2000 0 0 0 0 0 232 232 2612 45.3
2100 0 0 0 0 0 241 241 2853 49.5
2200 0 0 0 0 45 69 114 2967 51.5
2300 0 0 0 0 0 198 198 3165 54.9
0000 0 0 0 0 163 11 174 3339 58.0
0100 0 0 0 18 158 0 176 3515 61.0
0200 0 0 0 217 0 0 217 3732 64.8
0300 0 0 0 194 0 0 194 3926 68.1
0400 0 2 73 0 0 0 75 4001 69.4
0500 0 4 143 0 0 0 147 4148 72.0
0600 0 0 151 0 0 0 151 4299 74.6
0700 0 54 59 0 0 0 113 4412 76.6
0800 7 39 0 0 0 0 46 4458 77.4
0900 8 0 0 0 0 0 8 4466 77.5
1000 0 37 0 0 0 0 37 4503 78.2
1100 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4505 78.2
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4505 78.2
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4505 78.2
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4505 78.2
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4505 78.2
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4505 78.2
1700 0 0 0 0 80 0 80 4585 79.6
1800 0 0 0 0 3 203 206 4791 83.2
1900 0 0 0 0 0 234 234 5025 87.2
2000 0 0 0 0 0 225 225 5250 91.1
2100 0 0 0 0 28 112 140 5390 93.6
2200 0 0 0 0 150 28 178 5568 96.6
2300 0 0 0 0 0 193 193 5761 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 20 372 757 1132 1120 2360 5761
Gross QSOs=5872 Dupes=111 Net QSOs=5761
Unique callsigns worked = 3856
The best 60 minute rate was 289/hour from 0041 to 0140
The best 30 minute rate was 306/hour from 0047 to 0116
The best 10 minute rate was 330/hour from 0048 to 0057
The best 1 minute rates were:
8 QSOs/minute 2 times.
7 QSOs/minute 23 times.
6 QSOs/minute 99 times.
5 QSOs/minute 287 times.
4 QSOs/minute 394 times.
3 QSOs/minute 379 times.
2 QSOs/minute 285 times.
1 QSOs/minute 272 times.
There were 28 bandchanges and 0 (0.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 20 371 757 1132 1120 2360 5760 100.0
South America 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Europe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Asia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oceania 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 20 372 757 1132 1120 2360 5761
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 1
4 2185
5 2341
6 1215
7 6
8 9
9 4
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
K 19 360 730 1063 1070 2222 5464 94.8
KG4 0 0 1 2 1 3 7 0.1
VE 1 11 26 67 49 135 289 5.0
ZL 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 20 372 757 1132 1120 2360 5761
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
K 19 360 730 1063 1070 2222 5464 94.8
VE 1 11 26 67 49 135 289 5.0
KG4 0 0 1 2 1 3 7 0.1
ZL 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 20 372 757 1132 1120 2360 5761
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2712
2 bands 657
3 bands 288
4 bands 134
5 bands 55
6 bands 10
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
W2PV W3LPL W1TJL W4RM W6DR W6WB
N0IJ N5DO N6AA N6RO
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 4 106 303 455 405 1439
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Call: KH7XX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 8,603,364
Thanks to KH6YY for graciously hosting us once again.
Mahalo for all the Qs.
73!
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Call: KI1G Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,526,073
This mode is best operated in small doses. Long live CW.
Thanks for the QSO's
Rick KI1G
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Call: KI7M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 797,040
40 meters disappointing, 80 and 160 a blast. K3LR and W3LPL blocked the 80 meter
'DX Window' all contest long (IF it can be said there is still a DX Window).
When is the FCC going to stop them operating out of band at the bottom of 20/15
and 10? A good lawyer(s) I guess.
Unfortunately I couldn't seem to develop consistent strings of callers most of
the contest though I really tried. The old 'hunt and peck' seemed to work well,
DX came back consistently so why no good when calling 'CQ Contest' much of the
time? Got to improve my 40 meter capability.
Looking back I think I got my highest score for IntDXPhone. I know it was
better than 2011's 581,400/850Q's/228M's.
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Call: KJ4BIX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 153,111
10m was really a surprise
Thks
Alan / KJ4BIX
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Call: KK6L Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 318,150
This was another guest op at the N3BNA shack near Lititz, PA. Dale was kind
enough to let me use his station and worked very hard to get things back up and
running after a bad ice storm we experienced in the Northeast this winter. While
I got a slow start and only worked for 16 hours or so, overall I was pretty
happy with my results, since it was a good indication that my rates have been
steadily increasing over the past year. I estimate that if I had operated the
whole contest, I would have made about 1500 contacts, which is double the most
I have ever made. So, it was a good basic effort, with more points for my club.
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Call: KL2R Class: M/M HP Total Score = 1,465,614
We had a solid team this year with guest op Bill AC0W and new ham Wes KL3UI
joining the usual suspects WL7BDO, KL1JP, and N1TX. Late in the week the sun
decided to belch notably, which caused us no end of problems on the low bands.
However, 10 turned out to be phenomenal most of the weekend. This far exceeds
any QSO count from previous SSB efforts in this contest. I think everyone
enjoyed themselves in spite of N1TX's challenges in the kitchen.
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Call: KL7KY Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 90,234
UNLIMITED CLASS ENTRY
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Call: KL7RA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,292,061
Our goal was 8500 Q's. Using two stations for 48 hours this doesn't seem
that hard but it does require ten meters to be open all day. It also requires
the low bands to take over when 20 dies to the east in the evening but they
were not that good at times and occasionally the rate was very low. Topband
was very painful and I tuned it myself from sunset to sunrise with few Q's
to show for it.
These are the conditions we want for the WPX. High bands open all day to
USA and then all night to Europe. Europe was pounding in on ten meters all
night and I'm convinced it would have been a great score for the ARRL Ten
meter contest. I know, I know, can't think that way but still. Even so we
stayed very busy with these excellent high band conditions and had many
400-500 Q's per hour in the log. We also passed everyone and thanks for
moving for us. Actually the real contesters work us on all bands anyway but
we also work a lot of DXers or casual ops in this event.
The tag team was usually KA1NCN, Dave and Kris, AL2F. Wigi, AL7IF
and Jeff, KL2HD switching every hour. I did the normal mop floor, make
food, work topband for no Q's but I'm good at that.
73 Rich KL7RA - W1AW June 18
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Call: KM4HI Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 163,020
Great conditions on 10m with some pretty good runs into Europe. Took about 7
hour break on Saturday afternoon to get in 18 holes and enjoy the beautiful
Florida weather! Never worked so many LP stations running 5-50w. Had more mults
in the CW contest with less Q's. Not much heard out of Africa and Middle East.
Big showing from UK, SA and Japan. Had fun in this one. Thanks to all for the
Q's.
73,
Jim HI
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Call: KM7N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 50,925
Wow! I had to work on yet another contest weekend, so this was a part-time
S&P effort, but I worked hard during the times I did play. I was
pleasantly surprised when I nearly doubled last year's score-on Friday night
alone! Put in a large chunk of time on Saturday, and a little on Sunday. My
goal was 100 Qs, as that would be a record number of Qs for this inexperienced
100W and disadvantaged antenna contester. With 175 Qs in the log, I shattered
that record, and simultaneously set a pretty high bar for my next contesting
effort. 10 and 15 were lots of fun all 3 days. I heard only a single BG2 on
10 on Saturday without many callers, the band was open and had a number of JA
Qs at this point, so I called and called, but he never answered. Would have
been a new one for me. Oh well...20M didn't disappoint, and I was reminded
that despite the plentiful signals on 40, my antennas still stink on that band.
Perhaps a 40M dipole is in order?
All in all, an insane amount of fun, with 2 new DXCCs worked (OH0 and VP9 on
20M), and a new personal record for not only number of Qs, but overall score to
boot. Thanks for all the Qs!
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Call: KN2M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,591,881
Winter weather froze the rotors for the 15 and 20m antennas in the last two
weeks. That was a big handicap until I could thaw them out Saturday. The only
beverage broke in the last two weeks and was discovered as the contest started.
We repaired that Saturday morning. If it is not one thing, it is another....
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Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 221,235
Very good band conditions, especially on 10 meters. I couldn't devote as much
time as I wanted to but this was a good chance to break in the new radio I got
on Friday. Spent a lot of the weekend configuring it the way I like it and went
to a AHL hockey game last night (Hershey Bears lost).
So ends the major contests for the season.
73 Scott
KN3A
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Call: KO1H Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 4,257
Glad I got on. This will likely be the last hurah from this QTh. I will miss
being up on this hill. Perhaps someday I will be back on top
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Call: KO7AA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 32,760
I got on Sat AM to work a few EU. Thunder and lightening at 0830 (!) in
the morning in March made for a quick shutdown. Back on Sunday AM.
The last contest from this QTH, all that will be left in a few weeks will
be a 4BTV vertical. It's time to move on:
http://www.qrz.com/db/KO7AA
Bill, KO7AA, Mt Lemmon, AZ
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Call: KO7X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 183,414
Lots of big signals on the bands.
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Call: KP2DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,082,466
10 hours operation.lots of fun.
tnx to all who contact me.
73's
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: KP2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,104,915
What a blast! Lost power for a few hours during the day on Saturday. No Q's on
Topband Saturday night due to noise level. RF getting into the rig causing
distortion on 10 and 15M caused me to run barefoot Saturday afternoon till the
end of the contest. Today found out it was coming in the beverage coax.
But everything else ran fine and the rates were good.
My best SOAB score to date.
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Call: KP3Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 79,488
73 Watts @ 10M 3el Yagi, Q52
Few QSOs for fun. SSB not my favorite. Thanks QSOs.
73 Eric G., NP3A
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Call: KP4RV Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 216,360
Propagation were bad at the beginning of the contest but at later hours were
fine.
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Call: KQ6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 137,376
Wish I could have had more time, The hexbeam worked well.
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Call: KR2E Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,298
FTDX3000 90 Watts
HOA Restricted Antennas
40-10M 4BTV Vertical ground mounted, two 33ft radials
10M Vertical dipole 4 ft off ground
15M Horizontal dipole at 18 ft.
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Call: KR4F Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,920,405
Local noise even higher than usual, but signals were so loud (especially on 10m)
it almost didn't matter!
73
Johnny, KR4F
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Call: KT4ZB Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 2,097,333
Sure glad this was JUST the ARRL DX Contest, because I can't imagine these
conditions in CQWW or WPX where everyone works everyone. Even with half the
world on 10m, there was no room for this LP boy on 20m.
Best ARRL DX Contest ever, personal high for contacts, mults and score.
Thought I might be able to exceed the W4 SOAB LP Assisted record if the
conditions held and I was ahead of that Saturday night. Going to be some
amazing scores from folks. This is one happy camper.
Way too many neat things to mention and the DX was amazing My previous mult
high was 336, and this time I ended with 411. And, the score doubled. Some of
best DX included Sierra Leone, East Malaysia, Indonesia, Bahrain, Kaliningrad,
Kazakhstan, Armenia, Dodecanese, Crete, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
Paraguay, Reunion and Guam. Others could be heard but the piles ere too big
for me. Another record for the station was working 104 JA's from
Georgia...love our salt water marsh.
I have never had more than one or two six band sweeps; but, this time I logged
nine...8P5A, P40L, PJ2T, V26M, VP2MLL, PJ4G, NP2X, KP2M and HK1NA on all bands.
Almost all contacts were S&P; however, I was able to run some to Japan and
snagged a 9K2 while running on 20m in heavy QRM. Best hour rate was 98. The
station worked great all weekend.
Thanks to the contest sponsors and everyone for the Q's and cu in WPX.
Best - Jere
N1MM, FT-1000MP Field, TH6-DXX and wires in the trees.
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Call: KU2C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,373,488
We're glad this one is over. Thanks for the QSOs. Log uploaded to LoTW.
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Call: KV1J Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,276,584
Operating from Maine.
73, Eric KV1J
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Call: KV4FZ Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 62,118
Started on time but the DVR playback would not work so I spent the first two
hours trouble shooting trying to fine out why the Microham USBII would not pass
the audio codec on TX even though it was tested as working 6 hours before. I
tried all the settings, rebooted the computer 10 times, check for any port
conflicts, did 6 system restores to dates i knew it worked but still zilch.
Finally I realized I had a Rig Expert Plus sitting on the shelf and it was plug
and play to get it to work. For many years the Microham II has performed
flawlessly but this time it would not configure with all the previously
recorded settings. Then about at about midnight the city power failed. I have a
7.5 KW standby generator but had not installed the transfer panel so it was time
to get some sleep until the power came back a few hours later. Conditions were
very brutal and some contacts took several minutes with one character at a
time. I missed some easy multipliers such as VE6,5, and four plus the Dakotas
of course, but the usual Nebraska contact was also missing. The net result was
still a better score than last year even though last years conditions were
significantly better with lower noise and stations easier to work.
Rig: Icom IC-7410 to Alpha 87A amplifier
TX Antenna: 75 foot tower top loaded with 30' stinger on top
RX Antennas: 600 foot Beverages N,NW, and West
Software N1MM with Rig Expert Plus interface
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Call: KV4QS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 73,914
K3 / N1MM / Hex Beam / 40 and 80m Delta Loops
Hex beam arrived earlier in the week, so I spent all day Saturday (dawn to
dusk) and a big chunk of Sunday morning assembling and getting it up in the
air. Seems to work fine on 10, 15 and 20mtrs.
Many thanks for the Qs.
73
KV4QS
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Call: KW7XX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 213,000
My plans for a full effort on this one went by the wayside on Wednesday. A
medical emergency kept me tending to my lovely YL and her fractured elbow for
the weekend. Good news is that she's on the mend and it most likely not require
surgery!!
As far as the contest goes I was only able to manage a few hrs each day. Mostly
in the mornings and late afternoon. 20 meters was REALLY BAD during the times I
was on air. But a nice opening to EU Sunday on both 10m and 15m was really
fun!! I operated 95% S&P during this weekend. I had set a goal for myself
of 60/hr. Unfortunately I fell a bit short netting only 48/hr. It was however
great practice on using the FTdx-5K assortment of filters to pull out the s3
signals sandwiched tightly between the s9+ stations. I am very impressed with
this receiver.
Thanks to those that worked me. Hope to see you all in WPX SSB later this
month!!
Dean
KW7XX
Equipment:
Yaesu FTdx-5000
Alpha 87-A
Steppir DB-18 @58ft
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Call: KZ5OM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 19,809
Casual ops. 10m was in good shape.
Hunt-n-Pounced on all stations.
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Call: LJ8IB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,144,514
Had to go QRT for 5 hours Sunday afternoon because of icing on the antennas :-(
Thanks for all the Qso's
Olaf
LB8IB
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Call: LP1H Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,141,267
We had a great weekend at LP1H as usual.
Thank you all for the Qs.
LP1H
http://www.facebook.com/Team.LP1H
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Call: LU3MAM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 395,859
Nice cndx on 15 and 10 meters!
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Call: LU7MCJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 549,672
Great competition. Thank you all for communicating to LU7MCJ (The latest letter
is juliette - japan) hi hi
See you at the next competition.
73.
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Call: LU8YE Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,722,950
Radios: Yaesu FT1000D, Yaesu FT1000MP, 2x HB amplifier 1KW.
Antennas:
10 meter: 5 elements yagi @ 15 meter
15 meter: 5 elements yagi @ 13 meter
20 meter: 6 elements 6 bander JVP yagi @ 15 meter
40 meter: 2 elements yagi @ 17 meter
It was a joint operation between operators from RC Los Andes (LU8YE), RC Temuco
(CE6TC) and from other cities of Argentina.
What a wonderful weekend! with lot of fun, great Friendships, excellent food
and radio.
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Call: LX7I Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 493,002
As I was sick the week before the contest I decided that a full SOAB operation
would not be possible. After the great result of DL3BPC as SOSB 15M in the CW
part I decided that +-10 hours of operation would be possible even with a score
throat.
I am satisfied with the result and it seems that it is possible to compete even
with the south european stations which have at least a few more hours of opening
to USA.
tjank you very much for all the QSOs and great pile-ups and see you next year
hopefully again as SOAB.
73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I
TRX FTDX5000
Ant 6/6el (15M Boom YU7EF Design)
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Call: LY7Z Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 304,869
Very good propogation to US especialy on Sunday.
TNX QSO's
73! Andy LY7Z
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Call: N0BUI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 238,992
Thanks for all the Qso's.
73, Mike N0BUI
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Call: N0HJZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 724,470
My first time getting DXCC on one band in a weekend! What a blast! Thanks to
everyone that heard my weak signal! I'll post some videos on Youtube
(amateurradiofun). Maybe you're in one of them!
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Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,345,000
We are a pretty small group for a M/2, but it sure is a lot more fun than having
good ops sitting around in order to stay in M/S. Had a lot of fun at our far NW
Wisconsin cabin station. 5 feet of snow made access a bit tough, but we made
it.
Thanks for the Q's.
John, N0IJ
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Call: N0KE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 597,618
Great conditions!
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Call: N0MA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,183,103
Extremely good conditions on the high bands but 80 and 40 seemed dead for the
most part. 20m was the wonder band. N0LNO wanted to go to bed at midnight on
the first night but the DX wouldn't let him. Without turning the antenna he
worked the world.
For the most part the DX kept coming on 10 and 15 IF you could find a
relatively open spot to call.
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Call: N1BA Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,664,090
Overall a great year for us.
Thanks to incredible high band propagation and quiet low bands, we bested our
previous QSO total by almost 50%. Low power didn't seem too bad this year,
especially with all the room that 15m and 10m provided.
Still need to figure out 160 and 80 in the backyard.
Thanks for all the Q's
73
Lee N1BA
Rob K40V
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Call: N1CC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 789,000
FT-990, 100W to Force 12 C3 at 64 feet. 80/40 Fan Dipole at 50 feet. 160M
Inverted L 50 feet vertical 78 feet horizontal with 2x135 foot elevated
radials. Used MFJ 1026 as noise canceller with DX Engineering 43 foot vertical
as the noise antenna.
Knew ahead of time that Sunday would have bad weather, so spent 20 hours on
Saturday to make the first 839 contacts. Storming in morning so got on as soon
as they were not overhead... then at 1500 local lost AC power, not restored
until 1730 ... leaving only 30 minutes more to get to 1,000 contacts. Total
time 24 hours operation.
This is my best ARRL DX SSB score in Texas, and is more than double the score
ever attained before here. Previous SSB has been assisted, so did not do
assisted to see how things would play if I did this the "old" way ...
was lots of fun, not a smooth as CW was since 100W of SSB is less able to cope
with the huge plethora of splatter, byproducts, noise generators used by so
many - overdriving the radios and not able to hear when the DX starts to talk
to another station .. still calling, calling, etc.
There were MANY DX stations that did not follow the new guidelines for
identification, and after six minutes waiting for a call sign one KL7 told me I
wasn't listening when I asked "call sign please" ... after berating
me he worked four more stations before he finally identified. So 7-minutes
wasted to find out I had already worked the station and moved on... such it is
that we really do need to "knock the knees" of those stations that do
not follow the new ID every 3rd QSO rule.
Overall good conditions and lots of good operators. Rates did not approach CW,
however did have 3 hours of 80+ sustained rate - running above 28.8 MHz -- was
amazed to find that the big guns have now moved up to the high ends on 15 and
10 ... could not verify but think at least two of the MM/MS east coasters were
calling CQ at the low end and the high end of the band simultaneously ...come
on guys!
73, Jim
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Call: N1DC Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 67,308
Decided to go with a part time 10M single band effort. Great conditions on 10M,
especially Sunday AM. Got my best signal report ever from an IZ5 (S9+30dB).
Worked almost everyone on the first call.
I REALLY like CW contests much better. My ears hurt!
Station: TenTec Omni 7 @ 100W, Heil ProSet Plus in DX mode
Antenna: HyGain Explorer 14 4 element at 30 ft
Computer: Windows 7 running N1MM
Thanks for the QSO's !
73 Rick N1DC
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Call: N1EU Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,231,250
Just a limited effort to garner some points for the club and play with a new
Apache Labs ANAN-100D SDR. It's hard for me to put in much chair time in a ssb
contest. Conditions on the high bands seemed quite good accompanied by
universally wide signals with high IMD. That's the one down side of using
panadapters - you see clearly how bad most of the signals are.
Was happy to see the 10Q rate get up to 400 and stay there for a while, which
was a first. The DDC/DUC SDR receiver was exceptionally clean and helped sort
out the pileups and the garbage on the bands.
I played with making some HD screen capture videos with stereo diversity audio
and will try to post them to YouTube at http://goo.gl/6VAlR6
Here in the northeast, we were plagued by wideband interference 28.6-28.9MHz
that pulsed slowly on and off - here's a panadapter picture of it:
http://n1eu.com/10M%20RFI%20a.gif
Thanks for everyone's participation!
Equipment:
Apache Labs ANAN-100D
Acom 2000A
3-element SteppIR @ 20m
wires for 160-40M
Beverage antennas
73,
Barry N1EU
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Call: N1RR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,221,920
Tribander, 2L40 and wires
C31XR @ 70
2L40 @ 75
80M wire 4-square
160M wire 4-square
Beverages NE 800, N/S 800
Thanks to Will and Pamela !!
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Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 445,740
Tough week at work ended with more off time than planned
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Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,724,496
WOW. After the thrill of the most amazing experience that I
have ever witnessed in my contesting career, I am still trying
to get my head around the high and why of what just happened.
For 10 years, I have been building a competitive contesting
station and practicing the trade. In this contest, I have
actually evolved into not trying to "force it" to be like
CQ WW. Its not, its a running contest. And I am in a desired
"mult" location in Vermont - more on that later. Its actually
a cross between CQ WW and WPX. I realized that about 4 years
ago and changed my strategy for both modes.
I was not able to run quite as much as CW but still ran for 37
hours out of 44 logged with at least half of that dedicated
running at amazingly fast speeds.
I open the contest thinking maybe this was a year to run at the
open on 15 to JA but the whole weekend JA was not nearly as
loud as it was in the CQ WW weekend - down about 20 - 30db at
the peak vs what I saw on CQ WW weekend. And 20 was a
possibility as it was clearly open but decided to try 40 one
more time as JA on 20 wasn't super loud either. I had the
best ever opening hour on 40 SSB with 106 hour. 80 was never
super productive on run even though Sunday morning was decent.
I cobbled together S & P and runs for my second best 80 totals
topped only by the 2009 - 2010 seasons at the sunspot minimum.
I also learned a number of years ago that this contest, like
CQ WW is a combo of very enthusiastic contesters working
you on all the bands they can and a large but much less time
dedicated group of casuals who like calling and collecting
mults but will not work you on multiple bands and seem to
geometrically multiply to do this on 10 when it is open. (I
am not sure what they do for most of the years otherwise.)
And of course, from the east coast, especialyy the Northeast
of the USA, this cotest is all about EU. And when the conditions
get hot on the high bands, and 80 and 160 are being hurt, the W1
location gives just enough edge to make some Qs or do a little
running that is just not possible otherwise. Half of my 160
Qs were very marginal - we both want to work each other for
the mult so keep trying - kind of Qs. Its when you remind
yourself that yes - the extra 1 to 2 dB on 160 by setting
up the 2nd element of a wire array and laying down 10,000 ft
of radial wire over the past year was worth it.
Then there were the hgh band speeds.
Best clock hour of 220 followed by a 203 hour.
A total of 16 hours over 100.
The best clock hours I have had in this contest are the following
prior to this year.
2011 - 168 with 5 over 100
2012 - 160 with 7 over 90
2013 - 150 with 10 over 90
So what is up with that? Well 10M for sure, since I had over
1200 Qs on 10 which is actually equal to the total of Qs on
10 in this contest I have had in the past 10 years. But its
more than that this year. 20M being open both nights solidly
to EU - especailly Northern EU and Russia from 06 - 0830Z
both days was a second add that transformed hours in the
middle of the night from 30 an hour S & P events into nice
SO2R netting 70 to 100 an hour. Both nights. I knew that
the record was likely to fall when I was already up 250 Qs
over my personal best score at 10Z on day one and I was
sure 10M would be wide open all day to EU. In fact, I
beat my personal best score at 06Z on day 2 and the LP
record at 12Z on day 2 - incredible!
But even THAT is not what totally generated this amazing
score and Qs total - essetially 1000 Qs better than the
existing record and 1200 Qs better than my personal best
ever phone cotest. Its maybe half the increase - but not
all I don't think. Vermont was especailly rare this year
as the normal Multi Op at K2LE turned into a casual SO
for the first 12 or so hours and thats it. I was therefore
probably the only running Vermont station in the contest
(please let me know if I wasn't after 15Z Saturday). I
heard many local ops tuning the bands and working people
and helping spread the mults but not running.
Also, many strong competitors in this contest were not on
and therefore I believe the USA loud runners to EU
especially in the morning were not as plentiful allowing
my 150W to sound even stronger than normal in comparison.
K1DG and VE3EJ were single band 15. There was no op at
KC1XX (hey I worked Matt in Dominican Republic - beach?
Matt?). K1LZ was 10M single band. K1RX was SO and not
full time - the list goes on. That is A LOT of Qs and
khz swept off the table. Pour in the same number of EU
stations looking for Qs and MULTS and you have the perfect
storm for a Vermont mult only runner to get "tsunamied"
every time the cluster posted my call. If you can keep
up with it and not lose rate, which I pretty much can,
then its a recepie made in heaven alone to have some
serious fun, excitement, and shatter existing records!
The station I have assembled works great - but its not
that great to deliver this score. It just needs to be
ready for the opportunity when its presented and it, and
I, apparently were.
Time to land back on earth. That one could be a "career
weekend" for me.
Apperently, according to K1TO's post, I stepped on a few
toes trying to be competitive. We have all had it happen,
I am sure. You are away to go to the bathroom, and when
you get back "is my frequency still available"? What
defines a frequency in use? I lost mine for a variety
of reasons - its part of the game. My favorite is when
a station starts CQing on you and says they are listening
on another frequency. So, I will accept the critism, and
and simply say its a competition - and it sounded like an
empty frequency when I got back. Never knew who I was
talking to since you never signed your call, Dan.
From a total conditions basis, CQWW (both modes) was better.
And I am not talking mults and numbers of JAs or anything.
I mean just signal strength and length of openings. 10
and 15 were open longer and way louder to Asia in CQ WW.
And 40M to Asia was way way louder than in this contest.
Still this contest has not seen a SFI over 110 I think in
the past 11 years - so it was the best one since 2002
when the existing record in Low Power was broken. It
was interesting to note that K3LR's score this year
almost, but didn't, break the KC1XX record from past
cycle. So from a "holistic" comparison, this year was
not as good as then - since for sure there are more
EU active contesters in this than 10 years ago and K3LR
would have beaten that record if it were there. I think.
I would like to thank my wife, Christine - KB1PQN, for
putting up with me and my crazy hobby all these years.
Thanks for all of the amazing support that coninues
still with every contest and "antenna day".
73 and see you in WPX.
Ed N1UR
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Call: N1YX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 486,495
Very partial and casual effort due to other obligations and some cold that
affected voice at times. Conditions were not outstanding, but participation
seem better than during CW contest.
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Call: N2BJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,767,744
Only a P/T effort. Still have wife recouperating after surgery and a broken leg
so family first here. 10M really outstanding. Too bad I couldn't put in more
time. Mainly S & P as I had to continually leave the shack for other
committments.
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Call: N2FF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 533,988
Not an Academy Award performance but a good supporting role effort. I spent
most of my time - 16 hours - on ten meters which was full of EU stations both
mornings and then SA and the Pacific stations later in the day. Thanks to all
those DX stations with the good ears that managed to hear my signal. It was
FUN and I even spent two hours at a local hamfest which was not sponsored by a
contest club.
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Call: N2NT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,895,100
Thanks to Andy and Bonnie for allowing me to play radio this weekend.
Simply put - the station ROCKS!
73,
John, W2GD aka P40W
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Call: N2SQW Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,785,510
I was worried about running low power with the amp out of service (as it was for
the ARRL DX CW as well). Conditions seemed so good that it did not seem to
matter. 10 meters was amazing!
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Call: N2UN Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 195,480
Hats off to those who are able to stay in the chair for long hours of SSB!
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Call: N2VW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,221,690
Great band conditions. GO FRC!
Unlike CW Test, no RF in shack.
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Call: N2WKS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,782,840
Low power is a lot more ......waiting in line...than High power hihi
Operated only the second 24 hours of the contest, no breaks.
I was amazed at how many people heard me with only 100 watts, even on 160!
A bunch of 5 and 6 banders...since I couldn't get a run going much of the time
I did a lot of S&P and DXing.
Congrats to W6AAN on the Fab score but he did have a meg before I started
hihi.
73,
Zev N2WKS
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Call: N2ZN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 117,633
SWR went to 10:1 on the 10 meter beam Sunday morning; kind of put a damper on
things!
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Call: N3ALN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 216,948
Equipment:
Radio: Icom 756 Pro III @ 100W
Antenna: Carolina Windom
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Call: N3KCJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 58,500
Very antenna challenged effort!! TU to all the patient ops who put me in their
log!!
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Call: N3OC Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 607,608
decided to do 10m single band because of the conditions and to keep the XYL
happy
lots of fun on that band, and the highlight was getting called by W1AW/KG4 -
that was a real surprise
Brian N3OC
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Call: N3QDC Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 186,921
Station detail:
ICOM 756 Pro III barefoot
20M dipole antenna in attic (heading roughly 135 deg)
15M dipole antenna in attic (heading roughly 110 deg)
10M dipole antenna in attic (heading roughly 100 deg)
N1MM logging software, no radio interface
Connected to cluster node K3WW
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Call: N3QE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,002,540
TenTec Eagle; AL-811H; homebrew link coupled tuner; 130 foot doublet.
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Call: N3RD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,201,700
I came down with a chest cold on Tuesday before the contest and was coughing
badly on Friday, so I went 100% S&P on Friday night and Saturday, using the
sound card audio to save my voice. Slept 10 hours each night, so I missed a lot
of the low band stuff. The cough subsided enough on Sunday that I was able to
call some CQs.
My 10m antenna is 90 feet high, and that's too high for these conditions.
73 - Dave N3RD
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Call: N3ZA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,396,035
Great conditions! 10M just kept going and going. Beat last year's score.
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Call: N4BCD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 550,470
An hour or two here and there throughout the weekend between yard chores. Good
tune-up for W1AW in a few weeks. TS-990, Alpha 91B, A3S at 65'. Thanks for the
Q's Mark
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Call: N4CF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 275,124
Working SSB with 100W instead of 5W made a huge difference. :-) 10M, 15M, and
20M gave me the most mults, but 75M was great on Saturday evening for new
mults.
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Call: N4CR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 369,075
Legal limit, Cushcraft R8 Vertical, TS-590S.
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Call: N4DJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 15,360
Only had time for a few QSOs in this one. I worked all but few with 90 watts.
Working DX on 40 before sunset required more than 90 watts so I cranked up the
L7 for a few that could not hear me barefoot. Later I had to crank up the L7
again to work P40L on 160.
Ten was in great shape, I suspect I may have missed the last chance for DX this
cycle.
73,
Don
N4DJ
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Call: N4DXI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 47,376
Conditions were good especially 15 and 10 meters. Wall to Wall S9 stations with
my Yagi pointed NE toward Europe. All S & P but used my Centurion amp to
cut through pileups. Only one new DXCC: Kazakhistan. Getting harder to find
new ones after LOTW says I have 205 confirmed.
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Call: N4KG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,821,150
I can't remember when we had such good conditions for this contest.
Low-Band activity (and propagation) suffered from the super late night openings
on the higher bands.
I'm finally getting a feel for how to balance the Available Multiplier Window
and the Band Map Window in N1MM to optimize my multi-band QSOs. Multi-Band
contacts were as follows: 6B=14, 5B=31, 4B=31, 3B=90, 2B=92, 1B=533.
Most contacts (80-90%) resulted from Point-and-Click operation, supplemented by
some actual Search-and-Pounce Saturday night and Sunday. NO contacts from CQs.
I found it necessary to just 'get away from it all' a few times. Heeding K0MD's
advice, I walked the dog on 2 or 3 occasions (and over-slept Saturday morning),
resulting in 30 hours of ON-time vs. 34-36 hours in years past. After 5+
sunspot cycles of activity, I'm beginning to Feel OLD!
Icom 756 PROiii with Filter BW set to 2000 Hz and passband tuning set to -200Hz
which worked well for how I was operating.
(2400 Hz BW was definitely Too Wide - other locals used 1800 Hz, especially for
running).
I worked MANY SA/JA/Pacific stations on 10,15,20 using a 30M Inverted Vee (fed
w/ladderline and tuner) to minimize rotating my only working Yagi (TH7 at 40
ft). My 80M sloping dipole to NE works amazingly well to NE,NW,SE on 80 and
40M, supplemented by an Elevated GP on 80 and Corner Fed Delta Loop on 40 to
fill in the SW Null of the sloper.
