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Call: 3V8BB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,233,000
Score and QSO number this year were well below expectations. First night was
promising but less activity was experienced in the second night. 80 and 160
were extremely noisy and untouchable! 20m never closed the first 24 hours and
high bands were live!
From 8 to 12 is a dead period here towards W/VE. On Saturday and while I was
making some experiments, the SO2R device started to behave very strangely
(continuous tune instead of CW signal,...). It took me some time to figure out
the problem and realize that; if it did work HP without filters, that
shouldn’t be valid in all frequencies. So I switched off the device and
continued to use a single radio.
FT870 is definitely not the best radio for CW and I should consider better
setup. A lot of dupes and non-contest “long” QSOs slowed down the rates.
Another “confirmed” learnt lesson; not getting very excited before the
contest is the KEY for you to be able to take few hours rest before it starts.
Audio recording of the contest is available with searchable database - see my
website below.
73 and see you in the next one "insh'allah"
Ash 3V8BB/KF5EYY
www.kf5eyy.info
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Call: 4K6FO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 145,926
used IC-745 100 watts GP,thanks for very nice contest,but evry take over 1 kw
and
stay on DX-freq from 000-010!!
not listen,take cq over,before not ask QRL
best 73 all cu
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Call: 6W/G3TXF Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 370,638
10m is certainly open a lot longer to W/VE from Senegal than it is from the UK!
Was working the West Coast on 10m right up to the closing bell at 2359z on
Sunday night.
73 - Nigel G3TXF
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Call: 6Y2T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,990,517
First, thanks to Josh (6Y5WJ) and Jenny for hosting me again this year!
Equipment and antennas were pretty much the same as last year. Forgot to bring
my SO2R box, but Josh keeps so many parts and wires at his place, so it was
just a matter of 2 evenings with soldering iron to assemble fully finctional
basic SO2R interface (combined with RigExpert TI-5) on the spot from scratch.
Hearing a lot of rumours from previous CQ WW DX CW about what might be done
with 48 hour-dual CQ'ing I was eager to try it. Probably as a result my score
was way down from last year (and I am some 700 Q's short), because I can't
blame it on conditions which were good to excellent both days.
Another possible reason of the lower score (or maybe a combination with #1
reason) - declined activity... Have to agree with John K6AM on that. Just could
not get it going up untilvery end... (Oh! to usual 200 Q/hr. rates)
Multipliers. Got almost everything I could get. Missed VE5 on 80, but never
heard one, and couldn't catch a good timing to move anyone from another band.
Same with ND and VE4 on 160, though I tried real hard to move some guys. BTW,
thanks a lot to those who moved for me, especially to Rick VO1SA for rare NF
6-bander. Last mult worked was MS on 10 (thanks to N5TF).
Sorry for being rusty on the 2nd night - fatigue and sleepiness took over.
Slept 45 min on the 1st night and a bit ver hours on the second.
Had fun anyway... Lots of good ops. Wish you all good luck in the Phone part.
P.S. I devoted this operation to the memory of Don, VE3RM who passed away last
week. Don was a very good friend and a mentor many. RIP O.M.
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Call: 8S0DX Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 882
Really bad conditions.
Night 1 = 21 QSOs with RST 339, except for VY2ZZ (579)
Night 2 = 0 QSOs, but I could hear 2 stns: VY2ZZ with 559 and W3LPL with RST
229
Thanks to all of you for making the 21 QSOs possible.
Looking forward to better conds next year
Power = 1 kw
TX ant = top loaded vertical standing on very thin (!!!) ice in the Baltic Sea
RX ant = beaver 130 m long
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Call: 9A1UN Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 236,640
Another great weekend is over, sharing a 6x2m shack with 9A6XX@40m, 9A2NA@20m
and 9A8WW@10m is fun indeed. We planed M/M but unfortunatly lost low band
verticals
due to bad WX last week.
Nice regional competition with 9A5Y,9A3TR,E71A...
I love this game
73 Dave 9A1UN
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Call: 9A4WY Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 164,000
Nice fun for weekend... :-)
I always enjoy the pileups from US
first 3 hours on Saturday worked 47 states and, band was closing down already,
W7SE came to my CQ for last US state :-) (tnx Walt)
Saturday was wide open to West Coast till 19:00 UTC
Sunday much worse
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Call: 9A5Y Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 222,666
Hi,
This contest cost me nerves as none has so far :) Couple of times i was at
the verge of queeting, but always come back in the game. At least 10 times I
have lost TX on my FT1000MP (some relay promleb) which lasted from 10sec to
25min, in total I was lost over an hour.
Despite that, It was pure pleasure to operat ARRL in such good conditions and
compete with 9a1un and others "local" station. Dave, enjoy your
victory for next two weeks ;)
EQM: FT1000MP, 6el @ 22m + kw
Vedran, 9a7dx
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Call: 9A6XX Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 223,728
Thanks all for QSOs and hear you in two weeks!
QSL via KU5B
73,
Hrle - 9A6XX
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Call: 9A8M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,775,552
We managed to beat our score from last year and that was the target.
Thanks to all stations for QSO, to 9A8DX for setup support and to 9A3XU for
climbing the tower 3 times during a ctest.
73 to all and cu in ssb part.
9A8M team
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Call: 9A8WW Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 220,284
Nice runs to NA. Best hour 151 qso's . On Saturday band opener was WE3C at 10:54
UTC. Last NA station in log at 18:43 was W1UE. I made all my MTP's on first day.
Almost all ctest in RUN stile and done minor S/P. Because of that, i probably
missed VO1SA calls.....But his trip on 10m was vy short looking at RBN spots.
Murphy really never sleeps, so some antenna problems on evening and a lot of
work to put antenna down and up again on Sunday. Because of that i missed a bit
of opening and logged the first qso at 11:43 UTC. It was W4RM. At that time
east coast was already wide open to EU. Last contatct logged at 18:36 UTC was
N2TTL. After that, feeling was, like someone switched some 60dB ATT between
southern EU and NA. Only K3LR was heard, but with vy week sig.
Interesting things were happening , when we were testing single phase power
line, if it stays up with three run stations with kw out on Sathurday morning.
A lot of stations keying : "Too early"...
Thanks to ALL NA stations who answerd my call. It was great!
Congrats to DL6FBL and others for nice scores. I missed a bit the 9A record
from 1999 :( Maybe i will have another chance in next 10 years....
Equipment used:
FT1KMP
S58A BP filter
OM POWER PA
single 6 element OWA yagi
WT SW
CU in next one (probably RDXC or WPX because i don't like much ssb :) )
73's
Adi
S55M (9A8WW my Croatian call)
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Call: 9L1A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 846,768
Delayed CW submission, SSB contest still ongoing.
Limited hours due to the lack of electricity and problems with the generator.
Managed to operate for the first 6 hours with the oil leaking, but had to stop.
The weekend before had electricity full time, but during the CW ARRL it was off
for the whole weekend. I even added some wire antennas for 80 and 160, but
could not fix the generator till Sunday, when it was too late for the low
bands. Not an easy job with simple wire verticals and low Inv V for 80/160m
bands, but I've tried to give out 9L to as many as possible. 9L1A (Ivo,
9A3A/E73A op)
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Call: 9M6XRO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 395,967
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.
Band conditions were really good for most of the time, especially 10m with
many
huge signals coming in, even some LP to the East Coast after midnite local
time. A solar disturbance on Saturday nite here caused some peculiar 20m
propagation.
I made just ONE QSO on 80m due to my high power line noise level. No 160m ant.
Many thanks to the Contest Organisers & Volunteers. 73 from Borneo!
** I used the latest version of N1MM Logger which worked flawlessly as usual **
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Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,139,960
Storm Saturday evening made for very noisy low bands. Was a good time to take
our 3-hour nap.
Good conditions overall despite solar distrubances.
Station info at www.aa1k.us
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Call: AA2A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,911,832
Thanks to Dave, K1TTT, for the use of his fine station.
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Call: AA2ZW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 80,908
First time on this one. Lots of stations on the air. Did not find the ZR.
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Call: AA3K Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 501,804
Not my best showing. The vertical primarily for 40 and 80 was just a bit off.
I do not know if it is the foot of snow around it or if there is a feedpoint
issue (that has happened before). With the weather, it is difficult to check
properly. The weather has also prevented me from putting up my 160m antenna
and gainig the points and mult there.
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Call: AA4GA Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 24,000
I knew I only had a limited time to devote to the contest, so I decided to try
to see how many countries I could work at 900 milliWatts output to an 80m
doublet. Looks like there were actually 49 countries worked.
The 7 dB reduction from 5 Watts felt about like the 13 dB reduction from 100
Watts to 5 Watts...I kinda doubt I'll try this again at 100 milliWatts!
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Call: AA4LR Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 756
Antennas:
160/80/40m trap inverted L at 10m
80/40m trap dipole at 10m
Equipment:
Elecraft K3/100 w/ KAT3 running 100 watts
Comments:
Just spent a little time looking for DX on 80m. Since I used assistance,
category is SO Unlimited. About an hour Saturday morning, an hour Saturday
night, and an half-hour Sunday morning.
It is hard to work 80m DX with just 100 watts. A lot of stations just couldn't
hear me.
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Call: AA5AU Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 169,248
Didn't expect to operate any of this contest, so to be able to put in 13 hours
was a real pleasure.
73, Don AA5AU
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Call: AA7A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,041,780
Well, I had a plan. Started the week on travel to Eastern PA and was supposed to
travel home on Thursday to rest up for the contest. However, 24 inches of snow
threw a monkey wrench into the plan. Drive acorss PA to find an open airport. I
finally made it home Saturday. Being a little travel weary, I didn't get started
until Saturday evening.
Bands were good at times. Always enjoy time in the chair.
73
Ned
AA7A
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Call: AA7XT Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 101,175
Wanted to see if I could work 100 countries on 10m with the Force 12 XR6 in
between weekend household chores and office work - got to 95. Felt sick
Saturday around noon and went for a "nap" only to wake up 17 hours
later so missed a lot of Pacific and Asian mults (didn't work VK, for example).
Antenna worked great - will make a bigger effort in the SSB weekend. I used
packet so I guess my entry doesn't count?
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Call: AA8R Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 41,400
Missed most of Friday night. Saturday night was real slow.
Equip: K3/P3, MKII, N1MM, Mosley PRO67B.
Randy, AA8R
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Call: AA9A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,943,736
160 and 80 results were disappointing.
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Call: AB1J Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 230,910
This was a casual operation to keep my code speed up AND watch the Olympics with
my wife on yet another snowy weekend. Conditions were good and I had so much
fun that I operated more than planned. Still, my wife wasn't a weekend ham
radio widow as she was the weekend before in the RTTY contest.
I had to take down my 40m antenna as it might break under a load of wet snow so
"all band" for me meant 20-10 and I stuck tighter to 15 and 10 since
they were so good. Guess I missed out on some really good 20m conditions.
It's always fun to see the power levels, which ranged from 1500 to 00. I gave
them both 599. I like interesting exchanges, like power, age, or first year
licensed. Serial numbers are interesting to gauge how well others (i.e.,
competitors) are doing.
At some point in the contest I sat back and reflected on the wonders of
computer logging. I was sitting there merrily logging away with nary a care in
the world. It's something I take for granted now, but I date from the ancient
era of pencil and paper and a great big dupe sheet taped to the desktop (a
physical desktop) and plenty well remember all that misery. What a mess!
Logging nowadays is a smooth and pleasant activity. Thanks to N1MM in my case
and to others in general.
Thanks for all the QSOs. Might be in the Russian contest and certainly hope to
be in the WPX-CW in May which is my favorite CW contest.
FT2000-N1MM-Win8
Attic dipoles
73,
Ken, AB1J
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Call: AB2E Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,126,650
Rig: Icom IC-756 Pro III to Acom 2000A amp
Antennas: All wires.
160m inverted - L
80m inverted - L
40m delta loop, 20m delta loop, 15m delta loop, and G5RV for 10m.
Had a lot of non-radio activities this weekend, so put in what hours I could,
which tended to be both nights after 7P local and Sunday afternoon. Set a
modest goal of 1K Qs and 1meg points and made both.
Great to get so many stations on 6 bands this time!
Set up the band decoders and ICE419 filters to prep for SO2R, but will begin
phasing that in slowly. Pleasant surprise was the performance of the 15m delta
loop (put up hastily Fri afternoon at only 15ft at the apex. Fed it 1/3 way
down the one side from the apex and it worked like a champ considering how
close to the ground. Got a number of weak mults including Asia on the first
call with it.
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Call: AB3CX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,610,838
THIS WAS LIKE THREE CONTESTS, PRE GEOMAGNETIC STORM, DURING, AND AFTER.
Conditions were terrific leading up to Saturday afternoon, but deteriorated
sharply, making the low bands pretty painful to listen to or make progres on
Saturday night. I should have done more on 160M Friday night, but hindsight is
better than foresight. By Sunday morning, all was good again. Another limiting
factor for me was that one of my 2 rotors was frozen in place, so I had no
rotating antenna for 10, 15 or 40M that was pointed anywhere except EU.
Despite that, many mults were still possible, leaving the far east for the most
part on the table on 15 and 10M. Plenty of good times.
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Call: AB4B Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 717,048
Another P/T effort after an unsuccessful attempt at recruiting op's for a multi
effort. Must have been all the extreme WX we have had recently. Hpe to man a
multi-op effort for SSB weekend of this event. Propagation was good and lots of
activity here in NA (North Alabama). Hope my 'Bull in a China shop"
operating style didn't affect to many ops. I am still trying to find myself on
this mode. No running was attempted by me during the time spent as that would
have been a real " train wreck". One day I will venture into that
mode of operation on CW...I can only hope Hi Hi. Enjoyed the time spent es will
see all in the SSB weekend this coming month. TNX for putting up wid me es TNX
for the Q's
Tim, AB4B
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Call: AC0C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 547,230
Tons of activity on the high bands - a lot of fun. Low bands were a mixed bag.
Ran assisted and just hunted countries with about 6 hours total op time over
the weekend. I'd never worked "a DXCC in a weekend" and SH5 reported
110 unique counties total!
Starting off the first night, the low bands looked to be in good shape
unfortunately Valentines evening kept me out of the shack. Unfortunately
Murphy popped in with a solar event of some kind and on the second night 40 was
weak; 80-160 were nearly dead. Lesson there is to work 'em when the bands are
open - tomorrow may literally be too late!
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Call: AC4CA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,494,336
Two things stand out...
1) I actually heard Saturday noon's CME shockwave pass the Earth while working
10m. "What the heck was that?" I thought. Later I saw the timing of
the shockwave and realized what it was. 'New experience.
2) Sunday morning I was eating my Great Grains Pecan Crunch, mindlessly staring
out the back window, when I realized I was chewing and crunching to the rhythm
of "CQ TEST." 'Scary.
Fun contest. Wish I had the stamina to do more than 28+ hours. I could easily
have added another 700 QSOs.
-John/AC4CA
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Call: AD1C Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,449,072
Radio: Yaesu FTDX-5000 (100W)
Antennas: HyGain AV-640 vertical, 1/2 G5RV in attic
Software: WriteLog
Wow!
This is the best score I've ever made from Colorado, and double my previous
personal best in 2012.
Conditions for the first 24 hours were perfect. I can't say the same for the
second 24 hours. There was no real enhancement to Europe on 40 meters at their
sunrise, and 10m didn't quite measure up Sunday morning. In fact I think there
was a 1/2 hour period around 15z where Europe kind of just went away, but later
came back. I am glad I spent so much time on 10m Saturday morning.
My most memorable QSO was HS0ZKX on 10m Saturday evening. I gave up on the band
too early, but was rewarded when I returned. This is only the 2nd Thai station
I've worked from CO, and my first on CW.
Thanks to everyone who struggled to pull my call out of the QSB and QRM.
Special thanks to my wife Carol who let me have the house to myself, even
though it was Valentine's Day weekend.
Callsigns worked on the four bands I operated:
3V8BB,6Y2T,9A1A,9A8M,AL1G,CN2AA,CR3L,CS2C,DK0ALC,DK3GI,DK5QN,DL1A,DL1II,E7DX,EA5RS,EA6FO
EC2DX,ED1R,ED7P,EF5F,EF8USA,EI5KF,ES5Q,F6HKA,HA3NU,HB9FAP,HG1S,HG7T,HK1NA,IO5O,IR1Y,IR2C
IR4M,J38XX,JA1BJI,JA7IC,JE1LFX,JE1ZWT,JF1NHD,JH1EAQ,JH4UYB,KH2/N2NL,KH6CJJ,KH6LC,KH7XX
KL2R,KL7RA,KP2B,KP2M,KP4EJ,KP4KE,LZ9W,M3W,NP2N,NP2P,NP4Z,OA4SS,OE2S,OH1F,OL3Z,OL7M,OM7M
OT2A,P40L,P40LE,P40W,PI4TUE,PJ2T,PJ4X,PJ5W,PS2T,PT2CM,RT0C,RT0F,S54W,SK3W,SM3EVR,SO9Q,SP9LJD
TI5W,TM6M,UA0ZAM,V26M,V31TP,VP2EZZ,VP5S,VP9/W6PH,WL7E,XR2V,YJ0OU,YN2NC,YS1YS,YT3A,YU5R
ZF35A,ZM1A,ZM90DX,ZZ80SP
Count of countries worked, by band:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
3V 1 1 1 1 4
4O 1 1
4X 1 1
5B 1 1 2
6W 1 1
6Y 1 1 1 1 4
9A 7 5 9 6 27
9K 1 1
9L 1 1 1 3
9M6 1 1 1 3
BY 2 2 4
C6 2 1 1 1 5
CE 2 2 2 3 9
CE9 1 1 2
CM 3 1 3 1 8
CN 1 2 1 1 5
CT 1 2 1 2 6
CT3 1 1 1 2 5
CU 1 1 2
CX 1 4 3 8
D4 1 1
DL 9 15 45 29 98
DU 1 1
E7 1 1 3 1 6
EA 6 13 15 12 46
EA6 1 2 1 1 5
EA8 2 4 3 3 12
EI 1 1 5 2 9
ES 1 2 1 2 6
EU 1 2 3 1 7
F 2 11 19 9 41
FG 1 2 1 1 5
FP 1 1
FY 1 1
G 3 6 11 11 31
GI 1 2 1 4
GJ 1 1
GM 1 2 3 4 10
GU 1 1 2
GW 1 1 2
HA 7 10 12 12 41
HB 2 2 3 1 8
HC 1 1 1 3
HI 1 1 1 3
HK 2 1 2 1 6
HL 1 1 2
HS 1 1
I 7 13 30 13 63
IS 1 1
J3 1 1 1 1 4
JA 28 19 60 71 178
JW 1 1 2
K 1 3 4
KH2 2 1 3 2 8
KH6 5 6 9 6 26
KL 4 5 5 5 19
KP2 4 4 4 4 16
KP4 3 4 3 4 14
LA 2 2 5 2 11
LU 4 3 16 23
LX 2 1 3
LY 1 2 5 1 9
LZ 3 3 6 3 15
OA 1 1 1 1 4
OE 1 2 1 1 5
OH 4 9 10 3 26
OK 4 9 16 10 39
OM 3 4 5 3 15
ON 3 2 6 3 14
OX 1 1
OZ 1 3 3 7
P4 3 3 3 3 12
PA 1 3 11 7 22
PJ2 1 1 1 1 4
PJ4 1 1 1 2 5
PJ5 1 1 1 1 4
PY 5 15 15 18 53
S5 5 7 15 11 38
SM 2 6 11 3 22
SP 3 4 19 7 33
SV 1 1 1 3
TF 1 1
TI 1 1 1 1 4
TK 1 1
UA 4 17 14 2 37
UA2 2 2 1 5
UA9 5 19 14 9 47
UN 6 1 7
UR 1 5 13 3 22
V2 1 1 1 1 4
V3 1 1 1 1 4
V7 1 1
VE 1 1
VK 2 2 4 3 11
VP2E 1 1 1 1 4
VP5 1 1 1 1 4
VP9 1 1 1 1 4
VR 1 1
XE 2 2 1 1 6
YJ 1 1 1 1 4
YL 1 1 1 1 4
YN 2 1 2 1 6
YO 1 3 5 2 11
YS 1 1 1 1 4
YU 2 7 6 2 17
YV 1 1
Z3 1 1 2
ZF 1 2 3 2 8
ZL 2 2 3 4 11
ZS 1 2 1 4
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Call: AE4O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 18,834
Ten-Tec Eagle @ 70W. Wires. S&P. N1MM. Thank you! Great operators!
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Call: AF6GA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,444
This was another chance to practice my meagre cw skills. Rather than use a
skimmer and ear as I did in cqww cw, I decided to do it all in my head. This
took anywhere from 3-10+ attempts. Although anything more than about 30 was
just passed over. It was hard work, but a good challenge.
As it took me a while to get the call I spent some time sitting on some run
freqs. A good portion of people calling were calling at a slower speed. What
would be ideal, maybe just for me :), is that if a running station is not
getting much response they should throw in the odd slow call...
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Call: AF9T Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 68,145
K3 @ 100W
C3SS @ 40FT
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Call: AG2AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 78,324
That was fun. casual effort. Decent conditions. some new countries.
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Call: AG4W Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 5,967
FTDX5000D,AL-1200 Top Loaded 58 ft vertical, NE and NW beverages. Friday night
was ok on 160M. I wish I heard more from Europe. Saturday was not worth the
effort. Very few could be heard that I didn't hear the night before and those
were much weaker. Had to work during the day so an all out effort was not going
to happen.
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Call: AK2MA Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 25,650
Since moving to MA from Alaska, I've spend the vast majority of
my time unpacking and getting settled back here in the lower 48.
My antenna's and equipment are still mothballed and I don't see
any real station for me anytime soon. I've pulled my portable
equipment out and that's my current station setup.
Spending 9½ years as KL8DX at Denali, this was a very different
experience for me. And to make it more extreme, I decided to give
QRP a try. That in itself can be challenging but what made it even
more challenging was operating with an indoor antenna. I decided
on 15 meters for my single band entry as I figured that would offer
me the best conditions and the most multipliers for my QRP effort.
My evenings were busy so my strategy was to get the best bang for
my QRP buck.
It seems the Alaska weather has followed me. As in the case over
the last few weekends, I spent a large part of this weekend clearing
10+ inches of fresh snow which took up the vast majority of my contest
effort. I did not get on the air until Saturday morning so I knew going
in, this was not going to be a all out QRP effort.
I won't bore you with the details of my QRP struggles but operating on
this side of the pileup and running QRP has been a humbling experience.
So many great stations / operators / receivers that pulled my weak signal
out for a contest QSO. I missed more multipliers that were loud but could
not hear me, but I expected that. I'm still satisfied with my limited
effort. Sorry to EC2DX & IB9T for the dupes. My filtered IC-703+ handled
the busy band quite well. Many European stations had my Icom bouncing on
the kitchen table they were so unbelievably strong.
73, Phil AK2MA
Station: Kitchen table setup consisting of IC703+ @5W or less
Antenna: Buddipole Deluxe in upstairs hallway
Sofware: Mini Dell using N3FJP's Contest Log
Work: http://www.nps.gov/bost/index.htm
Blog: http://ak2ma.blogspot.com/
Website: http://www.ourwindingroad.net/
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Call: AL9A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 758,160
Disappointing propagation on Sunday, particularly on 10M and 20M. Total chair
time was equal to last year, but QSOs were down slightly while total score was
up considerably. Did a better job of chasing the mults this year. Still a fun
event.
When I did manage to get a few runs going the pile ups were pretty demanding.
Just kept trying to remind myself this is good practice for when we have our
turn at the W1AW/KL7 operation. Really looking forward to being able to work
split in that event to spread out the pile!
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Call: C6AKQ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 203,406
Entered SB80, but spent some time on other bands to collect some points for FCG
(approx 2.4M). Friday night started very slow with 65 QSOs in the first hour,
but then maintained at about 120/hr for the next few. Saturday night was
extremely slow, so slow that I got bored and spent several hours on 40 &
160. Still the SB80 score seemed like the best way to submit.. Ran a K3 and
ALS-600 to a dipole at 100 feet for 80M. Station and antennas worked
flawlessly.
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Call: CN2AA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,946,862
Seems, enough low activity from USA...
Lost 4SQ on 40 and 80,located on the beach, Saturday aftenoon due to storm and
INV.L on 160 on Sunday.
Anyway, have fun!
WWW.CN2AA.COM
73, RV1AW
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Call: CR2A Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 365,085
ANOTHER TEST RUN FROM NORTH ATLANTIC RADIO ARCALA AZORES OUTPOST
Bad flu threatened to hamper a serious effort from the Azores but, with the
project already underway, it had to be put aside for an earnest WRTC test run
on 10M. Breaking the previous 10M EU record from the Azores was targeted with
all the advanced work that goes with such an effort.
The previous record was surpassed by 17 percent, and the new record stands
high even in a global context. With the Azores situated way up north as it is,
the location limits 10M coverage and keeps the US footprint always quite
challenging. This time around, during the entire 10M opening, the skip barely
covered the East Coast - signals were buried in the noise with only a few
exceptions.
The focus of the effort was to test Yaesu's FT DX 3000 as a potential WRTC
radio, and we found that it coped with crowded bands and the presence of strong
40M signals (CR2X by OH2PM)quite well. It seems that this radio comes very close
to FT DX 5000 performance together with a remarkably convenient traveling size.
In addition, a beefed up version of Win-Test was used and it performed well.
Thanks to Bob, N6TV for working hard on that.
Now on Radio Team Azores' home turf, we are happy to run these tests here and
make plans with our support team so we can travel to Boston as a closely-knit
unit.
Thank you from dropping by to work CR2A. With a new Azores slogan "FEEL
ALIVE" it is hoped the old contesting stalwarts rev up their engines for a
great race. See <www.visitazores.com>
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Call: CR3L Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,037,046
Congrats to the CN2AA team for their great score.
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Call: CS2C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,117,310
The biggest race of my life. I started racing in 1964 (19 years old - OK1ALW).
Thanks to all who called me and help me to achieve this result.
Murphy visited me one day before the contest, but in the end I was able to
solve it just before the contest.
It was probably my last ARRL contest in the category SOAB. During the whole
contest I was not able to sleep and in the end my „young“ body was really
exhausted.
I hope there will come time when the category SO-lowbands and SO-highbands will
come(? back again).
Cu in CQ160M SSB and ARRL SSB (MS) with my friend Pavel, OK4PA.
73 !
Jiri
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Call: CT1AOZ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 134,676
Tks fer all contacts...
Tks to all the 6's... fer 71 contacts with California
Rig was Icom IC-7200 Antenna TH3MK3, 100 watts
bY HOUR:
Date Hour Total CT1AOZ Running Total
2014-02-15 13 4 4 4
2014-02-15 14 19 19 23
2014-02-15 15 78 78 101
2014-02-15 16 50 50 151
2014-02-15 17 108 108 259
2014-02-15 18 114 114 373
2014-02-15 19 28 28 401
2014-02-16 13 31 31 432
2014-02-16 14 47 47 479
2014-02-16 15 89 89 568
2014-02-16 16 67 67 635
2014-02-16 19 103 103 738
2014-02-16 20 36 36 774
Total All Hours 774 774 0
By section
Sect Total CT1AOZ
AB 4 4
AL 8 8
AR 2 2
AZ 19 19
BC 5 5
CA 71 71
CO 23 23
CT 25 25
DE 3 3
FL 31 31
GA 8 8
IA 4 4
ID 4 4
IL 18 18
IN 4 4
KS 7 7
KY 3 3
LA 5 5
MA 35 35
MB 1 1
MD 25 25
ME 4 4
MI 21 21
MN 21 21
MO 11 11
MS 3 3
MT 4 4
NB 3 3
NC 11 11
ND 1 1
NE 5 5
NF 1 1
NH 21 21
NJ 32 32
NM 8 8
NS 3 3
NV 6 6
NY 46 46
OH 21 21
OK 4 4
ON 23 23
OR 12 12
PA 41 41
PEI 1 1
QC 7 7
RI 5 5
SC 4 4
SD 3 3
SK 2 2
TN 19 19
TX 57 57
UT 4 4
VA 21 21
VT 4 4
WA 15 15
WI 18 18
WV 4 4
WY 3 3
Total 774 774
Best 73
Jose
CT1AOZ
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Call: CT9/R9DX Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 312,936
Elecraft K3 + ACOM2000A + 4el Yagi
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Call: CX2DK Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 147,552
Hi..
Happy with the score, better than the 2013.
I see in the next!
73
Marcelo CX2DK
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Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 999,378
RIG FT450
ANT 28 2EL FIXED, 21 2 EL. FIXED, 14 SLOPER, 7/3,5 V DIPOLES
ARRL DX CW - 2014-02-15 0000Z to 2014-02-17 0000Z - 1691 QSOs
CX9AU Max Rates:
2014-02-15 0108Z - 4,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 240 per hour by CX9AU
2014-02-15 0154Z - 3,1 per minute (10 minute(s)), 186 per hour by CX9AU
2014-02-16 0027Z - 2,5 per minute (60 minute(s)), 152 per hour by CX9AU
Callsign length
Length Callsigns QSOs
4 680 61.54 % 1114 65.88 %
5 335 30.32 % 457 27.03 %
6 85 7.69 % 113 6.68 %
7 1 0.09 % 1 0.06 %
8 2 0.18 % 2 0.12 %
9 2 0.18 % 4 0.24 %
1 NA K United States 1589 94%
2 NA VE Canada 102 6%
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Call: DF1LX Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 409,248
VY2 on 160 worked with 80m Dipol - great ...
Missing SD :(
5 Band 7 Stn
4 Band 41
3 Band 39
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Call: DF3FS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 602,784
My goal was to perform better than last year. At first: be on air
longer and second to test my new homemade Hexbeam. Thank you for
calling and see you next year. Vy 73 DF3FS Bertrand
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Call: DF5RF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 136,017
Rig in use: K2, KX3, 3ele Mini beam, short dipole
Really nice condx - If I only would have more time..
tu cu!
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Call: DH8BQA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 83,820
Icom IC-7100, Elecraft KPA500 + small 4 ele Yagi @ 8 m height
I had planned to go the 700 km to our QTH to participate in ARRLDX-CW this
year. Due to QRL on Monday I could not take the day off to drive back so I had
to cancel my plans.
Nevertheless I wanted to hand out a few points so was QRV with my small remote
station setup (which is completely separated from the rest of the station to
avoid trouble with local usage by other OPs). What can I say? Conditions were
quite nice on Saturday. So my plan of doing maybe 50 QSOs each day had to be
revisited. ;-) Concentrated on Saturday to work as many states as possible so
almost all day just S&P'ing. Finished with just missing DC, DE, KY, OR, WY.
I had heard OR & WY already but pileups were too big to spend much time
there. Caught DE & KY on Sunday but due to Aurora condx were much worse on
Sunday so never heard any OR & WY again. Also never ran across a DC, was
there nobody QRV on 10 m this time? Besides this I sometimes felt like
participating in the Maryland QSO Party ... man there are so many of you! ;-)
Band opened 11.15z on Saturday here with VY2ZM & VE9AA, the usual suspects.
;-) Closed around 19z after a nice hour running mid-west and west coast
stations. Sunday was distinctly worse with 12:30z opening and 18z closing and
no west coast at all, i.e. California. Just two very weak WA and a few likewise
weak AZ stations. Concentrated a bit more on running on Sunday just for the fun
of it.
So after all some fun time and about five times as much as I originally wanted
to do. ;-) Well, it's all about using and enjoying 10 m as long as it still
lasts!
Will be at the big station for ARRLDX-SSB in two weeks, let's keep fingers
crossed for condx to return! See you ...
73, Olli - DH8BQA
PS: As there are no single band assisted categories in ARRLDX this single band
effort goes into the all band unlimited category. No CAT control, no skimmer,
but a few cluster spots at times so ...
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Call: DJ8OG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 714,000
Actually I didn't want to do this but then I had a QSO with DJ5EU and thought I
give it a try. Erected a 80m GP in the garden on thursday after work (finished
in the dark, wasn't straight at all but worked). I was QRV when time and sleep
permits. I wanted to test the 80m GP but it was not as expected (house to the
US within a couple of meter???). The Goal was to make at least 500 QSOs. Mostly
S&P as CW is not my best mode :-) but from time to time tried some running
to keep the fun up. Ended at 1000 Q's on sunday afternoon and dismantled the
80m GP again. All in all a relaxed "contest" weekend.
Also thanks to K3LR, W1UE, W5MX and WE3C for all bands. I tried hard to
maximize the lowland QSOs but conditions were not at is best. Heard W3LPL but
they couldn't copy me on top band. No other hears here.
Hope to see you during the upcoming contests again,
Matt - DJ8OG
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Call: DK0ALC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,815,360
First night good conds on the low bands. Sunday a firework on 10 and 15. We made
almost twice the number of QSOs as in 2011, with the same team and the same
setup. TNX to all.
73, Arno
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Call: DK6XZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 77,556
Thinking WRTC2014:
In order to shortly "get some filling" about operating technics
needed when low power used for transatlatic communication, I had a try of
roughly 5 hours after high-bands opening. It worked well. Expecially 10 m band
was yielding fruit. And, it was fun.
The day before I heard we losed Anti HA3OV. An extraordinary CW operator (HST),
a great contester and a very pleasent person. It hurts knowing we will not be
hearing or seeing him any more. Our sincere condolences to the living family
& close friends!
73 Suad, DK6XZ/E77XZ
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Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 130,302
ICOM IC-7400
5-ele-beam, 2x 23m dipole
N1MM Logger, Toshiba Portege R700
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Call: DL1A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,144,185
Another great ARRL-CW Contest with improved conditions on the highbands but very
poor propagation on 80m and 160m. No W6/W7 on 80m and every single 160m QSO felt
like EME on VHF...
In the end about 250 QSOs more compared to last year but missing 5 Mults
results in a score improvement of about 150k. Not too bad for the fact that the
K-index jumped to 5 on sunday morning.
73
Maik DJ2QV for the DL1A team
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Call: DL1NX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 304,200
Well, I'm surprised to get so many QSOs with a bunch of wires over the roof that
are not stretched out, but 10m dipole. 99,9% S&P operation.
First day on 10m I have worked almost all US States in 3 hours, I missed WY
that I couldn't take over the pile up and DC that I didn't even hear on 10m.
I had to have a lot of patience to be heard, every time a nice signal comes to
my radio and if another station called together I have to wait and wait.
hihii...
I was never copied on first try, I can't say never but when a very low signals
comes I tried and get them on first call, weird...
I tried to run 2 times and was terrible bad, just 2 or 3 comes back to my
calls. That reminds me the good song from KT8K, "I want a big
tower".
Thanks to all that made some efforts to copy me and I hope to see you on the
next one.
73
Alex
DL1NX | PY2SEX
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Call: DL2MDU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 402,948
Good conditions on 10m, 80m was poor
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Call: DL3FCG Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 148,428
Nice contest on 10m at our contest QTH @DP6T. On Saturday all went well except
when the PA caused the shack�'s fuse to fail. Luckily it was after SS and the
QSO rate was already very low. I was using a spare PA for the remaining Qs
after sunset and than the same setup for Sunday. With FT1000 and Mosley 4ele I
was happy to log all states. Only some northern VE mults are missing. Thanks
for all the QSOs!
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Call: DL5ME Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 493,038
IC-746 + PA, 3-Beam
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Call: DL6FBL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 240,642
There is no Single OP / Single Band / Assisted Category. So this log goes to the
full Single OP Unlimited Category. Nevertheless I just wanted to know what can
be done on 10m single band this weekend. Since I had some business and other
projects over the weekend, 10m was my choice to have some fun in our
afternoons.
I sat it out in the evenings, and it was amazing to see what was still going on
after "the band had closed"... Saturday night last contact was AA9LC
(IL) at 2110z, and Sunday it was W7VXS (WA) at 1943z - local sunset was at
1650z... ;-)
Missed the VO1 (NF) multiplier, and I guess VO2, VE8, VY1 and VY0 were not on
or not workable from here...
Some West Coast statistics: 28xAZ, 101xCA, 6xID, 4xMT, 8xNV, 17xOR, 9xUT,
30xWA, 4xWY, 3xVE6, 9xVE7, plus the Dakotas: 3xND, 6xSD.
73 Ben
DL6FBL
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Call: DL6KVA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 708,288
Nice condx, especially the first day!
TRX: Kenwood TS-590
Ant: GAP Titan DX Vertical
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Call: DL7BY Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 80,304
Made also on 20 and 40 some QSOs, but just for fun as checklog. I used the
possible last good chance for running on 10 mtr for the next years. The condx
before the contest were amazing and made hope for a great weekend. The first
day began very good with some nice runnings and for long time again many
stations from the westcoast. The band was open till 19z. Sunday was much
difficult, westcoast was not possible and the middlewest was really rare. The
eastcoast signals were mostly s3 or less. The band closed abt. 18z. So it is,
the sun made trouble 1 day to early. :-(((.
On 40 mtrs I had with my windom better runnings as with the beam om 10 mtrs!
Thanks for the fun and the QSOs.
TRX: Ft920 PA (running abt.700w)
ANT: A4S@10 mtr.
Log: UCX-LOG 7.34
73s es best DX
Ben - DL7BY-
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Call: DL8ZAW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 736,668
This is my best score so far. Worked all US states for the first time in this
contest - even my difficult ones (ND, SD, ID and WY) on serveral bands!
Propagation on 160m and 80 was very poor compared to last year. I was unable to
make a single QSO on 160m. But had a lot of fun on 40 upwards.
73, Frank, DL8ZAW
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Call: DP1POL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 532,512
I sure had fun in the ARRL DX Contest this year. Even though Saturday and Sunday
were normal working days here at Neumayer-Station III, Antarctica, and the
geomagnetic storm in the second night really killed the rate, I finished with
just over 1000 contacts and about half a million points. Thanks to everyone who
called me! Logs have already been uploaded to Logbook of The World.
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Call: E20AE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 62,040
Thanks to John, HS1CHB for the use of the Club Station E20AE. His hospitality
made an otherwise tedious contest bearable. This was a difficult contest
running LP. Despite wise warnings from N2IC, I had little understanding of US
band openings available here in SE Asia. First night was productive but the
second night here was much quieter because of solar activity.
Thailand is not Japan. Once I figured out that running stations using LP was
out of the question, I began a multiplier hunt. I thought this would be the
only way to post a respectable score from here. Running LP seems more like QRP
even though the station has a TH5 at 20 meters and a full size 40M vertical
mounted high in the air. Operation of the station would be entirely different
in the CQ WW as I would not have to concentrate only on US stations 10,000
miles away. I heard lots of Asia and EU stations in the mix, USA was far more
difficult to come by except for the usual well known big guns.
Aside from mosquitos constantly chewing on me, It was still a good experience.
Chuck
W0DLE
HS0ZLO
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Call: E71A Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 235,248
Setup: ts590 + comander hf2500,
Ant. 5 el.by E73M on 9m boom/UP 12m
73, CU
QSL via: QRZ.com
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Call: E7DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,102,860
Some technical problem which could be solved on the fly, but in stead to use
full station setup inducing inband station with stuck long time old fashion way
with only one runner.
Nice competition with especially IR4M and others OM7M, EA5RS, OE2S....etc
TM6M is for sure another world and even we could give our best we were at
least
500 QSOs behind. Congratulation on that big score!
Condition were good except on 160/80m were was no good opening to far west
from here.
Thanks for QSO and cu in CQ160m SSB and ARRL SSB!
73s
Braco E77DX
for E7DX Team
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Call: EA1WX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 288,960
StepIR vertical 10-40 & 400 Watts
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Call: EA2RY Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 45,390
TX/RX: FT-2000
ANT: Vertical SteppIR BigIR
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Call: EA5DFV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 426,018
Nice conditions. Near all the contest S&P. Thanks very much for copy my
call.
73 de Jose
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Call: EA5KV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 156,870
73, Vic.
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Call: EA6FO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,580,779
Funny contest.
Only one radio and two operators as M/S category ??? :--))One operator
releaving each other time to time.
160 m antenna is broken when trying first qso on this band and no reparing
option during contest. This Murphy appearation punished our score harshly, 35
plus multis and some more qsos, is our estimation, close to 0,5 MM points
loss.
Thanks for calling us.
73s Juan, EA5BM & Julio EA3AIR
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Call: EA8AH Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 335,820
FT1000MP, ACOM 2000A, 3 X 4-el
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Call: EC2DX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,443,208
Best 73!
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Call: EC4TA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,320,921
My favourite contest of the year.
Murphy visited me lasting 3 hours for the end of the contest, just when I was
going from 15 to 20M and my Elecraft K3 decided to stop working (12V ERROR).
Without this fail, I surely would have made more QSO on 20M band (I stopped
with only 199 Q's). Well, thats a lesson for next year: have a backup rig.
The rest of the contest, a lot of noise on 80M, and ¡¡ What a blast on 10M!!
Sunday afternoon was great.
Sorry all who I didn't catch their callsign at first call and had to repeat it
to me. I'll continue improving.
My conditions:
Antenna: 3 elements SteppIR with 40M kit @ 10m above ground. Inverted V for 80M
@ 10m also.
Rig: Elecrat K3 @ 100W. Microham MK2.
73,
Oscar - EC4TA.
BAND QSO S/P DUP POINTS AVG
----------------------------------
160 0 0 0 0 0.00
80 104 29 0 312 3.00
40 425 50 3 1275 3.00
20 199 50 1 597 3.00
15 504 55 2 1512 3.00
10 595 57 11 1785 3.00
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TOTAL 1827 241 17 5481 3.00
==================================
TOTAL SCORE : 1 320 921
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Call: ED7P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,296,119
Due to family affairs our host Pepe, EA7PP, once the set up was finished, he
couldn't operate during the entire contest. In spite of that we decided to run
M2 as initially planned.
For different reasons during 13 hours there was only 1 station running and for
almost 5 hours none. Needless to say we ended up shattered ;-), I'm getting old
for this marathon type...
Nothing to do with big stations in rare locations, CN2AA and CR3L, it was
particulary challenging to watch at the on-line scores (cqcontest.ru) the
dog-fight with our closets rivals in Europe IR1Y, SK3W and DL1A, thank you
guys!
A couple of solar CME were forecasted to hit the Earth at any time during
Saturday. The Aurora was sticked up in the North, so the top band figures were
going to make a gap between us. Winter Sporadic E was around 10m during the 2
days, hearing close EU countries booming off the back. Probably this was the
reason why our most favoured band didn't make the expected difference.
Definitelly ED7P is not a fancy call for contest. While S&P'n half of the
stations didn't get the call at first, even keying at 28 wpm.
As it happened often, few seconds after a mistaken spot as an "8",
ED8P suddenly produced an unexpected big pile-up at the second afternoon and a
bunch of duplicates. A Good Samaritan's spot correction afterwards don't work
as most people don't see on screen an already worked country or QSO.
We did not hear a single VO1/VO2 on any band.
57 stations worked on 6 bands: AA1K, AA2A, AA3B, AA9A, AC4G, K0DQ, K0KX, K0TV,
K0ZR, K1AR, K1RX, K1VW, K2QMF, K2TE, K3EL, K3LR, K3WA, K5ZD, K8AZ, K9MA, K9NW,
KB1EFS, KB1H, KI1G, KN2M, N0NI, N1RR, N1UR, N2IC, N2NT, N3BNA, N3QE, N3ZA,
N5AW, N9CK, NE3F, NF1O, NJ1F, VA2WA, VE3JM, VE3YAA, VE9ML, W0AIH, W1NT, W1UE,
W1VE, W2FU, W2LK, W2YC, W3LPL, W4RM, W6AAN, W8MJ, W9JP, WE3C, WX0B, XL3A.
Thanks to everybody for calling us.
73 de EA7KW
Station:
Inverted L on 160, no rx-ant.
Inverted V on 80.
2 ele on 40
2 tribanders for 10-15-20
4 ele for 15
6 ele for 10
FT1000 MK5 and TS590 rigs - OM POWER and TL922 amps
CU in the phone part
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Call: EF8O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 540,930
100W (IC-756PROIII)
GPA-50 (trap-vertical) for 10/15/20m
dipole for 40m
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Call: EF8USA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,788,965
Thanks for qso,s, a great time doing cw as ever and a lots of friends on air.
Really here a lot of problems,strong rain and wind all weekend. My qth is in a
remote place in north of my island with difficult access. I miss my 160m before
the contest begin and the first night the wind break my 40/80m vertical and I
can put on air again a few hours later in the night, Im alone in this qth and I
need to stop the contest for repair. The spiderbeam was all contest very low,
abt only 3 meters high for the strong wind. For all this Im very happy with the
results.
My rig: icom 7410. Antenas: spiderbeam 10-15-20. Vertical fishing pole coax
trap 40/80 homemade.
Some video here: http://vimeo.com/86745967. More info soon in www.ea8ay.com.
Thanks to my good friend Jose Cruz for the video and Mike W2GR.
CU next contest, for my WPX CW.
73
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Call: EU1A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,107,045
Was busy on Saturday day and evening. So missed great condition on 15-10. A lot
of noise on 80. Great condition on 40 first night and last our of the contest.
Incredible condition on 20 on Saturday at 2300Z.
Thanks to all US stations for calling!
See you in the phone part! Hope I will operate full time.
73! Serge EU1A
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Call: F/E73CQ Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 16,074
Two hours entry on Sunday afternoon to "feel a bit" contest and to
test improvement of my antenna position.
Thank you all for copying my callsign.
QRP: Flex-1500 and signe el. delta loop (7 mtrs high)
73 CU Fudo
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Call: F1IWH Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 4,368
First participation contest ARRL DX CW - Thank you all for qso's and also for
QRS. Contest for the fun.
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Call: F5IYJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 53,550
Less then 3h this Sunday to work NA OM's.
Need to better manage my contest time next year.
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Call: F6ARC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 223,200
My goal was to test the equipment before FG in March.
Less than 5 hours on Sunday(no activity on Saturday)but good pileups with low
power.
Thanks all for calling.
Oliver
Rig: FT-897D + WKUSB interface
Ant: DXBeam DXT201510-6mx
Win-test
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Call: F8CRS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 507,861
great propagation on saturday, just miss AR on 10m (heard but no qso).
G5RV for 40-80m and MA5B for high bands. 500w.
see you next time
73 david F8CRS
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Call: G0ORH Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 185,094
Saturday, tower carrying the SteppIR beam was only at 25ft due to the storm
raging through through West Berkshire, and I didn't chance it.
Sunday was fine,light winds so the tower went back up.
I gave away a few points on 20 and 15m while waiting for 10m to open.
My first qso on Sunday morning was at 12:14, stopped at 12:40 for Lunch, my
neighbor and I, took out my front storm damaged hedge, and I got back active at
14:30 to 19:00 when I closed down.
I generally worked all dupes.
Could have worked double if I had the time! though my 7hrs was good fun none
the less.
Missed DC, heard DC on Saturday but he was taking his time getting through
callers and I forgot to check back...doh.
The rest missed was VE Mults.
K3 - KPA500, N1MM, Micro Keyer 2.
Ken..G0ORH
10m SBHP, unassisted.
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Call: G3SXW Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 269,640
First ever entry to a QRP contest. Great fun! Apologies to all who struggled
with my super-weak signal! Will do it seriously next year. 73 de Roger/G3SXW.
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Call: G3Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 260,946
Part time entry - restricted by high wind meant I could only put the
mast up at 1800z on Saturday and no LF antennas. Geat condx though -
could even run with LP.
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Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 208,560
Could only devote a few hours to the contest, and it's a bit different now with
100w and a doublet but I was pleased to be able to get a few mini-runs going.
Great conditions on HF, pretty poor on LF.
Dave G4BUO
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Call: G4IIY Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 98,010
A part-tume effort fitted around domestic commitments. The only NA State that I
mised was North Dakota, plus a host of Canacian provices that should have been
easy. I did not hear a VO1 or VO2 station all weekend on any band.
I made a further 200 Qs on 10/15m.
Equipment:
FT1000MP, plus amp
40m dipole at 17m
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Call: GW4J Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 112,695
A busy weekend so decided to try 10m only, conditions were pretty good. The high
winds in North Wales only abated enough to raise my Cobwebb antenna by around
14.00 on Saturday but this seemed luckily to coincide with the propagation
taking off to NA which was repeated on Sunday. On both days NA tailed off by
18.30 giving around 4.5 hours operating each day.
K3/Acom 1000 and a Cobwebb nested dipoles at around 30ft. Thanks for Qs, really
enjoyable. Saturday was lively with some nice runs; had every US state logged
except NE and DC by close on Saturday and managed NE on Sunday but DC eluded
me. Worked a few on 20m with the doublet on Saturday morning while waiting for
the 10m antenna and propagation.
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Call: HA1ZZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 109,395
RIG: TS-830s+2xGI7B
ANT: GP and K9AY
73! Sanyi
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Call: HA3NU Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 196,446
Decicated to my friend HA3OV (SK)
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Call: HA3OU Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 5,850
Hello OMs!
Deceased childhood friend of mine, Anti HA3OV (SK) remembering minimum power 4W
QRP working over the competition.
Rest in peace my dear friend!
MY RIG, H/M, JUPAD-20-CW QRP TRCV 4W OUT
MADE BY ARPAD JUHASZ member of HA3KNA
H/M, HF6V ANT, BY HA3OU
MANY THANKS FOR THE NICE SIGNAL REPORTS, FOR THE FIRST CONTEST WITH
MY H/M QRP RIG. 73/DX JOCO
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Call: HA3UU Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 115,830
Part time effort. The noise was s5-s6 from time to time.
Thanks for Q’s to All of you from NA!
73 CUL in next year!
Janos HA3UU
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Call: HA5JI Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 44,604
Tnx Peti/HA8RM
73!
Gyuri/HA5JI
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Call: HA7GN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 234,030
This was the 4th ARRL CW round from the Matra mountains with very good band
conditions this time. Both Saturday and Sunday nights were productive (with
s7-9 signals) and nice additions at sunrise. No 3kW needed as some people
think, but good antennas and patience to wait till US turned their antennas
back towards Europe.
Rates were quite slow at normal daytime due to the 10/15m traffic. Got
frustrated by QRM-ers and people who started to call CQ without asking QRL,
explaining for how long they've been using the freq..while I spent the entire
day on that same QRG.
The result is my personal best; but still plenty of room to improve.
Congratulations to OH8L and 9A2NA for their excellent scores.
Equipment:
FT2000 with AC0C filter upgrade
OM2500A
KT36XA(M2) + 4L monobander @ 812m ASL
73/DX
Gabor
HA7GN
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Call: HA8JV Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 180,090
Thanks for all callers!
73 Pali
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Call: HA8LLK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 119,298
BAND QSO QSO PTS STATES/PROV
160 0 0 0
80 0 0 0
40 57 171 19
20 84 252 29
15 107 321 34
10 89 267 36
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Totals 337 1011 118 = 119,298
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Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 511,200
K3 100 W
Antennas : Force 12 C-4s for 28/21/14 and 7 MHz
Butternut HF-9vx used for 3.5 MHz
73's
Phil - HB9ARF
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Call: HB9FAP Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,608,128
Thanks to all the U.S. & Canadian stations who worked me.
A lot of fun, UFB conditions. I can't remember when last time the CW part had
so UFB condx, probably back in the year 2000 or 2001.
I take part every year since 1994 as SOP in the ARRL international DX contest
CW, for the first time I didn't find any single VO1 station.
See you next year, I love this contest!
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Call: HC2AO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 841,698
I was testing a new RX antenna on 160. I guess I was able to log 98% of callers
this time. Since conditions on TB weren't all that great I went on higher
bands
to give mults. I'm still deciding whether I should claim SOSB 160 or SOAB LP
))
btw K1LT and K0DQ were loud on TB but they couldn't hear my petty station.
FT1000MP at 85 watts
Inverted L with 6 radials
RX EWE
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Call: HG0A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 133,332
Tnx Peti/HA8RM
73, Gyuri/HA5JI
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Call: HG1A Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 179,832
RIG: Kenwood TS-870s PA: 2x500 watts ANTs: 4+3 el. 18m@
73! Zsolt ha1zn&hg1a
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Call: HG7T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,413,638
Vy 73! Tibi HA7TM
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Call: HI3LFE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,225,440
RIG: Elecraft KX3 12W, antennas TA33, G5RV and End Fed 123.5'
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Call: HL1VAU Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,995
Having fun with simple QRP transceiver(FT-817) and low wire dipoles.
It was great propagation during the weekend.
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Call: HS0ZKX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 255,204
Short,sporadic opening's to NA from here.Band's closed about 10:00am local time
and would remain closed until 4:45 pm when you could start to hear the East
Coast again on 40.Congrat's to K3LR and WE3C for giving me 5 bands each with
outstanding signals on 80m LP the second day.40m a mess here with all the
SSB'ers,OTH radar and SSTV. 160m never opened but listening intently to try to
make a sweep with K3LR and WE3C which would have been a first for me here in SE
Asia. Running 200 watts to a C3,40m inverted V,80m Delta Loop and a 160m
vertical. Thanks to all for the qso's. Peter,HS0ZKX
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Call: IB9T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 194,346
I run the contest normally connected to the cluster network, having a SOSB-15
Assisted category in my mind. It was wrong and then this log goes in the right
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power category.
Medium to good conditions on saturday, with nice runs to the west coast.
Absolutely poor propagation on sunday..... a real pity.
Missed LB, NU, NWT and YT.
Joe, IT9BLB
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Call: IC8FBU Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 47,232
Saturday afternoon run with very bland answers, best Sunday open until 20.00, 48
were not bad, I enjoyed it to the next.
FT920
2 EL.DELTA LOOP
100 W.
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Call: IK2CIO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 743,280
Operated only 12 hours. but with Fun
CU next Year.
73 de Vini IK2CIO
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Call: IK3ORD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 609,504
Yaesu FT 920 - Ant TH7 10/15/20 + loop 40mtr. + dipole 80 mtr + inverted L 160
mtr.
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Call: IK7JWY Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 162,279
Great fun for my first ARRL-DX CW on 10m after a long time. Worked all States
the first day. FT1000MP, 2x6 elements OWA homemade antennas and amplifier. See
you next time. 73 de IK7JWY Art
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Call: IR1Y Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,772,937
This year in M2 for the first time !
We enjoyed high bands, but bad conditions on low bands, especially second
night.
Last qso on 20m, at beginning of contest was later than 0300 z .
Thanks to Flavio IK1SPR and Filippo IZ1LBG for joining the crew !
As usual, field day style in IK1YDB's location. Finished dismantling today at
14 z.
Amazed how a three element delta-loop @10 m. height could give us so much
qso's on the best band that we had in this week-end : 10 m.
We are quite sure that we could not do more than this score.
We squeezed the station at the top with two inband radio's on each band and a
fift radio on not running band.
Thanks for all stations that called in giving us a very nice week-end.
Nice to follow up and down with competitors on cqcontest.net.
