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2011 SSB

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NK7UMULTI-MULTIThe following QSO's were removed from our log because we were out of band: 29 Oct 14:13 15M IR2P 29 Oct 23:38 20M CW5W 30 Oct 14:21 20M IR3R 30 Oct 14:59 20M A65BU 30 Oct 17:34 20M TA2/DL7BC 30 Oct 21:02 20M DL/JA2BNN
NN3WSA HIGH ALLFantastic conditions and activity!
NN7SSSA QRP ALLYes, I can work DXCC-QRP in one weekend! Final tally: 116 DXCC Countries. I wasn't ready to put in long hours on SSB, as I was feeling under the weather. So I just tried to see if I could work DXCC QRP. There's even a category: Single Operator Assisted QRP All-Band. I even managed to get packet spots working :-) During the contest I stopped to research and fix configuration issues with the microHAM controller, and to pull-out the audio DSP unit that had AGC problems with the loud SSB QRM. I only worked 20, 15 and 10m, since low-band QRP is not better than sleeping. Saturday morning provided many Europeans. After the "easy" countries were worked, it was great to skip the pileups on "already-worked" countries. Europeans could be heard on 10m but were hard to work QRP, so 15m and 20m more successful. The afternoon provided all the usual Caribbean, South America, and Pacific/Asia - Thanks! I ended the day Saturday with 90 DXCC countries. Sunday morning brought enough new European countries to cross the 100 country finish line. I took some time off to listen for a RTTY DX station - easier on the ears. Then I just checked SSB every hour or two to see if I could add a few more countries. I heard at least another dozen countries on 10m that I just couldn't work QRP. Heard too much of the usual phone antics: last two letters, not listening, calling out of turn, tuning up amps on the DX frequency, DX not identifying. I'm glad they'll all be disqualified for violating the DX Code of Conduct. NN7SS Burt WA (K6UFO op) 10,15,20m: C-31XR at 71ft, C-3 53ft, 3el Steppir 40 ft One Yaesu FT-1000MP turned down to 5 watts Writelog software and microHAM controller
NO0BZ/8MULTI-ONEThis is only our small clubs second try at this contest. Its needless to say that we really improved from last year. The station has been coming along, along with the operators. Bands were in good shape again finally. With just a modest station we were able to hear and work all but Central and Far East Asia (aside from JA). Great fun
NO2D/0SO LOW ALLI knew I had a microphone somewhere. Now I know why I hid it! Tough sledding with minimalist antennas, even with increased sunspot activity. Pete, NO2D
NP2QSO QRP ALL5 watts
NP4GSO LOW 20MGreat Contest. See you next year!
NW2KSO LOW ALLFrequencies listed here by N1MM are RX, not TX. Split operation was used. Please do not penalize those QSOs. Thank you. 90W, matchbox, 80M loop at 30 feet
NX0ISA LOW ALLHad a blast. Spent most time on 10 & 15 meters. Really nice to see them open and really spread out
NX1TSO LOW ALLContest cut short by power/antenna loss in a snowstorm
NX7TTSO LOW ALLwas single op 10 meters only for 18 hours...worked 100 countries and 31 zones...band was wide open. had a blast. was looking for dxcc stuff and not just numbers of q's. trying to up my dxcc count for 10 since it is now open
NY4ISA HIGH ALL10m was fun. The Zero-Five 43 foot vertical makes for some challenges with that many stations heard and no side-rejection. But the Alpha 9500 helps!
NY4OSO HIGH ALLGreat fun! BUT had the first 90 contacts erased when PC had power surge. Please take that into consideration when evaluating the logs of others who claim working me. Thanks
NY4SSO LOW 15MHeard some really great operators! Conditions good!
OE5TMULTI-TWOWe experienced good highband condx - not having antennas for 160 and 80 did not hurt much. Great fun!
OE6USO LOW ALLMY POWER WAS 100 WATTS GOOD CONDITIONS- MY BEST CONTEST!
OE7AJTSA LOW ALLTS850s, 100W 2 EL YAGI 40m 8 El LogP 10-20m
OE9RSO HIGH ALLGreat conditions on all Bands, outstanding 10m openings, great score for a simple setup. Lost a lot of time reparing and improving things but thats what makes a contest so exiting. I always get things running during the contest and that costs time.... CU in the next contest ! Carl, OE9MON
OG6NSA HIGH ALLThis contest was one more tough episode this fall with an inflamed arm that already prevented a full effort on SAC and somewhat crippled station so I was like a one-armed pirate navigating his badly shaken vessel in the stormy waves. The power splitting to multiple directions was not functional and the second radio was not working on Saturday so I lost some valuable operating time while chasing multipliers when I should have just run for stations. It appeared that the USB/serial port adapter that used to work well for the second radio control in the past came to the end of its life. There were also some broken control wiring that prevented the use of all possible antennas. Saturday went with a lot of S/P and SO1R to reach a good multiplier. This meant a big loss in the QSO numbers. My arm was on fire in the evening so I had to rest for quite a long time. I stayed off the radio for almost 12 hours. On Sunday I tried to run as much as possible and even managed to get the second radio operational but the propagation was down from Saturday so the rates were decent but nothing spectacular. 10 m was great but the low bands were awful. All things considering I was pleased to be able to work WAZ on 20m and 10m and reach 143 countries on 15m and 149 countries on 10m. It remains to be seen if a better effort is going to happen in the CW leg. My arm still hurts so taking some off-time seems to be the case. At least my station is now in a bit better condition
OH0VSO HIGH 40MThank You all for another Great One ! Conditions to West were much better than last year. To East, the conditions kind of were there, but no stations. Also from West, there could have been more activity on low bands. People were enjoying the upper bands. I am sure everybody had a lot of Fun this year. The high point was there were many Pacific stations coming in over the pole. I missed some zones that I thought would be easy - as usual. Hear you all and at least some others on CW !