Tom N4KG in North Alabama
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Call: N4LR Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 649,152
Big thanks to Dave K9XD for the use of his station. Wanted to see if I could
work 100 countries for the weekend. Didn't make it ended up with 98. Quit a
couple of hours before the end, didn't realize I was that close.
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Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 748,869
After over 61 years as a ham, I'm gonna say it one more time...
"This was as much fun as I've ever had in a contest"
Don't see how condx could have been any better on 10 meters...
Some of the "goodies" that called me were:
ZB2ER, A92HK, SV9COL, A71AE, 7X5QB, HZ1DG, 4K6FO, HB0A, 6W7RV,
DU7RH, UP0L, FW5JJ, DU1AV, FR4NT, E51CG, VP8LP, YC9WIC, 9W6ZIM,
SV5DKL, 9J2T and 5H3EE (who called at 0022Z!!) while running JA's
and when I turned the antenna to Africa he was 30db over S9!!
Lots of TA/TC's and YB/YC's ....nice to work BG2AUE in both the CW
and SSB test....
Two of my favorite calls: PH0NO and M0VIE...
Thanks to all....again, it was really great!
Missed a few, but hopefully next time....mults that I know I missed
include: VP5, V31, FK8, 9V1YC, HS0ZKX and a few others..
73, Paul, N4PN
FT1000MP/AL1200 - KW
TH-5 @ 70'
Logging w/CT
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Call: N4RA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 128,040
First contest from new QTH. Ran Hi-power into a 20 m dipole about 50' high
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Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,129,484
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
__________________________________________________________
160SSB 36 34 102 28
80SSB 81 80 240 48
40SSB 152 152 456 60
20SSB 249 248 744 80
15SSB 342 340 1020 87
10SSB 908 903 2709 101
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Totals 1768 1757 5271 404
Final Score = 2129484 points.
2014 ARRL-DX-SSB N4TZ
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- --- --- --- --- --- ---
USA calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Canada calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NA calls = 19 23 29 32 40 44 187
SA calls = 6 6 14 31 34 55 146
Euro calls = 10 47 93 167 239 744 1300
African calls = 1 2 2 5 6 14 30
Asian calls = 0 0 2 11 4 8 25
Japan calls = 0 2 9 0 11 29 51
Ocean calls = 0 1 3 3 8 14 29
Total calls = 36 81 152 249 342 908 1768
Conditions were great! Unfortunately, my station didn't keep up
with them. Friday morning, one of my radios wouldn't boot.
Couldn't find the problem, so moved it out of the console and
put the back-up rig in. (Today, the offending rig seems to
work ok.)
After the cw weekend, I noticed that the TIC ring
on the lower 20 was about 100 degrees off - that is how much
calibration it lost during the contest, so that at the end
of the cw weekend I had it pointed for minimum signals.
I was able to climb the tower and recalibrate the antenna
before the fone weekend. However, during a storm we had in
between, my bottom 15 meter yagi lost its reflector, and
the weather didn't improve enought to drop it and fix it.
The 160m antenna is hung from a rope and pulleys on the tower;
during one of the storms, the rope (a continuous loop
through pulleys at top and bottom) had sagged about 10 feet.
I tightened the rope up Friday afternoon. Just before the
contest I had to drive to the city to pick up some tickets
for a Irish dance program for my wife (last minute request).
Got back just before sundown, and turned the top 10/15 toward
JA for the beginning of the contest. I noticed the control
box meter stopped turning and the motor didn't kick off.
I ran outside and found the top 10/15 had caught in the
support rope for the 160 meter antenna. I loosened the
rope, and the antenna element released, but with a huge
bend so it wouldn't clear the guy wires any more. I
turned it back to the NE and parked it for the weekend,
and raised the 160m antenna as the sun set.
Then, during the night, I noticed that the prop pitch rotor
for the top 20 and 40 had stopped at about due north.
I thought it had frozen from the cold, so turned on the
heater, but even an hour of heating didn't thaw it. I
tried from time to time for the rest of the contest, but
as of this writing it is till pointed Due North.
At this point I was down to two rotating antennas:
the 10/15 at 42' and the 20/40 at 61'. I was afraid
to turn the lower 20/40 any more than necessary so
just turned it from time to time from NE to SE. At the
end of the contest it was still pointing in the correct
direction, but it was almost impossible to work EU on
40 Sunday afternoon with that antenna, while the top
antenna pointed Due North didn't even raise a reply.
I spent a lot of time and energy Sunday trying to figure
out any way to get the top antenna turned back to EU
again, but the weather forecasts for a major storm
kept me from trying any outdoor solutions. The storm
did not materialize.....
I did have some good times. I had a 60 minute hour
with 150 QSOs Saturday morning (10 meters). TR4W did
fine keeping up with the recorded audio files at that
rate. As has been the case in recent years, the
computer has done my talking for all of the QSOs.
Sure wish I could have given N5AW and W9RE a better
run for their money. Did finally edge Marvin in
multipliers.
I need to find a way to have better redundancy on the
antennas. Perhaps a second tower might be in order.
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Call: N4UU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 99,636
Had to travel Saturday so we tried out the mobile in preparation for the FQP. It
didn't do too bad considering DX contest. Thanks for digging my mobile signal
out.
73< Martin N4UU
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Call: N4XL Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,666,170
Great to have high bands open and low bands quiet! Thanks to everyone. Murphy
only teased by breaking a few small things so for the most part we simply
enjoyed the action. The station surprised me by pulling in a couple from the
far east through the pile-ups. Pretty good for 100 watts and a tribander at 50
ft.
Had a guest op this time who is new to contesting. Tommy, KV4TH. The band
conditions did their magic and it looks like the contesting community grew by
one more. He did great and even pulled in a couple I couldn't get even though I
had tried and tried before him. Hope he can get some time in the chair before
the summer thunderstorms come around! First time I've ever run Multi from home
and had a bit of learning to do for that.
Thanks to all.
Kevan
N4XL
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Call: N4ZC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,254,139
60 years in ham radio this year. At 76 it's getting hard to put in a full bore
effort. At the start, it was going to be a low key effort without any lost
sleep.
The conditions were so good I got caught up in it.
Roger
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Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,504,754
I may have accomplished something that I was not sure I would ever do - beating
N5TJ's 5th call area low power record set back in 1999. If so it should be
"starred" as technology has changed so much that it is not really
equivalent - I'm sure if Jeff had been operating this year he would have done
even better.
His record is 2.33 million. My best best score going into this contest was 1.4
million so I would have to operate on another plane if I was to come close. The
most amazing thing about his score is the multipliers - 430 with over 100 on 20,
15, and 10. In all of my efforts in the ARRL Phone contests I have worked at
least 100 countries on one band only once - 105 on 10 meters back in 2001. In
fact if add up my best individual multipliers for each band going back to the
1970's it only totals 434. Jeff (who won WRTC three times before
"retiring") has uncanny two radio skills (I think he must have a
"split brain"). Undoubtedly that was a big contributor to his huge
multiplier total. SO2R skills are probably my weakest area. So if I was ever to
beat Jeff's score it had to be by making more contacts, not multipliers. He made
1855 contacts in setting his record. My best effort in ARRL Phone was only 1419
set back in 2002. However in the last CQWW Phone contest I had 2132 so I felt I
could certainly do better. In fact if I could repeat that QSO number I could
beat Jeff's score with only 380 multipliers - 20 more than my best previous
effort. Still - it seemed like an impossible hill to climb.
Somehow it worked out - thanks to some great (for me) runs on all three high
bands. The first day I had 3 clock hours over 100 and one with 97. One of those
100+ hours and the 97 one were in the middle of the night on 20 meters - a band
it is very difficult to run on with low power from Texas. Although I got off to
a good start, going into the second day I still had to have another great day to
break his record. After two hours over 120 Sunday morning I knew there was a
chance. With three hours to go I equaled Jeff's raw score. The last three hours
were pretty slow but hopefully I added enough points to survive the log checking
- I'm sure my score reduction will be bigger than his.
That being said, my hat is still off to N5TJ. His 3830 post talks about noisy
conditions on the low bands the first night and poor conditions to Europe the
second day. The low bands were very quiet both nights here and conditions to
Europe were fantastic both days. Since 1999 the 80 and 40 meter phone bands
have been expanded making a big difference there. The wider use of spotting has
made running much easier for low power stations and equipment has improved
across the board. On top of that my antennas are almost certainly better than
Jeff's back in 1999. Despite all this I may have just barely beaten his
record.
One other interesting note. My 2010 WRTC partner N4TZ and I are always have
amazingly close scores in this contest. This year Terry was not able to put in
a full effort but his Indiana neighbor W9RE entered as low power for a change.
Our scores are very close with Mike edging me out thanks to more multipliers
(again better SO2R skills).
Radios: Tentec Orion, Elecraft K3 �" 100 watts
Antennas:
160m: 42m tower with 6 elevated radials @ 22m
80m: 5 sloping dipole array from 41m tower
Delta Loop on EMS tower top @~210 feet
40m: Moxon @ 42m, Lazy H @ 40m NW-SE (also used on 80)
20m: 4L @ 35m and 24m fixed NE, 204BA @ 17m fixed NW
15M: 6L OWA @ 29m, 6L OWA @ 19m fixed NE
10m: 5L @ 15m fixed NE
10/15/20m: 3L SteppIR @ 41m
4L SteppIR @ 23m
TH3jr @ 13m fixed SE
Beverages: 230m NE, 160m NW & SE
Other: Homebrew SO2R box, TR4W log
Below are some statistics for those interested.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 0 0 15 60 75 75 3.4
0100 0 0 0 0 13 40 53 128 2.4
0200 0 0 0 32 27 0 59 187 2.7
0300 0 0 50 1 2 0 53 240 2.4
0400 3 7 3 21 6 0 40 280 1.8
0500 0 23 0 14 0 0 37 317 1.7
0600 5 0 0 106 0 0 111 428 5.1
0700 2 5 7 83 0 0 97 525 4.4
0800 1 5 25 5 0 0 36 561 1.6
0900 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 562 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 562 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 562 0.0
1200 0 2 18 10 0 0 30 592 1.4
1300 0 3 0 0 48 29 80 672 3.7
1400 0 0 0 0 0 130 130 802 6.0
1500 0 0 0 0 0 134 134 936 6.1
1600 0 0 0 0 36 28 64 1000 2.9
1700 0 0 0 0 56 1 57 1057 2.6
1800 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 1096 1.8
1900 0 0 0 0 10 24 34 1130 1.6
2000 0 0 0 0 14 22 36 1166 1.6
2100 0 0 0 20 16 2 38 1204 1.7
2200 0 0 0 22 0 38 60 1264 2.7
2300 0 0 0 0 0 43 43 1307 2.0
0000 0 0 0 0 20 13 33 1340 1.5
0100 0 0 0 6 54 0 60 1400 2.7
0200 1 0 16 7 0 0 24 1424 1.1
0300 0 0 0 6 4 0 10 1434 0.5
0400 1 3 0 18 0 0 22 1456 1.0
0500 2 9 13 3 0 0 27 1483 1.2
0600 2 9 21 0 0 0 32 1515 1.5
0700 2 1 21 2 0 0 26 1541 1.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1541 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1541 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1541 0.0
1100 0 0 3 13 0 0 16 1557 0.7
1200 0 0 29 1 19 0 49 1606 2.2
1300 0 0 0 0 119 0 119 1725 5.5
1400 0 0 0 0 19 24 43 1768 2.0
1500 0 0 0 0 2 121 123 1891 5.6
1600 0 0 0 0 0 76 76 1967 3.5
1700 0 0 0 0 3 60 63 2030 2.9
1800 0 0 0 0 6 28 34 2064 1.6
1900 0 0 0 0 17 5 22 2086 1.0
2000 0 0 0 0 14 4 18 2104 0.8
2100 0 0 0 3 7 10 20 2124 0.9
2200 0 0 0 3 11 4 18 2142 0.8
2300 0 0 0 8 13 0 21 2163 1.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 19 68 206 384 551 935 2163
Gross QSO's=2183 Dupes=20 Net QSO's=2163
Unique callsigns worked = 1500
The best 60 minute rate was 169/hour from 1437 to 1536
The best 30 minute rate was 176/hour from 1439 to 1508
The best 10 minute rate was 210/hour from 0617 to 0626
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 2 times.
4 QSO's/minute 46 times.
3 QSO's/minute 126 times.
2 QSO's/minute 366 times.
1 QSO's/minute 859 times.
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
VP5H P40L PJ4G HK1NA TI8M PJ2T
V26M 8P5A P40P C6ANA
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 4 8 67 168 247 641
2014 ARRL-DX-SSB N5AW
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- --- --- --- --- --- ---
NA calls = 13 22 23 28 40 36 162
SA calls = 5 9 15 29 48 86 192
Euro calls = 1 29 103 234 355 662 1384
African calls = 0 1 3 4 6 8 22
Asian calls = 0 1 2 12 8 7 30
Japan calls = 0 3 53 62 82 127 327
Ocean calls = 0 3 10 19 16 18 66
Total calls = 19 68 209 388 555 944 2183
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Call: N5DO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,524,744
Thanks to Bill, KE5OG, and Chuck, KA5PVB, for their help. KE5OG and I have
operated many multi-ops together, but this was KA5PVB's second time. He
primarily operates QRP so enjoyed the better antennas and higher power, but
found that sitting for the required time led to BIC (butt in chair) problems.
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Call: N5PA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 84,000
Had a lot of company this weekend and did not have a lot of time to operate.
Tough to run 100 watts into a vertical, but band conditions were great!
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Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 705,456
Bad power line noise. Hard to copy stations. Used NR function in Elecraft K3
essentially the entire contest on all bands, which made more stations readable.
Need to engage power company once more.
Rainstorm kept me indoors, and in spite of the line noise, kept returning to
the radio. Need to undergo eruptive radio-addiction treatment.
25 stations answered my CQ's
803 stations were worked by S&P
Worked on 6 bands: C6ANA, HK1NA, KH6LC, KH7M, KH7XX, P40L, PL2T, PJ4G, T48K,
TI8M, and VP5H.
17 others were worked on 5 bands.
Have not maintained station adequately. 40-meter beam has had only half of it's
reflector for about 2 years, so it's now a dipole. Tri-band beam stopped working
last 6 or 8 hours of the contest. Used backup dipole on 15. Rotator on backup
10-meter beam didn't work. Probably checked it a few years ago. Need to fix
more broken stuff.
Don't deserve to win anything, but with the plethora of categories will
probably end up receiving a certificate, which I don't need or want. Wish I
could save contest sponsors the cost of sending them to me without resorting to
sending in only a check log.
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Call: N6AAI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 41,625
Par time off and on
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Call: N6AJR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 19,165
Just a little time here and there, seems like pretty good conditions to eu
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Call: N6DA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 165,648
Time limited, as it is every year, because my mother-in-law has a birthday on
contest weekend. This year was her 99th!! Still going strong. Big bash.
Bigger bash next year for her 100th.!!
Great fun on 10 meters.
TS940S + Alpha 87A
Dipoles and 4-el ten meter beam at 27 feet.
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Call: N6HI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 15,738
Operated about 14 hours, 5 Watts to a 20 foot end-fed wire. Total 46 countries
worked, a SSB contest record for this station. A part-time, relaxed effort for
me, but proved again that with the same effort extended I will do about the
same with QRP and my short wire on CW or SSB. CW contest record for same
station setup is 56 countries BUT with more hours spent. Condx very good on
10m, beat 15m here for me. This SSB contesting is growing on me, but I still
MUCH prefer the CW contests. GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS!
73, John N6HI (100% QRP since 1999)
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Call: N6RO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,520,528
Four stations, five ops.
Iron man efforts by:
10m - K3EST
15m - N6BV
20m - K6AW
40m - K1GI
When not on a jazz gig; 80/160m SO2R - N6RO
High bands dominated activity from DX, esp. 10m. Not much running on 10/15m to
EU, but could pick off the mults ok. Seems like DX avoided 20m.
80/160m condx were the worst in my memory, except to JA on 80m. One EU on 80m,
no EU/AF/OC/AS on 160m. Seemed like lead curtains were set up on 80/160m over
the Rockies to EU; and on 160, the Diablo range 20m West of Oakley.
No EU runs on 40m, but best band totals ever from RO. K1GI/JN3NFQ really piled
up the JA Qs and EU mults.
Tnx to the JAs for about 60% of our QSOs.
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Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 766,656
It has been a very long time since we had a thunderstorm pass through the area.
It took out 10-20 with rain static and lightning strikes within a mile. I did
leave the tower up and fortunately no harm.
The contest was OK. Fortunately the rates were good before and after the storm.
It did dampen my enthusiasm. The European opening on 20 meters was almost around
the clock. 10 meters was open until late in the evening and 15 even later. 15
did suffer from the glut of activity on 20 & 10. 40 was good however the
phone band is too small. At sunrise on Sunday I tuned the Flex 5000A up the
band and listened to pristine AM broadcast stations that were 60 DB over S-9.
80 meters was also somewhat ignored and I slept 7 hours Saturday night so only
one QSO on 160. I guess it is time to start multi-single ops. I can not stay
awake for 48 hours and even if I do my operating gets really bad after about 12
hours in the seat. Odd but the real rare paths were not there. I did not hear
any ME of IO stations. Even stations on the continent of Africa were sparse.
The Pacific was not too well represented. I missed ZL and VK on several bands!
I have to comment on the Flex. It still hangs up when I tune across the band.
They say it is a chip from a bad lot that is used in the DDS. I just do not
want to pack it up and send it in for replacement. I guess it should work right
the first time! That said I made a ton of contacts with 12 watts and the KX-3. I
do not know if the DX knew I was running almost QRP. Maybe I will get a second
KX-3 and run SO@R QRP. The radio is fabulous and a pleasure to use.
SO2R
Flex 5000A (100 Watts)
Elecraft KX-3 (12 Watts)
KT36XA @ 85 feet
KT34XA @ 52 feet
80m Delta Loop @ 50 feet
160m Shunt fed tower
Writelog
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Call: N6XT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 71,760
The storm in Socal. Blew down a part of a tree on top of my power line. I was
lucky I still had power. But I had to trim it back in the storm and of course
it popped up like bow string missing my head by 2 feet. I had Dance nite with
the my lady on Saturday Night. So I got in some operating time in on Sunday..
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Call: N6YEU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 98,208
Nice to see ten meters open so well both days.
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Call: N7AT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 38,250
A quick 80 minute S&P romp thru the 10 and 15m bandmaps early Saturday
morning. Lots of family doings this weekend so no more time for this one.GL to
all
73, Bob K8IA
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Call: N7GP Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 2,475
This was a part time effort for both nights. I tried to hit the 'hot' times but
I am sure I missed a bunch.
The band was noisy for me both nights. I struggled trying to copy the
Carribean Low Power stations.
I worked NP4A nearly an hour before sunset Friday evening and thought the
prospects were good. Not so. I did find II9P CQing at 0241 and made the
longest Q of the contest.
KV4FZ was weak both night. All three KH6's were weak; the poorest prop to
Hawaii that I have experienced in many years.
DX worked: 8P, C6, CM, CN, CT, CU, EI, F, FM, HI, HK, I, KH6, KP2, KP4, P4,
PJ2, PJ4, PJ5, TI, UA9, V2, VP2M, VP5, & XE.
73, and thanks for all the Q's. CU all next season.
Milt, N5IA, operator of N7GP in AZ -- DM52
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Call: N7IR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 806,817
My first try at SO2R LP SSB contesting with wav files. This is certainly more
fun than wearing out my voice over the weekend. Some challenges were presented
because of the local weather. Had to keep the crank-up tower at 55' most of the
weekend due to thunderstorms in the area. The static crashes and precipitation
noise made for difficult reception on Saturday evening local time.
This is only the second time I've managed to break the 1000 QSO barrier in any
contest. The last time was ARRL DX CW in 2002 with QRP. I was hoping to break
the 1 megapoint barrier as well but mother nature had other ideas.
Ran Europe on 10 meters on Saturday morning local but couldn't duplicate that
trick on Sunday. Ran Asia/Oceania both evenings on 10 and 15 and on 40 in the
morning. That was a new experience for me. Propagation was better than
expected, again.
Thanks for the contacts and your patience.
73
Gary, N7IR
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Call: N7MZW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 178,920
Had a blast! A 100% hunt and pounce effort using a Kenwood TS-950S, Heil ProSet
with HC-5 mic. element, and a homebrew G5RV flat top up 50 feet running N-S.
Great to hear 10 Meters open again! 244 of my 426 contacts were on 10 Meters. I
more than doubled my previous personal best score for this SOAB LP Phone effort.
Why do so many JA's think that the state abbreviation for Wyoming is
"WI" ??? Thanks to all who worked my modest station.
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Call: N7PR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 154,935
Testing three stations and antennas this weekend, mostly search and pounce and
lots of fun. Thanks for the QSOs all! 73, Ted, K6XN
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Call: N7TEW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 174,300
Casual S&P affair, Shut down Friday night due to lightning storms. Then a
busy weekend so worked when I had the chance.
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Call: N7TR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 489,216
Sunday Morning EU Run was amazing!
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Call: N8BJQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,062,912
Very limited operation. 10 days ago was in ICU with pneumonia for almost 4 days.
What seemed like gallons of IV fluid and antiobiotics worked but my lungs are
still pretty sore and have a nasty cough. Used the DVK in the K-3 about 98% of
the time. Bands were very good but had to take lots of breaks.
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Call: N8HM Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 56,430
I only operated from home on Sunday UTC as I operated from W3DQ at the beginning
of the contest and was busy on Saturday afternoon. This is the most number of
QSOs I have worked in a phone contest from my apartment. Usually BIC time
suffers from fatigue of having to repeat my call and exchange multiple times,
but conditions were very good and repeats were minimal.
Lots of fun. Two new DXCCs brings my total worked from my DC apartment to 151 -
all with 100 watts or less to magnetic loops on my apartment balcony.
Thanks for the QSOs!
Radio - Yaesu FT-450D
Antenna - MFJ-1786 Magnetic Loop
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Call: N8II Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,116,483
It's a good day for a contest write up, 4-5 inches of new powdery snow and it
was 15 F or colder mid morning. What a topsy turvy weekend, full of the
unexpected and keeping you on your toes. The traditional strategies needed some
adaption to survive the weekend with a good score. The planets misaligned enough
for me Friday that it turned into a very busy day with things that could not
have been done sooner, so I started less than well rested with no hope of a
serious all out effort. It was a contest for contester fun weekend for me.
The effects of the Friday major flare were still present as the test began.
Starting on 15, it was wide open to South America with some Caribbean thrown in
for good measure, no big surprise, but 10 was equally as good to SA with still
loud signals at 01Z as well as loud Hawaiians. JA's were very weak on 15 at the
start and actually a few big gun JA's on 10 had good signals around 01Z, quite
late for here. 15 was still very weak to JA at 01Z, but a Chinese station was
loud and easily worked. KL7 and KH6 were both loud. It was down to 20 at 0130Z,
probably not soon enough to find booming stations to the south, but only the
EA's and north AF were loud with very little Asia. A check of 15 at 0255 found
now fairly loud workable JA's there, again much later than normal for this time
of year. All weekend long, I made little or no attempt to run JA's with none
worked in the run mode, instead trying to get a few Asian mults, results
however, were not good. By 0320Z, 20 was improving to north EU and Asia,
logging many Russians, KL7, and OH + OH0. Turkey was also logged with a good
signal. The first night I QRT'ed early with no low band QSO's in the log.
Saturday, I was up too late to be serious, but still feeling very sleepy. 10
was open well to western EU with a good run rate at 12Z, but Scandinavia did
not appear until 1220 and first northern (above 6 area) Russian not logged
until 1308. A6 and A7 called in, not much else really rare. I stuck with 10
running good rates until moving to 15 at 1545 and luckily found a spot clear
enough to run well down there; the majority of the activity was still on ten. I
went back and forth between 10 and 15 with the 10M run ending about 1820Z with
still many loud western EU on the band, but I looked mainly south for some
mults. After a refreshing hour and 40 minute break (lunch and dog walk), I
turned on the radio at 2015 and right where the VFO was sitting was amazingly
quiet where I stared a nice high rate EU run until 2145, what luck! Returning
to 15 at 22Z after sweeping 20, it was open well to the south but almost dead
to JA. 10, however was open pretty well to JA at 2235 as well as wide open to
the south until 0010Z. Turning to 40, there was not the usual sea of QRM with
actually poor EU activity. Stations who were there were actually easy to work.
75 was even worse activity wise, but open to EU. Later in the evening activity
picked up on both bands. At 01Z which is 2 hours past our sunset, 15 was decent
to JA and still wide open to the south. Then a check of 20 at 0130 found many
loud EU still running on the band, incredible! They were across the
Mediterranean and northern EU mainly. Of particular note was the large amount
of EA6 activity thru the weekend working them on 80 thru 10. Dutch activity is
always amazingly high for a small country with many 25 W stations logged.
Sunday can best be described as a struggle with best rates of the day early on
10 and late afternoon on 20 which again surprised me. I started low in the band
on 10 running exactly 3 KHz below K3ZO who I knew would keep the lower side
clear of QRM. But both of us ran out of callers way before we had hoped. 10
meter activity stretched from below 28300 up to well above 28800 with
essentially no clear unused frequencies until above 28800! The EU stations were
having a run fest at the expense of USA runners. I tried 15 and ran about 40
stations including two from YB mid morning until that dried up. S&P on 10
was a dupe fest finding many of the same stations who had called me the day
before, but I kept plugging along finding a few good mults along the way. 10
was wide open from the west coast to EU and eventually the opening favored them
as the band was closing for us. 15 was a sea of runners from 1830 until quite
late with enormous signals and 20 was the same until 23Z. Stations on top of
each other on 20 were making S&P painful with a noticeable nearly unused
clear area either side of 14250. Running there proved fruitless. Fatigue lead
to an error at the end as we had a very good JA/Asian opening in the last 90
minutes which I mostly missed. 9M6XRO was loud post contest, but not workable
with LP and China was heard as well.
Ukrainian activity seemed near normal despite the happenings there which was
nice to see. Many thanks to all of the callers and spotters. Running big pile
ups was not as common as on CW and there seemed to be plenty of WV activity
with K3ZJ and NW8U heard often as well as some others. We probably will not
experience an ARRL DX contest with solar flux in the 160's/170's for some time
to come, so it was fun to experience and not miss the great conditions on 20,15
and 10. CW contesting is the more civil mode. It's nothing new, but the EU
domination/obliteration of the bands made searching for multipliers tough for
more hours than usual with 15 being open until late afternoon and 20 almost
around the clock. There may be some high band records which fall; activity was
certainly impressive from EU and the south.
73, Jeff
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N8UM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 956,130
Excellent conditions even though 15 meters never opened to Asia at the end of
the contest. 80 was excellent to EU the second night. I almost quit Sunday
morning when 10 meters went long to Europe and I could not work anyone.
European Sunset brought an incredible run of 300 Qs at noon my time and woke me
up.
Hard to believe my ten meter antenna is four ground mounted 86 inch whips with
a dummy load (four square).
K3, 9500
4 squares for 40-10
67 ft. vertical for 80/160
Shared apex loops and external preamp for low bands
Win Test
Understanding Wife
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N8XX Class: SOSB/10 QRP Total Score = 16,500
Wow! 10 meters was REALLY open to the world! Yup, even with a peanut whistle 5
watts an a low wire antenna, I could be heard by many DXers. All S&P, and
I chose SOSB/10 QRP even though I know there's no power sub classifications for
Single Band, but when 10 is open to the world, it doesn't take much power!
Wasn't able to break through some of the "rarer" stations, but my
goal of 50 Q's for the event was eclipsed early in the first day's effort, so I
set another goal of 75, which was made quickly, so I plugged along past 100 so
that, after NIL's and busted Q's I might have 100 Q's in the bag.
Thanks to all who pulled out the weak station - especially the DX ops who stuck
with QSB early morning on Sunday. Also a few stations seem to know that I like
QRP, so I got a few "nice signal for QRP" kudos.
Tnx to the organizers!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N9FN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 360,960
Just got on a couple of hours here and there, all S&P.
Dave - N9FN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N9GUN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 140,430
Part time effort after back surgery. Could only sit in the chair for an hour or
less at a time. First time in ARRL DX contest with an amplifier. It sure made
life a little easier.
Thanks for the QSOs.
73 de Tom, N9GUN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N9IO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 41,310
Unfortunately was unable to get on until just after noon on Sunday
but was able to really enjoy some fantastic conditions particularly on 15m.
I hope to pick up a few new band-modes.
73'
Clay N9IO
Bonfield, IL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N9RV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,094,300
Many different facets of propagation in this one.
One of my amplifiers went south just before the contest, so between that and
the blizzard it wasn't going to be a full time effort here. But it was still
plenty of fun!
Both nights had great openings to Asia on 10 and 15. The second night in
particular had a great 15m opening until past 0430 UTC. The first night had
good polar 20m, but 40-160 were awful to EU. The second night had bad 20m but
40m was pretty good to EU. Both nights I missed all of the Asian low band
action -- QRT here then.
The first morning had plenty of loud EU signals, but nothing runnable here.
The second morning was much better, especially on 10m where I had some pretty
good runs.
160 and even 80 were consistently terrible here. But with such good conditions
on 10 and 15 who noticed?
- Pat
N9RV
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: N9RV
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH SSB
OPERATORS: N9RV
--> TO22C has an unknown country prefix.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 0 0 115 27 142 142 6.6
0100 0 0 0 0 24 177 201 343 16.0
0200 0 0 0 13 105 15 133 476 22.1
0300 0 6 10 37 29 0 82 558 26.0
0400 3 2 14 44 17 0 80 638 29.7
0500 2 0 0 8 0 0 10 648 30.2
0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 30.2
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 30.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 30.2
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 30.2
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 30.2
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 30.2
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 30.2
1300 0 6 0 0 16 0 22 670 31.2
1400 0 0 0 8 21 0 29 699 32.5
1500 0 0 10 3 0 42 55 754 35.1
1600 0 0 0 3 4 27 34 788 36.7
1700 0 0 0 0 0 87 87 875 40.7
1800 0 0 0 0 12 19 31 906 42.2
1900 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 911 42.4
2000 0 0 0 27 0 1 28 939 43.7
2100 0 0 0 0 29 4 33 972 45.2
2200 0 0 0 9 0 28 37 1009 47.0
2300 0 0 0 18 13 37 68 1077 50.1
0000 0 0 0 0 0 69 69 1146 53.3
0100 0 0 0 9 0 32 41 1187 55.2
0200 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 1192 55.5
0300 0 0 0 0 113 0 113 1305 60.7
0400 0 7 16 3 48 0 74 1379 64.2
0500 1 0 57 2 0 0 60 1439 67.0
0600 1 5 21 0 0 0 27 1466 68.2
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1466 68.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1466 68.2
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1466 68.2
1000 1 0 38 0 0 0 39 1505 70.0
1100 0 4 2 0 0 0 6 1511 70.3
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1511 70.3
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1511 70.3
1400 0 0 2 0 123 0 125 1636 76.1
1500 0 0 0 0 15 108 123 1759 81.9
1600 0 0 0 0 5 140 145 1904 88.6
1700 0 0 0 0 12 40 52 1956 91.0
1800 0 0 0 0 4 17 21 1977 92.0
1900 0 0 0 0 7 17 24 2001 93.1
2000 0 0 0 0 17 0 17 2018 93.9
2100 0 0 0 16 7 14 37 2055 95.6
2200 0 0 0 32 1 16 49 2104 97.9
2300 0 0 0 32 13 0 45 2149 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 8 30 170 264 752 925 2149
Gross QSOs=2165 Dupes=16 Net QSOs=2149
Unique callsigns worked = 1631
The best 60 minute rate was 206/hour from 0057 to 0156
The best 30 minute rate was 254/hour from 0057 to 0126
The best 10 minute rate was 270/hour from 0109 to 0118
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 5 times.