Enjoy IR1Y Fb page :
https://www.facebook.com/pages/IR1Y/168295293294571?ref=ts&fref=ts we'll
upload some pics.
one of IR1Y - Carlo IK1HJS
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Call: IR4B Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 350,796
It was a pleasure to be in this 2014 ARRL CW contest even if not at full time.
Great propagation, I operated low power 100W. with my TS-590 only, 3 el
Ultrabeam antenna. I got a good rate on 10m and 20 meters when I started
calling. I was pleased to get even some pile up. See you again and 73 de
Sergio IR4B (IK4AUY).
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Call: IR4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,935,616
Great conditions on high bands, with the best 10m opening we can
remember. It's fantastic to hear W6/7's so loud for so long!
Quite the opposite must be said for 80 and 160m, which were generally in
bad shape. On top-band, due to poor conditions we stupidly missed the
short opening during the first night, hoping to see better signals the
night after. Big mistake! Conditions on Saturday night were even
worse... lesson learned.
Top-band must have been quite noisy also on the U.S. end, as we lost
some mults who couldn't hear us.
The competition on cqcontest.net was nice as usual, with our friends at
OM7M and the solid E7DX team! Good job guys!!
It's a pity to see this amazing tool still so underused.
Standing at the window, just watching the competitors, looks like there
is something to hide...
Ok, you want to keep your strategy secret, but, at least in CW, the
reversebeacon network can catch you everywhere after the first CQ.
We don't understand why some teams entered (manually and sporadically)
only the total score data. We are pretty sure that Wintest is able to do
it automatically... or not? (Bad internet connection? :)
Finally, it's unbelievable how this year we had no snow but sunny and
warm weather! During the last few years, during ARRL we always had snow
(2 meters in 2012)!
IR4M TEAM
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Call: IV3BCA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 444,528
Hello
I operate 18 hours on Yaesu FT1000D 100 Watt
Beam Mosley 20/15/10 Rotative Dipole 40 Meter
NVIS 80 meter RX and Vertical TX
Wonderful propagation on 15 and 10 meter sunday
Best 73 de IV3BCA Paolo iv3bca@iv3bca.it
http://www.iv3bca.it
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Call: J38XX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,314,785
thanks for the QSO's
73 Ulf, DL5AXX
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Call: JA1BJI Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 768,600
Since I had another appointment on Saturday, I initially planned to participate
in the contest as a part time effort. However, the appointment was cancelled
due to snow storm, I could participate almost full time except three hours for
snow shoveling.
The high bands especially 28MHz condition was excellent for the first day and
7MHz was good also, though I could not hear any W/VE signal on 1.8MHz.
It was great fun. See you next time. 73
Taro - JA1BJI
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Call: JA1BPA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 116,256
This is my 3rd consecutive year in this contest as SOSB/10mb,
and the propagation was certainly the best!
We had the record breaking amount of snow in Tokyo area on Friday,
which closed the access road to the usual JG1ZUY contest station.
Instead, I visited my own small shack where it was rain-storming.
[SATURDAY (LOCAL TIME)]
As the contest started at 00UTC on Saturday, the wind was gusting
up to 80mph, and I obviously could not crank up the tower or turn
my antennas. I could still work several big guns from New England
before the band closed around 03UTC.
I managed to work several stations via long path between 11~13UTC
including VY2ZM and KI1G for new multipliers, but stations were
mostly working with Europeans.
[SUNDAY (LOCAL TIME)]
The band started to open at 21UTC around our sunrise. This was a
stable opening with all areas of the US heard very strong. Later in
the morning, there was a weird auroral opening to VE1, VE2, VE9 area
around 01~02 UTC, with VA2EW heard CQing with genuine S=9. VE9AA
thankfully called for a new multiplier, but nobody from VE1 or VO1.
The band was decently open until 04UTC, but people seemed to have
assumed that it was closed. The propagation was really good, but
there were not sufficient number of stations to sustain a good run.
In the local evening, there was no real opening via long path.
I could hear several, but Europeans who were calling them were
much stronger this time. The propagation was deteriorating...
[MONDAY (LOCAL TIME)]
As I had been afraid, at our sunrise (21:30UTC), US stations were
weakly heard from the path skewed to the south (via Hawaii). This
was certainly a bad sign. The path got back to normal after 22UTC
(more than half an hour later than the previous day), but signals
were weaker. I could only work about 120 stations, mostly from
the West Coast during 2.5 hours before the end of the contest.
With the solar cycle nearing its peak, this was probably the
best that I could achieve on 10mb before the next cycle.
I really enjoyed the great opening, but wish there had been
more US stations to work with.
Thank you all for the QSOs and see you all again at RDXC.
Best 73,
Icko, JA1BPA
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Call: JH3PRR Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 97,185
Thanks to The SUN, I enjoyed 10m single band very much. As soon as the contest
began, I was called by lots of east coast stations. Next morning (JST, Japan
local time) was even better. I was lucky enough to be called by VY2 and VE9. I
missed ME and DC though. The last morning (JST) was not so good but I still
worked east coast. Hope this was NOT the last time I enjoyed running east coast
on 10m in my life;-) Thanks to all who worked me. See you in Dayton contest
dinner and contest super suit on Thu, Fri and Sat!
IC-7800 and 1kW linear amplifier, 5 el Yagi side-mounted at 24m above the
ground. Located on top of the mountain 2600 ft above sea level.
Masa JH3PRR aka KH8B and M0ITU
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Call: K0AP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 865,458
Excellent conditions on Saturday. Not so great on Sunday due to the solar
flare.
Had few very nice runs on 10 and 15m. 40m was great the first night. Taking
advantage of the high band openings while they last.
Rig:
2el HEX Beam at 40ft, 80/40m Inv Vee.
IC765, TL922 and N1MM logger.
73 Dragan K0AP
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Call: K0DQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 8,638,812
A walk on the Dark Side
First, Thanks to Paul, K8PO, and his lovely bride Jackie for their superb Down
East hospitality.
Paul's station is a contester's dream. This was my second effort from the
Maine Battle Cruiser. After CQWW CW we had discussed a few minor changes, all
of which were accomplished. (For some unknown reason the proposed 3 element 160
yagi at 400 feet didn’t materialize in the two month interval). The net
result is that I'm out of excuses . . . any and all remaining shortcomings are
between my ears.
While change in your seventieth year of life is to be done with a certain
amount of prudence, I purposed to try something new. With apologies to a
certain retired Navy Master Chief Radioman I decided to see what it would be
like to do a dedicated operation as “Just a boy and his radio . . . and the
Internet” and see just how much “assistance” the assisted category
provided. The general motivation included: (1) to see what the fuss was about,
(2) to see if it would minimize my “local propagation knowledge deficit”
(since I don’t have a home station and only do 2-3 contests a year from New
England), and (3) to hopefully cause less stress on old bones (I was still worn
out from CQWW CW). (As an aside, I take it that “unlimited” is the
politically correct term for assisted now. Guess that makes traditional
unassisted efforts “limited” by definition?)
Overall, it was actually a pleasant enough experience. I operated in the same
run mode as unassisted but used the spots almost exclusively for mults. Ended
up with about the same number of Q’s as last year’s unassisted record with
the added bonus of another 40 mults and 400K points �" all in fewer hours
and with less work. I especially didn’t mind doing without all that pesky
tuning and dupe checking on the second radio. (That comment probably gives the
“unlimited” experts a clue that I haven’t really figured this out yet.)
Was feeling pretty good after the contest. Paul reported that I was ahead of
the real experts, K3WW and AA3B when I went to sleep. Woke up at 0400 and, on
a whim, checked 3830 to find out that KI1G had demolished me by 36 mults and
400K. Hmmm . . . maybe there’s more to this than meets the eye? I probably
needed to work harder at tuning for people who aren’t spotted as well as
moving mults. Also, realized that if the mult wasn’t on the primary or
secondary radio band map, it would scroll out of sight quickly. There’s
nothing like on the job training.
Aside from the personal novelty of “unlimited” the more interesting story
was propagation. This was my fourth ARRL DX and 12th contest from New England
since reactivating three years ago. If memory serves, of those dozen contests
only four enjoyed relatively stable conditions with flares and the dreaded
geomagnetic storms predominating in the others. Thus I was a little gun shy
when the NOAA forecast predicted both blackouts and geomagnetic storms both
days.
Perhaps violating the 10th commandment (coveting), I tend to judge a contest
weekend by the propagation I don’t have. I’ve seen the New England
Nightmare scenario when the mid-Atlantic gets propagation before New England,
but that’s generally been on 10 meters. This year had an interesting twist.
About two hours before sunrise Saturday I noticed K3CR and others running Europe
on 20 meters but I couldn’t hear a thing. Then at 0922Z I noticed that guys
in southern/western W1 were also running stuff I couldn’t hear. That lasted
almost an hour until I finally started being able to run Europe up here in
Maine at 1017. Not looking for sympathy since Maine generally gets the
openings early, but it was a cautionary note.
By 24Z on Saturday, I had managed to cobble together 3249 QSOs, which was about
100 below last year’s ARRL number, and about 200 down from the recent CQWW CW
number at the same point. I noticed that the K index was up, the bands were
sounding funky and rates plummeted. The “Polar shopping mall” was clearly
open and the JAs and SE Asians were coming through on 10, 15, and 20 with
noticeable screech. Having seen this movie, I wondered if the whole shooting
match was essentially over. So I gave myself a pass to take four hours off for
a shower and sleep, half expecting to come back at 05Z and find the bands closed
down. That was not the case, however, and when I got back on 160 and 80 were
wide open with decent signals, although the noise level was high. That was the
second cautionary note. It appears a solar flux of 160 is not easily deterred.
All in all, it was a fun weekend.
Congrats to KI1G. If I do this assisted thing again looks like I’ll have to
go to school.
Scott, K0DQ
K8PO
2 x K-3 / ACOM-2000A
Win-Test software (with thanks to N6TV for extensive scripts)
DX-Doubler, Six Pack
160
Full size vertical with 100 (300 ft) radials
Receive reversible beverages NE, SW, NW, SE
RX four square NE, SE, SW, NW
80
Transmit Four Square NE, SE, SW, NW
Same RX as above
40 (120' tower, shared with 10 meters)
2 X 2 element shorty forty yagis, lower fixed Europe
20 (100' tower)
3 X 5 element yagis, lower two fixed Europe
15 (100' tower)
4 X 5 element yagis, lower three fixed Europe
10 (120' tower shared with 40 meters)
4 X 5 element yagis, lower three fixed Europe
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Call: K0EJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,152,020
part-time but FUN time!
73, Mark K0EJ
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Call: K0EU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 748,410
Could only play for a little while in this one. Too bad as it seemed like
conditions were outstanding. I never went below 20M, so not sure how the
lowbands were. When all you do is operate during high rate hours to Europe and
Japan, it makes for an extra fun time.
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Call: K0IO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 769,113
R-8 Vertical, 80 meter inverted vee -- top at 60 ' 160: Inverted L - 180' long,
60 feet vertical
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Call: K0OU Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 117,348
The beam antenna is broken so running only the vertical. QRP to a vertical is
tuff, but some very good ears out there managed to pull me out. also, don't
know how I got 13 hours into this as I was not home Saturday or Sunday morning.
Just ran in and out of the shack as time permitted. Was fun making any contacts
at all.
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Call: K0PK Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 152,424
Was in and out of the shack all weekend so just played around on 20 as I had
time. Heard quite a bit of AU-distortion on most sigs Saturday night. Otherwise
condx. were pretty good here. Even worked a few EU QRPers. A good time, as
usual!
FT2000 / IC756P2 / TH3-TA33-TH3 stack
Thanks for the Qs! 73 - Paul, K0PK
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Call: K0RF Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,381,645
We decided to take advantage of the fact that I am not coaching Volleyball Club
this season and get on for the ARRL CW. This weekend is one of the big VB
tournaments in Colorado and I am usually in the middle of it. I didn't have the
energy to make a M/M effort for this one, so our little 4-man crew decided to
give M-2 a go for the first time. It was a different deal for us. We are used
to being able to take whatever is available on all bands without compromise.
But, it turned out to be fun. Everybody made lots of contacts. Wayne and George
really were joined at the hip and were Kurt and me.What a great group of
friends. It couldn't have been better. Very little sleep happened around here
this time!
Thanks for all the QSOs.
See you in the next one.
73,
Chuck and the crew.
73
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Call: K0TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,644,331
Good condx the first 24 hours. Things got interesting around 0000 UTC on Feb 16
when the recent CMEs started to affect the ionosphere. I was on 10m at the
time, when US backscatter signals suddenly changed to a rough aurora type
sound. Asia was still coming thru, but signals were unstable. I was still able
to work QRP stations in Japan during this time. 20m and above seemed to be back
to normal by around 1200 UTC.
The disturbance apparently enhanced 20m propagation over the pole after
midnight local time. I was about to stop for the evening around 06 UTC because
40m and 80m were poor, when 20m opened up with strong signals over the pole.
Worked 70/hr for the next 2 hours into EU and Asia. The propagation was often
one way with many barely readable stations calling me. Note that I am only
using a dipole at 75' on 20m!
Heard many MN stations during the weekend. I missed the MWA group VP5S on 160m,
but I didn't spend much time on that band. I am basically deaf on 160m and 80m
with the ongoing power line interference issue. The power company recently
asked their retired noise troubleshooter to help with the problem. He confirmed
the RF noise is coming from the pole I identified and described it as
"terrible." Unfortunately, they have not yet resolved the problem.
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Call: K0TV Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,987,302
Conditions this year were outstanding and everyone here had a great time. We
welcomed K1WD back to the team after he took a few years off. Two new
operators, KB1SNB and NM1C came to the station for the first ARRL DX CW contest
for both of them. NB1N came through in exciting style running 15 meters both
days.
We had a snowstorm two days before the contest and I was unable to get the
walkway cleared so the trudge to the shack door involved going through a foot
of snow. Everyone who came is to be commended for the effort.
We decided to pass on M/2 this time and go M/M for the extra points. With only
three stations we are competing against much larger stations in this category.
We're in it for the fun and everyone sure had lots of fun.
MVP for this contest goes to NB1N for braving the snow storm on Thursday to
drop off his K3 to complement the station equipment. He also made 1225 of our
QSOs. We were very happy to have Sandor operating here and we look forward to
seeing him again in the fall.
Thanks for everyone who called in and we'll look for everyone in two weeks for
the SSB weekend.
73, Jerry - K0TV
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Call: K0UK Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 177,744
Didnt want to do a all band effort. Did 10mtrs. only assisted. It was fun and
had some good runs to EU and JA.
Thanks to all the great ops who heard my little station. A3S antennas. PTL
bill K0UK
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Call: K0VBU Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 693,489
IC746, TH6DXX @50', G5RV @25'
Great conditions! High bands just wouldn't quit!
Thanks to all!
73
K0VBU
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Call: K0VG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 326,136
All S&P
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Call: K0VXU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 767,970
IC-746PRO - TL-922A - TH6DXX, Slopping Vees (80,40), Inverted L (160), Beverage
Thanks to all who provided me QSO. This was really an unexpected pleasure as
conditions were very good in the middle of the country. Lots of activity and
signals were strong. With the band conditions being fairly poor in the run up
to the test, I was expecting poor signals and not much activity. Was I
surprised.
As per my usual I was on limited time but did find 20 hours to play in the
test. All S&P. Fun to work XW0YJY, 9V1YC and 8Q7KB in the test.
Good to see many of the other KCCCer's in the test. K0VBU certainly caused
some confusion when we both would call in a pile up. Great fun, though.
See you all next year....hopefully with the same band conditions.
73,
Russ - K0VXU
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Call: K0ZR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,444,086
Originally I was not available to work the contest, but that all changed when
the latest snow storm to hit the east coast changed things. My out-of-town
plans were thus changed making it possible to work the contest, but then I
learned Friday my California brother was held up at Washington-Dulles airport
due to the storm; he was to be with us Friday night. Complications,
complications, so was only able to operate some 20 hours. Conditions were
magnificent most of the contest, but I never heard any opening on 160m. I am
thankful I was able to operate as much as I did.
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Call: K0ZX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 81,396
This was one where i sure wish i had more time to play, especially on saturday
when conditions were great before the CME arrival.
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Call: K1AR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 5,639,772
Another contest from the AR home QTH. Antennas are: 160M Inv-L, 80M dipole, 40M
Inv-V with a MN-2000 tuner. Had a blast cracking pile-ups!
73, John, K1AR
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Call: K1EO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,386,903
Thanks to all the participating stations. Best 73 K1EO
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Call: K1ESE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,014,768
Great conditions except for Saturday night. Operated about half of the 48
hours. No problems with the equipment and almost twice as many QSOs and more
than twice as many points compared to last year.
73 de K1ESE
John
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Call: K1GI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,446
K1GI Masa,
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Call: K1GQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,139,098
K3 KPA500 Dipoles SkookumLogger
It is well past time for HF transceivers manufacturers (and product reviewers)
to turn their focus from receiver performance to transmitter cleanliness. Our
now-excellent receivers cannot remove phase noise, clicks, and spurs
transmitted by stations otherwise well outside our passbands.
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Call: K1HI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 35,235
Busy weekend - no radio time! Ant Switch broken, limited to tribander @ 100
ft., K3, AL-1500.
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Call: K1KI Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,787,674
Very nice conditions this year! Especially enjoyed the after-midnight runs on
20m each night. KM1P operated about 30 hours, K1KI about 18 hours (10pm until
7am). One station, one operator at a time. Maximum fun.
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Call: K1KNQ Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 847,044
XCVR - Yaesu FT1000D
Antennas: 80M 4sq verticals, 40M 2el, 20M C3E, 15M/10M 4el quad.
Software: N1MM
Only Friday night for low bands.
New quad worked great, very satisfied
Now I'm thinking of a quad on 20M rather than a yagi.
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Call: K1KP Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,309,284
I did not accept contacts, copy callsigns correctly, or correct miscopied
callsigns through the use of manual telnet spots.
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Call: K1LT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,583,656
At the beginning of this contest, I didn't have any goal and I was
questioning my motivation. After the first couple of hours, I felt
much more like doing my best. So the goal became to beat last year's
score. Sometime during the first night I resolved to spend more time
CQing and less time tuning for multipliers. Also, I saw that a CME
was expected, so I thought I might try to emphasis the high bands a
little more than normal.
I started on 10 meters and worked my way down doing a "first time on
this band" scan for each band. 10 and 15 were both good enough that I
spent several hours there, including about an hour running on 15. 20
was not so interesting, although the band was open to everywhere. 40
was quiet so after tuning for 60 kHz, I CQed for half an hour. Its
kind of cool to work all continents in less than an hour, partly by
CQing, with only a vertical! By the time I got done tuning 80, I was
pressed for time, so I skipped CQing and went to 160 slightly late for
the magical 0500-0700Z window. After tuning, I tried CQing but that
didn't last long. One more pass across each of 80 and 40 found me
getting into that weird sleepy state where I find myself zoned out in
front of the radio when I'm supposed to turn the knob. So at 0739Z,
with 538 QSOs and 174 multipliers, I slept for 3 hours.
At 1052 I got back on the radio and rotated through the low bands but
didn't CQ. I was hoping to see more Asia and Oceania than I did.
Nevertheless, YJ, 9V, and KH2 are new 40 meter band countries for me.
After sunrise, I think I played the contest pretty typically. On each
band, I searched and pounced. When I found a potential hole, I would
CQ. The morning runs would last about 90 minutes, and then the
spot-bursts would get less frequent until I decided to tune again. I
rotated through 10, 15 and 20 trying to maximize time on the higher
frequencies (in case of CMEs) and to make sure I scanned each band at
least once. After about 1900Z the rate would get low enough that
tuning seemed to be the only way to make contacts. Saturday I stayed
on the high bands until about 0300Z. Saturday night the low bands
were much less productive, although CQing on 160 lasted about 45
minutes.
When zombie mode started to occur around 0730Z I slept 3 hours again
although the process took 3 and a half hours. The sunrise low bands
were not very productive. Just before sunrise I repeated the rotation
thing on the high bands, although the runs ran down quicker than on
Saturday. Sunday afternoon I ran on 40 starting at 2230Z which lasted
about an hour. I spent the last 30 minutes of the contest hunting for
multipliers. I found a couple of Central American stations and
snagged DP1POL as my last contact and my last multiplier at 2359Z.
That's a nice way to end the contest.
The usual Sunday afternoon huge pileup bonanza of typically African
and Oceania multipliers did not materialize this year. That and fewer
contacts on 160 knocked the multiplier tally down about 5%. On the
other hand, by CQing more I made about 15% more QSOs. I set a new
record for myself.
The surprise multiplier was XW0YJY long path at 1917Z on 20. The
surprise not-a-multiplier was VK6HG at 2241 on 40 meters while running
Europe. He wasn't a multiplier because I had already worked VK the
night before. I only heard and worked JW/DL5CW once. I hope he QSLs
via LoTW.
DX worked: 3V, 4J, 4O, 4X, 5B, 6W, 6Y, 9A, 9K, 9L, 9M6, 9V, A6, BV,
BY, C6, CE, CE9, CM, CN, CT, CT3, CU, CX, D4, DL, E7, EA, EA6, EA8,
EI, ER, ES, EU, F, FG, FY, G, GD, GI, GM, GW, HA, HB, HC, HI, HK, HL,
I, IS, J3, JA, JW, KH2, KH6, KL, KP2, KP4, LA, LU, LX, LY, LZ, OA, OE,
OH, OK, OM, ON, OZ, P4, PA, PJ2, PJ4, PJ5, PY, S5, SM, SP, SU, SV,
SV9, TF, TI, UA, UA2, UA9, UN, UR, V2, V3, VK, VP2E, VP5, VP9, XE, XW,
YB, YJ, YL, YN, YO, YS, YU, YV, Z3, ZF, ZL, and ZS for a total of 109
DXCC entities, not counting K and VE.
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: K1PQS Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 20,160
Single band 80m. Strong coastal storm on Saturday produced
continuous S9 QRN that effectively wiped out the band all
night here. I put in 15 minutes for 1 qso and quit. Friday
was nice, though.
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Call: K1RM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 520,800
Limited by family commitments. Used my available time to rack up q's. There are
so many outstanding cw operators in this world!
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Call: K1RV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,212,030
I really enjoyed this one. Condx were quite good and only problem was a logging
computer that kept crashing (4 times) requiring a re-boot. Also had to lose
some operating time while cleaning up from Saturday's snowstorm.
Rig is K3, P3, KPA500 and antenna is Steppir BigIR vertical and 160 meter
inverted L. Worked just about everyone I heard and was pleasantly surprised in
the pileups with the performance of the BigIR vs my previous QTH with tower and
TH-11. The sunspots definitely helped make it happen!
Pi-K1RV
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Call: K1RX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,828,192
Just another fun weekend. Casual M2 operation with two K3's. One failure a few
hours from the end with an amplifier. Some recabling got things rolling
again.
So many very good CW ops out there - really adds to the fun with great skills
in play -thanks!
N1YX operated 160, 40, 15 and I did the other bands - just the way the station
is setup.
Very enjoyable with conditions as good as they were. Saturday evening tanked
with the high A and K values and helped push us to QRT for some good sleep.
Sunday morning was off to the races again (thank goodness) and made the
complete experience outstanding. Apologies to those calling on 80 during this
period - heavy QRN killed us.
My thanks to all for a fabulous fun time!
73, Mark, K1RX
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Call: K1TH Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 358,614
Conditions were delightful. 10 Meters especially good to the Pacific; 9V1; VK,
ZL, etc. First time I had a power failure while operating during the Cape's
"almost-blizzard" on Sat night. The UPS kicked in fine for the
computer/cable modem, etc. Still a bit surprising.
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Call: K1TN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 979,020
I did this with one antenna, a 40 Meter sloper fed with 600-ohm open-wire line.
The sloper is aimed northeast and seemed to work pretty well on all four bands
40-10M.
My antenna for 80/160, a 135-centerfed, broke about two weeks ago (feed line
came loose at the feed point). With more than two feet of snow on the ground
and sub-zero temperatures I just could not get it repaired. The locals say this
is the best winter for snow-mobiling they can remember except that some days
it's been too cold, even for them. I have been very grateful for a place to
live and a furnace that works.
At the start, I was able to load the sloper/feedline on 80 Meters, sort of.
Then it went to hell. I looked out and sure enough it was snowing again, heavy,
wet snow. The tubular plastic feed line spacers ended up with a half-inch of ice
on them (or inside them). This open-wire line (bought from that guy in Oklahoma)
isn't normally bothered much by ice on it but feeding it as a 2-wire random wire
just didn't work when it iced up.
I wish I could send all this snow to Sochi, or to California.
A gold medal to Russian contesters! Never worked anywhere near as many R and U
stations as I did this weekend.
Highlight was working XW0YJY on 15 Meters at 0330Z, right over several big-gun
stations :) ... The high bands must have been fantastic for anyone with a
beam.
Jim Cain, K1TN
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Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,813,130
Just a boy, his radio, and his F1 key. No SO2R set up this time.
Very good condx most of the time and a very enjoyable time.
Noise is still an issue here, as evidenced by one cluster spot stating that I
can't hear.
Looking forward to being W1AW/4 for many hours starting in a few days, then
also looking forward to the SSB portion of this contest in 2 weeks when the
sunspots will be even more plentiful.
Thanks to all who called in and to those who made the effort to go someplace
rarer than home.
73, Dan
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Call: K1TR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 609,825
K3, P3, Tribander and wires.
Great condx!!
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Call: K1VSJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,611,495
Station: Icom 756 pro3, Mosley CL-33 @55 ft, 40-80 Alpha Delta inverted V with
center at 35 ft. Logging done on my trusty old windows 98 laptop and CT-9. No
internet, skimmer or any other such devices. Strictly an "old
school" setup except for the logging. BTW - did get the 8Q7 on 20 !!!
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Call: K1ZZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,396,046
Recovering from a bad cold and didn't want to put in full time. Noisy low bands
Saturday night led to a nice long break.
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Call: K2AX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,179,708
Rough weekend but made the best of it, Thanks guys
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Call: K2DM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 425,790
My first semi-serious effort from our deed-restricted retirement home in The
Villages, Florida. Antennas were the driven element from a Mosley TA-33 (in
the attic), a 40M dipole (in the attic, with one element bent around a bit) and
a wire about 50 feet long behind the house fed with a remote antenna tuner (used
on 80M and 160M). The TA-33 has a distinguished past, having been used from J7,
V4 and VP2M.
I was amazed at how much success I had. I worked over 90% of the stations I
called, even though I had no reasonable shot at getting through. Stations in
WL7, JA, KH6, ZL, NH2, CE and CX were worked fairly easily. Throughout the
weekend there were a number of very weak stations who heard my call the first
or second time. It was as though the competition and the QRM melted away at
just the right time.
Then there were the stations for whom I had to wait my turn - a turn which
sometimes failed to arrive before a packet swarm arrived. It was like getting
stuck outside the draft at a NASCAR race.
I could have put in more hours and made more contacts, but I had very little
success CQing, and S&P gets old after a while. I had set a goal of 500 Qs,
and I attained it fairly easily working a couple of hours each evening, a couple
each early morning, and a few more during each day.
I heard my brothers (Jeff, VY2ZM and Peter, K3ZM) on during the weekend, so
this turned out to be a great opportunity for operators to earn the coveted
WABB Award (Worked All Briggs Brothers).
A serious Thank You to ALL those ops who stuck with me to get my call and QTH
right. I hope to work you all soon from VP2MDG.
73,
George K2DM
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Call: K2PO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,727,180
Thank you 10 meters!
Last year we managed only 43 countries on 10m. This year we logged 94. The
European opening on Saturday morning made all the difference.
Another bit of excitement was the 3 hour Saturday night 20m polar opening - 200
contacts went into the log during what are often our slowest hours.
Together, those openings made Europe our top continent, at 45% of our QSOs, vs.
32% last year. (Asia was 37% this year, vs. 46% last year.)
Carl, WS7L, was a repeat from last year's crew, and operated multiple shifts
�" including in the middle of the night both Friday and Saturday. Jim,
KI7Y, handled the tedious Sunday duty of combing the bands to find the weak
stations that the skimmers missed.
We envied N7OU and NE7D of our Willamette Valley DX Club, who escaped Oregon's
stormy winter for a summery DXpedition in Vanuatu. We worked YJ0OU on five
bands.
Speaking of our stormy winter (e.g., winds of 55 mph were clocked on the tower
both Saturday and Sunday), the power went out for several hours early Sunday
morning. We were able to power the rig and computer with a small Honda
generator, but op Carl missed niceties like heat and water for a while.
6-band QSOs with 6Y2T, HK1NA, JA0QNJ, JA1RPK, JA9APS, JF1NHD, JF2QNM, JH4UYB,
KH6LC, KH7XX, P40L, PJ2T, RT0C, RT0F, and TI5W.
Thanks to all,
Bill, K2PO
Portland, Oregon
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Call: K2PS Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 152,139
I took a chance and put up my 4 element 10M yagi in the backyard of my home in
this antenna-restricted development.
I made sure to put up a sign for anyone creeping around to let them know the
antenna will be removed on Monday.
What a difference that made! Even though I dared not raise it too high to be
seen (actually I realized after I got it raised that I couldn't turn it past
West because the ends bumped into the roof!), it made a huge difference over
the 10M dipole I had been using.
Although the rates weren't great, I was able to run quite a bit, even with my
100W. Conditions were excellent, especially into Asia. Since I'm new to
contesting from Florida, I can't be sure if the terrific JA opening was so good
because of the QTH, or if my buddies in SNJ and DC also experienced it. Signals
were loud and lasted well past sunset, and along with many JAs I was able to
work BA, HL, and 9M6.
73, Pete, K2PS/4
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Call: K2QMF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,931,000
Sure nice to have 10 Meters again!
Thanks for the Q's...
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Call: K2QO Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 98,643
Nice conditions this weekend! 10 and 15 were especially good and the Au on
Saturday made for some neat sounding signals. I kept checking 6 and 2 hoping
for some VHF+ action but there was none from my QTH in FN03ra. Guys east and
north of me were working Au.
Heard both Laos and China with good signals but they surely did not hear me. An
amplifier and stacked Yagi's may have helped :-)
K3 @ 5W, F12C4e, 220' CF dipole up ~45', W1FB Inverted-U for 160 (used on
40M).
Skookum Logger, WinKeyerUSB and a Mac Mini.
73,
Mark K2QO
FN03ra
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Call: K2QPN Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 93,744
I have been fighting a upper respiratory infection and feeling like crap.
Operating from the basement shack would only aggravate the situation. I brought
the IC7000 upstairs, ran some coax over the snow, and connected to the beam. I
pointed the beam towards Europe and operated between bouts of hacking and
coughing. I was pleasantly surprised how well the minimalist station worked.
I upgraded my laptop from XP to WIN 7. Found that none of my USB to serial
adapters will work. Had to use a PC with a real serial port.
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Call: K2SSS Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 527,160
First day it was very nice condition 1086 q's and 99 mul.
Next day lot of static and noise.
Many qrp stn fron JA/EU.
Tnx every body for qso's cu next contest,
73 Zee
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Call: K2TTM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,649,778
Fantastic condx & great ops all around. Don't think I'll see the likes of
this one again.
Mike
K2TTM
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Call: K2WK Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 436,254
That was fun.
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Call: K2YR Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 50,220
Conditions seemed great on 15M. Friday night pointed beam North and suddenly
seemed everyone could hear me! Cool stuff. HI
Thanks for the Q's
73, Carl, K2YR
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Call: K2ZC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,085,184
I'm getting too old for this. But even though it was exhausting for me, it was a
lot of fun. Thanks to all for the qso's. Now it's time to shovel snow.
73 es GL
Dave k2zc
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Call: K2ZR/4 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 238,038
Rig: K2 @ 75 Watts
Antenna: 40M Windom w/clip over wire from short element to QTH gutters for
160/80
Log: N1MM
An all S&P operation with good conditions here in "Old Town" Key
West.
73,
Dick, K2ZR/4
IOTA NA-062
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Call: K3AJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,174,424
Equipment:
K3/100W
Antennas:
160M: Base Loaded 68 ft. vertical
80M: 68 ft. vertical
40M: 4-square vertical array
20M/15M/10M: 3-el SteppIR at 50 ft.
RX: 240 ft. beverages NE/SW, K9AY loop
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Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,045,108
Had to call it quits early to preserve the global sanity. The whole thing wasn't
meant to be from the very beginning but had to give it a try. I did and I had
fun most of the time. Hope you did too!
Thanks to Jim, WA3FET for letting me use the station again.
73, Alex LZ4AX
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Call: K3DCW Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 58,500
I am not a CW op, and am still working on getting the code down. This was the
first CW contest where I haven't picked around the edges. Decided to do a
10m-only effort with a goal of finishing my DXCC on 10m before the solar cycle
crashes. I had no other real goal for the contest other than to work what I
could and to have fun.
Friday night was a 30 minute quick scan of the band, Saturday afternoon I spent
about an hour in the chair. Sunday brought some peace and quiet, and thus some
more serious chair time; totaling about 9 hours with breaks spread throughout.
All QSOs were S&P as I don't trust my CW ear enough to try and run a
frequency. The rig was my K3 running at 100w into my Inverted L antenna, using
a 250Hz filter setting on the rig.
I really enjoyed the contest and feel pretty good about the results. I'm
already looking forward to the next CW contest.
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Call: K3EL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,066,428
K3/Acom 2000a
Steppir @ 42' - 3 ele 10-20 M dipole 40 m, 80 m delta loop, 160 m inv-L
N1MM logger
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Call: K3IE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,437,323
The 20 meter opening Saturday night (all night) was just plain fun - the band
was rocking over the pole. Had a glimmer of a solar peak.
Just fell short of my 2k QSO goal but really enjoyed the weekend.
Thanks for the Q's - Hunter, K3IE
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Call: K3JT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,460,736
WOW. My best score from home ever. What a blast!
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Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 19,367,640
What better way to spend a winter weekend than in the radio shack with a bunch
of good friends! Great fun and a few surprises from the sun made for a very
interesting radio contest. Another super close race once again! Congrats to all
of the Multi Multi teams. The score from the W3LPL team is very FB! We are
honored to compete along side the W3LPL team. Our scores are always close.
The contestmen at K3LR really pushed hard and made the most of the radio
conditions. No time to get discouraged when the K index shot up and the bands
appeared to die. I was very proud to host this special group of friends.
As always, thanks to my good friend Dave, W9PA who put in tons of hours working
on many projects here at K3LR to get us ready and keep us going. Thanks for all
of your help and inspiration Dave!
Also thanks to Greg, W8WWV for his help on several projects that continue to
improve our station capabilities. The work Greg did to improve our 160 RX is
really something.
This K3LR contest operation was dedicated to my father Dan Duffy, who passed
away last week. He always encouraged me to shoot for the stars and never give
up. His spirit lives on.
K3LR station details are at http://www.k3lr.com click on the HARDWARE tab.
We look forward to hearing YOU on the air and enjoying the ARRL
International DX Phone Contest in two weeks.
>From the K3LR Team - Very 73,
Tim K3LR
http://www.k3lr.com
K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL CW DX CONTEST -- 2014
BAND QSO COUNTRIES OPERATORS
160 141 59 K3LR
80 798 96 K3UA + W5OV
40 1896 124 N2NC + VE3EJ
20 2388 134 W2RQ + VE3EY + N3SD
15 2374 136 K1DG + N0AX
10 1883 132 N3GJ + K9GY
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Totals 9480 681 = 19,367,640
Continent Statistics
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 25 41 54 59 59 54 292 3.0
South America 9 16 41 64 67 83 280 2.8
Europe 102 698 1458 1932 1722 1437 7349 74.4
Asia 0 39 358 430 530 297 1654 16.8
Africa 4 14 21 27 22 25 113 1.1
Oceania 3 19 36 50 48 29 185 1.9
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL CW DX CONTEST Multi Multi
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 23/17 90/31 214/49 90/54 119/30 55/17 591/198 591/198
1 8/2 52/8 89/12 53/12 127/4 3/1 332/39 923/237
2 10/8 64/13 66/11 84/13 64/1 . 288/46 1211/283
3 16/5 61/7 78/7 67/3 . . 222/22 1433/305
4 11/7 54/5 81/1 52/5 . . 198/18 1631/323
5 16/7 58/5 81/6 36/3 . . 191/21 1822/344
6 3/2 50/2 105/2 69/1 . . 227/7 2049/351
7 1/0 33/4 83/3 85/1 . . 202/8 2251/359
8 1/0 5/2 82/3 123/7 ..... ..... 211/12 2462/371
9 2/1 3/3 72/2 79/1 . . 156/7 2618/378
10 . 5/2 73/2 96/1 12/10 . 186/15 2804/393
11 1/0 17/0 58/3 122/3 136/35 48/20 382/61 3186/454
12 . 13/1 38/2 84/6 210/17 200/40 545/66 3731/520
13 . . 2/0 58/0 174/2 180/19 414/21 4145/541
14 . . . 38/0 137/4 196/6 371/10 4516/551
15 . . . 32/2 103/3 142/3 277/8 4793/559
16 ..... ..... ..... 43/0 108/4 132/0 283/4 5076/563
17 . . . 55/2 91/0 74/3 220/5 5296/568
18 . . . 78/2 119/4 47/4 244/10 5540/578
19 . . 6/0 86/1 63/4 23/2 178/7 5718/585
20 . . 48/1 64/0 40/1 10/2 162/4 5880/589
21 . 1/0 90/2 70/0 42/0 19/1 222/3 6102/592
22 . 7/0 69/0 42/1 55/1 80/0 253/2 6355/594
23 1/1 25/2 77/1 23/1 47/1 84/2 257/8 6612/602
0 ..... 9/1 16/1 8/0 39/0 31/0 103/2 6715/604
1 1/1 9/1 22/3 13/1 17/0 2/0 64/6 6779/610
2 4/2 13/1 26/2 24/2 8/0 . 75/7 6854/617
3 3/1 14/1 24/0 6/0 14/1 . 61/3 6915/620
4 2/0 20/1 25/1 25/0 7/0 . 79/2 6994/622
5 21/1 48/1 34/0 34/0 1/0 . 138/2 7132/624
6 15/2 47/0 36/0 37/0 . . 135/2 7267/626
7 2/2 23/1 54/2 45/1 . . 124/6 7391/632
8 ..... 5/0 52/1 45/0 ..... ..... 102/1 7493/633
9 . 3/0 31/1 30/0 . . 64/1 7557/634
10 . 2/0 27/1 49/0 . . 78/1 7635/635
11 . 1/1 6/1 53/0 31/3 . 91/5 7726/640
12 . 2/0 8/2 52/3 101/1 76/2 239/8 7965/648
13 . . 2/0 37/2 99/4 129/1 267/7 8232/655
14 . . . 22/0 90/0 111/3 223/3 8455/658
15 . . . 28/0 82/0 67/1 177/1 8632/659
16 ..... ..... ..... 24/0 55/1 77/1 156/2 8788/661
17 . . . 23/0 64/0 47/1 134/1 8922/662
18 . . . 39/0 53/1 11/0 103/1 9025/663
19 . . 1/0 30/1 30/2 9/1 70/4 9095/667
20 . . 15/0 52/0 14/1 9/1 90/2 9185/669
21 . 2/0 28/1 41/2 3/0 8/1 82/4 9267/673
22 . 26/1 46/0 24/2 11/1 5/0 112/4 9379/677
23 . 36/2 31/1 18/1 8/0 8/0 101/4 9480/681
DAY1 93/50 538/85 1412/107 1629/119 1647/121 1293/120 ..... 6612/602
DAY2 48/9 260/11 484/17 759/15 727/15 590/12 . 2868/79
TOT 141/59 798/96 1896/124 2388/134 2374/136 1883/132 . 9480/681
QSO Counts By Band-Country
K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL CW DX CONTEST Multi Multi
PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10
3A 1
3B8 1
3B9 2 1
3V 1 1 1 2 1 1
3W 2 1
4J 3 4 3 4
4L 1 1 1 1
4O 1 2
4X 3 9 7 8
5B 1 2 2 2 3
5H 1 1 1 1 1
6W 1
6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1
8P 1
8Q 1 1
9A 3 8 27 20 19 19
9H 1 1 1 1 1
9K 1
9L 1 1 1 1 1
9M2 2
9M6 1 1 1 1
9V 1 1 1 1
9Y 1 1 1 1
A6 1 2 2 2
A9 1
BV 1 3 4 1
BY 4 7 19 4
C6 1 2 2 4 1 2
CE 1 3 2 3 6
CE9 2 2 2 1
CM 6 7 3 4 2
CN 1 1 1 2 1 1
CP 1
CT 1 1 2 3 4 4
CT3 1 1 1 3 1 3
CU 1 1 1 1 1
CX 1 3 3 4 4
D4 1 1 1 1 1
DL 7 131 244 309 299 267
DU 1 2 2 2
E7 1 1 9 9 7 6
EA 6 23 48 63 54 54
EA6 1 1 3 2 2
EA8 6 8 10 9 9
EA9 1 1 1 1
EI 1 6 16 11 15 11
EK 1
ER 1 1 1 2 1
ES 1 4 7 9 8 5
EU 16 22 26 25 14
EX 1 1
F 7 27 44 64 60 46
FG 1 2 3 3 3 3
FK 1 1 2 1 2 2
FO 1
FP 1 1 1 1
FR 1 1 1
FY 1 1 1
G 8 44 78 101 96 100
GD 1 1 2 1
GI 1 2 3 3 4 5
GJ 1
GM 1 11 14 26 22 18
GU 1 1 1 4
GW 2 4 4 4 5
HA 5 20 45 65 46 43
HB 2 11 13 25 24 16
HB0 1
HC 1 1 1 1 1
HI 1 1 2 1 1
HK 2 1 5 4 2 1
HL 3 5 13 2
HP 1 1 1
HS 1 2 8 7 2
HZ 1 1 2 1
I 17 43 130 176 153 120
IS 2 6 7 5 4
J2 1
J3 1 2 1 1 1 1
J8 1
JA 31 282 252 382 228
JT 1 1 2
JW 1 2 4 2 1
JY 1 1
KH2 1 2 2 3 2
KH6 2 7 6 8 12 9
KL 2 5 6 8 9 9
KP2 5 5 5 5 5 6
KP4 3 2 5 7 7 5
LA 9 16 15 15 15
LU 7 12 12 22
LX 2 2 2 3 2
LY 3 10 16 20 17 12
LZ 1 8 23 25 32 31
OA 1 1 1 1 1
OE 2 5 11 14 13 9
OH 1 22 33 61 45 36
OK 4 57 84 94 90 69
OM 2 15 25 35 27 15
ON 1 12 23 38 26 23
OX 2 2 1
OY 1 1 1 1
OZ 10 15 18 12 19
P4 2 3 3 3 3 3
PA 5 27 60 79 77 79
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1
PJ4 1 2 2 3 3 3
PJ5 1 1 1 1 1 1
PJ7 1 1 1
PY 2 4 14 29 34 36
PZ 1
S5 4 21 38 38 41 27
SM 3 15 44 60 51 43
SP 3 27 55 60 65 59
SU 1
SV 1 4 8 5 5 8
SV9 2 2 3 2
T7 1 1
TA 1 3 5 4 2
TF 2 3 3 2
TI 1 1 2 1 1 1
TK 3 3 2
UA 1 26 119 217 159 90
UA2 1 2 3 2 4
UA9 5 42 92 60 29
UK 1 2 1 1
UN 3 21 10 3
UR 5 35 103 123 103 79
V2 1 1 1 1 1 1
V3 2 1 1 2 2 3
V7 1
VK 7 15 21 12 5
VP2E 1 1 1 1 1 1
VP5 1 1 1 2 1 1
VP8 1
VP9 1 1 1 1 1 1
VR 2 2 1
VU 1 4 4 1
XE 1 1 3 2 4 4
XW 1 1 1 1
YB 2 5 8
YJ 1 1 1 1 1
YL 5 10 11 12 7
YN 1 1 2 2 2 2
YO 15 25 39 36 32
YS 1 1 1 1 1
YU 4 13 19 24 19 15
YV 1 2 1 1
Z3 1 2 8 4 4
ZB 1
ZF 1 4 5 4 4 4
ZL 2 5 8 5 7
ZP 1
ZS 1 3 4 5 5
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Call: K3MD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,234,696
Some of my cross-check exchanges are clearly in error... is ATT different than
99? Is 70 or 80 correct? Hit the wall at 0300 Sun. as usual. Unbelievable
conditions!!!!!! Solar storm on Saturday did not materialize.
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Call: K3OO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,260,720
Some running, some DXing, some shoveling.
73,
Rick K3OO
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Call: K3PA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,090,130
First DX test from new QTH. Now for 80/160 antennas next year!
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Call: K3PH Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,632,500
First attempt at the multi-single, low power category.
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Call: K3PP Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,262,460
It was a tough weekend to dedicate to a contest, but this is one of the big ones
and I just COULDN'T miss it! I had to do some work for a client and then my wife
and I had to clean up after Mother Nature's latest blanket of white. 100%
S&P.
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Call: K3STX Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 95,004
Wow, what a difference a day makes. The second night was BRUTAL. I am SORRY to
all the Eu guys that I tried to work before 0000Z on the second night; the
QRN/QSB/noise was so bad I thought it might be best to turn off the rig and
call it a night. But for some reason I kept at it. My sunrise was great, lots
of JAs made up for the lack of Eu on the second night.
I almost ALWAYS operate assisted; I thought I would try this out for
comparison. Still not sure how I feel; if there were at SOSB40A I would do it
(last year I did just that, only to find out there is no such category!). I
wonder how many Qs/mults I missed without Skimmer. I guess I will find out with
other scores.
Thanks for the QSOs, conditions really stunk here. Too bad.
Paul K3STX
Kenwood TS-590S; Ameritron AL-811 400 watts
40 M dipole up 50' to Eu; Pennant ant to Eu
100' long dipole up 50' N/S for SA/Asia
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Call: K3TN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,342,068
K3, KPA-500, 135' OCF Dipole at 45'
This was a Semi Single Op (was home for less than 1/2 the weekend)Semi Assisted
(the snowstorm took out our FIOS Internet for most of Saturday) Semi High Power
(500w) operation - but fully fun.
Great conditions, even the CME didn't disrupt things very much. I was on at
chunks of odd times - could always find a band to run on or do high speed SO2V
S&P - except for 160 which was stinko any time I checked.
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Call: K3TUF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,143,414
Had high hopes, then early Saturday pipe burst in garage and wiped out a lot of
time.
Really enjoyed the time I had to operate. The new 40 meter beam at 140 feet
rocks.
73, Phil
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Call: K3WA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,789,886
Great contest. Conditions were outstanding at first but hampered by seriously
bad snow QRN on Saturday evening. Spent 33 hours on the air with the rest of
the time shared betwwen shoveling snow and getting this old man some sleep.
The strangest part of the contest was getting in some pileups where K3WA, K3RA,
K3PA, and VA2WA were all competing for the same Q. The Good Sportmanship award
goes to Drew, K3PA. In one of those pileups he gave me a heads-up that the DX
was coming back to me. He could have just as easily answered and likely taken
the Q away.
Thanks Drew! I owe you one.
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Call: K3WW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 7,136,061
Down a bit from last year in Qs and Mults but at least made 1000 Qs on 4 bands
this time.
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Call: K4AB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,866,970
What a pleasant surprize to have the bands in great shape, despite
the dire predictions. The low bands on the first night were the quietist
I can recall, and signal level were good.
One of the things I look forward to in this contest are the 2 A.M. local
openings over the pole. The Asia/Europe pileups were massive. And
everyone is calling zero beat on my frequency. Plus add in the Arctic
flutter and the endless calling of some poor ops. Still is it one of
my favorite things.
73,
Larry K4AB
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Call: K4EU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 817,938
Missed all of Saturday after 1900Z to Sunday 1300Z due to family
responsibilities. Believe would have easily gone over the million point
barrier if could have operated during this period..... Lots of really good low
power/QRP signals worked....
Thanks for the Q's!!!
73....//Steve K4EU
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Call: K4FJ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 27,720
Saturday was a wipeout.+
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Call: K4GM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 355,020
One dipole antenna but still had fun. Conditions were great.
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Call: K4IKM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,055,798
When I went to bed on Saturday night, I was on my way to a personal best for
ARRL DX CW and I hoped to break 4M points - but it was not to be. I believe
that propagation was down a bit but my real problem was a dead furnace and snow
removal - these cost me most of the day Sunday. We woke up Sunday am to find our
house was at 51 deg F and dropping. I called the service company but then had to
clear 8" snowfall with 24" drifts on our driveway so the tech could
get in to repair the furnace.
I had a really fun time on 20M from 0252Z to 0339Z when I ran 39 Russians, one
after another, on a dead band. There was absolutely no QRN or QRM whatsoever,
the band was quite dead. These signals were the merest whispers with lots of
flutter, I'd say they were Q5 S0 T9! In 55 years of hamming, I don't think I've
ever worked such weak signals! For me, this was amazing and was the highlight of
this contest.
I'm working on SO2V and making headway with that. Didn't use it much during
this contest but I plan to use in two weeks on the SSB event.
Even with the low operating time, I was happy with my score. This was a great
event.
I want to thank all the DX who gave me their QSOs. Without them, my score would
be ZERO.
Steve...K4IKM...73!....
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Call: K4LM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,226,916
Operated all S&P with the Cluster. Enjoyed this one the best so far, a very
rich target environment.
TS-590S and LK-500, TH6-DXX@60ft. and EDZ for 40 at 50ft. N1MM and HB i3
computer and Windows 8.1. Mercury paddle and HB contest keyer with interface
to radio.
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Call: K4LO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 15,220
First submission for FCG. Due to XYL health issues I couldn't put in the hours.
Anyway here is my meager score. Had fun though!
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Call: K4MM Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 35,100
Just a in and out operation, as XYL's sister is here from Berlin, Ger. Condx
fair here. Still fun.
RIG: FT-950
AMP: Dentron 160-10L TUNER: Dentron MT-200A (600 wts)
ANT: 160 M inverted "L" @ 40'
Thanks to all who worked me. 73 Til the next one.
Tom Colyard K4MM
Porty St Lucie, FL
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Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,302,720
Excellent conditions this year. Thanks for the QSOs.
Log submitted. Confirmation #: 4242849.arrl-dx-cw
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Call: K4WW Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 11,700
100% S/P and nothing more to do, on a cold Sunday morning, before church.
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Call: K4XS Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 747,360
Set out to break the 4th call are record and/or the USA record for 20.
Accomplished the first, but not the second...and I don't think the logs have a
big enough score to survive the usual points loss from log checking to
establish a new record for the 4th call area.
Fantastic condx, especially the first day.
One note: Chief ops at MM, M2 etc.... Your station reputation can be marred
by some poor ops. More than once, I called ?? or QRL a couple of times and got
no reply. I proceeded to call CQ a couple of times and perhaps made a Q, only
to have a station come on from a MM or M2 claiming it was his freq. Now we
both knew what was going on here. The MM station left the freq to grab a mult,
or did not transmit while the S/P station picked up the mult. This kind of
behavior sucks. We all know the rule...use it, or lose it.
If any of the station owners want to know if I'm referring to operators at
their stations drop me an email and I'll let you know if there was a problem.
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Call: K5BG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,924,272
This was fun.
Thanks to the DX for showing up.
73,
BG
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Call: K5FP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 282,252
A problem popped up that has been giving me problems for a long time. Just a
bad solder job on my coax to my main antenna. Got it fixed. Not much time to
operate this year.
Fred K5FP
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Call: K5GN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 441,960
A little fooling around with 100W to my 40m vertical led to a bit more time than
I planned, but its was lots of fun in the flutter.
Some very good ears out there!
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Call: K5JX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 189,618
This was great fun! The high bands were in great shape. There are some great DX
ops with super ears!
Elecraft K3, Ameritron AL82, Inverted V at 30 ft., N1MM Logger
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Call: K5KG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,452,904
Condx were excellent, especially for the first half of the contest. On the
first night, there was little or now QRN on the low bands, and the high bands
remained open late into the night. On the second night, QRN was high, which
made the low bands more difficult to work.
The statiion was a K3 + the KPA500 amp and KAT Tuner. My high power amp is on
the fritz, so I was limited to the 500 watt amp. Logged with WinTest. The
Elecraft K-Line is fully integrated, so band changing is instantenous. The
instantaneous band changing, along with the WinTest band map displaying
"mults only" made finding needed mults on any band very easy.
Close in stations such as C6, ZF, CO, YN, YS, and XE were difficult to work. At
times, I could hear and work them, but must of the time, they were too close in
to be copyable I find this to be true in general from my SW FL QTH. The
exceptions this weekend, were TI5W and V26M that were loud most of the time.
Also, PJ4X and PJ2T were smashing loud most of the time.
Antennas were C31, 7el 10m yagi, SteppIR Big Vertical on 40m, 80m Lnv Vee, and
160m Inv L. Like my big amp is on the fritz, so is my 40m yagi, so I was
limted to using the SteppIR Big Vert on 40m; it performed extremely well. Some
time during the contest, I disccovered that my 10m yagi went dead. A quick trip
outsied revealed that the ring rotor had rotated past its stop, and ripped the
coax loose. I did not attempt to fix it since the C31 covers 10m. For
receiving, I use a Pixel mag loop, and it did a wonderful job. I would not
have had many of the low band contacts without it. I even used it on 40m the
second night to cut thru the QRN.
73, George, K5KG
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Call: K5KU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,521,000
lot of fun...but developed some sort of strange s8 noise on 20 so the count is
out of whack as to what it could have been.
this is my 2nd arrl cw test since getting back on the air after 30 years of
inactivity. the station is still in development so hope to be more competitive
next time along with improved operating skills.
ants: 1.8 dipole
3.5 shunt fed 70' tower
7.0 klm 40m4 @ 80'
kt-34xa @ 70'
k3
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Call: K5NA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,686,744
This contest is always fun.
73, Richard - K5NA
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Call: K5NZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 716,703
500w
TH6 Fixed North
Wires
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Call: K5RT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,106,775
That was fun! 20 meters Saturday night/Sunday morning was incredible!
No major problems other than some power line noise that really hurt the 160/80
meter multiplier totals.
This was a "classic" M/S: One station, rotating operators in the
seat.
Vy Sennytree
Red Truck
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Call: K5YAA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 649,788
This gang buster Multi-1 setup consisted of the following items:
Two high school friends - 1959 vintage
Two K3 units, one a Zero and one a Real one.
Two little remote black boxes
Two rather large aluminum aerials
A rotator stuck on a NE heading of about 30 degrees
A, at times fussy iNet connection between Dallas, TX and Claremore, OK
A well performing Tokyo HL 1.2Kfx Amplifier (800 powerful watts)
Two battery powered iPhone type units
Two coffee makers
Two small rooms with stool looking things in them and handles on them
Two comfortable chairs for older fellows
Two cooperative XYL types
The above arrangements made for a terrific weekend of fun for the two, now
older rascals that are retired and enjoying their lifelong hobby. The bands we
had aluminum available for were limited to 10 and 15 meters (see all the zeros
in the various band boxes above) Those two characters worked their tails off
trying to work as many DX stations as they could on those two bands and in the
number of hours available what with grand kids and longtime understanding XYLs
that always come first.
