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N5LXISO LOW ALLMy first CQ WW contest. Minimal antenna but I worked some new DX. Fun!
N5MKYSA LOW ALLLicensed as KE8CRD 12-07-2015 Vanity call N5MKY issued 02-12-2016
N5OCOSO LOW 15MThanks to all for the fun. Great operators out there worldwide
N5ZYSO LOW ALLFirst contest using my new 43 foot vertical instead of temporary OCF dipole or attic antennas. I'm exhausted! I wish there was an exclusive 100 watt 24-hour DX contest! That would be awesome - or it might be really quiet. I wish to say Thank You to CQ Magazine and everyone involved in hosting this contest and rating entries - and to all the DX stations who worked me even though I wasn't easily heard. I also want to thank N1MM for providing such a great contest logging program - Wow!
N6AJSO HIGH ALLScore increased by 11,000 over last year
N6KNSO HIGH ALL10 meters is alive!
N6PSSO LOW 20M1st contest submission
N6RVSO LOW ALLI almost gave up after struggling through Saturday. Slept 6 hours on Sunday morning. When I got up conditions had improved. Even 10 meters took off. Plenty of Europe on 20 and 15. Debated about going to the 20 meter zoo in the last minutes of the contest. I did and it paid off. VK9CZ was the second station I worked. See eveyone in the CW segment!
N6SACSO LOW 20MROOKIE SEP 11, 2015
N6WMSA HIGH 15MAlways a great time operating this one!
N6WSSA HIGH ALLRig: Yaesu FTDX-5000, 2K-FA Ant: SteppIR @ 54 ft. Had a great time playing in the pileups. TU es Best 73 to all, Bill, N6WS
N6YFMSO HIGH ALLMedium Power 350 Watts, using Icom 7300, into Comet H-422 rotating dipole
N7MZWSO LOW ALLIcom IC-706MK-2G,a MA5B up 22 ft., and a ZS6BKW dipole up 40 feet
N7RVDSO LOW 20MPortable 6 from Crescent City, California
N7WYSO HIGH ALLconditions better than expected lots of calls not previously in Super Check Partial LIDs still calling and calling instead of listening
N8BGRSO LOW ALLUsed FT-897D on battery power running 35 to 50 watts
N8BISA HIGH ALLSurprising good conditions
N8DESA LOW 15MFIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS OPERATING LOW POWER AND SINGLE BAND. CONDITIONS WERE QUITE GOOD. FOR LOW PART OF SUNSPOT CYCLE, THAT WAS QUITE UNANTICIPATED
N8GLSSO LOW ALLCOULD'NT DEVOTE THE TIME I WANTED SO NOT AT ALL CLOSE TO LAST YEARS SCORE, BUT ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE. BETTER TO HAVE CONTESTED THAN NO TEST AT ALL!! THANKS ALL FOR ANOTHER GREAT EXPERIENCE!
N8IISO LOW ALLVery good condx on 20 and 15. Vast majority of QSO's S&P, was only able to run well on 20 Sunday 19Z
N8TCPSO LOW ALLHad fun with limited time
N8YXRMULTI-ONE LOWGo MRRC GO!!!
N9GGSO LOW ALLReally no antenna
N9RVSO HIGH ALLConditions were great except for the brick wall to JA on the low bands
N9TFSA LOW 15MNo time to play Friday night, and only a little over an hour Saturday (XYLs 60th "B"day). So decided to put my efforts into a SB 15m operation. Conditions not bad for the bottom of the sun spot cycle. But still tough for low power and low antenna. S&Pd my way through 15m Sunday, watching the spots and listening for new calls to work. Spent way to much time in the pileup for FR4QT for two new mults. I'm guessing I burned a good 45 minutes or more calling, but finally did get him in the log. I was hoping for some JA and other Pacific to pop up late in the day Sunday, but prop from that part of the world never materialized. I was able to get A31MM and one ZL in the log, and a few KH6, but prop to Pacific was light with some deep QSB. Atmosperic noise (noise floor) in that direction 240 - 320 degrees was 10 to 15 DB higher than to EU and SA most of the day. Was hoping for DXCC, but was not meant to be. Still had fun. not too bad for the sun spot bottom. 73 Gene, N9TF Rig, Elecraft K3s 100 watts to 2 element triband at 37'
N9UDOSA LOW ALLFirst time running this contest. Only worked on Sunday. Had a great time
N9VPVSA LOW ALLPart Time effort, S&P only
NC4MISO LOW ALLAnother great CQ contest. Had a power outage Sat. afternoon.73 NC4MI
ND0CSO QRP ALLI only had a few hours on Sunday afternoon so tried to make the best of it
NF4ASA HIGH ALLgot a few hours in after getting back from our annual vacation to the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival....100% S&P
NF7ESO HIGH 40MFun test! Decided to just try 40M and really enjoyed it! Hunting and pouncing produced some good DX and then worked the Antarctic station who gave me Zone 39 and a weather report of -44 degrees F. LOL
NH6ABSO QRP ALLQRP was a killer at these band conditions
NK8QSA HIGH ALLMy highest contest score ever!
NM9PSA LOW 80MOnly a very part time effort due to famiy and work schedules. Decided to do single-band 80 Meters and try to raise my DXCC totals on 80. Rig - Flex 6500. Antenna - Inverted L (35 up and 35 over) with one poor radial. Not a great antenna system, but I made a few contacts
NN2NNSO HIGH ALLAlways a lot of fun. Very busy weekend so just a little operating time
NN3WSO HIGH 20MMany thanks to John, N3HBX for use of his awesome station!
NN4XSA HIGH ALLPost Hurricane Irma, I'm without my 40M Moxon. All of my rotating antennas slipped in their rotors, and don't point in the correct direction. I haven't been able to get up the towers to fix them. I've also picked up some hellacious QRN, but it only started the week before the contest. So, good thing I only ever planning on playing around
NP2NMULTI-ONEoperated on generator, no internet, ate MRE's
NP2QSO QRP ALLafter surviving two cat 5 hurricane
NQ5MSA LOW ALL3/2/2016
NR3XSO HIGH ALLRemote operation
NT4ZSO LOW ALLGreat Contest! Thanks to all who worked to make this a successful contest
NZ3OSA HIGH ALLFamily-first, holiday-style, great conditions, thanks to all for the QSOs
OA4SSSO HIGH ALLBetter conditions than expected
OE1ABVSO QRP 40Mlicensed on 20th of October 2017 (!)
OE1GAQSO LOW ALL12/1/2016
OE1HHBSO LOW ALLParticipated again with vertical antennas from my 6th floor corner balcony
OE1VMCSA LOW ALLStorm in Austria with short-time gusts up to 140 km/h This year, I was not QRV on 20m band More activity on 10m band than I expected
OE2IJLSO LOW ALLNice Contest, but very windy (storm warning) here on sunday. Conditions wasnt really good. Sorry
OE2LCMSA HIGH ALLhad to merge 2 wintest-logs, as one PC crashed during the contest

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