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K5GNSO HIGH ALLWow, top-of-the-cycle conditions were either frustrating (low bands), interesting (15m) or amazing (10m)! 46 hours in the chair and I'm sure I left a lot on the table. I'm still learning 'the 'phone'
K5IZOSO HIGH ALLNewly installed antenna problems
K5RXSO HIGH 20MNot much of an antenna - C3e at 106' and some Beverages
K5VGSA LOW ALLMade 2 QSOs for grins from my station in Oregon. Also participated remotely with the W4NF team in Virginia
K6DACSO LOW ALLFirst license 04-2023
K6JOSO HIGH ALLOperator age 24
K6MUGSO LOW ALL10 meters was great. 15 meters was very lonely. 20 meters wasn't worth much effort. More than 25% of my contacts were Japan
K6NRSO HIGH ALLGreat conditions on the high bands (I didn't spend much time below 15 meters). Signals pretty much wall to wall from 28.3 to above 29 - amazing. My yagi SWR approaches 3 to 1 just above 29 but fortunately the KPA1500 has an antenna tuner. Thanks for the QSOs! Dana
K6QLFMULTI-ONE LOWThis is another K6QLF Multi-OP Operation. This was a radiosport training exercise after a presentation by WQ6X for the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA) on running the CQ W.W. contest for the 1st time. We ran an ICOM 7300 into a horizontal J-Pole atop the Oakland Yacht Club's building in Alameda. ARCA can be found on the internet at: http://ARCAHAM.Org. LooK for a write-up on this & other radiosport events: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com
K6STSO LOW ALLExcellent dx especially on 10m
K6YKSO HIGH ALLThird try on this upload. Computer messed up the log
K7ACZSA LOW ALLRig: IC-7610, antennas: F12 C33 at 85 ft 10/15/20 mtrs at 2100 ft above sea level, Alpha Delta sloper for 40/80/160. WRITELOG for logger Again my pet peeve is stations who send QRZ over and over without a callsign. After 10 or so QRZ I will call WHATS YOUR CALLSIGN? Half the time I have worked them before and move on. Also, the big guns who blast their call out of turn hoping to be heard over everyone else. Also, when a station asks who is the K7 or station ending in Zulu and people with calls nowhere near my call answer. It is difficult enough for me in Las Vegas to work EU stations without strong East Coast stations calling over me. In the ARRL DX contests some EU stations need western states for mults and when they hear a K7 calling them they will try to work them for a possible new mult but East Coast stations will keep calling over the top of me. Very surprised how 10 mtrs was wide open. Many stations all over the band with even QRM from too many stations close together. My best band. 15 mtrs also was op
K7HVSA LOW ALLGreat fun riding the roller coaster condx!
K7KXSA HIGH ALLFirst time operating in a contest from my remote station in Montana. Created a list of action items I need to address to make station control and interfacing with N1MM more seamless. Conditions were excellent!
K7LUCSO LOW ALLFirst license 03-2023
K7VITSA HIGH ALLIt was sure nice to have 10m so open. Perhaps too nice, and I should have spent more time making the rounds. :^) I ran assisted to help my relatively small station find some new countries. I noticed on Saturday afternoon, some frustrated person(s) posting multiple bad callsigns on the DX cluster(s). I checked out a few of the DX spots and saw the spotter's source-call was in several cases a bogus, non-existent callsign(s). Apparently, the frustrated person(s) might not have been able to work the DX call so they were going to try and spoil the fun for others. The bad spots on the DX cluster were pretty easy to recognize ... especially if one uses their ears to listen before calling the station in question. Thank you for continuing to sponsor these World-Wide fun contests. VY FB
K8GLSO HIGH ALLThank you! Mucho splatter on 20 and 15 from the activity but 10 meters was a welcome oasis, complete with DX!
K8LFSA HIGH ALLStarted with tower at 35FT on Saturday. Raised Tower Saturday afternoon. Anyway lots of stations very crowded. I like CW and RTTY better
K8MCNSO HIGH ALLTHANK YOU
K8MRSO HIGH ALLNearly all my QSOs were above 29.000
K8OZSO HIGH 10MJust looking for some old friends. Propagation for 10 meters should be pretty good this year. Let's see how the propagation holds up
K8ROXSA HIGH ALLBroken rotor, unable to spin the beam and a lousy low band sloper but managed to pull out by far my best contest score ever! Had a blast!
K8TSSA HIGH 15Mops not identifying and fake posts were real bummers
K9FROSA LOW ALLFun Contest. IC7300 and G5RV/10m Vertical Dipole
K9GASO LOW 10MSECTION IL 04 SINGLE BAND 10M LOW POWER K9GA OP TU, 73
K9JF/7SA HIGH 10MIndoor Dipole at 15' QRN S-7 to S-8 with so many Solar Panels in the neighborhood
K9JKSO QRP 10MNOTE-RESUBMIT TO CORRECT TRANSCRIPTION ERROR OF ZONE FOR 5 QSOS
K9JYSA HIGH ALLAll S&P
K9KJSO LOW 10MWasnt going to work the contest at first, but was able to get on Saturday afternoon and play
K9LCSA LOW ALLGreat conditions!! Had a lot of fun
K9ROSA LOW 20MHeard 20+ more counties that could not here me. Many thanks to those that did and tried extra hard when I was not 59
K9SJPSA HIGH ALLFirst license 10-2022 2022
KA0PQWSO LOW ALLfun contest 73 Matt ka0pqw
KA0WWTSA LOW ALLGreat 10 Meter band opening on Saturday.....Sunday was a slog for every contact
KA2GSA HIGH ALLFirst license 10-2023
KA6JARSO HIGH 10MFirst license 08-2023 First Licensed 8/29/2023 as KO6BAX
KB0ARZSO LOW ALLI did past my goals of total contacts and total score compared to 2023!!
KB3NSA LOW ALLFirst license 11-2021
KB4MGSO LOW ALLLove this contest!
KB5WTXSA LOW 10MAll contacts made with a speaker wire inverted vee dipole at 10 feet high built after the contest started
KC1RWRSA LOW ALLFirst license 10-2022
KC1SDDSA HIGH ALLOperator age 13
KC1TMTSO LOW ALLOperator age 16
KC1TNOSA HIGH ALLFirst license 07-2022
KC1TPHSO LOW ALLFirst license 10-2023
KC1UEKSA LOW ALLFirst license 02-2024
KC1UYCSO LOW ALLOperator age 12
KC1VFXSO LOW 10MFirst license 08-2024
KC3STZSA LOW ALLGreat Contest
KC3TYXSO LOW ALLFirst license 04-2022 Great contest!

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