The bands cooperated! 10 and 15 were as hot as the Oklahoma part of the team
has seen since 2002. The P3 adapter owned by the Dallas end was well lit up
both days. Fun runs of Europeans occurred on both bands and both mornings for
several hours. Rates hit as high as 300/hour at times and were a steady 190+
for long periods. We enjoyed working those Europeans and were amazed at the
number of off the side and off the back yagi QSOs we logged. Breaking pileups
at times to Africa, Oceania and South America. On Sunday afternoon the
Caribbean and South America were hitting well over S9 - off the back and side
of the aerials. The DX gods were shining on us since they know these may be
some of the last good years we have to enjoy our beloved CW.
We had worked the week before the contest getting the little remote devices
finely tuned. The Dallas part of the team needed to install N1MM so we bugged
a couple of younger ops asking why N1MM didn't let us assign a port higher than
COM8 for RT interface. With their help we figured out what we needed to do but
time was short so we didn't get Dallas running on N1MM and with all the little
black box remote cabling didn't set up the remote - Oklahoma end - with it's
normal N1MM radio interface - just CW keying which meant the Oklahoma end
needed to remember to change frequencies in the logging window of N1MM -
something he failed to do a couple of times before a handful of Qs were logged
on the wrong band. Try editing freqs. in N1MM entries while smoking along with
a large pile of aggressive European callers. The log got edited but not before
several delays in response occurred. Our apologies to those who had others to
work and got frustrated with our seeming inability to do CW.
Something noticeably different from earlier years in a major contest was the
lack of frequency fights. The Oklahoma operator noticed only a handful of head
butts and they didn't last long. One had to do with the Oklahoma guy trying to
entice a mult by scooting up a KC or so and hollerin CQ Test. A QRL wasn't
broadcast, the frequency wasn't occupied at that instant second in time, so the
CQ Test went out. An aggravated East Coaster, I think, sent - YAA QRL QSY!
Oooops stepped on somebody. An apology to whoever that was. Needless to say my
fishing expedition came up empty. I had tossed out my lure and immediately the
line on my reel became tangled! A handful of radios had spurs and clicks. One
in particular had something terribly wrong with it. A DX station it was. At
keydown it sounded, right at the start that a rubber band was holding down the
tone. Boing - the rubber band expanded and the rest of the exchange was good
tone and copy. I sat and listened for a little while because it reminded me of
chirps, blurps and drifting signals I used to hear on the Early Warning barrier
in the North Atlantic coming from over the pole. I think they were from over
the pole. I suppose I was harkening back to my boyhood which my Dallas friend
and I did a lot during the contest and the week running up to it.
We had a good time, which is what the hobby is all about. The latest
technology for radio control amazes even these two old guys who both have
technical backgrounds.
Thanks to all the DX stations for the terrific QSOs and multipliers. Their
activity is much appreciated. The ARRL DX CW test is a special one. A Q with
PJ5W and hearing the Doc send my name topped the list of friends K5YAA enjoyed
working in this one.
Till our next exploits with, hopefully a full arsenal of aluminum
73, de Bill AK5X (The Dallas Guy) and Jerry K5YAA (The Oklahoma Guy)
Our setup included:
Dallas - A K3/0 and a hand keyer that sends Charles Whiskey
Oklahoma - A K3, Tokyo Amp, 6el 15 meter Force and 8el 10 meter Force arrays
atop a 60' tower on an 70' Oklahoma cliff stuck pointing right at Central
Europe.
A Dell Laptop that also sends Charles Whiskey with the the assistance of
N1MM logging <- A real piece of design work.
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Call: K5ZD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 6,565,110
I am little burned out on contesting. Just in the middle of CQWW results, made
trip to Estonia for the Contest Club of Finland meeting 2 weeks ago, and
WRTC2014. So couldn't get up for a full effort, but as it seems each time, the
great conditions lured me in for more operating than I planned.
It wasn't without challenges. Spent the first 90 minutes on 40m with the amp
tuned to 10m. I turned the amp on, but forgot to tune it. Still worked a
bunch of guys but couldn't figure out why I felt so weak. Duh! Discovered the
TH7 mult antenna would not turn and didn't seem to pointed exactly south.
Something to work on when the snow melts.
Started getting the sniffles on Friday evening. It had turned into a full on
cold with some fever by Sat morning. My whole station now needs to be
disinfected from the occasional sneeze...
All bands were good. 160m to 10m. I made myself take a nap the first night and
then took another off time at midday to go for a walk and get a haircut. The
rates during the morning were incredible. A personal best 60 minutes of 222!
Personal best clock hour of 219. Could have been better, but the zero beat
problem often caused some delay in getting a callsign.
Had just settled into a perfect run frequency on 40m Sat afternoon when the
snow static started. Wiped out 40 and pushed me back to 20m. Then I got the
dinner call and took a break.
With the cold, I figured it would be good to get some more sleep. Didn't set
the alarm and figured I would probably sleep 8 hours or so. I woke up at one
point and saw the clock said 10:43. In my fog, I thought that was GMT and it
was the perfect time to wake up. I was on the air making QSOs before I
realized it was local time and had only slept 3 hours.
It exposed me to the most incredible conditions of the weekend. I happened to
listen on 15m at 0400z. There were signals there! Lots of them from Asia and
very loud. Worked a JT1, BG2, XW0, UA0s, JAs. Even wilder, I was alternating
making QSOs on 15m and 160m. It was really noisy here on 160, but must have
been very quiet in Europe because everyone came right back on the first call.
About 0730z I ended up on 20m. The band was open to everywhere over the pole.
I had one beam NE and one NW. Started off with some Eu and then the JAs started
calling. JAs don't usually call me, much less have a real run. Signals had a
polar sound, but were loud enough to get the whole call each time. Even worked
some QRP JAs. This lasted until about 0930z. Must not have been much activity
on the band because I had lots of callers.
Took a 90 minute nap and then came back on at 1130z. 15m was already rocking so
I went there. More big hours. Kept waiting for 10m to open, but it didn't
sound as good at 15m. Heard K0DQ up in ME running guys before I could.
Finally made the jump around 1445z.
Some studly QSOs during the day. Plenty of VU2s on 10-20m. Several HS0 called
in on 15m over Europe. As did two VK6s. The amazing QSO was JA1BPA calling in
on 15m LP at 1337z.
Using the cluster was fun because it allowed me to run like a maniac all the
time without missing too much. Even with it, there weren't many new mults on
the second day. Mostly filling in band slots.
The ultimate proof of how good conditions were is the number of 5 and 6 band
QSOs.
Worked 44 stations on 6 bands:
6Y2T 9A1A CN2AA CR3L CS2C DF3FS DL1A E7DX EA5RS EC2DX ED7P EF5F HG1S HK1NA IR1Y
J38XX KH6LC KP2M LZ9W OE2S OL7M OM7RU OT2A P40W PI4TUE PJ2T PJ4X R22ALS S54W
SO9Q SV1DPJ TI5W TM6M UR7GO UW1M UW2M UW3U V26M V31TP VP2EZZ VP5S YU0T YU5R
ZF35A
Worked 86 on 5 bands.
It also means there isn't as much pressure on any one band. With everyone
spread out across 3+ bands at a time, it was never difficult to find a
frequency. No frequency fights the whole weekend!
Thanks to everyone who called in. This was a great one for having fun running
rate and chasing DX.
Rates:
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 87/34 24/21 --+-- --+-- 111/55 111/55
0100Z - - 72/12 20/15 - - 92/27 203/82
0200Z 1/1 80/34 5/1 2/0 - - 88/36 291/118
0300Z 20/17 10/2 - 42/11 - - 72/30 363/148
0400Z 5/5 74/14 2/2 19/4 - - 100/25 463/173
0500Z 1/1 16/11 17/16 35/4 - - 69/32 532/205
0600Z 2/2 76/4 7/3 32/5 - - 117/14 649/219
0700Z 4/4 1/1 48/5 82/12 - - 135/22 784/241
0800Z 3/3 --+-- 54/2 3/0 --+-- --+-- 60/5 844/246 28
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 844/246 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 844/246 60
1100Z - 2/2 9/4 - 109/33 - 120/39 964/285 9
1200Z - - - 11/5 169/11 28/19 208/35 1172/320
1300Z - - - - 8/4 211/23 219/27 1391/347
1400Z - - - - 14/9 175/9 189/18 1580/365
1500Z - - - - 4/4 21/18 25/22 1605/387 44
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1605/387 60
1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1605/387 60
1800Z - - - - 70/3 21/12 91/15 1696/402 22
1900Z - - - 140/5 27/11 2/1 169/17 1865/419
2000Z - - 27/0 87/3 12/6 6/3 132/12 1997/431
2100Z - - - 78/2 16/3 13/6 107/11 2104/442
2200Z - - - 19/0 12/2 8/0 39/2 2143/444 35
2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2143/444 60
0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0400Z 15/4 2/0 68/4 8/3 8/3 - 101/14 2244/458
0500Z 11/2 68/1 10/1 6/5 - - 95/9 2339/467
0600Z 2/2 15/1 98/1 1/0 - - 116/4 2455/471
0700Z - 3/0 40/0 70/1 - - 113/1 2568/472
0800Z --+-- --+-- 4/1 129/4 --+-- --+-- 133/5 2701/477
0900Z - 3/0 1/1 46/0 - - 50/1 2751/478 12
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2751/478 60
1100Z - - 2/1 - 59/0 - 61/1 2812/479 36
1200Z - - - 3/2 173/5 6/3 182/10 2994/489
1300Z - - - 1/0 152/5 11/2 164/7 3158/496
1400Z - - - - 83/5 54/1 137/6 3295/502
1500Z - - - 4/1 5/2 147/3 156/6 3451/508
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/1 17/2 113/1 131/4 3582/512
1700Z - - - 6/0 77/1 61/2 144/3 3726/515
1800Z - - - 85/2 26/0 18/0 129/2 3855/517
1900Z - - - 60/0 1/1 12/1 73/2 3928/519 23
2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 3928/519 60
2100Z - - 4/1 1/1 - - 5/2 3933/521 54
2200Z - - 80/2 29/2 - 2/0 111/4 4044/525
2300Z - 26/0 28/2 - 27/2 4/1 85/5 4129/530 7
Total: 64/41 376/70 663/93 1044/109 1069/112 913/105
By continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 45 337 589 806 904 791 3472 84.1
AF 2 3 7 12 11 11 46 1.1
NA 12 22 26 25 25 27 137 3.3
SA 4 8 15 24 25 42 118 2.9
OC 1 5 7 15 13 9 50 1.2
AS 0 1 19 162 91 33 306 7.4
Station:
Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
FT1000D + AL-1200
160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4 square
40m: 2-el Yagi @ 110'
20m: 5-el/5-el @ 100'/50'
15m: 4-el/4-el @ 66'/33'
10m: 6-el/4-el/4-el @90'/60'/30'
South: TH7DXX @40'
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Call: K6AW Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 249,912
Stopped at the end of day 1 because of equipment problems. Condx were unusual.
Thanks for the Q's and thanks to Ken for use of the station.
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Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 49,104
Wow! A new station record. The conditions were great. Hard work, but oh, so
fun.
I am running one new antenna, in place of my stealth wire across my back yard.
I installed a new Maldol HVU-8 Compact Vertical for 80-10m. It is only 8ft
tall, completely hidden behind the house. It works well on all bands, though it
still needs a little fine tuning. Bert, K6CSL
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Call: K6GHA Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 6,804
I had a lot of fun for only a few hours of S&P effort. A good time
capturing Morocco and Somalia on 10m QRP.
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Call: K6III Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 18,318
Casual ops, all hunt-n-Pounce
350w F12c4 at 60ft, 40m dipole
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Call: K6JEB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 44,253
Considering this fell on Valentine's Day weekend, it's a wonder I was able to
operate. But once the XYL and I returned from some Sonoma County wine-tasting
(again)I realized how excellent the bands were. Ten meters was HOPPING with DX
workable on the first try, even off the side of the beam with the amp off!
Let's hope conditions stay like this for a bit longer.
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Call: K6KYJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 106,299
Happy, happy, happy! This is the first contest that I have enjoyed since 2009.
Just an old man and his hundred watt radio and a backyard full of wires. No
skimmers, no reamers, no boomers. And no Big Brothers to tell me how far short
of their expectations I have sunk.
This contest was one hundred percent pure California Organic Search and Pounce.
All 279 Q's consummated by turning a dial and listening carefully for someone
sending "KW". The only runs I made were to the room down the hall.
Next year will be my 60th year in amateur radio and weekends like this inspire
me to keep on chugging along.
Not all of us can be Big Guns, but we can still be Lil' Pistols with Attitude!
RIG:
K2/100 (thanks, Al)
Single band dipoles 80m - 10m, quarter wave sloper 160m
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Call: K6LE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 59,508
K3 100W
90' wire at 35'
Logger = RUMPed for the Mac
10M was absolutely amazing on Saturday morning.
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Call: K6LL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,437,400
Saturday was fabulous! Sunday, not so much.
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Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 670,878
Thanks for the 'Qs'...always nice to say hello to friends around the world.
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Call: K6NR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,110,888
Saturday morning had the best conditions to Europe I've heard in
a very long while. Big pileup calling me for about an hour, managed
to work 140 stations then. Great fun. Low bands were "less
good".
Thanks for the QSOs. dana
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Call: K6NV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 172,436
Mostly S&P which worked out ok. Clearly not a full time effort, only low
power on 20m, rest of the time 5-600w.
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Call: K6RIM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 704,781
The propagation numbers for the contest period looked discouraging, but I found
conditions good to excellent on all of the bands. From the West Coast, 40M had
good EU openings during the evening. 20M opened early to EU and stayed open in
the afternoon and evening. Even had some decent morning openings on 10M to EU.
But found little activity from Africa.
Normally, I run HP with an Alpha 9500. Recently, I acquired an Elecraft KPA500
as a backup amplifier, and I used the KPA500 during the entire contest. So I
ran 500 watts instead of 1,500. How much difference could I detect? Virtually
none! The little KPA500 performed like a champ and I never found myself wishing
for more power.
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Call: K6ST Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 7,440
Fun operating 10m and 15m Sunday from N6XI station. Thanks Rick N6XI!
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Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 354,024
had to give up all of sunday for family time, but sure had fun friday night and
saturday...10 was good, and you never know how long it will last...about 95%
was S and P time..enjoyed the nice opening to Europe on 40 Friday night, some
hugh signals...and no waiting..thanks to all for a fun time again...Eric K7ABV
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Call: K7DR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,442
FT-450 90w
CB GP Antenna
N1MM Logger
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Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 616,560
Fabulous condx Sat. OK Sun. 100% S&P. Quit early Sun PM. Ran out of
calls.
Jim
K7EG
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Call: K7FA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,016,688
So many calls, so little time !
Cherry Picking - No serious effort here.
Highlights include Antarctica, South Africa, and others.
One Low-lite was an Iraq Pirate (YI5W) who distracted contesters.
Thanks for the contacts. 73, Tom
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Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 204,750
Fun! 10 meters never better than Saturday morning
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Call: K7IA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 510,078
All S&P--just picking red cherries from the spot list.
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Call: K7JQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,079,481
Fun...beat last year. Could have been better if I didn't have to work on
Saturday.
Icom IC-7600, THP HL-1.5KFX, Ground-mounted screwdriver antenna.
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Call: K7KU Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 372,696
I believe this to have been my very first try at a 20m single-band entry in any
ARRL-sponsored event. It did not go as expected.
In each of 2011 and 2012, I participated in this contest as an all-band
entrant. (I missed 2013.) My hunch was that the 20m columns on my rate sheets
for the 2011-2012 go-rounds would provide something of an education regarding
20m single this year. My hunch was right, but it was also quite wrong.
The right part: QSO rates for my best hours proved to be remarkably similar
among 2011, 2012, and this year. The wrong part: the particular hours of the
day that delivered those rates varied considerably this year from what I found
in 2011 and 2012.
This year had another thing in common with 2012, and not entirely a good one.
Multi-path propagation to EU was pronounced over substantial spans of time,
with some paths being delayed relative to others. The result? The signal via
one path would fill in the spaces between dits and dahs of the signal from the
very same station via another path. This produced an uncopiable blur on many
otherwise strong signals. I've heard these auroral effects before, but never
as intense (or as long lasting) as in 2012 and this year. Ah, the joys of DX
contesting from WY.
I've seen several comments to the effect that conditions -- particularly on 20m
-- were astoundingly good in North America this year. I'm afraid the validity
of such comments rather depends upon where the heart of the auroral zone
happens to lie relative to the ionospheric pathways one expects to be most
productive.
I had another problem this year. I couldn't find some of my usual multipliers
in the Pacific/Pacific rim. No DU; no YB; no 9V1; no KH2. And it's not
because I wasn't looking for them. In fact, I worked only one Australian op,
and that was via long path during my afternoon. No short path to VK for me.
Wild!
And my final problem: to make the most of a single 20m entry this year, one
would have needed to treat the contest as a full-bore, near-48-hour effort. I
didn't expect that, and wasn't really up to it. So I just did what I could
manage. Plenty of Q's were left on the table.
Bottom line? The disappointments were far outweighed by the thrills. 8Q7KB?
Yes! A 9H1 answering my forlorn CQ in the last hour? Yes!
Thanks to one and all!
Antenna: 5EL (44' boom) up 130'
Rig: Kenwood TS-950SDX to an Alpha 86
73,
Bob, K0KR
(op at K7KU)
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Call: K7SV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,769,460
Expected to be upgrading wiring at NR4M during the contest, but wx decided
differently. As a result I decided to see what I could do from the station
running low power. Problem is 20 never really closed so I didn't get a post Eur
sunrise nap. Ended up crashing shortly before beginning day 2. The runs on 10
and 15 were unreal. Hope we'll have the gang together for M/M from NR4M next
year! Thanks to Steve and Caroline for hosting me!
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Call: K7ULS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 5,760
Powder Mountain (8000')
FT-897d (100w)
40 meter shortened dipole
LDG-Tuner
From the winter condo with the antenna only 16' off the ground. Operated late
Friday night and Sunday. Nice to work CR2X and EC2DX on 40 out to 5000 mi with
such a peanut whistle setup. No JA's a few ZL's and VK's on 10 and a very short
EU opening Sunday morning on 15 then the Caribbean in the afternoon. No records
broken here just a fun contest to break the winter doldrums.
de K7ULS
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Call: K8AJS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 425,580
Propagation was excellent, making this an excellent contest for the few hours I
spent. I didn't plan to spend a lot of time, and wound up just working in the
daytime hours and getting the fun on the high bands.
10 meters was in excellent shape on Saturday, and contacts there were far ahead
of 15 and 20 by the end of that day. On Sunday I caught up on 15 and 20, pretty
much equalizing the efforts and results by the time I shut down.
Thanks to all the DX stations who heard my LP signal and gave me a contact. See
you in the next one!
Rig: K3/P3 100 watts
Antenna: Multi-band quad, 3 elements on 20 and 15, 4 elements on 10.
Software: WriteLog 11.16G
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Call: K8BTU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 860,520
Thanks for all the great ears pulling my weak signal out of the pileups!
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Call: K8BZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,009,323
I guess I'll have to get serious about this contest next time. Man it gets hard
to stay in the chair after a few hours. Do OK on the high bands but could use a
better antenna on 40 and 80. Didn't even try 80 this time. No antenna for 160
yet, but I'll correct that this summer.
Station used:
IC-7600
AL-80B
3 ele tri-band Yagi
G5RV
N3FJP Log with CW interface
Thanks for the Q's. 73,
Steve - K8BZ
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Call: K8CN Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 316,224
I had high hopes for for a "full on" effort in this contest after last
year's new personal record, especially since the local electric utility had only
two weeks earlier quenched a major power line arc source just up my street (try
contesting with S9 noise across every band from 160 - 6 meters!) - thank you
Public Service!
Murphy was not to be denied though - a nasty head/chest cold set in the day
before the contest start. I came home early from work on Friday, finished set
up of the radio and logger, then laid down for a nap. Well, a half-hour after
the start I limped into the shack, still exhausted from the cold symptoms, eked
out a few Qs, bailed out after a couple of hours, and proceeded to sleep the
rest of Friday night, all day Saturday, and all of Saturday night. The extreme
body fatigue finally relented Sunday morning, so I jumped back into the fray at
1400Z and managed to stay at it (with breaks only for dog walking) through to
the end.
Pleasant surprises? Yes, there were a few: the extended period of activity on
the high bands Friday night allowed me to postpone visiting the 40 meter jungle
for a while; the great conditions Sunday morning, although I gather from reading
here that Saturday was better; the extended runs I could maintain on both 15 and
20 meters on Sunday (it really helps to be fresh meat!); the joy of being
spotted (I presume) and being called by 4 or 5 stations simultaneously, all
exactly zero-beat on my frequency.
Out of curiosity I checked last year's log to see at what number of on-air
hours I reached 550 Qs. It took 16 hours last year, but just 12 hours this
year. Propagation conditions and my delayed entry into the contest surely
played a role - now if only I could maintain that kind of average rate for 30
or more hours, eh?
Thanks to all those great DX ops who dredged me out of the mud - your copying
skills are the stuff of legend. The "K8CN Amazement Award" goes to
JF1NHD who must have employed mind reading in addition to superb weak signal
copying skills in giving me my only JA mult and QSO this year on 15 meters.
Next year: no illness, no (audible) power line arc sources, and 35+ hours in
the chair. We'll see......
73,
Mike, K8CN
Durham NH
Rig: K3 @ 5 watts; crippled Lazy H, hanging much lower than usual, and my
trusty Johnson Matchbox.
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Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,624,739
Rig: IC765 + LK500 amp 4BTV Vertical (10-40) 2 el vertical for 80
450' European beverage + short SA beverage
The low bands had much noise on Saturday evening. The minor disturbance turned
the bands upside down at around 02Z. But the poor conditions were short lived.
20 Meters suprised me by being open all night. On Friday night 40 and 80 were
outstanding.
I had a great time with my simple station; no need to sit contests out is you
don't have a lot of aluminum up.
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Call: K8GU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 27,300
Just plain too much going on around the house this weekend to operate much more.
Took the opportunity to fire-test my new K2/100 which will be replacing the
TS-930S at radio #2---when I will get the rest of the SO2R stuff working again
remains to be seen. K2 did well. It's not a K3, of course, but it's pretty
darned good and the size is right...
73,
--Ethan, K8GU/3.
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Call: K8IA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 403,380
Ten meters was great Saturday and just so-so on Sunday out here in the West.
Finished Saturday evening with a respectable 1018 qsos. Only 227 q's more all
day Sunday. Ugh! Between activity and conditions, I just ran our of workable
stations.
But, this was one of those times where European qso's outnumbered Asian qso's.
588 to 490. That's quite rare here.
Nothing planned here for ARRL DX SSB, as family will be visiting then. Next
significant ooperation will be xyl Sandy N7RQ in CQWPX SSB in 5+ weeks.
73, Bob K8IA
Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
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Call: K8MR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 177,828
KX3 and a quarter wave vertical sitting in the edge of Sarasota Bay in Sarasota,
FL.
The first day I used the WinKey, paddle, and paper logs. Sunday I decided to go
with the computer for as long as it would go (I didn't bring a car supply to
Florida), so about 3+ hours on Sunday morning followed by lunch & tennis
with my wife while batteries charged, then more time in the afternoon. Sunday
morning there was significant line noise, though with QRP if a station is not
loud, they rarely hear me. so it didn't cost me much. In the afternoon things
were more quiet.
A different sort of fun vs. operating from a big station, but missing all the
cold & snow up north has been worth it!
73 - Jim K8MR
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Call: K8ZT Class: SOSB/10 QRP Total Score = 7,812
Band QSOs Pts Cty
3.5 3 9 3
7 14 42 12
14 36 108 29
21 43 129 33
28 126 378 62
Total 222 666 139
Score: 92,574
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Call: K9DR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 891,738
Icom 756Pro II, AL811H, 14 AVQ trap vertical and dipole in 30' palm tree.
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Call: K9IA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 228,603
100w to Flag Pole.
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Call: K9MA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,716,344
"Interesting" conditions. Nice openings on 10 and 15, in spite of
CME's.
Urban location, 18 by 36 meter lot. (4,850 points per square meter) K3
replaces the FT-1000D.
Antennas:
TH-7 at 21 meters
A3S at 16 meters fixed SE
40M rotatable dipole at 23 meters
Shunt fed tower on 80 and 160
RX loops for 80 and 160
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Call: K9MMS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 605,277
IC-756PRO3 AL-80B (800 W) ; Win-Test Logging
Just a part-time effort -- mostly S&P. After a slow start, 160 meters
became fairly good Friday night, but it was very poor Saturday night. Only
worked 2 DX on 160 the second night. Did not operate in the mornings, and only
operated about 2 hours on Sunday.
73,
Gary
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Call: K9NR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,439,616
Lots of QRN on 40 meters, neighbors plasma TV on 20 meters but 10 meters was
particularly good!
I should have taken this contest more seriously...could have done much better!
Thanks for all the QSO's
73, Don Kerouac K9NR
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Call: K9NW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,001,158
Very nice condx in spite of the impending solar activity. (That's why you play
the game!)
This started out as a High Power entry but just into the third hour the amp
faulted and it wouldn't reset. So everything after about 0220z was with the K3
set at 100w. Maybe we need a hybrid category? I bagged most of the first night
as I'd been up since 4AM that morning and had been traveling all day. Wish I
could have stayed awake to enjoy the VFB low bands then but it just wasn't
gonna happen. (No 80/160 QSOs the first night...and very few on 40 either...)
Thanks for the QSOs!
73, Mike K9NW
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Call: K9OM Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 2,262,588
Band condx from NFL on Friday night and Saturday were fantastic! Best band
condx on 40-10 that I can ever remember. Running low-power at 150 watts
created better pileups than most contests I've operated with the amplifier.
May these terrific band condx continue throughout 2014!
73,
Dick- K9OM
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Call: K9RS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,492,395
Had fun with some wires in the trees at my new 'no antennas' QTH
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Call: K9XE Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 94,107
Only able to operate on Sunday. Conditions were quite good on 10, 15, and 20. I
found 20 open to the Pacific before either 10 or 15 on Sunday afternoon.
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Call: KA6JLT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 12,240
[log removed from comments]
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CREATED-BY: N3FJP's ARRL International DX Contest Log 3.4
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
CALLSIGN: KA6JLT
LOCATION: NV
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-TIME: 6-HOURS
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: OVER-50
CLAIMED-SCORE: 12240
OPERATORS: KA6JLT
NAME: Rob Walker
ADDRESS: 4800 KIETZKE LN
ADDRESS: APT 26
ADDRESS: RENO, NV
ADDRESS: 89502
EMAIL: ka6jlt@nvbell.net
END-OF-LOG:
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Call: KB0EO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 210,834
This is not my favorite contest, but I still wanted to get on for a few hours
and practice some pileups to EU and JA. Pretty good conditions on the higher
bands. Sunday 20 meters had very bad aurora - 10 meters was actually much
stronger.
There were no rare DX stations on - pretty much the typical EU and JA stations.
Still fun to do some running.
73 and good luck!
Dan - KB0EO
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Call: KB1H Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,053,000
Actually the crew was about 3.5 operators. KB1H had commitments both days so
operated around those. The statistics
did show that KB1H made entries for a total of 18 hours which is the most in
recent history! Unfortunately the hours were not when they
would have increase the score a bunch."Iron Pants" goes to NR1X who
made almost 1800 QSOs. Next was NB1U with almost 1400 and then K1EBY
with about 1200. One more operator would have been a big boost. Overnights were
usually only one operator and daytime suffered at times
as well. Speaking for myself, age is starting to require a little more sleep!
Just before the contest all rotors were not turnimg due to icing over of the
rotors. K1EBY had been here since Wednesday night at midnight
so he kept trying to turn things and check SWRs. By the start the antennas were
turning and the SWRs weere usable but not great. I can not
remember a contest where it has not snowed! Maybe IARU in July. As NB1U says,
if it's contest time at KB1H it's snowing! Using a wood
stove for heat in the barn was aalmost a full time job in itself. Thanks to
N1WK for filling the tractor bucket a few times.
Some great scores by other M/2 stations, congrads to those and also many thanks
for the QSOs.
73
Dick - KB1H
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Call: KB7V Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 31,536
I had a good time with a casual operation on 10 and 40 meters. I concentrated
on 10m to work some new ones to push me over 100 countries on this band while
the sunspots are still around - mission accomplished! Conditions were very
good and I managed to work into Africa and Asia for some new ones, plus a
number of EU, SA, and JA stations. 10m very good here in late afternoon
Saturday. I also played around on 40m before and after the 10m openings - this
band much better to EU the first night.
FT-2000 plus AL-80B 700 Watts
Inverted-L on 40m
Half square on 10m
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Call: KC0DEB Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 397,218
Icom IC-746PRO, Hygain 3el Triband, Inv. V
Band QSOs Pts Cty
3.5 5 15 5
7 49 147 30
14 123 369 61
21 197 591 72
28 180 540 71
Total 554 1662 239
Score: 397,218
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Call: KC0VKN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 219,857
Had a good time. Bands were outstanding.
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Call: KC4TEO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 164,835
Snow, rain, and ice earlier in the week screwed up the traps on my A3S
tri-bander, giving me very high SWR readings. I somehow managed to limp along
on 10 meters using my autotuner but 20 and 15 meters were awful. So I
commandeered my 40 meter dipole for 15 meters and was able to tune my new
homebrew 17 meter rotatable dipole (but fixed) for 20 meters in order to
salvage those bands, but it sure wasn't fun. Fortunately, conditions were dry
for the phone DX contest a couple of weeks later.
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Call: KC7V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 138,570
Not much time available due to work commitments but great conditions.
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Call: KC9QQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 183,375
My first contest with my new KX3 with matching KXPA100 amplifier. This is a
really sweet CW rig.
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Call: KD2BGM Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 10,920
Awesome to be on the other side of the pileup for this contest.
See you next
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Call: KD2MX Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 733,986
I hadn't really planned on spending so much time but it had been a few years
since I really played in this one and some pretty good conditions made for a
lot of fun. I was S&P almost the whole time. I landed a few new ones and
was able to work most of what I heard pretty easily, always gratifying for a
little gun with 100w and a long piece of wire.
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Call: KD2RD Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 375,114
Equipment:
Yaesu FT-1000MP MARK-V Field
Ameritron AL-82 Amplifier
Antenna:
Single Full-Wave Quad Loop @ 80 feet
Thanks to all for the contacts.
See you in the next one.
73's
John - KD2RD
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Call: KD3TB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 326,040
Great contest on the higher bands. Tough working stations on 40 and 80 Meters.
I had to rebuild my low band vertical antenna in between storms. It lost the
battle to a tree in one of the ice storms. It was so cold my fingers almost
stuck to the aluminum. This weekend it was more snow. I really need to find
some place next year.
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Call: KD9MS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 349,500
Not the effort I wanted to put in, missed most all of Saturday morning for a
shopping trip (concessions for my wife's school) and had to work Saturday
afternoon and early evening. (Gotta support my radio habit!)
Bands sounded great Friday!, Saturday night, not so much. low bands weren't bad
but parts of 40 and 20 were fluttery from the CME that hit us. They came back
with a flurry on Sunday afternoon though, allowed me to make my goal of 500 on
such a messed up weekend time wise.
Need to work on the second tower rotor, it stopped about 2100UTC but
fortunately it stopped at 45 degrees so I could still use it for EU. It'll
start up again, I hope. Front end of FT450D takes a whoopin' is these contests,
especially when someone is 10kHz wide anyway. Learn to tune your amp! And don't
drive it so hard, YOU'RE 50 OVER ANYWAY!!! Even here in the black hole I can
hear you, very well!
Thanks to all the stations that were forgiving of me when I did decide to step
into the deep waters of calling CQ, it took me a few minutes, but I finally got
the hang of it (kinda). I have heard pileups before, been in bunches of them but
when you get that first one, its really cool!
Looking forward to the SSB, hopefully I will have more time.
73,
Craig
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Call: KE3X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,336,440
This entry is dedicated to the memory of my friend Anti, HA3OV who suddenly
became Silent Key last week. Anti was top-level competitor in HST and WRTC, a
good friend and mentor, and will be greatly missed.
My 18-year old son Kody did some operating this weekend, his last ARRL DX CW
before going off to college. 73,
Ken KE3X
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Call: KE7X Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 2,334,375
Thanks again Ken K0PP and Rose N7HKN.
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Call: KE8M Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 285,825
ARRLDXCW Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2014-02-15
CallSign Used : KE8M
Operator(s) : KE8M
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : 15M
Power : HIGH
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : OH
Gridsquare : EN81RQ
ARRL Section : OH
Club/Team : None
Software : N1MM Logger V14.1.1
Band QSOs Pts Cty
21 925 2775 103
Total 925 2775 103
Score : 285,825
Rig : Kenwood TS 2000 + Ameritron ALS-600 @ 250-450 watts
N1MM + dx cluster + RBN
Antenna : 15M - Hy Gain LJ 155CA @ 42 ft
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Call: KG4IGC Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 1,740
Was not able to work this test until Sunday, Due to the ice storm that hit us on
Wednesday, February 15th, 2014. No power for four days and all but one antenna
came down with the falling branches. Worked a station from New Zealand which
was pretty cool. EU was coming through fairly well on 20 meters from 1 A.M.
until about 5 AM.
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Call: KG7H Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,164,110
Conditions were ideal. I am still learning - In the final 5 minutes of the
contest, with 10 and 15 meters all cleaned out - I happened to check 40 meters
(2 hrs before sunset) and worked 3 quick European mults! I should have gone
there earlier. I also note that it was nice when I worked two Caribs on 80 -
they asked for a quick qsy to 160 - both worked - essentially a double mult for
each :-) Many thanks to the JA's who probably constitute 3/4 of my qso volume -
and thus score. 73 to all de Craig KG7H
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Call: KG9Z Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 23,250
New QTH. Only MFJ vertical. No amp. Still was fun with limit time to operate.
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Call: KH2/N2NL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,667,952
This is my best score in four years of doing this contest from Guam. It is fun
to be able to operate part time, limited by propagation, able to sleep at night
after West Coast sunrise and to go to the beach in the local afternoons when the
high bands close.
The high bands were very good considering the CME arrival. Signals came in
waves, often with an AU tone and solar noise. The low bands, 80 and 160, were
in poor shape. 160 was absolutely miserable - seemingly with a big RF sponge
in the mid Pacific. K3ZM was the only bright spot; an easy QSO the second day
while both W3LPL and K3LR were inaudible here (W3LPL gave me a "?"
the 1st day at their sunrise).
Long path on both 10/15m the 2nd day at 1400z (midnight local) was fun. Hope I
surprised the few I could work through the NA-EU pileups.
I used KH2/N2NL instead of NH2T in order to accumulate a few more ARRL
Centennial points. The longer call may have cost me a few QSOs, but I'm just
not comfortable with sending "TU" more than once without signing my
call. I know what it's like on the other side of the pileup not knowing who
you're listening to.
I'll be QRV again for the SSB weekend, hopefully with better low bands
conditions to compliment solid 10/15m openings. I only have a few months left
here on Guam, as I have received orders to transfer to Honolulu, where I will
be stationed for the next four years starting this summer.
73, Dave KH2/N2NL
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Call: KH6CJJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 975,192
I have only been doing CW contests for a year and a half and this was my first
shot at this one. I did much better than expected and am very happy with the
results. I probably should have stayed up much later both nights to get more
mults on 40 and 80, but I'm getting too old for that! Had great fun and look
forward to other CW contests. Thanks to K3LR, K0RF, WE3C, W1UE, W7RN, W2FU,
W1VE, W0AIH, N6MU, VE3JM, KA6BIM, and NR7Q for working me on all five bands.
Maybe someday I can figure out how to get a 160 meter antenna up in my "no
antennas allowed" subdivision.
Aloha, Kent
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Call: KH6LC Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,681,690
Another enjoyable weekend with a great group of friends. A big Mahalo to our
off island guests: Gene KB7Q, Andy VE7AHA and Jim W6SC. Thanks for joining us.
Conditions were less than stellar and like everyone else, we made the best of
it. One bright spot is our 160 Mult count, ran up by Roby NH6V. Great job Rob!
Looking forward to ARRL SSB when we'll have old friend Ross Forbes K6GFJ
(ex WB6GFJ) here to join us. Thank you for all your contacts.
73 & Aloha
Lloyd KH6LC, Curt AH6RE, Fred KH7Y, Rob NH6V, Gene KB7Q, Andy VE7AHA, Jim W6SC
www.KH6LC.com
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Call: KH7M Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 687,225
TNX TO ALL THE GREAT EARS!
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Call: KI0I Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 412,500
Wow the high Bands! Wish I could have worked 10m on Sunday.Snuck a quick listen
before Leaving home for the day and Sigs from 28000 to 28150 with 100w EU
booming in.Made it hard to turn the rig off but the XYL's BDay dinner was a
must do! I know all who played had fun in this one, epic band condx..73 GL all
Mark KI0I
IC746 100w to HYTower vertical, N1MM and Begali keying
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Call: KI1G Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 9,049,740
Wow! What a contest and great band conditions. The low bands were noisy Saturday
night with the snow storm but 20 meters never closed.
The entire contest was essentially one long run, will need to do some log
analysis to check the rates. First time breaking the 5000 QSO barrier.
Thanks for all the QSO's, time for some sleep.
73,
Rick KI1G
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Call: KI1U Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 20,538
Only had a couple hours to play in the contest. 10 seemed to be in good shape
this morning.
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Call: KK4DZP Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 1,440
24 QSOs worth 72 Points.....
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Call: KL2R Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,137,951
There should be a special category for contests scheduled on Valentine's Day.
Balancing obligations to the XYL was a handicap in operating time. When I saw
how good conditions were at the start, I set a goal to make 1800 QSOs -- 100
for every hour I had available this weekend. I nearly made it! There were
some stupendous runs on Saturday. Even a decent rate for a while on 40m on
Friday night. Couldn't be happier with the outcome. My XYL was happy, too, but
for different reasons.
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Call: KL7RA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,948,210
Few signals on the bands Friday morning before the start which was a worry. We
started on ten meters and I stayed way too long even seeking and pouncing mults
just in case it never came back which can happen here. We need the mults on
both 10 and 160 for a good score and there is always the risk one or the other
doesn't produce. Turns out 80 and 160 was absorbed the 2nd night but I did get
a good sunrise gray line to the east coast on topband the first night and then
ten opened at our sunrise for the 58 mults so it was mostly a rate fest to the
end.
The first 24 hours would have been great conditions for the WW as we had 10-40
open to Europe past our sunset all night which doesn't happen often. 2nd night
we had the elusive 1300z 20 meter open to the lower 48 and had some nice runs
during hours that were producing very low rates the night before.
Three ops in somewhat scheduled shifts keep the SO2R position in run mode and
the logging program indicates almost all of the 48 hours was used. Thanks to
Wigi, AL7IF who has as much chair time as I do in his past 25 years of being
part of our team. Thanks to Steve, KL7SB who is somewhat a new member to our CW
crew here in Alaska. He was assigned a lot of the daylight rate hours. Being an
old ITT commercial CW traffic guy like Wigi he did an excellent job for us this
weekend. Added bonus, doesn't eat people food.
Next up NAQP RTTY then our favorite, the ARRL Phone DX where we have the
famous
Dave, KA1NCN who calls everyday to make sure all is well with the station for
his flame throwing take no WB5 prisoners on ten meters. Or as we say here, the
crew will be Dave and the rest of us.
73 Rich KL7RA North Pole Contest Group W1AW/KL7 June 18
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Call: KN3A Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 724,890
Sure was fun when the band is open like it was. For me, 20 meters didn't close
on Saturday night - Sunday morning. I was working Europe and Asia until 0730
UTC when I finally went QRT for the night. Even 160 meters came to life for a
bit on Saturday night. I wasn't planning on operating this much but with all
the snow and cold, why not stay inside and contest!
Hopefully for the ARRL Intl SSB contest I'll have a new Kenwood TS 590.
73 Scott
Kenwood TS 450SAT
160M Inv L
80M Inv L
40M Inv V
N1MM Logger
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Call: KN4QD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 709,050
Fine conditions on all the bands and nice to hear so many signals on 10 and 15.
Had a very nice run on 15 meters on Sunday morning which was enjoyable from
this low power station. Props to PJ2T for hearing my meager signal on 160
meters--indeed they were the only station I worked on 6 bands. 73 and see you
in the next one.
K3/100W, Hexbeam, OCF Dipole, N1MM logger
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Call: KN4Y Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 49,446
The panhandle cold weather sequence: Operate the shack door latch, Operate the
light switch, Operate the coffee maker, Operate the space heater, operate the
antenna direction, operate the radio, operate the keyer, operate the logging
program. Control cussing, instead eat a cookie. Send in log. Naps as necessary.
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Call: KO7AA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,631,488
This was as good as it will get this cycle! I especially enjoyed the
5 hour sleep Saturday night, not having to worry about missing any Q's!
As the sun was setting Saturday evening, I noticed there were no spots
on 40M from the W6/W7 skimmers. Then the fluttery UA9's on 20M. There
would be no low band EU for the left coast on the 2nd night :(
As always, thanks to our contesting friends in Asia. (40% of my score)
73, Bill in Tucson, AZ
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Call: KP2B Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,815,840
Thanks to Fred K9VV/KP2 for the hospitality and the use of his station to
operate the contest.Thanks also to those who contact me during the contest.
73's and good luck to all.
WP3A - jaime
operator of KP2B
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Call: KP2DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 359,046
Partime operation. cw is not my favorite mode but have fun for few hours.
thanks to all who call me during the contest..73's
KP2BH/ operator of KP2DX
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Call: KP2M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,708,043
73,
Philip KT3Y
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Call: KP4KE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,703,400
Running the contest with 40 watts was fun we made a good score.
The ant used in the contest are : 160 full size vertical, 80m double bazzuka
at 70' , 40m delta loop at 70', 20m 4el, 15m 4 ele, 10m 5 ele.
TNX to all to coming to my frec.
see you next year
73& DX
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Call: KR4F Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,844,592
This was a fun S&P packet hunt. High bands were great! Low bands worse
than last year.
73
Johnny, KR4F
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Call: KR7C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 45,012
A very part time S&P effort looking for new countries. For my pop-gun
station, UP0L and ZR9C were highlights. Good practice calling off frequency
and with smart timing.
73, Stan
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Call: KS4L Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 56,784
Elecraft K3/100; 80m inv. vee.; 44' vertical dipole. Enjoyed it!
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Call: KS4X Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 244,776
Thanks for hearing My 5W signals.
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Call: KT8K Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 4,452
Not much time for this one or next one, but got in to hand out a few Q's.
Hope everybody had fun. 73 de kt8k - Tim
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Call: KU1T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 737,658
Bands were cooperating - 80 and 160 on Friday were very nice. Saturday afternoon
and Sunday were marked by lot of distortion and scrreching sounds on polar path.
Thanks for all the Q's.
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Call: KU2C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,782,590
GREAT CONDX. TNX FOR Q'S.
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Call: KU2M Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 706,788
Got tired of the usual LP and decided to try HP this time...I must admit it's
definitely more fun, and the 3-500s keep the room warm, too! Good condx
overall; the opening to JA deteriorated a bit Saturday night compared to Friday
and Sunday, but at least there was one.
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Call: KU7Y Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 390,456
I had a ball. One of my best ever scores. Great conditions on Saturday but
Sunday had lots of flutter toward EU. Had a good JA run Saturday. KH6LC gets
the nod for having the best "ears".... he managed to dig me out of
the noise on 160m! Also want to thank the many stations who took the time to
pull me out of the noise and to those who stood by while the DX stations got my
call right. No trouble with N1MM or the KX3 but the wind got up to 50 mph with
some gusts higher than that Saturday but the little crank up tower managed to
stay vertical! Ron, KU7Y
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Call: KU8E Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,868,346
I'm shocked how well I did using 100 watts and wires. I had planned on I just
playing around. I didn't even really start until late Saturday morning. Took
the wife to dinner Friday night and only operated about an hour then. As many
others mentioned the Condx were great and it was hard to quit. I don't consider
myself as an iron man operator but managed to operate all the way to the end
after starting Saturday which is an accomplishment for me.
This is the best I have ever done in DX contest from home.
Jeff KU8E
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Call: KV4QS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 203,373
K3 / N1MM / 40 and 80mtr Delta Loops in Palm Trees
Many thanks to the ARRL and to all the participants for another great contest
weekend. 73 KV4QS
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Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,294,137
Very good conditions for me all weekend. There was always a band to
find Q's. This old body needed to grab two four hour naps along the
way; but, I had a ton of fun. It's sure nice to meet old friends and
say HI. Thanks for all of the good ears out there and I look forward
to doing it again next year. 73 tom KV8Q ar
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Call: KZ5OM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,160
Casual ops. All Hunt-n-Pounce
350w, F12c4 at 60ft, 40m dipole
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Call: LI8W Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 135,125
Thank you for a fun weekend. Band died on me the second night. K-indices of
K7-K8 did the trick :-) Hope to see you next year. Always fun to run NA. 73
Bjorn LB1GB
LI8W: Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Norwegian Constitution. Special QSL
card avaiable to the wanting. Buro or direct. LOTW to you who doesn't care for
a card.
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Call: LJ1GB Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 167,910
On Saturday 10 meters was on fire. Not so much on Sunday but still fun. Thanks
for all the QSO's. 73 de Bjorn, LB1GB
LJ1GB: Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Norwegian Constitution. A special QSL
card is available for you who collect cards. Buro or direct. LOTW to you who
doesn't care for one.
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Call: LU1FAM Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 315,114
Thanks for all the QSOs!
Station:
Antennas: 6 El @24mh / 6 El @12mh
Rig: IC - 775 DSP
Amp: Drake L4B
Soft: N1MM
QSL via AC7DX or LoTW
CU on SSB and RUDX!
Lucas LU1FAM
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Call: LU7HZ Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 640,680
Very good propagation on Saturday, not so good on Sunday. Saturday We southeners
waited till the USA-EU activity decrease in order to have a shoot, but were able
to held good rates after that. Sunday bring some substantially slower rates.
First time with a directional antenna for the rig2 which boosted the SO2R
operation in 15m substantially. Very poor propagation in 40m, unusable in 80m
with very high QRN/QSB. All in all very much fun to start the contest year
2014!!
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Call: LW5HR Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 217,500
Thanks all for QSO'S.
Best
Diego - LW5HR
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Call: LX7I Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 285,012
Wow, that was fun !
Condx were great on Saturday and only a bit worse on Sunday. The usable window
to NA was about 2 x 9 hours, not all that bad for February.
Was amazed by the quantity of West Coast stations, especially from WA, all
pretty loud.
The equipment with 6/6 15m NA beam worked just perfect.
Big thank you to Philippe LX2A for letting me using his station again.
73 Ron
DL3BPC
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Call: LY5W Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 565,656
80m - broken Dipole 28m, 40m - Delta 22m, 20/15/10m - KLM KT34XA 12m
Worked from my summer QTH with good old Kenwood TS-850S without filters.
Nice to work new states for my 5BWAS:
10m - Nevada
15m - Nevada, Wyoming, Kansas and South Dakota
PSE paper QSL's - I like them.
Next would be CQ 160m Phone with very serious effort from great location :)
73, Sam LY5W
p.s. sometimes in February I am on bands with special call LY16W.
Look to www.qrz.com
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Call: M/SQ6MS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 121,158
Vy 73 de Maciek ... --.- -.... -- ...
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Call: M3W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,246,370
Two storms - the first threatened the aerials and the second threatened the
propagation
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Call: M5E Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 216
ARRL CW gave me two new personal records. I made 9 QSOs on 160m SB and that is a
personal high in the category. It is also a new personal record low for number
of QSOs in any contest.
Operating from the Marconi site in Cornwall weather was again challenging.
A more detailed writeup on the fun is here:
http://g0ckv.com/m5e/arrlcw2014.html
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Call: M5O Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 15,504
This was really one for the masochists, especially if operating from southern
UK. Olof G0CKV (M5E) has linked an excellent and highly descriptive piece on
the exceptional weather conditions to his SO 160 posting, which is recommended
reading.
Here in Sussex we are 20 miles from the coast and everything was a little less
extreme, although there were several 60mph squalls during the first night,
which caused the VSWR meter to swing wildly.
All my high band antennas were seen off by our December storms and the only
remaining radiator is a 250ft wire, sloping down to the shack from a 155ft
sequoia. This runs over a pulley, weighted by a substantial log to counteract
over 20 ft of movement at the tree top in heavy winds. The rig is a single
K3/P3/KPA500 running 400w.
So, on 160m, things started pretty slowly on Saturday morning and didn't pick
up until around 05.00 when signal levels started to improve. Despite diligent
searching, nothing was heard west of the zero states until daybreak, when a
propagation peak just provided a window for a good QSO with N7GP in AZ, before
the band faded out. Apart from Jeff VY2ZM who was often as strong as many of
the europeans, signals were pretty scratchy all night.
The second night was much worse than the first and the last few hours before
midnight on Sunday produced nothing other than (again) good signals from Jeff
and some scratchy CQs from K3LR and W3LPL, who didn't sound as if they were
getting many takers.
Misses from the workable areas were DC, AL and IL(!). Plenty of 8's but all in
OH . . .
Still, despite the weather and a pretty pathetic result, this was an enjoyable
event. Thanks to all who called or responded.
73, Peter G3LET (M5O)
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Call: M5Z Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 204,789
Due to very bad weather, club's tribander was repaired twice but still not good
shape as radiator element was not horizontal, some 30 degrees off. No way to
fix this in stormy condition.
Used K3 and KPA500 with manual tuner in case heavy rain and wind cause high SWR
from time to time.
Day 1 started early, around 11Z then really picked up from 13Z. Signal was
still audible till 21Z but last QSO was just before 20Z. Made 700 QSOs and 58
MULT on day 1.
Day 2 started bit late, however, taking into account K index value, it was not
so bad. Slower but nice run till late. Last QSO was 20:36 on Sunday.
Thanks to Poldhu Radio Club (http://gb2gm.org/) for letting me use of station.
73 Kazu
M0CFW, M5Z, JK3GAD
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Call: MX0OXE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 542,184
Thanks for the Qs everyone.
Cheers,
Terry/G4MKP
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Call: N0AC Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 14,100
I am greatful for every one of your QSOs.
Bill, N0AC
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Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 777,096
That was a fun contest. Thanks for all the Q's. Sorry if you had to suffer
through one of my fat finger attacks.
73, Mike N0BUI
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Call: N0HJZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,145,277
I finally scored a million points from my home QTH. The station is a 3 element
tribander at 30 feet, a small vertical for 40/80 out in the garden and a poorly
tuned L for 160M. What a blast! Thanks to everyone for pulling out my weak
signal!
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Call: N0IJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,055,835
After our M/2 was cancelled due to my poor health--nasty sinus infection,
decided to do what I could via remote. The station is in far NW Wisconsin. A
first serious contest effort via remote plus a first time using N1MM created a
situation where I'll be glad to get back in front of the radios. Little things
just don't go as you are used to! Still, had a lot of fun, and the low band
condx Friday night were about the best I've seen. Sadly, I wasn't able to stay
awake to fully utilize them!
My regular screw ups with not knowing what to do in N1MM were embarrassing, so
sorry if I looked like a klutz and slowed you down.
73
John, N0IJ
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Call: N0MA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,008,710
Great conditions. How long will this last?
This is the best effort for the CW OPs at the Radio Farm so far.
Thanks for all the Qs.
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Call: N0VD Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 19,992
For the past 4 years I've done this contest from PJ2T, however, this year I
elected to skip the CW leg and do the SSB leg from PJ4. Since I had no real
plans to operate, I decided to play around on 15M Sunday afternoon with the new
K3 & KPA500 just to make sure everything was cool before packing them up for
next week's travels. Also managed to get my real time log and video stream
ready in preparation for PJ4. Best surprise was having John, 9M6XRO call me.
See you in two weeks as PJ4D.
Kelly - N0VD
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Call: N1CC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 944,160
FT-990 100W w/MFJ-1026 (Mostly as Preamp for RX) Force 12 C-3 @ 64'. 80/40 Fan
Dipole @ 50', Inverted L for 160 w/elevated Radials, and the DX Engineering 43'
Vertical used only as a noise antenna.
Had good runs on 20/15/10. I would notice a "run" slowing down, and
discover that a US Big gun had zero-beat my signal and was "stealing"
the run. Pretty "petty" of the guy with big antennas and power ... I
would move as soon as I figured it out. One guy, a VIP in Ham radio did it on
10 Meters and later on 15 Meters...I guess CT stations can't hear TX stations
beaming over their 50 dB over signals on my end... In part this is a detriment
to operating, and is mostly caused by the high end new receivers that don't
notice adjacent channel signals well - on purpose. (Tounge-in-cheek why the
1-land boys move in so tight)
All in all, a fun event, I more than doubled last years QSO total and overall
score...should have spent more time on 40.
73, Jim
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Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 876,096
I had planned on 30+ hours but ran into problems this weekend. Lost 3 hours on
Sunday due to snow removal. I averaged 54 QSO's/hr for 19 hours (mostly
S&P).
Did have a nice run on 15M Sunday AM and had JA +ZL calling me while running
EU.
Great fun competing against with the big guns. I broke lots of pileups on the
first or second try using an offset "up" TX frequency.
Station: TenTec Omni7 @ 100W, 4 element tribander @ 30ft, 80/40 dipoles
Computer: Win 7 running N1MM, WinKeyer USB
Thanks for the QSO's. Special thanks to the many QRPers.
Rick N1DC
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Call: N1EN Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 2,253,384
So, a while back I set my benchmark for “a good contest weekend” at 1000
contacts and 100 countries worked.
Maybe I need to revise that standard.
1845 contacts worked in 114 DXCC entities and 33 CQ Zones.
I spent the first 24 hours of the contest doing “double-fisted S&P”
(search & pounce on two radios). Then I started hitting slow patches,
during which I decided to suck it up and run. My code seems to have improved
to the point where it’s not terrifying to do so…but I apparently still
really suck at copying code and typing into a logger at the same time. My
apologies to those who suffered through the experience. (Hey, considering how
difficult CW has been for me, and considering I’m still a relative newbie,
I’m content with a “not horrible, but room for improvement”
performance.)
Highlights of the contest:
* Having an understanding XYL willing to observe Valentine’s Day on Zulu
Time, rather than Eastern Standard Time.
* Practice with Morserunner starting to pay off.
* Conditions Friday night into Saturday afternoon. Maybe not as good as they
could have been, but still pretty gosh-darned good.