5 QSOs/minute 22 times.
4 QSOs/minute 87 times.
3 QSOs/minute 174 times.
2 QSOs/minute 328 times.
1 QSOs/minute 483 times.
There were 87 bandchanges and 9 (0.4%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 6 14 8 17 26 37 108 5.0
South America 2 4 8 24 27 47 112 5.2
Europe 0 3 99 173 220 435 930 43.3
Asia 0 6 40 37 437 340 860 40.0
Africa 0 1 3 7 5 15 31 1.4
Oceania 0 2 12 5 37 51 107 5.0
??? 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 8 30 170 264 752 925 2149
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 7
4 401
5 531
6 1168
7 5
8 33
9 2
10 2
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
4X 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
6W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
6Y 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
8P 1 2 1 1 0 2 7 0.3
9A 0 0 4 5 7 5 21 1.0
9H 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
9K 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
9M2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9M6 0 0 1 0 1 4 6 0.3
9V 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.1
A6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
BV 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.1
BY 0 0 0 1 6 3 10 0.5
C6 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 0.2
C9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
CE 0 0 1 3 0 4 8 0.4
CM 0 2 0 0 2 4 8 0.4
CN 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
CT 0 1 0 2 4 11 18 0.8
CU 0 1 0 0 3 5 9 0.4
CX 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
DL 0 0 6 11 26 72 115 5.4
DU 0 0 1 0 7 8 16 0.7
E7 0 0 1 2 0 2 5 0.2
EA 0 0 6 15 28 43 92 4.3
EA6 0 0 0 2 2 2 6 0.3
EA8 0 0 1 0 1 5 7 0.3
EI 0 0 1 3 5 4 13 0.6
ES 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.2
EU 0 0 3 1 1 2 7 0.3
F 0 0 9 4 12 17 42 2.0
FM 0 1 0 2 2 1 6 0.3
FR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FY 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
G 0 0 0 4 8 21 33 1.5
GI 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 0.2
GM 0 0 0 1 3 9 13 0.6
GU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
GW 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0.1
HA 0 0 6 6 5 10 27 1.3
HB 0 0 0 2 4 7 13 0.6
HB0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HC 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HI 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
HK 1 1 1 3 2 2 10 0.5
HL 0 0 0 0 15 9 24 1.1
HS 0 0 0 0 4 2 6 0.3
I 0 0 16 19 26 96 157 7.3
IS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
*IT9 0 1 2 2 4 6 15 0.7
J7 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
JA 0 5 37 9 390 316 757 35.2
JD/o 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KG4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KH2 0 1 2 1 2 1 7 0.3
KH6 0 1 2 1 5 8 17 0.8
KL 0 0 2 3 10 13 28 1.3
KP2 1 1 0 1 0 3 6 0.3
KP4 1 1 0 0 2 3 7 0.3
LA 0 0 2 2 0 6 10 0.5
LU 0 0 1 5 8 15 29 1.3
LX 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
LY 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.1
LZ 0 0 1 2 0 5 8 0.4
OA 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
OE 0 0 2 3 2 5 12 0.6
OH 0 0 1 2 1 7 11 0.5
OH0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
OK 0 0 3 2 4 8 17 0.8
OM 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
ON 0 0 1 7 9 6 23 1.1
OZ 0 0 1 2 1 5 9 0.4
P4 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 0.2
PA 0 0 2 2 4 7 15 0.7
PJ2 1 1 0 0 1 1 4 0.2
PJ4 0 1 1 2 1 2 7 0.3
PJ5 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2
PY 0 0 3 8 9 19 39 1.8
S5 0 0 4 5 8 8 25 1.2
SM 0 0 2 5 8 11 26 1.2
SP 0 0 7 6 13 23 49 2.3
SV 0 0 1 5 2 3 11 0.5
SV5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TF 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1
TI 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 0.2
TK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
UA 0 0 0 31 6 5 42 2.0
UA2 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 0.1
UA9 0 1 1 18 15 6 41 1.9
UN 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 0.2
UR 0 0 6 3 6 5 20 0.9
V2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.1
V3 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
V8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VK 0 0 1 2 9 17 29 1.3
VP2M 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VP5 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
VP9 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
VR 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
XE 2 1 1 2 2 3 11 0.5
YB 0 0 4 1 5 8 18 0.8
YN 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.2
YO 0 0 4 1 5 5 15 0.7
YU 0 0 3 5 5 2 15 0.7
YV 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0.1
ZD8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
ZL 0 0 1 0 7 5 13 0.6
ZP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
ZS 0 0 0 3 2 7 12 0.6
??? 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 8 30 170 264 752 925 2149
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
JA 0 5 37 9 390 316 757 35.2
I 0 0 16 19 26 96 157 7.3
DL 0 0 6 11 26 72 115 5.4
EA 0 0 6 15 28 43 92 4.3
SP 0 0 7 6 13 23 49 2.3
UA 0 0 0 31 6 5 42 2.0
F 0 0 9 4 12 17 42 2.0
UA9 0 1 1 18 15 6 41 1.9
PY 0 0 3 8 9 19 39 1.8
G 0 0 0 4 8 21 33 1.5
LU 0 0 1 5 8 15 29 1.3
VK 0 0 1 2 9 17 29 1.3
KL 0 0 2 3 10 13 28 1.3
HA 0 0 6 6 5 10 27 1.3
SM 0 0 2 5 8 11 26 1.2
S5 0 0 4 5 8 8 25 1.2
HL 0 0 0 0 15 9 24 1.1
ON 0 0 1 7 9 6 23 1.1
9A 0 0 4 5 7 5 21 1.0
UR 0 0 6 3 6 5 20 0.9
YB 0 0 4 1 5 8 18 0.8
CT 0 1 0 2 4 11 18 0.8
KH6 0 1 2 1 5 8 17 0.8
OK 0 0 3 2 4 8 17 0.8
DU 0 0 1 0 7 8 16 0.7
PA 0 0 2 2 4 7 15 0.7
YU 0 0 3 5 5 2 15 0.7
YO 0 0 4 1 5 5 15 0.7
*IT9 0 1 2 2 4 6 15 0.7
ZL 0 0 1 0 7 5 13 0.6
EI 0 0 1 3 5 4 13 0.6
HB 0 0 0 2 4 7 13 0.6
GM 0 0 0 1 3 9 13 0.6
ZS 0 0 0 3 2 7 12 0.6
OE 0 0 2 3 2 5 12 0.6
OH 0 0 1 2 1 7 11 0.5
XE 2 1 1 2 2 3 11 0.5
SV 0 0 1 5 2 3 11 0.5
BY 0 0 0 1 6 3 10 0.5
HK 1 1 1 3 2 2 10 0.5
LA 0 0 2 2 0 6 10 0.5
CU 0 1 0 0 3 5 9 0.4
OZ 0 0 1 2 1 5 9 0.4
CM 0 2 0 0 2 4 8 0.4
CE 0 0 1 3 0 4 8 0.4
LZ 0 0 1 2 0 5 8 0.4
KH2 0 1 2 1 2 1 7 0.3
PJ4 0 1 1 2 1 2 7 0.3
8P 1 2 1 1 0 2 7 0.3
EU 0 0 3 1 1 2 7 0.3
KP4 1 1 0 0 2 3 7 0.3
EA8 0 0 1 0 1 5 7 0.3
HS 0 0 0 0 4 2 6 0.3
9M6 0 0 1 0 1 4 6 0.3
KP2 1 1 0 1 0 3 6 0.3
FM 0 1 0 2 2 1 6 0.3
EA6 0 0 0 2 2 2 6 0.3
CN 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
ES 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.2
P4 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 0.2
E7 0 0 1 2 0 2 5 0.2
C6 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 0.2
GI 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 0.2
VR 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
VP9 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
YN 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.2
UN 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 0.2
PJ2 1 1 0 0 1 1 4 0.2
OM 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
TI 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 0.2
PJ5 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2
BV 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.1
UA2 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 0.1
YV 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0.1
LY 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.1
J7 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
3V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
9V 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.1
GW 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0.1
TF 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1
OH0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
VP5 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
4X 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
9K 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
OA 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
V2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.1
CX 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
V3 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
HI 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
9H 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
9M2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
JD/o 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
A6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FY 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
LX 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
GU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
C9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
??? 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
V8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VP2M 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KG4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
TK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
IS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
6W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
HB0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
ZD8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
ZP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
SV5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
6Y 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HC 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 8 30 170 264 752 925 2149
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 1275
2 bands 246
3 bands 67
4 bands 35
5 bands 7
6 bands 1
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
HK1NA
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 2 8 58 127 455 625
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N9TF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 363,510
Thanks to all the DX stations that heard my 100 watts to low hanging trap
dipoles! Some the of the signals from you guys were unbelievably strong.
Excellent band conditions, except for my noise on 40m and 80m. All I could hear
on 160 was a buzz saw across the band. Did not even attempt :(
100 Watts to D4 rotatable dipole at 37' 10-40 and a short dipole for 80m at 35'
apex.
73 Gene, N9TF
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: N9UA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 789,837
A3S TRIBANDER AT 25 FEET FIXED ON EUROPE
250' OPEN LOOP WITH APEX AT 45 FEET, 450 OHM LINE FEED
ICOM 746 PRO RUNNING 100 WATTS.
Had Fun, thats what its all about. Missed being at AA9A though, hi hi. Thanks
to all for the Q's. 73, Mike - N9UA BOZINGA,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: NA5NN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,533,020
For me this felt like the longest contest I have ever participated in. The
lack
of rest before the contest and my body still recovering from overseas travel
turned into a struggle Sunday afternoon. A part of me hated to see the
contest
end, but I admit it was a relief to have it end!
Anyways, my work commitment keeps me pretty inactive, so inactive that I was
actually away from ham radio for almost six years before I participated in the
CQWW SSB in 2013. I honestly don't remember the last time I did anything in a
ARRL DX contest so I didn't really have much of an idea, or game plan going
into it. With that said it didn't take me long to realize that this wasn't
the
CQWW contest and if I couldn't muster up some kind of run it would be a long
48
hours and a poor score. So I echo N1UR's comments and if it weren't for the
spotty runs I was able to produce I would have a much lower score.
I knew going into the contest that I would have to take advantage of 10M as
it's the best band I had at the station and I think it's pretty obvious I did
that by looking at my QSO totals. With that said, other than the first hour
on
10M running around 100 JA's it was S&P until I could finally establish a
run
frequency on a crowded 10M band around 1300z. This lasted for around 2 1/2
hours with a steady stream of callers and at times peaking 250+ rate until I
had to start tuning the bands again. 10M produced a few more smaller runs
during Saturday, but overall Sunday may have been more productive throughout
the day.
As for 15M, I could never find a clear spot to CQ on at all during Saturday
and
it was actually pretty disturbing to see my QSO/Mult count on the band going
into Sunday. The signals from the larger stations in EU were so loud that I
found it hard to find new stations after a few sweeps of the band and finding
a
run frequency just wasn't happening until Sunday when my luck changed. I
found
a small sliver of an opening around .400 when I started to CQ with many
unanswered calls until I was greeted with an almost unmanageable pileup trying
to get the MS mult. 30min into the run on 15M I was run off by an HP station,
the band sure felt unforgiving as a LP station. I had a few more short lived
runs on the band that sure helped my mult count and a late afternoon sweep of
the band towards the end of the contest looking to SA/Carib netted a handful
of
easy ones that I was missing to bring my mult count to a more respectable
total.
Overall I think 15M could of been better for me, but like I first mentioned
10M
was going to be used as a crutch to make up short comings elsewhere.
20M, for me this is usually a tough band with LP, but Sunday around 0750z the
band seemed fairly empty so I found a nice clear spot to CQ and found myself
on
the end of a respectable run of very loud EU stations for nearly 3 hours that
averaged around 150 an hour at the start with a short peak of nearly 200. I
honestly don't remember how the bad was on Saturday during this time, but I'm
kicking myself if it was the same! Overall I didn't do much on 20M after
1200z
Sunday because each time I checked the band out I couldn't find a clear spot
to
CQ, nor any new stations when searching the band.
40M, not much to expect out of the band with a yagi being blocked by trees and
keeping it from turning to EU and down to the Carib/SA. I just try to work as
many as possible and feel I was able to pull out a decent mult count
considering the circumstances.
80/160, two wires and no RX antennas mixed with LP, I don't think I need to
say
much about my activity there. I would however like to thank all of the
stations
that did work me on these bands, especially the few EU stations I worked on
their sunrise Sunday. EI7M actually told me I was loud, but he was doing all
of the work!
Thanks to V26M, P40L, P40P, 8P5A, PJ2T, PJ4G, TI8M, XE7S, KP2M, and VP5H for
Q's on all 6 bands.
I think the lowest reported power I received was 500mw from a EU station.
Overall I feel very good about my effort. I do feel there are a few things I
could of done differently, but I don't make a habit of thinking about the past
and will use what I learned during this contest in the future. Also, it looks
like the W5 record will be at the mercy of the log checking robots, congrats
to
N5AW on a great score and I look forward to seeing the final outcome!
I'm at the mercy of my work schedule that has me out of the country most of the
year, so I'm not
sure when the next time I can participate in a major contest. Good luck to
all
in the future.
Justin
N5BO
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: NA8V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,390,580
What a wild ride, especially the first 24 hours!
10 meters was tremendous, although no z17 were worked and z16 numbers seemed
light compared to the CQWW. Had a 198 hr the first day, by far my best ever.
The band blew open at the same time the multi/so2r guys found me, it was an
exhilarating experience. On Sunday propagation seemed to go in and out and
shifted around quite a bit, but never really dried up.
15 was also very good but never found a runnable frequency on Sunday. Left a
lot of mults on the table. With 10 having so much activity, I was surprised 15
was so packed all the time.
20 was very good, mostly a nighttime band for me the first day with great skip
over the pole and open to most areas of the globe. The second night was not
productive, Sunday was saved when I finally found a good freq late afternoon
and had a nice 140q run into EU and the Middle East.
The low bands were not so good the first day. Had more contacts on 80 the
second night as it was much better and with 20 not good there was more time to
spend on the low bands. It was frustrating to not be able to work very loud
tranceive stations but easily work the guys that were split. One would think
more people would go split, especially on 40. I gave up tuning the transceive
portion of 40 for several hours it was such a zoo. Had some noise from snow
static the 2nd night, not too bad but a pain.
It was a great pleasure to work so many QRP stations, many on several bands.
There were a couple stations that seemed to be CQing on multiple frequencies on
the same band. If that's not illegal it should be.
I slept ~1.5hrs the first night and ~4.5hrs the second - a couple more than
planned but was still on the air before sunrise. Had hoped to try SO2R this
spring but managed to blow up my 765 while trying to fix it. :) I don't know
how much longer conditions will hold up, but it was quite a treat to have
excellent conditions for all 4 weekends of the CQWW and ARRL DX in this sunspot
peak year.
Congrats to all the great scores out there and thanks for all the contacts!
73,
greg/na8v
TR4w (now w/ DVK!)
TS850
TH6 @ 67', TH3 @ 47' (fixed SE)
40: Doubleslot, dipole, vertical
80: 2x inv L
160: inv. L
Rx: 2x450' Beverage at EU
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: NA8V
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM
-- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- --------
0 --- --- --- 5/5 16/12 30/11 51/28 51/28
1 --- 2/2 22/15 28/18 --- --- 52/35 103/63
2 3/3 7/5 --- 20/8 14/4 --- 44/20 147/83
3 3/3 7/6 2/1 21/7 --- --- 33/17 180/100
4 1/1 3/3 23/11 10/4 --- --- 37/19 217/119
5 4/4 13/10 5/0 --- --- --- 22/14 239/133
6 1/1 3/1 7/2 26/13 --- --- 37/17 276/150
7 --- 5/3 4/4 50/13 --- --- 59/20 335/170
8 --- 1/1 9/6 16/1 --- --- 26/8 361/178
9 2/2 3/0 8/4 --- --- --- 13/6 374/184
10 --- 1/1 --- --- --- --- 1/1 375/185
11 --- 1/1 3/1 17/1 29/19 --- 50/22 425/207
12 --- --- --- --- 58/12 26/15 84/27 509/234
13 --- --- --- --- --- 119/25 119/25 628/259
14 --- --- --- --- --- 170/8 170/8 798/267
15 --- --- --- --- 104/7 5/0 109/7 907/274
16 --- --- --- 2/1 8/0 98/3 108/4 1015/278
17 --- --- --- --- 24/4 41/1 65/5 1080/283
18 --- --- --- --- 21/1 24/3 45/4 1125/287
19 --- --- --- 21/2 --- 19/3 40/5 1165/292
20 --- --- --- 11/0 41/2 --- 52/2 1217/294
21 --- --- --- 5/0 7/3 23/4 35/7 1252/301
22 --- --- --- 12/1 21/9 5/0 38/10 1290/311
23 --- 1/0 5/0 4/0 --- 16/1 26/1 1316/312
0 --- --- 1/0 9/0 3/1 18/2 31/3 1347/315
1 --- 3/1 10/4 --- 2/1 3/0 18/6 1365/321
2 1/1 --- 11/1 13/2 --- --- 25/4 1390/325
3 1/0 11/2 2/0 2/0 1/1 --- 17/3 1407/328
4 1/0 9/5 4/2 3/0 --- --- 17/7 1424/335
5 1/1 7/2 4/1 --- --- --- 12/4 1436/339
6 1/1 18/5 --- 5/1 --- --- 24/7 1460/346
7 --- 3/1 6/3 --- --- --- 9/4 1469/350
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1469/350
9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1469/350
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1469/350
11 --- --- --- 4/2 --- --- 4/2 1473/352
12 --- --- 1/1 9/0 24/1 --- 34/2 1507/354
13 --- --- --- --- 1/1 112/2 113/3 1620/357
14 --- --- --- --- --- 87/2 87/2 1707/359
15 --- --- --- --- 8/0 58/0 66/0 1773/359
16 --- --- --- --- 16/0 30/0 46/0 1819/359
17 --- --- --- --- --- 59/1 59/1 1878/360
18 --- --- --- --- --- 15/2 15/2 1893/362
19 --- --- --- --- 15/0 17/4 32/4 1925/366
20 --- --- --- 52/0 6/0 --- 58/0 1983/366
21 --- --- --- 88/8 --- --- 88/8 2071/374
22 --- --- --- 3/0 8/2 4/0 15/2 2086/376
23 --- --- --- --- 4/0 24/3 28/3 2114/379
D1 14/14 47/33 88/44 248/74 343/73 576/74 1316/312
D2 5/3 51/16 39/12 188/13 88/7 427/16 798/67
TO 19/17 98/49 127/56 436/87 431/80 1003/90 2114/379
Gross QSOs=2114 Dupes=17 Net QSOs=2097
Unique callsigns worked = 1438
The best 60 minute rate was 198/hour from 1343 to 1442
The best 30 minute rate was 222/hour from 1349 to 1418
The best 10 minute rate was 258/hour from 1349 to 1358
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 1 times.
5 QSOs/minute 12 times.
4 QSOs/minute 47 times.
3 QSOs/minute 129 times.
2 QSOs/minute 288 times.
1 QSOs/minute 880 times.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 9 22 16 29 29 38 143 6.8
South America 5 7 11 29 34 62 148 7.1
Europe 4 66 87 327 340 816 1640 78.2
Asia 0 0 1 30 13 55 99 4.7
Africa 0 1 3 4 5 6 19 0.9
Oceania 0 2 8 12 7 12 41 2.0
??? 0 0 0 2 1 4 7 0.3
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 18 98 126 433 429 993 2097
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 1065
2 bands 199
3 bands 106
4 bands 30
5 bands 32
6 bands 6
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
P40P P40L XE7S PJ2T II9P VP2MLL
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 3 16 36 163 159 688
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Call: NB3R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 972,348
All wires for antennas.
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Call: NC6DX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 96,750
Testing three stations and antennas this weekend, mostly search and pounce and
lots of fun. Thanks for the QSOs all! 73, Ted, K6XN
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Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 452,412
Conditions seemed to be pretty good - not great, but better than the 2013 ARRL
DX Test. I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure this is my all-time best score
in this contest. Things just seemed to keep clicking along, with a decent rate
(for QRP) and a reasonable multiplier total. With the exception of one
"mini-run" on 10, this was all S&P. 10 was definitely the
"money band" with fully half of my QSOs and the highest band total of
mults.
As usual the low bands were a struggle. 80 was a joke with a low dipole and 40
was very tough - only had a handful of Europeans logged. And it seemed that the
noise levels were pretty high on all bands, but maybe that was just a local
issue - don't know. And of course I got the usual comments like "you're
very weak" and "you're at my noise level" - goes with the
territory I guess. But as always I appreciate the great operators out there
with super ears and a lot of patience and persistence to complete the QSOs.
I seemed to have more fills and corrections this year. I just started using a
new microphone (Heil HC6 element) that seems to be more sensitive than my old
Heil HC4 element and may have been giving my audio some minor distortion
("fuzzy") until I made some adjustments to compensate. So that, and
a weak signal are not a good combination! Specifically I had many people
mistaking "Delta" in my phonetic call sign for "Bravo". I
don't remember that being an issue before.
For the most part I thought the pile-up behavior was pretty good, but with some
notable and consistent exceptions - guys that just continue to call on top of
the request for a partial, etc. And of course there were the usual wide
signals and distorted audio that makes it tough for everybody else.
There was the usual problem with stations not IDing - apparently assuming
everybody is using spotting networks to get the callsign! - Very frustrating
to burn a minute or two waiting for an ID, to then find out you've already
worked them! Grrrr!
But all-in-all, I had a blast. I didn't spend as much BIC time as I might
have, in fact I got 8 hours of sleep on Friday night as I was dead tired going
in to the contest. And sleep seemed preferable to listening to noise and
getting CQed my face! Now back to the real world of work and business trips -
ugh!
The ND0C "super-station":
Rig: FT897D running 4-5 watts out, depending on band; Heil ProSet headset
microphone with HC-6 element
Antennas: TX38 tribander at 12.5 meters (40 feet); Cushcraft D-40 rotatable
dipole at 13.5 meters (42 feet) and dipole for 80 at 12 meters (39 feet)
Thanks and 73,
Randy, ND0C
"You don't have to be crazy to contest with QRP ... but it helps."
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Call: NE3F Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,525,732
Very interesting contest. Two new members to the group and I had to work during
the best rate day . The team did well , no smoke , and everyone had fun. I need
to make a few changes here to make all bands available to each of the stations
. always something to do
NE3F and Team
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Call: NE3K Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 31,842
Had many activities with the kids this weekend, so sporadic operating.
Still surprised how much I can do with the long wire.
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Call: NF4A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,115,490
Part-time effort...only 14.9 hours....Ten meters was amazing.....found out my
new 50 inch Samsung Plasma Flatscreen TV wipes out 80/75 meters unless you are
20 over S9. Luckily the XYL was happy to move to the bedroom to watch a 39 inch
LED flatscreen...WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T BUY A PLASMA IF YOU PLAN TO WORK 80/75
METERS !!! Heard 10 meter contest activity well above 29.0 mcs !!
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Call: NF8J Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 231,936
K3, KPA500,TH11DX,N1MM LOGGING. Fun contest, 10 m was open to everywhere. Nice
run of JAs, 7pm local time after dark. Open to EU before dawn, local time.
Basically followed the greyline, EU, then AF, then SA, then OC....only could
operate for 9 hours, but at age 74, that is enuff...
NF8J, Paul
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Call: NG7M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,464
Just messing around to make a few Q's and send some spots.
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Call: NI7R Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 7,290
With storms and winds in the area, I was afraid to put up my temporary
verticals, so I operated SOSB/10 with my temporary 10 meter dipole 8 feet off
the ground. With other weekend commitments and general lack of interest for SSB
contest, I operated less than 3 hours. The majority of my contacts were with
JAs, but did work a number of EU stations Sunday morning.
K3, AL-811H amp, N1MM, 10 meter dipole
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Call: NN4F Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 778,572
Main radio recently died, ran contest on FT100D, bad RF on 160-40 sometimes on
20, not a fun contest, FT100D filtering is less than desirable...but eventful
none the less, 10 was fantastic...
Equip: FT100D/Alpha78/Mosley TA-63
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Call: NN4MM Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 16,650
condx not so good, participation light.However,single band 80 is always a
challenge.Thanks to all for the QSO's.
QRZ 80
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Call: NN7NN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 95,760
Testing three stations and antennas this weekend, mostly search and pounce and
lots of fun. Thanks for the QSOs all! 73, Ted, K6XN
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Call: NP2X Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,148,848
Thanks to KE3X for 3 consecutive band changes to give me DC mult 4x in a couple
of minutes! Hard to get VO1, VO2, VE8, VY1, etc. when they're outside of US
phone band on high bands.
73,
Fred
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Call: NR3X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,334,348
This one usually isn't in the rotation for me but conditions have been so good I
decided to give it a decent go. You know things are good when you are asked to
get out of the AM window on 29 MHZ.
Even 160 perked up a little the second night.
73,
Nate/N4YDU/NR3X
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Call: NR5M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,722,208
Unbelievable conditions but I ran out of gas on the second day. How do you go
to sleep during a 100/hr. run? I have GOT to schedule some sleep for the first
night next year -- I am too old for this stuff!
But I love it! Thanks for the Q's.
George, NR5M
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Call: NS9I Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 160,476
Part Time effort from FL.
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Call: NT4TS Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 291,237
Bands were good
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Call: NW0M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 535,464
A few hours here and there. All S and P. 10M was great.
K3, KPA500, Mosley tribander, OCF dipole, N1MM.
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Call: NW3H Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,001,997
Personal best in this contest. Surpassed my previous highest score by 633K.
What a difference a tribander makes. My amp is no longer working on 10 meters
after having to change tubes. Due to that all the contacts on 10 meters were
low power. Great openings to Asia on Sunday working dozens of JA, KH2 and
UA9s. The low bands were awful on Friday due to the solar activity. Things
picked up on Saturday. My 80 meter effort is the best I have had in a DX
contest. My simple inverted vee played very well. 40 meters was ok on my
Windom but I need a better solution there. Perhaps a vertical. Seemed as if
the amount of available mults was lower on 40 this year. Overall all very
pleased with my score. I had a lot of time this weekend thanks to my wife
taking care of the kids for most of the weekend. Thanks to the DX for the
QSOs. 73 de Bill, NW3H
Rig: IC-7600
Amp: AL-811H
Antenna: Mosley mini 32a tribander
80 meter inverted Vee
Carolina Windom for 40 meters
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Call: OE2S Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 269,040
congrats to OH1F for beating me finally, still had fun. Only missed ND for WAS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: OG6N Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 642,600
Part time operation. The propagation on Saturday was as poor as I can remember
except of 10m which produces some QSOs. Especially the low bands were just
terrible. It was difficult to work a decent multiplier count on 40m. No QSOs on
75m or 160m. Normally 15m is my strongest band but this time I felt like running
with a wet doodle. Also 20m was strange. On Sunday morning I had a brief run on
20m but the band really opened in the end of the contest for three hours. Too
bad that I have only a single yagi on 10m because it seemed the place to be. I
worked only about 350 QSO on Staurday and almost 900 QSOs on Sunday so the
difference between the two days was dramatic.
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Call: OH0R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,429,196
Very good conditions on high bands but quite poor on the low bands.
I think that I worked veryone that I could hear on 40, 80 and 160 but that was
not very much
Sunday was much better than Saturday. Just 1300 QSOs on Saturday and over 2000
on Sun day.Heavy static rain at the end of contest and I had to stop earlier
than planned because the noise level went very high.
I think that 20 or 15 single band had been the right choice this year since
those bands were open long enough for a competive score.
Great fun to work a phone contest for a while.
Many thanks for the QSOs and see you all in the next contests.
Pertti, OH2PM
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Call: OH1F Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 282,060
My intention was not to participate this contest but some other activities were
cancelled from this weekend. The conditions looked quite good so I made a quick
decision to take part.
The conditions were good on Saturday but still a bit better on Sunday.
Unfortunately I was not able to reach the current OH record from 1991(about 60
more qsos would have been enough..)
WY, YT and NU were the missed multipliers.
Thanks for QSOs!
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Call: OK1CDJ Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 302,760
Great CONDX from central EU to North America. I have really enjoyed the pileups.
Thanks for calling. LOG was uploaded to LOTW.
73 Ondra OK1CDJ
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Call: OK1MMN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 3,498
TS-480 + PA 300W, Yagi 3x3 ECO
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Call: OK5D Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 88,740
Nice contest and good condx especially on Sunday. I enjoyed pile-ups only with
100W.
tcvr TS-850SAT
ant 3 el Y SteppIR @22m high
73's David
OK1DTP
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Call: OK5R Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 377,820
Decent propagation. But still 99% of the west coast stations were weak - more so
in Saturday, Sunday was a bit better.
Middle of EU is not a place to be in.
Had fun and as always !
Jiri
OK1RI
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Call: OK7K Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,073,340
NICE CONTEST! I really enjoyed it!
My first SSB ARRL contest in All Band category, so I had no experience with
strategy and band changing.....
I've had a nice opening to west coast on 10/15/20 and 40m. First night on 160m
was terrible. I made only 4 big guns - WE3C, W3LPL, VY2ZM and K3LR no more....
I have made 21 stations on all six bands - TNX!! (AA3B, K3LR, K3MD, K3PP, K3WW,
KB1EFS, KB1H, KN2M, KU2C, N1RR, NR3X, VA2AM, VE9ML, W1CTN, W1GD, W1TJL, W2PV,
W3LPL, W4RM, WE3C AND WJ2D)
Used equiment:
Rigs:
FT-1000MP MarkV Field + PA ACOM2000A
Antennas:
160m: Vertical @ 34m �" 120 Ground radials
80m: Vertical @ 34m �" 120 Ground radials
40m: 4 el. Dipoles Sloper System
20m: Stack 5/5 el. ZX Yagi (ON4UN Design, 14,2m boom @ 27/15 m
15m: 6el. ZX Yagi (ON4UN Design, 14,5m boom @ 23m
10m: Stack 7/7/7 el. Yagi (G0KSC Design, 13,8m boom @ 30/24/18
5el OWA Yagi (G0KSC Design, 6m boom @ 15m
RX Antennas:
Beverage 360m to USA (320 deg)
Beverage 700m to USA (320 deg)
Beverage 360m to Carribien (280 deg)
Many thanks for all QSOs and see you in RDXC ;-)
73! Petr OK1BN / OK7K
www.ok7k.estranky.cz
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Call: OL6A Class: M/S LP Total Score = 4,941
portable setup, 5W, just for fun.
TNX. 73 Jirka
http://ok1rks.blogspot.cz/
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Call: OM3PC Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 349,347
FT 2000D,3x6el. OWA Yagi + OM POWER
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Call: OM7RU Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 4,473
I took part only on 80m, just to take some points to W/VE guys. Also conditions
was not very good. I spent a lot of time during long CQs.
Thanks to all participants!
Used equipments:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV Field
ACOM 2000A (1,5 kW OUT)
MicroHAM microKeyer, MicroHAM StationMaster
WinTest
UltraBeam UB ONE rotator
Antennas:
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru
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Call: OP4K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,206,051
Don't think we expected such great propagation on the high bands after the X6
flare of last week.
No strategy was prepared as only at the last minute Koen - OO7K announced his
limited presence, which makes my entry a M/S.
Slow start the 1st night on the high bands. Seems to have improved over day
Saturday and some big runs were accomplished 184 Qs at 163/h on 15 followed by
225 Qs at 179/h on 10m.
On Sunday all bands opened very early which made the time flying. In the late
afternoon more big runs 144 Qs at 152/h + 108 Qs at 185/h on 15 and 146Qs at
213/h on 20.
These are surely good reasons to keep us busy during contest weekends and enjoy
the peak of Cycle 24.
Thanks to all who called my station. Hope to work you soon again in one of the
next contest.
Setup
Yaesu FTDX-5000MP
Acom 2000A running 1.5kW
Optibeam OB18-6 (7 el on 10m, 4 el on 15 + 20m and 3 el on 40m) at 50m / 170ft
Dipole (inverted V) for 80m at 50m / 170ft
N1MM
QSO's will soon be uploaded to LOTW and paper QSL will be processed as time
permits
73 Joe
OP4K
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Call: OT2A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,813,952
After a long period of radio silence finally action!
I put a lot of work into improving my noiselevel over the past year and
automating the station.
My first steps in SO2R are set but that is a bit more difficult than I thought
....
The contest took here a weak start but got better and ended with a fantastic
run.
The low bands did not, and I think there is still some work to my RX system.
Thanks Luc ON4IA for the support and everyone who participated in this contest.
Ham radio is without a doubt the most beautiful hobby in the world!
Thanks for calling me call me again next time.
Patrick
ON4HIL
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Call: P40L Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,014,176
Thanks for all the Qs. Special thanks to all the stations that moved for us.
The P40L Team
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Call: P40P Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 5,000,000
Missed not having Carl & Sue at station this year. It is always pleasure
that Carl & Sue allow me to rent the station during SSB weekend. Station
performed flawlessly. Used N1MM this year for logging.
Nice having post contest dinner on Monday night with K9PG, WE9V and P43E
1st time to met K9PG & WE9V - both of who have some impressive contesting
achievements.
Got to met Andy P40LE before the contest. Andy ran Carl's station for CW
weekend.
Thanks to P40L crew for invite to do M/2, am sure M-op is in my future.....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: PI4DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,210,000
What a great contest! We didn't have enough operators for the M/2 section so we
decided to enter the M/S section instead. We made almost a 1000 Q's more then
we did last year in M/2! Very good conditions, especially on 10 meters.
Thanks to al of you who worked us, you made it fun!
C U next year!
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Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,368,737
* Yes we did it! *
After 12 years in our final attempt PI4TUE was able to set a new personal all
time high record for the ARRL DX SSB contest.
In 2002 two Op's Jons-PA9JB and Aurelio-PA3EZL (now PC5A)set a score (S/Q/M):
1.8M/2653/223 (score/Q's/M's). Back then they fished 10M empty on day1
(1125Q's) and 15M on day2 (746). In the hours before and after those bands
opened/closed they made some Q's on 20/40/80. Both nights they even slept 6
hours which means a total operating time of 36 hours; they used just one
transceiver...
