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<P>Hi Tom,</P>
<P>Activity was well down, from last year, i was rather disappointed, i called cq on 80 and 40 for several hours on cw and ssb, but only managed to work a total on 75 stations, and only 17 from SC in total, tried at various times of the day, 20m propagation here was bad, could here many of the salmon runners from WA but no local SC, 15 and 10 were dead all day, worked one local on 10m...</P>
<P>Overall a very disappointing contest.... one guy on Horry County was up at 425 contacts when i worked him, i'm guessing mostly out of state, and one rover was at 120 contacts...</P>
<P>Paul - AI4MT<BR>Ridgeville, SC</P>
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<P>I finally have some antennas up in the air again. So I thought the SC QP would be a great chance to see how these new wires work. </P>
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<P>In some 8 hours of listening and calling CQ SCQP on 20/40/80, I found all of two SC stations on CW. The activity must have been down substantially because there is only one post on the 3850 contest reflector and that was from a N2xx who was running SSB QRP. Most of the SC station that actually were on the air must have primarily been SSB operations? The two CW stations had s/n’s of 104 and 112.</P>
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<P>So either my antennas don’t work worth a hoot or CW has been banned in SC? Or maybe they should name it the SC SSB QP?</P>
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<P>Tom – W4BQF</P>
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