* As my first beam went up only hours before CQWW…this was the first major
contest where I could really appreciate the wonders of long-path.
* Not only working Laos for an all-time new one (#267), but doing so by beating
a pileup, getting through on first call.
* Getting to work the VK6FZM/MM, on their way home from îsle Amsterdam.
Lowlights of the contest:
* All the bands going virtually dead for a time Saturday evening. Old Sol has
a sense of humor.
* Having first the logger crash, and then the entire computer needing rebooting
and COM-port fussing as propagation started to recover from the aforementioned
deadness.
* 40 and 80 meters having a disappointing amount of QRN due to regional weather
Saturday night.
* Interruptions in the RBN feed Sunday afternoon. It would have been just an
annoyance to me, but a few folks have found my little AR Cluster node and so I
needed to make sure they were all set as well. (Note to self: don’t try
managing AR Cluster connections while running. It’s a bad idea.)
Work to do before next IARU…or at least before CQWW this fall:
* Replace, or at least improve, the temporary mast the hexbeam is currently
living on. I didn’t think to secure the military mast sections together by
anything other than gravity. While the situation has improved since CQWW, I
still have some “weathervaning” action, requiring me to get up and look
outside to see which way the mast is pointing every so often. It’s not fun
to stick one’s head out the shack window when it’s snowing; it’s going to
be more of a problem when the weather warms and an air conditioner goes in that
window.
* More practice running at CW. Now that I’m over the “deer in the
headlights” sensation it is fun…but I really need to get to where I can get
better rates running than I can with “two fisted S&P”, and to do that, I
need to get the hang of copying callsigns and working the logger simultaneously.
It’d be great if I could do true SO2R as well.
* I need to look at improving antenna switching and filtering in the shack.
And, if I’m going to be addicted to assistance, I need a more robust way to
operate an in-shack skimmer.
* I put together a nice pre-big-contest checklist. Now I need to remember to
start it well before the contest, instead of “day of”.
Contact map & stats up at http://www.n1en.org/Blog/Post/18/ARRL-DX-CW-2014
Station:
K3 & Icom IC7100, both barefoot
Hexbeam @ 8m (don't laugh)
40m Delta Loop
80m Carolina Windom @ 20m
160m Carolina Windom @ 15m
Skimmer, fed through an FCD Dongle, fed by K3's IF output
In shack AR-Cluster
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Call: N1EU Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,857,825
Great conditions on the high bands but was hampered by lousy antennas and high
noise level on 40, 80 and 160. The Orion 2/RX366, Acom 2000A and 3-el SteppIR
were flawless and a joy to operate.
Thanks for all the q's and apologies to those I couldn't pull out, especially
on 40M due to my noise level.
73,
Barry N1EU
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Call: N1IX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,008,084
Many thanks to Mark (K1RX) who fixed my rotor at 7:30 AM on Wednesday in
sub-zero temperature.
I finally broke the 1 meg barrier. It was quite hectic during the last hour
trying to find stations I hadn't worked already. I found HC2AO and DF1POL at
the end for mults that put me over the top.
My hours of work on the 160 antenna paid off with 3 Q's.
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Call: N1LN Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 494,532
A M2 team was not able to be put together so thought I would try a single band
15 meter entry. That turned out to be a good choice. Initially, my goal was to
make a major effort but a few things got in the way on both Saturday and
Sunday. For example, the USA vs Russia hockey game, the Duke vs Maryland
basketball game, the State vs Syracuse basketball game and then on Sunday the
snow finally melted enough for me to continue working on my 80 meter phased
verticals so outside I went. Finally, Saturday evening I shut down about 0000
UTC and probably missed some Asia mults, for sure some Qs. As you can see, the
full time effort was not there. N1MM reported 19 hours and I am surprised that
I got that much time in.
The part time effort was easier and more fun as the band was always open when I
got back in the chair. Friday night I was only on for about 1 hour to see if the
band was going to be open into Asia. One word, YES. When I got back on at about
1200 UTC Saturday morning it sounded like all of Europe was waiting for me to
show up. The first CQ yielded zero responses. The second CQ resulted in one of
the largest pileups that I have experienced. Skimmer was working in Europe. My
rate did not reflect the quantity of callers nor how long the pileup lasted
because many were on my calling frequency. I finally tightened the K3 down to
200hz and moved my RX frequency by about 40 hz which really helped. Sunday
morning started earlier, around 1100 UTC, but that was too early from this QTH.
The band opened around 1145. Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon around 2100 UTC
I turned the stack fom EU to JA. The excellent conditions brought in some nice
Asia mults to add to the total. The multipliers kept coming right up to the end
with the last two being BU2AV and 9M6XRO. When the clock hit 2359 UTC on Sunday
I had almost as many JA Qs as DL, with the respective totals 142 and 176. Not
quite like the JA QSO counts when I lived in Texas, but the best so far from
NC.
This was definitely a IF ONLY or WHAT IF weekend. What kind of totals would I
have if I operated for the entire time the band was open? Guess that will wait
for next time.
Thanks for all the Qs. Thanks to the many QRP stations that hung in there until
I got all the info correct. Sorry to the callers that I could just not pull out.
Thanks to the outstanding conditions, there were not many.
Station:
K3
Acom 2000A
5 x 5 x 5
N1MM
73,
Bruce N1LN
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Call: N1RR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,930,150
C31XR @ 70ft
2L40 @ 80ft
80 & 160 wire 4-Squares
EU & N/S beverage
Will,K6ND worked hard during the week leading up to the contest. We managed to
find a T/R problem in the amp plus did some re-wiring. Then the mast slipped
in
the rotor. Everything stayed together for the contest except me.
Felt sick starting at 10Z but too late to sleep. Struggled all day Saturday.
QRN from winter snow storm caused big QRN starting 22Z D1. Went to bed at 01Z
D2 and got back on the air at 12Z. That was the only time out of the chair.
In this contest Saturday felt like SUNDAY CONTEST DAY and Sunday felt like a
SATURDAY CONTEST DAY. That's never happened to me before. Only 34 hours.
Thanks to Mike WM1K for his support too.
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Call: N1RU Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 81,420
Enjoyed the contest but family obligations limited my operating time. TS-590 at
5 watts to a full-wave 40M attic loop fed by ladder line. 73 Jamie (Northeast
Indiana)
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Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 392,148
Great conditions.
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Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,674,369
Wow, those were the best conditions since 2002 for sure. And I was almost
not able to be there for it as I was flirting with getting stuck somewhere
in the thousands of cancelled flights as I was making my way back from the
West Coast. With some route shifting, I was able to make it in just in
front of 20 inches of snow. Other tan that, everything worked great at the
QTH which is not always the case for this contest which is after 3 solid
months of winter.
I ran for 40 hours out of my 44 hour operating time. Probably half that time
was dedicated run and half SO2R. Best hour was 165 - a new personal CW
record for me. Best 10 minutes of 300 is probably also as high as I remember.
Just fabulous stuff for Low Power - heck even High Power.
Highlights were many.
Opening hour of 110 on 40M was a personal best opening hour for any CW
contest for me.
The 20M 04 - 08Z Asia and Northern EU openings were the best I have seen
in a contest from W1.
10M open big, both days in this contest FINALLY! Sure Sunday wasn't as
good but last year Sunday wasn't as good and Saturday was zippo.
40M open straight through until 08 - 09Z to EU where usually there is
an MUF dip that kills it for a few hours each evening.
Calls from VU, 4K, XW, HZ, 9L just to name some off the top of my head.
Great JA and Asia Russian runs on 15. Probably could have been on 10M
as well but I chose 15 for louder signals and deeper opening.
And enough mults on 160 and 80 to allow the big score.
It was clear from the outset the record could be broken. And as I crossed
the halfway mark with 2.25 Million points, I was determined to do so.
I passed the record score Qs number of 3423 at 1930Z and exceeded my
personal best score of 4.25 Million points (gross) at 2025Z. I passed the
record gross score of 4.35 Million at 2055Z and the rest was to put
distance on that score. The final total of 4.674 Million exceeded my
expectations. For 10 years I looked at that record and thought "how am I
ever going to match that score?". When it all comes together, nothing
breaks,
you don't get sick or stuck travelling, and there are no family or work
emergancys and the SFI is over 150...it does!
The W3/W4 boys had great openings..this isn't done yet until all of the
"usual suspects" check in.
I love this game. Thanks for the Qs.
73
Ed N1UR
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Call: N21FF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 698,034
Great conditions on a snowy weekend. Some problems with band noise.
Low antennas because the were wind gust up near 50 MPH. It was amazing that
all the stations seemed to be able tom hear me when I called. This was a
packet pouncing effort. Spent more time in the chair than usual. Good fun
when
the weather was bad!
I think this may be an all time high CW effort for me! It was fun. On a number
of occasions I broke the pile after cranking the keyer up to 40 WPM. I could
not believe how well my 40 meter dipole performed with only 100 watts. I still
think the baluns I installed have improved performance
although I ma not sure why.
Had I looked at my total score I would have hung in a few more minutes to break
700K
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Call: N2FF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 698,034
Great conditions on a snowy weekend. Some problems with band noise.
Low antennas because the were wind gust up near 50 MPH. It was amazing that
all the stations seemed to be able tom hear me when I called. This was a
packet pouncing effort. Spent more time in the chair than usual. Good fun
when
the weather was bad!
I think this may be an all time high CW effort for me! It was fun. On a number
of occasions I broke the pile after cranking the keyer up to 40 WPM. I could
not believe how well my 40 meter dipole performed with only 100 watts. I still
think the baluns I installed have improved performance
although I ma not sure why.
Had I looked at my total score I would have hung in a few more minutes to break
700K
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Call: N2GC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 200,889
Too little time to play.
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Call: N2IC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,097,176
Considering the dire propagation forecast for a trio of CME's to hit just before
and during the contest, it was an amazing weekend !
Conditions on 10-40 were just fabulous, with Saturday being the better day on
10 and 40, and Sunday being the better day on 20. 80 and 160 were, well, awful.
A small price to pay.
Thanks (or, maybe, no thanks) to Skimmers and the RBN, European pileups were
instantaneous and all exactly zero beat when hitting a band for the first time.
Please, folks, it only takes about 50 Hz to spread things out, which results in
everybody getting a QSO much faster. Both major contest loggers have the
capability to automatically randomize your frequency +- 50 Hz from the spot
frequency. Otherwise, I found the operators to be mostly excellent, and very
few instances of stations not signing their call frequently.
In 30+ years of operating from Colorado and New Mexico, I have never heard 20
meters so good across an entire weekend. Afternoon absorption to EU (after 10
and 15 closed) was low both days, and the unexpected bonus was a solid
all-night opening on Saturday night (Sunday GMT) from 04Z-11Z. It started with
JA/UA9 and moved westward as sunrise advanced across Europe. As a result, I
only made 130 QSO's on 40 meters on day 2....But that is perfectly okay with 20
so hot.
Thanks for all the QSO's !
73,
Steve
Radios: TS-590S (x2), Alpha 76PA, Alpha 76CA
Antennas: 160 sloping dipole, shunt-fed tower; 80 2 el wire beam switchable
SW/NE, rotatable dipole; 40 4 el (M2 40M4LLDD); 20 5 el; 15 6 el; 10 6 el;
KT-36XA.
Software: N1MM Logger
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Call: N2MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 4,472,670
Time to get a new alarm clock. Went to sleep at 8PM Saturday, set the alarm for
11:30 PM. It never went off. Ended up awakening at 12:30AM. Found 80m &
160m exceptionally noisy.I should have spent more time there Friday night.
Lots of operating mistakes. Rather than starting on 40m like I usually do, 15m
was the place to be. It was wide open to Asia and the Pacific until 0300z. I
also should have stayed longer on 15m, but, expecting poor conditions by
Sunday, I opted to go to 10m too early. Both days, the correct time to be on
10m should have been after 1400z.
First time using skimmer for mults. I had no choice since the packet cluster
wasn't working correctly.
Thanks for all the qsos. I will upload my log to LOTW shortly. Please no qsls
via the bureau for this contest. Direct is also still fine.
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Call: N2NT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,885,114
It seemed like the best conditions ever, but the score is down from last year.
Before the flare, great. After flare, not so great.
Snow on Saturday was the good and bad. No line noise when it rains or snows.
I could hear everything on 10m. But with the snow comes snow static, which made
160/80 useless on Saturday night.
It was sunny on Sunday, which brings back the line noise. No more QRPers for me
:)
I love this contest from home, non stop DX. Thanks for all the activity.
My favorite was HA8LLK who took the time to tell me he worked me on 4 bands
with a whip antenna on his balcony. And of course all the QRP boys who come out
in droves.
73,
Andy N2NT
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Call: N2SR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,159,385
Had some good runs. I'm getting better and picking calls out of the pileups.
Thanks for the Q's and thanks for being patient with me. Lots of loud 100W
stations and even good copy on some 5W stations. There were a few that I just
could not get out of the noise.
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Call: N2VW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 128,770
Don't usually make excuses, but the haevy snow cover apparently screwed up my
antenna system. RF all over the shack. It chopped up the CW keying. My signals
intermittently locked up the radio and amp in transmit. I keep telling myself
that this is fun. Really!
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Call: N2WKS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,796,504
ARRL DX CW is my favorite contest because everyone is pointing at the US so I
get to run and work a lot of great DX.
This was almost all run.
The low bands were a bit a noisy and not quite as productive as last year but
at least I felt like people could always hear me with the new 80 wire
vertical.
Was really excited to work YJ0OU for a new one on 4 bands....just wished JD1
would have been active.
I'm pretty sure I had a personal best rate on CW with two 160+ hours and a max
60 min rate of 176. Guess my CW is improving but for some reason, some calls
leap onto my screen and others really mess me up....sorry if it took me a
couple of times to get your call, thanks for sticking in there.
20 and 40 had the best conditions to JA that I can remember with nice loud
signals and there were a lot more russian and northern europe stations in the
log this year.
Thank you to all the DX stations and dxpeditions for making this such a great
contest.
Thank you to K2TTT for letting me play with his toys and for taking such great
care of me!
73,
Zev N2WKS
K3 - 2500DX Magnum
F12 10/15 duo bander
4 ele 20
Magnum 240
Dipoles for 80/160
1/4 elevated wire vertical on 80
RX Beverages to NE/W + K9AY loop
ARRL DX CW - 2014-02-15 0000Z to 2014-02-17 0000Z - 2148 QSOs
N2WKS - Off Times >= 30 Minutes
2014-02-15 00:00Z - 2014-02-16 00:29Z 24:30 (1470 mins) (Start late)
Total Time Off 24:30 (1470 mins)
Total Time On 23:30 (1410 mins)
ARRL DX CW - 2014-02-15 0000Z to 2014-02-17 0000Z - 2148 QSOs
N2WKS Max Rates:
2014-02-16 1240Z - 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by N2WKS
2014-02-16 1359Z - 3.4 per minute (10 minute(s)), 204 per hour by N2WKS
2014-02-16 1316Z - 2.9 per minute (60 minute(s)), 176 per hour by N2WKS
-------------- 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 39 0 5 0 44 44 2.1
0100 0 31 17 16 4 0 68 112 5.2
0200 4 14 20 0 0 0 38 150 7.0
0300 3 0 90 0 0 0 93 243 11.4
0400 0 9 92 0 0 0 101 344 16.1
0500 25 24 0 0 0 0 49 393 18.4
0600 5 20 0 73 0 0 98 491 23.0
0700 9 0 55 22 0 0 86 577 27.0
0800 0 0 122 0 0 0 122 699 32.7
0900 1 3 22 22 0 0 48 747 34.9
1000 1 1 5 48 1 0 56 803 37.6
1100 1 0 1 131 0 0 133 936 43.8
1200 0 0 1 17 142 0 160 1096 51.3
1300 0 0 0 0 81 81 162 1258 58.8
1400 0 0 0 0 8 109 117 1375 64.3
1500 0 0 0 0 105 2 107 1482 69.3
1600 0 0 0 9 5 48 62 1544 72.2
1700 0 0 0 128 0 0 128 1672 78.2
1800 0 0 0 25 28 17 70 1742 81.5
1900 0 0 0 0 79 10 89 1831 85.6
2000 0 0 4 76 7 1 88 1919 89.8
2100 0 0 17 82 1 2 102 2021 94.5
2200 0 0 49 4 10 6 69 2090 97.8
2300 0 2 17 20 8 1 48 2138 100.0
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 925
2 bands 252
3 bands 93
4 bands 46
5 bands 30
6 bands 16
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
KH6LC TI5W OM7M 9A1A E7DX OL7M
HG7T PJ2T VP5S CN2AA EC2DX LZ9W
HB9FAP HK1NA P40L OL5Y
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Call: N2WQ/VE3 Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 498,372
The benefit of stacks becomes very apparent during band openings and closings.
My single tribander @ 105' did great, except during the first and last one hour
of the 15m being open. I could watch NQ4I and VE6WQ run while I could not make a
single QSO. I could hear EU, but they could not.
Watching the competition live on cqcontest.ru makes all the difference in the
world; it is so much more fun! I wish more stations would post their scores in
real time.
Rudy N2WQ
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Call: N3BB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 145,350
S/O HP All Band. Part Time
FT1000MP
KW Amp
Two six element yagis in phase for 10 meters (65 and 32 feet)
4 Hours operating time
No antenna at all for 20 or 160 meters so I just dabbled on 80, 40, and 15
mostly S&P. Got on when 10 meters was open to EU, and sat on a freq and
called CQ and ran. Did that until I got tired and stopped. On Saturday,
when I got on, the band was so crowded that the first time I found a little
space (not a lot to start with) was up on 28073. On Sunday, I lucked into a
spot someone had left on 28025, but there was a persistent RTTY signal on
my frequency (28025) off and on for most of the time. The RTTY QRM at times
moved a little higher in frequency (28026) but rarely went away for more
that five minutes.
One of the several interesting aspects of the ARRL DX contest is the power
received from the other station. Usually, the KW stations were the
strongest, but there were times when 100W stations in the same areas just
boomed in. Also, it's fun when the 5W QRP stations are clear and reasonably
loud. There were plenty of times on 10 meters when these guys were super
plentiful. When you get those conditions, it's so much fun.
Nice to hear many radio friends, and after a period of low activity, to get
lots of hellos, etc. Thanks for the fun, and congratulations to the serious
folks who hit it hard and with great skill.
73, Jim
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Call: N3BNA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,952,432
The weather has made this one of the most difficult contests of the many in
which I have ever participated.
First of all I left Haiti a few days before the contest and came back to find
my car battery dead, but in addition the entire car was coated in thick ice and
the trunk and hood were totally encased...I spent several hours outside from
midnight to 2:00AM, (with single-digit temperatures just after getting off the
plane from Haiti) chopping my hood and windshield free from ice, then digging
the 18-24 inched of hardened snow that was encasing it.
In the contest K3QF and I also fought the terrible weather (My lane was
impassable and vehicles has to be abandoned somewhere along the lane and hoof
it up the steep snowy hill). We also had visits from Murphy...falling trees all
over the place and lost the south beverage. Also A huge branch (12inches)
landed on the roof of the cabin..likely damaging the roof, but its been too
cold to know if there will be any damage or leaks. Looks like a tornado went
through. Everything now under additional snow. Lot of work when it gets
warmer.
One rotor stuck on north half way through the contest...South beverage is
totally dead...somewhere out there in the deep snow it is broken...Probably a
downed tree. Jon and I made a great effort to do our best despite the weather
problems. And I actually got my car stuck after the contest and had to dig
myself out alone in the cold.
Near the end of the contest I started smelling the distinctive smell that
indicates that the propane heater is running out of fuel. Next job will be to
drag a propane tank up to the shack and hook it up..Propane company refuses to
deliver up my lane...did a lot of digging and salting today. I dont think I
worked this hard before I retired!
40m was extremely noisy and with poor hearing it was almost torture, but I
think we did the best that was humanly possible. Wonder what future adventures
await. Thanks for all the QSOs and mults, especially the YJ0 who had good
ears. See you in the next contest!
73,
Dale - N3BNA
P.S. Haiti would have been more fun, but would have been less points for our
contest club. I would rather have stayed in Haiti and played DX, and I
certainly regret not doing so. However, there is a much better point
differential for DX stations in the CQ contests than the ARRL contests. For
ARRL contests, a decent station in NA can get a better score at home.
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Call: N3EN Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,013,025
The skimmer spots always provided someone to call.. 100 watts to a dipole @40ft
was good enough to work anyone when the pileup was small. The low bands were
poor, so I went to bed early both nights. Must enjoy 10 meters when it is
alive...
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Call: N3KCJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 173,901
Murphy found me just after D1 ENDED.
WILL MAKE BIGGER EFFORT IN THE SSB
TEST!! TU 4 ALL THE QSOs
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Call: N3KCJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 58,500
SOAB LP and very antenna challenged. Ran a wire from my tuner to the
gutters just out the window and it loaded on 10-15 and 20M. Kind of
like going QRP!! CU next time with High Power and real antennas!!
TU to all the patient OPs who pulled me out.... Foster N3KCJ
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Call: N3QE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,739,000
I could write on and on about my ongoing 120Hz utility impulse noise on 40M and
20M, or how crappy 160M seemed (but maybe 80M and 40M were subpar too? Didn't
have as many night hours this year) or about how wonderful 15M was after dark
or the opening to Asia was Saturday night on 10M, but I think the final
equation comparing my score to last hour is this:
10 percent less BIC time results in 10 percent less score
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Call: N3RS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 5,824,728
Following the ice storm of the ages and all the snow, I had to listen on 160M
and 80M with the transmit antennas. All the Beverages were down or not
functioning following the ice storm. Also had a problem with my lower 10M
yogis not rotating up to the NE, so it was not the best weekend from the
standpoint of antennas available. Propagation was excellent, albeit hampered
by very high QRN levels on the LF bands. This was a single radio event,
although there were many unused radios in the shack. Good thing the usual
multi-op effort fell through for lack of operators. There would be nowhere to
park additional cars, as the piles of snow are blocking the way. Congrats to
KI1G, and all the other participants in the SOA category. It was a lot of
fun.
73 de Sig, N3RS
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Call: N3ZZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 117,774
Best condx here for some years. Thanks for the Qs.
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Call: N4CF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 151,392
Once again, I was amazed at how well QRP CW works. Only got 14 hours due to
conflicting family activities. Set a personal goal of 100K, and surpassed that
on Sunday afternoon. Bumped the goal to 150K, and barely made that with two
minutes left in the contest. i['m pleased!
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Call: N4CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 119,928
First CW contest
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Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,841,648
What fun!!!!
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Call: N4DJ Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 610,995
I thought I would try Low Power Assisted this time. After all 90 watts is only 9
dB down from my usual 700 watts. The low power did better than I expected. That
was fun! I was even able to get some good runs in, especially on 15 meters
where my best hour was 91 Qs. One advantage of being assisted was I could see
myself being spotted by the skimmers. Not sure that got me any points though.
According to N1MM, exactly two thirds of my Qs were S&P and one third
running.
I did not hear much on 160 and 80. Much more noise there this weekend than I am
used to.
73,
Don
N4DJ
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Call: N4DW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,534,350
After an awesome two hour run on 20, I now have a much deeper respect for
dxpedition operators.
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Call: N4DXI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 106,596
Nice openings to Europe on 10 and 15 meters. All S & P, working KW European
stations. Lots of Balkan countries for some reason...direct pipeline into
Inglis, Florida?
73...John Bescher, N4DXI
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Call: N4FP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 64,746
Used this contest to experiment with various configurations: Flex 3000, 100
Watts to 22' flagpole fed thru SG-237 tuner at base of flagpole; TS-440SAT, 100
watts to 20 meter loop fed thru Dentron tuner; TS-440SAT driving Ameritron
AL-811H to 22' fishing pole fed thru Dentron tuner. The Flex 100 held its own
wherever I used it. The TS-440SAT to the loop was a disappointment. Tried
higher power to the loop and blew out a new W2AU balun. TS-440SAT with high
power to the 22' fishing pole was a lot of fun on 10 meters, worked Guam and
Japan. If I had it to do over, I would stick to the Flex 3000 at 100 watts to
the flagpole and spend the time used to experiment with other antennas and high
power on actual operating. I spent way too much time trying to build/modify
antennas during the contest. Still a very fun Ham Radio Weekend.
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Call: N4JF Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 88,000
ACG.......BAND WAS GREAT
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Call: N4KG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,657,458
In the 2013 CQ WW CW I worked to maximize my multipliers resulting in the
highest country multiplier I have ever achieved (586?) but noticed a great
reduction in my multi-band contacts due to focusing almost exclusively on the
N1MM "available multipliers box".
In this contest, I mixed my focus between the N1MM Band Map and Available
Multiplier Box resulting in contacts with 50 stations on all 5 bands from 80
through 10 meters with my best hour producing 85 contacts by the
'point-and-click' method.
That's sort of fun at the time BUT, I have less of a 'feel' for who is where
and a definite loss of satisfaction from finding the mults on my own.
My guess is that the Single Operators in the unassisted category get the
greatest feeling of accomplishment. I'm still sorting out how I want to play
this game with the N1MM Logging Program and declining capability to push as
hard as I used to along with a definite need to get away from the chair (and
radio) to 'recharge my batteries' as I enter my 6th Sunspot Cycle of DXing and
Contesting. I'm still recuperating from this contest and it's Wednesday!
Tom N4KG in North Alabama
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Call: N4KH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 168,960
Other priorities really limited me to a very P/T effort. Conditions on 80m late
Friday night were the best I've heard in a very long time. I was able to easily
work all the big guns in Europe and everywhere in between running 100 watts.
Hopefully I'll get a few new confirmed countries out of that. The rain really
cut back on local noise. I decided to try to run for a while on 10 meters
Sunday morning before heading to church and had lots of fun with that with many
EU and AF callers. Thanks for all the QSO's.
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Call: N4LF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 150,732
Got a few hours in between visitors, chores and stomach flu!
S&P only.
K3 to Allband doublet
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Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 66,381
All S & P. Hard to sit in the chair when you feel yuckey. Had fun!!
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Call: N4NX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,023,198
K3, KPA500 ( 500 watts ), 4 element SteppIR, wires
Missed large chunks of time due to other activities.
worked PJ2T on all 6 bands ( Hal, N4GG was op on several of the QSOs )
Almost all Search & Pounce.
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Call: N4OGW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 607,074
Fun! Wish I could have operated more.
73,
Tor
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Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 507,990
Just couldn't be better....WoW! Go 10 meters.
Fighting a stomach virus all week, but tried to stay in the ole chair..
56 - 5W contacts - only on 10m....plus 2 - 2w contacts...
Lots of great DX in the mornings....
Thanks to all who showed up for a great show...
73, Paul, N4PN
FT1000MP/AL1200 - 1200W
TH-5 Tribander @ 70'
Logging w/CT
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Call: N4QX Class: SO Unlimited QRP Total Score = 6,900
Rig: FT-817ND, 5 watts
Antennas: mobile whips
QTH: 2012 Chevrolet Cruze on top, exterior floor of Clarendon Market Common
west parking garage, FN18kv
I entered the weekend with 69 entities confirmed on Logbook of the World and
thought I'd make an effort to finish DXCC this weekend, with the benefit of
other people's antennas. I didn't quite make it, due to a combination of short
hours and poor targeting--I was surprised to hear large pileups for Peru and
Corsica, and spent too much time failing to break them. But I'm substantially
closer to the line, and I've resolved to cross it this year.
DX Phone will be an effort from 4U1ITU, but only for a few hours, as I fly home
on March 1.
73 de Brennan N4QX
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Call: N4TOL Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 96,720
Installed the CW filter in my Yaesu FT-817 last week, so it was time to give it
a good test. I was very pleased with the performance of the radio.
Band conditions were very good for me on 10 and 15.
Worked 61 unique countries at 5 watts, although none were very rare. ZL9, ZL
and CN were best gets.
Lot's of fun being heard with a simple station.
Yaesu FT-817
Buckmaster OCF @ 55 feet
Elecraft T1 Autotuner
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Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,286,326
Yet another photo-finish with N5AW - it's like a Big 10 rivalry game!
It doesn't matter who wins the national champitonship, so long as
you beat your rival. For the past sunspot cycle, Marv and I have had
a number of very close finishes, despite living a thousand miles apart.
This looks to be another.
A couple of times I almost threw in the towel. Conditions Saturday
evening were brutal, not just from the solar events. We had about
five inches of blowing snow which made the low bands intollerable
even with my beverages. So, I went to bed very early. Sunday morning
was better, but not as good as Saturday, when I made 10 meter contacts
well before local sunrise. Sunday's highlight was having XW0YJY call
in during my afternoon jog on 20 for an all-time new one. I'll try
to remember that QSO the next time I get discouraged about a slow
run.
Time to go shovel some more snow.
ARRL-DX-CW SUMMARY SHEET
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
START DATE: 15-02-14
CALLSIGN USED: N4TZ
LOCATOR: EN70
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CLUB: Society of Midwest Contesters
NAME: Terry Zivney
ADDRESS: 8843 W County Road 950 N
ADDRESS-CITY: Middletown
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: IN
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 47356
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: N4TZ@ARRL.NET
OPERATING TIME: 39:49:25
CQ COUNTER: 4434
RUN/SEARCH: 1903/728 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 1656
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.246 http://www.tr4w.com
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
__________________________________________________________
160CW 40 39 117 35
80CW 127 126 378 60
40CW 324 323 969 75
20CW 609 604 1812 85
15CW 692 684 2052 88
10CW 839 826 2478 78
__________________________________________________________
Totals 2631 2602 7806 421
Final Score = 3286326 points.
2014 ARRL-DX-CW 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 = 18 23 24 22 24 20 131
SA calls = 6 9 10 25 24 26 100
Euro calls = 14 86 243 484 554 654 2035
African calls = 2 2 4 9 8 10 35
Asian calls = 0 1 8 42 23 17 91
Japan calls = 0 1 23 12 47 106 189
Ocean calls = 0 5 12 14 12 6 49
Total calls = 40 127 324 609 692 839 2631
Unknowns on 20 = MM/VK6FZM
ARRL-DX-CW N4TZ
HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL
SCORE
-- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------ ---------
-----
0 --- 3/3 41/24 21/16 7/4 13/6 85/53 85/53
0.014 M
1 3/3 1/1 77/13 10/4 --- --- 91/21 176/74
0.039 M
2 13/13 21/15 12/0 --- --- --- 46/28 222/102
0.068 M
3 8/6 28/10 1/1 --- --- --- 37/17 259/119
0.092 M
4 7/4 15/3 3/0 39/9 --- --- 64/16 323/135
0.130 M
5 5/5 20/9 13/3 3/0 --- --- 41/17 364/152
0.165 M
6 2/2 11/3 39/5 --- --- --- 52/10 416/162
0.201 M
7 --- 6/2 39/0 2/1 --- --- 47/3 463/165
0.228 M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 463/165
0.228 M
9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 463/165
0.228 M
10 --- 8/6 34/13 1/0 --- --- 43/19 506/184
0.278 M
11 --- 5/3 5/2 30/13 15/11 --- 55/29 561/213
0.357 M
12 --- --- --- 54/8 1/0 66/32 121/40 682/253
0.516 M
13 --- --- --- --- --- 139/9 139/9 821/262
0.642 M
14 --- --- --- --- 60/17 55/0 115/17 936/279
0.779 M
15 --- --- --- --- 22/4 66/5 88/9 1024/288
0.880 M
16 --- --- --- --- 73/5 42/0 115/5 1139/293
0.996 M
17 --- --- --- --- 6/0 85/2 91/2 1230/295
1.083 M
18 --- --- --- 43/4 45/2 3/0 91/6 1321/301
1.187 M
19 --- --- --- 51/0 26/4 3/2 80/6 1401/307
1.281 M
20 --- --- --- 8/1 53/3 12/9 73/13 1474/320
1.405 M
21 --- --- --- 45/5 18/9 2/1 65/15 1539/335
1.537 M
22 --- --- 4/0 3/1 23/4 30/4 60/9 1599/344
1.640 M
23 --- --- --- 11/5 5/1 47/2 63/8 1662/352
1.745 M
0 --- --- 9/2 --- 4/2 37/0 50/4 1712/356
1.817 M
1 --- --- 8/2 6/5 22/1 --- 36/8 1748/364
1.895 M
2 --- 3/0 8/0 21/2 2/0 --- 34/2 1782/366
1.942 M
3 --- --- 4/4 12/1 3/0 --- 19/5 1801/371
1.990 M
4 1/1 --- 7/2 1/0 --- --- 9/3 1810/374
2.016 M
5 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1810/374
2.016 M
6 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1810/374
2.016 M
7 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1810/374
2.016 M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1810/374
2.016 M
9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1810/374
2.016 M
10 --- 4/3 12/1 6/0 --- --- 22/4 1832/378
2.063 M
11 1/1 2/2 6/3 7/0 --- --- 16/6 1848/384
2.114 M
12 --- --- --- 26/2 60/6 --- 86/8 1934/392
2.259 M
13 --- --- --- --- 119/7 1/0 120/7 2054/399
2.443 M
14 --- --- --- 1/1 38/0 42/1 81/2 2135/401
2.550 M
15 --- --- --- --- 4/0 62/0 66/0 2201/401
2.626 M
16 --- --- --- --- 7/1 73/2 80/3 2281/404
2.740 M
17 --- --- --- --- 19/1 47/2 66/3 2347/407
2.838 M
18 --- --- --- 51/3 17/0 2/0 70/3 2417/410
2.943 M
19 --- --- --- 43/0 22/2 3/0 68/2 2485/412
3.039 M
20 --- --- --- 23/2 9/2 2/0 34/4 2519/416
3.111 M
21 --- --- --- 26/0 6/1 2/0 34/1 2553/417
3.158 M
22 --- --- --- 43/1 1/1 4/1 48/3 2601/420
3.241 M
23 --- --- 2/0 22/1 5/0 1/0 30/1 2631/421
3.286 M
D1 38/33 118/55 268/61 321/67 354/64 563/72 1662/352
D2 2/2 9/5 56/14 288/18 338/24 276/6 969/69
TO 40/35 127/60 324/75 609/85 692/88 839/78 2631/421
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Call: N4UU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,475,198
Station is working well. I had a 2 hour power failure Saturday morning right as
10 was opening to Europe. I will install generator ! That was was the longest 2
hours I can remember. Thanks for the q'S.
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Call: N4WW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 357,858
40M was a tail of 2 contest. Fantastic condx first 24 hours but the second 24
was stinko!
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Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,462,237
After many years of doing this with 100 watts, I ventured into the high power
category this time around. It made for a very enjoyable event.
Conditions were fantastic with the only low point coming for a few hours
shortly after the halfway point when the low bands were a wreck. The nighttime
high-band conditions provided plenty of excitement. It was a pleasant surprise
to get such great conditions to Asia. 10 meters was fantastic to Asia shortly
after sunset.
I was just about to go to bed the second night and decided to take a spin
through 20 meters. That was about 2 in the morning local time. The JA run that
transpired was one like I had never experienced. It felt like a high band
European run. I finally went to bed at 4 in the morning and did not return
until an hour after sunrise. I tried to get up, but as I stood up I realized I
was just too darn tired.
10,15 and 20 were super while 40 was OK. 80 was fine the first night but a bust
the second night. 160 was poor.
What an exciting event �" I think I'll stick to high power in the future
as well.
73,
Nate/N4YDU
Station:
Radio A: Kenwood 850, SB200
Radio B: Kenwood 850, Ameritron AL 811
Antennas:
10 meters: 2 element wire delta loop at 50 feet fixed NE
15 meters: 4 element Cushcraft yagi at 30 feet fixed NE, 2 element delta loop
fixed NW
20 meters: 3 element Hygain yagi at 30 feet fixed NE, Comtek 4 square,
rectangular loop at 65 feet
Three band dipole for 10/15/20 at 55 feet NW/SE
Hygain TH2 fixed SW at 25 feet
40 meters: Comtek 4 Square
80 meters: 1/4 wave vertical
160M: Inverted L
K9AY RX antenna with Hilltop Phasing Box
Wintest Software
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Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,215,406
My best score ever. High bands were excellent - low bands not terrible but below
normal. For once I acted more like a contester than a DXer. I had four clock
hours above 100 and two of 97. I know that's nothing for the big guys but for
me that was great. My multiplier total is lower than I've had in recent years,
partly because I spent more time running but also there were not as many
available on 160 and 80 this time. No complaints though!
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Call: N5DO Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,736,667
I made about 100 more contacts this year than last year, but I had fewer mults.
I was able to run a lot more this normal. It was lots of fun to act like a HP
station and run Europe from west Texas!
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Call: N5TOO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 69,984
Worked contest from condo at St. Simons Island, GA using FT 897D with 37 foot
long wire hanging out 3rd floor window. The 897 and FC-40 tuner combination
would not tune 20 meters. Was a fun part time search and pounce contest. Got
as many QSO's as possible between walks on the beach and other fun vacation
activities with my wife and granddaughter.
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Call: N5XZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 506,499
Fun contest, operated a few hours between yard work and other chores this
weekend. Band conditions were very good.
Rig: K3/P3
Amp: Alpha 78
Ant: 4 el SteppIR @ 75 ft
S/W: N1MM v.14.1.0
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Call: N6AR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 865,080
Very little spare time here this weekend, but the bands were sure in great
shape!
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Call: N6DA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 511,431
TS-940S + ALPHA 87A
80 DIPOLE @ SIX FEET
40 INV V @30'
20 INV V @30'
15 40 METER INV V @30'
10 4-EL @ 27'
Fun contest. 10 meters was great.
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Call: N6HE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 237,360
TenTec Omni VII, SB-220, WriteLog; only low wires. 2-el SteppIR next time!
Who the h*** schedules Valentine's Day on a CW DX Contest Weekend?
Had a blast with the great band conditions.
Watch for K6PV/6 from Santa Catalina Island (NA-066) Feb 24 0000Z - Feb 23
2200Z. We'll be in the NAQP RTTY contest, too.
73,
Ray N6HE
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Call: N6HI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 10,200
QRP 5 Watts, 20 Foot End-Fed Wire. Operated on/off about 10-12 hours total.
Finally worked Northern Ireland for Country #150 with a 20 foot wire and 5W.
Fun contest, great condx for my "no antennas" QTH, worked 32
countries
QRP, 18 of them with 1/2Watt.
Hope to have a 'full time' effort next year. GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS!
73 John N6HI
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Call: N6MU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 401,544
Part time and totally S&P. 73...
John, N6MU TS-570 & 5BTV
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Call: N6NC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 46,740
Planned to attend Yuma Hamfest and not do DX CW, but put in a few hrs FRI night
from 0130Z-0730Z on 40m with excursions to 80m to give out Qs.
40m was amazing! Worked 61 countries (EU, OC, AS, AF and SA) in about 5 hrs on
FRI night(and 21 on 80m with a vertical and one radial).
When we returned from Yuma SAT evening I tried 40m again but there was zip,
nada new here. Same thing SUN morning. Glad I got a few hrs in on FRI!
73, Larry N6NC
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Call: N6RNO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,079
just a couple of quick sessions around the Olympics...
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Call: N6RO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 24,843
Didn't get on until Sunday due to jazz gigs. No CQs, most Qs from the cluster.
Condx seemed quite good, EU stayed in late in our morning.
The Radio Oakley team did not have enough operators to try our usual M/M, so
four of us did SINGLE BAND ASSISTED, a category that ARRL does not recognize.
When will the League modernize?
The four single-banders (SO-U):
WA6O 40m: 990 Qs, 99 Mults, 288K
K6AW 20m: 810 Q, 103 M, 247K; Amp. failed at 14 hours on time, went home.
K3EST 15m: 1381 Q, 118 M, 488K
N6RO: 10m: 91/91/24K
May do the same thing on SSB.
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Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,131,400
Thanks to everyone I worked! I still can not split my brain so sometimes the
SO2R thing really gets me confused. Great Conditions! I was able to run Europe
and Asia on 40 - 10! 20 Meters Saturday night was the best! A ton of Russian
stations calling! I am still astounded that everyone hears the KX-3 with 12
watts. I worked Europe on 40 with it and the rest of the world off the back of
the beam! I have to say it is the best radio I have ever owned. Now the Flex
5000a only hung up about every 2 hours. It went crazy on 160 and at the end of
the contest it decided to hang up the keyer. I still have to tune very slowly
or the radio freezes up. They say I have to send it back to the factory for a
modification. The DDS which should be termination insensitive is actually very
sensitive!
See everyone in two weeks!
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Call: N6WS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 593,505
Rig : Yaesu FT-1000MP MkV
Ameritron AL-1200
Antennas : Cushcraft X-9 w/X-940 @ 17m
80m 1/2 sloper @ 12m
Soapbox : Had great fun chasing DX!!
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Call: N6YEU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 386,973
Great conditions on all bands but 20m was lousy for me. 15 was the "money
band". My birthday is 15 Feb. so got a nice present!
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Call: N7GP Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 7,326
This one was much poorer than last year. In 2013 I was able to put in 10 hours
of operating time the first night before getting sick. That effort yielded 100
Q's and 43 mults for a claimed score of 12,771. With the sickness, no 2nd night
operation was done.
This year I was available to operate fully both nights but it was not necessary
as the band did not cooperate. The 8 hours is the sum total of operating time
for both nights.
Under really adverse conditions where some contacts required 5-10 minutes to
receive all the information, the following DX entities were contacted. The
number indicates if more than 1 station was contacted in that DX entity.
6Y, 9A, 9Y, C6, CN, CT, CT3, EA-5, F-3, G-2, GW, HC, HK-2, HL, J3, JA-12,
KH6-2, KL-2, KP2-3, KP4-2, OM, P4-2, PJ2, PJ4, PJ5, PY, TI, UA9-2, V2, V3,
VP2E, VP5, VP9, XE-2,YN, ZF-2, ZL-2.
All of the EU contacts were difficult with the exception of TM6M when he was
already in daylight. You know the Pacific isn't going to do much when HL5IVL
is barely workable.
Thanks for all the Q's and for the tremendous effort of F6BLP and OM7M who hung
with me through dozens of repeats.
Let's all hope for better conditions in the CQ 160 SSB this next weekend.
73 de Milt, N5IA, operator of N7GP
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Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 780,432
Ah, what could have been? This score is only a few percent less than my all
time high score from 2002. If the CME had hit 24 hours later this effort would
have produced my highest ARRL DX CW contest score. I kept pushing the
multiplier total all day on Sunday since I knew the rate wasn't going to be
there. Even so there were new people to work on every band to the very end.
Non-polar paths were good enough for me to run Asia and Oceania on 10 and 15
meters on Saturday evening. That hasn't happened here using QRP since the peak
of cycle 23.
This contest was the shake-down cruise of new 5B4AGN TX band-pass filters and
antenna switching hardware. All of the careful wiring work and testing over
the previous couple of weeks ensured that Mr. Murphy went to visit elsewhere.
Thanks for the contacts and your patience.
73
Gary, N7IR
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Call: N7NM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,159,539
FT-1000mp KW
43ft Vertical
Great prop and quiet bands make for a lot of fun! Best results
ever in a contest but missed most of Friday evening. Able to
sustain a run to EU for the first time ever Sat morning and as usual
JA accounted for almost half my score!
Thanks to all who worked me.
73, Doug - N7NM
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Call: N7RVD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 244,398
This was only my 3rd time in this contest. And it was a personal best, which
was a real surprise since I had a pistol match Saturday, so, the whole day was
"shot", and, when I finally fired up the radio, I ran the amplifier
at half power on a quiet, fanless, power supply.
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Call: N7XU Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,870,988
Best conditions in years. Saturday was a blast, Sunday was a drag.
Lots of 5 banders and two on 6 bands. What a treat.
I kept gentleman's hours - got at least six hours of sleep each night.
Only a small visit from Murphy: the brake on the top rotor quit Saturday PM. It
was windy and while S&P looking for Eu mults and not working much, then
notice that the beam was off to Africa.
K3 + KPA500. Two tribanders and wires.
Thanks to all who called.
73,
Dick
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Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,405,400
Score way down from last year. Low bands were not a good I think. Quit early
to study for my colonoscopy exam in the AM.
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Call: N8HM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 36,582
Didn't spend as much time in the contest as I did last year, but conditions were
good. Enjoyed giving out DC to as many as I could.
Only had three QSY requests this year, so there was obviously much more DC
activity than last year when nearly every other QSO seemed to generate a QSY
request!
Only one new DXCC this year - 3V
Rig - Yaesu FT-450D
Antenna - MFJ-1786 Magnetic Loop
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Call: N8II Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,430,980
Recipe for DX contest nirvana = mostly great conditions, loads of Europeans
seeking out QSO's, decent running skill, and operating from a fairly rare
state.
We had at least 15 inches of snow on Thursday and despite having the large
driveway cleared, I still shoveled quite a few heavy loads of snow Friday. And
my father-in-law's ashes were going to be laid to rest Monday with family
dinner Sunday, so I was not planning on a big effort.
Things started off with excellent conditions on 80 thru 20 M. 20 was open to
EU! Both south EU and north EU were loud with the stations in the middle left
out. AF was booming in as were stations from PJ and south. The northern
Caribbean was spotty. A few JA's and were worked along with a few Russians
mostly far north.
40 was in great shape, even managed a decent run of EU stations, then swept the
band for Q's. Down to 80 and managed to run about 30-35 EU down there and also
S&P'ed my way across the band. The RBN caught me right away almost every
time I changed bands. It was great to have EA6FO, RT3F, R22ALS, and CN2AA call
right off the bat multiple times along with some others.
Saturday morning, I was up way too late. 15 was thumping with S9+ Europeans, so
I found a nice spot easily and started a run with one CQ. The pile up was pretty
intense as it was every time I changed bands when running EU all day long.
Conditions were good to Russia and even worked a couple in central Asia.
EU OPS TAKE NOTE! If there is a pile up on your sought after station, please do
not exactly zero beat unless you know you are so loud you can beat the odds. Do
not call once (don't call more than twice) and stop unless again you are really
loud. The guys off frequency slightly and who call after the mob stops are going
to make it thru faster. And PLEASE DON'T CALL WHEN YOU KNOW THE DX IS ATTEMPTING
TO GET THE CALL OF SOMEONE ELSE OR COPY AN EXCHANGE! The pile up behavior is
getting terrible on both sides of the Atlantic. JA's are the best ops calling
in a pile up by far! They don't answer unless they know they are being called
making for no rate slow downs.
QRP OPs: As a group, there is a lot of room for operating improvement. Please
don't waste time repeating your call and exchange unless the receiving station
asks you to do so. One HB9 station had his exchange macro programmed to send
his call twice (after I correctly sent his call) and repeat the exchange twice!
He was very good copy on 2 bands, weak on another. Also just send "5"
for 5 watts, sending "W" or "watts" or "QRP" just
makes for confusion. Just because you are running QRP does not mean the
receiving station does often copy you quite well.
It was up to 10 just after 13Z and again the Russians were there in numbers
along with a surprise call from E20 in Thailand and UN. From 12Z until 2030Z,
the callers never really slowed down that much on 15, then 10, then .15, then
20. I noticed the last 10 rate hit 333 once on 10 and best last 100 was 174 at
1346Z. It was pretty intense and more than I could possibly hope for running
low power. At 2030Z, the rate was dropping and it was time to troll for mults
on 10 and 15. 10 was long to the south at 21Z, 15 was open well to OC,
Caribbean/SA, and AF. Around 2145, 15 opened to JA and I was able to run at
around a 90 rate there for about 20 minutes. All JA's were very fluttery on 20
and 15. I went to 10 and it was even better with the northern JA's very
fluttery and more southern ones much less. I had one of the best JA runs ever
on CW from home for about 45 minutes with rates around 120/hr. RT0C and
Sakhalin Is. stations were booming in. I managed to find one Chinese and one DU
station. 20 was in great shape to Asia after 10 died off working BY, DU,
Russians, and a few JA's with booming signals from the Caribbean and south. 40
was very frustrating by the time I made it there with very loud only southern
EU's almost all of which were already in the log and no hope of running. So, it
was back to 20 which had opened farther west as far as UA4 and OH and UN
stations were quite loud. Quite a few new Q's and mults were logged. Despite
the disturbance with very wide fluttery signals, signals were quite strong.
Sunday AM started out with a quick scan of 160. 80, and 40, not much happening
with poor conditions, but worth several mults. I was able to run about 40
stations on 20 before the rate dropped off despite good strength from EU, then
it was up to 15 which was in great shape with not quite as loud signals fro
Russia. At 1250Z, 10 was just opening well to EU with some signals weak. By
1310Z, signals were loud, but not so great from Russia with many fewer callers
than Saturday. UR/UA6 stations were loud. I was called by a UN and two VU2's
one of which was booming in. The rate stayed great thru about 1630Z with just a
few dry spells. When I returned to 15, my runs finally ran out or at least
slowed down significantly and finding a clear spot proved difficult. Signals
were weaker with higher absorption than Saturday which hurt ability to run with
LP. The high absorption was also true of 20 around 18Z, but I was able to run at
a decent Sunday rate for quite a while.
A JW called in and TF as well; TF was well represented with about 4 different
calls logged on various bands. 10 was much better to the Caribbean Sunday
afternoon and even a loud OH was logged. At 21Z 15 was pen to basically every
point on the compass with strong signals from Scandinavia, western EU, and AF
as well as KH2, KL7, KH6 and booming Caribbean signals. Returning to 20 M,
around 22Z, EU from OK and HA to the west and north was booming in and I again
resumed a decent paced run with many QRP stations included. 9V1YC called in
with a near S9 signal. Two ZL's called in LP and VK's were booming in. 40 was
again in poor shape to EU at 23Z when it should be peaking, so I went up to 15
and pounced on JA's at about one a minute and found 3 new mults in the last 20
minutes.
Many thanks to all who called and especially those stuck at the bottom of the
heap when the pile ups were deep. Many followed me around for Q's on 3 or more
bands. All of the spotting tools used by the DX really helped my rate which
many times went from fairly slow to many callers after spotting. And those
multis and assisted guys working the 2nd radio really helped as well. Some
pretty rare DX found me like EA6, JW, CN, 4O4, 7Z, 4X, VU, and 4K. Next year, I
may actually plan to push myself harder, but I doubt if the ionosphere
cooperates like it did this year. Despite the lower number of contest
expeditions compared to CQWW, the ARRL DX is one of my favorites because is
really fun being sought after rather than just another QSO. Low bands and even
20 M are also much easier without the EU to EU QSO's.
Congrats to N9TZ and N5AW who are not as blessed with great EU openings for
hours like I am here, TZ's breakdown shows a lot of hard work chasing down Q's
on different bands. And I and sure N1UR will have a massive score as usual.
73, Jeff
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Call: N8UM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,705,058
Excellent 10/15 conditions after sunset during all three darkness periods here
in the Southeastern US. The band recovery after the two increases in the K was
extremely rapid.
Very interesting to hear the great signals on 20 meters at 0800z Sunday morning
(250 Qs between 0800-1000z). My multiplier count was significantly down from
last year but Qs were a new personal best.
No meters like 10 meters. My 10 meter antenna is a ground mounted array of
four sticks of aluminum each 7 feet tall, spaced in an 8 ft square. Best 10
meter rate was 125/hr.
No equipment or software issues! New wet snow did not effect tuning of the
verticals.
K3/9500
Verticals on all bands
SAL Loops for 80/160
WinTest
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Call: N8XX Class: SOSB/10 QRP Total Score = 26,718
Fun contest. Was surprised that I could work ANY stations after sundown, but
someone on the QRP reflector said that 10 was open after 0000Z in the Easter
Time Zone (7 p.m.) so I looked, and worked one station from Japan, and an
Alaska Station. Heard a KH6, but he was being swamped by west coast and High
Power stations farther east, and couldn't squoke through the cacophony/din.
Next morning I found CR2A early - even before sunrise, but he was the only loud
station. Was going to get 40 winks, but slept through the alarm, didn't get on
until 1530Z (10:30 a.m. EST). After that, did 60 in 90 minutes - amazing for
my modest setup, all S&P. A couple highlights - Worked 3 New Zealanders,
including the special event station ZM9ØDX, and two ZL1's! Also, on Sunday
afternoon I squoke through the cacophony chasing NH2/N2NL - he "popped up
to almost S9 at one point, I threw my call, and, "LO, and BEHOLD!" I
heard N8XX coming back from Guam! Could have pushed me off the chair with a
feather!
Thanks to all who stuck with my weak signal at time, though much of the time I
got through on first call with no fills needed!
As I've often said, I never cease to be amazed at what 5 watts to a wet noodle
antenna can do!
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Call: N9CK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,483,514
That was a lot of fun! It was sure nice to hear all the activity.
73 to all
Steve N9CK
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Call: N9CO Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 240,582
Lots of fun, as always, in this one. Personal obligations kept me from joining
W0AIH team, so spent as much time as I could on 20m. Amplifier still on
workbench, waiting to be finished (one of these days...) so jumped in with all
that I have: FT-1000MP and TS-930S. Started out using the MP, but switched
over to the 930 sometime on Saturday, just for fun. It's been awhile since
I've made more than a few QSO's on the 930, mainly to make sure that it still
works, and now I need to try to remember why I moved it to standby rig status.
It has the PIEXX and INRAD roofing filters, and it held up to the pileups very
well. Signals seemed easy to copy and distinguish from each other. Going to
have to re-think rig strategy. Used a single yagi, homebrew, 4el on 26' boom,
at 84' for all qso's. Rotator got a good workout.
73 es thanks for all the fun,
Charlie N9CO
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Call: N9NC Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 532,980
Wind storms in late November and December took down my high dipole and wire Vee
beam.
So I went with 10m single band this time.
Used the 5 element homebrew OWA yagi at 25 feet up on a water pipe mast (with
working rotor).
Single op unassisted, single band, single antenna, single radio, what could
possibly go right?
Conditions were excellent Saturday morning, had 2 back to back 200 hours at
sunrise band opening, with 150/hour avg for the first 6 hours.
Probably my mult total suffered from not tuning at all until 18z, but the freq
was too good to leave.
Never experienced that from here before. Maybe NH is more rare than I had
realized.
Sunday definitely felt the impact of Saturday evening’s light CME.
Although the band was open to Eastern EU & Asia as deep as UA9/UA4/VU, sigs
seemed to be 20-30 dB down from Saturday, although selectively.
Interestingly, Sat eve during the event, JA seemed to have a 2nd peak
relatively late, 0030z-0100z.
Rates Sunday afternoon may only be described as painful. 9/hour, then 5/hour at
22z, nary a Q to be found. Then in the last 30 min, skew path (~290) to JA
provided an enjoyable final run.
All in all a blast, let's hope the Cycle 24 double peak continues!
73,
Tom N9NC
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Call: N9RV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,489,453
This contest comes up at a time of year when my job has me very busy. Getting
home at 0010 UTC after a long week of work and travel is not ideal. Its even
worse when you see one of your rotating towers freewheeling in the wind (broken
pin bolt) when you arrive. But its a DX contest with great conditions, so you
can't make excuses.