Last year the same team as this year got close to breaking that record: 1.7M
points, 2436Q's and a new record of 237M's. Were we ever going to break the
number of Q's or the score of 2002...?
Our Achilles heel has always been 40mtrs where we use a dipole and vertical.
Due to bad weather we were again not able to get our newly acquired 3 EL 40M
Yagi (40MDY3 from EAntenna) up and running. We had hoped to make big steps on
40M for this years ARRL contests; it wasn't meant to be...
So we put our money on the improvements we did inside the shack: having a
second in-band transceiver to work everything that appeared in the available
window of N1MM. We had Athena running on a separate PC that was showing us the
hourly comparison with 2002. Despite some very good runs on Saturday evening
(187, 195 and 160 Q's per hour) we could not get a clear lead, but we still had
the whole night ahead of us where the two guys in 2002 slept for 6 hours. The
night did not bring too many QSO's (48 Q's in 6 hours... like on VHF). Just
before 20mtr opened on Sunday morning the forecast was not good. Athena however
showed we were well in the lead on multipliers, pretty much since a few hours
after the start. No doubt this was due to not sleeping during the nights and
working all those mults on the 2nd transceiver. The score was still pretty
close though, no significant lead. Combined with the help of propagation,
second transceiver and the dedication of the team it took us until 20Z on
Sunday evening when we broke the QSO record: 2736Q's. Victory! 15M was still
open and Aurelio worked another 154 the following hour until 21Z. The final
hours we spent on 20M which was still wide open. When the dust settled just
after 00:00Z Monday morning we looked at each other a smiled, big time :-). Yes
we finally did it! A personal all time multiple QSO, Multiplier and Score record
in ARRL SSB. We were proud wearing our 59(9) 400 T-shirts...
Some pics taken during this memorable weekend:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29325747@N03/sets/72157641826372994/
To conclude some statistics:
- 4 stations worked on 6 bands: K3LR, KB1H, W3LPL, WE3C
- 40 5-band QSO's
- State with highest QSO count worked: PA (226Q's)
- Clean US states sweep on 10m & 15m
- State with fewest QSO's: NWT (1Q)
- Highest hourly rate: 192 in hour 20 on Saturday by Frank-ON9CC
2x Orion (interlocked by DL5SE-design slightly modified + 2x 6-band 5B4AGN
TXBPF
+ 1xPA)
28OWA6
3 EL SteppIR
40M dipole
80M hor loop
160M vertical sloping down
(all antenna's at about 65M / 213FT) above ground level
On behalf of ESRAC Contest Team
-- Aurelio, PC5A
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: PJ2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,455,859
This year I was joined by PJ2T veteran Martin, G4XUM. Geoff, W0CG was scheduled
but had an unplanned emergency leaving just the two of us to have all the fun.
Conditions were just fantastic. 10 stayed open late and signals were loud.
160 the second night was loaded with loud signals after the crashes faded.
Activity was up for us with hours of bottomless pileups resulting in some of
our best rates ever, but we still have a way to go to beat the record
Our 2 el 40 was stuck on EU, but we managed to string a wire dipole that seemed
to be only about 6 db down from the yagi.
Thanks as always to all you rare mults who moved and made skeds with us. We
had our best mult total ever. Will anyone ever be on from NU?
Thanks for the Q's. CU next time.
John, K6AM
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Call: PJ4D Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 463,917
For the previous four years I have operated the CW leg of the ARRL DX contest
from PJ2T. Deciding it was time for something a little different and the fact I
wanted to return to Bonaire, I chose to skip the CW leg in favor of giving SSB a
go.
A recent addition to Bonaire is Steve, PJ4DX (ex: 9M6DXX). Steve lives in the
other half of the duplex that I had rented and he had indicated that he’d
like to also participate in the contest. Since I am not a 48 “BIC” kind of
guy, I had thought about doing some flavor of Multi with PJ4DX & PJ4NX, but
having recently sold the bulk of my Bonaire gear to W4PA, that option didn’t
seem very feasible. That and the fact that all of our antennas and equipment
are put up Field Day style, trying to organize and setup a big operation felt
like a lot more work than I wanted to tackle.
After some discussions, we decided on single band efforts �" Steve would
do 10M, I would take 15M - PJ4NX ultimately turned out to be off the island
during the contest. After getting my antenna in the air (a C3SS @ 30’) and
doing a little testing, we found it would be pretty difficult to run 10 and 15
together. We were interfering with each other and finding a solution was
unlikely. Plus the line noise on 15 was horrendous. Picking out any signals
below about S7-8 would have been a real challenge. What we did learn, however,
is that neither of us bothered each other when on 10 and 20 �" so that
became the new plan.
Having done multiple contests from PJ2 and PJ4, I knew 20M would be painful to
the states between about 11:00 �" 16:00 local so I anticipated having
plenty of time off. While Qs can be made, the rate is typically something in
the order of just a few per hour. Prior to our sunset and into the evening is
our prime time into the states and that proved to be true once again. I saw
nearly half of my Qs come in the first 6 hours of the contest.
The rest of the contest played out pretty much as expected. Holding a
frequency during the NA-EU openings often proved to be difficult, but
occasionally the little Field Day setup surprised me. Once EU propagation faded
and the stateside guys began looking south, the fun began.
In the end this little peanut whistle did surprisingly well ending with 2623
QSOs. I had hoped for 60 mults but apparently missed a couple as I see many of
the bigger stations found my missing ones. But as always, being able to come
to the Caribbean play a little radio, look at some fish, down a few liquid
beverages and generally enjoy “island time” is always well worth the trip.
Thanks again for allowing me to get into your log!
Kelly - N0VD / PJ4D
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: PJ4DX Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 479,277
Conditions on 10m were TOO good, by which I mean it was difficult to find a
clear frequency and impossible to hold it with my (relatively) low power
station of 300 watts to an antenna only 6 metres above ground - even though I
am in the Caribbean. I look forward to the days when there is little or no
trans-Atlantic propagation on 10m once again, then I might stand a chance :-)
See you next year, 73 de Steve, PJ4DX
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: PJ4G Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 12,409,677
Congrats to the P40L team. Condx were incredible Friday night, but Saturday
night - not so much. Sunday morning was lackluster as well.
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Call: PJ6A Class: M/S LP Total Score = 6,222,048
Our adventure to operate the 2014 ARRL DX SSB contest began on Monday with a
Skype message sent by Jeff KB1ZOJ to inform me that our only amplifier had
failed with a rather spectacular bang. There was no time to diagnose the
failure and repair the amp. Our only option was to enter the contest MS LP.
Jeff had been on the island for a few weeks and the balance of the team, Tim
K5AC, George N4GRN, Val NV9L, and Gregg W6IZT arrived on Saba on the last
flight from St. Maarten at 5 pm on Wednesday.
Jeff’s home is located in an area known as Hell’s Gate at approximately
1300 feet above sea level. The terrain falls off steeply and the location has a
commanding view towards North America and Europe.
Work began on setting up the station and antennas on Thursday morning. We hung
a 130 foot doublet that would serve as our primary 80 and 40 meter antenna,
next we erected the 20 foot tower and installed the A3 tribander. We were
ahead of schedule, but somewhat tired. Our last task of the day was to put up
the Battle Creek Special. Trying to put up a BCS when everyone was tired turned
out to be a bad idea. We damaged the antenna in two spots. We were able to
repair the antenna on Friday morning, and put it up without issue.
We started the contest on 20 meters. Conditions throughout the contest were
outstanding, although the upper bands seemed to open a bit late both mornings
causing us some concern that we would be able to achieve our goals. 10 meters
was by far our most productive band. 15 meters was challenging until the band
closed to Europe. We also had good results on 40 and 80. 160 was a bit
challenging with just 100 watts, with most of our Qs east of the Mississippi.
After 24 hours we realized that we had a good chance of eclipsing the MS LP
record. We passed the total set at P40V in 2011 with four hours remaining in
the contest.
Thanks to all of those who took time to work us, and congratulations to those
who have put up some great scores!
It’s Monday afternoon, the antennas are down and the team is off to see some
sights.
73s
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Call: PJ7AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,311,057
K3 and Buddipole
I am on a family vacation so only was able to get away for 14 hours of
operating time. On Saturday morning we moved to a ground floor villa and had to
sneak up to the roof of the building to operate. Had to fight the noise from
jets taking off from Princess Juliana Airport across the bay.
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Call: PS5A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 886,104
First big contest of the station. Our choice was M2, one of the stations with
high power and other low power.
The setup behaved as expected, there is the problem that we had in the linear
SB-220, which left us low power for over 19 hours, thanks to our friend PY5XH
José Maria Berezoski, the solution of the problem
Many thanks to friends PU5SVE Evandro da Silva - PP5NZ Evandro Guedes - PU5UAI
Rodrigo Martins - LW1DKW Antonio M. Briganti, the hours of joy.
We met the next ... better prepared.
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Call: PX2B Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 452,880
First night was beautiful with near 300 qsos on the first hour. Finished
Saturday with 2017 qsos. On Sunday the target was to arrive at least in 3000
qsos but the propagation was poor and started very late. The full day with only
500 qsos.
It was a nice party and we atr improving the station day by day.
Thanks for every one that called me and I hope to see you again soon.
73's
Fernando / PY2LED / PX2B
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Call: PX5E Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 725,958
Best conditions that i had on arrl dx.
as i said before, and learned with my friend Glenn K6na " no meters is
like 10 meters "
Thank you to all that i had in my log.
see you soon
Sergio PP5JR/PX5E
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Call: PY1ZV Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 100,800
Short but fun ..
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Call: PY2SBY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 176,988
Dear all.
After 5 year less normal antena( before mobile ant window apart) get now
oportunity to work with a antena in the top.
Prop conditions was not so bad and able to good open in 10,15 but the other
bands was impossible to me a big pileups in 20meters.
Station :
IC 7600 - 100watts
dipole ant 12meters each side and AH4 ( external ATU) in feed point to tune.
Tks for all and until WPXSSb.
73 PY2SBY Elvis.
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Call: PY5GA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 159,138
Hi folks
I operated only 4 hours aiming to put on the air the callsign PY5GA
Our Group Araucaria DX Group received the honor to use the callsign of our
elmer Olavo who passed away 2010
Thanks for being on PY5GA log
Oms PY5EG
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Call: RA/KE5JA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 110,616
QTH is Sakhalin Island, Asiatic Russia
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Call: RT0F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,139,648
Highest rates are 350 qrate first day, 303 qrate second day.
73, de rc0f
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Call: RW1A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 512,034
Both days from 12 to 19 z rates were very slow 20-40 QSOs/hour because CONDX was
very good
on all high bands and people prefered to stay on 28 and 21 Mhz for bigger
rates.
Was trying to catch LP openings when possible.
Also had very intresting results following grey line with both SP and LP ways
of getting signals from on the same time.
The biggest surprise was at 06-07z when instead of normal 330 degrees I had
W7's from 30-40 degrees.
The antennas used are:
- 7 el @ 40 mtrs (130 ft) rotory
- H-frame 4 x 5 el @ 40 mtrs (130 ft) fixed
- New 12 el @ 60 mtrs (260 ft) fixed
See you RDXC 2014 1200 UTC 15 March - 1200 UTC 16 March 2014
Vlad RW1A
RW1A
All bands - All modes
QSOs (with dupes) - By time
| Hr | |
-----------------
| 00 | 12 |
| 01 | 6 |
| 02 | 131 |
| 03 | 168 |
| 04 | 90 |
| 05 | 115 |
| 06 | 95 |
| 07 | 11 |
| 08 | |
| 09 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | 17 |
| 12 | 38 |
| 13 | 11 |
| 14 | 30 |
| 15 | 19 |
| 16 | 1 |
| 17 | 17 |
| 18 | 65 |
| 19 | 51 |
| 20 | 62 |
| 21 | 52 |
| 22 | 102 |
| 23 | 96 |
| 00 | 132 |
| 01 | 202 |
| 02 | 193 |
| 03 | 223 |
| 04 | 154 |
| 05 | 77 |
| 06 | |
| 07 | |
| 08 | |
| 09 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | 34 |
| 14 | 31 |
| 15 | 31 |
| 16 | 26 |
| 17 | 37 |
| 18 | 59 |
| 19 | 72 |
| 20 | 89 |
| 21 | 90 |
| 22 | 106 |
| 23 | 160 |
-----------------
| | 2905 |
| 20 | TOTAL
====================
CT | 66 | 66
MA | 105 | 105
ME | 29 | 29
NH | 46 | 46
RI | 12 | 12
VT | 9 | 9
NJ | 104 | 104
NY | 159 | 159
DE | 15 | 15
PA | 161 | 161
MD | 86 | 86
DC | 1 | 1
AL | 24 | 24
FL | 179 | 179
GA | 70 | 70
KY | 20 | 20
NC | 119 | 119
SC | 23 | 23
TN | 44 | 44
VA | 110 | 110
AR | 10 | 10
LA | 18 | 18
MS | 16 | 16
NM | 8 | 8
OK | 17 | 17
TX | 96 | 96
CA | 228 | 228
AZ | 63 | 63
ID | 13 | 13
MT | 12 | 12
NV | 20 | 20
OR | 49 | 49
UT | 14 | 14
WA | 88 | 88
WY | 10 | 10
MI | 67 | 67
OH | 123 | 123
WV | 20 | 20
IL | 76 | 76
IN | 48 | 48
WI | 44 | 44
CO | 41 | 41
IA | 27 | 27
KS | 22 | 22
MN | 62 | 62
MO | 34 | 34
ND | 6 | 6
NE | 15 | 15
SD | 9 | 9
NB | 7 | 7
NS | 9 | 9
NF | 3 | 3
PEI | 2 | 2
LB | 1 | 1
QC | 20 | 20
ON | 67 | 67
MB | 11 | 11
SK | 8 | 8
AB | 17 | 17
BC | 22 | 22
NT | 3 | 3
YT | |
NU | |
====================
www.ru1a.ru
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Call: S51CK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 874,368
73 de S51CK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: S54O Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 130,140
TS590
h.m. 900W
3el ECO @15m
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Call: S56A Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 174,234
Nice condx on 10 m! Whole West Coast available. I skiped both nights but
managed 5 80m QSO toward the end of contest. DX Cluster doesn't provide enough
mults as RBN does. It was fun!
73 de Mario, S56A
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Call: S57C Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 253,080
FT1000MP, A77D, 5el. Yagi
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Call: SK2T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 569,976
10m was in good shape, low bands not.
Good night conditions on high bands due to the Aurora.
Tnx contacts.
73 Per SM2LIY
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Call: SK3W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,578,644
Not enough propagation to beat the old SM-record for Multi/Single from 1982. We
have a higher claimed, but not enough for expected UBN score reduction.
Only stations on 160m were W2MF and VY2ZM. K3LR and W3LPL were heard long
periods, but did not copy our 800 watts. We need a better TX antenna.
Nice to have MDG and MLZ at the station again, as well as Jonas PHU who made an
excellent dinner for us on Friday night before the contest.
Next contest will be the Russian DX, and later the CQ WPX Phone with a similar
setup as last year with about 20 young hams from several countries visiting the
station and running Multi/Multi.
Some extra information can be found here:
https://plus.google.com/communities/101471424502404810669
73 de Gus SM3SGP
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Call: SN1Y Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 110,220
Tuning around bands just for fun.
73, Mirek SP1NY
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Call: SN2M Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 265,500
IC765 + KW, ant 5/5 + 5el.
Significantly limited condx on saturday, due to geomagnetic storm and high A/K
indexes. Every 100km to the South = 50 QSO's more.
Much better situation on sunday, good sigs from all the West Coast, which were
just marginal 1st day. Unfortunately some problems with PA caused loosing abt
40 mins during the best peak of propagation..
TNX all QSO's, working all states and almost 1,5k US/VE on 10m is something I
will always remember as "good times".
73's
Mac SP2XF
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Call: SP4LVK Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 38,640
RIG:FT-950 PWR:5 ANT:2el Delta Loop
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Call: SP4Z Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 776,502
Not time during weekend
But finnish last 10 hours was incredibile
73, Wes SP4Z
Gross QSOs=1447 Dupes=0 Net QSOs=1447
Unique callsigns worked = 1033
The best 60 minute rate was 219/hour from 1901 to 2000
The best 30 minute rate was 240/hour from 1734 to 1803
The best 10 minute rate was 276/hour from 1744 to 1753
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 6 times.
5 QSOs/minute 44 times.
4 QSOs/minute 101 times.
3 QSOs/minute 141 times.
2 QSOs/minute 114 times.
1 QSOs/minute 136 times.
There were 3 bandchanges and 0 (0.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
4 720
5 507
6 217
9 2
10 1
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
G 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
K 0 0 183 190 596 398 1367 94.5
KG4 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.2
VE 0 0 17 11 34 14 76 5.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 0 0 202 201 631 413 1447
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
PA 0 0 22 23 54 35 134 9.3
NY 0 0 20 23 50 21 114 7.9
OH 0 0 13 9 51 25 98 6.8
NJ 0 0 16 13 30 17 76 5.3
VA 0 0 11 13 25 23 72 5.0
MA 0 0 19 12 30 10 71 4.9
FL 0 0 8 10 27 23 68 4.7
NC 0 0 9 7 24 28 68 4.7
TX 0 0 2 4 27 28 61 4.2
MD 0 0 8 13 22 16 59 4.1
CT 0 0 7 11 22 10 50 3.5
NH 0 0 8 12 18 6 44 3.0
ON 0 0 10 4 21 3 38 2.6
MI 0 0 3 5 22 6 36 2.5
IL 0 0 4 2 16 14 36 2.5
TN 0 0 5 4 12 13 34 2.3
MN 0 0 1 1 20 9 31 2.1
WI 0 0 3 6 12 7 28 1.9
GA 0 0 3 4 11 8 26 1.8
CA 0 0 0 0 12 10 22 1.5
IN 0 0 2 2 12 5 21 1.5
WV 0 0 3 4 6 6 19 1.3
IA 0 0 1 2 7 6 16 1.1
SC 0 0 1 3 4 7 15 1.0
AL 0 0 3 0 5 7 15 1.0
MO 0 0 0 1 9 4 14 1.0
OK 0 0 0 0 6 7 13 0.9
CO 0 0 0 0 4 9 13 0.9
QC 0 0 1 2 5 4 12 0.8
ME 0 0 2 2 5 3 12 0.8
KS 0 0 1 0 5 4 10 0.7
LA 0 0 1 1 4 3 9 0.6
MS 0 0 1 0 5 3 9 0.6
RI 0 0 3 2 2 2 9 0.6
AZ 0 0 0 0 4 5 9 0.6
KY 0 0 1 0 4 2 7 0.5
NE 0 0 0 0 4 3 7 0.5
WA 0 0 0 0 6 1 7 0.5
DE 0 0 1 1 1 3 6 0.4
VT 0 0 1 0 4 1 6 0.4
NB 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.3
PEI 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.3
AR 0 0 0 0 4 1 5 0.3
NS 0 0 2 1 2 0 5 0.3
OR 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 0.3
NF 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 0.2
DC 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.2
NV 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.2
BC 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.2
MT 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
UT 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
NM 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1
SD 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
SK 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
MB 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
AB 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1
ID 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
ND 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
00 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
------------------------------------------------------
Total 0 0 202 201 631 413 1447
U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
--------------------
0 216 14.9
1 396 27.4
2 412 28.5
3 418 28.9
4 476 32.9
5 184 12.7
6 64 4.4
7 70 4.8
8 328 22.7
9 170 11.7
--------------------
Total 2734 188.9
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 759
2 bands 165
3 bands 78
4 bands 31
5 bands 0
6 bands 0
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 0 0 83 56 389 231
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Call: SP8K Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 155,595
FT2000 + PA + TH6DXX @ 18m
73 Kornel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: SP9LJD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,014,857
I got similiar motivation as GW4BLE, but he is a little better.
Thank you Andy SP8R for motivation to operate more time as I thought from the
beginning.
Tnx fer all QSO's fellow.
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Call: SV5DKL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 419,286
Few hours of hard fun.
Thanks for all QSOs
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Call: T48K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,996,496
A lot of incovenients, including a storm which destroyed 15 meters antenna.
However, we enjoyed it as allways.
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Call: TF3CY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 138,753
Aurora to bad on Saturday - so changed to casual contesting ;)
very fun working NA
73, Benni TF3CY
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Call: TF3W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 598,455
Band condition poor first day but improved very much late Sunday. Aurora high,
late Saturday visible many hours. Just fun to operate in ARRL INT DX. 73
Gudmi
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Call: TI8M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 8,913,168
A great contest! A good time was had by all.
We had to some issues with amps but we finally made the best of what we had.
Ran the whole contest on our backup amplifiers but they were up to the task and
never let us down. Also, TI4ZM our electrician in the group had to repair the
main service to the QTH. Other than that everything was great !
As always low band noise levels were high so sometimes we just could not hear
you!
Thanks to everyone who called us!
TI8M Group
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: TM0T Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 474,672
See you in the next contest
Gildas F/TU5KG aka TM0T
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,983,550
Hi all,
The initial projet was M2 category at F6KHM ARC, but murphy visited the station
a few days before the event! Since the big storms in Brittany, the yagi on 20 m
making a terrible QRM on the others bands, we decided to change the plan for
coming in MS category this year.
The previous record in this category was etablished in 2012 by "OH8X
Team" from the magic location in Azores Islands : CR2X. We never thought
that it will be possible to compete from the continental EU, just before this
event!
Amazing conditions on 10, 15 & 20 m. Best rate on 15 m with 311 Q/h and
saturday night, 4 hours on 20 m 220 to 260 Q/h ! The low bands have suffered,
which may explain the lack of multipliers on 160 and 80 m.
We think that EI7M & CS2C was making also a good job, hoping that the
aurora was not too annoying?
The team "tonguo maike sixe maike" is happy to dedicaced this effort
to "easy seven apple" !
Special thank to everybody and see you during the WPX Contest.
On behalf of the team,
Lee, F5MUX
http://tm6m.over-blog.com/
ARRL SSB 2014 TM6M @ F6KHM
MS HP Opr. F1AKK, F4DXW, F5MUX, F8DBF
BAND QSO S/P DUP POINTS AVG
----------------------------------
160 92 32 1 276 3.00
80 295 44 4 885 3.00
40 775 57 6 2325 3.00
20 1975 61 29 5922 3.00
15 1777 61 30 5325 3.00
10 2479 60 47 7437 3.00
----------------------------------
TOTAL 7393 315 117 22170 3.00
==================================
TOTAL SCORE : 6 983 550
setup:
160m: 1/4wl shortened Vertical with radials
80m: full sloper, dipole
40m: 2 elements DXBeam @100 ft
20m: 6 elements DXBeam @85 ft
15m: 6 elements DXBeam @60 ft
10m: 6 elements DXBeam @45 ft
Beverages
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Call: TO5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,489,053
Did not make a QSO for the first 13 minutes of the contest. I thought I was
perhaps on the wrong side band. Dismal first hour.
The A was 23 at the start so maybe this was a hint of what was in store for the
weekend.
I could not get any good runs on 40 this year.
The best time is always at the end. I have been so lucky over the years that I
have been able to do contests and finish them without major equipment
disasters.
I will be 66 next week. I do not know how many full time SOAB adventures I
will be doing in the future but it has been fun doing what I started as a 15
year old kid.
I had 167 dupes. A mystery to me why I have so many.
Anyway, thanks to all who gave me a call and sorry to those that the QRN would
not let me hear them to give them a QSO.
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Call: VA2EN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,772,928
The recent CME trashed the low bands for this contest.
10m was just wonderful!
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Call: VA2WA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 209,304
That was a part time operation. I was able to assign just three hours and a bit
on last Saturday. I tried to run pile-up in a maximum rate as possible. The
best I've got 195 q/H for the second hour. Not bad ))) Looked like the
propagation was great on 20-15-10.
73!
Victor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 4,995
KX3, 5w, verticals.
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Call: VA7BEC Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 552,486
Wow! I'm tired!
It seemed like there was a mass exodus from 20M because conditions on 10M and
15M were so great. The low bands were… well… quite lonely. I tend to tune
through the bands regardless of spots, because some juicy multipliers may not
have been spotted yet and it's easier for me put them in the log before the
massive pileups commence. But I didn't hear much except noise on 80M and 40M.
This contest is, by and large, an S&P effort for me, but I did have a
couple short but productive runs to AS and to EU.
My goals were to do better than last year and if possible reach the level of
the year before when conditions had been pretty good. That was the main reason
for putting more effort into CQing. Boost the Q count and compound the point
with lovely multipliers. I'm pleased with the results.
Very happy for every Q in the log but particularly happy to have had Qs on all
five bands with HK1NA JA3YBK KH7XX KL7RA and P40L. Also had quite a few
four-band stations in the log. Too many to mention, even.
All in all, a great weekend. Besides, being at the radio meant I didn't have to
go outside and shovel snow. !!
See you all again soon.
73
Rebecca VA7BEC
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Call: VA7IR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 50,160
DIDNT LIKE THE SINGLE OP SINGLE BAND HAVING TO HAVE ONLY ONE POWER SETTING,
MAKES THE LITTLE GUY SITTING ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST IF THEY DONT HAVE A
AMP..THINK THERE WAS A LOT THAT DIDNT BOTHER TO PLAY..
ARRL YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE RULES TO HELP OUT THE LITTLE GUYS THAT DONT HAVE
POWER..
KEN
73,S
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Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 446,220
What he heck happened to 20M? On Sunday it sounded like a non-contest weekend
(i.e. hardly in use at all) until the final couple of hours.
Filled a few country band-slots. Mults are up by a bunch thanks to 10M being
wide open over the pole. Wish 20M had been, too; it was lousy both days.
Had a lot more fun than I expected, just not much fun below 15M.
-- Bud VA7ST
Qs Mult Score
2014 671 222 446,220 HP
2013 332 75 74,700 HP20
2012 693 189 392,931 HP
2011 626 190 354,540 HP
2010 770 143 330,330 HP
2009 416 130 162,240 HP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: VE3DZ Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 528,195
K3 + amp (500...700 watts output) + A4S @ 35'
Supposed to be a serious SOSB effort, but it was pretty difficult to
concentrate considering what's happening in Ukraine (my native country) now...
About he contest. Conditions must be great since a bunch of CB'ers were
terrorizing me the whole contest. One guy from Northern Italy spent almost 2
hours trying "to get in touch" with me... I wish I had that much
spare time on my hands on a weekend.
Europe was pretty loud and I had no problem working a pile-up below 28300,
however, with West and Picific I didn't feel that loud and could not break
many
pile-ups. For instance, I spent over an hour calling 9M6XRO, but no luck.
Lost 2 hours of "prime-time" to JA's on Saturday afternoon, when my
antenna rotor got stuck and I had to climb my tower twice and do some twiggling
until finally got it going again.
The "most terrible signal" on the band prize goes to CO6LC. I don't
how one
can cover more than 20 kHz of bandwidth and create such dirty signal with
"only 100 watts".
Thanks to all for the Q's and to the ARRL for sponsoring such a nice contest.
73 Yuri VE3DZ
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Call: VE3HG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 449,793
10 meters was the gift that kept on giving. Wonderful conditions all weekend
long.
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Call: VE3KI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 33,579
DXing
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Call: VE3KJQ Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 216
KX3, Cushcraft R7
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Call: VE3UTT Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 275,130
Great conditions! Had to leave station with 7 hours to go.
k3 / Optibeam could only run 500w to 800w
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Call: VE3VV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 243,600
[log removed from comments]
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: ON
CALLSIGN: VE3VV
CLUB: None
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 243600
OPERATORS: VE3VV
SOAPBOX: 6 band changes per hour !
NAME: ted hughes
ADDRESS: 968 germain st
ADDRESS-CITY: sarnia
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: ONT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: n7s1m1
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: canada
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.2.1
END-OF-LOG:
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Call: VE4DRK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 35,346
Just a 100watt with a vertical in the backyard -- had fun.
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Call: VE4EA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 535,383
This was supposed to be a 15m SOSB Low Power entry on my part. Conditions on
10m, especially the second day changed all that. The lure of hearing strong
signals and a packed band extending over 600khz was magical.
Congratulations to Ed VE4VT (VE4EAR) for his great results, especially with
being limited to a multi-band vertical on the high-bands - amazing operator!
This contest is a lot of fun. It's great to see all the DX activity and
generally good ops. The QRP stations on 10/15 are stunning.
This first SSB DX test also a useful lesson in what I still have to do to make
my new station more effective and competitive.
73,
Cary
VE4EA
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Call: VE4VT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,568,745
Far better conditions than I had expected considering the CME and high Aurora
level. My only regret was not having the beam to use on 20/15/10. With daytime
temps around -25C and windchills below -40, climbing the tower was out of the
question. I did consider it and even went outside and quickly concluded it was
not going to happen.
Difficult to run most of the time and had better rates with S&P. Did enjoy
a couple decent runs.
I couldn't believe the large number of QRP stations I worked on 10 and 15m.
20m was very poor during the day and the best conditions were late evening when
it was open literally everywhere.
40m just made my ears bleed. Everybody jammed into the 7.125-7.2 band was not
pleasant when all of the NA stations were booming, it was near impossible to
pick out the DX. It was just amazing how strong the DX was that didn't have to
pass through the aurora zone on 40m. North Africa and Spain were booming, Most
of Europe was barely detectable. Smae going to Asia and the Pacific. If we
could just turn down the Aurora.
Also frustrating to hear our friends on the east coast working EU when it there
was nothing to be heard here. That extra hop makes a big difference.
Probably had close to 80 zero point QSO's from US stations that figured Canada
was DX. I figured it was just easier to log the contact then try to explain the
rules of the contest.
Was this the peak of the solar cycle and it is downhill from hear?
Almost looking forward to the peace and tranquility of the BERU CW contest next
weekend.
73 Ed
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Call: VE4YU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 103,689
I was sick all weekend thus low time on the air. Condx were good
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Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 160,680
Original plan was to operate 15m SB from VE6JY but on Friday the temperature out
in Lamont was near -50C with the wind chill. In addition the radiation storm
from the X flare earlier in the week was still causing absorption problems up
here so decided to pass this year. Took a listen on 15m on Friday evening and
it was very mediocre so didn't feel too bad. On Saturday morning 15m was still
fairly poor to Europe so went up to 10m and it seemed much better. Worked a
number of Eu stations during the short European band opening all S&P. The
JA opening in the late afternoon was quite good and could run stations. On
Sunday condx to Eu on 10m were very good for about 2hr. Unfortunately the
opening was very short 1500-1700z. Could hear the EA and G stations for much
longer times but with much weaker signals. Sunday afternoon was quite good to
SA. Almost all contacts were S&P except for a few JA runs. Missed a few
mults that I heard but could not get through the east coast.
Equipment ICOM IC-7600, Antenna 3-ele SteppIR at 48 ft.
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Call: VE7AX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 126,873
It was a fun weekend for 10 meters - open to EU most of Sunday morning here.
This was a rare contest where I have more EU QSOs in the log than SA or JA
QSOs. This contest is all S and P for me with limited antennas. Thanks to all.
Icom IC756ProIII, Acom 1000 amp with Cushcraft R6000 vertical, N1MM
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Call: VE7TJF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 71,760
First big DX contest. Enjoyed collecting many new countries and especially
IOTAs. Many thanks to my great coach and the stations who dragged me out of the
mud.
73
Margaret
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Call: VE7XF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 38,556
Just a few hours warming up the chair for VE7TJF.
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Call: VE8EV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 620,712
The big X-class solar flare earlier in the week sure knocked the heck out of the
bands up here. On Thursday evening 160-10m was completely dead but 24 hours
later at the beginning of the contest things had at least improved enough to
let the highest bands start to open up. Even then the absorption was strong
enough all weekend that I was never able to get a decent run going anywhere,
save for a couple of hours on 10m and 15m over the pole in the middle of the
night on Friday. The low bands were a total washout, nothing heard at all on
80m and 160m, and only a tiny handful of "nearby" mults on 40m after
midnight Saturday.
Highlights:
- Finally being able to prove my theory that the best time for 10m to Europe
from here is in the middle of the night. I sensed a considerable amount of
skepticism from the other side but WFWL happily prevailed.
- On three separate occasions someone in a pileup with me got through to the DX
station and after making their contact told them to "listen up, there's a
VE8 calling you". I was humbled each time but of course wasn't paying
enough attention to catch their calls. Thanks for the multipliers!
- Collecting enough entities on 10m to push my DXCC total on that band to well
over a hundred. Now I can stop worrying about missing out on 10m at the top of
the solar cycle and start working on how I'm going to live long enough to work a
100 on 80m for 5BDXCC...
Other than the stellar/dismal band conditions (depending on your perspective)
the only lowlight was trying to tell guys wanting to pass me down to 20m in the
middle of the afternoon that "Sorry, I've got no propagation on that
band." Strange days, indeed!
Depending on my travel schedule this might be the last contest operation from
here until CQWW in October. If so, see you then!
73
John VE8EV
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Call: VE9AA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 567,486
<CLICK>
(Light bulb goes on)
Huh, what is it?