OH1BVSO LOW ALLRX/TX YAESU 1000 MP
OH2JIUSA LOW ALLMy first CQWW-Contest See you all next year 73! Jouni
OH2LUSO LOW 10MICOM-756PROII, max. 100 W, 3-el Yagi at 15m AGL
OH3BUSA LOW 10MContest didn't start too well. I hurt my back while changing winter tyres. It was anyway really nice that 10 meters showed some activity after so many low sun spot years. Makes me remember my early years in ham radio
OH3HSSO LOW ALLMAX POWER 100W
OH3OJSA HIGH 10MNice to be on 10m also from Finland after a pretty long while
OH3PSO LOW ALLAfter many years, since last time, from OH6AT I took a part in CQWW, now from own station. All supposed to ok. Well, 80M wire h-loop did not work, no qso?s in 80/40m - though luck. Thanks for nice contest, it was fun, probagation was also good. Gear was TS590, N1MM, JP2000 tribander, INV V for 160m and that loop was not in ?form?...Hope to cu next year !
OH6GFISO LOW ALLYaesu FT-950, 100W, 80m loop, 40m dipole, 20-15-10 m tribander, 10m 3-element yagi
OH8KASA LOW ALLFT-990,100W, 19m end-fed sloper wire. Nice propagation!
OH8UVSA LOW ALLRIG(s): FT950, 100W, FT817ND, 5W; ANTENNA(s): TH3, OFC-dipole
OH8XSO HIGH ALLGreat propagation on Saturday, unfortunately the operator's health failed on Sunday!
OK1AIJSO QRP 15Mtransceiver TS120V output 5Watts, ant LW27m
OK1AROSO LOW 10MBig surprise, ten meters band very busy all the time.. For my small equipnemt nice result indeed
OK1CLDSO LOW ALLIt was a great contest, I managed to make 851 QSOs (250 more than ever before!), 100 unique DXCCs (4 new - Bhutan, Panama, Mexico and Hawaii) and 29 unique CQ zones. Ten meters band was the best. Looking forward to the CW part. 73! Ondra OK1CLD
OK1EVSA LOW ALLFT101ZD, 3el.yagi
OK1FCSO LOW 80MTS830S, ant. vertical delta loop
OK1FHISA LOW 10MFT2000 100W, 3ele Yagi tribander
OK1FROSO HIGH ALLRIG ALINCO DX-77 + PA, PWR 800 W, ANT DIPOLE 2 x 20m
OK1HFPSO HIGH 80MKenwood TS 570 PA 250W ANT Dipole 2x36m,14m UP,Loop 160m 4m UP
OK1IEISO LOW 10MRTX Icom 7000 100W ant. vertical
OK1INSO LOW 10MWery good CONDX, worked only shortly in free time :-)
OK1KMGSO LOW ALLFT-847 + ATU FC-20; 70 W; 160 m and 80 m = LW 80 m, 40 m = Vet. ECO AVT4, over = Yagi ECO B. A. Nr. 78. 73, Leo OK1ULE!
OK1KZSO LOW 10MTRX FT 847 100W ANT MULTIBAND DIPOLE G5RV
OK1LOSA LOW 40MICOM IC-775DSP, 100W; ANT ECO YAGI (10-15-20-40kit)
OK1LXSO LOW 40MRIG: Elecraft K2 PWR: 100W ANT: 40m Inverted Vee
OK1ULESO LOW ALLFT-847 + ATU FC-20; 70 W; 160 m and 80 m = LW 80 m, 40 m = Vet. ECO AVT4, over = Yagi ECO B. A. Nr. 78. 73, Leo OK1ULE!
OK2QXSO LOW 10MTRX "K3", 100 W out into 3 el tribander. Very good condx, but on finish more stations have bad modulation (specielly LU1MA!), and RT4RO and RA6XV produced extremly strong clix +- 20 kHz !!
OK2SWDSO LOW ALLGOOD CONTEST WITH MANY STATIONS. SEE YOU AGAIN FRIENDS. TCVR: 70 W, ANT: LW 40 M
OK2TBCSA LOW ALLRIG(s): TS-590S ,100W; ANTENNA(s): GP7DX
OK2UGGSO LOW ALLTransceiver IC-706MKIIG (Power 100 Watts) Antenna LW-20m 80-10m

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