Ran the contest for a bit on 15/10 as sun was going down. Took a break to fix
the broken bolt outside, went back to it. Friday night was super on all bands
but 80/160. Called many big power EU stations on 80 that never even knew I was
there.
Had some issues that caused me to miss Sat morning, so that was it for a
serious effort. With the CME event 15/10 were not that good the second day,
but that's all I got. It was good enough to have fun.
It was fun to have a multiplier tower and antennas for second directions on
20/15/10. But it took a bit of getting used to. When I got back on the air on
Sat afternoon I immediately went to 20 to try to hit the EU opening, but I
didn't realize I had switched to the mult antenna (pointed at SA)! Managed to
have a respectable run, but signals were so weak. I thought conditions had
absolutely tanked! When I switched to the run antennas it was so much better.
In fact, 20m on Sat night was really good, as others have noted.
Now I am going to have to figure out how to get a decent Phone SO2R setup going
here, because I need to get a full time contest in!
Congrats to the big scorers, especially N2IC who was flying everywhere.
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: N9RV
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW
OPERATORS: N9RV
-------------- 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 20 80 100 100 3.3
0100 0 0 0 5 59 29 93 193 6.3
0200 0 0 0 19 121 0 140 333 10.8
0300 0 0 30 55 33 0 118 451 14.7
0400 2 11 92 5 0 0 110 561 18.2
0500 3 5 61 45 0 0 114 675 22.0
0600 0 8 56 0 0 0 64 739 24.0
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 739 24.0
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 739 24.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 739 24.0
1000 3 12 120 0 0 0 135 874 28.4
1100 1 47 65 0 0 0 113 987 32.1
1200 0 25 61 0 0 0 86 1073 34.9
1300 4 7 30 2 0 0 43 1116 36.3
1400 1 1 9 0 4 0 15 1131 36.8
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1131 36.8
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1131 36.8
1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1131 36.8
1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1131 36.8
1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1131 36.8
2000 0 0 0 38 8 2 48 1179 38.4
2100 0 0 0 42 34 17 93 1272 41.4
2200 0 0 0 28 13 68 109 1381 44.9
2300 0 0 0 20 53 52 125 1506 49.0
0000 0 0 0 9 9 99 117 1623 52.8
0100 0 0 0 2 37 65 104 1727 56.2
0200 0 0 0 10 34 12 56 1783 58.0
0300 0 0 15 6 51 3 75 1858 60.4
0400 2 1 38 15 6 0 62 1920 62.5
0500 1 1 5 79 0 0 86 2006 65.3
0600 0 0 0 33 0 0 33 2039 66.3
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2039 66.3
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2039 66.3
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2039 66.3
1000 0 2 44 0 0 0 46 2085 67.8
1100 1 1 48 0 0 0 50 2135 69.5
1200 1 2 31 0 0 0 34 2169 70.6
1300 0 3 30 2 0 0 35 2204 71.7
1400 0 0 6 6 27 0 39 2243 73.0
1500 0 0 0 2 31 47 80 2323 75.6
1600 0 0 0 0 46 67 113 2436 79.2
1700 0 0 0 0 131 4 135 2571 83.6
1800 0 0 0 0 88 9 97 2668 86.8
1900 0 0 0 104 15 7 126 2794 90.9
2000 0 0 0 84 6 7 97 2891 94.0
2100 0 0 0 38 23 0 61 2952 96.0
2200 0 0 0 36 12 18 66 3018 98.2
2300 0 0 0 24 9 23 56 3074 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 19 126 741 709 870 609 3074
Gross QSOs=3193 Dupes=119 Net QSOs=3074
Unique callsigns worked = 1943
The best 60 minute rate was 154/hour from 0134 to 0233
The best 30 minute rate was 176/hour from 1651 to 1720
The best 10 minute rate was 186/hour from 0222 to 0231
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 5 times.
4 QSOs/minute 64 times.
3 QSOs/minute 326 times.
2 QSOs/minute 604 times.
1 QSOs/minute 607 times.
There were 784 bandchanges and 387 (12.6%) 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 9 20 23 26 25 23 126 4.1
South America 3 6 14 24 25 40 112 3.6
Europe 0 12 272 521 370 119 1294 42.1
Asia 5 78 396 104 402 394 1379 44.9
Africa 0 2 7 14 10 9 42 1.4
Oceania 2 8 29 20 38 23 120 3.9
-------------------------------------------------------------
Total 19 126 741 709 870 609 3074
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 9
4 512
5 877
6 1599
8 74
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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3V 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
3W 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 0.1
4L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
4O 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
4X 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
5B 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
6W 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2
9A 0 0 8 10 8 3 29 0.9
9L 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9M6 0 0 2 0 3 1 6 0.2
9V 0 0 2 0 2 3 7 0.2
A9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
BV 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 0.1
BY 0 1 10 0 16 15 42 1.4
C6 1 2 0 3 0 0 6 0.2
CE 0 0 1 1 1 3 6 0.2
CE9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
CM 0 3 2 0 0 0 5 0.2
CN 0 1 1 2 1 1 6 0.2
CT 0 1 0 1 2 0 4 0.1
CT3 0 1 2 1 1 2 7 0.2
CU 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
CX 0 0 1 1 3 2 7 0.2
DL 0 3 32 65 71 27 198 6.4
DU 0 0 5 1 3 2 11 0.4
E7 0 0 3 2 4 1 10 0.3
EA 0 4 7 21 18 9 59 1.9
EA6 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
EA8 0 0 0 8 3 5 16 0.5
EI 0 0 0 2 4 0 6 0.2
ER 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
ES 0 0 3 5 3 0 11 0.4
EU 0 0 5 9 1 2 17 0.6
F 0 1 5 18 11 6 41 1.3
FG 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FP 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
FY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
G 0 0 3 26 22 4 55 1.8
GI 0 0 0 3 2 1 6 0.2
GM 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.2
GW 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
HA 0 0 15 19 14 2 50 1.6
HB 0 0 3 7 7 2 19 0.6
HC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
HI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
HK 1 1 2 1 2 1 8 0.3
HL 0 0 6 0 6 10 22 0.7
HS 0 0 2 0 7 3 12 0.4
I 0 0 20 60 46 8 134 4.4
*IT9 0 0 1 3 2 0 6 0.2
J3 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
JA 4 73 354 52 329 344 1156 37.6
JT 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.1
JW 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
K 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.1
KH2 0 1 1 1 2 2 7 0.2
KH6 2 3 5 7 11 4 32 1.0
KL 1 2 4 2 8 7 24 0.8
KP2 1 2 3 4 3 3 16 0.5
KP4 0 2 1 3 2 1 9 0.3
LA 0 0 4 3 2 1 10 0.3
LU 0 0 0 2 4 11 17 0.6
LX 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.1
LY 0 0 4 3 0 0 7 0.2
LZ 0 0 4 12 6 5 27 0.9
OA 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
OE 0 0 1 2 4 1 8 0.3
OH 0 0 8 23 13 4 48 1.6
OK 0 0 16 17 16 4 53 1.7
OM 0 0 6 7 5 3 21 0.7
ON 0 0 3 6 7 2 18 0.6
OZ 0 0 2 4 2 0 8 0.3
P4 1 3 2 3 3 3 15 0.5
PA 0 0 3 14 14 6 37 1.2
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2
PJ4 0 0 2 1 1 1 5 0.2
PJ5 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
PY 0 0 3 12 9 16 40 1.3
S5 0 0 12 7 9 3 31 1.0
SM 0 1 5 17 12 5 40 1.3
SP 0 1 8 13 18 4 44 1.4
SV 0 0 4 5 1 0 10 0.3
SV9 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
TF 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
TI 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
UA 0 1 44 75 6 3 129 4.2
UA2 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
UA9 1 4 15 40 30 14 104 3.4
UK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
UN 0 0 0 6 6 0 12 0.4
UR 0 0 29 27 11 6 73 2.4
V2 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
V3 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.1
VE 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VK 0 1 8 7 6 5 27 0.9
VP2E 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2
VP9 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.1
VR 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 0.1
VU 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.1
XE 1 1 2 0 0 1 5 0.2
XW 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.1
YB 0 0 3 0 7 4 14 0.5
YJ 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
YL 0 0 2 3 4 0 9 0.3
YN 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
YO 0 0 4 10 7 2 23 0.7
YS 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
YU 0 0 4 10 6 1 21 0.7
YV 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
Z3 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.1
ZF 1 1 2 3 1 1 9 0.3
ZL 0 1 3 3 4 4 15 0.5
ZL9 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 0.1
ZS 0 0 4 2 2 0 8 0.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 19 126 741 709 870 609 3074
------------ 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 4 73 354 52 329 344 1156 37.6
DL 0 3 32 65 71 27 198 6.4
I 0 0 20 60 46 8 134 4.4
UA 0 1 44 75 6 3 129 4.2
UA9 1 4 15 40 30 14 104 3.4
UR 0 0 29 27 11 6 73 2.4
EA 0 4 7 21 18 9 59 1.9
G 0 0 3 26 22 4 55 1.8
OK 0 0 16 17 16 4 53 1.7
HA 0 0 15 19 14 2 50 1.6
OH 0 0 8 23 13 4 48 1.6
SP 0 1 8 13 18 4 44 1.4
BY 0 1 10 0 16 15 42 1.4
F 0 1 5 18 11 6 41 1.3
PY 0 0 3 12 9 16 40 1.3
SM 0 1 5 17 12 5 40 1.3
PA 0 0 3 14 14 6 37 1.2
KH6 2 3 5 7 11 4 32 1.0
S5 0 0 12 7 9 3 31 1.0
9A 0 0 8 10 8 3 29 0.9
VK 0 1 8 7 6 5 27 0.9
LZ 0 0 4 12 6 5 27 0.9
KL 1 2 4 2 8 7 24 0.8
YO 0 0 4 10 7 2 23 0.7
HL 0 0 6 0 6 10 22 0.7
YU 0 0 4 10 6 1 21 0.7
OM 0 0 6 7 5 3 21 0.7
HB 0 0 3 7 7 2 19 0.6
ON 0 0 3 6 7 2 18 0.6
LU 0 0 0 2 4 11 17 0.6
EU 0 0 5 9 1 2 17 0.6
KP2 1 2 3 4 3 3 16 0.5
EA8 0 0 0 8 3 5 16 0.5
P4 1 3 2 3 3 3 15 0.5
ZL 0 1 3 3 4 4 15 0.5
YB 0 0 3 0 7 4 14 0.5
HS 0 0 2 0 7 3 12 0.4
UN 0 0 0 6 6 0 12 0.4
DU 0 0 5 1 3 2 11 0.4
ES 0 0 3 5 3 0 11 0.4
LA 0 0 4 3 2 1 10 0.3
E7 0 0 3 2 4 1 10 0.3
SV 0 0 4 5 1 0 10 0.3
KP4 0 2 1 3 2 1 9 0.3
ZF 1 1 2 3 1 1 9 0.3
YL 0 0 2 3 4 0 9 0.3
ZS 0 0 4 2 2 0 8 0.3
OE 0 0 1 2 4 1 8 0.3
OZ 0 0 2 4 2 0 8 0.3
HK 1 1 2 1 2 1 8 0.3
CX 0 0 1 1 3 2 7 0.2
9V 0 0 2 0 2 3 7 0.2
CT3 0 1 2 1 1 2 7 0.2
KH2 0 1 1 1 2 2 7 0.2
LY 0 0 4 3 0 0 7 0.2
6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2
CN 0 1 1 2 1 1 6 0.2
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2
C6 1 2 0 3 0 0 6 0.2
*IT9 0 0 1 3 2 0 6 0.2
9M6 0 0 2 0 3 1 6 0.2
GI 0 0 0 3 2 1 6 0.2
CE 0 0 1 1 1 3 6 0.2
EI 0 0 0 2 4 0 6 0.2
GM 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.2
PJ4 0 0 2 1 1 1 5 0.2
PJ5 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
CM 0 3 2 0 0 0 5 0.2
TI 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
J3 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
XE 1 1 2 0 0 1 5 0.2
YN 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
ZL9 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 0.1
V2 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
CT 0 1 0 1 2 0 4 0.1
BV 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 0.1
OA 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
EA6 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
Z3 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.1
V3 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.1
3W 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 0.1
YJ 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
VR 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 0.1
JT 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.1
UA2 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
K 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.1
VP9 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.1
CU 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
GW 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
VU 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.1
3V 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
4X 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
XW 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.1
6W 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
TF 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
VP2E 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
LX 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.1
ER 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
FY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
UK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
A9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
YS 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
9L 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
JW 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
??? 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
FG 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
CE9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
4L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
YV 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
4O 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
SV9 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HC 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
FP 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VE 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
5B 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 19 126 741 709 870 609 3074
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 1259
2 bands 390
3 bands 185
4 bands 77
5 bands 20
6 bands 12
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
P40L 6Y2T KH6LC PJ2T VP5S KP2M
JE1ZWT ZF35A JA8KSF HK1NA RT0F KL7RA
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 0 31 295 355 338 240
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Call: N9TF Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 23,580
No time for contesting during the day this weekend. 80 was way too noisy here
and was unable to hear any DX, so decided to see what I could do on 40m. 100
watts and rotatable trap dipole at 37'and fixed trap dipole at 35' apex NE/SW.
Ended up using the fixed dipole (DX-LB) for EU as the D4 rotatable was detuning
all of a sudden when it was parallel to the DX-LB. I think the mound of snow on
the roof building under the antennas has something to do with the added
coupling, as I did not have this problem B4. Used the D4 NW/SE which worked
well. Thanks to all the stations that heard my weak signal and hanging in
there. Sorry for some repeats on my end, had an S5 noise floor the whole
contest.
73 Gene N9TF
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Call: NA0N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,640,964
This was a personal best for me.
73, Pat NA0N
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Call: NA2M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 325,518
RIG: K3 100w
ANT: R5 VerticaL (20-15-10)
160m Inverted "L" (40)
Franklin (80)
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Call: NA8V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,121,146
About as much fun as one can have, with the exception of the punk + noisy low
band conditions Saturday night and the fact my 160m antenna continues to
underperform.
I had the best rates I've ever had Saturday morning, with a personal best 15
hour.
Made a couple sorta mistakes. On Saturday night i was both convinced i
couldn't do anything on 20 at night and obsessed with doing something on the
low bands. I finally got a slow run going on 80 at 06z followed by a couple
reasonable hours on 40 but it would have been nice to have experienced the 20
opening. Never even listened there for 4 hours. Went to bed feeling good
about 40/80 and slept a couple hours longer than planned. All things
considered, it worked out well.
greg/na8v
ts850
TH6 @ 67', TH3 @ 47'(fixed SE)
40: Doubleslot, sloping vert, dipole
80: 2x Inv L
160: Inv L
Bev: 2x450' at EU.
HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL
SCORE
-- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------ ---------
-----
0 --- --- --- 30/22 33/17 --- 63/39 63/39
0.007 M
1 --- --- 64/34 21/13 --- --- 85/47 148/86
0.038 M
2 1/1 33/20 9/1 6/3 --- --- 49/25 197/111
0.065 M
3 6/6 --- --- 22/7 --- --- 28/13 225/124
0.083 M
4 2/2 40/18 --- --- --- --- 42/20 267/144
0.115 M
5 6/5 --- 32/13 6/0 --- --- 44/18 311/162
0.150 M
6 1/1 24/10 27/2 --- --- --- 52/13 363/175
0.190 M
7 1/0 5/2 55/6 8/5 --- --- 69/13 432/188
0.243 M
8 --- 5/4 20/7 --- --- --- 25/11 457/199
0.272 M
9 --- 5/2 12/2 3/1 --- --- 20/5 477/204
0.291 M
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 477/204
0.291 M
11 --- 2/1 --- --- --- --- 2/1 479/205
0.293 M
12 --- --- 7/5 78/16 3/3 --- 88/24 567/229
0.388 M
13 --- --- --- --- 79/22 62/26 141/48 708/277
0.587 M
14 --- --- --- --- --- 142/14 142/14 850/291
0.738 M
15 --- --- --- --- 63/3 37/1 100/4 950/295
0.835 M
16 --- --- --- --- 78/8 22/5 100/13 1050/308
0.964 M
17 --- --- --- --- --- 93/10 93/10 1143/318
1.081 M
18 --- --- --- --- 65/10 1/0 66/10 1209/328
1.179 M
19 --- --- --- 100/5 --- --- 100/5 1309/333
1.296 M
20 --- --- --- 35/1 --- 34/11 69/12 1378/345
1.412 M
21 --- --- 1/0 26/1 25/10 --- 52/11 1430/356
1.511 M
22 --- --- --- 36/0 --- 30/4 66/4 1496/360
1.599 M
23 --- --- 25/0 10/3 --- 3/0 38/3 1534/363
1.654 M
0 --- --- --- 3/1 13/0 21/1 37/2 1571/365
1.703 M
1 --- 1/0 17/2 --- 8/1 --- 26/3 1597/368
1.745 M
2 --- --- --- 20/0 4/1 --- 24/1 1621/369
1.777 M
3 2/2 2/0 13/0 --- 3/1 --- 20/3 1641/372
1.812 M
4 1/1 5/1 --- 16/6 --- --- 22/8 1663/380
1.876 M
5 1/1 5/0 10/2 --- --- --- 16/3 1679/383
1.908 M
6 --- 47/0 --- --- --- --- 47/0 1726/383
1.962 M
7 4/3 5/0 61/2 --- --- --- 70/5 1796/388
2.068 M
8 --- --- 83/2 --- --- --- 83/2 1879/390
2.173 M
9 1/1 3/2 2/1 5/0 --- --- 11/4 1890/394
2.208 M
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1890/394
2.208 M
11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1890/394
2.208 M
12 --- --- --- 10/2 --- --- 10/2 1900/396
2.231 M
13 --- --- --- --- 85/1 5/0 90/1 1990/397
2.343 M
14 --- --- --- --- --- 63/2 63/2 2053/399
2.426 M
15 --- --- --- --- 1/1 88/1 89/2 2142/401
2.542 M
16 --- --- --- --- --- 84/0 84/0 2226/401
2.638 M
17 --- --- --- --- 115/2 --- 115/2 2341/403
2.788 M
18 --- --- --- 20/0 7/0 16/5 43/5 2384/408
2.875 M
19 --- --- --- 18/1 25/0 --- 43/1 2427/409
2.935 M
20 --- --- --- 7/0 8/1 8/2 23/3 2450/412
2.984 M
21 --- --- --- 10/0 6/3 6/0 22/3 2472/415
3.032 M
22 --- --- --- 55/2 --- --- 55/2 2527/417
3.111 M
23 --- --- 4/0 6/0 14/2 2/1 26/3 2553/420
3.166 M
D1 17/15 114/57 252/70 381/77 346/73 424/71 1534/363
D2 9/8 68/3 190/9 170/12 289/13 293/12 1019/57
TO 26/23 182/60 442/79 551/89 635/86 717/83 2553/420
Unique callsigns worked = 1525
The best 60 minute rate was 153/hour from 1350 to 1449
The best 30 minute rate was 162/hour from 1345 to 1414
The best 10 minute rate was 186/hour from 1437 to 1446
The best 1 minute rates were:
4 QSOs/minute 32 times.
3 QSOs/minute 177 times.
2 QSOs/minute 478 times.
1 QSOs/minute 898 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 20 27 30 21 20 127 5.1
South America 4 7 15 28 27 46 127 5.1
Europe 11 144 366 418 514 557 2010 80.0
Asia 0 1 11 42 47 49 150 6.0
Africa 1 3 5 11 9 11 40 1.6
Oceania 1 6 12 16 12 12 59 2.3
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 26 181 436 545 630 695 2513
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 1000
2 bands 257
3 bands 145
4 bands 63
5 bands 48
6 bands 12
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
J38XX PJ4X KH6LC TM6M EC2DX PJ2T
P40L CR3L HK1NA KP4KE ZF3HA NP2P
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Call: NB3R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,098,978
Great fun. All wires for antennas.
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Call: NE0U Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 72,816
I believe that condx Friday night were the best I've ever seen from here in any
contest on 40M. That was certainly not the case Saturday night. Very little
activity from SA & the Caribbean.
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Call: NE3F Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,620,600
Not bad for one runner and one S/P guy .Best score from here ever in a contest
.Station played very well , no smoke and lots of fun. Getting to like cw better
than phone .
Team NE3F
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Call: NF8J Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 251,988
FUN CONTEST, GREAT CONDX ON 10 AFTER LOCAL SUNSET
K3, P3, KPA500, N1MM, TH11DX, 1/4 WIRE VERTICAL FOR 80 METERS.
JA, VK, ZL, KH2, 9M6 ON 10 AFTER SUNSET...
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Call: NG7A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 630,900
Had a previous commitment on Saturday in what turned out to be the middle of our
snowstorm. Did not make it back until midnight. Luckily the power did not go
out. Lost the 80 meter loop, reverted to Double-L vertical and hexbeam.
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Call: NG7M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 88,929
Just having fun for a few hours... thanks for the contacts. I need to do a
serious effort... it's been too long! de Max NG7M
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Call: NI7R Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 673,596
My best score to date for this contest. 40 meters was terrific Friday night. As
I was totally S&P, I ran out of stations to work several times Sunday
afternoon. My temporary 10 meter dipole 8 feet off the ground performed well
all weekend.
K3, AL-811H amp, N1MM
temporary verticals, 10 meter dipole
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Call: NJ1F Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,342,800
The multi band dipole worked well!
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Call: NM2L Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 595,128
FT1000MP MK-V 150 W to 160 meter inverted L & 80 meter loop. Thanks to all
those DX stations that could pull me out of the grass to make a QSO.
Propagation was super. Great fun! 73 de Greg NM2L
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Call: NM5M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 138,336
Played around from home for a bit mostly low power (100w). Decided to use the
amp while S&P on 40m (about 400w) last night.
Antennas: R5 vertical for 10-20m, and a homebrew base loaded short vertical for
40m. Rig: Yaesu FT857 (my K3 is in the shop).
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Call: NN1N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,610,352
Condx sounded like the "good 'ol days! Couldn't put in a real effort --
but fun.
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Call: NN3RP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 407,592
What a blast! Lots of fun everywhere... My best score ever!!!
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Call: NN3W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,764,669
My thanks to Mr. John Evans, N3HBX for allowing my return to pilot the
Poolesville station. Thanks to Rich, NN3W as well.
What a weekend! This was the week of the big snow storm and I was lucky to
thread-the-needle from Newport Beach, CA to get in on time for this one. That
said, I started the contest and the first Q hit at :10 after the hour!
I have been coming east for various contests for years and truly enjoy the
rigorous battle to earn my stripes out East. It is a much slower process than
I anticipated... As of today, 5th USA in the box reflects improvement.
My highlights:
- 2500 Qs at the 24 hour mark
- Fastest Hour: 208/hr on 10M at 1323 - 1422 ZULU
- 300+ 2nd Radio Q's
- Slept 4 hours from 0815-1015 time-frames with one additional CME-induced nap
early in the contest
Lesson Learned: More SO2R
Special note: This year I tried to run more and hunt less. Typically, I go
for the higher mults and get caught up in the hunt of rare openings and my Q's
suffer.
Congrats to N2NT, N2IC, K1ZZ, AA1K and WX0B(AD5Q) who scored very well this
year.
See you in Boston!
73 Jon, KL2A
http://about.me/kl2a
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Call: NN4MM Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 30,096
Good condx, low noise. Everything woked well.
Thanks for the QSO's.
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Call: NP2N Class: M/S LP Total Score = 3,393,735
A great time from St. Croix!
It was a rush! We were surprised that the low band conditions were great the
first night but noisy on Saturday night.
Really nice to work many YCCCers and gave and received many KB's which was
always nice while running the piles.
A wonderful time with great operators.
Jay W1UJ, Bob W1EQ, Ed K1ZE
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Call: NP3A Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 295,626
FTDX3000 @ 99W + 103BA@30FT, Q52@30ft
Sunday looked like SS Sundays with endless CQs and 30 Qs/Hr
Thanks all for QSOs
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Call: NQ4I Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 676,890
With the NQ4I station not entered in the MM category this year, I was able to
activate a single band entry on 15M while station owner Rick played on 10M.
Fortunately the recent ice storms in the Atlanta area did not damage the 15M
antennas although both the 40M run and mult antennas are now in need of repair.
Saturday had better band conditions than Sunday but the highlight was the
extended opening on Saturday night into Asia. Amongst the JA's and BA's were
XV's, YB's, JT's, HS's, 9V, XW0 and a bunch of other rare stuff. The opening
moved to UN and then worked a DF2 before it closed. Thought the multiplier
would be higher as a result of that opening but ended up missing out on
normally easier mults that never made it into the log.
Rick and XYL Georgann were gracious, accommodating hosts as always which made
for a fun weekend.
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Call: NR7Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 217,554
Nice to finally have great receiver (Kenwood TS-590s) Antenna low vee beam, wire
antenna ..100 watts. Contesting is now fun!...My Icom IC-746 is now retired to
other purposes...
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Call: NS3T Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 675
Just wanted to test out my 160 meter antenna for next weekend, but the
conditions seemed really down. There were times when I could only hear W3LPL
& K3LR CQ'ing, and no DX at all.
The skip from my QTH seemed to be going over zone 8 stations, because it was no
problem getting PJ2T, J3, HK and some others further south.
Hopefully things will be better next weekend for CQ 160 SSB.
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Call: NT4H Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 55,176
This was a very enjoyable part-time effort. I spent about 12 hours playing
radio. With some coaching from Tim AB4B, I decided to do a SOSB Low 10M effort.
Saturday band conditions we excellent with noise about S0. Sunday there was a
little noise, still S0. Both days was S&P for me, CW speed is not were it
should be to run yet, but if I could hear them, I could work them, although I
ran out of stations a few times. 10M Par (now LNR) End-Fedz on a 31' Jackite
pole worked well, best DX was 9M6XRO in East Malaysia, 100 watts into a end-fed
half wave vertical. Most Q's were first or second call, only had a few tough
ones.
Thanks for all the Q's and putting up with my slow cw!
Paul - NT4H
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Call: NU6S Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 201,747
Nice to hear great conditions 15 meters, but only got on for a bit.
Station: 756 pro, Alpha 76PA, 4 ele at 48'
Tim - NU6S
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Call: NW0M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,001,805
All Search and Pounce.
K3, KPA500, tribander and wires, N1MM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: NW3H Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 177,630
Wife was sick since last Thursday so I had the girls all weekend. No where near
enough time with my wife out of commission. I have been dealing with colds,
bronchitis and the like this entire wretched winter we have had here in the Mid
Atlantic so I was down myself. Only had a little over 8 hours. The station
played well but I do much better during the day. Unfortunately I was only on
for 3.5 hours of my time during the day on the tribander. At night once 20
closes I am using wires and my dipoles work ok but when the solar storm hit
Saturday night I just went to bed. Overall a very disappointing weekend. The
third time in the last year my wife was sick during a major contest. I think
"contestitis" is a new strain of disease and one that has killed my
scores most of the last year except for CQWW Phone 2013. Oh well, praying for
health for everyone going into Phone in two weeks. Score was down about 50%
over last year's personal best. This was entirely search and pounce.
Thanks to the DX for the QSOs. 73 de NW3H
Antennas:
Mosley Mini 32a tribander
Carolina Windom (used for 40 meters)
80/40 meter dipole
Rig:IC-7600
Logger: N1MM v 13.2.2
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Call: NX6T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 253,890
QSO total includes 17 0 point QSOs from W/VE stations.
NX6T was the site of one of the W1AW/6 Centennial Event operations, and for the
contest, we were allocated only one band, 15 meters, to play on as the
"official" W1AW/6 contest entry. Having two operating positions
available, and not wanting to let a good contest opportunity go by, I decided
to enter NX6T for a 40M SOSB.
When 15M was dead, we filled in that operator station with non-contest W1AW/6
operations, mostly on 80 meters. This turned out to be not so great an idea. We
experienced some interstation interference, either from me being distracted by
hearing the SSB op in the same room or from the other station's transmit noise
floor as the 80 meter antenna and 40M beam were on the same tower. That's my
excuse, anyway!
Other than that, Mr. Murphy must have been visiting other stations, because the
equipment worked flawlessly the entire contest.
After a very fun Friday night, I started up again Saturday afternoon expecting
more of the same. What a difference a day makes! I could only hear the loudest
European stations. Even then, when they were transmitting at high speed, the
auroral flutter made copy extremely difficult. It sometimes took quite a while
to discover that, of course, I'd already worked them. After 5 hours of
S&Ping all I could, and CQing fruitlessly, I decided to take a nap, hoping
to be at least a little bit sharper when the JA opening occurred, which from
here avoids much of the auroral oval.
That worked, and the rest of the contest was great fun with only minor sleep
deprivation symptoms!
Many thanks to Dennis, N6KI, for the use of the station, and to both him and
John, WA2OOB, for help with station prep for both the contest and W1AW/6
event.
K3
ACOM 2000
2 element 40 @ 70'
Win-Test
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,958,004
What a blast -Friday night and Saturday morning condx seemed exceptional !
K4BAI and K2SX did a super job running the high bands while AA4FU and K4QPL
milked 20M-160M thru the night.
Everything worked perfectly thru Saturday evening;
but then murphy struck and we lost that evenings 10M Asian opening (luckily a
night climb of 10M tower fixed things for the morning opening). That was
closely followed by a winkey problem that caused some 40m downtime. By Sunday
all was again operational.
73, Howie N4AF
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Call: OE2S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,267,648
first "real" contest from new location still somehow field day style,
great condx on saturday especially on the highbands, not so good condx on the
low bands, southern europeans like IR4M and E7DX worked many stations on 160m
that we could not hear, however, we are happy with the result
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Call: OG1M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 249,603
Started this contest as OH1VR on 40 at my summer home on Saturday morning with a
great run and then moved 10 km west to my old home for family reunion. Restarted
contest using my contest call OG1M with IC-7000 mobile rig. A lot of fun with
KT36XA at 42 mtrs and Cushcraft XM-240 at 39 mtrs as antennas. Even some pile
up's time to time. Anyway Low Power is a challenge compared to HP. It was my
lesson to learn.
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Call: OG6N Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,266,720
This was a part time operation and I slept both nights. The propagation was very
poor on 160m and 80m all weekend but the first night was quite good on 40m. The
higher bands were better than expected on Saturday but went down on Sunday.
Even on Saturday I was beaten by many stations in central and southern Europe
running 100W although I was running with my stack and the linear. The
propagation was not the best that I have experienced in these latitudes but
good enough to have some fun. I could have made quite a bit more contacts if I
had had the second radio available. Unfortunately my shack needs some more
effort before that is possible.
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Call: OH1RX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 331,080
Another opportunity to meet friends on air. Aurora on Saturday almost killed the
fun.
Thanks for QSOs and CUL agn!
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Call: OH1VR Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 249,603
One frequency and 2 hrs operation. Excellent Saturday morning opening on 40. My
4-el M2 at 35 mtrs seems to be a killer application :-)
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Call: OH4KZM Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 114
Just testing antennas...
Only inverted L , no rx antenna.
Need to make some rx antennas.
Worked all w stations can heard.
ft-920
GU43b amp
N1MM
73 de Jouni OH4KZM
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Call: OH5TS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 165,984
K3 + 204BA and various wires. Tnx & 73, Kari
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call: OH5Z Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 483,372
Part time operation between different maintenance jobs at the station. Main idea
was to test receiving performance of low band TX antennas compared to 300m
beverage pointed to US. Well it turned out that the beverage works great but
causes frustration on the operators as we weren't able to work even close to
the number we heard on the beverage. On 160m we heard quite a few big guns on
it but only VY2ZM was worked. He was the only station heard also on the TX
antennas. K3LR, W3LPL and others didn't even give a QRZ? to our calls.
Also on 80m the beverage outperformed the TX antennas hands down which gives us
confidence to put up more beverages during next summer.
The other bands we worked only for fun to give out points to the needing ones.
73,
Juha OH6XX
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Call: OH6AC Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 198,360
Nice to operate ARRL DX CW Contest on 15m once again after 12 years.
Equipment: FT DX-5000MP w. 1,5 kW amp, Win-Test, 4-el yagis @55 and 39m.
Tnx for QSOs / 73 de Jyrki OH6CS
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Call: OH8L Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 288,840
www.oh8lq.com
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Call: OK/LZ3SF Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 1,170
As there is no SOSB 80/LP Assisted, the log goes to SO Unlimited /LP.
Due to unadequate entry category, this will be the last time I am participating
this contest.
Thanks everybody for contacts!
C ya in next contest with adequate entry categories.
73!
de LZ3SF
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Call: OK1DO Class: SO Unlimited QRP Total Score = 26,703
TRX KX3/5W,
ant:3el. SteppIR
Thank you for the good ears...
73! Jiri
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Call: OK1KUW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 35,568
1) because I used the skimmer and DX cluster and broke the rules according to
section 3.3.3, I am sending LOG CHECK only.
2)Sorry about the quality of the signal to all stations on Saturday, damaging
the power supply
RIG
FT1000MP
Inverted Vee at 24m
first night PA with GU81M - destroyed the power supply
second night PA with 3-500Z
beverage 250m
thanks for QSO
Zdeno OK3RM
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Call: OK5R Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 183,825
The propagation in Saturday was OK, in Sunday much much worse. But still had
fun.
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Call: OK8DD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 272,895
TS-590
20,15,10: ECO Asay Tribander
80,40: Linear loaded vertical (PA3HBB idea http://www.qsl.net/pa3hbb/ll.htm)
Many thanks for the QSOs
73, Romas - OK8DD
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Call: OK8NM Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 228,636
We spent the friday by removing broken 80 m 3 el. Yagi from the tower. We were
happy things went well. So, I could use my new callsign OK8NM in this contest
from Brezina OK1RF/RI QTH for the first time. Nice condx mostly on Sunday.
Thanks a lot I could work all the US states and saw a lot of friends on the
band!
See you soon!
Norbert, OM6NM
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Call: OK8WW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 49,842
QRV less than 2 hours. QRL with family. Nice condx on 10m.
73 de Rich OK8WW / OM2TW
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Call: OL7M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,883,424
First time in the M/M. Nice contest with great fun, new boys in the gang,
couple bottles of „russina wine“ before the contest, sauna and totally
relaxed atmosphere during the contest. Poor CONDX on 160m and 80m, average on
40m and nice on 20m,15m and 10m, where he WAS completed after 4 hours, hi.
Jan OK2ZAW again done an excellent job and ALL the equipment worked perfectly.
We are satisfied with all bands except 80m, where the first night were problems
with the RX and Sunday were CONDX already terrible and the loss was no longer
catch up.
Anyway, wonderful contest, thanks for all QSOs and new national record.
See you in SSB !
on behalf OL7M team
Pavel, OK1MU
TRX : 3 x IC775, IC-7600, 2 x IC-746PRO
ANT :
160m �" 42m Vertical + 120 radials
80m �" 4 el. Sloper system
40m �" 10 e. wire Yagi
20m �" stack 5/5 Yagi
15m �" stack 6/6 Yagi
10m �" only 6 el. Yagi
More : http://qrz.com/db/OL7M
Following 65 stations were worked on 6 bands :
AA1K,AA2A,AA3B,AB3CX,K0DQ,K0ZR,K1AR,K1GQ,K1KI,K1LI,K1LT,K1LZ,K1RX,K1VW,K1ZZ,K2TE,K3CR,K3EL,K3JT,K3LR,K3MD,K3WW,K3ZM,K4LQ,K5KG,K5ZD,K8AZ,K9RS,KB1H,KB1T,KI1G,KU1T,N0NI,N1EU,N1RR,N1UR,N2NT,N2WKS,N3IQ,N3RR,N3RS,N4UU,N5AW,NY4A,VA2WA,VE3JM,VE9HF,VY2TT,W1CSM,W1FJ,W1NG,W1NT,W1UE,W1VE,W1WEF,W2BC,W2FU,W3LPL,W4RM,W5MX,W6AAN,WE3C,WJ2D,XL3A.
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Call: OL7O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,060
100W + TITAN DX
Just to have fun. Thank for QSOs and see you next time.
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Call: OM2VL Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 226,722
Excellent first night 00:00-08:47Z - 844 QSO, but on second night only 389 QSO
...
11 + 21 LP QSO's with West Coast + 3x COLORADO !!!
Finished with 95 QSO in last night.
Thank's for the nice QSO's.
Worked States/Provinces
| 160 | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL
=======================================================
CT | | | 33 | | | | 33
MA | | | 51 | | | | 51
ME | | | 9 | | | | 9
NH | | | 26 | | | | 26
RI | | | 11 | | | | 11
VT | | | 7 | | | | 7
NJ | | | 48 | | | | 48
NY | | | 70 | | | | 70
DE | | | 7 | | | | 7
PA | | | 59 | | | | 59
MD | | | 42 | | | | 42
DC | | | 2 | | | | 2
AL | | | 18 | | | | 18
FL | | | 68 | | | | 68
GA | | | 19 | | | | 19
KY | | | 7 | | | | 7
NC | | | 46 | | | | 46
SC | | | 13 | | | | 13
TN | | | 39 | | | | 39
VA | | | 62 | | | | 62
AR | | | 5 | | | | 5
LA | | | 12 | | | | 12
MS | | | 9 | | | | 9
NM | | | 7 | | | | 7
OK | | | 7 | | | | 7
TX | | | 74 | | | | 74
CA | | | 84 | | | | 84
AZ | | | 24 | | | | 24
ID | | | 4 | | | | 4
MT | | | 4 | | | | 4
NV | | | 2 | | | | 2
OR | | | 15 | | | | 15
UT | | | 7 | | | | 7
WA | | | 34 | | | | 34
WY | | | 3 | | | | 3
MI | | | 28 | | | | 28
OH | | | 57 | | | | 57
WV | | | 9 | | | | 9
IL | | | 42 | | | | 42
IN | | | 26 | | | | 26
WI | | | 19 | | | | 19
CO | | | 23 | | | | 23
IA | | | 16 | | | | 16
KS | | | 10 | | | | 10
MN | | | 31 | | | | 31
MO | | | 26 | | | | 26
ND | | | | | | |
NE | | | 4 | | | | 4
SD | | | 2 | | | | 2
NB | | | 5 | | | | 5
NS | | | 4 | | | | 4
NF | | | 2 | | | | 2
PEI | | | 2 | | | | 2
LB | | | | | | |
QC | | | 14 | | | | 14
ON | | | 37 | | | | 37
MB | | | 2 | | | | 2
SK | | | 1 | | | | 1
AB | | | 2 | | | | 2
BC | | | 13 | | | | 13
NT | | | | | | |
YT | | | | | | |
NU | | | | | | |
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OM2VL
By band - By mode
QSOs (without dupes) - By time
| Hr | 160 | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 |
Total |
| | CW | CW | CW | CW | CW | CW |
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| 00 | | | 115 | | | |
115 |
| 01 | | | 126 | | | |
126 |
| 02 | | | 129 | | | |
129 |
| 03 | | | 137 | | | |
137 |
| 04 | | | 117 | | | |
117 |
| 05 | | | 98 | | | |
98 |
| 06 | | | 60 | | | |
60 |
| 07 | | | 26 | | | |
26 |
| 08 | | | 15 | | | |
15 |
| 09 | | | | | | |
|
| 10 | | | | | | |
|
| 11 | | | | | | |
|
| 12 | | | | | | |
|
| 13 | | | | | | |
|
| 14 | | | 1 | | | |
1 |
| 15 | | | 9 | | | |
9 |
| 16 | | | | | | |
|
| 17 | | | | | | |
|
| 18 | | | | | | |
|
| 19 | | | | | | |
|
| 20 | | | 6 | | | |
6 |
| 21 | | | 14 | | | |
14 |
| 22 | | | 19 | | | |
19 |
| 23 | | | 34 | | | |
34 |
| 00 | | | 27 | | | |
27 |
| 01 | | | 70 | | | |
70 |
| 02 | | | 47 | | | |
47 |
| 03 | | | 35 | | | |
35 |
| 04 | | | 26 | | | |
26 |
| 05 | | | 45 | | | |
45 |
| 06 | | | 22 | | | |
22 |
| 07 | | | 10 | | | |
10 |
| 08 | | | 8 | | | |
8 |
| 09 | | | | | | |
|
| 10 | | | | | | |
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| 11 | | | | | | |
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| 12 | | | | | | |
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| 13 | | | | | | |
|
| 14 | | | 6 | | | |
6 |
| 15 | | | 12 | | | |
12 |
| 16 | | | | | | |
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| 17 | | | | | | |
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| 18 | | | | | | |
|
| 19 | | | | | | |
|
| 20 | | | 6 | | | |
6 |
| 21 | | | 14 | | | |
14 |
| 22 | | | 33 | | | |
33 |
| 23 | | | 36 | | | |
36 |
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73 Laci OM2VL
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Call: OM7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,631,056
Nice propagation both days on high bands when we reached max. hourly rate around
190 Q/h. On the other hand low bands were a disaster especially second night. We
were making 30-60 Qso/h during night. Even 40m was closed. We spent a lot of
time making QSO's on 40m during the first night with hopes that low bands would
stay at least as good as the previous night. But nothing happened..:-( We lost a
couple of MULTS on 80m.
Thanks for open competition with our rivals IR4M and Braco's team E7DX.
Congrats guys good job.
Thanks for all contacts!!
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Call: OM7RU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,500,000
First note: the total results are real.
Everybody has goals before the contest. My goals was: "It would be nice to
have about 2000 QSOs, 250 mults or 1,5 milions points.". But when all those
numbers has met on scoreboard on Sunday at 23:59:38, I thought about software
fault, hi. So thanks to VE3JM (mult # 250) and N3XL (QSO # 2000). Yes, real
result will be reduced after log checking...
Conditions was interesting. 160m and 80m bands was closed in fact. Fortunately
I was on right time on right place on Sunday morning: 1 hour NA opening on
160m. 80m only a bit better. Only 40m was the place for racing.
High bands was oposite to low bands. 20m and 15m were nice opened. I was able
to run nice pileups on 10m on Saturday, with good rate of mults, but it was
worse on Sunday. I was not able to make effective pileup, so I preferred 15m
and 20m.
This contest I run without setup changes and it resulted to really stable
hardware. I only adjusted some voltages on ACOM 2000A (thanks to Val, LZ1VB
from ACOM) and it works at 100 % all the time.
Just one more SORRY to CT3IB. There was not right time to make simple QSO of 20
WPM in style "both calls + UR RST IS... = MY NAME IS...". Especially
just during ARRL contest, just during K/VE pileup of 150 Q/H. Your signal was
599 +40 dB, so sorry for my QSY after your long minutes of your sloooow
calls...
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:
160m: Vertical (35m tower + 2 elevated radials)
80m: OptiBeam OB1-80 rotary dipole @34m
40m: InvVee @21m
20, 15, 10m: Cushcraft A4S 3 el. tribander @31m
73!
Riki, OM7RU
www.tucek.sk/om7ru
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Call: ON7EH Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 4,941
Stormy wx prevented any antenna work on Friday evening.
Saturday afternoon, the 160m inv L was successfully transformed into a
quarterwave vertical. (Tx/Rx)
The 18m Spiderpole was guyed at 2 levels and in just 2 directions, hoping the
QTF of the wind to remain constant (SW)... The antenna survived...
TRX: K3 @ 100W+ CG3000 ATU
Logger: SD
Operation was a mix of S&P and CQ. The Sunday sunrise produced some nice
returns from W9. Thank you!
Best DX were TX (N5AW)and W5RU(LA).
A lot of Carribean DX at decent levels were heard working audible US.
We welcome:
-any advice on how to improve the setup to get into the midwest with LP.
-audio recordings of our QSO.
This was our first participation.
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did.
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Call: OP4K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,318,871
It was not sure up till 2 days before the contest if we will enter M/S or me
just doing an SOSB.
Therefor no goals were planned.
Almost everything has already been said and posted by others and yes
propagation was better on Saturday than Sunday (even in ON-land hi) as a result
of the CME.
But Sunday in the afternoon there was a marvelous opening on 10m till 17h58
UTC. Moved to 15m till 19h10 UTC to go futher to 20m till 22h17 UTC. The rest
of the time was spent on 40m.
Glad to have had Leon (ON5WL) - Christoph (OO7J) and Jim (OP5T) on board.
Heavy winds with gust reaching 53 mph and rain over this location did not stop
us from having big FUN.
Setup
Yaesu FTDX-5000MP
Acom 2000A running 1.5kW
Optibeam OB18-6 at 50m / 160-170ft with 7 el on 10m, 4 el on 15 and 20m and 3
el on 40m
Dipole on 80m at 50m / 160-170ft
a non working antenna on 160m
N1MM contest logging program
Thanks to all for the great QSO's of which 88 stations on 5 bands, 117 on 4
bands, 178 on 3 bands, 308 on 2 bands and 901 on 1 band with 20 dupes.
Logs will soon be uploaded to LOTW ans paper QSL will follow via the bureau.
73 Joe OP4K
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Call: OQ5M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 789,600
Part time effort from 1200z Sunday noon to the end. Less than 12h operating.
Once again (!) I needed to let an Atlantic storm depression blow by before
cranking up the tower and loading it with the 80/160 wires Sunday morning.
Bloody windy WX! Enough storms now.
Still I had 12 hours of fun. Hope to be back next year for a full time effort.
73!
http://www.on5zo.be/
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Call: OT2A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,556,987
First of all I want to thank Patrick, OT2A for operating from his wonderful
station! He did some major improvements to it and this showed of in the
results. I did an effort in the ARRL CW contest a few years ago. I see that
competition is getting harder and harder each year! My score has increased but
was not good enough to beat some other Europeans in the same class. Congrats to
all! I have some things to improve in the comming years I see, hihi. Great
bandopenings on 10 and 15! Poor effort on 80 and especially on 160m. Hope to
meet all of you again in SSB or next year in CW!!
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Call: OZ0J Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 560,550
IT WAS FUN!! I worked 47 new states spred on 5 bands, mostly on 80 and 40 M. I
had set up an 80 M vertical dipole to NA just for a test and it was working
very well.
The condx was very good on all bands except 160 M where I only worked VY2ZM.
Look forward to see you again in the next ARRL DX CW contest.
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Call: OZ4CG Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 7,656
RIG: Kenwood TS590S (100W)
Ant.: G5RV up 8m
Software: N1MM Logger V14.1.2
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Call: OZ5WQ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 13,455
Saturday was best,
all worked with my Butternut and 100w
Rig IC735
73 Peter OZ5WQ
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Call: OZ6PI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 142,956
Hi all!
Thank you very much for a nice test, many years since I worked so many
stateside in one weekend.Many stn on 4 to 5 bands. Mostly active on 6 m during
E season. Been active since 1972. Have always answered all QSL cards received,
so if you need ,just drop a card via the OZ bureau. That also goes for my other
calls : OZ0PI, 5P6PI and 5Q0PI.
Very best to all, see you again.
Henry/OZ6PI
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Call: P40L Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,872,503
This is our fourth time doing this contest as a multi-single and every year
poses different challenges.
This year, despite the excellent high band conditions between NAm and EU/Asia
-- or perhaps because of those conditions -- QSO rates were down significantly
from the outset. We suspect that during substantial periods NAm stations were
busy taking advantage of the excellent conditions to work EU and Asia stations
and therefore less interested in working us here in the Caribbean. Nothing we
did, such as more frequent band changes than in the past (with mixed results)
compensated for the fact that arrival rates were simply down by 15-20% relative
to prior years. Noisy conditions on the low bands during much of the night
hours also contributed to lower QSO totals.
We also had some equipment issues -- both rigs had to be swapped out and worked
on during the contest and the upper leg of the 160 meter antenna came down in
the middle of the first night -- that created some distractions, although they
only had a minor effect, if any, on results as we were able to keep operating
throughout.
We had lots of fun trying to figure out how to maximize QSO and mult totals
given the conditions, although it was discouraging at times to watch as the gap
between this year's and prior years' results widened throughout the contest!
As always, thanks for all the Q's!
73,
John
W6LD
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Call: P40LE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,089,895
Since none of my partners could show up for an planned M/S effort, I found
myself alone at P49V's QTH.
Good condx, huge pileups, and it WAS fun..
Funniest thing: AI6V and AI6YL both worked me at their QTH from their home in
Nevada, and W1VE was at MY station in snowy VT (multi-single for 9.8 M pts)
Almost a full circle..TNX for Carl and Sue for the use of their house
Andy K2LE
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Call: P40W Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,674,000
K3, 99W, Win-Test
160 Vert Dipole
160/80 Inv. V at 60'
80m half square at 50 feet - broadside USA
F12 2 el Delta 240 @ 68'
F12 C31XR @ 62' Never rotated off ~320 degrees.
F12 C3 @ 60' - never used
800' NE, 500' N/S, 500' NW
When band conditions are 'spectacular' in North America....they are much more
subdued in this part of the world. Add in low band noise from storms off the
east coast, some low to moderate absorption, and an unpleasant CME event which
noticeably 'muffled' signals on the high bands (particularly during the last
six hours on Sunday), you don't have the best recipe for record breaking
scores. BUT, on the positive side, I missed not having to endure four or five
snow storms back home in NJ this week....so that's more than sufficient reason
to be in "happy dance" mode.
Arrived late Monday afternoon to find only minor problems since my last P40W
visit in November. The Northwest and North beverages were in need of repair,
the 20m reflector had fallen off my backup F12 C3 on tower #2, and the most
troubling issue were the vines growing up a set of guys on tower #1...they had
become so thick the tower was noticeably pulled over. Had hoped to work the
FT5ZM expedition on Monday night but just couldn't break the pileups on 80 or
40 meters with just 100w under marginal conditions ... sigh.
Tuesday morning I ran errands. Stopped in at the local 'FCC' to pick up my
license invoice and then on to the bank to waste an hour making the payment.
Then on to the food store for provisions. Spent Tuesday afternoon building an
80 meter half-square antenna which was installed at about 50 feet between the
two 60' towers (see the excellent article about this antenna written by Rudy,
N6LF at http://rudys.typepad.com/ant/files/antenna_halfsquare_array.pdf ).
Over the next several days many dozens of rx and tx comparisons of this easy to
build antenna showed it consistently outperformed a reference inverted V @ 60
feet by an easy 3 to 5 db. Not having sufficient height, I bent the two 71 foot
vertical elements into what look like sideways "Vs". For such a
simple and low antenna, the results were exciting and well worth the time.
With the unusual luxury of "free time" I spent most of Wednesday
goofing off....operated the three CWOPS CWT contests, and even went to the
beach for a few hours....something I haven't done on Aruba in nearly a decade.
Back to work Thursday. Spent nearly 3 hours cutting away most of the vines
that were on the tower #1 guy set....removing over 100 pounds of vegetation
that had been pulling the tower over and acting like a giant 'sail'. I can
sleep easier. Also braved the seasonal high winds late in the day to
re-install the fallen 20m reflector on the C3 @ 60 feet....an exciting hour of
fun in a 30 mph breeze....but at least it was 85F and not 15F like back home.
The day before the contest I try to do something that makes me sufficiently
tired so a three hour afternoon siesta comes easily. This time I decided to
paint 60' of 25G (tower #2)...this took 2.5 hours using a paint mitt.
OK...now some comments about the next 48 hours.
At the starting bell found 10m wide open.....and rightly or wrongly started
there (instead of 20m) for a quick 20 contacts. The rate dried up...then up to
15m I go, another quick 30 contacts, same thing, rate disappears, then on to
20m. There was never a time the entire weekend when rates matched those
experienced in 2013. It felt like someone was holding this "invisible
sponge" over Aruba sucking the RF out of the air....a nightmare that would
reoccur over and over this weekend.
Went to 160m at 02Z....had my best and only real run of the weekend there
(being the first P4 to appear on the band helps). My plan had been to front
load as much 160 and 80 the first night as possible, knowing full well another
snow storm was going to be off the east coast of the USA on Saturday night.
Good strategy, somewhat poor execution....in retro should have pushed harder to
move more western US/VE mults to 160 on night one. LOW POWER is definitely a
different ballgame (compared to HP) under what were less than optimal
conditions. Very happy with myself for NOT deciding to go QRP this weekend, it
would have been much more "challenging" than that I would have
wanted.
At about the 10 hour point (just before local sunrise), I started to sneeze and
my nose would not stop dripping, my head clogged up....conditions that would
persist for the rest of the weekend. Went through two boxes of kleenex tissues
over the next 36 hours....just felt terrible.
Between 12z and 16z on both days I should have slept. No matter how hard I
tried I could not find rate anywhere. This is normally one of the low points
of all ARRL DX events from here, BUT rarely is it this bad. Then, all of a
sudden, at 1600z a switch is thrown and all hell breaks loose on 10m and then
15m. Tried real hard to erase the QSO total deficit built up Friday night, but
at the half way point, I ended up about 300 contacts behind the 2013 contest.
This shortfall would continue to grow larger.
Saturday evening presented the predicted QRN on the low bands, and with
elevated absorption, it made 160m almost useless at LP. The only saving grace
was a lively opening on 20m which provided some good rate, mostly west coast.
About 3 a.m. local time decided I needed a three hour nap....so I set two loud
alarm clocks, literally six inches from my head. Woke up at 7 a.m. (an hour
late) with them both blaring away incessantly ...I suppose my stuffed up head
(and exhaustion) had something to do with it. In the process my friends at
P40L tell me that I missed the best 160 opening to the western US/VE all
weekend. Its always something....
Suffered again through the local morning lull on the high bands....until 16z
when predictably 10 meters became workable with rate. Actually made some
headway on the QSO total deficit for the next few hours and then BAM....the A
index jumps to 20 and K to 5. Down here you literally heard the sun 'talking'
and it is not saying good things. The rate drops on 15m like a stone, I move
to 20, it sounds like someone switched in the 20 db ATT. Such it was.
Final impression - I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else this
weekend...enjoying a CW contest! It's always fun to work so many good friends
again....beating the worst of this winter's weather was just icing on the
cake.
73,
John, W2GD
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Call: PA4A Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 137,808
Rig: FTdx5000MP + PA
Ant: Dipole from A4s
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Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,688,975
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
Highlights in random order
- Another 48 hours of pure FUN!!!
- Working with 2 transceivers in and out of band for the very first time by
using an interlock design by DL5SE slightly modified and home made high power
filters.
- Getting a 6 EL 10M yagi (28OWA6 by EAntenna) in the VHF mast on our roof
which is cramped with obstacles.
- Getting the 50kg 40MDY3 (3 EL 40M yagi by EAntenna) up into the portable
tower at about 4M above the roof; see also low lights.
- 70M beverage by Mark that gave us those needed mults on the low bands despite
the poor propagation.
- Pre-contest dinner at our favorite Italian restaurant.
- Traditional Baklava.