It's time to get up sir.
Huh...(groggy) what?
It's time for you to catch a plane to the Orient.
Why Jeeves?
Your speaking engagement sir. Your around the world tour to raise money.
Remind me what I am speaking about this year Jeeves.
Why sir, you are speaking about that classic Bo Derek movie.
Oh right, well better get me the airport Jeeves.
(Jeeves drives Mike to the Airport in a MINI COOPER)
Mike frantically searches for flights to Tokyo and finally gives up and having
missed them
goes into the Tiki lounge for a beverage. There he stumbles into some large
Hawaiins
looking for flights to North America and he visited with a guy who claimed to
be Rich from Alaska, who at least had
his passport but didn't look or sound like him at all. He was able to collect
1000 each from the big Hawaiins and Rich in
Alaska, but otherwise the collection plate was looking a bit bare. How will
the ARRL ever accept this amount from the November Bravo group?
After that it was time to go back home and sleep. Mike had missed his flight
to Tokyo and there were no more flights
until the morning.
(fade to black)
Mike wake up !
Jeeves, is that you?
Yes Mike, you are going to miss your flight to Europe. They are expecting you
to speak there today.
(groggy). Huh, isn't that over?
No sir, it's a 48hr around the world tour. You are expected to speak in many
countries today.
I better get some coffee in me Jeeves.
Already looked after sir (hands him a mug of the best cup of warm brewed beans
available)
Lets get at it Jeeves.
He boards a plane for Europe.
While there here speaks to many groups. Some rich, some not so. He collects
1500 from one benefactor
however a good portion were only able to donate 5. There was actually one kind
soul who gave his last 1/2 (amazing!)
Then it was off on a whirlwind tour of Africa and down into the Carribean
before nightfall.
It was a long ways between engagements since leaving Europe and the voice was
wavering somewhat, however there
were some healthy contributions of 1000 each from some of the more wealthy
groups with big aluminum money clips.
Could I stay awake long enough to fly to New Zealand, Australia and try Asia
one more time?
It was not to be. Once I got to Guam, Dave said his hellos and donated a
thousand, but I didn't have it in me to continue.
Jeeves said, Mike you need a bigger plane if you are going to reach Asia in
time.
I know Jeeves (looks down) but you know I am trying to raise as much as I can
for the donation to the ARRL.
It's perhaps my last chance to speak about the movie "10" before we
have to move onto other interests.
Sir, you know you have to keep going. The MCC finance consortium is counting
on your participation to raise money and the rest of them
are speaking on a variety of subjects. You are the Bo Derek expert and so you
must make a good speech to raise funds.
Jeeves, I know, but a second day in Europe will be difficult. I have already
spoken to all the wealthy folks with big aluminum money
clips and they gave me 1000, 100 and even 50. How can I be expected to collect
funds from those with very little?
Sir, they will donate. Your speech just has to be invigorating.
Jeeves, I am trying. I had some folks at my speech talking on FM walkie-talkies
and other times I think they were playing their
TV real loud and attempting to stop me from talking.
Jeeves says: Sir that's all part of the game. Others want to collect more
donations than you. THey will try to disrupt your speech.
It's the way it is. When that happens, sometimes it's better to leave the
auditorium and go looking in separate rooms for individual
donations one at a time. Knock on doors if you have to. STand in line if you
think it's a rare currency that could be worth donating
to the cause. I'd like to donate currencies from at least 100 countries this
time around Jeeves. Last time I brought in a lot of money
but missed the mark by 1 type of currency.
Jeeves says: Mike, beware the counterfitters ! We've seen some guys try to put
fake amounts in the tray and the ARRL does not
acecpt them, like the TW555 station that will no doubt be a Bo Derek fan.
There are others too who put no donations in, but will
sneak into your talks you are giving and sit and heckle, with beeps, burps and
other disgusting noises. You must learn to ignore this
lot and carry on in your collection of funds.
Good advice Jeeves. I think I am done in Europe now. I want to fly to the
Caribbean again and see if there are any Islands I might
have missed yesterday. SOme people were away at the beach and weren't able to
listen to my speech. Maybe today? And remind me to catch the red-eye
flight to Toyko too Jeeves as I have not seen anyone carrying Japanese currency
yet.
Jeeves, you are the best., I just had some supper and walked all around Japan
and even China. Remind me to give you a raise !
Now pass me my pencil and paper. I have to tally up all these donations and
hand them over to the ARRL.
73 de Mike VE9AA IC7410, ~500w, 5el yagi @ 24', N1MM, CM-500 headset.
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Call: VK4QH Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 774,000
80 meters was 10 over noise and 15 meters was disappointing, 10 meters was the
best band.
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Call: VO1DJT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 337,464
Thanks for the contacts.
73 Daisy, VO1DJT
Yaesu FT2000
Alpah Delta DX-CC dipole
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Call: VO1KVT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,514,004
Band conditions were very good for the entire weekend, thanks for the many
contacts.
73, Ken, VO1KVT
Yaesu FTdx5000D
ACOM 1000
Mosley TA53
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Call: VP2MLL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,900,641
My hat is off to operators like N1UR and W6PH who year after year make large
scores in the low power category. This was my first time as a low power
entrant.
Good propagation and a good location made this a fun weekend. Did not do as
well as possible on 80 and 40 because could not get any significant runs going.
This was a bit discouraging during the contest, especially with the excellent
runs on the high bands. 160 was another surprise. Even though the antenna was
a simple inverted V at 50 feet, it seemed to work well. Fortunately, receiving
was also very good on this antenna. Had installed a K9AY loop, but never felt
the need to use it.
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Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,819,808
Equipment: IC7000 Win-Test 4.11
Ants: 160m inverted L; 80m Dipole at 30 feet; 40m KA Dipole at 30 feet;
20m-10m Cushcraft A4S at 35 feet.
For the first time in my memory I had good propagation on 10m although the
entire east coast was blacked out and I missed a bunch of multipliers as well
as contacts. The following 12 stations made it into my log on 6 bands: K0KX,
K1RX, K8AZ, KN2M, N4ZC, N8TR, VY2ZM, W0AIH, W3GH, W3LPL, WE3C, and WO9Z.
The band conditions seemed to act like one band lower than at sunspot minimum.
Eighty meters acted like 160m, 40m acted like 80m, etc. I started out on 20m
and had almost 500 contacts in the log after two hours. This is usually what I
do on 40m at the beginning of the contest. As everyone did, I experienced a
high noise level on the low bands. I know that I have been nominated as the
Contest Alligator on those bands. My last hour I stayed on 20m which usually
nets 100+ contacts. Instead I had 33 contacts and couldn't get anything going
even though my frequency was reported clear. That was a strategic error. But
I wasn't getting any rate on 15m and 40m was too noisy.
I congratulate young Charlie K1XX at VP2MLL for his victory. Once again youth
trumps OF status. Propagation may have been a factor as well.
One of my highlights was putting seven call signs in the log from my home club
Bishop (CA) ARC.
This was my 14th consecutive year as VP9/W6PH. Ed VP9GE is a perfect host. I
couldn't operate at a better place.
73, Kurt W6PH
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Call: VY2TT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 5,378,010
Mult total includes 5 x TO22C which Writelog didn't recognize. Having no RX
antenna, I decided to try assisted. However, I think the bulk of my mult
increase to 10 m. I really missed an RX antenna on 160 & 80m. Both are
broken. Being assisted didn't help very much on the low bands as there weren't
many spots and I couldn't hear a thing. Not hearing led to more off time than
planned.
10 & 15m opened early and stayed open a long time and made non middle of
the night time fun.
73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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Call: VY2ZM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,197,057
Great highband condx - 160m was miserable! 80m was marginally better.
After two days of non-stop running all day long, and being hunched over in my
chair - I feel every ache and pain imaginable just now - but that will pass.
The contest was a blast and it is always nice to say hello to old friends as
the contest plays out. Mighty glad the antennas managed to make it through the
Winter this season. I spent two days last week at the top of several towers
getting ready for this one - and had to trek down here on my skidoo to operate
most of the contests this season (my laneway has been snowed in and closed
since December 11th.) Last summer I added chains to my tractor/snowthrower but
after spending Xmas down in the states, it was all iced over when I got back
here mid January and that meant no transport by car down to the house will be
possible until mid-April at the earliest.)
Gotta scoot into town this morning as I am hosting Peter Hobbs G3LET (VP8GQ)
for lunch and then giving him his Canadian Amateur Exams after that - as he is
going to be over at VY2TT for the BERU contest this weekend.
Never a dull moment around here (HI).
CU on the bands soon again I hope.....
73 JEFF VY2ZM
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Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,040,118
We were still kinda short for operators for this one, but we had more than we
had for CW. Paul decided that we would do MM this time instead of M2. It is
more fun to just grab a radio and go without counting band changes. :)
Plenty of BIC time for this one. With just a few operators, there was always a
radio available to play with.
Mike, NM7X probably did 80-90% of the 20 meter work. The 20 meter station is
up the hill by itself. We just kept seeing the 20 meter Q's coming in. Yep,
Mike was still on duty!
Pretty good conditions and 10 meters was the clear QSO and Multiplier winner in
this one. Good to see!
6 Band QSO's were:
P40P CN2AA KL7RA P40L PJ2T 8P5A C6ANA EF8S EI7M HK1NA II9P KP2M OA4SS OE3K
PI4DX PJ4G T48K TI8M V26M VP2MLL VP5H VP9/W6PH XE7S
Thanks to all for the Q's and to Paul for the radio fun.
http://www.qth.com/w0aih/
73, John K0TG
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Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 171,612
10m was the place to be in this one!
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Call: W0PAN Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 41,580
Thoroughly enjoyed this contest. Condx were good, the vertical worked great and
there were a great number of top operators that could pull the peanut whistle
out of the mud. My best effort in a DX Contest with single band.
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Call: W0PV Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 754,299
Many many thanks to all the DX who worked to pull out my weak signal! Only low
power here with wire dipoles at 30 feet 20-10m, a not quite 1/4w vertical on
40m, and a low inverted L for 80m.
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Call: W0YK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 258,030
I don't generally operate phone contests. After getting on to work friends, the
outstanding conditions were addictive. With the exception of 160m. Whenever we
on the West Coast can get a small run going on 10m into Europe, conditions are
definitely great. Working deep into all part of Asia, 3 hours after local
sunset, on 15m is wonderful. And, getting calls from Scandinavia and UA3-4 at
that time is amazing.
The multitude of JA 5 watt QRPers was incredible too. Not to mention the VKs
with four-letter suffixes running 10 watts on 10m. Brought back memories of
previous sunspot highs.
The casual non-contesters in the US were really tenacious about working other
US stations. At first I ignored their calls. Then, out of the need to copy
the DX stations in the pileups, I started working them just to clear the
frequency. Big mistake. That just reinforced those listening to jump in as
well. In the end I went back to ignoring the US callers. Then they were
really persistent. All in good fun and no harm in folks operating their
station!
Thanks for the QSOs.
Ed W0YK
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Call: W1AW/7 Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,960,180
This is a checklog and an ARRL Centennial log only, even though I operated it as
a regular contest. I had a blast piloting W1AW/7 this weekend and during my time
slots during the week. We had a hard working crew of great operators spread out
around the state handing out WA in many different modes and bands. As our first
week comes to a close, I hope everyone that needed/wanted to work us, did. If
not, you’ll get another chance in November.
As for the contest, bands conditions were interesting. I’ll keep this short:
10m �" The money band!!
15m �" Good, but not great. Signals from EU seemed attentuated.
20m �" During the day - where is everyone? At night - I love this band!
40m �" Steady and productive.
80m �" Noisy and generally lackluster.
160m �" Why bother
Thanks to everyone for the Qs.
73, K7RL
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Call: W1CEK Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 59,292
Able to enjoy a good time this year. All around conditions where great on 10
and 15 for QRP.
Station:
FT897D with GAP "Hear It" in line module.
Antenna: 3/8 160 Meter Inverted L with 4 1/4 wave counterpoise wires.
SC230 Auto Antenna tuner at ant. base. Used on all bands.
73,
Gary
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Call: W1DX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,308,000
I wasn't sure how many hours I could operate. Tom, WA2RYV dropped by Saturday.
We caught up on old times and then I introduced him to modern PC rig control
and N1MM. He was able to wok over a hundred Qs on 20M before heading out. I
think considering an upgrade to his station a little now.
Conditions were great and I would have liked to put in more hours.
73,
John, W1AN
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Call: W1DYJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 27,612
Arriving home at midnight Saturday night after three weeks in New Zealand and
Australia -- and 30 hours of airplanes and connections -- I was lucky to get on
at all. Between unpacking, laundry, and snow shoveling, I was able to operate
for 3.4 hours of S&P. Starting a bit after noontime, an hour on 10 proved
fruitful with most Qs also being Mults. Moving to 15, 20, and then 40 found
the same, and by then I was at half of my goal of 50K -- the minimum I need to
qualify for an Improvement award for next year. Unfortunately, with only an
hour left by then, few new stations (or mults) were found on all four bands --
I never got on 80 -- I missed my goal by a lot. :(
Rig: TS-2000
Antennas:
40M - Dipole @ 7M
20M - HB Moxon @ 12M
15M - HB Rotatable dipole @ 11M
10M - HB 5 el yagi @ 10M
73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ
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Call: W1FJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 665,280
Relaxed effort mostly S&P. I hate to run on phone although I did have a 205
hour
on 10 and a 180 hr on 15. thanks all for the fun !
k3/ACOM 2000 160 INV L, SKYHAWK @ 50' 40M ROTARY DIPOLE @ 60' 4BTV @ 10'
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Call: W1HIS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 73,689
Single band (40 m). I had only 12 hours to spend on this contest, and the
mornings (when the high bands are hot) were unavailable, so I thought it'd be
interesting to spend all my time on 40 m to see how it was. I found out:
BORING. Too few DX stations were on this band. I won't do this again. Also,
I thought it'd be interesting to use spots. That was another mistake. I won't
do that again, either. Too few stations were spotted, and many of the calls
were wrong.
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Call: W1IE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 502,068
[log removed from comments]
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: VA
CALLSIGN: W1IE
CLUB: POTOMAC VALLEY RADIO CLUB
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 502068
OPERATORS: W1IE
NAME: GERALD KNOWLTON
ADDRESS: 1113 PINECREST AVE
ADDRESS-CITY: BEDFORD
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: VAl
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 24523l
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.2.1
END-OF-LOG:
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Call: W1MD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,213,632
Fun weekend. DX-88 in the back yard and AL-80B...makes for some Q's...:)
Excellent conditions this weekend.
K3
AL-80B
DX-88 with a few short radials.
W1MD
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Call: W1NN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,328
Remote from Tokyo just for the last hour (8-9 AM Monday local time).
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Call: W1TJL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,654,962
In a word, WOW! This was a full time effort that ended up under my call because
the much more famous call of N1MM was home, under the weather. So we ended up
using W1TJL. And oddly enough throughout the whole contest I did not get even
1 mention of “Hey! We’re using your logger! Thanks!” :-) It was a
combination of successes and Murphy but very satisfying and for me at least,
tiring.
It all started last weekend when Tom, N1MM and I, took a ride to New Hampshire
to pick up my recently acquired but in need of repair Command Technologies
HF-2500 Magnum. Tom was just getting over a cold but we thought he was past
the contagious point. Not! Thursday or so I began with a cough and tickle and
by Friday was all plugged up… Additionally, the new amp refused to work!
Plugged it in, hooked it up into a dummy load and began to test and almost
immediately had this arcing sound coming from the bowels of it. Unplugged it
and went back to the TenTec Titan work horse. Carl KM1H thinks a relay which
was a weak point in these amps is what went…
Spent Friday getting ready and got a txt from Tom that he was just too ill to
come over to attend, at least at the beginning so began the contest at 7:00 PM.
The station was near perfect. Everything worked, no glitches and even the
weather mostly behaved. Had some wind gust at the top of the hill but nothing
much over 40 MPH. (Even though the towers are rated to withstand it, it always
makes me nervous when it is fully extended to 80 ft and it gets windy!)
One of the best surprises were the two new wire antennas I put up this year for
80/75 and 160 Meters. The 80/75 meter ground plane was beyond my best
expectations. It really played on transmit but like most verticals it was
noisy on receive. The beverages are not yet up (BIG priority this year). But
I was able to work 56 countries from 111 contacts on 75 which is way beyond any
past results. The 160 meter “C” antenna worked well too and we managed 33
countries and 42 QSOs.
The Murphy side was the head cold I had (one of the worst in years!) and
Tom’s missing presence (although at one point he txt'd and called and told
Rich to run on 15 and not S&P on 10 so we did have his input!) :-)
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Call: W1UE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,672,372
I went into this weekend not knowing how much physical effort I wanted to put
into this contest. After all, it is just SSB, I knew I would be pretty much
finished by noon on Sunday due to family commitments, and I am still recovering
from recent surgery. So, wanting to operate but not make a big commitment, I
decided to operate the W1KM remote station in Single Op Unlimited entry.
The current state of the remote station does not allow antennas on 40 and 20M
to be rotated, so I chose to leave the 40M antenna on Europe and the 20M stack
on Europe. I could remotely rotate the top antennas on 10/15, and the 4-square
on 80M, but nothing on 40/80m.
The station is operated remotely using the Remote Rig units, and a VPN to
control the linear and antenna changes. Unfortunately, I ran into a lot of
problems this weekend with a flaky internet connection, bad enough that I had
to shut down several times. The audio, for no apparent reason (it wasn't
connected to RF, as I wasn't transmitting at the time and it affected all
bands), would start breaking up. Sometimes the xmit audio would break up,
sometimes the rx audio would break up. I had numerous requests for fills, I'm
guessing that the xmit audio was breaking up (I couldn't hear it). When the Rx
audio broke up, it made me send numerous requests for fills. It was frustrating
to work through. The audio would be great for long stretches, then suddenly
severely break up. I don't think it was connected to Internet traffic, as the
worst stretch was about midnight-2AM Sat to Sun where I had to shut down
entirely it was so bad. Even the VPN connection crashed during this time.
Yes, I had turned all the automatic updating programs and scans on both
computers off, so I'm sure that wasn't it.
To summarize the contest, it was great! I only wish it was CW or RTTY! My
precontest goal of 2Meg was exceeded in the first 24 hours, and my substitute
goals of 2500 Qs and 3Meg were both exceeded in the last few hours of the
contest. The low bands were noisy Friday night, but much quieter Sat night.
10/15M were great both days; I missed the early morning 20M SSB run into Europe
Sat morning; by the time I woke up, 15M was already wide open and I chose to go
straight there. Even with the antennas on Europe, I did manage to work 1 JA on
40M and 1 JA on 20M.
So, my quest to add 2Meg to the club score turned into the reality of adding
3.6Meg to the club score. Worked 27 stations on 6 bands, and 41 stations on 5
bands. Best clock hour was a 221 on 10M Sat morning.
Thanks to Greg W1KM for the use of his great station.
Dennis W1UE
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Call: W2CDO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 206,388
Casual operation before going over to W3DQ to operate on Sunday. Lost my 80m
inverted L days before this contest and it looks like I'll have to wait a while
for the ice and snow to melt before I can get out back in the woods to repair
it.
Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V + Alpha 9500, rooftop hexbeam and 40m dipole @ 60'
thanks and 73 to all, Peter W2CDO
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Call: W2DLT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 228,000
Great condx. Best individual score yet.
Wish I could spend more time in the chair, but tuckered out after 6hr. straight
two different times and hadda rest.
My technique is improving though - didn't use a single sheet of paper, for the
first time.
Writelog didn't recognize TO22C for MULT on three different bands or my score
would have been a bit higher.
But CQ didn't work worth a darn - had to S&P most of the time.
Great fun... Van
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Call: W2PV Class: M/M HP Total Score = 11,680,751
Thanks to Dave, K1TTT, for the use of his fine station and hospitality.
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Call: W2RD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 573,033
Murphy struck early. After 91 QSOs my trusty AL 811H blew a fuse due to a
shorted 811 tube and I did the rest of the contest using 100W. I thought about
deleting my first 91 contacts, rescoring and changing my category to low power
but then I would have created 91 not in logs for those people I worked at the
beginning of the contest using the amp. I am HP although only 91 of my 761
contacts were made using an amp.
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Call: W2TF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 944,460
did 98% s&p, just couldn't generate any real worthwhile runs, hopefully due
to being LP. Given that, general observations were, signals on 20 didn't seem
as clean&tight as on the other higher freqs.. Which perhaps slowed the
s&p rate, ? ,.
Must say, a thank you to the N7?,WY station, with his most helpful
comment/observation/suggestion.
note to self: get out of "contest mode" when ordering take away
from local pizza place on Sunday afternoon. Looking back, hope the girl taking
my order didn't find it creepy the way I fired off my info! hi
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Call: W2UP Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 15,228
Made my 100 QSO goal, which is about all I can take in SSB contests :-)
Had an unusually high noise level, which made it tough to copy even some of the
KW stations who had no problem hearing me, despite my 100W (K3 with hand-held
mic) and balcony dipole.
I tuned right past all stations whose QSO ended "QRZ" without a
callsign, and there were plenty of those. One station said, "QSL Papa
Alpha" - I guess he's using an old pre-fill database, as I've been in
Charlie Oscar for almost 5 years now.
Nice to work many old friends, particularly Jose, CT1AOZ, who, along with
CT1BOH, was kind enough to treat me and the XYL to dinner when we were in
Lisbon a number of years ago.
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Call: W2VM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,049
RIG: YEASU FTDX 3000 ANT: G5RV LOG: N1MM
This was my first ARRL SSB DX contest!
73,
Craig, W2VM
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Call: W2XL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,058,783
For a guy that does not really like fone contests , this was a lot of fun !
great conditions on 15 and 10. My best SO fone score ever !
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Call: W3DQ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,205,400
It is always fun operating with this great group of operators and friends,
giving out the rare DC mult!
For DX contests, the station fits somewhere between a cap gun and little
pistol. With only a wire each for 160 and 80 and using them for 40, it's hard
to get any traction on the low bands. We did reasonably well on 20, 15 and 10,
which was wide open on Saturday and Sunday.
Didn't hear much from Asia, Africa and Oceania, although the JA's and VK's were
quite loud on 15 and 10. I was amazed we worked 10 stations on all 6 bands,
considering how poor 160 was from here.
Thanks to N8HM for starting out and slogging through
"out-of-the-gate" craziness; W2CDO for his cool and calm Sunday
operating, and N3QE for covering Saturday night, and then leaving for home,
where he made 1000 Q's on his own!
See you in the next one!
Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC
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Call: W3EA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 317,304
limited time no low band antennas
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Call: W3FIZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,514,096
Have to find a way to stay in the chair a bit longer. Need some help on 81 and
160 meters. Oh well spring is coming will work on them. All in all had a great
time and did better than last year.
Pat/Fiz
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Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,396,802
Congratulations to the K3LR team for another great winning score.
This was our 36th consecutive multi-multi entry in the ARRL Phone
DX Contest since 1979, completing more than 180,000 QSOs as
documented on the pages of QST.
We particularly enjoyed having Petar, 9A6A, join our team for
this contest. Petar was visiting the USA on a business trip.
BAND QSO DXCC OPERATORS
160 147 60 9A6A K1DQV W3LPL
80 495 90 NI1N W3IDT AC6WI
40 1354 112 WR3Z KD4D
20 1829 141 K3RA N3RR K4ZA W3LPL
15 2199 137 9A6A W3IDT K3WI AC6WI
10 2539 138 K3AJ W3UR
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TOTAL 8563 678
TOTAL SCORE : 17 396 802
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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North America 29 39 54 78 69 85 354 4.1
South America 5 16 37 86 92 175 411 4.8
Europe 108 412 1094 1353 1764 1898 6629 77.4
Asia 0 9 64 126 212 280 691 8.1
Africa 1 6 15 34 29 31 116 1.4
Oceania 4 13 90 153 33 70 363 4.2
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Total 147 495 1354 1830 2199 2539 8564
Special thanks to the 87 stations who worked us on 6 bands:
8P5A 9A8M C6ANA CN2AA CS2C DH8BQA DJ1AA
DJ5AN DL1A DL1NKS DL5MEV DL/SP3LPG E7A EA5KA
EA6FO EB2AM ED7W EI1Y EI7M EI9E ES5RW
FG8OJ G3R G3ZGC G4PIQ HA4XH HB9CXZ HB9EE
HG1S HG6N HG7T HI3K HI3/KC1XX HK1NA II2E
II2S II9P IO5O IQ1CN IR1G IR4M KH6LC
KH7M KH7XX KP2M NP2X OE3K OH0R OK1W
OK7K OK7O OT2A OZ1ADL P40L P40P PI4DX
PI4TUE PJ2T PJ4G PJ6A S54ZZ S57UN SK3W
SM6CMU SO2R SO9Q SP8R SP9LJD SV1ME SV2GJV
T48K TI8M TM6M TO22C TO5A UR5AS UY0ZG
V26M V31MA VP2MLL VP9/W6PH XE1XOE XE7S YL2KO
YO3APJ YT8WW YU5R
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2898
2 bands 750
3 bands 509
4 bands 308
5 bands 177
6 bands 87
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 3 32 141 88 46 79 389 389 4.5
0100 3 42 43 54 43 30 215 604 7.1
0200 10 15 31 36 69 6 167 771 9.0
0300 8 41 40 44 13 0 146 917 10.7
0400 10 21 41 23 0 0 95 1012 11.8
0500 11 31 45 31 0 0 118 1130 13.2
0600 9 27 76 36 0 0 148 1278 14.9
0700 4 15 98 21 0 0 138 1416 16.5
0800 1 5 63 33 0 0 102 1518 17.7
0900 2 4 29 57 0 0 92 1610 18.8
1000 1 2 14 55 44 0 116 1726 20.2
1100 1 1 16 111 213 57 399 2125 24.8
1200 0 0 8 61 129 233 431 2556 29.8
1300 0 0 0 19 126 191 336 2892 33.8
1400 0 0 0 12 139 210 361 3253 38.0
1500 0 0 0 8 106 144 258 3511 41.0
1600 0 0 0 23 88 150 261 3772 44.0
1700 0 0 0 38 86 94 218 3990 46.6
1800 0 0 0 27 86 69 182 4172 48.7
1900 0 0 0 92 52 47 191 4363 50.9
2000 0 0 4 61 55 35 155 4518 52.8
2100 0 0 29 53 24 42 148 4666 54.5
2200 0 6 66 72 17 76 237 4903 57.3
2300 1 30 45 28 25 42 171 5074 59.2
0000 0 27 35 19 15 19 115 5189 60.6
0100 2 17 24 9 31 16 99 5288 61.7
0200 1 9 17 20 10 1 58 5346 62.4
0300 12 20 13 18 1 0 64 5410 63.2
0400 18 25 26 32 1 0 102 5512 64.4
0500 27 26 39 17 0 0 109 5621 65.6
0600 4 27 66 20 0 0 117 5738 67.0
0700 0 18 61 10 0 0 89 5827 68.0
0800 0 4 59 22 0 0 85 5912 69.0
0900 0 3 39 19 0 0 61 5973 69.7
1000 1 1 18 108 4 0 132 6105 71.3
1100 2 9 20 88 109 62 290 6395 74.7
1200 0 0 9 48 118 130 305 6700 78.2
1300 0 0 0 15 83 131 229 6929 80.9
1400 0 0 0 8 65 137 210 7139 83.4
1500 0 0 0 11 55 134 200 7339 85.7
1600 0 0 0 17 54 89 160 7499 87.6
1700 0 0 0 17 50 86 153 7652 89.4
1800 0 0 0 39 51 50 140 7792 91.0
1900 0 0 3 62 56 34 155 7947 92.8
2000 0 0 7 49 47 24 127 8074 94.3
2100 0 0 35 57 50 22 164 8238 96.2
2200 0 4 62 22 22 59 169 8407 98.2
2300 16 33 32 20 16 40 157 8564 100.0
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Total 147 495 1354 1830 2199 2539 8564
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3A 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
3B8 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
3V 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
4J 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.0
4S 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
4X 0 0 1 5 5 3 14 0.2
5H 0 1 1 2 2 1 7 0.1
5X 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
5Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
6W 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 0.1
6Y 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
7X 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.0
8P 1 2 3 4 4 3 17 0.2
9A 1 5 13 20 23 27 89 1.0
9H 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
9J 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.0
9K 0 0 1 4 1 3 9 0.1
9L 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
9M2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
9M6 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.0
9V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
9Y 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
A4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
A6 0 1 2 1 1 2 7 0.1
A7 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 0.0
A9 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.0
BV 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
BY 0 0 0 2 2 2 6 0.1
C6 3 2 2 4 2 2 15 0.2
C9 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
CE 0 0 2 13 9 23 47 0.5
CE9 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.0
CM 2 3 6 4 8 3 26 0.3
CN 1 2 1 3 2 1 10 0.1
CT 1 3 11 13 14 20 62 0.7
CT3 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.1
CU 1 1 1 2 2 4 11 0.1
CX 0 1 1 5 5 5 17 0.2
D4 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
DL 19 62 160 164 275 286 966 11.3
DU 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
E3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
E5/s 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.0
E7 2 2 5 6 5 6 26 0.3
EA 3 21 50 72 82 85 313 3.7
EA6 1 2 3 6 4 5 21 0.2
EA8 0 1 6 6 8 9 30 0.4
EI 4 7 16 13 16 23 79 0.9
EK 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
EP 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
ER 0 0 2 4 3 4 13 0.2
ES 1 2 4 7 10 7 31 0.4
EU 1 5 9 11 14 11 51 0.6
F 3 20 60 68 73 77 301 3.5
FG 2 2 3 5 2 4 18 0.2
FM 1 2 1 3 2 2 11 0.1
FR 0 0 1 3 1 1 6 0.1
FW 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
FY 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
G 9 45 130 143 164 206 697 8.1
GD 0 1 1 2 2 2 8 0.1
GI 1 3 5 9 11 15 44 0.5
GJ 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.0
GM 1 6 11 16 20 30 84 1.0
*GM/s 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
GU 0 1 1 2 1 4 9 0.1
GW 1 6 14 10 15 24 70 0.8
HA 5 7 21 16 20 28 97 1.1
HB 2 5 16 16 19 28 86 1.0
HB0 0 1 2 2 2 1 8 0.1
HC 0 1 1 2 2 3 9 0.1
HI 2 2 2 6 4 3 19 0.2
HK 1 2 2 6 5 4 20 0.2
HL 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
HP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
HS 0 0 0 2 6 1 9 0.1
HZ 0 1 3 4 4 5 17 0.2
I 11 36 135 161 212 218 773 9.0
IS 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.1
*IT9 1 3 9 11 18 21 63 0.7
J6 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0.0
J7 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
JA 0 5 47 53 160 240 505 5.9
JT 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
K 1 1 1 2 0 1 6 0.1
KG4 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
KH2 0 1 2 3 3 2 11 0.1
KH6 3 4 6 11 6 11 41 0.5
KL 0 2 5 7 11 15 40 0.5
KP2 3 3 3 3 4 5 21 0.2
KP4 2 2 6 13 13 17 53 0.6
LA 1 6 16 20 22 19 84 1.0
LU 0 2 3 14 20 40 79 0.9
LX 0 0 1 1 5 4 11 0.1
LY 1 1 6 8 12 12 40 0.5
LZ 2 6 15 11 16 20 70 0.8
OA 0 1 2 1 1 2 7 0.1
OD 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
OE 1 6 16 15 28 28 94 1.1
OH 0 3 11 23 27 23 87 1.0
OH0 1 1 1 1 1 2 7 0.1
OK 4 12 21 24 37 38 136 1.6
OM 1 5 7 11 19 17 60 0.7
ON 2 16 36 42 41 48 185 2.2
OY 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
OZ 1 5 19 24 28 30 107 1.2
P2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
P4 2 2 2 2 3 2 13 0.2
PA 4 19 53 111 109 151 447 5.2
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
PJ4 1 1 1 2 1 3 9 0.1
PJ5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
PJ7 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 0.1
PY 0 2 15 32 33 80 162 1.9
PZ 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
S5 3 6 21 26 34 30 120 1.4
SM 2 12 30 53 62 55 214 2.5
SP 7 26 47 46 86 72 284 3.3
SV 3 7 21 27 21 33 112 1.3
SV5 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
SV9 0 2 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
TA 0 0 3 4 6 6 19 0.2
*TA1 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 0.0
TF 0 0 0 4 3 1 8 0.1
TG 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TI 1 2 1 1 1 1 7 0.1
TK 0 0 0 2 1 2 5 0.1
UA 1 4 22 63 86 70 246 2.9
UA2 0 0 2 3 5 2 12 0.1
UA9 0 1 4 32 11 6 54 0.6
UK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
UN 0 0 0 7 0 1 8 0.1
UR 2 12 26 22 46 39 147 1.7
V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
V3 1 1 1 2 1 2 8 0.1
V4 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
VE 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0.0
VK 1 6 67 97 7 33 211 2.5
VP2M 1 1 1 2 1 1 7 0.1
VP5 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 0.1
VP8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
VP9 1 1 1 2 2 1 8 0.1
VR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VU 0 0 0 2 4 3 9 0.1
XE 5 4 8 6 4 8 35 0.4
XW 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
YB 0 0 5 9 9 3 26 0.3
YL 1 3 3 5 6 6 24 0.3
YN 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
YO 1 11 23 15 39 40 129 1.5
YS 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
YU 2 5 13 12 13 9 54 0.6
*Z6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
YV 0 2 5 5 6 6 24 0.3
Z3 0 0 0 2 1 4 7 0.1
ZB 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
ZD8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
ZF 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.0
ZL 0 2 8 27 6 18 61 0.7
ZL9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
ZP 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.0
ZS 0 0 2 7 5 7 21 0.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 147 495 1354 1830 2199 2539 8564
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Call: W3TS Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 66,804
Orion at 100W to a C3S up 50 feet.