- Clean sweep of US states on 15M thanks to Rens' 6 minute 'contest-QSO' with
Jim-K0VWL in ND at 12WPM... ;-)
- Passion and dedication of our ARRL core-team (Rens, Claudia, Mark and
Aurelio) who spend hours of preparation.
- Many espresso's and cappuccino's freshly prepared by our barista Rens on his
good old Gaggia.
- Competing with OL3Z and OP4K through on-line live score reporting.
- 10M being open both days.
- Exchanging "long rogers" with Dale-N3BNA (IG9Y anecdote).
- Great runs on 20M especially the last hours.
- Last but not least none of the equipment failed on us.
Low lights in random order
- (Very) poor propagation on top band both nights.
- Not being able to use the new 40M Yagi because we could not get it tuned in
time properly. Although the antenna sits literately at the edge of the flat
roof which is about 65M above ground level, it still sees the roof top which is
too close to give reasonable tuning. The radiation pattern should be fine
according to simulations. We will try to bring it up to 12-15M by adding more
tower sections before ARRL SSB so we can at least see how it performs once
before we have to take it down again.
- Not breaking our 2013 all-time record of 3272 QSO's and 2.8M score although
we came close with 3145 and 2.7M (all claimed)
The chances are very slim that PI4TUE will be in ARRL-CW next year since we
need to empty the shack and roof by the end of this year. The University who
now still owns the building will sell it to a real estate company who will
remodel the entire building into a student dorm... There is no room for the
station at the new location that is being build. So we focus on one last great
ARRL SSB weekend in less than two weeks after being on the air since 1991.
... It was fun ...
On behalf of ESRAC Contest Team
-- Aurelio, PC5A
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Call: PJ2T Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,302,376
This contest started off on a sour note when in the week before the contest word
was received that Geoff, W0CG/PJ2DX, and YL Dorothy's home in Idaho had been
broken into and ransacked. Dorothy's car was also stolen. They left a few days
before the contest to assess the damage and take care of the many things
necessary when this sort of event happens. Fortunately, since then at least the
car has been recovered.
There were a few problems with the operation, none of them that I would
consider major. The 40 meter beam has been stuck on Europe for several months
due to a rusted and frozen thrust bearing. While we had a relatively strong
signal into the states off the side of the beam even with this problem we
probably lost several hundred QSOs due to inability to hear weak stations. The
NA beverage was unusable on 40 due to interference from the 160 station. We
lost an amplifier on the 20 meter station an hour into the contest. It was
quickly replaced. We also were limited to 500 watts on 15 meters Sunday due to
arcing in the amp, probably in the bandswitch. As usual there were problems
with the WinKeyers and LogiKeyers. This tends to be more annoying than
debilitating.
As others in the Caribbean have noted we thought the bands were better the
first day, particularly the low bands. The high bands produced a lot of strong
signals the second day but there seemed to be a lack of activity. The late
afternoon rush never seemed to come.
In spite of trying multiple passes we never could connect with VE4 on 160. We
never heard a trace of VO1, VO2, VE8, VY1, or VY0.
As always it was fun. Thanks to everyone for all the QSOs.
For the PJ2T team
Jim
WI9WI
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Call: PJ4X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,533,920
Mother Nature and Sickness cut our M/2 in half so Hans and I decided we'd go M/S
and have fun. Aside from the C31XR (our mainstay antenna at the station) being
dead on arrival, Murphy appeared to stay away otherwise.
Great fun and great companionship for the weekend.
73,
Hans and Marty
PJ4LS -- W1MD
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Call: PJ5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,033,925
This was the third DX trip that my dad and I have taken to the Caribbean, but
the first time we have operated a contest together. We decided to go to St
Eustatius.
Statia, as the locals call it, is a quiet little island only a short 20 minute
flight from St Maarten. It has a rustic feel, not nearly as developed as other
nearby islands, with no stoplights, no luxury resorts, and where the local
people wave when you pass by. Outside of the main town Oranjestad, you are more
likely to have a traffic jam involving passing goats than vehicles.
We rented a villa located on the foothills of the Quill, the dormant volcano on
the island, a place used previously by other DXpeditions to PJ5. The location
was very quiet, with a nice view of the sea to the west/northwest and towards
the northeast. There was a decent sized fenced yard and also a surrounding
clearing, giving us plenty of room for antennas. The weather was excellent,
warm during the afternoons but with a nice breeze blowing most of the time from
the Atlantic, which made it pleasant to sit outside in the shade even in the
afternoon. Brief rain showers blew in almost daily, and lasted 10 or 15 minutes
before ending as abruptly as they started. How nice it was to get away from the
ice and snow and sub-freezing weather we've had at home for months.
Dad arrived a week before me and set up the Hexbeam and got busy working
pileups. I arrived last Monday bringing more gear and our lowband vertical. The
Hex beam was up about 30 feet on a pushup mast and leaned against the house. We
used a trap vertical for 30-160 meters on a 60 foot Spiderbeam fiberglass mast,
with 2 loading wires at the top for 160. We propped the base of the vertical
against a chain link fence post at the edge of the yard, and we laid about 30
radials of various lengths around the antenna in the yard and in an open
clearing just on the other side of the fence. At the feedpoint of the vertical,
just above the chain link fence, was a remote auto tuner.
We had a few equipment issues to work through. We discovered that the AC power
supply for my laptop was causing high RF noise on all bands, and basically made
either station unusable. Luckily we both had Dell laptops so we could share one
power supply, we just had to swap every couple of hours to charge up the other
PC. We also found that my KPA500 amp would occasionally just power off. We
thought it was something to do with the house power voltage, because it only
seemed to happen when the AC was on. We found a long extension cord and used an
outlet from one of the bedrooms and that seemed to help.
Just before the contest I went outside to take a little walk. There was a
clearing beside the yard that we had run about half the radials through. I
noticed that many of radials were not quite as straight as before. Instead of
stretching out neatly, many of them were now kind of bunched up together near
the antenna. A little puzzled by this at first, I quickly figured out what had
happened. On Statia, there are many cows, goats, and chickens which roam free
throughout the island and graze. There was a nice grassy hill near the house,
and the clearing beside our yard was also a popular grazing spot, and I
reasoned that it must have been the cows that had disturbed the radials. As if
to confirm my hunch I noticed one cow who was munching on grass, who looked up
at me as if to say 'so what are you going to do about it?'. She ambled away
slowly - even the livestock seem to move slower in the Caribbean, I guess they
too live on island time - and whatever fraction of dB was lost by the disturbed
radial field I figured it wasn't worth the effort to try to fix it.
We started the contest on 20 meters, and moved slowly down the bands over the
next few hours, and had about 1000 QSOs after the first 6 hours. The pileups
were ok the first night but not nearly as deep though as they had been outside
of the contest when we could work the whole world. Our operating schedule for
the contest was mostly me operating during the night, my dad early in the
morning, and then switching off during the day.
We had planned to have 2 fully functional stations using 2 K3s, the Elecraft
amp, and an ALS-600 amp, hoping that the other guy could tune around for mults.
But one laptop stopped talking to Winkeyer for some reason, and the other
stopped talking to the K3, and occasionally we forgot to swap the power cord
and the laptop would power off when the battery ran out. So in the end we just
used one station.
It might be old news for those who've operated this contest from the Caribbean
many times, but we were a bit surprised by how poor conditions were in the
mornings to NA. Of course we never noticed this before the contest, because we
had huge pileups to EU and JA and other parts of the world, but by late
Saturday morning we were beginning to wonder if we'd picked the wrong contest
to operate from PJ5. In reading some other 3830 reports, it seems that when
conditions are truly outstanding everywhere else, it might actually hurt the
Caribbean in this contest. We had 8 straight hours on Saturday morning of well
below 100 QSOs per hour, including two consecutive hours of 27 QSOs each at 09Z
and 10Z.
But finally towards noon on Saturday things started to pick up. And in the
early afternoon on 10 meters we finally got to experience those famous high
rate hours that this part of the world is famous for. I had a personal best 236
Q-hour on 10 meters, which was easily the highlight of the whole trip for me.
Our vertical seemed to do pretty well on the low bands, despite the cows
messing up the radials. We struggled to hear on 160 with the QRN and I
apologize if we were a bit of an alligator. The second night seemed worse than
the first night, although maybe we'd just already worked all of the really loud
stations that were easy to hear. We missed several mults on 160 that we should
have been able to work. Next time I do this I'll be sure to bring some kind of
receive antenna.
Sunday morning was even slower than Saturday, with 10 straight hours below 100
Qs, with a low of 18 at 08Z. But things picked up again in the afternoon, and
we finished with several good hours on 10, 15, and in the last half hour of the
contest on 20.
Overall we are pleased with the effort - not too bad for simple wire antennas,
and despite the few technical difficulties and the cows. My dad held his own
quite well in the pileups, he's come a long way from our first DX trip 3 years
ago to Bonaire when he did all the logging and CW by hand, he's now quite adept
with N1MM and ready for more, just showing that old dogs and old DXers can learn
new tricks, maybe we'll make a contester out of him after all.
QSLs for PJ5W go to K5WE, any contacts with me outside the contest can go to my
address, but you can combine cards with either of us and we'll answer. Logs will
be uploaded to LOTW soon. Good DX to all. We can't wait to do this again.
73, Erik N5WR
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Call: PR2W Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 120,042
Very good contest to take part. Thank you all that contact me.
73,
PR2W - Paulo
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Call: PT5T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 223,068
Nice Contest with my friend PY2LSM (ZW5B);
Thanks All for contacts and PY5EG - Oms for the opportunity to be in his
station.
73
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Call: PX2F Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 192,096
After more than 10 years I�'m back to single operation from Alto da Serra
Contest Station.
Amazing place and experience!
Thank you guys and I will try to improve my CW skills for the next contest.
Ric
PY2PT
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Call: PY3OZ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 220,932
Although the ARRL DX mono-band category does not have subdivision low power and
high power, for not yet meeting all operating conditions of the bands and has
no power amp, I decided to operate mono-band 10m even with only 100w. I think
it was a good result and all 50 states have been worked. By 1 ° in phase SSB
folks.
Setup:
Yaesu FT-450D
OWA 5 elements to 28MHZ
N1MM
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Call: PY4ZO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 178,176
Rig Yaesu FT-897D 100w
Ant: 20m Rotary Dipole - 15/10m Vertical
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Call: RA/KE5JA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 406,866
QTH: Sakhalin Island, Asiatic Russia
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Call: S50C Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 193,314
After ice demolished S53MM 7 MHz antenna I
decided to go on 21 MHz this year. I was a bit
short on operating time. Anyway I enjoyed the
contest. TNX Matija for leting me use your station.
73 Sine - S53RM
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Call: S52W Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 119,460
800W + 2 x vertical
Part time effort. Missed Saturday and Sunday evening.
73 Damjan S52W
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Call: S54O Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 112,518
TS590 kW
3el@15m
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Call: S55O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 22,125
Run for 1h for fun.
Thx for qso's. log on lotw
73
Ian S55O
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Call: S56A Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 838,584
I intended to let CW robot tun this one commemorating 1991 operation but I did S
& P instead in good condx! Briefly called K3LR on 160 m and missed second
night on 80 m. 2L40 Moxon does superb job while TH6DXX shows age after summer
repair. Easy West Coast with 100 W FT-1000MP. Most of the others run kW so
patience is required after some S50ARX Skimmer spots. My power estimate of 99
Watts is influenced by W1AW/KG4, Z6 ignorance by ARRL DXCC burocrats and poor
WRTC selection of onsite judges! It was fun again and kudos to good WVE ops.
73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
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Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 208,800
CU in next one.
73, Ivo S57AL
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Call: S57C Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 97,200
QRV only for short time on Sunday afternoon. Nice signals from West coast.
FT1000MP, A77D, 5 el. Yagi
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Call: S57DX Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 128,250
Thats all what I can do with damaged antenna! Just ten days ago heavy ice
distroyed all antennas. All together 20 antennas are distroyed. I worked with
cripled yagi with bent boom and elements. Who knows what the radiation pattern
is? Anyway I enjoy very much.
73 de Slavko S57DX
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Call: S57Z Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 173,053
TS-850S
1KW
4SQ
73,Igor,S57Z
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Call: SK2T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,168,818
Really nice conditions up in the north except for 160m.
Decided to try some QSOs about 10min before the contest started.
Ended up being in chair at club almost whole weekend due to the good
conditions.
160m was a one minute band. Worked a strong VY2ZM as first QSO then nothing.
80 and 40 was much better, especially 40m was in a vey good shape first night.
On saturday afternoon some disturbance arrived and made the high bands open for
the rest of the evening and night by Aurora.
Gave up at 0134z (0234 local)on sunday for some sleep after a QSO with W7AYQ on
10m. The low bands were dead. On sunday afternoon and evening the conds were
quite ok from time to time but not as good as on saturday.
Aurora can both be a killer and enhancer for the conditions.
Thanks QSOs 73 /Per SM2LIY
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Call: SK3W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,125,798
Nice and relaxed contest. ARRL DX has great pile-ups and good time periods when
you can rest. Contest started great, but Aurora hit on Saturday evening,
destroyed low band propagation second night. Unfortunately we did not
prioritize 160m the first night.
SM5TXT was operating remotely from home all contest, and the whole crew left
the station 6 hours before the end of the contest and finished from home. The
Remoterig control worked great, and no problems squeezing in the two K3's and
two computers controlled via RDP/Teamviewer on a 600kbps ADSL link.
New claimed Swedish record.
Some photos and comments here:
https://plus.google.com/communities/101471424502404810669
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Call: SM7CIL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 107,262
K3,
Vertical Dipole - 40M,
3 el yagi stuck to South on 20 - 10M
Thanks to everyone who managed to hear my weak sigs
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Call: SN2M Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 214,716
IC 765 + PA
4/4el @13/22m 300deg + 3el 330deg @16m
Good contest, nice to see MUCH better propagation than last year.
IR2T - I want to buy your 100hz CW filter!
73's
Mac SP2XF
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Call: SP1NY Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 874,800
That was what all of us like most - condx!!!
Both days almost even on upper bands. Low bands were much better Saturday
morning, but unfortunately I oversleep most of the first sunrise catching
up only the end.
As usual a lot of excellent OP's from W/VE.
Thanks to all for QSO - it was a great fun.
73's Mirek SP1NY
Rigs:
FTDX-5000 @ 150W
80m - Inv Vee
40m - "moxon" rotary dipole (Ultrabeam UB-50)
20/15/10 - 3 el. Ultrabeam UB-50
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Call: SP2LNW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,023,876
Tnx fer all Q's.
73 Slaw SP2LNW
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Call: SP3GTS Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 672
It was really strange situation! I didn't hear US stations on my two beverages
175 and 360m. I could only receive some big guns on vertical.
See you next contest.
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Call: SP6OJE Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 30,492
Due to aurora 100w was not enaugh to make qso from my QTH, however south
Europeans could ... Thanks for nice contest, see You next year
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Call: SP9LJD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,714,500
Tnx fer all QSO's, lost 160m antenna hi.
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Call: TI5W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,995,944
First I want to thank my GF Ana CR7ADN for standing this radio contesting
madness and helping out laying the coaxes and radials :)
Secondly my good friend Kamal N3KS for inviting me to operate as Single Op from
his fantastic station in Bijagua, Costa Rica.
Also need to mention my friend Freddy for all he his done for us during our
stay in Costa Rica, "no pressure" :)
Amazingly we setup the station on Tuesday in just about 5 hours with almost
everything working at first! Only some tuning on the 80m vertical and also some
config with Win-Test and the radio K3 was needed to eliminate the strange CW
sound it is produced at speeds above 36 WPM. BTW if anyone has this issue here
is a good hint (tnx to Bob N6TV it fixed my issue):
http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2013-November/083384.html
Unfortunately I had no SO2R box but I can imagine that the score could be much
much higher with the endeless CQs without answer that I had. Conditions were
very good but just noone called... was a bit stressing.
Tried desperately to move a BC, ND and MT to 160m but it was simple not
possible! Either the VE7 had no 160m or I just couldn't hear both MT stations I
tried to move! Well, I might to call CQ a bit more next time on 160m (Alternate
CQ might help!)
Congratulations to all the SOAB operators, it was really nice competition.
Thanks to all for the QSOs and cu on the next one.
73's Filipe Lopes
CT1ILT, F4VPX, CR6K
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Call: UA2F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 251,187
Just for fun!
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Call: V26M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,876,704
QSL to W3HNK
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Call: V31TP Class: M/S LP Total Score = 5,014,008
We had a fine time once again in San Ignacio, Belize. Our operation is Field
Day style with a tribander and wires on a nice hill. We tried some antenna
experiments this year, but none of them panned out so we went with essentially
last year's setup: A3S, 40/80 inverted vee (with a 40M reflector) and an HF2V
converted into a 160 inverted L. We again put up a very short beverage but
found the transmit antennas were consistently better.
John's (WC0W) wife Leigh (WC0T) always serves as our spritual advisor. Her
past experience as a preschool owner/director serves to help the team focus and
remain civil. But this year, we also pressed her into service on the paddles
where she made a fine batch of Qs. Way to go Leigh!
Conditions definitely seemed off from last year. The low bands were reasonably
quiet but 160 never seemed to break open. There were slow times on the high
bands while they were open to Europe, but they were great when we had our time
in the sun in the afternoons.
Mark (AG9A) was back for his second year and a big help getting the antennas
optimized, following the propagation, and shoveling lots of Qs.
I (K5PI) reprised my role as K3 and N1MM consultant and cranked through plenty
of Qs.
John (WC0W) serves as ringmaster, Belizian cultural attache/culinary consultant
("Rice and beans all around!"), and the iron man on the low bands.
While we didn't manage to top our last year's score, we're very happy with our
results. We didn't get as muddy as the adventure racers in our hotel, but we
definitely got a workout! See you next year!
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Call: VA2AM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,363,716
160m band performance was very poor by a solar storm on both nights. Of course
15-10m stayed late after the local sunset.
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Call: VA2WA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 6,103,515
SO1R: Kenwood TS-590S + AL-1200
Ant:
20-15-10: SteppIr DB-11
40: GP 10m high
80-160: Top loaded vertical 16.5m high
RX: BEV 260m to EU
The 20-15-10m bands were opened all the 24 hours. Those bands conditions were
amazing. The 80m and 40m bands were not bad at all over the first night.
Thanks to all who called me ))
73!
Victor
VA2WA / VA2WDQ
http://www.contestgroupduquebec.com/
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Call: VA3DX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 515,592
Casual S and P operation
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Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 46,176
KX3, 5w, verticals. Great conditions for QRP except for the noisy lower bands.
Thanks for the contacts!
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Call: VA7DZ Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,251,516
We tripled last year's claimed score of 400K, maybe because
* We've added a 2-el phased array for 40m and a K2AV FCP Inv-L for 160, so we
now have half-decent antennas for all bands
* We've added 1-push band changing to the station
* We've finally figured out that the Available Mults pane of N1MM is really
helpful [ for chasing mults!]
Condx were FB here on the Wet Coast. We had a 4-hr run into EU on 20m
with our end of the path in darkness, a new one in my experience.
Thanks to all the great ops and especially the ones who patiently copied
repeats.
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Call: VA7KH Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 25,425
A big thanks to all the excellent ops out there in DX-Land who persevered with
copying my weak signal into their log while often keeping a pile-up at bay (and
holding up their own run-rate). My antenna is only a 44ft doublet in the attic,
so getting the signal through is always special.
See you next year!
73, Steve
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Call: VA7KO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,421,145
First day saw lots of activity. Really felt like a DX contest. Second was rather
slow in comparison. But thanks to all in the log.
See you all again soon. 73,
Koji VA7KO
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Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 643,104
Was hoping for something better than my personal-best two years ago, but the
bands were not quite up to the task. Nor was I -- came down with the flu on
Sunday, and it took the wind out of my sails.
Wonderful EU opening from 0600 to 0800z Saturday night (a solid run of 190
stations), and there were other good polar path openings on 20M and 15M.
Managed a few Europeans during a brief opening on 10M Saturday morning, during
the 1800z-hour.
Averaged 47/hour through the 19.5 hours on the air. That's up from 31/hour last
year and 36/hour in 2012.
-- Bud VA7ST
Year QSOs Mults Score
---- ---- ----- -------
2013 928 231 643,104
2012 750 224 504,000
2012 917 245 673,995
2011 658 208 410,592
2010 908 201 547,524 HP
2009 688 163 332,031 HP
2008 504 156 235,872 HP
2007 609 157 286,839 HP
2006 571 176 301,488
2005 444 167 222,444
2004 307 132 121,572
2003 235 122 86,010
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Call: VE1RSM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 907,185
Had lots of fun. Enjoyed every QSO and look forward to improving next year.
Bob/VE1RSM
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Call: VE1ZA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 349,503
Band QSOs Pts Cty
3.5 37 111 20
7 176 528 43
14 156 468 48
21 128 384 38
28 126 378 38
Total 623 1869 187
Score: 349,503
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Call: VE3DQN Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 26,565
My 2nd year in this contest. Tnx for the patience of DX stations with my cw and
inexperience.
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Call: VE3GFN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 942,576
A new personal best for this contest, with 24 hours of ops, using the N1MM
Logger software. A switch to this software, and the purchase of a new P3
panadaptor, have noticeably increased my S&P rates, and my contest scores!
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Call: VE3HG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 169,560
Nice to work Hawaii on 80 using 5 watts and the vertical :) Great conditions on
Friday and late Sunday with a major opening to South America and Europe. Last
half hour of the contest gets too noisy and frantic for 5 watts to be heard.
Had to take sometime out for the Olympics :)
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Call: VE3JM Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,097,326
We are dedicating this operation to Don VE3RM, who has become a silent key.
Since Don's funeral was Saturday morning and three out of four operators were
going to the funeral, I was not certain if we should have operated at all. We
have decided to operate since we thought that is what Don would have wanted us
to do.
We had only one station on the air for more than six hours Saturday morning, so
we missed some prime time on high bands.
This time we had Tom VE3CX, who travelled all the way from Thunder Bay to
experience the conditions from Eastern Ontario. It seems that Tom enjoyed
operating from here. While high bands were very good, the numbers on 160 and 80
were way down compared to last year.
It was an emotional weekend, but I am glad we decided to honour our friend Don
by getting on the air.
Vlad VE3JM
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Call: VE3KAO Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 457,071
73!
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Call: VE3MGY Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 270,087
PTDXO
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Call: VE3OI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,851,888
I wish I could have found more than 24 hours to operate this one, Conditions
were superb! It made for a very fun weekend! Let's hope the upcoming Phone
weekend can be as good.
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Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 23,814
A K of 5 on the second evening ruined propagation. For a couple of hours no EU
signals were heard here. In addition, a storm off the East coast created much
QRN. As a result, my score is less than half of last year's.
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Call: VE3RSA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 263,277
I really enjoyed the excellent band conditions , especially on 10M. All S&P
this time. Best moment was finding and working a very weak ZR9C in between the
big signals on 10m- .... beam pointing in wrong direction D'oh! Obviously
excellent "ears" on the other end !
See you next year.
Tom '3RSA
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Call: VE3VV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 218,286
[log removed from comments]
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: ON
CALLSIGN: VE3VV
CLUB: None
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 218286
OPERATORS: VE3VV
NAME: ted hughes
ADDRESS: 968 germain st
ADDRESS-CITY: sarnia
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: ONT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: n7s1m1
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: canada
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.2.0
END-OF-LOG:
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Call: VE4VT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 975,144
Wow hat a difference between Saturday and Sunday. Conditions sure fell through
the floor Sunday while they were excellent for most of Saturday.
Good opening to Asia of friday night on 10 & 15m. Even 40m was free from
the usual auroral distortion. Unfortunately 80 and 160m were horrible from
here. I never heard a single DX station on 160 despite trying many times. For
all the stations that tried to move me to 160, I gave it a shot. A small sloper
and 10 over 9 noise made it impossible.
After European sunrise on Sunday morning, 20m was hopping over the pole. That
was the end of the good conditions. 10m to EU was very weak and skewed all day
Sunday. 15m was better but not great. 20m to EU was horrible!
Using the cluster for this contest was interesting. I managed to find quite a
few mults just by spinning the dial. Worked Maldives for a new DXCC that was
not spotted and not sure it ever was. Same a YJ0OU on 10m for a surprise late
in the contest. On Sunday it seems everyone is chasing the clusters and unless
you are strong, you will be waiting in a lot of lines. Much better rate just
spinning the dial looking for unspotted stations.
this is such a peaceful contest. No real QRM, lots of room and lots of DX.
Somehow the SSB version in a couple weeks will be a tad more hectic.
Hope to see many of you again next week in the BERU event.
Ed
VE4EAR/VE4VT
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Call: VE5KS Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 39,960
Only could do a part time effort. All I did was S&P, found a lot of mults,
but could not get any runs going.
73's
John
VE5KS
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Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 501,975
An interesting contest. Normally when the K is 4 or 5 the bands are just dead up
here but this time was different. Overnight Saturday we had a very limited polar
opening with only a few big gun stations from Eu heard. The band started to open
about 1300. On Saturday when the first CME shock hit at 1330 15m remained open
but had to beam SE to work EU. By 1500 things appeared to return to normal and
condx much better then expected with good runs to Eu. By Saturday evening
things fell off and the JA Asian opening was not as good as Friday evening.
Went to get some sleep expecting fairly poor condx on Sunday am. Got up at 1100
to check the band and it was wide open to Eu with excellent signals. This is
much earlier then normal 15m band opening. Had pretty good runs until 1430 when
it just dropped out. Didn't return until around 1600 and stayed open for only a
couple of hours and signals were very weak and fluttery. Heard a lot of western
US stations with typical aurora buzz and flutter when beaming NE. So overall
much better then usual for such disturbed condx.
Equipment was an ICOM IC-7700 & Alpha amp. Antennas were 6/6/6/6 plus
another 6el on another tower. The lower stacks were fixed on JA/east coast/west
coast.
As always Don is a great host making the station available and making sure I
had enough to eat and drink.
See you all on SSB
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Call: VE7JH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,293,704
Thanks to station owner Duane, I once again operated the VE7UF M/M contest
station as a single op.
Great conditions on Saturday, I figured I'd catch all the mults on the low
bands on Sunday, but conditions turned.
20m was open to Eastern Europe all night I kept going there and had great fun
working the nighthawks and the early risers. Countries like EW, YL, ES and LY
are not all that common here on the West Coast, I logged 49 of them.
The 65 UR's should help my URDA Award progress.
Great activity from JA and BY, not too much from VK/ZL though. The Caribbean
was less busy than usual, but those great 5 and 6 bander operations there are
certainly appreciated.
Great to see the large number of our Russian friends from both continents and
the many Europeans that came out to play.
73,
Gabor, VE7JH@VE7UF
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Call: VE7VR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 148,404
Fun as usual. Go Orca!
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Call: VE7XF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 992,412
Well, that was fun! Mostly S&P (mult hunting), with a few good runs to JA.
Too noisy to run towards Europe on any band.
Saturday was much better than Sunday, even with the severe Au flutter,
affecting SA this time.
Managed a few 80m Qs and mults in the mornings, after the neighbour's plasma
TVs were turned off. Heard very few DX on 160, and they were very weak, so
couldn't work any.
I don't usually operated 'assisted', but it sure makes working mults easier
;-)
Only one dupe - my fault for believing the cluster.
The cluster-generated pileups on the rare ones were horrendous in the last few
hours. Note to Cluster Clickers: learn what QNY means.
For the rest of us: pass it on so others understand it too!
If you don't get it, check with Ward, N0AX.
I'll be hosting VE7TJF and VA7QLT (under their own calls) for the SSB event.
We're hoping for YL-powered pileups - call them if you can.
Ralph, VE7XF
K-line, 3el Steppir (probably worn out now :-) and wires.
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Call: VE9AA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 348,678
Arrl dx cw 10M HP..... (kinda long)
Random thoughts in no particular order de Mike VE9AA (or "Ode to
Ten")
This was supposed to be a 'serious' single band effort....but quickly turned
into only a fun/semi-serious effort. GOAL=1000 Q's
Alas, Friday night I made only 10 QSO's as it was Valentines Day and we were
watching a movie. (Chocolate may have saved my life)
Lost nearly 2 hours of a EU Run Saturday morning, as got called by work 4
times(remote support), then decided, heck, may as well
snowblow the driveway now that the precious time is already lost. No chance
to even come close to a win now.
Where are all the African stations? ACtivity well above .100 on 10m....nice to
see.
Almost blew a QSO with A65CA....OOPS. I thought it was AB5CA the first time he
called. Thanks for hanging in there.
C4Z - was good to work you Brian. Above the EU callers as usual, hi !
What a super blast to work KH2/N2NL, ears of an elephant to hear me amid the
din. What a beehive. Thanks Dave. Great fun @ 42wpm.
Put a big ol' smile on my face. :-) Highlight of contest for me. (big smile)
Why are so many NA stns calling me?
One PA stn has worked me 4 times already in as many hours. I think his pencil
lead broke and his paper log surely flew out the window!
Had a good afternoon with some decent rates and overall numbers, what with
missing a chunk of time....sigh. Don't think about that Mike I tell myself.
Nice supper with family. Spent some time watching TV.
WHOA! Just wandered in the shack around 9pm to shut everything off when I
noticed the S-meter moving.
JA's and UA0's over the pole via Aurora Es or F. The multipath was not unlike
working 6m AU to W1. Wild. Some of the bigger
stations were nearly S-9. 100 CQ's produced not a single QSO, but worked a
couple dozen up and down 10m.. Neat :-D
The wx man calling for another 45cm of snow tonight and tmw. Eghads. Not again.
Third time in a week with ice and snow, wind and rain.
China, in the log. Yessss ! Dark like coal outside. Good times.
Day 1 ends with 780 Q's in the log. Be lucky to hit 1000 tmw.
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Sunday morning. Two cups of coffee in me. The WX outside is bleak. Snow, snow
and more snow. Lots of wind. Some freezing rain.
Southerners think this is a rarity, but we deal with it constantly every
winter, all winter long. It is our life.
Maybe I should build a snowman as a second op to help me tune for mults ?
Antenna drooping and bobbing around like a drunken sailor down on the
Southern Oceans roaring 40's.
No EU's on 10m yet, but I continue to tune tune tune, sipping warm coffee in a
(ceramic?) Tim Hortons mug.
I hear a couple of the East Coast big (machine) guns CQing with not much luck.
Sun will be up on 20 mins, but 10m is stubborn sleepyhead lately. Late riser.
CQing from 7am to 7:30am local and not a single reply. UGH. THis is gonna be a
long day. K1LZ steals my QRG. Tell me you didn't hear me.
A bit of snow static is killing the weaker callers.
Just scanned the band from 28.0 thru 28.100 and I have already worked every
single CQer. Gonna be a long day. I hear a weak groan from
my rate meter which has slipped into stasis. My F1 key is now wore out. Rates
are into the single digits. My family advises I would be better
off going out to snowblow the driveway AGAIN, as we got 35cm overnight (a
foot), and I see drifts nearly 3 feet (~a meter) in spots.
SOmething to look forward to post-contest. ...or later when EU goes bye-bye.
Now folks are using my frequency to tune their amps on. Not just 1 tuner
either. Oh no; there's two battling it out 50Hz apart!
Can it get much worse? I ask you. :-o
The driveway will have to wait. It's still snowing.
Ok, someone unkinked the hose for a moment or two around 13z. I must have been
spotted. Rate meter gasped, went into cardiac arrest and actually turned
actually turned green for a few minutes. SOme kind soul must have spotted me.
THANKS to whoever blessed me with that good fortune.
Folks must not tune their VFO's anymore , eh? Only get callers after someone
apparently spots me, or so it sure seems.
Condx fb mid morning. Working lots of 5 watt guys. ( even a few with less
watts!) however keyclicks abound and wipe them out for the most part.
No cluster for single band guys, but you know what - I am less stressed NOT
watching the spots flow by. 'Course, I am sure my mult total will be sadly
lacking. Can't have it all, eh
Oh oh....here comes a string of dupes. I am sure I am the victim of a bad
cluster spot, even though I am one of those guys that signs after EVERY Q. Oh
well. Good with the bad,hi
Swore I just heard someone send "5000"...I believe it. They were
W-I-D-E !
Just passed 1000 Q's...that was a loooong morning for 220 Q's. Part of the
game.
9L1A called in. How cool is that? Made my morning. I seriously thought it was
9A1A duping me, hi ....
Another string of dupes. Nobody uses headphones anymore. Just screen shots.
:-(
Even more dupes. HA! Now here's a switch. A DL called me (with his full call)
and when I went back, he said "SRI, B4 B4"
so I said "no no no " and we made a QSO. I wonder if he worked a bad
spot previously and now the bad spot was repeated and he thought
he was also working that same busted callsign? Will be interesting to review
post-test and see if I can suss it out.
I should probably be out looking for mults. My count is too low.
The yard outside my window looks like a big cereal bowl of Fruit loops or rocky
road ice cream with massive whiteness everywhere, but tops of different coloured
objects poking out here and ther
like cars, garbage cans, sheds, etc. A lot of snow !
I had my hand on the VFO to go S&P after a few futile CQ's when HZ1PS
called me. Hows that for timing? Thanks man !
Someone pse tell me when a weeeeak stn's (power) number gets lost and I reply
"NR?" They send full calls, signals report and then the number ?
(which of
course is QRMd or QSB-d out again.
Have I mentioned that I really should be looking for mults....?
Where is P3N or D4A?
Sunset in EU....things are screeching to a halt. This is TEN METERS afterall.
The VE9ST Canadian record from 2001 is taunting me but there is no way my arms
are long enough to reach it. It is out of my grasp once again.
Maybe in 2022 I'll take another crack at it.
Hearing lots from VY2ZM, VA2WA, K2SSS ,N4OX, WO4O, W4SVO, W1UE, K1LZ and
others. No way to come close with my 600w and weeny yagi. (especially taking
so
much time off)
Callers have stopped and looks like the snow has too, so out to do a couple
hours of snowblowing. Back for the Pacific and Far East later !
2 hours of snowblowing and a hot shower and I am back. REsponsibilites suck
sometimes !
A few SA stns is all. Comb the band 3 times. HAve already worked 90% of them.
A couple of KH6's & ZL's already in the log. The band holds nothing
new.
W's calling me.....way too much. >:-(
ARRL DX CW - 2014-02-15 0000Z to 2014-02-17 0000Z - 1216 QSOs
VE9AA Max Rates:
2014-02-15 1149Z - 4.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 240 per hour by VE9AA
2014-02-15 1530Z - 2.8 per minute (10 minute(s)), 168 per hour by VE9AA
2014-02-15 1246Z - 2.3 per minute (60 minute(s)), 138 per hour by VE9AA
73 de Mike VE9AA, IC7410 ~600w, weeny 5el @ 24', N1MM
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Call: VP2EZZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,958,719
This was a last minute plan to head to VP2E and we literally took off from LI at
11:30pm Wed night to just miss the big storm in the NE. Heading south we had a
strong head wind of well over 100 knots making the first leg of the trip to
Orlando much longer than we expected. As we quickly climbed to 45k' we passed
lots of snow and a little ice until we popped up over the clouds and the stars
and moon welcomed us to a smooth flight south. With a short rest in W4 and a
refuel we jumped the 1200 miles to VP2E in no time. One exciting event was upon
descending into VP2E the rear cargo bay smoke alarm went off. We quickly made
the call to the tower and the fire brigade crew was waiting for us. Once we
landed we quickly opened the bay door and found nothing but wet cargo.
Descending from -80 deg F to + 80 deg F the condensation tripped the smoke
detector:) We made our way to the rental house which was beautiful and had an
amazing view over the water. We were met by the local communications officer
who handled our license for VP2EZZ and a local ham (one of two) VP2EKG (Keith)
who welcomed us to the island. We headed down with 2 x K3's, 1 Expert 1K-FA
amp, R8 Vertical, 80m OCF Dipole and a TransWorld TW2010 portable antenna. We
ended up using one K3 with the Expert to the OCF at 20' to be used for the
contest and the other K3 100w to the TW2010 antenna to be used during the
contest but on 12,17m. We also brought a spool of wire and made a 160m Inv L
but we could never get it to resonate properly. The SWR would constantly jump
all over the place with both the K3 and the Rig Expert analyzer. The only
conclusion we can come up with is some sort of coupling was happening with the
200kw 1610 transmitter that was about 1 air mile away. We then converted the
80m OCF by doubling its length to handle 160 and we had a perfectly resonate
antenna! That was a good choice since the first night we got in almost 100 q's
and the 2nd night was a complete wash from the flare. The three of us took
shifts and operated basically until we needed a break or some sleep. The WX is
just perfect there, 80 deg, the warm trade winds always blowing and sleeping
with all the windows and doors open was a very nice change coming from the
blistery north. We had no idea what to expect operating from the location. We
would get high QRN coming and going but signals were strong and constant. Crude
calculations showed some nice rates over 150/hr which we are pretty happy with
for a wire antenna 20' off the ground. We ran the amp conservative between
500-800w to keep it cool and to minimize tripping a breaker.
At the end of the test we felt good. I decided to call some CQ on 6m with the
OCF as a joke and immediately was called by LU5FF S9 which then led to running
a number of LU's and CX's! Here is a short video LU5FF took.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbyhii3_qMg
One note on the TransWorld antenna, Wed night I had a nice run of JA's and
Asiatic Russians with 100w. We never had a shortage of pileups using that
antenna.
Condx and WX were great from the Caribbean which exceeded our expectations and
the warm welcome from VP2EKG and VP2ETE was a nice treat. We ended up leaving a
little lighter as we knew the guys in the island have a hard time getting
supplies, so a new R8 and shiny new coax stayed behind which should hopefully
expand the operating capacity from VP2E moving forward.
Thanks to Nada for preparing some unbelievable meals that kept us fueled during
the test.
Thanks to my operating comrades Ray W2RE and Pat N2IEN for another amazing
radio adventure.
There is nothing better than playing radio with your buddies in an exotic land
:)
73 Lee
WW2DX and the VP2EZZ Team.
Video from Ray W2RE at our QTH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3WfM9Z1N9o
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Call: VP5S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,435,136
The VP5S team was an effort by members of the Minnesota Wireless Association who
traveled to Jody's place in the Turks & Caicos Islands for the contest.
Team leader Scott, K0MD, was joined by members from last year Fred, K4IU and
Bill, AC0W along with first timer Pat, K0PC.
Station: Icom 7600 + Acom 1010
Antennas: Force 12 XR-5 for 10-20, Force 12 240 Delta for 40 meters and dipoles
for 80 and 160.
The contest is always enjoyable to do from TCI. Conditions were great
world-wide from the Caribbean as they were from the USA. Prior to the contest,
we worked a lot of Asian stations who were very loud into the Caribbean.
I felt that QSO rates were down compared with last year especially during the
daytime. It seemed that NA was looking to Europe and Asia for QSO's given the
spectacular propagation that has been reported.
Pile-ups were intense at times though, especially in the late afternoons and
evenings when all of NA was looking to the Caribbean.
The Low bands were good but not as good as last year. The upper midwest had
more strong signals into VP5 this year than last. We had atmospheric noise on
Saturday morning as there were likely storms in the region. As always, the Icom
7600 is a tremendous Low Band receiver and it allowed us to get 105 multipliers
on 160 and 80.
Appreciation is due to the following:
1. Our families and wives who remained home in the blistery weather while we
traveled to veritable paradise.
2. All of the stations from DC, DE and KY who were active this year making
those multipliers easier to get. We still missed DC on 10 meters so if I work
you in DC next year on Friday, I am asking you to move to 10 regardless!
3. VY2ZM who stopped by on Sunday to ask me if we needed PEI on any other bands
as he was willing to QSY for us. There were several PEI stations this year and
we appreciate the efforts that hams made in PEI to be active.
4. Jody, VP5JM, who allows us to come and use her premiere station even though
she has stopped renting to hams. We really enjoy contesting from TCI and seeing
her and Lizzy her dog.
5. All of the MWA members who worked us on 5 and 6 bands. It is always nice to
hear fellow club members on the air.
Minor issues:
1. We had a computer keyboard that was sticking frequently and cost us at least
100 QSO's we believe. We will rectify this for 2015.
2. Our old Dell XP logging computer was getting slow near the end, perhaps it
is at EOL and we need a new Windows 7/8 machine to contest with. I sure wish
N1MM would make software for the Mac!
3. EU and JA stations were calling us during the contest which at times
interfered with our ability to copy NA stations. We are not sure how to rectify
this issue.
All of our QSO's were uploaded to LOTW on Sunday night after the contest. If
your QSO is not in LOTW, please contact me via email.
Thanks for a great contest and the memories of working NA from paradise. We
hope to return in 2015 to do it all over again.
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Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,471,072
IC-7000 Win-Test 11.4.1
160m: Inv-L (3 radials)
80: Dipole at 30 feet
40: KA Dipole at 30 feet
20-10: A4S at 35 feet
My low band contacts were 800 below last year. It was brutal on the low bands
and I know that I was an alligator. But I just could not pull call signs out
of the noise. Continuous S9 noise. I threw in the towel early on Saturday
night. So did a lot of people so I probably didn't miss a lot.
The high bands were pretty good and I had high rates after Europe closed. The
whole southeast was blacked out on 10 meters. I missed a bunch of multipliers
down there. But there was a lot of activity and I had 160 more contacts there
this year.
I hope the low bands are better for ARRL Phone.
73, Kurt W6PH
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Call: VU2MUD Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 1,890
RIG: IC-718
ANT: G5RV (HALF SIZE) & VERTICAL
POWER: 75 W
CONTEST SOFTWARE: N1MM
A PRE-SCHEDULED 400 KM DRIVE AND A FAMILY FUNCTION TO ATTEND ALLOWED ONLY 3
HOURS OF CONTEST TIME. 15 M OPENED UP AROUND 1200 UTC. WHAT I FOUND
INTERESTING WAS THAT THE W'S WERE HEARD ONLY IN THE LOWER AND UPPER ENDS OF THE
CW SUB-BAND AND THE EU'S WERE HEARD CALLING IN THE MID SECTION. THIS CONTEST
ALSO GAVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO SWITCH BETWEEN MY G5RV ORIENTED NE-SW BROADSIDE
AND A VERTICAL WITH GOOD RESULTS.
ENJOYED THE CONTEST IN THE SHORT PERIOD. GOOD LUCK TO ALL
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Call: VY2LI Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 4,785
Limited time=Limited Qs.73,Bill
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Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,662,440
The first 24 hours were great. Really good conditions and activity. The 2nd 24
hours were a grind. I couldn't seem to find anything to do the entire night, no
responses to CQs, S&Ping only turned up calls already worked, so I slept
more than planned. It didn't help that both my RX antennas were broken and the
low bands were very noisy, really bad Saturday with the snowing and blowing.
73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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Call: VY2ZM Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 1,055,250
This unusual posting is actually two SINGLE BAND ENTRIES as follows:
160m 302/63 = 57,078 points (Roughly 15 hours of on air time.)
10m 1708/112 = 573,888 points (Roughly 28 hours of on air time.)
Under ARRL rules, only (1) SINGLE BAND ENTRY may be submitted by an individual
station - thus my submission is as indicated above - it is for MONO 10M only.
The 160m single band score is being submitted as a ***CHECK LOG ONLY***- and
not for legitimate scoring/competitive purposes in the contest.
Background:
A serious of weather-related disasters kept me scrambling out at the house most
of Wed night and all day Friday. By 3PM Friday (after battling a motor failure
in my oil burner, and a major flood in my basement from melting snow in a lake
outside my shack window, and soot particulate backing up into the basement when
the oil burner flue would not draught properly - I was totally spent. I tried
to sleep but could not and was in no position to even contemplate a 46/47 hour
SOAB/SO2R all band entry given how I felt - just no way Jose!
I almost bagged the whole contest as I was worse than dead tired at 0000z!
I started out on 160m and was doing poorly (although W4ZV stopped by to report
he had made 34 qso's in 3 hours and was quitting. (I had about 100 Q's by then
and quit early myself at 0705z that night with something like 195 in the log. I
decided I would switch over to 10m and begin a single band entry there at
sunrise.)
10m was a far better move - condx were good although I knew I had missed all of
Friday night in the process and was sure under good condx that others had done
pretty well there for an hour or so.
The rest is pretty much as reported by others - Sat was excellent with over
1100 qso's logged the first day. Sunday was not as good but not horrible
either.
Each day at 1930z I worked SO2R on 160m to add to the 160M score. Saturday
night AFTER 0000Z was almost a TOTAL washout on 160m - I did manage about 20
qso's but quit very early in favor of sleep for the Sunday 10M EU runs. Each
160m qso was agony with the snow static and hurricane force winds. I could
hear 9A1A, TM6M and some of the louder stations - but all answers to my CQ's
were a total embarrassment as compared to my normal ability to hear weak
signals. Stations on the other side probably wondered who the ALLIGATOR OPR
was - but it was beyond noisey. The S meter just hung AT 20DB over S9 - with
crashes that pinned the meter most of the time.
So rather than continue to look like a JERK, I just turned the radio off and
bailed on Topband leaving it to W3LPL and K3LR to keep the faithful
interested.
Although the 160m single band score ended up as a reasonable effort - pls note
again that it is only a checklog - so W8UVZ/W8TOP - if you are reading this
posting - George (or anyone else), please be sure to send in your Mono 160m log
as you may have made the top score.
73 and thanks to all for the qso's.
CU in two weeks on SSB mode
73 JEFF VY2ZM
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Call: W0AIH Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,672,944
**This is a 3830 resubmit. I had the wrong call in the call used field. Was
**K0TG, should be W0AIH.
We had a very thin operator list this weekend with some of the regulars at
VP5S
etc. So we decided to operate Multi-Two this year.
Ron, KK9K pounded away on 20 most of the weekend. He just about got it to
1000
Q's too! 15 and 10 were in prime condition. Solar numbers looked a bit poor
for the 2nd half, but they did not seem to bother things much. 40 and 80
started out kind of noisy Saturday evening, but cleard up as the evening went
on.
I was surprised at how few US Stations called to work us this year. I thought
that number was way down. Good to see!
When will everyone get the memo that they can work dupes?? Typo's happen and
then you try to work someone and they say dupe and will not work ya. Or they
are just plain not in the log. Well, their loss in that case I guess.
Vlad, N0STL was able to work the first half and Ron, KK9K and I (K0TG) were
able to stay for the whole weekend. Paul was the default night operator so we
could hit things during the day
Loads of fun at "The Farm"!
For a look at the fabulous hardware we played with: http://www.qth.com/w0aih/
73, John K0TG
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
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Call: W0BH Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 31,500
A really great opening on 10, so I just decided to stay there for the limited
time that I had. All Qs have been uploaded to LOTW. Thanks for the fun!
73, Bob, w0bh
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Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,065,672
Got a new HL-550FX so first time using 450w-500w HP in this test - sure is
different from using LP. So, have a new personal best 1083 Qs. Wkd some new
ones for me including XW0YJY, HS0ZKX, YJ0OU, 6W/G4BUE. Nice to hear many
expeditions out to activate some countries in Africa and the Carribean - thanks
for being there guys! Probably did about 50% running with HP compared to about
10% with LP.
Enjoyed the condx for the most part - the solar flare and auroral sounds of
stations over the pole made things more challenging!
73 Ken, W0ETT
Parker, CO
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Call: W0PAN Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 18,000
Great Fun - terrific operators and good conditions made my low power and a
vertical work like a charm.
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Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 51,684
Really had no intentions of getting into this one, but it was a little boring
just watching the Olympics, so I decided to get in for a while and do a S&P
looking for Multipliers. I even picked up a couple new ones in the 6 hours I
played. It was kind of fun busting some big pileup with my 34' tower and 100
watts. I might enter the SSB version, but SSB isn't my favorite mode. Thanks
to those who heard my peanut whistle and responded with a call.
Yaesu FT-950
A3s Cushcraft @ 34'
100 Watts
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Call: W0UO Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 256,080
K3-KPA500- 2EL Optibeam at 80ft.
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Call: W1AN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 618,849
Really extraordinary conditions. Just had no energy after a long busy week.
73, John, W1AN
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Call: W1AO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,402,126
I'm still rebuilding after my tower failure 3 years ago. This was my first
reasonable effort since then. Unfortunately, I lost my beverage due to ice a
few weeks ago and was unable to rebuild before the contest. It would have
helped - a lot! Conditions here were generally great and 4 hours sleep both
nights helped. Thanks for the Qs! Antenna work continues......
IC-7800/PW-1 (a good combination for unlimited class - however, I hope to be
SOAHP/SO2R next time using my 7800/PW-1 and K3/Alpha 89 combination).
Cushcraft X7 @ 40' (eventually will be back up at 75' with 2 el. XM-240)
Windom @ 40' for 40/80/160
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Call: W1AW/6 Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 168,045
Remarkable weekend of operation on a single band under the world's most
recognizable call. I was honored to log as many as possible and enjoyed
listening to the level of 5 watts from Asia, Europe, and South America.
73, Scot KA3DRR
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Call: W1AW/6 Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 350,000
Don't remember exact score as this will be a check log, but it was fun and an
honor to use the W1AW/6 call in the contest. Thanks to VU2TE for calling in
over the top Friday night. Friday and Saturday were great, Sunday a really
tough fight through the disturbed conditions.
Rig: FTdx9000 via Remote Control
Amp: VL-1000, 1100W to 800' lof hardline
Antennas: 7/7/7 element OWAs
73 de Chip, K7JA
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Call: W1AW/9 Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,183,868
LOG WILL BE SUBMITTED AS CHECKLOG ONLY.
Our representative score for the W1AW/9 operation in Wisconsin.
We each operated at our own stations, like IARU HQ style.
Operating W1AW/9 was a complete thrill, all week long.
160: W0AIH
80: K9GS
40: WW9R (+KA9FOX)
20: KA9FOX (+KB9OWD, WE9V)
15: WE9V (+KB9OWD, W9XT)
10: W9XT (+WE9V)
73,
Chad WE9V
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Call: W1EBI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,463,075
In spite of moderate noise levels on the lower bands, this one surpassed my
personal best in all metrics: QSO's, mults and points. I didn't quite manage
DXCC on any band like in 2012 when 10 meters was in the doldrums, but my
collection of dipoles made me feel pretty loud all weekend. I actually
experienced my first frequency fight (I won!), so that must mean I had some
juice. But I didn't have the juice to put in the 35 hours I had in mind.
Thanks, everyone, for my 29 hours of contesting fun.
George W1EBI
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Call: W1ECH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 470,000
Enjoyed my few hours. Surprised to see what 100 watts and my all-band 80M wire
can do. Busy both evenings so missed a lot of easy ones on the low bands.
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Call: W1FJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,587,222
Spent 6 hrs at W1UE on Saturday,left early due to snow storm operated from home
4 hrs Friday and 11+ hrs between Sat nite and Sunday. Ran most of the time, no
serious multiplier searching. Had 2 hrs at 180 for a personal best averaged
107/hr. Not bad for an old guy with a peanut whistle station. I am always
amazed at what I work with the low 4BTV, use it as a mult ant. Bottom line
leasurely operation and a lot of fun.
K3, ACOM 2000, 160 INV L, 80M TOP LOADED 36'VERTICAL WITH 10 ELE RADIALS,
INVV@45',SKYHAWK @ 50',40M ROTARY DIPOLE @ 60' 4BTV @ 10' N1MM
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Call: W1GD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,742,112
Relatively low-key effort using the same temporary antennas I used for CQWW.
Conditions on all bands seemed good. I decided to run the amp to see how it
affected things in the new house. Only problem was with a couple of the Kidde
CO detectors. I only loaded up to 800-1000 watts except on 10M where I stayed
barefoot. Power company came out last week and fixed two street lights so I was
able to hear on 80 & 160.
Station:
K3 + Alpha 78
Antennas:
160M: Inverted-L
80M: Inverted-L
40M: Inverted-V
20M: Dipole
15M: 40M Inverted-V
10M: 3-el beam mounted on 6-ft step ladder,
Logs uploaded to LoTW.
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Call: W1HIS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,532,000
One antenna for all bands: wire, 30 ft (9 m) high and 70 ft (21 m) long.
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Call: W1NN Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 19,344
Remote from Japan using 100 watts and a dipole at 60 feet back in Ohio. With
this setup, I can only work the top layer of stations on 80, but it's fun to
see what I can do. The only mults I heard and could not work were OA4SS, Z35T
and JA8RWU, my friend in Hokkaido where I almost operated for this event.
Sorry I couldn't make it, Akira-san. You were really loud on 80.
Given the fantastic conditions, I had to operate a little on the other bands,
mostly in the morning my time (evening US time) to work some of my JA friends.
I worked a little over 25 on each 10 and 15, only 1 on 20, and about 7 on 40. We
had a record-breaking snowstorm just before the contest which I think prevented
a couple of the big JA stations from getting on the air. Too bad, they missed
some really good conditions.
I am submitting a 80M single band log but here is what I did in total:
160 10 10
80 124 52
40 102 51
20 60 42
15 88 35
10 52 15
Tot 436 205 268,140
73, Hal W1NN
Remote in Tokyo
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Call: W1OHM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 22,275
Ice storm knocked down my back porch antennas, used a 20m dipole inside the
condo.
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Call: W1TJL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,856
Small effort on Sunday after the snow was plowed, the bags unpacked from c^ and
the honey-do list completed!
Fun as always!
73, Tom
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Call: W1UE Class: M/M HP Total Score = 14,088,420
Wow! What a fun weekend! Condx on the high bands just never seemed to quit.
Between the geomagnetic storm and the raging nor'easter we had (10+" of
snow from 3pm to 11pm Sat local time) putting a crimp on the low bands, the
high bands were fantastic!
The W1KM station suffered a lot of damage in the Feb 2013 Nor'easter storm; its
taken most of the year to get it back in shape. We are still limited to one
antenna on several bands, but they all seemed to play this weekend. We set up
as a 4 xmitter MM; we could have done it as 6 xmit, but with only 3 full time
ops it seemed the way to go (we never did have more than 5 ops available at one
time, and then only 3 bands were open).
20M never really closed the first night, and 15M opened to Europe and was
runnable both days at 1020Z. Pileups were never deep; it was a steady stream
of 1, 2, or 3 stations that would respond to a CQ. I can't remember a CQ that
ever resulted in a pileup with more than 3 stations. What the pileups lacked in
depth they made up for in longevity.
Biggest surprise of the contest for me was the BA and HS that called in on 40M
during the last hour of the contest- and neither of them was a mult at that
time!
As always, thanks to Greg W1KM for making the station available so we could
have some fun.
Dennis W1UE
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Call: W1VE Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,338,118
The plan was to generate a lot of points and have some fun... both were
accomplished. FUN conditions!
Many thanks to Andy, P40LE aka K2LE, for the use of his snow-bound Vermont QTH!
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Call: W1WEF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,065,932
From the start I knew I didnt feel like a serious effort. Condx were
appropriately great in celebration of this ARRL Centennial year, maybe the
best I can remember ever.Had fun without knocking myself out. JACK
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Call: W1XX Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 39,471
The storm wiped out any chance to hear the EU 100-watters the second night.
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Call: W2BC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,691,980
Wasn't sure I was going to spend much time in this one, but a GREAT opening to
the Far East on 15 the first hour got my juices flowing. Thanks to 6-hour and
9-hour sleep breaks, my multiplier totals suffered, but the entire weekend was
a fun outing, except for one thing:
This 100th anniversary of ARRL is an appropriate time to call forth The Old Man
and his Wouff-Hong and Rettyxnitch to go after all the rotten signals (key
clicks, phase noise, hum modulation, etc.) from those who should know better.
It's long past time to start penalizing or DQing entries from stations with
trashy signals.
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Call: W2CS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,527,750
K3, Acom 2000A, 160 mtr dipole fed with OWL and tuned on all bands.
This was my 2000A's maiden voyage. It operated perfectly. *Much* quieter than
my Alpha 9500 and its noisy relays.
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Call: W2EJG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,997
Lotsa fun. Good condx for EU
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Call: W2GDJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,150,200
Great condx on Saturday and not as good on Sunday in the Albany,NY area. 10
Meters never made it back for this cycle here. Oh well maybe next one.
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Call: W2NO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,022,085
Part time effort between snow removal trips.
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Call: W2TF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 422,730
first halfway serious cw contest and now see why many 'old hands' prefer CW over
SSB contests
if I was able to keep the copied incorrectly and other typo's to under 15%,
I'll call it a win
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Call: W2UP Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 24,570
Was out of town most of the week and didn't get home until late Saturday night.
Got on using W0DLE's remote on Sunday morning. Being fresh meat on Sunday
morning, a huge pileup was generated almost instantly, after my first CQ, about
1500Z on 15m. Chuck's TH7 stack with a steep drop-off towards EU sure works
well. Only problem was all the point and clickers were exactly zero beat with
each other...
After about an hour, I went to 10m and signals were poor. Made a few QSOs
there and then I experienced several losses of internet connectivity to the
station (wind shaking the terrestrial microwave dish?), so I called it a day.
Just wasn't in the mood for this one.
Worked G3SXW, running 5W, on both 10 and 15 - very nice signal, Roger.
Submitting log as a SB 15 log (with the 10m QSOs included).
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Call: W2VJN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,098,548
That was fun. Thanks for all the Qs. Ten was good Friday evening and Saturday
morning then went down a bit. My new 3 stack of C31XRs had a good work out.
The pattern may be too good as when running JAs people try to take my
frequency.
K3, Alpha 91B, big tower/small tower
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Call: W2XL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,455,200
Conditions on the low bands not as good as last year, but 15 & 10 were
great. Hoped to put in more time , but too many hours behind snowblower past
week wore me out !!
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Call: W2YC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,419,880
Power numbers used were crazy. Worst was:
..... ----. ----. .---- ..... ----- -----
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Call: W3EP Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 364,206
Ten-meter conditions were probably the best since the begining of the new year,
at least on Saturday. Auroral conditions on Sunday were interesting (many
state-side stations booming on pure aurora), but did not add much to my score
and certainly depressed the run rate. Still picked up another dozen
multipliers, including TA, 3V, 9K, A6, and VU in the morning.
Highlights included some LP on Saturday morning. I was half expecting some
Asians, but was still surprised when BV1EK called through the Europeans at
1323, quickly followed by JA1BPA and E20AE. I did not dare leave my nice run
frequency to look for others and had a nagging feeling that I should have
looked south earlier.
Had a nice run of JAs Saturday evening with a much muted run Sunday. Heard a
lone BG among the JAs, but he was weak with AU flutter and soon attracted a
west coast pileup I had no chance of breaking.
Was also surprised I could hold a frequency low in the bad for several hours
and the number of 5W stations logged, both from Europe and Japan. Some were
astonishingly loud.
All-in-all a very interesting time on ten meters.
W3EP: K3, ACOM 1000, 5-ele at 60 feet
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Call: W3FA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 10,098
Software : TLF 1.2 + N1MM Logger V14.2.0
Rig : Ten Tec Delta ll
Antennas : HyGain 14AVQ, 80 inv V @ 50', 160 inv L @ 50'
Soapbox : Friday and Saturday busy, Saturday night software issues so
I was disapointed just listening to the openings on 10 and 15 while trying to
fix software issue. Sunday, logged into another machine and was on the air.
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Call: W3FIZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,009,700
Well I started out good. The band gods were with us. Then work called$#^%$# That
was pretty much what I said. Had to go in and help plow snow. Stinking snow.
Anyway had good time and see all in SSB...
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Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,939,040
Congratulations to the K3LR team for another great winning score.
This was our 35th consecutive multi-multi entry in the ARRL CW
DX Contest since 1980, completing more than 196,000 QSOs as
documented on the pages of QST.
We enjoyed using our new 110 meter diameter W8JI/W5ZN/N4HY
fully steerable 8-circle 160 meter receiving array located
300 meters south of the 4-square transmitting array. We used
a similar four element broadside-endfire receiving array on
80 meters for Europe only. Both antennas were big improvements
over our ten Beverage antennas. We will have more vertical
receiving arrays and many fewer Beverages next year.
BAND QSOs DXCC Operators
----------------------------------
160 146 59 AC6WI NE3K K1DQV
80 815 90 NI1N N3OC
40 1740 117 KD4D K4ZW K1DQV
20 2358 132 K1DQV K3IT K3KU K3RA WR3Z
15 2284 136 W3LPL K3WI N3OC K4ZW
10 1660 131 W3UR K4ZA
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TOTAL 9003 665
TOTAL SCORE : 17 939 040
----------------- 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 23 38 47 60 54 49 271 3.0
South America 9 15 35 61 59 83 262 2.9
Europe 108 718 1398 1786 1673 1243 6926 76.9
Asia 0 17 212 378 446 233 1286 14.3
Africa 3 11 17 23 22 29 105 1.2
Oceania 3 16 31 50 30 23 153 1.7
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Total 146 815 1740 2358 2284 1660 9003
Special thanks to the 93 stations who worked us on 6 bands:
3V8BB 6Y2T 9A1A 9A8M C6AKQ CN2AA CR3L
CS2C DK5QN DL1A DL7ON DL7URH E7DX EA5RS
EC2DX ED1R ED7P EF5F ES5Q F6HKA G3SYM
G4BUE G4PIQ GI0RQK GM4ZUK HA3MQ HB9FAP HG1S
HG7T HK1NA I3EVK IK4ZGO IO5O IR1Y IR2C
IR4M J38XX KH6LC KH7XX KL7RA KP2B KP2M
KP4KE LY2XW LZ9W M3W NP2N NP2P NP4Z
OE2S OK2W OL3Z OL5Y OL7M OM7M OM7RU
OT2A OZ1ADL P40L P40W PA0O PI4TUE PJ2T
PJ4X PJ5W PT2CM R22ALS S54W SK3W SM6CMU
SN7Q SO9Q SV1DPJ TI5W TM6M TM6X UV5U
UW2M UX4U UY0ZG V26M V31TP VP2EZZ VP5S
VP9/W6PH WL7E YN2NC YO3APJ YT3A YU5R YU9CF
ZF35A ZM90DX
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 band 1969
2 bands 713
3 bands 553
4 bands 439
5 bands 327
6 bands 93
------- 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 30 133 337 565 510 394
-------------- 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 27 102 210 76 87 39 541 541 6.0
0100 12 62 91 48 93 4 310 851 9.5
0200 9 47 71 74 52 0 253 1104 12.3
0300 15 52 78 62 0 0 207 1311 14.6
0400 12 73 78 56 0 0 219 1530 17.0
0500 18 64 90 34 0 0 206 1736 19.3
0600 4 52 93 71 0 0 220 1956 21.7
0700 1 33 98 95 0 0 227 2183 24.2
0800 0 8 57 116 0 0 181 2364 26.3
0900 3 3 59 124 0 0 189 2553 28.4
1000 1 5 37 104 23 0 170 2723 30.2
1100 1 6 44 108 161 56 376 3099 34.4
1200 0 7 11 77 186 163 444 3543 39.4
1300 0 0 1 54 169 145 369 3912 43.5
1400 0 0 0 47 135 126 308 4220 46.9
1500 0 0 0 34 119 105 258 4478 49.7
1600 0 0 0 29 91 111 231 4709 52.3
1700 0 0 0 65 93 106 264 4973 55.2
1800 0 0 1 71 75 50 197 5170 57.4
1900 0 0 8 83 55 31 177 5347 59.4
2000 0 0 43 74 58 10 185 5532 61.4
2100 0 2 85 53 40 14 194 5726 63.6
2200 2 18 60 39 57 71 247 5973 66.3
2300 2 29 71 33 55 67 257 6230 69.2
0000 0 7 15 10 33 26 91 6321 70.2
0100 1 12 26 16 14 0 69 6390 71.0
0200 3 10 18 28 1 0 60 6450 71.6
0300 7 18 22 21 2 0 70 6520 72.4
0400 11 26 30 27 4 0 98 6618 73.5
0500 10 54 33 33 0 0 130 6748 75.0
0600 2 44 38 37 0 0 121 6869 76.3
0700 2 16 51 18 0 0 87 6956 77.3
0800 0 3 59 17 0 0 79 7035 78.1
0900 0 3 26 18 0 0 47 7082 78.7
1000 0 1 10 41 0 0 52 7134 79.2
1100 0 0 1 58 80 5 144 7278 80.8
1200 0 0 2 64 119 99 284 7562 84.0
1300 0 0 1 41 97 97 236 7798 86.6
1400 0 0 0 19 67 76 162 7960 88.4
1500 0 0 1 16 66 100 183 8143 90.4
1600 0 0 0 30 55 62 147 8290 92.1
1700 0 0 0 30 63 51 144 8434 93.7
1800 0 0 0 28 58 20 106 8540 94.9
1900 0 0 0 41 29 7 77 8617 95.7
2000 0 0 22 54 12 3 91 8708 96.7
2100 0 0 41 44 8 5 98 8806 97.8
2200 0 19 37 26 17 7 106 8912 99.0
2300 3 39 21 14 10 4 91 9003 100.0
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Total 146 815 1740 2358 2284 1660 9003
------------------ 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 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
3B8 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
3B9 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
3V 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
3W 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.0
4J 0 1 3 4 3 2 13 0.1
4L 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
4O 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.0
4X 0 0 3 6 5 4 18 0.2
5B 0 1 2 2 2 4 11 0.1
6W 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
8P 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
8Q 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
9A 2 9 26 19 21 15 92 1.0
9H 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
9J 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
9K 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
9L 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
9M2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
9M6 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
9V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
9Y 1 1 1 0 1 1 5 0.1
A6 0 0 1 2 2 1 6 0.1
A9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
BV 0 0 1 2 3 1 7 0.1
BY 0 0 3 10 14 1 28 0.3
C6 1 2 2 3 1 2 11 0.1
CE 0 1 3 3 3 6 16 0.2
CE9 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
CM 0 3 5 3 4 0 15 0.2
CN 1 1 1 2 1 1 7 0.1
CP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
CT 1 1 2 3 4 3 14 0.2
CT3 1 1 1 2 2 3 10 0.1
CU 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.1
CX 0 1 3 3 4 4 15 0.2
D4 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
DL 8 129 245 277 285 223 1167 13.0
DU 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
E7 1 1 8 10 7 5 32 0.4
EA 6 22 42 54 56 45 225 2.5
EA6 0 1 2 3 2 3 11 0.1
EA8 0 6 7 10 9 9 41 0.5
EA9 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.0
EI 0 6 12 11 14 9 52 0.6
EK 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
ER 0 1 2 1 1 2 7 0.1
ES 1 3 6 7 7 5 29 0.3
EU 0 15 21 22 25 11 94 1.0
EX 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
F 5 34 38 61 60 46 244 2.7
FG 0 2 3 4 2 3 14 0.2
FK 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
FM 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
FO 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
FP 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
FR 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.0
FY 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
G 14 50 82 105 96 93 440 4.9
GD 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.0
GI 1 2 3 3 4 7 20 0.2
GJ 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
GM 2 10 12 25 21 14 84 0.9
GU 0 0 0 1 2 4 7 0.1
GW 1 3 5 5 4 4 22 0.2
HA 5 25 40 54 43 32 199 2.2
HB 2 10 19 22 25 11 89 1.0
HC 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 0.0
HI 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
HK 2 1 3 4 4 2 16 0.2
HL 0 0 3 4 8 1 16 0.2
HP 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
HS 0 0 2 8 3 1 14 0.2
HZ 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.1
I 9 43 125 164 134 107 582 6.5
IS 0 3 5 5 4 2 19 0.2
*IT9 0 0 6 5 9 5 25 0.3
J2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
J3 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
J8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
JA 0 12 155 228 325 185 905 10.1
JD/o 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
JT 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.0
JW 0 1 2 3 1 1 8 0.1
JY 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
K 1 1 1 4 1 1 9 0.1
KH2 0 1 2 2 3 3 11 0.1
KH6 2 5 6 10 8 7 38 0.4
KL 2 4 4 9 9 8 36 0.4
KP2 4 5 5 5 5 5 29 0.3
KP4 2 3 4 4 5 4 22 0.2
LA 0 8 15 19 17 12 71 0.8
LU 0 0 3 7 7 20 37 0.4
LX 0 3 1 2 3 3 12 0.1
LY 4 10 14 22 17 13 80 0.9
LZ 2 8 26 24 29 27 116 1.3
OA 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
OE 1 5 14 14 14 4 52 0.6
OH 1 23 34 52 46 32 188 2.1
OK 7 54 79 90 86 55 371 4.1
OM 5 17 19 36 26 16 119 1.3
ON 1 12 25 30 26 20 114 1.3
OX 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.1
OY 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
OZ 1 8 14 17 15 20 75 0.8
P4 2 3 3 3 3 3 17 0.2
PA 3 24 62 78 72 63 302 3.4
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
PJ4 1 2 2 2 2 2 11 0.1
PJ5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
PJ7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
PY 1 3 13 30 27 36 110 1.2
PZ 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
S0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
S5 2 18 36 37 37 24 154 1.7
SM 4 20 44 57 46 35 206 2.3
SP 3 31 51 54 65 53 257 2.9
SU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
SV 3 4 8 8 6 7 36 0.4
SV9 0 1 2 3 3 1 10 0.1
T7 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
TA 0 0 1 3 4 1 9 0.1
*TA1 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.0
TF 0 0 1 2 3 2 8 0.1
TG 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TI 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
TK 0 0 0 2 2 2 6 0.1
UA 2 29 96 186 148 76 537 6.0
UA2 0 2 3 4 3 3 15 0.2
UA9 0 3 30 79 50 19 181 2.0
UK 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
UN 0 0 3 14 11 4 32 0.4
UR 5 40 95 106 99 68 413 4.6
V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
V3 2 1 1 2 2 3 11 0.1
V7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VK 0 6 14 21 8 4 53 0.6
VP2E 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
VP8 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
VP9 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
VR 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
VU 0 0 1 2 3 2 8 0.1
XE 0 1 3 5 4 3 16 0.2
XW 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
YB 0 0 0 4 3 0 7 0.1
YJ 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
YL 0 5 9 10 13 9 46 0.5
YN 1 1 2 2 2 2 10 0.1
YO 1 14 23 36 41 25 140 1.6
YS 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
YU 5 11 15 23 19 14 87 1.0
*Z6 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
YV 0 1 0 2 1 1 5 0.1
Z3 0 1 3 9 5 3 21 0.2
ZB 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
ZF 1 4 4 4 4 3 20 0.2
ZL 0 2 4 9 3 5 23 0.3
ZL9 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
ZP 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.0
ZS 0 1 3 3 3 7 17 0.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 146 815 1740 2358 2284 1660 9003
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Call: W4BQF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 856,344
Very good conditions, especially on 10m. Almost impossible to pick out a call
when the 100w/dipole guys piled up, but I appreciate their efforts.
Enjoyable contest! Thanks for the Q's and 73,
Tom - W4BQF
K3/P3 - Alpha 9500 - N1MM Logger - OptiBeam 40m thru 10m at 80'
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Call: W4DXX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,453,100
Part time but addicting. Enjoyed wonderful 15m opening at midnight to SE Asia
& the world on Sunday morning. Reminded me of conditions many years ago.
10m was great also and stayed open later than usual.
Nice to see more activity from SE Asia. CW DX when the bands are open to the
world is always a thrill like no other.
Thanks go to everyone for the calls and the Q's.
73.
Eric / W4DXX
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Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 135,000
TS-440S es G5RV
N1MM logger
Tnx for the Q's
73, Jim
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Call: W4GV Class: SOSB/10 QRP Total Score = 1,710
Just a 1 hour effort. Decided to make it interesting w/ QRP. Not a lot of QSOs
but interesting anyway.
Station - FTDX9000D, Mosley Pro67B, microHam DigiKeyer II, Heil ProSet Elite.
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Call: W4KZ Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 293,568
I ended up playing around and not a serious effort. Friday night, I took the
wife out for Valentine's Dinner and missed a good opening to Asia. Saturday I
had a few obligations also and missed a little of the EU opening. Saturday
night we had to attend a function for our grand-daughter and missed more of the
Asia opening. The station played well, and conditions were amazing! I have never
worked so many UA9's, UN's, EK's and other juicy deep Asia contacts on 10m! The
band to EU was wall to wall, all the way above 28100. The signals from PJ4X and
PJ2T during the daytime pinned my Orion S-Meter and I had to tap on the radio
case to get the S-Meter to fall back!! Now it will be time to start repairs to
the antennas destroyed in our recent Ice Storm. The next major contest from
NQ4I will be WPX SSB. Look for us in that one. 73 and as always QSL via LOTW.
Thanks for the qso's de Rick NQ4I ( W4KZ is the Dixie Dx'ers Contest Call)
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Call: W4NZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,577,340
Mostly S&P. Had fun!
73, Ted W4NZ
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Call: W4QNW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 22,500
wonderful conditions..low noise..but no prop to south america/asia from s.c.
NOT ENOUGH DX STATIONS.!!!
murphy took out amp. early sat morning..had to wing it with 150w & dipole.
DX RULES !! 73
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Call: W4QO Class: SO Unlimited QRP Total Score = 41,292
OK, my goal was not to run up the score but to see how many countries
I could work at 5 watts. I thought that I could not dedicate much time
to the event, so was really just testing things. Well, the more I
got into just finding new countries the more time I found to play.
I did it! Finally got 101 unique countries at QRP level. It required
me to find new ways to find new ways to find new countries. Never
got so tired of watching spots, bandmaps, etc! :) Wkg Condx: KX3 (5 watts),
tribander at 60' and 80M loop at 75' for 80 and 40.
This was the first time I have broken 100 at QRP level! WooHoo!
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Call: W4RM Class: M/M HP Total Score = 11,482,239
Thanks again to Bill and Lori for hosting the gang during the weekend. Bill
(W4RM) and Stu (W7IY) have worked on the station's antenna switching and now
with the STUPAC App on the screen any radio can get to any antenna. It worked
very well.
Conditions were excellent and having 4 stations manned most of the time was a
challenge with 6 people but we made sure to be on when 4 bands were open at
once. Thanks for the Qs and we'll see you in 2 weeks for the phone contest.
73, Jack W4NF
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Call: W4SVO Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 275,076
Murphy visited.Woke up Sat. morning and amp wouldn't come on. Fuse had let go.
Had to replace it with a larger fuse, 20a. instead of 15a. All I had. Rotor got
stuck @270 degs. on Sat. had to shake top guy wire to break it free. Several
times lost keying with computer and wintest. Didn't operate Fri nite and quit
sat nite @ 7:30. The band was still open to asia. I started at 21:30 working
Ja's and by the time I quit had 108 in the log!! I have never work 108 on any
band ever! There is going to be a lot of big scores on 10. Cu next wkend CQ WW
160 Phone. Mark W4SVO
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Call: W4VIC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 102,582
ICOM IC-756 PRO III, MicroKeyer II, ACOM 2000A, N1MM, SteppIR DB-18 @50'
Got a very late start. Worked a little on 15 M but band was gone. Came back
to 15M on Sunday mid-morning and RF into the shack really scrambled N1MM ESM
functioning. it matters where the beam is pointed on 15M! Abandoned 15M!
8.25 hours wasn't much of an effort for this event -- but with computer issues
and an antenna mast rotated in the mast mount -- too much to compensate for.
I'm really developing hard feelings for those ops who run and seldom give their
call signs. Maybe they have 'a following' and can run faster if nobody but
somebody who heard them give a call sign 10 minutes ago knows who they are, but
for the most part, I gave up after two or three Qs completed and no call sign.
I don't like to call blind -- really try not to do it, but I may have to do
that and encounter the dupes as they happen. I'm not waiting around to make a
Q when the band is full of good signals. And I don't like being held up. On a
good band I can maintain a pretty decent rate. Yeah, I'm a S & P'er.
Thanks for the Qs. Vic, W4VIC
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Call: W4XO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 159,960
One of my favorite CW contests and operated a few hours Friday PM and Sun PM due
to work obligations. Thanks to all the DX ops for a fun contest. 73..Lex..w4xo
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Call: W4YY Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,353,805
This was a difficult weekend. It started with a major and crippling snow storm.
We could not drive up to the shack. Two of our ROs (Remote Operators--one in
NH and the other in NC), who would have contributed in a major way by remote
operation had to give up after only a few QSO because of a crippling Internet
problem. Last week, things were spectacular for the remote ops but this week,
something changed. The IT guys are on the case and hope to find the cause and
a solution, soon.
In-Shack operators (ISOs)racked experienced wonderful band conditions and great
performance by the station (Jack Hammett's K4VV). Thanks to Tom-K6CT for the
use of the wonderful W4YY call sign.
All this took place during and immediately after the crippling snow storm.
W4NA, W3UL and W0YR trudged through 24"-deep snow to get to the shack.
Everything worked fine (except the Internet connection).
Big thanks to the support team of N4PD, AI1V, W5ODJ, W4GOV and others who put
in long hours to make things work.
Thanks for all the Qs.
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Call: W5JR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 767,151
New location, needs more wires. New bugs to work out under HF high power.
First night was pretty low noise on 80/160 but not many DX stations on 160.
Second night was very noisy here. Really surprised by 15m Q's as I don't have
a 15m antenna but the tuner handled the OCF. Highlight was hearing my new
friend Kent / KH6CJJ on 20m for a brief Q.
More Q's than last year but fewer countries, especially on 80 & 160 and
slightly lower score. Next year I'll be operating from KH6 something for this
contest.
IC-756ProII, wires in the woods - OCF @ 60', 160m Inv L, power by Alpha, N1MM,
W4AX skimmer
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Call: W5KB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,766
First effort by myself. Carolina Windom in tree and limited time to operate.
Still had a great time
73
Keith W5KB
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Call: W5RU Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,694,650
First of all, my thanks to W5RY (Greg), NO5W (Chuck) and Bill (K5YG) for
traveling to the QTH for the contest. Also, my thanks to my neighbor K1DW
(Dallas) for his continued support and encouragement.
Overall great conditions on 20/15/10 led to an all-time high QSO count for us
in this contest. With the rising K index on Saturday night, 160 and 80 were
very challenging. Thankfully 20 was open almost all night for us. So our
normal amount of time spent on 160 and 80 was cut in half.
We had one minor glitch with one of the computers/N1MM and lost about 30
minutes of operating time on both stations. Other than that, no other
equipment failures - well maybe some Op failures, but that is to be expected.
At least no one fell asleep during the graveyard shift. This year we missed
one of our regular Ops, Joe W3GW, who couldn't make it this weekend. Joe would
normally work the graveyard shift with me.
Our mult count was down as compared to last year as we concentrated on running
and hoped the mults would eventually show up. We're not set up to have an
interlocked run and mult station paired on each band and struggle to have
enough operators anyway.
But for each contest and each year that passes, we get a little better and find
things we can change and/or improve for the next time. And even as far south as
we are, the weather the last couple of months has not permitted us to do any
antenna work. Normally we are between 40F and 60F most days and lots of sun.
Not this year. It has been cold and rainy.. Ideal duck hunting weather..
We were really surprised how long 10M stayed open for us. At least an hour
past our sunset, we were still running JAs and deep Asia Qs. I think we stayed
on 15M at least 2-3 hours past sunset. Hope these conditions exist two weeks
from now for the Phone contest.
Speaking of which, that is the weekend before Mardi-Gras. If you like
contesting and want to go to Mardi-Gras, let me know. I'm not liking phone
contesting too much these days, but I'll offer the station for multi-op use
should there be enough interest.
Otherwise, thanks to all of you (the DX) for being there and all of the Qs. We
hope that we gave you a mult that you needed. So until the next contest,
73,
Ted KN5O
for the W5RU Team:
KN5O (Ted), K1DW (Dallas), W5RY (Greg), NO5W (Chuck) and K5YG (Bill)
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Call: W5WMU Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 300,144
USUAL COMPUTER PROBLEMS WITH DOWN TIME BUT THAT'S EXPECTED OVER HERE,SAT. WAS
OPEN ALL DAY TO EUROPE,CLOSED @ 5 PM.NEVER OBSERVED THAT BEFORE..WAS FUN
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Call: W6JTI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 634,392
That was fun (most of the time). This was my 2nd highest score since the century
began. It amazes me that sometimes the kw stns are barely copyable, and they
come right back without a question. Other times I can't get an S9 station to
hear me. Ah, the vagaries of propagation. My mountain top received a lot of
wind Saturday night, but no antennas (or trees) fell. Of course I didn't fly a
He balloon.
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Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 53,628
I enjoyed 3 hours of DX fun during the contest. I also made another 250+ QSOs as
W1AW/6 on 15M SSB and 40M CW outside of the contest. Lots of good hamming this
weekend!
Station:
Elecraft K3, AL80B Amp & N1MM
TA33jr @ 30 Ft
40/80 Trap Inverted-V @ 30 Ft
73, Jim W6KC
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Call: W6NF Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 135
Indoor bent dipole running 50 watts. The fact stations like UA0ZAM, HK1NA and
EA8AH worked me is a testament to the quality of their stations/operators.
Worked both 15 and 10 but submitting SOSB/15.
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Call: W6QU Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 300,237
Radio:
Elecraft K-2 (5 Watts)
Antennas:
10-15-20, 3 el SteppIR up 32 feet (10 Meters)
40-80, HF-2V Butternut Vertical with 3 radials
______________________________________________
Conditions were outstanding.
Coming after the CQ WPX RTTY and two weeks before the ARRL DX Phone, I decided
to put in only about 20 hours and carefully choose the hours I would operate.
So I picked those times that always provide the best DX here at the highest
rate. That is the first couple of hours of the contest when the bands are open
to Asia and Oceania and that same time the second evening. Then the first few
hours after sunrise on both days when 15 and 10 are open to Europe. Also the
last couple hours of the contest.
Using this strategy, I wound up with 19.5 hours of operating time. Amazingly,
it seems that I scored about as well as I would with a full effort.
The most interesting Qs I got in this contest were getting Worked all
Continents (WAC)on 40 Meters in 9 minutes. The Qs were CR2X, CE1/K7CA, KH6LC,
RT0C, CR3L, and KL2R. My previous best time for WAC was 13 minutes some 20
years ago on 15 M SSB.
The conditions on 40 were amazing. I usually am lucky to work one European on
40 in a contest, and often work none. But I was able to work 7 including CR2,
I, 3 EAs, F, and OM.
On the second evening, 20 opened over the North pole and I was able to add a
number of Europeans to the log including three UNs and other eastern European
countries that I usually can't get on 20 Meters.
10 Meters was open to Europe from shortly after sunrise for about three hours
and 15 Meters was open for about four hours.
I worked 83 DXCC countries and 27 Zones which is about average. I did not CQ in
this contest because I was able to achieve good rates with S & P. Since I
only operated 19.5 hours there were always stations around that I had not
worked! 47% of my Qs were in Europe, a very high percent for me, and a good
measure of how good condx were.
Once again, thanks to the many ops who listened extra hard for my QRP signal.
The vast majority of Qs go off quickly without a hitch. But there are times
where there can be a real struggle to complete the Q. Thanks to those ops who
really stick in there!
73, and C U in the ARRL Phone! ....Bill W8QZA - W6QU
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Call: W6SX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 146,832
K3, ACOM 2000A, wire antenna at 46 feet with Matchboxes, N1MM.
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Call: W6SZN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 42,432
If you need another sob story of why each of us should read the rules, even if
you've been around for awhile, here it is: decided to do Single Band 10 while
10 is still working and used the cluster for Friday nite and Saturday morning,
only to discover belatedly that SB entrants in the ARRL DX cannot do so. So I
became a SO AB HP Unlimited entrant. What a dope!
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Call: W7FI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 595,944
K3/KPA500/G5RV
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Call: W7OLY Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 126,636
IC-7600
AL-80B
3L SteppIR @ 50'
N1MM Logger V13.12.0
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Call: W7RN Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,373,730
The top 80M beam was destroyed in a 40 hour wind storm. Tough sledding on 80 and
160
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Call: W7VJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 831,792
The return of decent conditions after what seems like forever since the CQ WW CW
in late November. The EU runs were tremendous, again giving us a taste of what
it is like in the east coast. Asia was also very active and most grateful for
the many JA ops on all bands.
A fun only effort, but great fun for the time I had available to operate.
Thank you for those who I worked and congratulations to the winners.
73
Andrew
W7VJ
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Call: W7WA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 483,753
Good conditions until Saturday afternoon, followed by not so good conditions on
Sunday. Despite a 160 solar flux Europe did not open direct path until about
1600z both days although some European stations could be worked skew path up to
an hour earlier.
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Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 175,230
Total S&P on 1 radio here. I've developed a power line noise in the last
month that makes it just impossible to CQ and not hear the stations answering.
Gets very frustrating. Hard digging the calls out of the noise!!
Bands did seem to be in pretty good shape and was pleased with what I did get.
Only think of what could have been with no noise :-) 73
Tom W7WHY
Radio 1 TS-450SAT + AL-811H ~ 600 watts
180 foot center fed zepp for 80 and other bands
40 meter delta loop + zepp
20 meter HB 2 el monobander at 30 feet
15 meter vertical dipole + zepp
10 meter HB 2 el monobander
N1MM Logger
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Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 399,168
Bands seemed in great shape during my limited operating time. My first entry
from stateside after operating since 2006 from Pacific islands. Enjoyed making
5 QSOs with buddies N7OU and NE7D at YJ0OU. 6-banders with 6Y2T, HK1NA, KH6LC,
KL7RA, PJ2T, and TI5W.
73,
Bob W7YAQ
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Call: W8KNO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 50,796
Part time effort all search and pounce. Used the experience to value the
improvement of my cw skills.
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Call: W8KTQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 510,840
Unfortunately, rotor stuck in NW position which hindered operation (good for
JA's though!). Headphones decided to fail intermittently so that was annoying
too! Still had a blast!
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Call: W8OHT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 70,551
Used about 10 hours, but just estimated this without the usual log check. I
felt snowbound all week prior until it occurred to me that I had kept the
walker I had purchased back in 2004. Unused since then, I put it to good use
last Friday to reach the chain link fence at the rear of my back yard. I used
it strategically by setting it ahead of me and then walking forward until
inside the four corner supports. I was able to remove the errant components of
my receive antennas and bring them inside for maintenance! Hurray!
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Call: W8TOP Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 7,440
Worst conditions for a 160 M contest, ever! And the second nite was even worse
than the first.
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Call: W9IIX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 291,060
Aftter the usual learning curve on the softwear things got rolling, good
contest..
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Call: W9JP Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,148,484
We operated from W9RE's station using the Indianapolis Radio Club's call, W9JP.
We decided to use the club call as it is celebrating its 100th anniversary this
year and is the oldest continuously meeting Amateur Radio Club in the United
States. Had an interesting time convincing people to believe the call sign was
right as they were not seeing it in their Check Windows. The club call has not
been in too many contests recently :) We had a great time and exceeded our
expectations.
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Call: W9OP Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 711,360
Fun Test. Amazing what 3 watts can do. Thanks to all with great ears.
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Call: W9PA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 597,376
K3, P3, 135-ft Center fed Doublet, Software - DXLog by 9A5K (www.dxlog.net)
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Call: W9SZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 76,818
Fun contest! Wish I'd had more time in it.
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Call: W9WI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,078,491
23 dupes due to stations failing to ID. Two people are going to get a NIL
because even after listening to three more QSOs they still wouldn't ID. (of
course, they were probably dupes so they won't notice:) )
I suppose I could refuse to call anyone who isn't IDing -- but then I would
have missed ten valid QSOs and two multipliers...
Didn't do as well on 80 as last year.
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OK, that's the bad.
The good: Excellent conditions Saturday, pretty good conditions Sunday.
Any contest in which one can work Thailand, China, and *two* Antarctica
stations from Tennessee -- while running QRP -- is a good contest!
The Golden Ears award -- for being able to copy my puny signal on 80 meters
from a location across the Atlantic Ocean -- goes to two operators this year.
One, the 80m operator at TM6M; the other, the 80m op at CN2AA. While the path
to Hawaii doesn't (usually) cross the Atlantic, KH6LC's 80m op deserves a
Golden Ears as well.
While I've made a smattering of run QSOs with QRP in the past, this is the
first year running has actually contributed significantly to the score.
Enjoyed it!
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Don't know that there was any "ugly". Maybe a few disjointed QSOs
when I forgot to close the shack door & the cat decided to sit on the
keyboard...
See you all next year!
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Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 190,608
My plan was to operate SB 40 then Valentines day forced a change
in plans. XYL has the priority !! I wish to be around for the next one
if you know what I mean.
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Call: WA1Z Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,351,080
Limited time, but did have fun with some really nice runs at points during the
weekend, dropping in on a random band and being fresh meat running higher power
(500w with a new KPA500) than my usual LP efforts from home.
Highlight of the weekend was after enjoying a nice breakfast and coffee with my
XYL Saturday morning, I said to her, "OK, time to go move Kurt [VP9/W6PH]
to 10!" and within 2 minutes, it was done. :-)
Hoping to do a full effort in ARRL SSB.
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Call: WA3F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,186,875
What a weekend. Great bands Sat, So-So Sun
Bad cold, sucking down NyQuil like it was smooth gin (got a Molson Canadian,
now)
160 ants shot by snow & ice. 3 RX down, Tx SWR = 5+
Computer crash nearly did me in at the half way point. Got past that
Lot's of sleep & snow blower time mixed in
All of this was S&P. I love it
Worked some delicious DX. Nice Pacific openings
73
Dave
WA3F
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Call: WA3OFC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 588,804
Band QSOs Pts Cty
3.5 27 81 24
7 92 276 51
14 233 699 73
21 169 507 65
28 185 555 65
Total 706 2118 278
Score : 588,804
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Call: WA5RML Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 23,760
FlexRadio 1500 @5wts to G5RV (40M) and Cushcraft MA5V (20M-10M). Once again, I
was very impressed with the Flex 1500 - especially it's receiver.
Enjoyed the activity and worked some new countries. Very nice to have 10M
open! If you worked me, you have (1) Great "ears" and (2) good
signals into North Texas!
I seem to have a pipeline to Hawaii - I imagine that about 10% of my QSOs were
with stations in Hawaii!
See you in the next one!
72,
Andy - WA5RML
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Call: WA6O Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 287,793
Many thanks to Ken, N6RO, for hosting three single op operations for the
contest.
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Call: WA6URY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 134,724
Band conditions were good on all bands (especially 10m). Tnx for the Qs ! 73,
Dan -remote in Tokyo
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Call: WA7LNW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 177,660
Limited effort this year....but still a bunch of fun!
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Call: WA8HSB Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 52,470
Did not expect to work much in this one due to other commitments. 40m on Friday
night was really good; not so much on Saturday night. Was able to work several
JAs and UA9s on Friday night on 40m - not bad with an attic inverted vee.
Saturday night (1-3am local) found 20m working fairly well over the Polar Cap
to JA, UA, UA9, and Eastern Europe with some flutter.
Little to no time on Sunday...thanks to all who persisted in pulling my signal
out of the noise level. It was sometimes surprising that a weak KW signal
would come right back with solid copy while a strong station could not hear me
at all - some strange conditions!
TS-850s @ 5 watts to attic antennas.
73, John
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Call: WB4OMM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 363
Yaesu FT-2000, Heil ProSetPlus, Vibroplex Iambic Key, Speed-X Straight Key,
AT-1000Pro, WinKeyer USB, 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. N1MM contest software, LOGic Logging Software.
Worked Friday, out-of-town wedding on Saturday, sick Mom and honey-dos on
Sunday....only got an hour in Saturday night (but better than none!).
Seemed to be pretty good contditions, worked 80M for some new band slots.....
my meager contribution for the good of the cause! Hope everyone had fun!
73! Steve WB4OMM
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Call: WB6JJJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 56,430
Just a few hours Saturday night and Sunday afternoon to play radio.
Much fun... I'm glad that the propagation gods were kind to us.
Bill
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Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 684,804
I got way too much sleep Friday and Saturday night to post a decent score this
year. Also took some time off Sunday morning to drive down to the Mansfield
(Ohio) hamfest.
6 Banders: 9A1A, HK1NA, KP2M, KP4KE, PJ2T, TM6M, V31TP, VP5S. Never heard
KH6LC on 160 (usually a given).
Germany 7.2% of QSO total. Japan and Italy at 6.6% followed by Hungary and
Spain at 3.5%.
73 - Rick WB8JUI
Elecraft K3
160 Meter Inverted L @ 50'
40 Meter vertical
Hustler 5BTV Ground mounted
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Call: WB8K Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 71,208
Part time effort. Search & pray mode. Only able to operate bits &
pieces
of 6 hours. Antenna handicap! Wire antennas laying on the ground
(in the snow) and tribander pointed west - unable to rotate.
FT-1000MP
Cushcraft A3S @ 50'
Wires
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Call: WB9JPS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 239,760
Rig: TS-590, KPA500 turned down to 150. Low dipoles (15 ft), vertical for 10m.
N1MM logging.
Ran low power to avoid killing the UVerse modem. No amount of ferrite seems to
keep the darned thing on line. My all-time best for this contest. If nobody
else enters my class, maybe I'll win EB low-power assisted again. Only 1 new
DXCC, guess I've worked all the easy ones by now. Suffered thru too many hours
of listening to plasma TV buzz on 20m. I'm about to buy all my neighbors new
LCD sets.
Oddest propagation experience: 0000-0030 2/16 UTC, midwest stations sounded
like they were having sound card problems, the most bizarre sounding signals
I've ever heard.
Award for keying macro failure goes to KP4EJ, "sentrstcut att pr nr?"
Time to learn about the N1MM editor...
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Call: WC1M Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 408,366
It’s been a long time since I’ve done an all-out SOAB effort and I’d hoped
to do one in this contest. But too much is going on in my work life and I just
wasn’t mentally or physically prepared for 40+ hours of contesting.
I did have enough in me to do about half a contest, so I opted for SOSB/10 HP.
In addition to this category allowing plenty of nighttime sleep hours, I love
10 meters (who doesn’t?), and I wanted to see how effective my antennas are
on that band near the peak of the sunspot cycle:
- 3-stack of 4-el SteppIRs on TIC rings at 95’/64’/34’
- Force-12 6-el monobander at 115’ (rotatable)
- C3E at 48’ on a rotator but usually fixed South
I’m pretty sure the second director on the bottom SteppIR isn’t working,
but the antenna seems to perform well as a 3-el, and adding it to the stack
made enough of a difference that I used all three antennas most of the time.
My intention was to try to win, but several mistakes, a work interruption and a
family medical emergency combined to put victory far out of reach.
I was able to run about 20 JAs and a UA0 during the opening hour before the
band shut down. I had to run on the monobander at 115’ because the middle TIC
ring in the stack was stuck at 50-degrees due to the low temperature. Probably
water incursion caused the motor grease to freeze up. It freed up in the
morning and was fine for the rest of the contest.
I set the alarm clock for 7:30am EST (1230z), which was my first mistake. Based
on recent experience, I thought the band wouldn’t open for running until
1300z. I don’t know when it did open, but by the time I got to the radio the
band was in full swing. I’m not sure how much I missed, but it was at least
half an hour of high rate, and that probably cost me about 75 QSOs �"
maybe more.
Nevertheless, I had four good hours of high rate, which netted about 600 Qs.
The rate was decent (134, 166, 149, 147), but it wasn’t the highest I’ve
seen on 10. It was tough to get the 10-minute rate meter over 200 for any
length of time, except for one 30-minute stretch during the 1400z hour. My
sense was that conditions were quite good on 10, but not spectacular. It
wasn’t that “magic band” feeling where every part of the world sounds
like next-door and even the 5W QRP stations boom in. It seemed more like 20 or
15 on a good day -- just not as crowded. Even so, it was lots of fun.
Once EU faded out, I spent the rest of the daylight hours S&Ping for mults,
going from 51 at the end of the morning runs to 88 by the time the band shut
down. I ran almost 100 JAs during the last couple of hours, with a few UA0s, a
few Alaskans and a 9M6 thrown in for good measure.
Somewhere along the line I checked the online scores and saw that K2SSS was
about 100K points ahead of me. I did some figuring and realized that I
couldn’t catch him. My not getting to the radio early enough was one reason,
but I probably didn’t manage the pileups as efficiently as Zee did.
When the contest was over I saw that Zee had 17 more mults, and while I missed
quite a bit of mult hunting on the second day, his report indicates that he had
most of his mult lead on the first day. Not sure why I missed so many. I was
able to listen on the second radio with my C3E pointed south, which is 200’
away from the stack and monobander, but I didn’t work any mults while running
because generally the rate was too high. It was almost entirely an SO1R affair
for me.
Sunday I got up at 6:30am EST (11:30z), and that turned out to be perfect.
Plenty of time to make a cup of coffee and get ready for the morning pileups.
When I sat down at the radio at about 1200z, I was able to work only loud
stations, and some of them needed fills on my call. So they band wasn’t
really open yet. Minutes later the band opened so suddenly that it was like
someone flipped a switch (I was watching on the band scope, and it was
something to see.)
The runs on the second day were more modest, which I think was partly due to
slightly disturbed conditions (I believe the K-index was 5 at one point and I
know it was at 3 most of the morning.) The other cause of the lower rates was
the usual attrition in ARRL DX on the second day. Still, I was able to add
around 550 more Qs to the total.
When EU closed, I took an hour break for lunch and rest (did that the first
day, too), and then an unexpected work demand came up and I had to spend a
couple of hours dealing with it (roughly 1900z-2000z). So my one hour break
turned into a three hour break.
I sat back down at the radio at 2000z to see if I could boost the mult total,
but a quick trip through the band netted only eight Qs and one mult. I had most
of the easy stuff to the South, so I hoped maybe I could find a few Pacific
mults. I figured in four hours I should be able to find at least two more mults
to get my total over 100! I also hoped a few JAs might play hookey from work on
Monday and play radio during the last two hours or so of the contest, helping
me to get that QSO total up a bit.
But at that moment my phone rang. It was my wife, who informed me she had taken
a nasty fall on the ice at the local pond and had hit her head. She was advised
by bystanders not to drive home, so I jumped in the car to pick her up. Once I
got the full story, and heard that she had some difficulty speaking after the
accident, I decided we should take the precaution of visiting the ER. There she
was diagnosed with a concussion, but the CAT scan was clear of any internal
bleeding �" thank goodness. We didn’t leave the ER until well after
0000z.
So I ended up missing the last 6 ½ hours of the contest. I doubt that I could
have caught K2SSS or N4PN even had I been on the air, but might have been able
to put up a more respectable score. But I’ll take a negative CAT scan over a
contest score any day!
See you in WPX.
73, Dick WC1M
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Call: WC7Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 17,808
Computer down until Sunday and could only work for a short while.
No problems from the wind storm although pwr went out for a very short while
Fri. eve but the comp. was down so caused no problems for me.
Sam WC7Q
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Call: WC7S Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 115,935
Great band conditions, and even better ops all over the world, thank you for
pulling my qrp signal out for us. It was a lot of fun to watch the band shift
and seemingly only get better. It was also fun and rewarding to hear the other
station stop long enough to say TU - WY.. Hearing the huge pileups, towards the
end, was awesome, and best of all, meeting and hearing friends all over, with
the BowTie antenna.
Thank you all.
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Call: WD0GTY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 105,600
Had a great time. Recently moved so only have Alpha Delta antenna up about 6
feet. Conditions not bad most of the contest.
73, Jeff
WD0GTY
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Call: WD5COV Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 3,150
Had a bowling tournament all day Saturday and Sunday so only managed to sneek in
a couple hours on Top Band.
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Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,947,456
Elecraft K3 -> Amp
TH7DX @ 50'
40m sloping dipole
80m Inv V
160m Inv L
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Call: WD8RYC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 100,062
Had a wonderful time. Thanks to all.
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Call: WE3C Class: M/M HP Total Score = 16,116,480
Good high band conditions and our teams huge efforts led to a new station record
score for this contest.
Thank you to all the callers, our dedicated team and to the sponsors of this
great contest.
The WE3C Team
www.we3c.com
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Call: WH7DX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 351
This was my first CW Contest. Spent about an hour looking for good DX mostly.
Too much non-ham stuff going on right now.
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Call: WI7N Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,109,889
Good conditions and a fun contest. Thanks for the Qs.
73, WI7N
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Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,042,748
...low A index the first day sure made a difference!
73, wj9b
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Call: WL7BDO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 64,020
S&P only, some nice conditions.
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Call: WL7E Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,539,116
I remapped some keys and was only going to play this weekend and try other
combinations too. You know the rest of the story.
I got a bit of a late start and by 1800z I had 8.5 hrs of off time. I didn’t
pay enough attention to 80/160 Friday night as my noise level was higher than
usual. Saturday night most of the activity was already gone for me.
In retrospect I wish I had put in a serious effort as the high bands from up
here were pretty darn good. Being Unlimited did me virtually no good as I only
made perhaps a dozen qsos off the cluster and absolutely no mults. It wasn’t
necessary as all mults seemed to call me. It was useful however to find a
frequency between all the stations spotted to sit and park.
Tnx to all who called and it was an exciting weekend from up here. I look
forward to ARRL SSB. I have always wanted to shoot the rooster on my cell
alarm. Strange that this weekend I found myself setting two different times on
the cell and now that has become plural.
73,
Joe WL7E
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Call: WN4AFP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,888
My first ARRL CW DX contest... part-time effort. 73's Dave WN4AFP
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Call: WN6K Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 468,666
Valentine's Day Dinner on the start of the contest... so you can say my 'heart
wasn't in this'...
Best hour was 10m on Sat. morning.- went high and band was good (98) at
1500UTC... On Sunday, band was not all that good and it was work hearing some
of the weak ones.
Went "Assisted" but mostly found that not much was posted new for the
band I was on at the time... think in my station/style setup, assisted is for
helping me get in and out of my chair.
WN6K, Paul
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Call: WO1N Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 560,835
Station: 1/2 FT1000D, C3-SS@38', 40MDipole, 80M Vert C
Soapbox :
Limited operation with FT1K up on its side, covers off to troubleshoot
intermitent sub-receiver (well, now totally dead). Otherwise conditions pretty
stellar and was able to play DX'er without feeling guilty. One
all time new country (Laos) on 20M about 1100 local. Very nice.
73,
Ken
WO1N
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Call: WP3R Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 26,649
Casual effort. Part time along with NBA weekend Slam Dunk etc.. 95% S&P.
Intermittent paddle cable at end made for "funny" and a few long
exchanges!
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Call: WQ5L Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,247,220
Spent more time in this than I expected. Time flies when you're having fun...
10 and 15 were in rare form for cycle 24. 20 meters at night sounded like
summertime, chock full of warbly over-the-pole signals. The second night it was
still rockin' when I went to sleep at 2am local. 40 was it's reliable self.
Signals weren't great on 80 (as usual when 10/15 are hot) but noise was low.
160 was just flat the first night, but popped open for EU sunrise the second.
Had fun chasing signals on the greyline. I love Top Band in ARRL DX since the
DX are listening toward W/VE and the band isn't obliterated by S9+ stateside
runners like in the 160 tests. I didn't work anything to the west except KL7RA,
though. Never heard Hawaii or anything else in AS/OC, but I probably slept
through any openings in that direction.
6 band sweeps: E7DX,EC2DX,HK1NA,KP2M,PJ2T,TM6M. 73,
-- Ray WQ5L
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Call: WR3R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 157,680
Condx great on 15 and 10. Sure helped when running low power with 60 year old
gear and dipoles in trees. Thanks for the fun...sorry I couldn't be on
longer!!
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Call: WS7L Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 1,020
Spent most of my op time at K2PO and had a blast there driving the big aluminum.
Thought I'd show up and cause some trouble in the last half hour from my home
station.
K-Line + R-6000 vertical
73, Carl WS7L
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Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,395,972
With higher flux numbers than last year, I was very much looking forward to this
contest - especially the longer 10M openings and nighttime propagation on 20
(which usually doesn't occur in CQWW due to seasonally lower nighttime MUF's).
The predicted solar storm threw a wet blanket on these hopes, and I didn't know
what to expect.
I stayed on 40 most of the first night. 80 & 160 weren't very productive
(either night). The 40M JA's were good, but usually their rates build as
sunrise approaches. They dropped, but I was able to start running EU's on 20
over 90 minutes before local sunrise. Very nice.
The morning runs were steady, but difficult due to the "zero beat
problem" with the EU packet mob. This happens on all bands. With part of a
callsign copied, way too many call out of turn when digging out the complete
call. Still, rates were good all morning and I was still running on 10 at
1845z, then 15 until 2030z. Very nice.
So on the 2nd night 20 started to open over the pole. Sigs were weak and watery
at first, so I went to 80/160 to dig out a few mults. On return, 20 was wide
open. Even the QRP guys were loud. Most of the rest of the night was spent on
20, with mult sweeps on other bands and a 30 minute 40M run. I finally took my
first break at 1100z but was back up for the sunrise propagation.
The 10/15 openings on day 2 weren't as lengthy, but the EU runs seemed faster
because the pileups had thinned. Mults are down overall from last year (I'm not
alone), but I made a decision to tune the 2nd radio LESS during the big runs in
order to let the rates unwind. I may have overdone it, but the main thing I
need to do is learn to enjoy pouncing. I've written software to analyze
EVERYBODY'S CQWW logs, and that's what it's telling me regarding needed
strategy adjustments.
Roy -- AD5Q
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Call: WX3B Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 481,344
There is something special about cherry picking GREAT TIMES to be on the
radio!!
I had hoped 10 meters was going to be WIDE OPEN this weekend...and I was
pleased with the band openings both mornings. Plenty of 5 watt entries in my
log, a loud VU station calling in Sunday, and a first hour pileup that made me
feel like I was on a DX-pedition. As you can see from my score, most of my
time was spent on 10.
The SURPRISE of the contest for me was as Fred K3ZO mentioned in his write-up,
the never ending 20 meter opening. I observed 20 meters remaining open to EU
most of Friday night...and Saturday at 2:00am I decided to try CQing. I had
quite the run of JAs, with a few other Asians calling in....all mixed in with
loud EUs that were coming in right over the north pole...and yet there was
almost an absolute zero noise floor, permitting me to hear the weakest of the
callers with ease.
The fun per hour invested in this contest was incredible!!
73,
Jim WX3B
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Call: WX4G Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 933,933
Hard to hit it again after last W/E CQWPXRTY contest...but had fun.
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Call: XQ1CR Class: M/S LP Total Score = 393,120
Es lo
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Call: XR2V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,444,253
A relaxed fun weekend with Oliver W6NV who is visiting Chile. The disturbed
condx made running more difficult than usual but still busy enough to be fun.
Packet pile-ups continue to be challenging at times but moving our tx frequency
a few hertz did seem to help us cope. Thanks Oliver for the tip. Unfortunately
my low band antennas are poor and thus our numbers there are the same. Wine
tasting in Chile continues to be a good diversion from serious contesting.
Elecraft K3
Acom 1000
3 element SteppIR
QSL via N7RO
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Call: YJ0OU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,234,008
I was privileged to stand in for Bob (W7YAQ) when he was unable to accompany his
usual traveling partner, Bill (N7OU), this year to the South Pacific. Bill and I
operated most of the contest, taking a few hours off in the dead of night to be
DX on other bands when there was no answer to our CQ's.
Our operation from Vanuatu was with a K3 and vertical antennas on the beach at
water's edge. Outside the contest we each ran a K3+KPA500 to two HF9V's and
Bill's homebrew Spiderpole 160M vertical, Bill as YJ0OU and Rocky as YJ0ZZ.
Tnx to those who occasionally turned their beams in our direction and to
everyone who gave us a contact.
73,
Rocky YJ0ZZ (NE7D)
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Call: YN2NC Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 4,508,220
Nice to get away from the snow and ice back home to enjoy some warm weather and
play radio in Central America. Except for customs problems that shouldn't have
been in Managua, the trip has been excellent. Enjoying the hospitality of
Octavio, YN2N and his wife, Martha. She is trying to fatten me up with her
great cooking.
Conditions were almost too good for the contest. When the bands are this good,
Central America and and the Caribbean are not the greatest location because
everyone in the states is beaming Europe well into the hours of darkness. It
was hard as a low power op to find a run frequency on 10 and 15m, with a wall
of signals over 100 Khz wide on each band. Nevertheless, it was a lot of fun
and I didn't kill myself from lack of sleep. Got over 4 hours each night, so it
was a semi-serious effort I guess. The station played well except for 160 where
the low horizontal dipole ran out of horsepower and I missed some easy mults
because I wasn't heard well in the midwest and west.
73 and thanks for the Qs,
Will YN2NC/AA4NC
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Call: YO5AJR Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 58,374
Great and fine contest. The propagation in 40m so good.
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Call: YO8RHM Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 21,840
Good conditions here in the first day but very poor in the second.
Condtions: IC7200, 100W, ant. yagi 4 el up ~6m
Thank everybody for qso!
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Call: YR8D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,335,936
First time as SOAB in ARRL...It was pretty fun except second night when conx
was
terrible...this was the reason why I went to sleep.
It's frustrating to have water in 160 m balun and 4 square for 80 broken to
North-West...hihi
Anyway, 10 meters was again a big surprise :)
Hats off for the guys from YU5R which did and amazing score!!!
Trx: Icom 756 Pro III
Ant: 160 -
80 - Inverted Vee
40 - 4 Square
20 - 3 el@tribander
15 - 3 el@tribander
10 - 4 el@tribander
Amp: ACOM 1000
Tnx again to YO8CLN for his hospitality and use him fine station.
Thank's to all US stations for calling me. CU in next contest!
73's Sasha YO8TTT
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Call: YS1YS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,629,809
TS-590
16m long wire ICOM AH-4
N1MM
Thanks for El Salvador Radio club
permissions using YS1YS.