N1MM logger.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W3ZR Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 321,300
First DX Contest I have participated in for quite a while, and real
happy with what I accomplished from such a modest set up. Looking
forward to raising some antennas this spring!
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Call: W4AAA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 416,520
Conditions sounded fantastic on most of the bands, unfortunately I still have an
issue with power line noise. The noise is horrible on 15m and less on 20m and
40m, especially at night. In hindsight, I think this noise has troubled me for
years on 20m and I am currently working with the power company on resolving it.
It appears to be coming from a pole 300 meters north of me. I have operated the
ARRL DX Phone Contest many times as DX from the Caribbean however I have only
operated from the US twice in the last 20 plus years. Last year I operated 20m
single band, I had a great time and set a new fourth call area record. This
year I had a very busy work week so I decided to operate 40m where the power
line noise was not a problem and where I could also get some rest over the
weekend. 40m phone is not for the faint of heart! The QRM is horrible from so
many stations packed into a small band segment and the band noise is high. My
pair of shortened OptiBeam antennas work surprisingly well from this QTH so at
least being heard is not a problem. I had great openings into Europe that
lasted well after their sunrise. It was fun working Tom, DF2BO, the owner of
OptiBeam while using his great product. He is a fantastic guy and he has been a
huge help in the design of my station. In the early mornings I ran stations in
Japan and Australia until sunrise. On the second day conditions seemed worse to
Asia making for very slow rates. I was surprised when several very loud stations
from Indonesia called me after my sunrise. My station worked perfectly and this
score should be a new U.S. record. I would like to thank everyone who work me
though the noise and QRM. Every QSO is greatly appreciated. Please QSL via
WD9DZV.
73,
John KK9A
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Call: W4DTA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 97,440
So in between honey do list, and little league, I got on for a few hours here
and there. Then got some thunder almost 2 hrs before the contest ended which
was the sign to give up. The Steppir dipole was picking up some RFI on 15 and
20, so the trusted g5rv cover those bands. All of the contacts were S&P.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 251,748
TS-440S es G5RV
N1MM logger
Tnx for the Q's
73, Jim
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Call: W4GV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 622,731
Great condx and 10M was hot. Was out most of Fri nite so didn't really get
started good until Sat AM at 0830 local. I know I probably missed some mults
on 80 and 40 but I improved my score over last year altho I had abt 25 fewer
mults. QSOs were up to make up for the difference, 827 vs 655 last year.
Hours were down from 30 last year to 17 this year. Pretty easy to get room to
run on 10 and 15 meters. The lower bands were so crowded, I usually just did
search and pounce.
Tnx for the QSOs.
Station - FTDX-9000D, Expert 2K-FA, PalStar HF-Auto tuner, Mosley Pro-67B at 40
ft, Crossed 80 meter dipoles at approx 55 ft, Heil Pro Set Elite, MFJ Model
MFJ-434 Voice Keyer, Writelog Ver 11.15A
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W4IX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,082,369
Wow! First time ever over the 2 million point mark from my station. Bands were
pretty awesome...Tried to get voice messages playing before the start, but just
couldn't get N1MM to play back the proper recording. I even had a nice recording
of N1MM calling CQ, radio keyed up nicely and sounded great, just couldn't get
my recording through..oh well, I had to rough it once again!! It was hard to
find places to run on 40-15 meters..160 was just ok...managed to work CU2 for
my only Q close to Europe..Heard II9P but couldn't make the Q..did not spend a
lot of time on the low bands knowing I had to get the most out of 15 and 10
meters ( My Money Band!! ). Only issues I had on the bands were the Big Guns up
north and west that acted like they could not hear me on a freq and just popped
in and started calling cq contest ( K3ZO stole my nice run freq on 28312 Sunday
morning )...and then I was on 15 meters trying to make a few Q's and slipped in
at the low end of 15 about 2 KC's above WE3C, started running and even had a
few replies, then someone came on my freq and just said " you need to QSY!
"...no respect for low power stations..can you imagine if everyone gave you
a 3 KC gap on the bands...Yeah right..I have a box of tissues for the guy who
told me to QSY!! LOL Any ways, it did not dampen my spirits, I just moved
right along and kept grinding out the Q's. Was a nice surprise on Saturday
night, I was getting ready to shut down for the night and get a little rest for
a strong finish on 10 & 15 when the Sun came up, I tuned 20 meters for a few
last S&P Q's and came across a loud pileup on A92HK and was thinking "
how am I going to work this dude with 100 watts and a TH7 at 40 feet "
well I managed to get him!! Yeah buddy!...and 10 meters...wow! I think I had 2
or 3 HZ1's call me while running! awesome stuff..Sunday afternoon when the JA's
started rolling in was awesome. I heard BG2AUE on Sat. night but he was weak and
I didn't stand a chance, but Sunday...managed to get him, the YC9 and the
FW5..still fought to make the Q's but got them anyway. And Kudos to Dave,
KH2/N2NL for being there for one last time..He had such an awesome signal on 10
and 15 meters you would think he was back in the States..73's my Friend and we
will work you from your next location(s). 73's and thanks for all the Q's.
Thanks to the ARRL for making this happen.
RIG - IC765 barefoot
10M - 5 ele 30yr old 105BAS @ 45 feet and TH7 @ 40 feet.
15M - TH7
20M - TH7
40 & 80M - HF2V Vertical in the woods.
160M - Inv L @ 50 feet.
N1MM Logging / no Voice Keying
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Call: W4JAM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,213,302
Planed to go low power but it went up to 200, so changed class. Fun, good bands
just my line noise came and went. Was able to work almost everything spotted
till Sunday night on 10, need real power.
4 element steppir @105 ft
A4 @ 50ft
2 element KLM 40 @115 ft
wires for 80/160
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Call: W4KW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,116,117
Good conditions, except when the rain and lightning moved in Sunday.
Had a couple of short runs. 10 Meters was wall to wall, but good openings
everywhere.
Thanks to all for the contacts.
Heard several of the TCG folks during the contest.
73's
Bert
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Call: W4QN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,696,080
Bands were very good - 10m great fun. full up to 29.0 MHz
Lots of bad spots, as always it pays to listen carefully to the QSO partner's
call.
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Call: W4QNW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 22,500
low noise, no prop to asia, southamerica from s.c.,
low number of dx stations esp. in europe
Amp quit early saturday morning..
broke the pileup to KH2 with 150w/dipole
DX RULES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W4RM Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,174,000
We had another excellent time operating at Bill's great station. 10 and 15
Meters kept going and going. Thanks for all the Qs and another great contest
season overall.
73, Jack W4NF
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Call: W4TTY Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,188,684
Not bad considering my antenna got jammed and wouldn't turn Saturday night
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W4WWQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,646
K3, P3, 3 element SteppIR
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W5MF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 579,204
Best band opening I have seen in several years. Lots of fun.
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Call: W5WMU Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 433,440
Thanks to N8OO for his design and construction of a killer 10 meter antenna.It
must work as I put 120 countries in the log over the weekend,and as most op's
know,I'm not a K5ZD class operator.Had a Blast! 73 to all...Pat
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W6BB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 765
3-element yagi at 10 m, 100 W
With a few new hams as part of a campus shack party
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 133,245
I finished the last hour by working about 50 JA's on 10M. There were so many JA
spots to click, it was almost like running.
Station:
Elecraft K3, AL80B Amp & N1MM
TA33jr @ 30 Ft
40/80 Trap Inverted-V @ 30 Ft
73, Jim W6KC
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Call: W6PK Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 126
Tnx for the QSOs!
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Call: W6QE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 88,044
(ex KD6HYN)
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Call: W6QU Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 306,660
Station:
Radio- Elecraft K-2 (5 Watts)
Antennas:
10-15-20 3 el SteppIR up 32 feet
40-80 Butternut HF-2V with 3 radials
-------------------------------------
Conditions were good on Saturday and even better on Sunday.
Being a QRP station, I never have much trouble with "Murphy" in the
contests, ...there is not very much to fail. But my worst fears happened on
Sunday morning when the SWR suddenly jumped on 10, 15, and 20 M. We had just
had our first rain storm in a year and I could visualize the water leaking into
all the dried out gaskets and ruining the stepper motors. However, after
"homing" the elements a couple of times and hearing an awful noise
coming from the motors, it suddenly started working again. Bless those
engineers at SteppIR!!
My best Q of the contest was when I decided to try CQing at the very end. Being
a QRP station in CA, I almost never CQ. A couple JA stations delighted me by
calling me. Then, incredibly, 9W6ZUL called me with about 2 minutes left! I
often struggle to work even a single 9M6 in a contest, so it was a thrill I
will never forget.
The other great Q was finding FR4NT under heavy QRM on 10 M on Sunday and
working him! It was also fun to get 3V8BB on 20 and 10. I was able to pick up
a number of eastern Europeans on 20 meters late each evening, a path that is not
often open from here for QRP.
My biggest disappointment was in not being able to work OD5ZZ or TC3P who had
powerful signals at times on 20 but just could not hear my QRP signal.
My DXCC was 88 after adding in W and VE and WAZ was 28 after adding in zones 3
and 4. I did not have to add zone 5 because VP9/W6PH ALWAYS manages to hear my
call no matter how big the pile up on him. And he even graciously offered to
QSY to 15 on Sunday where I still needed him! TKS Kurt!!
35% of my Qs were in Europe which is very decent for me. 20% of my Qs were with
JA.
There always seem to be thrills in every DX contest and I guess that is what
keeps us going. I am getting more sleep now that I am 74 and got 4.5 hours the
first night and 6.0 the second night. It certainly makes the entire contest
more pleasant and works better than Provigil...
See you in WPX SSB. Bill W8QZA / W6QU
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Call: W6SDM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 204,321
[log removed from comments]
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: AZ
CALLSIGN: W6SDM
CLUB: Arizona Outlaws
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 204321
OPERATORS: W6SDM
NAME: Steve Miller
ADDRESS: 636 South Blacktail Trail
ADDRESS-CITY: Maricopa
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: AZ
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 85139
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: nil
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.2.1
END-OF-LOG:
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Call: W6SX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 8,901
K3, ACOM 2000A, wire antenna at 46 feet with Matchboxes, N1MM.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W6WB Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,760,622
The "Wireless Contesters" gathered in California again this year to
enjoy the sunspots from the left coast. The W6WB score is up a little from
previous years, and we expect the oral history of this contest activities to
age with time and mature like fine wine.
The aurora was too strong to make any runs into EU. Mostly it was a grinding
S&P work. On the other hand we worked tons of QRP stations from Asia and
Pacific, often on multiple bands.
Once again, we wish to honor Bud Bane (SK), a fine Radio Engineer, DX
Contester, and holder of the callsign W6WB.
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Call: W6YI Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 556,875
Thanks for all the contacts. Great conditions. Mother Nature's rain noise was
louder than the power line qrn. The heaviest rain of course was during the run
to Europe.
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Call: W7CT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 240,264
Intermittent operation while working on shack computers. The computers are
running much cooler now thanks to some help from NG7M. The computer have a
noticeable improvement in their performance and less errors (BSD and NAP3
database errors).
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Call: W7FI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 392,196
K3, AL-82, assorted wires. S&P.
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Call: W7KAM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,096
Not a good contest for me as I had to quit after Saturday evening. Came down
with
a bad cold and sore throat. What a bummer. See you next time. 100 watts into
a G5RV Jr. up 20 foot.
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Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 57,024
Used mobile whip antennas all bands.
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Call: W7RN Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 413,820
What a hoot.
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Call: W7SLS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 528
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : WA
Gridsquare : CN85QT
Name : Scott Scheirman
Address : 25115 NE 68th Ct
City/State/Zip : Battle Ground WA 98604
Country : USA
ARRL Section : WWA
Club/Team : Willamette Valley DX Club
Software : N1MM Logger V14.1.1
Band QSOs Pts Cty
7 2 6 2
14 13 39 8
21 1 3 1
Total 16 48 11
Score : 528
Rig :
Antennas :
Soapbox :
Rig: Icom 756 Pro III
Antennas: Hustler 6BTV, Long Wire & SGC-230 Antenna Coupler,
Computer: iMac,
Logger: N1MM.
Notes: Conditions were GREAT!
I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations
established for amateur radio in my country. My report is
correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be
bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee.
Date : 2014-03-02 Signature :
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Call: W7VO Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 206,610
Friday night and Saturday were great. Sunday I had to fight the 15M Over the
Horizon radar making things very difficult most of the day.
Murphy paid me a visit too; The SWR on my yagi gave me fits during the freezing
rain on Sunday.
Thanks to all the JA/HL/DUs that answered my CQs, and especially the P29!
Missed HB0 and a couple of other ones, otherwise I might have made DXCC....
73; Mike, W7VO
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Call: W7WHY Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 30,888
Still plagued by S-9 noise level here on all bands. The noise did quit for
about 3 hours Saturday afternoon, but by 3:30 it was back.
Not able to CQ as I can't hear the weak ones that come back. Hopefully
PP&L will be here next week to fix it. In over 40 years at this QTH, I've
never had noise like this. 73
Tom W7WHY
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Call: W8JGU Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 172,872
rig: Flex 5K
antenna: 4ele yagi @80ft
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W8KTQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 944,703
Incredible conditions! What a great time! Beat my previous year's score by a
bunch. It was great to hear everybody on and be able to get most of them on the
first call, even with low power. Most fun contact was having I5KAP call me who
was running serious QRP at 500 milliwatts. Great job!! See you all next time.
Rig: Elecraft K3
Antennas: 160M & 80M Inv L's; 40M Vertical; 20M Vertical; 4-el tribander at
50'.
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Call: W8MJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,175,750
Part time effort. Conditions appeared to be just as good as CW weekend. Log has
been uploaded to LOTW.
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Call: W8PR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,746,776
Phoneton Station Contesters
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W8TA Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 570,171
I though conditions on Friday night and Saturday were normal. On Sunday,
conditions on 20 meters were below average most of the day. It seemed most of
the stations were on 10 and 15 meters and when sunset hit Europe, there were so
many stations on 20 meters, it was hard to hold a frequency.
Elecraft K-3, Homebrew pair of 4-400A's in grounded grid that I made in 1963,
Hy-Gain 205, 5 el monoband Yagi (same antenna has been in the air for 40 years)
at 102 feet, N1MM software.
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Call: W8WA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 146,520
I only did "search and pounce".....NO CQing. My goal was to work 100
countries and check out the performance of my antennas and rig. I am not a
phone operator.
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Call: W9PA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 250,344
K3, P3, Center-Fed Doublet, Software: DXLog by 9A5K (www.dxlog.net)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: W9QL Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 14,214
A part-time effort but still lots of fun with very good band conditions.
Generally, I have to wait for the pile-ups thin out with my low power and G5RV.
But, many stations heard me on the first call and I even worked a couple new
multipliers. I think I may have had a little luck and just happened to be in
the right place at the right time.
Dave
W9QL
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Call: W9RE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,535,777
I don't think I will try the switch from HP to LP again. I did it this time
because of several things going on: I have a middle 20 m antenna that doesn't
seem to work very well (because of a skewed element from ice damage), my xyl's
mother fell this past week and was not sure of responsibilities, a major
snow/ice event predicted for the weekend, and I thought it would be good
practice for LP in WRTC.
It sure is a humbling experience to have to wait your turn in pileups a long
time and sometimes never get through. There were several times that I waited,
no one else was calling and the station just could not pull me through. It was
hard to keep in mind to just move along especially if it was a new mult. The
other frustrating thing was that other stateside stations would not hear me if
I was running on a frequency, no matter what I did to make try and get their
attention.
When I was running on 10 Sunday afternoon I was able to move several stations
to 15 and 20-thank you very much.
I discovered some unused features of TRLog (a good thing) since my rates were
lower such as my old DOS computer got so hung up on memory that it must have
dumped some things and then went back to normal.
Most likely I did not run enough on 10 and I just could not run on 20 or 15. I
did have a nice pileup/run on 40 early Sunday morning and now I know I should
have been there earlier.
Both this weekend and in prior HP efforts I always fail to take a break during
the 0200z to 0500z period when things are pretty slow and then wish I had since
things pick up later.
I now have new respect for LP stations without big antenna systems.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 21 0 5 50 76 76 3.7
0100 1 4 7 21 25 0 58 134 6.6
0200 1 7 1 21 26 0 56 190 9.4
0300 3 0 33 21 0 0 57 247 12.2
0400 2 15 0 15 6 0 38 285 14.1
0500 1 3 5 19 0 0 28 313 15.4
0600 3 9 19 1 0 0 32 345 17.0
0700 5 5 0 84 0 0 94 439 21.6
0800 0 8 13 76 0 0 97 536 26.4
0900 2 3 15 13 0 0 33 569 28.1
1000 3 3 10 0 0 0 16 585 28.8
1100 1 0 2 18 8 2 31 616 30.4
1200 0 0 2 1 70 10 83 699 34.5
1300 0 0 0 0 27 44 71 770 38.0
1400 0 0 0 0 0 71 71 841 41.5
1500 0 0 0 2 1 131 134 975 48.1
1600 0 0 0 0 26 22 48 1023 50.4
1700 0 0 0 0 3 41 44 1067 52.6
1800 0 0 0 4 12 16 32 1099 54.2
1900 0 0 0 0 20 12 32 1131 55.8
2000 0 0 0 19 12 9 40 1171 57.7
2100 0 0 0 0 18 15 33 1204 59.4
2200 0 0 0 0 9 49 58 1262 62.2
2300 0 0 6 0 9 11 26 1288 63.5
0000 0 0 0 14 12 0 26 1314 64.8
0100 0 4 10 0 1 0 15 1329 65.5
0200 0 4 12 0 6 0 22 1351 66.6
0300 0 8 2 12 0 0 22 1373 67.7
0400 7 0 6 3 0 0 16 1389 68.5
0500 0 10 2 3 0 0 15 1404 69.2
0600 2 9 11 0 0 0 22 1426 70.3
0700 0 0 81 0 0 0 81 1507 74.3
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1507 74.3
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1507 74.3
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1507 74.3
1100 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1509 74.4
1200 0 0 0 6 17 16 39 1548 76.3
1300 0 0 0 1 3 99 103 1651 81.4
1400 0 0 0 0 8 47 55 1706 84.1
1500 0 0 0 0 13 35 48 1754 86.5
1600 0 0 0 0 6 63 69 1823 89.9
1700 0 0 0 0 10 35 45 1868 92.1
1800 0 0 0 5 5 22 32 1900 93.7
1900 0 0 0 5 9 13 27 1927 95.0
2000 0 0 0 6 11 5 22 1949 96.1
2100 0 0 0 6 2 6 14 1963 96.8
2200 0 0 0 10 0 34 44 2007 99.0
2300 0 0 0 8 11 2 21 2028 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 31 93 259 394 391 860 2028
Gross QSOs=2037 Dupes=9 Net QSOs=2028
Unique callsigns worked = 1291
The best 60 minute rate was 137/hour from 1454 to 1553
The best 30 minute rate was 186/hour from 1524 to 1553
The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 1536 to 1545
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 7 times.
4 QSOs/minute 32 times.
3 QSOs/minute 90 times.
2 QSOs/minute 348 times.
1 QSOs/minute 899 times.
There were 279 bandchanges and 84 (4.1%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 17 26 27 43 44 46 203 10.0
South America 5 8 17 43 53 76 202 10.0
Europe 9 53 190 271 245 619 1387 68.4
Asia 0 1 20 18 30 103 172 8.5
Africa 0 1 2 5 8 6 22 1.1
Oceania 0 4 3 13 11 10 41 2.0
??? 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 31 93 259 394 391 860 2028
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 13
4 599
5 735
6 658
7 5
8 12
9 6
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3A 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
3V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
4X 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
6W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
6Y 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
7X 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
8P 1 2 2 1 3 2 11 0.5
9A 0 1 6 5 11 14 37 1.8
9K 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
9L 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
9M6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
A7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
A9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
C6 1 2 2 2 2 0 9 0.4
CE 0 0 1 6 7 14 28 1.4
CM 1 3 4 2 6 4 20 1.0
CN 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
CT 1 1 2 3 4 5 16 0.8
CT3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
CU 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 0.2
CX 0 0 0 1 3 2 6 0.3
DL 0 4 30 28 26 78 166 8.2
E7 0 1 1 1 2 6 11 0.5
EA 0 6 12 19 19 42 98 4.8
EA6 0 0 1 3 1 3 8 0.4
EA8 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 0.2
EI 0 2 2 5 5 11 25 1.2
ER 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
ES 0 0 1 2 2 0 5 0.2
EU 0 0 1 3 4 6 14 0.7
F 1 6 13 13 7 24 64 3.2
FG 1 0 1 2 1 2 7 0.3
FM 0 2 1 2 1 1 7 0.3
FR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FY 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
G 1 0 8 10 5 30 54 2.7
GD 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
GI 0 0 1 2 1 3 7 0.3
GJ 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
GM 0 0 1 1 3 8 13 0.6
GW 0 0 1 1 1 5 8 0.4
HA 1 5 7 7 6 16 42 2.1
HB 0 1 2 5 1 12 21 1.0
HB0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
HC 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
HI 1 1 1 5 1 3 12 0.6
HK 1 1 1 4 1 1 9 0.4
HZ 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
I 0 6 23 37 28 79 173 8.5
IS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
*IT9 1 1 2 2 6 5 17 0.8
J7 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
JA 0 1 18 7 25 96 147 7.2
KH2 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
KH6 0 4 1 3 6 6 20 1.0
KL 0 1 2 6 6 7 22 1.1
KP2 2 2 2 3 4 4 17 0.8
KP4 1 1 2 4 6 7 21 1.0
LA 0 0 3 7 2 12 24 1.2
LU 0 1 2 6 11 23 43 2.1
LX 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 0.2
LY 0 0 2 1 0 3 6 0.3
LZ 0 0 1 3 2 9 15 0.7
OA 0 1 2 1 1 1 6 0.3
OD 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OE 1 1 5 3 4 12 26 1.3
OH 0 0 1 2 2 7 12 0.6
OH0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.1
OK 0 3 4 4 8 20 39 1.9
OM 0 0 0 3 4 6 13 0.6
ON 0 3 5 13 10 9 40 2.0
OZ 0 0 2 5 1 14 22 1.1
P4 2 2 2 2 3 2 13 0.6
PA 1 2 8 9 7 26 53 2.6
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
PJ4 1 1 1 2 1 3 9 0.4
PJ5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
PJ7 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
PY 0 0 5 17 16 23 61 3.0
PZ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
S5 0 1 4 8 12 13 38 1.9
SM 0 0 4 13 9 26 52 2.6
SP 0 3 15 15 15 28 76 3.7
SV 0 2 4 2 1 6 15 0.7
SV5 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
SV9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
TA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
*TA1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
TF 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.2
TG 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TI 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
UA 0 0 2 10 6 25 43 2.1
UA2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
UA9 0 0 2 9 2 3 16 0.8
UR 0 0 4 6 10 21 41 2.0
V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
V3 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
VK 0 0 1 6 1 3 11 0.5
VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
VP9 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
XE 3 3 2 3 3 4 18 0.9
YB 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1
YL 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.3
YN 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.2
YO 0 0 6 6 5 14 31 1.5
YS 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
YU 1 3 3 5 5 4 21 1.0
YV 0 1 1 3 5 2 12 0.6
Z3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1
ZL 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
ZP 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.1
ZS 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
??? 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 31 93 259 394 391 860 2028
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
I 0 6 23 37 28 79 173 8.5
DL 0 4 30 28 26 78 166 8.2
JA 0 1 18 7 25 96 147 7.2
EA 0 6 12 19 19 42 98 4.8
SP 0 3 15 15 15 28 76 3.7
F 1 6 13 13 7 24 64 3.2
PY 0 0 5 17 16 23 61 3.0
G 1 0 8 10 5 30 54 2.7
PA 1 2 8 9 7 26 53 2.6
SM 0 0 4 13 9 26 52 2.6
LU 0 1 2 6 11 23 43 2.1
UA 0 0 2 10 6 25 43 2.1
HA 1 5 7 7 6 16 42 2.1
UR 0 0 4 6 10 21 41 2.0
ON 0 3 5 13 10 9 40 2.0
OK 0 3 4 4 8 20 39 1.9
S5 0 1 4 8 12 13 38 1.9
9A 0 1 6 5 11 14 37 1.8
YO 0 0 6 6 5 14 31 1.5
CE 0 0 1 6 7 14 28 1.4
OE 1 1 5 3 4 12 26 1.3
EI 0 2 2 5 5 11 25 1.2
LA 0 0 3 7 2 12 24 1.2
KL 0 1 2 6 6 7 22 1.1
OZ 0 0 2 5 1 14 22 1.1
KP4 1 1 2 4 6 7 21 1.0
YU 1 3 3 5 5 4 21 1.0
HB 0 1 2 5 1 12 21 1.0
KH6 0 4 1 3 6 6 20 1.0
CM 1 3 4 2 6 4 20 1.0
XE 3 3 2 3 3 4 18 0.9
KP2 2 2 2 3 4 4 17 0.8
*IT9 1 1 2 2 6 5 17 0.8
UA9 0 0 2 9 2 3 16 0.8
CT 1 1 2 3 4 5 16 0.8
LZ 0 0 1 3 2 9 15 0.7
SV 0 2 4 2 1 6 15 0.7
EU 0 0 1 3 4 6 14 0.7
P4 2 2 2 2 3 2 13 0.6
OM 0 0 0 3 4 6 13 0.6
GM 0 0 1 1 3 8 13 0.6
YV 0 1 1 3 5 2 12 0.6
HI 1 1 1 5 1 3 12 0.6
OH 0 0 1 2 2 7 12 0.6
8P 1 2 2 1 3 2 11 0.5
E7 0 1 1 1 2 6 11 0.5
VK 0 0 1 6 1 3 11 0.5
PJ4 1 1 1 2 1 3 9 0.4
HK 1 1 1 4 1 1 9 0.4
C6 1 2 2 2 2 0 9 0.4
EA6 0 0 1 3 1 3 8 0.4
GW 0 0 1 1 1 5 8 0.4
FG 1 0 1 2 1 2 7 0.3
FM 0 2 1 2 1 1 7 0.3
GI 0 0 1 2 1 3 7 0.3
VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
CX 0 0 0 1 3 2 6 0.3
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
OA 0 1 2 1 1 1 6 0.3
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
PJ5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
TI 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
LY 0 0 2 1 0 3 6 0.3
YL 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.3
V3 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3
CN 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
EA8 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 0.2
CU 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 0.2
J7 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
VP9 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
ES 0 0 1 2 2 0 5 0.2
LX 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 0.2
KH2 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
YN 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.2
PJ7 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
TF 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.2
HC 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
3V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
ER 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
OH0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.1
YB 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1
ZP 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.1
SV5 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
ZS 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
6Y 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
YS 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
ZL 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
HB0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
Z3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.1
9L 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
UA2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
HZ 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
4X 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
FY 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
FR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TG 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
7X 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
GJ 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
IS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
A9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
SV9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
*TA1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
A7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
PZ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
OD 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
6W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
9M6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9K 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
3A 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
GD 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
??? 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
CT3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
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Total 31 93 259 394 391 860 2028
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 936
2 bands 160
3 bands 83
4 bands 56
5 bands 37
6 bands 19
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
P40L VP2MLL KP2M XE7S PJ4G P40P
VP5H HK1NA T48K PJ2T PJ6A 8P5A
CS2C OE3K PI4DX TM6M TI8M V26M
V31MA
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 5 18 75 135 136 567
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Call: W9VQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,781
Sixty over line noise = no fun.
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Call: WA3OFC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,550
Band QSOs Pts Cty
14 2 6 2
21 13 39 12
28 55 165 41
Total 70 210 55
Score : 11,550
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Call: WA6URY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 122,310
Thanks for the Qs ! 73, Dan - remote in Tokyo
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Call: WA7AR Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 2,625
started with sore throat & had to qrt after abt 7 hrs account of throat
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Call: WA7LNW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 257,640
Great conditions on Friday evening!
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Call: WB2AIV Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 9,225
Operated 4 hours on Sunday afternoon with K3 & KPA500 into an 80m OCF
Dipole.
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Call: WB4OMM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,360
Yaesu FT-2000, AT-1000Pro, HP Compaq dc7800 MiniTower dual core; A3S Beam with
10M/15M/20M/40M at 38', Yaesu G-450A Rotator; 280' 40M/80M loop at 35'; 160M
Sloper. N3FJP, software, LOGic Logging Software.
Could only work one hour on Friday evening and one hour on Saturday evening;
but did manage to work 13 new DXCC entities on 160M! The bandds were very good
from what I could hear. Good luck to all! 73! Steve WB4OMM
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Call: WB5TUF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 34,272
I was only looking for new band-countries this year. The bands were in great
shape.
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Call: WB6CZG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 127,926
I started out thinking I could do this QRP with the KX3.....wrong.
So I went to the TS2000, AL80B and the only antenna I have, 80 meter dipole at
70 ft.
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Call: WB6JJJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 31,464
Another fun contest...
Lots of JA's on all bands filled the log.
The higher bands seemed to stay open well past dark.
This was all S&P on Saturday evening, too many ranch chores to get on the
radio on Sunday.
Thanks for the Q's.
Bill
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Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 215,124
73 - Rick WB8JUI
Elecraft K3
Hustler 5BTV Ground mounted (80-10 Meters)
160M Inverted L @ 50'
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Call: WD5COV Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 2,592
Just a short effort to hand out the NM mult on top band. Worked 11 EU
countries. Condx seemed pretty good Saturday night here.
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Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,969,605
Elecraft K3 -> Amp
TH7DX @ 50'
40m sloping dipole
80m Inv V
160m Inv L
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Call: WD5R Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 79,776
No RUN'N
Just smelling the roses!
Marlene, wd5r
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Call: WE3C Class: M/M HP Total Score = 16,209,042
Both this contest and the CW contest were very similar in results. This is also
a new station record score for this contest. We had a lot of fun passing
stations and an extra thank you go out to all the stations that move for us.
Thank you to all the callers, the terrific competition, our dedicated team and
to the sponsors of this great contest.
The WE3C Team
www.we3c.com
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Call: WG3J Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,410,073
would have done better but 15 meter beam failed early sunday morning so no grey
line for sunday , got 15 back on track by sunday evening , also lacked 20
meter beam for most of contest was a lot of fun and looking forward to next
year already see everyone at the meeting GO FRC !! ERIC WG3J
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Call: WI9WI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 121,212
A few hours here and there shooting spots.
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Call: WJ2D Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,008,545
This was a S&P only contest for me this time. Boy, were the bands crowded! I
had a great time just playing around.
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Call: WL7E Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,380,080
I had high hopes for a better score this weekend. 40 and 80 did not seem that
productive to me on Friday night. Saturday night 40 and 80 folded for me to the
USA but the Japanese stations were very very loud. I never heard one signal to
work on 160 either night.
I took time out to work EU on 10m cw Saturday night for a couple of hours, I
could not resist. I also worked on a log I am getting ready to upload to LoTW.
Again being assisted did absolutely no good for mults. All the VE1 mults were
spotted below the American phone band all weekend and out of reach to me. It
did however again assist in finding a frequency to park on even though the high
bands were so crowded.
Tnx to all who called and I am sure everyone had fun this weekend.
73,
Joe WL7E
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Call: WN2O Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,471,818
IC756PROIII, AL-1200
3L Tribander @30' fixed EU
160 bent dipole @35'
80 Inv V @25"
40-10 Fan dipole @35' for NE/SW
20-10 Fan dipole @35' for N/S
This was our first MS from this station with I am sure many more to follow. My
two boys 11 & 15 just passed their general class licenses and are working on
the extras now. In this contest it was just me and my yougest son Leo
operating. It was his first big DX contest and was supposed to be more of a
learning experience on how to use N1MM, change bands, tune the amp and
transmatches (all my antennas are cut for CW) without blowing anything up. At
first I showed him how to use the bandmap with a stern warning about verifying
the call and he had fun working guys off that. I left the room for about an
hour. When I came back I found him running guys. I asked him how did you find
a clear frequency? He said I used the band map and asked if the frequency was
in use. I almost fell off the chair. After the contest I was checking rates
and he had a 120 hour!