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Call: YT7Z Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 180,000
drake tr7
mla2500
5+5 yagi
cu in next one
73 zeljko
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Call: YU0T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,597,211
TS 930s,1,5kw
20,15,10m 4el.quad 24m up
40m 2el.loop 24m up
80m vertical moxon
160m 1/8 sloper.
TNX FOR ALL CALLs !
Dugi
West Serbia Contest Club
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Call: YU5R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,452,085
Contest is over,what to say...
We have a guest YT2AAA Ivan who easily adapted in our contest crew.
We missed Goran YT7AW this time, but in next one we will be in full formation.
Thanks to every single us and ve station!We had so much fun from YU5R,and we
broke YU ARRL M2 record.This is maximum number of qso that we made from here.
Last year we made 3009 qso, but we are stronger for ACOM.Antennas are the
same,beverages worked excellent!Rigs are FT 1000 MP and FT 950.Thanks once
again to Lui YT3PL who always is a great host,he was in HB9 this time,but we
expect to work ARRL SSB all together.
Best wishes from Serbia and once again thanks to all!
73 from Zik YT1HA Ivan YT2AAA Alex YU6DX Zoki YU9DX
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Call: Z36W Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 411,768
Z37M Contest team !
Nice fun from home, thanks to all for qso's !
Best 73 and see you in the next contests !
73 Venco Z36W
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Call: ZF35A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,518,737
Yea, I know, I said last year was it forever as a single op. Two days with 3
hours of sleep - NEVER again!
I had big plans for a major M/S effort this year, but as it turned out none of
my regular M/S crew guys from CQWW was available so it was either single band
(not as much fun) or SOAB again (painful). So I went with painful.
Conditions were excellent! 10 stayed open to the entire country til after
dark. Even the hard to get close-in southern states were easy to snag. Sigs
on 160 and 80 were loud both nights with very low loise levels on all bands.
SO....
What happened to all the activity? Rates were way down especially Friday
night. Friday night.... Wait wasn't there some sort of conflict that night?
...
Oh yea, it was Valentines day! OK guys, you're excused for banking some
brownie points with the YL instead of working DX. We'll take a rain check til
next year. But that still doesn't explain Saturday and Sunday.
Now about that call sign. All the hams here in ZF are celebrating 35 years of
active operation by using the ZF35 prefix. I thought it would be fitting and
respectful to do the same seeing as I was at the big flagship club station.
Hey, maybe there are still a few guys who need a never before used prefix.
Great idea.....except in a high speed CW contest. Seemed like everybody
insisted on the call being ZF3HA. There were plenty of busted spots to prove
it. So I ended up wasting a lot of your and my time woking 500 dupes!!!! May
end up costing the contest, not to mention all the lost mults for anyone who
didn't catch the busted call.
Anyway, thanks to all you rare mults who QSYed. Only nissed VE4 and SD on 160
after several tries and never cought back up with VO1SA on the high bands.
And as always thanks to Andrew and the gang at the CARS for the hospitality.
See you next weekend as ZF2AM in the 160 SSB and than at PJ2T with G4XUM in a
(thank God) multi-single in the ARRL SSB.
QSL ZF35A to K6AM direct, the W6 QSL buro or LOTW
73, John K6AM/ZF2AM
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Call: ZM1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,495,525
Most of the action for us was in the first 24 hours.
After that, it was hard work. <G>
73, Ken ZL1AIH
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Call: ZM4G Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 490,575
Didn't mean to enter but good HF condx sucked me in. LP fun on 20 + 15m in our
mornings. Tnx QSOs.
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Call: ZM90DX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,582,030
First time with 2 stations in parallel from that QTH. The antennas we got ready
by Friday but only 1 hour before the contest we had the pc network installed
and were ready to go. using our own compuetrs had challenges for the operators
as we had to be able to switch between German & English keyboards. Gary,
ZL2IFB helped out for 2 hours. Wes and I had practically 40 hours in the
chair.
Thanks
Holger, ZL3IO
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Call: ZW5B Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 291,624
Thanks Mr. Oms PY5EG
73
Alan
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Call: ZY5M Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 272,484
My first ARRL International DX contest from this QTH.
I dit enjoy it a lot.
Unfortunately the propagation did not help alot, especially the second day
(1073 QSO'S the 1st day and 494 the the 2nd).
During the morning time the signals from NA where loud but was very hard to
break the EU wall.
Anyway, very nice contest.
After long time I had the opportunity to use the old Yaesu FT-1000D.
Ofcourse I know about the enormus technical progress of the modern rigs, but
the audio of the FT-1000D is so relaxing and so rich that I can compare it like
listening to classical music tuned with the reference A at 432Hz (insted of 440
or even higer like in DL), like in the Giuseppe Verdi time.
I wish we could go back to use 432Hz as reference A.
Even with the CW filter was really an absolutely nice audio.
But at the afternoon of second day a problem surged and had to use the backup
rig.
My Elecraft K2 had a problem aswell, not sure if it was RF or something else,
but the transmitted CW tone was very bad.
So, had to change radio again, and used an FT-900 to the end of the contest.
I want to express my gratitude to all of you for the qso�'s and once again to
Sergio PP5JR for giving me the opportunity to operate his great station.
Many thanks to Walter PP5WG and Rodrigo for the great logistic support.
See you in the ARRL SSB again as ZY5M maybee on 20m or 40m.
73�'s de Simone IV3NVN
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Call: ZZ80MT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 263,127
Dear Friends
Thanks to all the contacts.
I operated almost exclusively on Sunday afternoon, but it was a great party.
I used ZZ80MT special callsign to celebrate 80 Years of LABRE, exclusive
callsign to operate in the state of Mato Grosso - my state PY9 section.
73! Luiz Pedro
PY9MM - PR9M - PQ9M
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Call: ZZ80SP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,945,317
ZZ80SP is a special call to celebrate 80 years of Labre foundation. Only to
remember, Labre is our amateur radio league.
Before the contest begin a lightning hit the station and blow our 3 rotors.
Also our Kenwood TS-850S was strange with no more than 50 watts output...
Near at the end we had a sad information: "In TAS memory" - our
little and young dog - died in an accident inside our farm station. Because
this fact, we stopped the operation before the contest end.
Rig:
Running: Yaesu FT-2000 + Acom 1010 (600 watts)
Multiplier: Kenwood TS-850S + Hallicrafters HT-33B (not used this station at
all)
Ant:
10m - 5 el. Yagi
15m - TH7DX
20m - TH7DX
40m - 2 el. Yagi
80m - Dipole
Operators: PY2NA - Mark, PY2NDX - Rafael and PY2YU - Tom.
Index of Calls
Call: 3V8BB Class: SOAB HP
Call: 4K6FO Class: SOAB LP
Call: 6W/G3TXF Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 6Y2T Class: SOAB HP
Call: 8S0DX Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: 9A1AA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: 9A1UN Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: 9A2AJ Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: 9A2NA Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: 9A4WY Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 9A5Y Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: 9A6XX Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: 9A8M Class: M/S HP
Call: 9A8WW Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 9L1A Class: SOAB HP
Call: 9M6XRO Class: SOAB HP
Call: 9V1YC Class: SOAB HP
Call: A65BD Class: SOAB HP
Call: A65CA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP
Call: AA2A Class: M/M HP
Call: AA2ZW Class: SOAB LP
Call: AA3B Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA3K Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA4CF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA4GA Class: SOAB QRP
Call: AA4KD Class: SOAB LP
Call: AA4LR Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: AA5AU Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: AA6PW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA7A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA7V Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AA7XT Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: AA8R Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: AA9A Class: M/S HP
Call: AB1J Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: AB2E Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB3CX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB4B Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AB7R Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AC0C Class: SOAB HP
Call: AC3SS Class: SOAB QRP
Call: AC4CA Class: SOAB HP
Call: AC4G Class: SOAB HP
Call: AD1C Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB HP
Call: AE1T Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: AE4O Class: SOAB LP
Call: AE7DW Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: AF6GA Class: SOAB LP
Call: AF6O Class: SOAB HP
Call: AF9T Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: AG2AA Class: SOAB LP
Call: AG4W Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: AI4UN Class: SOAB LP
Call: AI6II Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: AJ1E Class: SOAB LP
Call: AK2MA Class: SOSB/15 QRP
Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP
Call: AL9A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: C6AKQ Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: C6AZZ Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: CN2AA Class: M/2 HP
Call: CN8KD Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: CO6CAC Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: CO8CY Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: CO8ZZ Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: CR2A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: CR2X Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: CR3L Class: M/2 HP
Call: CS2C Class: SOAB HP
Call: CT1AOZ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: CT3DZ Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: CT9/R9DX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: CX2BR Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: CX2DK Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB LP
Call: DF1LX Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: DF3FS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: DF4PD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DF5RF Class: SOAB QRP
Call: DH8BQA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DJ8OG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DK0ALC Class: M/S HP
Call: DK2CX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DK6XZ Class: SOAB LP
Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB LP
Call: DL1A Class: M/2 HP
Call: DL1II Class: SOAB HP
Call: DL1NX Class: SOAB LP
Call: DL2MDU Class: SOAB HP
Call: DL2SAX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DL3FCG Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: DL4CW Class: SOAB QRP
Call: DL5ME Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DL5ZBA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DL6FBL Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DL6KVA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: DL7BY Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: DL8SCG Class: SOAB HP
Call: DL8ZAW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: DO4DXA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: DO9ST Class: SOAB LP
Call: DP1POL Class: SOAB HP
Call: E20AE Class: SOAB LP
Call: E71A Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: E7DX Class: M/S HP
Call: EA1WX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EA2RY Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: EA5DFV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EA5KV Class: SOAB HP
Call: EA5WU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EA6FO Class: M/S HP
Call: EA8AH Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: EC2DX Class: M/M HP
Call: EC4TA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: ED1R Class: SOAB HP
Call: ED4T Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: ED7P Class: M/2 HP
Call: EF5F Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EF8O Class: SOAB LP
Call: EF8USA Class: SOAB LP
Call: ES5Q Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EU1A Class: SOAB HP
Call: EW2A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: EW7SM Class: SOAB HP
Call: F/E73CQ Class: SOAB QRP
Call: F1IWH Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: F5CQ Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: F5IN Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: F5IYJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: F5PAL Class: SOAB LP
Call: F6ARC Class: SOAB LP
Call: F8AAN Class: SOAB HP
Call: F8CRS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: FY5KE Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: G0IBN Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: G0ORH Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: G3R Class: SOAB LP
Call: G3SXW Class: SOAB QRP
Call: G3Y Class: SOAB LP
Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB LP
Call: G4IIY Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: GI0RQK Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: GM4X Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: GW4J Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: HA1ZZ Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: HA3NU Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: HA3OU Class: SOAB QRP
Call: HA3UU Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: HA5JI Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: HA6OA Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: HA7GN Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: HA8FM Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: HA8JV Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: HA8LLK Class: SOAB LP
Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP
Call: HB9FAP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: HC2AO Class: SOAB LP
Call: HG0A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: HG1A Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: HG7T Class: M/S HP
Call: HI3LFE Class: SOAB LP
Call: HK1NA Class: M/2 HP
Call: HL1VAU Class: SOAB QRP
Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB HP
Call: HS0ZKX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: IB9T Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: IC8FBU Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: IK2CIO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: IK2CLB Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: IK3ORD Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: IK4ZGO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: IK7JWY Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: IR1Y Class: M/2 HP
Call: IR2C Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: IR3C Class: SOAB HP
Call: IR4B Class: SOAB LP
Call: IR4M Class: M/S HP
Call: IV3BCA Class: SOAB LP
Call: IV3KKW Class: SOAB LP
Call: IW3IFJ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: J38XX Class: SOAB HP
Call: JA1BJI Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: JA1BPA Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: JA6GCE Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: JH3PRR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K0AD Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K0AP Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0ARY Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0CN Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0DQ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0EJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0EU Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0IO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0KX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0LUZ Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: K0MPH Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K0NM Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K0OU Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K0PK Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: K0RF Class: M/2 HP
Call: K0RI Class: SOAB LP
Call: K0TT Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0TV Class: M/M HP
Call: K0UK Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K0VBU Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K0VG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K0VXU Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0ZR Class: SOAB HP
Call: K0ZX Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1AR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1EO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1ESE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1GG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1GI Class: SOAB LP
Call: K1GQ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1GU Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1HI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1HTV Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K1JB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1KI Class: M/M HP
Call: K1KNQ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K1KP Class: M/M HP
Call: K1LT Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1LZ Class: M/S HP
Call: K1NYK Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K1PQS Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: K1PT Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K1RM Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1RO Class: SOAB LP
Call: K1RV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1RX Class: M/2 HP
Call: K1SE Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1SM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1TH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K1TN Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K1TR Class: SOAB LP
Call: K1VSJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: K1ZZ Class: SOAB HP
Call: K2AX Class: M/2 HP
Call: K2CYE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2DB Class: M/S LP
Call: K2DM Class: SOAB LP
Call: K2NV Class: SOAB HP
Call: K2PO Class: M/S LP
Call: K2PS Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K2QB Class: SOAB LP
Call: K2QMF Class: M/S HP
Call: K2QO Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K2QPN Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K2RB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2RD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2SSS Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K2TE Class: SOAB HP
Call: K2TTM Class: SOAB LP
Call: K2UR Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: K2WK Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2YR Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: K2ZC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K2ZR/4 Class: SOAB LP
Call: K3AJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP
Call: K3DCW Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K3EL Class: SOAB HP
Call: K3EST Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3IE Class: SOAB HP
Call: K3IT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3IU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3JT Class: SOAB HP
Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP
Call: K3MD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3ND Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3OO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3OQ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K3PA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3PH Class: M/S LP
Call: K3PP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3STX Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: K3SWZ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K3TN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3TUF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3WA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3WW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K3ZO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4AB Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4EU Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4FJ Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: K4FTO Class: SOAB LP
Call: K4GM Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4GMH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K4HAL Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K4IKM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K4LM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K4LO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4MM Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: K4ORD Class: SOAB LP
Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP
Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: K4WW Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: K4XS Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: K4YCR Class: SOAB LP
Call: K5AUP Class: SOAB HP
Call: K5BG Class: SOAB HP
Call: K5FP Class: SOAB HP
Call: K5GN Class: SOAB LP
Call: K5JX Class: SOAB HP
Call: K5KG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5KU Class: SOAB LP
Call: K5NA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5NZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5QR Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K5RT Class: M/S HP
Call: K5UV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5XR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K5YAA Class: M/S HP
Call: K5ZD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6AW Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6GHA Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K6III Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6JEB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6KR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6KYJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6LE Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6LL Class: M/S HP
Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6MM Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K6NR Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6NV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6RIM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6RM Class: SOAB LP
Call: K6SRZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6ST Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K6WSC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K6XX Class: SOAB HP
Call: K6YK Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7BV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7BX Class: SOAB LP
Call: K7DR Class: SOAB LP
Call: K7DSE Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP
Call: K7FA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K7HP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7IA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7JQ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K7KU Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: K7MY Class: SOAB LP
Call: K7RF Class: SOAB LP
Call: K7SV Class: SOAB LP
Call: K7ULS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K8AJS Class: SOAB LP
Call: K8AZ Class: M/2 HP
Call: K8BTU Class: SOAB LP
Call: K8BZ Class: SOAB HP
Call: K8CN Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP
Call: K8GT Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K8GU Class: SOAB LP
Call: K8IA Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K8MR Class: SOAB QRP
Call: K8PP Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K8ZT Class: SOSB/10 QRP
Call: K9BGL Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: K9DR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K9DU Class: SOAB HP
Call: K9FY Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: K9IA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K9MA Class: SOAB HP
Call: K9MMS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K9NR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K9NW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K9OM Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K9OR Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K9RS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: K9XD Class: M/S LP
Call: K9XE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: K9XR/M Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: KA2D Class: M/S HP
Call: KA2KON Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KA2MGE Class: SOAB LP
Call: KA4OTB Class: SOAB HP
Call: KA6JLT Class: SOAB LP
Call: KA7T Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: KA8HDE Class: SOAB LP
Call: KB0EO Class: SOAB HP
Call: KB1EFS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KB1H Class: M/2 HP
Call: KB3LIX Class: SOAB LP
Call: KB7V Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KB9NW Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KC0DEB Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KC0VKN Class: SOAB HP
Call: KC3WX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KC4TEO Class: SOAB LP
Call: KC5WA Class: SOAB QRP
Call: KC7V Class: SOAB HP
Call: KC9QQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: KD0FW Class: SOAB LP
Call: KD2BGM Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: KD2MX Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KD2RD Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: KD3TB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP
Call: KD7MSC Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: KD7VFC Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KD9MS Class: SOAB LP
Call: KE2VB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KE3X Class: M/S HP
Call: KE7X Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KE8M Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB LP
Call: KG4IGC Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: KG7H Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KG9Z Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: KH2/N2NL Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KH6CJJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: KH6LC Class: M/M HP
Call: KH7M Class: SOAB QRP
Call: KI0I Class: SOAB LP
Call: KI1G Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KI1U Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KI7Y Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KK1W Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KK4DZP Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: KK4EIR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KK8D Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KL2R Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KL7RA Class: M/S HP
Call: KM4HI Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KM4JA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KN0A Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: KN0V Class: SOAB LP
Call: KN3A Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KN4QD Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KN4Y Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: KO7AA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KP2B Class: SOAB LP
Call: KP2DX Class: SOAB LP
Call: KP2M Class: M/S HP
Call: KP4KE Class: SOAB LP
Call: KQ2RP Class: SOAB QRP
Call: KR4F Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KR7C Class: SOAB LP
Call: KR8V Class: SOAB LP
Call: KS2G Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KS4L Class: SOAB LP
Call: KS4X Class: SOAB QRP
Call: KT0A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: KT8K Class: SOAB QRP
Call: KU1T Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KU2C Class: M/2 HP
Call: KU2M Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: KU7T Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KU7Y Class: SOAB QRP
Call: KU8E Class: SOAB LP
Call: KV4QS Class: SOAB LP
Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP
Call: KW7Q Class: SOAB LP
Call: KX7L Class: SOAB LP
Call: KY7M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: KZ2V Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: KZ5OM Class: SOAB HP
Call: LA3BO Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: LA3S Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: LI8W Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: LJ1GB Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: LU1FAM Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: LU7HZ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: LW5HR Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: LX7I Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: LX9DX Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: LY2EN Class: SOAB LP
Call: LY3H Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: LY5W Class: SOAB LP
Call: LY6A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: LZ1YE Class: SOAB HP
Call: LZ2HA Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: LZ2PS Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: LZ5K Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: LZ6K Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: LZ7A Class: M/S LP
Call: LZ8E Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: LZ9W Class: M/M HP
Call: M/SQ6MS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: M3W Class: SOAB HP
Call: M5E Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: M5O Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: M5Z Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: MW5A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: MX0OXE Class: SOAB HP
Call: N0AC Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB HP
Call: N0HJZ Class: SOAB LP
Call: N0IJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N0MA Class: M/2 HP
Call: N0NI Class: M/2 HP
Call: N0TA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N0VD Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: N1CC Class: SOAB LP
Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP
Call: N1DN Class: SOAB LP
Call: N1EN Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N1EU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N1IBM Class: SOAB HP
Call: N1IX Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N1LN Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: N1RR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N1RU Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N1SZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP
Call: N21FF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2BJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2CQ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2FF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2GC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2IC Class: SOAB HP
Call: N2MM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2NF Class: SOAB LP
Call: N2NS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2NT Class: SOAB HP
Call: N2SO Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2SQW Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N2SR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2UN Class: SOAB HP
Call: N2VW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2WK Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: N2WKS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N2WQ/VE3 Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: N3BB Class: SOAB HP
Call: N3BNA Class: M/S HP
Call: N3CZ Class: SOAB LP
Call: N3EN Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N3KCJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3KCJ Class: SOAB LP
Call: N3ND Class: SOAB HP
Call: N3QE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3RC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N3RR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3RS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3XL Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3ZA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N3ZZ Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4CF Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N4CR Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP
Call: N4DJ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N4DU Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: N4DW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4DXI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4FP Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4JF Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: N4KG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4KH Class: SOAB LP
Call: N4LF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4MM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4NA Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4NX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4OGW Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4OX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: N4PD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: N4QX Class: SO Unlimited QRP
Call: N4TB Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: N4TL Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N4TOL Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP
Call: N4UA Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: N4UU Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4UW Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N4VV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N4WW Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB HP
Call: N4ZZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP
Call: N5DO Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: N5KF Class: SOAB LP
Call: N5TOO Class: SOAB LP
Call: N5UI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N5XZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N6AR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N6DA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N6DZR Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: N6HE Class: SOAB HP
Call: N6HI Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N6MU Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6NC Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: N6RNO Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6RO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6WS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N6YEU Class: SOAB LP
Call: N6ZFO Class: SOSB/160 LP
Call: N7BT Class: SOAB HP
Call: N7CW Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: N7DD Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: N7GP Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP
Call: N7NM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N7PR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N7RK Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: N7RO Class: SOAB HP
Call: N7RVD Class: SOAB HP
Call: N7TR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N7XU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N7ZN Class: SOAB LP
Call: N8AGU Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP
Call: N8EA Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: N8HM Class: SOAB 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: SOAB LP
Call: N8XX Class: SOSB/10 QRP
Call: N9CK Class: SOAB LP
Call: N9CO Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: N9NA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: N9NC Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: N9RV Class: SOAB HP
Call: N9TF Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: N9XX Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: NA0N Class: SOAB LP
Call: NA1DX Class: SOAB LP
Call: NA2M Class: SOAB LP
Call: NA4K Class: SOAB HP
Call: NA8V Class: SOAB LP
Call: NB3R Class: SOAB HP
Call: ND8L Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NE0U Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: NE3F Class: M/M HP
Call: NE6I Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NF8J Class: SOAB HP
Call: NF8M Class: SOAB LP
Call: NG7A Class: SOAB HP
Call: NG7M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NI7R Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NJ1F Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NK3Y Class: SOAB HP
Call: NK6A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NM2L Class: SOAB LP
Call: NM5M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NN1N Class: SOAB HP
Call: NN3RP Class: SOAB HP
Call: NN3W Class: SOAB HP
Call: NN4MM Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: NN7NN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NN7ZZ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: NP2N Class: M/S LP
Call: NP2P Class: SOAB HP
Call: NP3A Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: NQ4I Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: NQ7R Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: NR7Q Class: SOAB LP
Call: NS3T Class: SOSB/160 LP
Call: NT4H Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: NT4TS Class: SOAB QRP
Call: NU6S Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: NW0M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NW3H Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: NX6T Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP
Call: NY6DX Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: OE2S Class: M/S HP
Call: OG1M Class: SOAB LP
Call: OG6N Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OG8N Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: OH1F Class: SOAB HP
Call: OH1RX Class: SOAB HP
Call: OH1VR Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: OH2KM Class: SOAB LP
Call: OH2XX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OH4KZM Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: OH5TS Class: SOAB LP
Call: OH5Z Class: M/2 HP
Call: OH6AC Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: OH6MW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OH8L Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: OK/LZ3SF Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: OK1DO Class: SO Unlimited QRP
Call: OK1KUW Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: OK2BFN Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP
Call: OK2W Class: SOAB HP
Call: OK5D Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: OK5R Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: OK8DD Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: OK8NM Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: OK8WW Class: SOAB HP
Call: OL3Z Class: M/S HP
Call: OL7M Class: M/M HP
Call: OL7O Class: SOAB LP
Call: OM1II Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: OM2VL Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: OM7M Class: M/S HP
Call: OM7RU Class: SOAB HP
Call: ON7EH Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: OP4K Class: M/S HP
Call: OQ5M Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OT2A Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: OZ0J Class: SOAB HP
Call: OZ4CG Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: OZ4FF Class: SOAB LP
Call: OZ5WQ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: OZ6PI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: P40L Class: M/S HP
Call: P40LE Class: SOAB HP
Call: P40W Class: SOAB LP
Call: PA4A Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP
Call: PJ2T Class: M/M HP
Call: PJ4X Class: M/S HP
Call: PJ5W Class: M/S HP
Call: PR2W Class: SOAB LP
Call: PT2CM Class: M/2 HP
Call: PT5T Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: PX2F Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: PY2EX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: PY2KC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: PY3OZ Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: PY4ZO Class: SOAB LP
Call: R22ALS Class: M/2 HP
Call: R9DA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: RA/KE5JA Class: SOAB HP
Call: RT0C Class: M/2 HP
Call: RT0F Class: M/S HP
Call: RT4F Class: SOAB HP
Call: RU4AA Class: SOAB LP
Call: S50BCC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: S50C Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: S51TA Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: S51V Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: S52AW Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: S52W Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: S53F Class: SOAB LP
Call: S53O Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: S54O Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: S54W Class: M/2 HP
Call: S55O Class: SOAB HP
Call: S56A Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: S57C Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: S57DX Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: S57Z Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: S59AA Class: SOAB HP
Call: SK2T Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: SK3W Class: M/2 HP
Call: SM0Y Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: SM6Y Class: SOAB LP
Call: SM7CIL Class: SOAB LP
Call: SN2M Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: SN3X Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: SN7O Class: SOAB HP
Call: SN7Q Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: SN8B Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: SN8W Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: SO9Q Class: M/2 HP
Call: SP1GZF Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: SP1NY Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: SP2LNW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: SP3GTS Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: SP6OJE Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: SP8LBK Class: SOAB LP
Call: SP8R Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: SP9LJD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: TI5W Class: SOAB HP
Call: UA2F Class: M/S HP
Call: UA6LCN Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: UR5IFB Class: SOAB HP
Call: UR5MM Class: SOAB LP
Call: UT8IM Class: SOAB LP
Call: UV5U Class: SOAB HP
Call: UW1M Class: SOAB HP
Call: V26M Class: SOAB HP
Call: V31TP Class: M/S LP
Call: VA2AM Class: SOAB HP
Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB QRP
Call: VA2WA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VA3ATT Class: SOAB LP
Call: VA3DX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB LP
Call: VA3GUY Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP
Call: VA7DZ Class: M/S LP
Call: VA7KH Class: SOAB QRP
Call: VA7KO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE1OP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE1RSM Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE1ZA Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE2BZO Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE2FK Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE3CR Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: VE3DQN Class: SOAB QRP
Call: VE3FU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE3GFN Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3HG Class: SOAB QRP
Call: VE3IAE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE3JAQ Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: VE3JI Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE3JM Class: M/2 HP
Call: VE3KAO Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE3MGY Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE3MIS Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3OI Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3RSA Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3TA Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE3TW Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3VSM Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE3VV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE3XAT Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE3YAA Class: M/S HP
Call: VE4VT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE5KS Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: VE5UF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE6BMX Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: VE6RST Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: VE7BC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: VE7DS Class: SOAB LP
Call: VE7IO Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE7JH Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE7VR Class: SOAB HP
Call: VE7XF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE9AA Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: VE9HF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: VE9ML Class: M/S LP
Call: VP2EZZ Class: M/S HP
Call: VP5S Class: M/S HP
Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP
Call: VU2MUD Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: VY2LI Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP
Call: VY2ZM Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W0AIH Class: M/2 HP
Call: W0BH Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W0BR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W0ERP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB HP
Call: W0PAN Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP
Call: W0RX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W0UO Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: W1AN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1AO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1AW/6 Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1AW/6 Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W1AW/9 Class: M/M HP
Call: W1CSM Class: M/M HP
Call: W1EBI Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1ECH Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1FJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: W1FV Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1GD Class: SOAB HP
Call: W1HIS Class: M/S HP
Call: W1IZL Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: W1JQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1MAW Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1MSW Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W1NN Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: W1OHM Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: W1RH Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1RM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1SRD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W1TJL Class: SOAB LP
Call: W1UE Class: M/M HP
Call: W1VE Class: M/2 HP
Call: W1WEF Class: SOAB HP
Call: W1XX Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: W1ZK Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: W2BC Class: SOAB HP
Call: W2CS Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2DXE Class: SOAB LP
Call: W2DZ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W2EJG Class: SOAB LP
Call: W2FU Class: M/S HP
Call: W2GDJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2GN Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W2GR Class: SOAB LP
Call: W2JU Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2LE Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2NO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2RD Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W2TF Class: SOAB LP
Call: W2UP Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: W2VJN Class: SOAB HP
Call: W2XL Class: SOAB HP
Call: W2YC Class: M/2 HP
Call: W2YK Class: SOAB LP
Call: W3DAD Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: W3EP Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W3FA Class: SOAB LP
Call: W3FIZ Class: SOAB HP
Call: W3IQ Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: W3KB Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W3KL Class: SOAB HP
Call: W3LJ Class: M/S HP
Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP
Call: W3SFG Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W3YY Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4BK Class: SOAB LP
Call: W4BQF Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4DXX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W4GDG Class: SOAB LP
Call: W4GV Class: SOSB/10 QRP
Call: W4KZ Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W4NZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4OC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4PM Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4QN Class: SOAB HP
Call: W4QNW Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: W4QO Class: SO Unlimited QRP
Call: W4RM Class: M/M HP
Call: W4SVO Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W4UAT Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: W4UT Class: SOAB HP
Call: W4VIC Class: SOAB HP
Call: W4XO Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W4YY Class: M/M HP
Call: W5GN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W5JBO Class: SOAB HP
Call: W5JR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W5KB Class: SOAB LP
Call: W5RU Class: M/2 HP
Call: W5UE Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: W5WMU Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: W6AAN Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W6DR Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6JTI Class: SOAB QRP
Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6NF Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: W6OAT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6QU Class: SOAB QRP
Call: W6RLL Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: W6SX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6SZN Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W6TK Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W7CT Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W7FI Class: SOAB HP
Call: W7OLY Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W7RN Class: M/2 HP
Call: W7VJ Class: SOAB HP
Call: W7VXS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W7WA Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB HP
Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W7ZR Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: W8KNO Class: SOAB LP
Call: W8KTQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W8MJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: W8OHT Class: SOAB HP
Call: W8TA Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: W8TOP Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: W9AV Class: SOAB HP
Call: W9CF Class: SOAB LP
Call: W9IIX Class: SOAB HP
Call: W9ILY Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: W9JA Class: SOAB LP
Call: W9JP Class: M/2 HP
Call: W9OP Class: SOAB QRP
Call: W9PA Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: W9SZ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W9VQ Class: SOAB LP
Call: W9WI Class: SOAB QRP
Call: WA1DRQ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: WA1Z Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WA3AFS Class: SOAB HP
Call: WA3F Class: SOAB HP
Call: WA3OFC Class: M/S LP
Call: WA4EUL Class: SOAB LP
Call: WA4ZXV Class: SOAB HP
Call: WA5RML Class: SOAB QRP
Call: WA6JRZ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WA6O Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WA6URY Class: SOAB HP
Call: WA7LNW Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WA8HSB Class: SOAB QRP
Call: WB2ZAB Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WB4OMM Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB4TDH Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: WB5EIN Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB5TKI Class: SOAB HP
Call: WB6JJJ Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WB8BZK Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB8K Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WB8YYY Class: SOAB LP
Call: WB9JPS Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WC1M Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: WC3O Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: WC7Q Class: SOAB LP
Call: WC7S Class: SOAB QRP
Call: WD0GTY Class: SOAB LP
Call: WD4AHZ Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WD5COV Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP
Call: WD8RYC Class: SOAB LP
Call: WE3C Class: M/M HP
Call: WH7DX Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WI7N Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB LP
Call: WL7BDO Class: SOAB LP
Call: WL7E Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WN4AFP Class: SOAB LP
Call: WN6K Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WO1N Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WO7R Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WP3R Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: WQ5L Class: SOAB HP
Call: WR3R Class: SOAB LP
Call: WS7L Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WS7V Class: SOAB LP
Call: WT9U Class: SOAB LP
Call: WU9D Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: WW4B Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP
Call: WX3B Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: WX4G Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: XE2S Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: XQ1CR Class: M/S LP
Call: XR2V Class: M/S HP
Call: XW0YJY Class: SOAB LP
Call: YJ0OU Class: M/S LP
Call: YL4U Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: YL5T Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: YN2NC Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: YO5AJR Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: YO8RHM Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: YO9HP Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: YR5N Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: YR8D Class: SOAB HP
Call: YS1YS Class: SOAB LP
Call: YT3A Class: M/S HP
Call: YT4A Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: YT7Z Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: YU0T Class: SOAB HP
Call: YU2A Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: YU5R Class: M/2 HP
Call: Z35F Class: SOAB LP
Call: Z36W Class: SOAB LP
Call: Z39A Class: SOAB HP
Call: ZF35A Class: SOAB HP
Call: ZM1A Class: M/M HP
Call: ZM4G Class: SOAB HP
Call: ZM90DX Class: M/2 HP
Call: ZW5B Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: ZW8T Class: M/S LP
Call: ZY5M Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: ZZ80MT Class: SOAB HP
Call: ZZ80PI Class: M/S HP
Call: ZZ80SP Class: M/S HP
Index of Calls organized by Class
Class: M/2 HP
Call: CN2AA
Call: CR3L
Call: DL1A
Call: ED7P
Call: HK1NA
Call: IR1Y
Call: K0RF
Call: K1RX
Call: K2AX
Call: K8AZ
Call: KB1H
Call: KU2C
Call: N0MA
Call: N0NI
Call: NY4A
Call: OH5Z
Call: PT2CM
Call: R22ALS
Call: RT0C
Call: S54W
Call: SK3W
Call: SO9Q
Call: VE3JM
Call: W0AIH
Call: W1VE
Call: W2YC
Call: W5RU
Call: W7RN
Call: W9JP
Call: YU5R
Call: ZM90DX
Class: M/M HP
Call: AA2A
Call: EC2DX
Call: K0TV
Call: K1KI
Call: K1KP
Call: K3LR
Call: KH6LC
Call: LZ9W
Call: NE3F
Call: OL7M
Call: PJ2T
Call: W1AW/9
Call: W1CSM
Call: W1UE
Call: W3LPL
Call: W4RM
Call: W4YY
Call: WE3C
Call: ZM1A
Class: M/S HP
Call: 9A8M
Call: AA9A
Call: DK0ALC
Call: E7DX
Call: EA6FO
Call: HG7T
Call: IR4M
Call: K1LZ
Call: K2QMF
Call: K5RT
Call: K5YAA
Call: K6LL
Call: KA2D
Call: KE3X
Call: KL7RA
Call: KP2M
Call: N3BNA
Call: N4CW
Call: OE2S
Call: OL3Z
Call: OM7M
Call: OP4K
Call: P40L
Call: PI4TUE
Call: PJ4X
Call: PJ5W
Call: RT0F
Call: UA2F
Call: VE3YAA
Call: VP2EZZ
Call: VP5S
Call: W1HIS
Call: W2FU
Call: W3LJ
Call: XR2V
Call: YT3A
Call: ZZ80PI
Call: ZZ80SP
Class: M/S LP
Call: K2DB
Call: K2PO
Call: K3PH
Call: K9XD
Call: LZ7A
Call: NP2N
Call: V31TP
Call: VA7DZ
Call: VE9ML
Call: WA3OFC
Call: XQ1CR
Call: YJ0OU
Call: ZW8T
Class: SO Unlimited HP
Call: A65CA
Call: AA3B
Call: AA3K
Call: AA4CF
Call: AA6PW
Call: AA7A
Call: AA7V
Call: AB2E
Call: AB3CX
Call: AB4B
Call: AB7R
Call: AI6II
Call: AL9A
Call: DF4PD
Call: DH8BQA
Call: DJ8OG
Call: DK2CX
Call: DL2SAX
Call: DL5ME
Call: DL5ZBA
Call: DL6FBL
Call: DL8ZAW
Call: EA1WX
Call: EA5DFV
Call: EA5WU
Call: EF5F
Call: ES5Q
Call: EW2A
Call: F8CRS
Call: HB9FAP
Call: HG0A
Call: HS0ZKX
Call: IB9T
Call: IK2CIO
Call: IK4ZGO
Call: IR2C
Call: K0ARY
Call: K0DQ
Call: K0KX
Call: K0VG
Call: K1AR
Call: K1EO
Call: K1ESE
Call: K1GG
Call: K1GQ
Call: K1HI
Call: K1JB
Call: K1RV
Call: K1SM
Call: K1TH
Call: K2CYE
Call: K2RB
Call: K2RD
Call: K2WK
Call: K2ZC
Call: K3EST
Call: K3IT
Call: K3IU
Call: K3MD
Call: K3ND
Call: K3OO
Call: K3PA
Call: K3PP
Call: K3TN
Call: K3TUF
Call: K3WA
Call: K3WW
Call: K4GMH
Call: K4HAL
Call: K4IKM
Call: K4LM
Call: K5KG
Call: K5NA
Call: K5NZ
Call: K5UV
Call: K5XR
Call: K5ZD
Call: K6JEB
Call: K6KR
Call: K6NV
Call: K6RIM
Call: K6SRZ
Call: K6ST
Call: K7BV
Call: K7FA
Call: K7HP
Call: K7IA
Call: K7JQ
Call: K9DR
Call: K9MMS
Call: K9NR
Call: K9NW
Call: K9RS
Call: KB1EFS
Call: KB7V
Call: KC3WX
Call: KD3TB
Call: KE2VB
Call: KG7H
Call: KH2/N2NL
Call: KI1G
Call: KI7Y
Call: KK1W
Call: KK4EIR
Call: KK8D
Call: KL2R
Call: KO7AA
Call: KR4F
Call: KU1T
Call: KU7T
Call: KY7M
Call: LZ6K
Call: LZ8E
Call: N0IJ
Call: N0TA
Call: N1EU
Call: N1RR
Call: N1SZ
Call: N2BJ
Call: N2GC
Call: N2MM
Call: N2NS
Call: N2SR
Call: N2VW
Call: N2WKS
Call: N3KCJ
Call: N3QE
Call: N3RR
Call: N3RS
Call: N3XL
Call: N3ZA
Call: N4DW
Call: N4DXI
Call: N4KG
Call: N4MM
Call: N4NX
Call: N4PD
Call: N4VV
Call: N4ZZ
Call: N5UI
Call: N5XZ
Call: N6AR
Call: N6DA
Call: N6RO
Call: N6WS
Call: N7NM
Call: N7PR
Call: N7TR
Call: N7XU
Call: N8RA
Call: N8TR
Call: N8UM
Call: N9NA
Call: ND8L
Call: NE6I
Call: NG7M
Call: NI7R
Call: NJ1F
Call: NK6A
Call: NM5M
Call: NN7NN
Call: NW0M
Call: NW3H
Call: OG6N
Call: OH6MW
Call: OQ5M
Call: OT2A
Call: OZ6PI
Call: R9DA
Call: SK2T
Call: SN7Q
Call: SP2LNW
Call: SP9LJD
Call: VA2WA
Call: VA3DX
Call: VA7KO
Call: VE1OP
Call: VE2FK
Call: VE3FU
Call: VE3TA
Call: VE3VV
Call: VE4VT
Call: VE5UF
Call: VE6RST
Call: VE7XF
Call: VE9HF
Call: W0BR
Call: W0ERP
Call: W0RX
Call: W1AN
Call: W1AO
Call: W1AW/6
Call: W1EBI
Call: W1FV
Call: W1RH
Call: W1RM
Call: W1SRD
Call: W2CS
Call: W2GDJ
Call: W2JU
Call: W2LE
Call: W2NO
Call: W2RD
Call: W3SFG
Call: W3YY
Call: W4BQF
Call: W4DXX
Call: W4NZ
Call: W4OC
Call: W4PM
Call: W4XO
Call: W5GN
Call: W5JR
Call: W6DR
Call: W6KC
Call: W6OAT
Call: W6SX
Call: W6SZN
Call: W6TK
Call: W7CT
Call: W7OLY
Call: W8MJ
Call: WA1Z
Call: WA6JRZ
Call: WA6O
Call: WA7LNW
Call: WB2ZAB
Call: WB6JJJ
Call: WH7DX
Call: WI7N
Call: WL7E
Call: WO7R
Call: WS7L
Call: WW4B
Call: WX3B
Call: WX4G
Call: YL4U
Call: YL5T
Call: YO9HP
Call: YR5N
Class: SO Unlimited LP
Call: 9A1AA
Call: AA4LR
Call: AB1J
Call: AD1C
Call: AE1T
Call: DF1LX
Call: DF3FS
Call: DL6KVA
Call: DO4DXA
Call: EA2RY
Call: EC4TA
Call: GI0RQK
Call: IK3ORD
Call: IW3IFJ
Call: JA1BJI
Call: K0AD
Call: K0MPH
Call: K0UK
Call: K0VBU
Call: K1HTV
Call: K1KNQ
Call: K1NYK
Call: K2QPN
Call: K3OQ
Call: K6MM
Call: K6WSC
Call: K7ULS
Call: K8GT
Call: K8PP
Call: K9IA
Call: K9OM
Call: K9OR
Call: K9XE
Call: KA2KON
Call: KB9NW
Call: KC0DEB
Call: KD2MX
Call: KE7X
Call: KM4JA
Call: KN3A
Call: KN4QD
Call: KS2G
Call: KZ2V
Call: LU7HZ
Call: M/SQ6MS
Call: N1EN
Call: N21FF
Call: N2CQ
Call: N2FF
Call: N2SO
Call: N2SQW
Call: N3EN
Call: N3RC
Call: N4DJ
Call: N4LF
Call: N4TL
Call: N4UW
Call: N5DO
Call: NQ7R
Call: OK/LZ3SF
Call: OK2BFN
Call: OK8DD
Call: PY2KC
Call: S50BCC
Call: S56A
Call: SP1NY
Call: VE2BZO
Call: VE3IAE
Call: VE3JI
Call: VE3KAO
Call: VE3MGY
Call: VE3XAT
Call: VE7BC
Call: W1MSW
Call: W2DZ
Call: W2GN
Call: W3KB
Call: W4EE
Call: W6AAN
Call: W7VXS
Call: W9PA
Call: WA1DRQ
Call: WB8K
Call: WB9JPS
Call: WD4AHZ
Call: WN6K
Call: WO1N
Call: WU9D
Call: YN2NC
Class: SO Unlimited QRP
Call: N4QX
Call: OK1DO
Call: W4QO
Class: SOAB HP
Call: 3V8BB
Call: 6Y2T
Call: 9L1A
Call: 9M6XRO
Call: 9V1YC
Call: A65BD
Call: AA1K
Call: AC0C
Call: AC4CA
Call: AC4G
Call: AD4EB
Call: AF6O
Call: AL1G
Call: CS2C
Call: DL1II
Call: DL2MDU
Call: DL8SCG
Call: DP1POL
Call: EA5KV
Call: ED1R
Call: EU1A
Call: EW7SM
Call: F8AAN
Call: HL5YI
Call: IR3C
Call: J38XX
Call: K0AP
Call: K0CN
Call: K0EJ
Call: K0EU
Call: K0IO
Call: K0TT
Call: K0VXU
Call: K0ZR
Call: K0ZX
Call: K1GU
Call: K1LT
Call: K1RM
Call: K1SE
Call: K1TN
Call: K1TO
Call: K1ZZ
Call: K2NV
Call: K2TE
Call: K3CR
Call: K3EL
Call: K3IE
Call: K3JT
Call: K3ZO
Call: K4AB
Call: K4EU
Call: K4GM
Call: K4LO
Call: K4RO
Call: K5AUP
Call: K5BG
Call: K5FP
Call: K5JX
Call: K6III
Call: K6LRN
Call: K6NR
Call: K6XX
Call: K6YK
Call: K7ABV
Call: K7DSE
Call: K7EG
Call: K8BZ
Call: K8GL
Call: K9DU
Call: K9MA
Call: KA4OTB
Call: KB0EO
Call: KC0VKN
Call: KC7V
Call: KZ5OM
Call: LZ1YE
Call: M3W
Call: MX0OXE
Call: N0BUI
Call: N1IBM
Call: N2IC
Call: N2NT
Call: N2UN
Call: N3BB
Call: N3ND
Call: N3ZZ
Call: N4CR
Call: N4FP
Call: N4LZ
Call: N4NA
Call: N4OGW
Call: N4UU
Call: N4YDU
Call: N6HE
Call: N7BT
Call: N7RO
Call: N7RVD
Call: N8BJQ
Call: N9RV
Call: NA4K
Call: NB3R
Call: NF8J
Call: NG7A
Call: NK3Y
Call: NN1N
Call: NN3RP
Call: NN3W
Call: NP2P
Call: OH1F
Call: OH1RX
Call: OK2SFP
Call: OK2W
Call: OK8WW
Call: OM7RU
Call: OZ0J
Call: P40LE
Call: RA/KE5JA
Call: RT4F
Call: S55O
Call: S59AA
Call: SN7O
Call: TI5W
Call: UR5IFB
Call: UV5U
Call: UW1M
Call: V26M
Call: VA2AM
Call: VE3OI
Call: VE7IO
Call: VE7JH
Call: VE7VR
Call: VY2TT
Call: W0ETT
Call: W1FJ
Call: W1GD
Call: W1WEF
Call: W2BC
Call: W2VJN
Call: W2XL
Call: W3FIZ
Call: W3KL
Call: W4QN
Call: W4UT
Call: W4VIC
Call: W5JBO
Call: W7FI
Call: W7VJ
Call: W7WHY
Call: W8OHT
Call: W9AV
Call: W9IIX
Call: WA3AFS
Call: WA3F
Call: WA4ZXV
Call: WA6URY
Call: WB5TKI
Call: WD5K
Call: WQ5L
Call: WX0B
Call: YR8D
Call: YU0T
Call: Z39A
Call: ZF35A
Call: ZM4G
Call: ZZ80MT
Class: SOAB LP
Call: 4K6FO
Call: AA2ZW
Call: AA4KD
Call: AE4O
Call: AF6GA
Call: AG2AA
Call: AI4UN
Call: AJ1E
Call: CX9AU
Call: DK6XZ
Call: DK8EY
Call: DL1NX
Call: DO9ST
Call: E20AE
Call: EF8O
Call: EF8USA
Call: F5IYJ
Call: F5PAL
Call: F6ARC
Call: G3R
Call: G3Y
Call: G4BUO
Call: HA8LLK
Call: HB9ARF
Call: HC2AO
Call: HI3LFE
Call: IR4B
Call: IV3BCA
Call: IV3KKW
Call: K0RI
Call: K1GI
Call: K1RO
Call: K1TR
Call: K1VSJ
Call: K2DM
Call: K2QB
Call: K2TTM
Call: K2ZR/4
Call: K3AJ
Call: K4FTO
Call: K4ORD
Call: K4YCR
Call: K5GN
Call: K5KU
Call: K6CSL
Call: K6KYJ
Call: K6LE
Call: K6RM
Call: K7BX
Call: K7DR
Call: K7MY
Call: K7RF
Call: K7SV
Call: K8AJS
Call: K8BTU
Call: K8GU
Call: KA2MGE
Call: KA6JLT
Call: KA8HDE
Call: KB3LIX
Call: KC4TEO
Call: KC9QQ
Call: KD0FW
Call: KD5J
Call: KD9MS
Call: KG4CUY
Call: KH6CJJ
Call: KI0I
Call: KN0V
Call: KP2B
Call: KP2DX
Call: KP4KE
Call: KR7C
Call: KR8V
Call: KS4L
Call: KU8E
Call: KV4QS
Call: KV8Q
Call: KW7Q
Call: KX7L
Call: LY2EN
Call: LY5W
Call: N0HJZ
Call: N1CC
Call: N1DC
Call: N1DN
Call: N1UR
Call: N2NF
Call: N3CZ
Call: N3KCJ
Call: N4KH
Call: N4TZ/9
Call: N5AW
Call: N5KF
Call: N5TOO
Call: N6MU
Call: N6RNO
Call: N6RV
Call: N6YEU
Call: N7ZN
Call: N8HM
Call: N8II
Call: N8VV
Call: N9CK
Call: NA0N
Call: NA1DX
Call: NA2M
Call: NA8V
Call: NF8M
Call: NM2L
Call: NR7Q
Call: OG1M
Call: OH2KM
Call: OH5TS
Call: OL7O
Call: OZ4FF
Call: P40W
Call: PR2W
Call: PY4ZO
Call: RU4AA
Call: S53F
Call: SM6Y
Call: SM7CIL
Call: SP8LBK
Call: UR5MM
Call: UT8IM
Call: VA3ATT
Call: VA3EC
Call: VA7ST
Call: VE1RSM
Call: VE1ZA
Call: VE3GFN
Call: VE3MIS
Call: VE3RCN
Call: VE3RSA
Call: VE3TW
Call: VE3VSM
Call: VE7DS
Call: VP9/W6PH
Call: W0RAA
Call: W1ECH
Call: W1JQ
Call: W1MAW
Call: W1TJL
Call: W2DXE
Call: W2EJG
Call: W2GR
Call: W2TF
Call: W2YK
Call: W3FA
Call: W4BK
Call: W4GDG
Call: W5KB
Call: W7YAQ
Call: W8KNO
Call: W8KTQ
Call: W9CF
Call: W9JA
Call: W9SZ
Call: W9VQ
Call: WA4EUL
Call: WB4OMM
Call: WB5EIN
Call: WB8JUI
Call: WB8YYY
Call: WC7Q
Call: WD0GTY
Call: WD8RYC
Call: WJ9B
Call: WL7BDO
Call: WN4AFP
Call: WR3R
Call: WS7V
Call: WT9U
Call: XW0YJY
Call: YS1YS
Call: Z35F
Call: Z36W
Class: SOAB QRP
Call: AA4GA
Call: AC3SS
Call: DF5RF
Call: DL4CW
Call: F/E73CQ
Call: G3SXW
Call: HA3OU
Call: HL1VAU
Call: K0OU
Call: K2QO
Call: K6GHA
Call: K7HBN
Call: K8CN
Call: K8MR
Call: KC5WA
Call: KH7M
Call: KQ2RP
Call: KS4X
Call: KT8K
Call: KU7Y
Call: N1IX
Call: N1RU
Call: N1TM
Call: N4CF
Call: N4TOL
Call: N6HI
Call: N7IR
Call: NT4TS
Call: VA2SG
Call: VA3RKM
Call: VA7KH
Call: VE3DQN
Call: VE3HG
Call: W6JTI
Call: W6QU
Call: W9OP
Call: W9WI
Call: WA5RML
Call: WA8HSB
Call: WC7S
Class: SOSB/10 HP
Call: 6W/G3TXF
Call: 9A4WY
Call: 9A8WW
Call: AA5AU
Call: AA7XT
Call: CR2A
Call: CT9/R9DX
Call: DL3FCG
Call: DL7BY
Call: EA8AH
Call: G0ORH
Call: GW4J
Call: HA3NU
Call: IK7JWY
Call: JA1BPA
Call: JH3PRR
Call: K0NM
Call: K1PT
Call: K2SSS
Call: K5QR
Call: K8IA
Call: K9BGL
Call: KD7VFC
Call: KI1U
Call: KM4HI
Call: KT0A
Call: LA3S
Call: LJ1GB
Call: LU1FAM
Call: LY6A
Call: M5Z
Call: MW5A
Call: N4OX
Call: N4PN
Call: N9NC
Call: NN7ZZ
Call: OH2XX
Call: OK5R
Call: PA4A
Call: PY2EX
Call: S53O
Call: S54O
Call: SN8W
Call: SP1GZF
Call: VE6BMX
Call: VE9AA
Call: VY2ZM
Call: W0BH
Call: W1AW/6
Call: W3EP
Call: W4KZ
Call: W4SVO
Call: W5WMU
Call: WC1M
Call: ZW5B
Class: SOSB/10 LP
Call: AE7DW
Call: AF9T
Call: CT1AOZ
Call: CX2BR
Call: GM4X
Call: IC8FBU
Call: K2PS
Call: K3DCW
Call: K3SWZ
Call: K4WI
Call: K9XR/M
Call: KA7T
Call: KN0A
Call: KN4Y
Call: LZ2PS
Call: N0AC
Call: N2WK
Call: N4JF
Call: N9XX
Call: NP3A
Call: NT4H
Call: OZ4CG
Call: OZ5WQ
Call: PY3OZ
Call: SM0Y
Call: VA3GUY
Call: W0PAN
Call: W1ZK
Call: W3DAD
Call: W5UE
Call: WB4TDH
Call: WB8BZK
Call: YO8RHM
Class: SOSB/10 QRP
Call: K8ZT
Call: N8XX
Call: W4GV
Class: SOSB/15 HP
Call: 9A1UN
Call: 9A5Y
Call: CX2DK
Call: E71A
Call: F5IN
Call: HG1A
Call: K0LUZ
Call: K2YR
Call: K4MM
Call: K4WW
Call: KE8M
Call: KU2M
Call: LA3BO
Call: LW5HR
Call: LX7I
Call: N0VD
Call: N1LN
Call: N2WQ/VE3
Call: N7DD
Call: NQ4I
Call: NU6S
Call: OH6AC
Call: OK8NM
Call: S50C
Call: S51TA
Call: S57AL
Call: S57C
Call: SN2M
Call: SN3X
Call: SN8B
Call: SP8R
Call: VE6WQ
Call: W4UAT
Call: W7WA
Call: YT7Z
Call: ZY5M
Class: SOSB/15 LP
Call: F1IWH
Call: HA3UU
Call: KD7MSC
Call: LZ2HA
Call: NY6DX
Call: VE5KS
Call: VU2MUD
Call: VY2LI
Call: W2UP
Call: W6NF
Call: WA1FCN
Call: WC3O
Class: SOSB/15 QRP
Call: AK2MA
Class: SOSB/160 HP
Call: 8S0DX
Call: AG4W
Call: HA8FM
Call: K2UR
Call: M5E
Call: M5O
Call: N7GP
Call: N8EA
Call: S51V
Call: SP3GTS
Call: W1IZL
Call: W7ZR
Call: W8TOP
Call: WD5COV
Class: SOSB/160 LP
Call: N6ZFO
Call: NS3T
Class: SOSB/20 HP
Call: 9A2NA
Call: CT3DZ
Call: FY5KE
Call: HA7GN
Call: K4XS
Call: K6AW
Call: K7KU
Call: N8AGU
Call: OG8N
Call: OH8L
Call: PT5T
Call: PX2F
Call: S57DX
Call: VE3CR
Call: W1OHM
Call: W8TA
Call: W9ILY
Call: WP3R
Class: SOSB/20 LP
Call: C6AZZ
Call: CN8KD
Call: G0IBN
Call: HA6OA
Call: K0PK
Call: KG4IGC
Call: KG9Z
Call: LY3H
Call: N9CO
Call: OM1II
Call: VE3JAQ
Call: W3IQ
Class: SOSB/40 HP
Call: 9A2AJ
Call: 9A6XX
Call: CO8ZZ
Call: CR2X
Call: G4IIY
Call: HA1ZZ
Call: HA8JV
Call: K3STX
Call: KD2BGM
Call: KD2RD
Call: LI8W
Call: LZ5K
Call: N4UA
Call: N4WW
Call: N6NC
Call: N7CW
Call: NE0U
Call: NX6T
Call: OH1VR
Call: OM2VL
Call: S52W
Call: S57Z
Call: UA6LCN
Call: W0UO
Call: YO5AJR
Class: SOSB/40 LP
Call: AA8R
Call: CO8CY
Call: ED4T
Call: N6DZR
Call: N9TF
Call: SP6OJE
Call: XE2S
Call: YU2A
Class: SOSB/80 HP
Call: C6AKQ
Call: F5CQ
Call: HA5JI
Call: IK2CLB
Call: JA6GCE
Call: K4FJ
Call: K9FY
Call: KK4DZP
Call: LX9DX
Call: N4DU
Call: N4TB
Call: N7RK
Call: NN4MM
Call: OH4KZM
Call: OK1KUW
Call: OK5D
Call: S52AW
Call: W1XX
Call: W4QNW
Call: W6RLL
Call: YT4A
Class: SOSB/80 LP
Call: CO6CAC
Call: K1PQS
Call: ON7EH
Call: VE3OSZ
Call: W1NN
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