The other thing that was comical at times is that he has no idea what prefixes
belong to which countries. He hasn't even heard of most of the countries he
talked to this weekend. He was trying to pull a call out of the noise and he
kept saying "the pappa five station what is your call?" It was an
SP5. He did that with a few rare prefixes that were not active.
He got a good geography lesson this weekend and got a kick out of the different
accents he heard. I think he liked the Russian accents the best. I know I did
when I was 14 and listening to Willy UA9BA at UK9AAN running guys for hours on
end:}
Thanks for all the QSO's, patience when he asked for repeats and all the kind
words of encouragement I heard in the background. Look for us again in WPX
using the call WN2O.
Proud dad still grinning!
73 Mike N2GC
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Call: WN4AFP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,984
Very part-time S&P on this contest.
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Call: WN6K Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 141,183
Raging winds of almost no consequence until power went out at 1PM on Friday
afternoon and did not come back on till 0500 UTC. Decided to wait till morning
and do an 'assisted' 10m band only effort. Sure was hoping that I could have
done the DXCC but not enough hearing of the illusive ones. Stopped on Saturday
morning for KK6IFZ's final playoff basketball game for two hours.
Sunday morning, I went up to a breath away from 28.995 and found a spot to
occupy and had about an hour's run to EU. Rest of Sunday was really thin and
noisy I thought.
WN6K, Paul
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Call: WO4D Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 110,205
Conditions seemed good from Florida, nice contest.
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Call: WP2XX Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 59,616
Just a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon. It was too nice here to stay inside
hollering into a microphone! :-D
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Call: WP3DX Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,656,480
Awesome contest weekend! It was really tuff to devote the whole weekend to the
contest; I guess family duties won this time. All the birthdays, festivals,
shows, picnics, church activities, baby showers and the endless “honey do
list” perfectly aligned this past weekend. We still managed to make some
noise and log some QSOs.
After some last minute planning decided to enter in the multi operator single
transmitter low power category as WP3DX. Operators this time were Ramón KP4TR,
Robert KP4Y and Norbert KP4WK. We were operating remote from Seffner, Brandon
and Valrico, Florida and using the radio that is in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Thanks
again to Ramón for the technical support, the remote operation was flawless.
That thing is awesome!
Ramón started Friday on 20m racking close to 200 Qs in a couple hours. Norbert
then took it and worked some more in 40 and 80m. Unfortunately, none of us was
available on Saturday morning due to previous commitments. It wasn’t until
around noon that Norbert took it again and battled the afternoon pile ups in
10, 15 and 20m. Latter Ramón took the reins followed by Robert who worked the
night shift and did exceptionally good in 40 and 80m. That was a big boost in
terms of points considering is just a G5RV dipole in a fixed position. Robert
and Ramón took turns all thru out Sunday as Norbert could not operate.
Overall we did better than last year. Interestingly, we ended up making less
QSOs but more points. All those 40 and 80m QSOs really made a difference this
time.
At the end of the day, we had fun and that’s what count.
73’s WP3DX
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Call: WR3R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 353,694
Wow..what fun. 100% S&P. 15 and 10 were super. Still working new
multipliers late Sunday. Fair amount of line noise....I need to find the
source. THANKS for the DX great ears and patience. Rig worked well with just
a few hiccups. Tough contest operating LP with very modest antennas, but still
worked much of what I heard. If I could not work a new multiplier after a few
calls, I would move on and come back in 15 minutes or so...worked 90% on the
2nd pass including JA, ZS and a number of others.
Rig: Collins S-line barefoot. Five 1/2 wave dipoles in trees averaging about
10 meters high.
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Call: WS7L Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 102,465
I am one of the world's least enthusiastic phone operators, but the prospect of
working Europe on 10 meters from Oregon was too tempting to resist so I jumped
in off & on. 100% search and pounce focusing on new multipliers. Low bands
were tough sledding so I didn't do much. The only station I heard on my brief
scan of 160 was HK1NA but condx were too tough to even try them.
K-Line + R-6000 & HF-2V verticals, 20 m monobander.
73 and thanks for answering me.
Carl WS7L
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Call: WT1A Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 776,160
All contacts made on two simple dipoles: 80m @ ~35' & 40m sloper @ ~30', and
only S&P.
20m was just painful; may as well have just operated QRP with less than 10w of
actual forward power. Tested my patiences but at the same time was very
gratifying when someone actually heard me amongst the pileup.
Oh well, Spring is coming soon (hopefully!). Maybe I can finally get some
aluminum in the air at the new QTH.
That said, had a wonderful time. Enjoyed the operating challenges and the good,
if not great, band conditions.
Thanks to everyone for all the contacts.
73,
Tim.
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Call: WT8C Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 897,975
Finally got station back together after being tore apart for over 20 months.
Still got lots of bugs to work out but sure was nice to be able to operate
from home again. However, I must say that my 54 ft crank-up and
tri-bander does not compete with the multiple big antenna at the K8AZ
station.
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Call: WW1MM Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 487,026
Time limited due to sleep deficit from business trip this past week, and chores
that accumulated while away.
I actually planned to be quite a bit less active, but 10m was just so nice,
especially Sunday. Had fun, even in spite of the general nastiness of phone
contests.
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Call: WW1USA Class: M/S LP Total Score = 103,320
This is the call of the National World War One Museum at Liberty Memorial in
Kansas City, MO. Look us up on QRZ.com for upcoming special event weekends.
Thanks for the QSO's and 73.
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Call: WW4LL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,902,092
We echo what so many have already said in that it was simply amazing conditions
and a tremendous amount of fun.
John and Jeff did yeomen's work in operating. We went with John's operating
strategy and we all agreed to aggressively go after the mults. While we
appreciate all mults, working EP3HF this morning on 10 meters was the highlight
for me this morning. It was lots of fun!
Noticed lots of 5, 10 and 25 watt stations on and most we could readily work.
Good job QRPers and YLs.
Thank you all and 73'....Fred, WW4LL - John, K4BAI & Jeff, KU8E
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Call: WW8OH Class: M/S HP Total Score = 689,850
With the Spider Beam down due to a recent ice storm, we had rely solely on our
630 ft loop at 60 ft, and the use of a K9AY to assist on the lower bands.
We were short staffed so we took a sleep break, and came back sunday morning to
finish out the contest.
We are ready looking forward to next year and hopefully the spider beam back in
service...hi hi
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Call: WX3B Class: M/M HP Total Score = 775,488
Thanks to Dennis N8IVN for leading a casual effort in my absence this past
weekend. If you missed this weekend (and I did) - we have to hope for a repeat
performance of 10 meters in the WPX SSB contest. Several of my peers emailed me
to tell me how GREAT the 10 meter opening was...that I was missing.
WX3B will be looking forward to working you ... in the upcoming WPX SSB
contest!
73,
Jim WX3B
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Call: XE2B Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 378,504
Good condx although very noise at times. Power outage 3 minutes before the end
of the test ruined a very good run.
Strange: Missed NM and VT
Normal: Missed the usual Canadian provinces.
Best rates:
2014-03-01 0026Z - 6.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 360 per hour
2014-03-01 1922Z - 5.0 per minute (10 minute(s)), 300 per hour
2014-03-01 2006Z - 4.2 per minute (60 minute(s)), 253 per hour
Hardware: FT-1000MP +AL800H
Antenna: 3 ele Yagi @78 ft height
Thanks for the Q�'s!
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Call: YN5Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,965,785
Another fun and interesting Field Day contest operation from YN5Z is in the
books. This is my fourth major operation and each one has its own unique
characteristics and memories.
I had a few goals coming into ARRL DX SSB: Improve upon my 8th place finish
SOAB HP DX in 2013, exceed 6,000 QSOs, have at least one hour >300 QSOs, and
make at least one 160M QSO -- a band that is exceedingly difficult for my field
day style operation. Time will tell on whether I improved on my finish but I
did meet my goals of 6,000 QSOs and at least one 160M QSO. In fact I doubled my
goal there! However, the magical 300 QSO hour still eludes me and in fact my
peak QSO hour rates were well below what I have done in the past. I am not sure
why. Need to think about it a bit.
I will dispense with the basics of my QTH and station here in San Juan del Sur,
Nicaragua. They are well described in past 3830.com writeups and you can find
links to them off my YN5Z page on QRZ.COM. There is also a link to a short
video tour.
One of the major things I have spent the last year preparing for are the high
winds this time of year at the QTH. In 2013 my Spiderbeam suffered several
failures leading up to the contest. Since then I worked with the Spiderbeam
team in the US and Germany and with a couple of reconfigurations here and a
couple of parts there the beam worked perfectly this weekend. Winds were not
quite as strong as last year but it was quite windy as usual. I continue to
give very high marks to the support from Spiderbeam. They stand behind their
products and support their customers. Even those like me. And the performance
of the beam speaks for itself with my 6,700+ QSOs. The real benefit of the
Spiderbeam over the standard 3 element tri-bander is that you have separate and
optimally spaced elments on each band. It is also light weight and I store the
whole thing in one hard sided golf case.
Of course, as a Field Day operation, getting the Spiderbeam under control only
meant that the "problem of the day" had an opportunity to migrate
somewhere else. That is just what happens in Field Day operations. So, it was
not unexpected that I could not get the receive audio path from the microKeyer
into MMTTY working despite two hours of trying. So, this cancelled any hopes
for pre-contest RTTY operation. I also had some weird problems with my KAT-500
antenna switch and tuner. For some reason only one of the three antenna ports
was working properly. I traded several e-mails with the Elecraft team in the
days before the contest and they were great in providing suggestions. But, I
just could never get it working which meant that I have to manually switch
among my three antennas during the contest. Eventually this hurt my ability to
pass mults from 40 to 80. In both these cases, RTTY and KAT500, they worked
fine on my last operation. It is just what happens. The good thing about these
problems, if there is a silver lining, is that they were not physically
exhausting like what I went through in 2013 with the Spiderbeam. So, I started
the contest rested even if not relaxed and I was planning on a portion of my
QSO increase coming from a couple more operating hours over 2013.
On to the contest.
I started the contest on 20. I debated starting on 15 but stuck with 20 as
relative to the other hours this was still a good time to be on 20. I knew I
would have plenty of other hours I could spend on 15 and in 2013 I left a lot
of QSOs on the table on 20. So, that is where I began and it didn't start that
well. I did not have it as bad as TO5A who didn't make a QSO in the first 13
minutes but it certainly was slow. My first hour was a relatively paltry 218.
This is the slowest first hour I have ever had. So, now I am wondering what is
going on. Are the conditions poor and the contest is going to be a grind? Or,
maybe really folks were on 15 and it will just take them a while to get to 20.
Things picked up in hours 2 and 3 and by the end of the third hour I was 28
QSOs ahead of last year. At that time, though 20 was still open it was time to
go to 40 and 80 before it got too late on the east coast and the casual
operators went to bed. I worked my way through the first time on the band
pileups and stayed up until 0700 UTC which is 1AM local time. When shutting
down for the night I had 1,200 QSOs in the log which was exactly the same as
what I had in 2013. My 6,000 QSO plan required me to be around 1,300 QSOs by
then so I was still not quite sure what to expect.
After a solid 4 hours of sleep, if there is such a thing, I was up and on the
air at 1100 UTC, 5AM local time and an hour before sunrise. I spent time again
on 80 and 40 with reasonable rates and then shortly after sunrise moved to 20.
At this point I would see what really to expect on the high bands. It also
would be interesting to see how things went relative to the classic problem of
W/VE's attention being on Europe and us folks down south being "Lost in
the Noise". The 1200 UTC hour was a respectable 115 Qs on 20 which was
well ahead of last year. My operating plan then called for me to move to 15 at
1330 UTC which I did. I was shocked and dismayed to find S9+ noise across the
whole band. I quickly remembered that I had this problem last year before the
contest but the noise dissappeared over the weekend. Not this time. I am still
not sure where it comes from as it is confined to 15M, is S9+ most of the time,
and the Noise Blanker in the TS-590 can't touch it. I gamely stayed on 15 and 7
QSOs before throwing in the towel and heading to 10. I also started crafting a
new strategy that involved maximizing QSOs on 20 and 10 while concentrating on
passing mults to 15 to build the mult total. I might not be able to run on 15
but I could work stations when passed there. So, this is what I did and this
early in the contest I already started moving stations to 15 to at least get
the mults. At one point I had 15 QSOs on 15 and 14 mults. I also made quick
checks of 15 every 30 minutes to see if the noise would go away. In the
meantime I was off and running on 10 with solid rates and had my best hour of
the contest during the 1500 hour with a 258. Though a great hour I am still
surprised my peak rate was not higher and I am not sure why. I knew to get to
my 300 goal would require streamlining my QRZ strategy and I alternated between
a simple "Thanks" and "Yankee Norway Five Zulu". I was able
to maintain 300+ rates for many 10 minute periods but could just not keep it
going for a full hour. I need to start recording the contest and go back and
figure it out.
During the 1700 hour I again tried 15 sensing the noise was not quite as bad
but was only able to get a 156 hour so it may not have been the best decision.
I then headed back up to 10 and moved into the strongest rates of the contest.
Beginning in the 1900 hour I had a string of 5 hours >250 Qs per hour and I
felt like the contest was really falling into place. During the 2100 hour a
check of 15 showed the noise dropped back to S7 so I QSY'd there and began
another string of 250+ hours. Based on comments from stations it seemed like I
was 59+ from coast to coast. Yes -- life was good. This is one of the
geographic benefits of my Nica location. A simple three element beam, when
aimed due north, has it's 3db beamwidth points almost perfectly covering W/VE
from west to east.
I ended the first day at 3741 X 279 as compared to my 2013 totals of 3269 x
269. This put me right on my 6,000 QSO plan and I was happy to be already 10
mults ahead of last year. I really focused on moving stations around across
10-15-20 and appreciate all of those that QSYd for me.
Unlike the first day I did remain on 15 for the 0000 hour and was rewarded with
a 247 hour. I then took what has become my traditional 45 minute break for a
shower and to have Saturday night dinner with my family. When back on the air I
moved to 20 and had a 247 hour during the 0200 UTC hour. Midway through the 0300
hour I QSYd to 40. It was during this period when I really started to miss
having the KAT500 antenna switch. My 40 and 80/160 antennas are on separate
feed lines. Many stations called in on 40 that were mults on 80 and I knew I
could work if passed, but without the switch I could not pass them across
bands. So, I stayed on 40 for a while and then moved to 80. At 0506 K1TO called
in. After the QSO he inquired about 40 and I explained I would be back there in
a bit I could not do a quick QSY. I then offered "Want to try 160?"
which was happily accepted. We QSYd to 1845, which was the bottom of my 20 kc
wide 2:1 SWR segment on my HF2V. I heard K1TO quite clearly and he heard me and
was in the log as my first ever 160M QSO with the states. A half hour later I
repeated the process with WG3J. I was clearly hearing much better on 160 than
in the past. The low 160 dipole receive antenna that I put up was working as
planned. (In fact I also used it on 80 as it had much better SNR than the HF2V
transmit antenna.) A few minutes later K0TT called in on 80 and also wanted to
try 160. I was doubtful given the distance but we gave it a try. I could hear
him but not the other way around. The same happened with WE3C the next morning.
So, it seems in the never ending battle of balancing receive and transmit
capabilities on 160 my transmit capabilities are now my weak point on 160. But,
I was thrilled with both QSOs. And, going into the future if I want to move into
the Top 5 categories it will be totally dependent on 160. I am holding my own on
80 thru 10 but I just can't give up 20, 30, or 40 mults to the guys with the
established stations in the Carribean.
I once again stayed up to 0700 UTC, 1AM local time, caught 4 hours of sleep,
and was again on the air around 1100 UTC Sunday. I started the morning at 4794
x 293 versus 3902 x 269 in 2013. I was actually 300 QSOs ahead of my 6,000 QSO
plan! I was feeling good. I was also really please to be 16 mults ahead of my
2013 total. I basically had 5B WAS in hand though missing ND on 40 and AR on
80. I also had 10-15-20 checked off on VE1 thru VE7 except for NF on 20. I even
had VE8 on 10 and 15. Looking at the Mult map my thought was essentially
"Well from here to the end it is all about rate any more mults are just
going to be a surprise gift and not worth spending any time looking for."
So, I repeated my same pattern as Saturday morning. I spent 30 minutes on 80,
then 40, moving to 20 around dawn for an hour or so. I then checked 15, found
the noise was still there and promptly went to 10 at 1400. As expected 10 was a
total zoo. I tried squeezing in below 28500 with little success and the escaped
up to 28631. At the time this seemed reasonable. I thought "I will just
hang out here until 10 closes from W/VE to Europe then move back down."
But rates were slow with 64 and 79 hours, two of my lowest in the contest. I
also was doing mental calculations that my 6,000 QSO goal was starting to be at
risk. And, in hindsight I stayed too high too long. My biggest strategic error
of the contest. At 1619 I spun down to 28385 and battled it out there before
finally being squeezed off an hour later. QRM was horrendous but I had a 150
hour. I moved on down the band and settled in around 28318 for three hours of
200+ rate. As I entered the 2000 hour I was rapidly approaching my 6,000 QSO
goal. At 2102 N3QEH went into the log as 5,999. I was thinking "What can I
do to make 6,000 special?" As I QRZd and listened to the pileup roar I
heard a very clear VY1 in the masses! One of the surprise gift mults had called
in and VY1MAB was QSO 6,000. I moved him to 15 for mult 295 and my final one.
An hour later as I approached and passed 2,500 QSOs on 10 I sensed that the
rate was slowing down simply because I had worked a substantial portion of
everyone who was on 10. A quick look at some other 3830 postings also shows
uppers limits on 10 QSOs in the 2,500 range. So with three hours to go it was
question of "What to do now?" I knew 20 propagation would not be
great this time of day. So, I really had one choice. Head back to 15 where I
knew there were plenty of stations I had not worked. At the time I had only
1,300 or so QSOs on 15. The noise once again had dropped to the S7 level and
off I went. I had great rates as expected but I was really becoming physically
and mentally exhausted. My operating chair is a solid wood dining room chair
with a bed pillow on it as a cushion. Logging 6,000+ QSOs was a thrill but my
voice was giving out and my brain's ability to decipher the pileup was starting
to fail -- getting full calls was increasingly difficult. I also had to struggle
though the consequences of someone spotting me with a busted call and the
immediate surge in Dupes as well as concerns that I might be being logged on
the other end with the wrong call and thus a potential NIL issue in log
checking. As I looked at my score I realized I was not going to make it to 6M
points. At 2330 I made reached the point of "I can't take this any
more", pulled the plug, went and prepared a nice cold adult beveridge, and
watched the sunset with my family.
I am totally satisfied with my 6,700+ QSOs and 295 mults. I really have to
thank everyone who QSYd for me. I could go back through the log and pull all of
you out -- and may do so in a few days. Also thanks to all those 5 banders and
to those two 6 banders -- K1TO and WG3J. I would like to think these conditions
will repeat in years to come but I have a feeling this might be it for this
cycle But, then you never know what old Sol will do.
Scott/YN5Z/K7ZO
QSO/Sec by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 218/46 --+-- --+-- 218/46 218/46
D1-0100Z - - - 250/6 - - 250/6 468/52
D1-0200Z - - - 240/5 - - 240/5 708/57
D1-0300Z - - 155/40 13/1 1/1 - 169/42 877/99
D1-0400Z - - 120/8 - - - 120/8 997/107
D1-0500Z - 111/37 3/0 - - - 114/37 1111/144
D1-0600Z - 87/8 - - - - 87/8 1198/152
D1-0700Z - 2/0 - - - - 2/0 1200/152
57
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1200/152
60
D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1200/152
60
D1-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1200/152
60
D1-1100Z - 56/3 50/2 - - - 106/5 1306/157
1
D1-1200Z - - 12/1 115/0 - - 127/1 1433/158
D1-1300Z - - - 59/0 7/7 7/5 73/12 1506/170
D1-1400Z - - - - 1/1 209/40 210/41 1716/211
D1-1500Z - - - - 1/1 257/8 258/9 1974/220
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/1 6/5 176/4 183/10 2157/230
D1-1700Z - - - - 156/35 - 156/35 2313/265
D1-1800Z - - - - 12/6 148/2 160/8 2473/273
D1-1900Z - - - - 1/1 252/0 253/1 2726/274
D1-2000Z - - - - 3/1 248/0 251/1 2977/275
D1-2100Z - - - - 170/1 86/1 256/2 3233/277
D1-2200Z - - - - 254/1 1/1 255/2 3488/279
D1-2300Z - - - - 253/0 - 253/0 3741/279
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 247/1 --+-- 247/1 3988/280
D2-0100Z - - - 35/1 27/0 - 62/1 4050/281
44
D2-0200Z - - - 241/0 - - 241/0 4291/281
D2-0300Z - - 83/2 79/0 - - 162/2 4453/283
D2-0400Z - 30/3 123/2 - - - 153/5 4606/288
D2-0500Z 2/2 64/2 11/0 - - - 77/4 4683/292
D2-0600Z - 26/0 80/1 - - - 106/1 4789/293
D2-0700Z - 5/0 - - - - 5/0 4794/293
58
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 4794/293
60
D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 4794/293
60
D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 4794/293
60
D2-1100Z - 37/0 46/0 - - - 83/0 4877/293
16
D2-1200Z - - 43/0 9/0 - - 52/0 4929/293
D2-1300Z - - - 112/0 - - 112/0 5041/293
D2-1400Z - - - - - 64/0 64/0 5105/293
D2-1500Z - - - - - 79/0 79/0 5184/293
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 150/0 150/0 5334/293
D2-1700Z - - - - - 150/0 150/0 5484/293
D2-1800Z - - - - - 242/0 242/0 5726/293
D2-1900Z - - - - - 232/0 232/0 5958/293
D2-2000Z - - - - 1/1 211/1 212/2 6170/295
D2-2100Z - - - - 166/0 30/0 196/0 6366/295
D2-2200Z - - - - 246/0 - 246/0 6612/295
D2-2300Z - - - - 129/0 - 129/0 6741/295
Total: 2/2 418/53 726/56 1372/60 1681/62 2542/62
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: YO8KGL Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 24,864
Just a little bit of fun on 40m in the morning:-)Nice conditions on 40m although
not many west coast stations.I did run most of the time with a little s&p
sometimes.Band were very crowded with european kw so I had listened above 7200,
nice experience, first time for me.Wkd with a FT1000MP, 500w, OB12-6 antenna
Thanks everyone for qso
73!
Bob
YO8RNI
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: YS1/NP3J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 706,650
TS-590 16m long wire ICOM AH-4
N1MM
Limited time operation
but I can enjoyed pile up on SSB
Thank you for all
JA6WFM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: YT7Z Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 281,088
73 Slavko
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: YT8WW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,064,177
Excellent propagation at 10 m, due to problems with snow and bad SWR on 14 MHz
contest we ended up 3 hours early. Many thanks YU1WS and YU1ZZ.
Pedja YT8WW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: YU5R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,975,685
Before contest we thought which category to work and bravely decided to go M2.We
had so much fun,good propagation and excellent ops from state side made this
weekend great.Second day only one station worked,so we lost 10m pile and low
bands.Due to family obligations Alex YU6DX and Zik YT1HA returned to Belgrade
sunday afternoon.YT3PL operated bravely untill the end of contest alone.We
think that we could reach easily 4300 qso,s.Opertators were YT3PL,YU6DX and
YT1HA.We missed our friend Zoki YU9DX this contest, who will joinn us in
RDXC.Thanks to all and see you in RDXC contest.
73's with respect untill next one,members of YU5R contest crew.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: YU7AV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 969,969
Due to my other commitments I've worked only 14:11 hours...
73, Voja
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: ZY5M Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 354,144
The first 4 hous of the contest where really great fun.
Thankyou very much to Sergio PP5JR for letting me use his wonderful station
again.
Next stop: CQ WW WPX CW, not far from home.
Thankyou to all US and Canada stations for calling me, I did enjoy a lot the
pile-up.
73's
Simone IV3NVN
Index of Calls
Call: 3G1D Class: SOAB LP
Call: 3V8BB Class: M/S HP
Call: 4M1F Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: 4M5W Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: 5Q2T Class: SOAB HP
Call: 7J1ABD Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: 8P2K Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: 8P5A Class: SOAB HP
Call: 9A1UN Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: 9A2NA Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: 9A4M Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 9A5BWW Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: 9A5K Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: 9A5W Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: 9A6XX Class: M/M HP
Call: 9A7T Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: 9A7ZZ Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: 9A8M Class: M/S HP
Call: 9A8WW Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 9A9A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 9L1A Class: SOAB HP
Call: 9M6XRO Class: SOAB HP
Call: 9V1YC Class: SOAB HP
Call: A65CA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP
Call: AA2ZW Class: SOAB LP
Call: AA3B Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA3K Class: SOAB HP
Call: AA3S Class: SOAB LP
Call: AA4CF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA4FU Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: AA5NT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA6PW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA7V Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: AA7XT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB1OC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB2E Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB3CV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB3CX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB3RY Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: AB4B Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: AB4GG Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: AB4UG Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: AB5K Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB5XZ Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: AC4CA Class: SOAB HP
Call: AC4G Class: SOAB LP
Call: AD4EB Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: AD4ES Class: M/S HP
Call: AD5XD Class: SOAB HP
Call: AE1T Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: AE6YB Class: SOAB LP
Call: AE7DW Class: SOAB LP
Call: AE7VA Class: SOAB HP
Call: AF4RK Class: SOAB HP
Call: AG4W Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: AI4UN Class: SOAB LP
Call: AI6II Class: SOAB HP
Call: AJ7T Class: SOAB HP
Call: AL9A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: C6AZZ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: CA3LGJ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: CA3MRD Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: CE1TT Class: M/S HP
Call: CE2MVF Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: CE3/OZ1AA Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: CE3CT Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: CE3EEA Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: CN2AA Class: M/2 HP
Call: CO2RVA Class: SOAB LP
Call: CO6CAC Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: CO8AW Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: CO8WAL Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: CQ8X Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: CR2A Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: CR2X Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: CR6T Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: CS2C Class: M/S HP
Call: CT1BXT Class: SOAB QRP
Call: CT1FJO Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: CW5W Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: CX2DK Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: DD8SM Class: SOAB HP
Call: DF2SD Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: DF7ZS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: DH8BQA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DK3T Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: DK8EY Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: DL/SP3LPG Class: SOAB HP
Call: DL1A Class: M/S HP
Call: DL3ANK Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: DL4YAO Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: DL5ZBA Class: SOAB HP
Call: DL6PLE Class: SOAB HP
Call: DL8SCG Class: SOAB HP
Call: DM9EE Class: M/S HP
Call: DU3BC Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: E71A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: E74O Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: E7A Class: M/S HP
Call: EA1FDI Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: EA3CI Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: EA3IN Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: EA3QP Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB HP
Call: EA5ON Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: EA6FO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EA8/OH2BP Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: EB3CW Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: EC2DX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: ED5T Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: ED7W Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EF5Y Class: SOAB HP
Call: EF7X Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: EF8O Class: SOAB LP
Call: EF8R Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: EI1Y Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EI2CN Class: M/S HP
Call: EI3HDB Class: SOAB LP
Call: ES5RW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: ES6Q Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: EU1A Class: SOAB HP
Call: F4DNW Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: F4FFH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: F5CQ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: F6ARC Class: SOAB LP
Call: FY5FY Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: G3R Class: SOAB LP
Call: G3Y Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: GW7X Class: SOAB HP
Call: HA3NU Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: HA4XH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: HA8A Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: HA8FM Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: HA8JV Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: HC2AO Class: SOAB LP
Call: HG7T Class: M/S HP
Call: HG8C Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: HI3K Class: M/S LP
Call: HI3TT Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: HK1NA Class: M/S HP
Call: HK3C Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: HS0ZKX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: IB1B Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: IB9T Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: II9P Class: M/M HP
Call: IK2YCW Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: IO4W Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: IQ1CN Class: M/S HP
Call: IR4B Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: IR8C Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: IT9ESW Class: SOAB LP
Call: IT9SPB Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: IV3BCA Class: SOAB HP
Call: IW3IFJ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: IZ8EPX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: J75Y Class: SOAB LP
Call: JH3PRR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K0AD Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K0AE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K0AP Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0BBC Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0CN Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0KX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0LUZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0MD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0PC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0PK Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0RF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0RI Class: SOAB LP
Call: K0TT Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0TV Class: M/M HP
Call: K0UH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0UK Class: M/S HP
Call: K0VG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0VXU Class: SOAB LP
Call: K1DG Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: K1ESE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1GG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1HI Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K1JB Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: K1KNQ Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: K1KP Class: M/M HP
Call: K1LT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1LZ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K1NYK Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K1QX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1RH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1RO Class: SOAB LP
Call: K1RV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1RX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1SD Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K1TN Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1TR Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K1VSJ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K1ZO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1ZR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K1ZW Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K1ZZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2AX Class: M/2 HP
Call: K2CJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2CYE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2DSL Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K2HN Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: K2JMY Class: SOAB HP
Call: K2LE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2NV Class: SOAB HP
Call: K2PI Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K2PS Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K2QMF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2QO Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K2QPN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2SI Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K2SSS Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K2SX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2TE Class: SOAB HP
Call: K2YR Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: K2ZR/4 Class: SOAB LP
Call: K3BZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP
Call: K3EL Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3KU Class: SOAB LP
Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP
Call: K3MD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3NDM Class: SOAB LP
Call: K3OO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3OQ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K3PA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3PP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3SWZ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K3TUF Class: SOAB HP
Call: K3WA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3WI Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K3WW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3YDX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3ZJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: K3ZO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4AB Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4EU Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K4FTO Class: SOAB LP
Call: K4HQK Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K4IDK Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K4IKM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K4IU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K4LM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4TOJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: K4VV Class: M/M HP
Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K4WW Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K4XS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5ER Class: SOAB HP
Call: K5EWJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: K5HM Class: SOAB LP
Call: K5JX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5LLA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5NA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5RR Class: SOAB HP
Call: K5TR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K5YAA Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K5ZD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6ELE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6GHA Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6JEB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6MM Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K6MMU Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6NA Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6RIM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6RM Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6RV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6SCA Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6SRZ Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6UN Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6YK Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7BV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7BVT Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7BX Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K7EG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7EUG Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7FA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K7HP Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: K7IA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7JA Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K7JQ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7MY Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7RB Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7RF Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K7SS Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7ULS Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K7WP Class: SOAB LP
Call: K7ZS Class: M/S HP
Call: K8AO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K8AZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K8ERS Class: SOAB LP
Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP
Call: K8GT Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K8MR Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K8ND Class: SOAB HP
Call: K8PGJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: K8PP Class: SOAB LP
Call: K9BGL Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K9CT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K9DR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K9ELF Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K9FY Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K9GY Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K9JE Class: SOAB LP
Call: K9LA Class: M/S LP
Call: K9NW Class: SOAB LP
Call: K9OR Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K9RS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K9XE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K9XR/M Class: SOAB LP
Call: K9YC Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KA1VMG Class: SOAB LP
Call: KA2KON Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KA4OTB Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KA4SFD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KA8HDE Class: SOAB LP
Call: KA9MOM Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KB0EO Class: SOAB HP
Call: KB1EFS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KB1H Class: M/2 HP
Call: KB3LIX Class: SOAB LP
Call: KB3OK Class: SOAB LP
Call: KB3WD Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: KB3Z Class: SOAB LP
Call: KB5JC Class: SOAB LP
Call: KB7V Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KB9NW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KC0DEB Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KC0VTJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: KC2WUF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KC3WX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KC4TEO Class: SOAB LP
Call: KC7V Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KC9EOQ Class: SOAB HP
Call: KC9UJS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KD0FW Class: SOAB HP
Call: KD2JA Class: SOAB HP
Call: KD4VVC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP
Call: KD7MSC Class: SOAB HP
Call: KD7VFC Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KD9MS Class: SOAB LP
Call: KE2VB Class: SOAB HP
Call: KE3X Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: KE4KMG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KE5MMT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KE6TIM Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KG6AO Class: SOAB HP
Call: KG7H Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KG9Z Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KH2/N2NL Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KH6CJJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP
Call: KH7M Class: SOAB HP
Call: KH7XX Class: M/2 HP
Call: KI1G Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KI7M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KI7Y Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KJ4BIX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KJ4VTH Class: SOAB LP
Call: KK6L Class: SOAB HP
Call: KL2R Class: M/M HP
Call: KL7DX Class: M/S HP
Call: KL7KY Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KL7RA Class: M/2 HP
Call: KM2O Class: SOAB HP
Call: KM4HI Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KM4JA Class: SOAB LP
Call: KM5VI Class: SOAB HP
Call: KM7N Class: SOAB LP
Call: KN2M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP
Call: KN7K Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KO1H Class: SOAB QRP
Call: KO7AA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KO7X Class: M/S HP
Call: KP2DX Class: SOAB LP
Call: KP2M Class: SOAB HP
Call: KP3Z Class: SOAB LP
Call: KP4BD Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: KP4CPC Class: SOAB LP
Call: KP4RV Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: KQ6P Class: SOAB LP
Call: KR2E Class: SOAB LP
Call: KR4F Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KS1J Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KS2G Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KS4X Class: SOAB LP
Call: KT4ZB Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KU2C Class: M/2 HP
Call: KV1J Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KV4FZ Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: KV4KY1 Class: SOAB LP
Call: KV4QS Class: SOAB LP
Call: KW7Q Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: KW7XX Class: SOAB HP
Call: KZ5OM Class: M/S HP
Call: LJ8IB Class: SOAB HP
Call: LP1H Class: M/M HP
Call: LT7F Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: LU1UM Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: LU3MAM Class: SOAB LP
Call: LU6DC Class: SOAB LP
Call: LU7DH Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: LU7MCJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: LU8YE Class: M/2 HP
Call: LX7I Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: LY7Z Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: LZ1OP Class: SOAB LP
Call: LZ1YE Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: LZ5K Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: LZ5W Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: LZ7A Class: M/S HP
Call: MW0ZZK Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: N0BUI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N0ECK Class: SOAB LP
Call: N0HJZ Class: SOAB LP
Call: N0HR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP
Call: N0KE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N0MA Class: M/2 HP
Call: N0OU Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N0TA Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: N1BA Class: M/S LP
Call: N1BNC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N1CC Class: SOAB LP
Call: N1DC Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: N1DD Class: SOAB HP
Call: N1EU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N1IBM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N1IX Class: SOSB/10 QRP
Call: N1RR Class: M/S HP
Call: N1SZ Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP
Call: N1YX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2BJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2FF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2MM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2MTG Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: N2MUN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2NS Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: N2NT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2SQW Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2UN Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: N2VW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2WKS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2ZN Class: SOAB HP
Call: N3ALN Class: SOAB LP
Call: N3KCJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: N3ND Class: SOAB HP
Call: N3OC Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: N3QDC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N3QE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3RC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N3RD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3ZA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3ZV Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4BCD Class: M/S HP
Call: N4CF Class: SOAB LP
Call: N4CR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4DJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4DU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4DXI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4EK Class: SOAB LP
Call: N4FNB Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4KG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4KH Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4LR Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N4MM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4NM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4PD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: N4RA Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4TL Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4TOL Class: SOAB LP
Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP
Call: N4UU Class: SOAB LP
Call: N4XL Class: M/S LP
Call: N4ZC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP
Call: N5CR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: N5DO Class: M/S LP
Call: N5PA Class: SOAB LP
Call: N5VR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP
Call: N6AAI Class: SOAB HP
Call: N6AJR Class: SOAB HP
Call: N6DA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N6ENO Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6HI Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N6MCM Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6PN Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6QQ Class: SOAB HP
Call: N6RO Class: M/M HP
Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6XT Class: SOAB HP
Call: N6YEU Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6ZE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N7AT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N7BEF Class: SOAB LP
Call: N7BT Class: SOAB HP
Call: N7GP Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: N7IR Class: SOAB LP
Call: N7KQ Class: M/S HP
Call: N7LR Class: SOAB HP
Call: N7MZW Class: SOAB LP
Call: N7PR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N7RK Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: N7RO Class: SOAB HP
Call: N7RVD Class: SOAB HP
Call: N7TEW Class: SOAB LP
Call: N7TR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N8AA Class: SOAB HP
Call: N8BJQ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N8EBN Class: SOAB LP
Call: N8FYL Class: SOAB LP
Call: N8HM Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N8II Class: SOAB LP
Call: N8RA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N8TR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N8UM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N8VV Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N8XX Class: SOSB/10 QRP
Call: N9FN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N9GUN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N9IO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N9NA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N9RV Class: SOAB HP
Call: N9TF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N9TGR Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: N9UA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N9VPV Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: NA1DX Class: SOAB HP
Call: NA4K Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NA5NN Class: SOAB LP
Call: NA8V Class: SOAB LP
Call: NB3R Class: SOAB HP
Call: NB4M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NC4S Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NC6DX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP
Call: ND8L Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NE0U Class: SOAB HP
Call: NE1RD Class: SOAB HP
Call: NE3F Class: M/M HP
Call: NE3K Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: NF4A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NF8J Class: SOAB HP
Call: NG7M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NI7R Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: NJ6G Class: SOAB LP
Call: NK3Y Class: SOAB HP
Call: NK6A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: NN4F Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NN4MM Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: NN4RB Class: SOAB LP
Call: NN7NN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NN7ZZ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: NP2P Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: NP2X Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NP4RA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: NQ7R Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: NR3X Class: SOAB HP
Call: NR5M Class: SOAB HP
Call: NS9I Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NT4H Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: NT4TS Class: SOAB QRP
Call: NU6S Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: NW0M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NW2K Class: SOAB LP
Call: NW3H Class: SOAB HP
Call: NX0I Class: SOAB LP
Call: OA4/XQ3SA Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: OE2S Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OE3K Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OG6N Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OH0JFP Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OH0R Class: SOAB HP
Call: OH1F Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OH2KM Class: SOAB LP
Call: OH2XX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OK1CDJ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OK1DO Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OK1MMN Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: OK1W Class: SOAB HP
Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP
Call: OK5D Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: OK5R Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: OK7K Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OL6A Class: M/S LP
Call: OM3PC Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: OM5ZW Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OM7RU Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: OP4K Class: M/S HP
Call: OT1S Class: SOAB LP
Call: OT2A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OZ3BJ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OZ7X Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: P40L Class: M/2 HP
Call: P40P Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: PI4DX Class: M/S HP
Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP
Call: PJ2T Class: M/S HP
Call: PJ4D Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: PJ4DX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: PJ4G Class: M/2 HP
Call: PJ6A Class: M/S LP
Call: PJ7AA Class: SOAB LP
Call: PS5A Class: M/2 HP
Call: PU3TOT Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: PU4HUD Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: PU5AGM Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: PX2B Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: PX5E Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: PY1GQ Class: M/S LP
Call: PY1ZV Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: PY2SBY Class: SOAB LP
Call: PY2XV Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: PY3OZ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: PY5GA Class: SOAB HP
Call: RA/KE5JA Class: SOAB HP
Call: RT0F Class: M/S HP
Call: RW1A Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: S51CK Class: SOAB HP
Call: S51TA Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: S52W Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: S53O Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: S54O Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: S54ZZ Class: SOAB HP
Call: S55T Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: S56A Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: S57C Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: S57UN Class: M/2 HP
Call: SK2T Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: SK3W Class: M/S HP
Call: SN1Y Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: SN2M Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: SN8B Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: SN8W Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: SO2R Class: M/S HP
Call: SO9Q Class: M/S HP
Call: SP3GEM Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: SP3GTS Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: SP4LVK Class: SOAB QRP
Call: SP4SHD Class: SOAB LP
Call: SP4Z Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: SP6YAQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: SP8K Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: SP8R Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: SP9KDA Class: M/2 HP
Call: SP9LJD Class: SOAB HP
Call: SQ2WHH Class: SOAB LP
Call: SV5DKL Class: SOAB HP
Call: T48K Class: M/S HP
Call: TF3CY Class: SOAB HP
Call: TF3W Class: SOAB HP
Call: TI8M Class: M/2 HP
Call: TM0T Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: TM1T Class: M/S HP
Call: TM4L Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP
Call: TO5A Class: SOAB HP
Call: UA0DM Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: UA6LCN Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: UR5IFB Class: SOAB HP
Call: UU1K Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: UW5ZM Class: SOAB HP
Call: V26M Class: SOAB HP
Call: V31MA Class: SOAB LP
Call: VA2AM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VA2EN Class: M/S HP
Call: VA2WA Class: SOAB HP
Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB LP
Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP
Call: VA3TIC Class: SOAB LP
Call: VA7BEC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VA7IR Class: SOAB LP
Call: VA7RP Class: SOAB LP
Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE1OP Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE3AD Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE3CR Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: VE3DZ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: VE3EJ Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: VE3FU Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: VE3HG Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3IAE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE3JAQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3KI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE3KJQ Class: SOAB QRP
Call: VE3MGY Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3OI Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE3RA Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3TU Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3TW Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3UTT Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: VE3VSM Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3VV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE3XAT Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE4DRK Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE4EA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE4VT Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE4YU Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: VE7AX Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE7NS Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE7SZ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: VE7TJF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE7VR Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE7XF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE8EV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE9AA Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: VE9HF Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: VE9ML Class: M/S LP
Call: VK4QH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VK6WX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: VO1DJT Class: SOAB LP
Call: VO1KVT Class: SOAB HP
Call: VP2MLL Class: SOAB LP
Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP
Call: VY2TT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VY2ZM Class: SOAB HP
Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP
Call: W0BR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W0ERP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP
Call: W0GJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W0PAN Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: W0PV Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W0RIC Class: SOAB HP
Call: W0YK Class: SOAB HP
Call: W1AW/7 Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1CEK Class: SOAB QRP
Call: W1CSM Class: M/M HP
Call: W1DX Class: M/2 HP
Call: W1DYJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1FJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: W1GD Class: SOAB HP
Call: W1HIS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1HQ Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: W1IE Class: SOAB HP
Call: W1JQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1MAW Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1MD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1MSN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1MSW Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W1NN Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1RM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1TJL Class: M/S HP
Call: W1UE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1XX Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: W2CDO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2DLT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2DZ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W2GDJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2JJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2LE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2NO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2PV Class: M/M HP
Call: W2RD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2TF Class: SOAB LP
Call: W2UP Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: W2VM Class: SOAB LP
Call: W2XL Class: SOAB HP
Call: W2YC Class: M/2 HP
Call: W2YK Class: SOAB LP
Call: W3DQ Class: M/S HP
Call: W3EA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W3FA Class: SOAB LP
Call: W3FIZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W3GM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W3GR Class: M/2 HP
Call: W3KB Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W3KL Class: SOAB HP
Call: W3LL Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP
Call: W3MF Class: M/S HP
Call: W3SFG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W3TS Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: W3TZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W3ZGD Class: M/S LP
Call: W3ZR Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W4AAA Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: W4DD Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: W4DTA Class: SOAB LP
Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W4GDG Class: SOAB LP
Call: W4GV Class: SOAB HP
Call: W4IX Class: SOAB LP
Call: W4JAM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4KW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4LSC Class: SOAB HP
Call: W4ODB Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W4PM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4QN Class: SOAB HP
Call: W4QNW Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: W4RM Class: M/M HP
Call: W4TTY Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4WWQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W5MF Class: SOAB HP
Call: W5MRM Class: SOAB HP
Call: W5WMU Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W6AAN Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W6BB Class: M/S LP
Call: W6DR Class: M/S HP
Call: W6EB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6FA Class: SOAB HP
Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6OAT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6PK Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6QE Class: SOAB LP
Call: W6QU Class: SOAB QRP
Call: W6SDM Class: SOAB HP
Call: W6SX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6SZN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6TK Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6VMT Class: SOAB LP
Call: W6WB Class: M/2 HP
Call: W6YI Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W6ZQ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W7CT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W7FI Class: SOAB HP
Call: W7KAM Class: SOAB LP
Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP
Call: W7RN Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W7SLS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W7VO Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: W7WA Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: W7WHY Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W7ZR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W8CAR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W8EDU Class: M/S LP
Call: W8FJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W8JGU Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: W8KTQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W8MJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W8OHT Class: SOAB HP
Call: W8PR Class: M/S HP
Call: W8TA Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: W8WA Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W8WTS Class: SOAB LP
Call: W9AV Class: SOAB HP
Call: W9IIX Class: SOAB HP
Call: W9JA Class: SOAB LP
Call: W9OP Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W9PA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W9QL Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: W9RE Class: SOAB LP
Call: W9SE Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W9VQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: WA1DRQ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WA1F Class: M/S LP
Call: WA2JQK Class: SOAB LP
Call: WA2OAX Class: SOAB HP
Call: WA3AER Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: WA3AFS Class: M/S HP
Call: WA3OFC Class: SOAB LP
Call: WA6URY Class: SOAB HP
Call: WA7AR Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: WA7LNW Class: SOAB HP
Call: WA8UEG Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: WB0LJK Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB2AIV Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: WB2SIH Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: WB2ZAB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WB4OMM Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB5TUF Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB5WAJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WB6CZG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WB6JJJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WB8BZK Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB8YYY Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WC3O Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: WD0BGZ Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: WD5COV Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP
Call: WD5R Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WE3C Class: M/M HP
Call: WF0T Class: SOAB LP
Call: WF4W Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WG3J Class: M/M HP
Call: WI9WI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WJ2D Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WL7E Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WM5H Class: SOAB HP
Call: WM9I Class: SOAB LP
Call: WN2O Class: M/S HP
Call: WN4AFP Class: SOAB LP
Call: WN6K Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: WO4D Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WP2XX Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: WP3DX Class: M/S LP
Call: WR3R Class: SOAB LP
Call: WR3T Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WS7L Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WS7V Class: SOAB LP
Call: WT1A Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WT6K Class: SOAB HP
Call: WT8C Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WT9U Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WU9D Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WW1MM Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WW1USA Class: M/S LP
Call: WW4LL Class: M/S HP
Call: WW8OH Class: M/S HP
Call: WX3B Class: M/M HP
Call: WX4G Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: XE2B Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: XE7S Class: M/S HP
Call: YN5Z Class: SOAB HP
Call: YO4RIU Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: YO8KGL Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: YP3A Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: YR8D Class: M/S HP
Call: YS1/NP3J Class: SOAB LP
Call: YT4A Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: YT7Z Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: YT8WW Class: M/S HP
Call: YU1EW Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: YU2A Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: YU5R Class: M/2 HP
Call: YU7AV Class: SOAB HP
Call: Z39A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: ZW8T Class: M/S LP
Call: ZY5M Class: SOSB/20 HP
Index of Calls organized by Class
Class: M/2 HP
Call: CN2AA
Call: K2AX
Call: KB1H
Call: KH6LC
Call: KH7XX
Call: KL7RA
Call: KU2C
Call: LU8YE
Call: N0IJ
Call: N0MA
Call: P40L
Call: PJ4G
Call: PS5A
Call: S57UN
Call: SP9KDA
Call: TI8M
Call: W1DX
Call: W2YC
Call: W3GR
Call: W6WB
Call: YU5R
Class: M/M HP
Call: 9A6XX
Call: II9P
Call: K0TV
Call: K1KP
Call: K3LR
Call: K4VV
Call: KL2R
Call: LP1H
Call: N6RO
Call: NE3F
Call: W0AIH
Call: W1CSM
Call: W2PV
Call: W3LPL
Call: W4RM
Call: WE3C
Call: WG3J
Call: WX3B
Class: M/S HP
Call: 3V8BB
Call: 9A8M
Call: AD4ES
Call: CE1TT
Call: CS2C
Call: DL1A
Call: DM9EE
Call: E7A
Call: EI2CN
Call: HG7T
Call: HK1NA
Call: IQ1CN
Call: K0UK
Call: K7ZS
Call: KL7DX
Call: KO7X
Call: KZ5OM
Call: LZ7A
Call: N1RR
Call: N4BCD
Call: N7KQ
Call: OP4K
Call: PI4DX
Call: PI4TUE
Call: PJ2T
Call: RT0F
Call: SK3W
Call: SO2R
Call: SO9Q
Call: T48K
Call: TM1T
Call: TM6M
Call: VA2EN
Call: W1TJL
Call: W3DQ
Call: W3MF
Call: W6DR
Call: W8PR
Call: WA3AFS
Call: WN2O
Call: WW4LL
Call: WW8OH
Call: XE7S
Call: YR8D
Call: YT8WW
Class: M/S LP
Call: HI3K
Call: K9LA
Call: N1BA
Call: N4XL
Call: N5DO
Call: OL6A
Call: PJ6A
Call: PY1GQ
Call: VE9ML
Call: W3ZGD
Call: W6BB
Call: W8EDU
Call: WA1F
Call: WP3DX
Call: WW1USA
Call: ZW8T
Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: 9A5K
Call: 9A7T
Call: A65CA
Call: AA3B
Call: AA4CF
Call: AA5NT
Call: AA6PW
Call: AA7XT
Call: AB1OC
Call: AB2E
Call: AB3CV
Call: AB3CX
Call: AB5K
Call: AL9A
Call: CW5W
Call: DH8BQA
Call: E74O
Call: EA6FO
Call: EC2DX
Call: ED7W
Call: EI1Y
Call: ES5RW
Call: F4FFH
Call: F5CQ
Call: HA4XH
Call: HS0ZKX
Call: IB1B
Call: IZ8EPX
Call: K0KX
Call: K0LUZ
Call: K0MD
Call: K0PC
Call: K0PK
Call: K0RF
Call: K0UH
Call: K0VG
Call: K1ESE
Call: K1GG
Call: K1LT
Call: K1QX
Call: K1RH
Call: K1RV
Call: K1RX
Call: K1ZO
Call: K1ZZ
Call: K2CJ
Call: K2CYE
Call: K2LE
Call: K2QMF
Call: K2QPN
Call: K2SX
Call: K3BZ
Call: K3EL
Call: K3MD
Call: K3OO
Call: K3PA
Call: K3PP
Call: K3WA
Call: K3WW
Call: K3YDX
Call: K4IKM
Call: K4IU
Call: K4LM
Call: K4XS
Call: K5JX
Call: K5LLA
Call: K5NA
Call: K5ZD
Call: K6ELE
Call: K6JEB
Call: K6RIM
Call: K6RV
Call: K7BV
Call: K7EG
Call: K7FA
Call: K7IA
Call: K7JQ
Call: K8AZ
Call: K9CT
Call: K9RS
Call: KA4SFD
Call: KB1EFS
Call: KB7V
Call: KB9NW
Call: KC3WX
Call: KD4VVC
Call: KE4KMG
Call: KE5MMT
Call: KG7H
Call: KH2/N2NL
Call: KI1G
Call: KI7M
Call: KI7Y
Call: KJ4BIX
Call: KL7KY
Call: KN2M
Call: KO7AA
Call: KR4F
Call: KV1J
Call: LY7Z
Call: N0BUI
Call: N0HR
Call: N0KE
Call: N1BNC
Call: N1EU
Call: N1IBM
Call: N1YX
Call: N2BJ
Call: N2MM
Call: N2MUN
Call: N2NT
Call: N2VW
Call: N3QE
Call: N3RD
Call: N3ZA
Call: N4CR
Call: N4DJ
Call: N4DU
Call: N4DXI
Call: N4KG
Call: N4MM
Call: N4NM
Call: N4PD
Call: N4ZC
Call: N5VR
Call: N6DA
Call: N7AT
Call: N7PR
Call: N7TR
Call: N8BJQ
Call: N8RA
Call: N8TR
Call: N8UM
Call: N9FN
Call: N9GUN
Call: N9IO
Call: N9NA
Call: NA4K
Call: NB4M
Call: NC4S
Call: NC6DX
Call: ND8L
Call: NF4A
Call: NG7M
Call: NN4F
Call: NN7NN
Call: NP2X
Call: NS9I
Call: NW0M
Call: OE3K
Call: OG6N
Call: OK7K
Call: OT2A
Call: P40P
Call: SK2T
Call: SP4Z
Call: SP8R
Call: VA2AM
Call: VE3KI
Call: VE3VV
Call: VE7XF
Call: VE8EV
Call: VK4QH
Call: VY2TT
Call: W0BR
Call: W0ERP
Call: W0GJ
Call: W1AW/7
Call: W1HIS
Call: W1MD
Call: W1MSN
Call: W1RM
Call: W1UE
Call: W2CDO
Call: W2DLT
Call: W2GDJ
Call: W2JJ
Call: W2LE
Call: W2NO
Call: W2RD
Call: W3EA
Call: W3FIZ
Call: W3GM
Call: W3SFG
Call: W3TZ
Call: W4JAM
Call: W4KW
Call: W4PM
Call: W4TTY
Call: W6EB
Call: W6KC
Call: W6OAT
Call: W6PK
Call: W6SX
Call: W6SZN
Call: W6TK
Call: W7CT
Call: W7WHY
Call: W8CAR
Call: W8FJ
Call: W8MJ
Call: WA1DRQ
Call: WB2ZAB
Call: WB5WAJ
Call: WB6CZG
Call: WB6JJJ
Call: WD5R
Call: WF4W
Call: WI9WI
Call: WJ2D
Call: WL7E
Call: WO4D
Call: WS7L
Call: WT8C
Call: WT9U
Call: WX4G
Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: 8P2K
Call: AA4FU
Call: AB3RY
Call: AE1T
Call: DF2SD
Call: DF7ZS
Call: IW3IFJ
Call: K0AD
Call: K0AE
Call: K1NYK
Call: K1SD
Call: K1TR
Call: K1ZW
Call: K2DSL
Call: K2SI
Call: K3OQ
Call: K3WI
Call: K4HQK
Call: K4IDK
Call: K7BX
Call: K8GT
Call: K9GY
Call: K9OR
Call: K9XE
Call: KA2KON
Call: KA9MOM
Call: KC0DEB
Call: KC2WUF
Call: KC9UJS
Call: KE6TIM
Call: KG9Z
Call: KS1J
Call: KS2G
Call: KT4ZB
Call: N2FF
Call: N2SQW
Call: N2WKS
Call: N3QDC
Call: N3RC
Call: N4LR
Call: N6ZE
Call: N8HM
Call: N8VV
Call: N9TF
Call: N9UA
Call: N9VPV
Call: NP4RA
Call: NQ7R
Call: PY3OZ
Call: S52W
Call: S56A
Call: SN1Y
Call: VA7BEC
Call: VE1OP
Call: VE3IAE
Call: VE3XAT
Call: VE4EA
Call: VE7TJF
Call: W0PV
Call: W1MSW
Call: W3KB
Call: W3ZR
Call: W4EE
Call: W4ODB
Call: W6AAN
Call: W7SLS
Call: W9PA
Call: WB8BZK
Call: WB8YYY
Call: WR3T
Call: WT1A
Call: WU9D
Call: WW1MM
Class: SOAB HP
Call: 5Q2T
Call: 8P5A
Call: 9L1A
Call: 9M6XRO
Call: 9V1YC
Call: AA1K
Call: AA3K
Call: AC4CA
Call: AD5XD
Call: AE7VA
Call: AF4RK
Call: AI6II
Call: AJ7T
Call: DD8SM
Call: DL/SP3LPG
Call: DL5ZBA
Call: DL6PLE
Call: DL8SCG
Call: EA5DFV
Call: EF5Y
Call: EU1A
Call: GW7X
Call: IV3BCA
Call: K0AP
Call: K0BBC
Call: K0CN
Call: K0TT
Call: K1TN
Call: K1TO
Call: K2JMY
Call: K2NV
Call: K2TE
Call: K3CR
Call: K3TUF
Call: K3ZJ
Call: K3ZO
Call: K4AB
Call: K4RO
Call: K5ER
Call: K5EWJ
Call: K5RR
Call: K6LRN
Call: K6NA
Call: K6SCA
Call: K6SRZ
Call: K6YK
Call: K7ABV
Call: K7BVT
Call: K7EUG
Call: K7MY
Call: K7RB
Call: K7SS
Call: K8AO
Call: K8GL
Call: K8ND
Call: KB0EO
Call: KC0VTJ
Call: KC9EOQ
Call: KD0FW
Call: KD2JA
Call: KD7MSC
Call: KE2VB
Call: KG6AO
Call: KH7M
Call: KK6L
Call: KM2O
Call: KM5VI
Call: KP2M
Call: KW7XX
Call: LJ8IB
Call: N1DD
Call: N2ZN
Call: N3KCJ
Call: N3ND
Call: N3ZV
Call: N4FNB
Call: N4KH
Call: N4RA
Call: N4TL
Call: N6AA
Call: N6AAI
Call: N6AJR
Call: N6QQ
Call: N6XT
Call: N7BT
Call: N7LR
Call: N7RO
Call: N7RVD
Call: N8AA
Call: N9RV
Call: NA1DX
Call: NB3R
Call: NE0U
Call: NE1RD
Call: NF8J
Call: NK3Y
Call: NR3X
Call: NR5M
Call: NW3H
Call: OH0R
Call: OK1W
Call: OK2SFP
Call: PY5GA
Call: RA/KE5JA
Call: S51CK
Call: S54ZZ
Call: SP9LJD
Call: SV5DKL
Call: TF3CY
Call: TF3W
Call: TO5A
Call: UR5IFB
Call: UW5ZM
Call: V26M
Call: VA2WA
Call: VA7ST
Call: VE3AD
Call: VE3OI
Call: VE3RA
Call: VE4VT
Call: VE7AX
Call: VO1KVT
Call: VY2ZM
Call: W0RIC
Call: W0YK
Call: W1FJ
Call: W1GD
Call: W1IE
Call: W2XL
Call: W3KL
Call: W4GV
Call: W4LSC
Call: W4QN
Call: W5MF
Call: W5MRM
Call: W6FA
Call: W6SDM
Call: W7FI
Call: W8OHT
Call: W9AV
Call: W9IIX
Call: WA2OAX
Call: WA6URY
Call: WA7LNW
Call: WD5K
Call: WM5H
Call: WT6K
Call: YN5Z
Call: YU7AV
Class: SOAB LP
Call: 3G1D
Call: AA2ZW
Call: AA3S
Call: AC4G
Call: AE6YB
Call: AE7DW
Call: AI4UN
Call: CO2RVA
Call: EF8O
Call: EI3HDB
Call: F6ARC
Call: G3R
Call: HC2AO
Call: IT9ESW
Call: J75Y
Call: K0RI
Call: K0VXU
Call: K1RO
Call: K2ZR/4
Call: K3KU
Call: K3NDM
Call: K4FTO
Call: K4TOJ
Call: K5HM
Call: K6CSL
Call: K6GHA
Call: K6MMU
Call: K6RM
Call: K6UN
Call: K7WP
Call: K8ERS
Call: K8PGJ
Call: K8PP
Call: K9JE
Call: K9NW
Call: K9XR/M
Call: KA1VMG
Call: KA8HDE
Call: KB3LIX
Call: KB3OK
Call: KB3Z
Call: KB5JC
Call: KC4TEO
Call: KD5J
Call: KD9MS
Call: KH6CJJ
Call: KJ4VTH
Call: KM4JA
Call: KM7N
Call: KN3A
Call: KP2DX
Call: KP3Z
Call: KP4CPC
Call: KQ6P
Call: KR2E
Call: KS4X
Call: KV4KY1
Call: KV4QS
Call: LU3MAM
Call: LU6DC
Call: LU7MCJ
Call: LZ1OP
Call: N0ECK
Call: N0HJZ
Call: N1CC
Call: N1UR
Call: N3ALN
Call: N4CF
Call: N4EK
Call: N4TOL
Call: N4TZ/9
Call: N4UU
Call: N5AW
Call: N5PA
Call: N6ENO
Call: N6MCM
Call: N6PN
Call: N6RV
Call: N6YEU
Call: N7BEF
Call: N7IR
Call: N7MZW
Call: N7TEW
Call: N8EBN
Call: N8FYL
Call: N8II
Call: NA5NN
Call: NA8V
Call: NJ6G
Call: NN4RB
Call: NW2K
Call: NX0I
Call: OH2KM
Call: OT1S
Call: PJ7AA
Call: PY2SBY
Call: SP4SHD
Call: SP6YAQ
Call: SQ2WHH
Call: V31MA
Call: VA3EC
Call: VA3TIC
Call: VA7IR
Call: VA7RP
Call: VE3HG
Call: VE3JAQ
Call: VE3MGY
Call: VE3RCN
Call: VE3TU
Call: VE3TW
Call: VE3VSM
Call: VE4DRK
Call: VE4YU
Call: VE7NS
Call: VE7VR
Call: VO1DJT
Call: VP2MLL
Call: VP9/W6PH
Call: W0ETT
Call: W1DYJ
Call: W1JQ
Call: W1MAW
Call: W1NN
Call: W2DZ
Call: W2TF
Call: W2VM
Call: W2YK
Call: W3FA
Call: W4DTA
Call: W4GDG
Call: W4IX
Call: W4WWQ
Call: W6QE
Call: W6VMT
Call: W7KAM
Call: W7QN
Call: W8KTQ
Call: W8WTS
Call: W9JA
Call: W9RE
Call: W9VQ
Call: WA2JQK
Call: WA3OFC
Call: WB0LJK
Call: WB4OMM
Call: WB5TUF
Call: WB8JUI
Call: WF0T
Call: WM9I
Call: WN4AFP
Call: WR3R
Call: WS7V
Call: YS1/NP3J
Class: SOAB QRP
Call: CT1BXT
Call: K2PI
Call: K2QO
Call: K7HBN
Call: K8MR
Call: KO1H
Call: N0OU
Call: N1TM
Call: N6HI
Call: ND0C
Call: NT4TS
Call: SP4LVK
Call: VA3RKM
Call: VE3KJQ
Call: W1CEK
Call: W6QU
Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 9A4M
Call: 9A8WW
Call: 9A9A
Call: AA7V
Call: AD4EB
Call: CE3CT
Call: CR2X
Call: DK3T
Call: E71A
Call: EA1FDI
Call: EA3QP
Call: EF8R
Call: ES6Q
Call: G3Y
Call: HA3NU
Call: HA8JV
Call: IB9T
Call: IK2YCW
Call: IR4B
Call: IR8C
Call: JH3PRR
Call: K1HI
Call: K1LZ
Call: K1ZR
Call: K2SSS
Call: K4EU
Call: K4WI
Call: K4WW
Call: K5TR
Call: K5YAA
Call: K7RF
Call: K9BGL
Call: K9DR
Call: K9FY
Call: K9YC
Call: KA4OTB
Call: KC7V
Call: KD7VFC
Call: KM4HI
Call: KN7K
Call: LZ1YE
Call: MW0ZZK
Call: N3OC
Call: N4PN
Call: N5CR
Call: NE3K
Call: NI7R
Call: NK6A
Call: NN7ZZ
Call: NP2P
Call: NT4H
Call: OE2S
Call: OH0JFP
Call: OH1F
Call: OH2XX
Call: OK1CDJ
Call: OK1DO
Call: OM5ZW
Call: OZ3BJ
Call: PJ4DX
Call: PX5E
Call: S53O
Call: S54O
Call: SN2M
Call: SN8B
Call: SP3GEM
Call: SP8K
Call: TM0T
Call: UU1K
Call: VE3DZ
Call: VE3UTT
Call: VE7SZ
Call: VE9AA
Call: VK6WX
Call: W5WMU
Call: W6YI
Call: W6ZQ
Call: W7RN
Call: W7ZR
Call: W8WA
Call: W9OP
Call: W9SE
Call: WB2AIV
Call: WB2SIH
Call: XE2B
Call: YO4RIU
Call: Z39A
Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: 7J1ABD
Call: AB4UG
Call: C6AZZ
Call: CA3LGJ
Call: CA3MRD
Call: CE2MVF
Call: CO8WAL
Call: DK8EY
Call: DL3ANK
Call: EA8/OH2BP
Call: ED5T
Call: HG8C
Call: K1VSJ
Call: K2PS
Call: K3SWZ
Call: K6MM
Call: K7JA
Call: K7ULS
Call: K9ELF
Call: KW7Q
Call: LT7F
Call: LU1UM
Call: LU7DH
Call: N1DC
Call: N2MTG
Call: OK5D
Call: PU3TOT
Call: PU4HUD
Call: PU5AGM
Call: PY1ZV
Call: PY2XV
Call: UA0DM
Call: UA6LCN
Call: VE6WQ
Call: W0PAN
Call: W2UP
Call: W3TS
Call: WA3AER
Call: WC3O
Call: WN6K
Call: WP2XX
Class: SOSB/10 QRP
Call: N1IX
Call: N8XX
Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: 9A1UN
Call: 9A5BWW
Call: 9A5W
Call: AB4B
Call: AB4GG
Call: CE3/OZ1AA
Call: CQ8X
Call: CR6T
Call: DL4YAO
Call: EA3IN
Call: EA5ON
Call: EF7X
Call: F4DNW
Call: FY5FY
Call: IO4W
Call: IT9SPB
Call: K1DG
Call: K1JB
Call: K2YR
Call: KP4RV
Call: LX7I
Call: N2NS
Call: N2UN
Call: NU6S
Call: OK5R
Call: OM3PC
Call: PX2B
Call: S51TA
Call: S55T
Call: S57C
Call: SN8W
Call: VE3EJ
Call: W1HQ
Call: W7VO
Call: YP3A
Call: YT7Z
Call: YU1EW
Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: 4M1F
Call: 9A7ZZ
Call: AB5XZ
Call: CO8AW
Call: CT1FJO
Call: DU3BC
Call: N9TGR
Call: W8JGU
Call: YU2A
Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: HA8A
Call: K7HP
Call: KV4FZ
Call: N1SZ
Call: N7GP
Call: SP3GTS
Call: W3LL
Call: WD5COV
Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: CX2DK
Call: EB3CW
Call: HK3C
Call: KB3WD
Call: LZ5W
Call: OK1MMN
Call: OZ7X
Call: PJ4D
Call: RW1A
Call: TM4L
Call: VE3CR
Call: VE9HF
Call: W7WA
Call: W8TA
Call: WA8UEG
Call: ZY5M
Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: HI3TT
Call: K2HN
Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: 9A2NA
Call: AG4W
Call: CE3EEA
Call: EA3CI
Call: HA8FM
Call: KE3X
Call: LZ5K
Call: OA4/XQ3SA
Call: VE3FU
Call: W1XX
Call: W4AAA
Call: WA7AR
Call: WD0BGZ
Call: YO8KGL
Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: KP4BD
Call: W9QL
Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: 4M5W
Call: CR2A
Call: K1KNQ
Call: N0TA
Call: N7RK
Call: NN4MM
Call: OM7RU
Call: W4DD
Call: W4QNW
Call: YT4A
Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: CO6CAC
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