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KM6JDSO HIGH ALLGreat contest but not so great band conditions. Conditions seemed better on Sunday compared to Saturday. Lots of European stations coming through to the west coast on 20 meters Sunday morning and early afternoon. Conditions last year were much better. Only wish we had better propagation on 10 meters
KN0BBYSA QRP 20MFirst contest I ever entered. Sunny sky with blustery wind Froze to death but enjoyed it
KN4EWISO LOW ALLCLASSIC and ROOKIE with FCC grant on July 27, 2017
KO0ZSO LOW ALLGood to be on the air
KQ2MSO HIGH ALLI wasn't well enough to operate but I turned on the radio Saturday AM and 15 was HOT! Sat down and operated off and on when I could. Back-to-back 250+ hours on SUNDAY was a first for me! Great fun and wonderful to work old and new friends as always. My best wishes to those contesters and their countries as they rebuild from the damage of those terrible hurricanes. Tnx for hte q's and the mults! 73 Bob KQ2M
KQ6RSChecklogKQ6RS - 2017 CQ WW DX SSB LOG. Not expecting a score. Just to help others verify contacts with me
KR2QSO QRP ALLThe first 9 hours were a real slog. Things improved from there. I still get a huge thrill working each QSO with QRP power
KS7TSO HIGH ALLWow, hrd only 1 dx stn on 80 Sat. eve, 6Y1LZ that I chased for 2 hours before finally getting him and then was about to QSY to 40 when I heard CN2A who disappeared quickly but what followed was a pipeline to zone 33 for 2 hours and wrked more Africans on 80 ssb than ever before including CN2A later on-amazing with random length homebrew mess of wires with a tuner @ only 40' here!
KT4FQSO LOW 15MHad a good time as always
KU1CWSA HIGH 20MThe operator was in WA state and station in VA
KU4VSA LOW ALL45 minutes before the contest the Aplha blew a fuse. No back up amp. With only wire antennas I was not competitive
KW4LYSO LOW ALLRig: Elecraft KX3 Transmission power: 12-15W Antenna: 35.5' end-fed wire sloping from 25'
KZ2ISO HIGH ALLPut up new-to-me SteppIr at new NJ qth and this was shake down cruise. Weak link in the setup was the OLD operator. Had fun!
KZ3ISO QRP 20MUsed 5 Watts QRP to dipole antenna at 65 feet. Many heard, few worked
LA2ABSO LOW 40MVery poor condx, few dx Still enjoyed contest!
LA4CMULTI-TWOWorked with receiving apex loop for the first time. Helped a lot on 160, 80 and 40. 6 el logaygi on 20, k1wa array on 40 and vertical loop on 160. Dipole on 80. Had a rather windy day. Happy this was not a field day
LA4OMULTI-MULTIWe rented a cabin at locator JP60EE and temporary installed 7 antennas. The best antennas we had were 3-bander Spiderbeam and hexbeam on 10m high masts, last year the best we had was 2 element VDA for 15m band. Another improvement from last year was one power amplifier available. This allowed us to triple qso count. Finally we could even get "big gun" feeling with sucessfull runs towards Europe and North America. Saturday evening brought nice surprise on 10m with South American stations coming quite strong to Norway. It was very nice contest with some funny and pleasant moment
LA6VQSA HIGH ALLThanks to LA4HC for letting me use his fine station again. Fine conds despite the low SSN, but few stations worked in AS/OC, no 160m, some CAT/logging issues and no 40m and on Sunday. Still, a good contest with 43h of good fun and new personal best score
LA7IJSO LOW ALLLicensed from December 13, 2016
LA8OKASO LOW ALLGood conditions!
LA9PJASA HIGH ALLLOG check - Just for check with others
LB1AHSA HIGH ALLBig respect for all radio amateurs who use legal output power and clear outgoing signals. And big shame who run over legal output and did big havoc on a bands with a dirty outgoing signals. Thanks for contest!!!
LB4CDSA LOW ALLJust a few qsos for fun. No time thiscyear, but great conditions!
LU2DKTSO HIGH 160MVery tough 160 because QRN, many repetition needed. Prop was often one way
LU5MTSO LOW 15Mwww.lu5mt.com.ar
LU6DUSO LOW 10Mlu contest group
LU8EHRSO LOW ALLToo few time to joy it, 10m was OK, 40m was dissapointing, and very high local QRN all weekend kill 80m
LU8YEMULTI-ONENice contest, not good conditions but exquiste food
LW7DJSO LOW ALLsolo 28 mhz
LW7DXSO HIGH 10MGood condx on 28 MHz!
LX/G1TPA/PSA QRP 40MThanks to Luxembourg for being so nice, friendly and welcoming :)
LX1ERSA HIGH ALLwas very good propagation , but as i had some problems on 40 meters with my antenna , i changed on saturday night to high power , so it was half low and half high(500W) but nice conditions on all bands
LY2BMXSO LOW 80MFirst 20 minutes of contest, was lively. After that... heavy. It was hard to call many multiplers, in particular A44A, which I did not do :)
LY5CBSO LOW 160MICOM IC-7300 100 W. Delta Loop TNX for Contest GL ,73
LY5ISO LOW 80M73
LZ1AQSA HIGH 80MTX: Icom 756pro + 300W PA, RX: Perseus SDR sync. with 756pro, TX Ant: T vertical ( top at 15m) with 6 elevated radials each 7.5 m RX Ant: Phased array with small magn. loops and short dipoles. Assisted: OH2AQ DX cluster
LZ5ZSA LOW 20MEnjoyed as always, propagation not so-good on 20m this year
LZ7MMSO LOW 15MICOM 7410 ANT: MULTI DIPOLE PWR: 80 WATTS Svetlin - Svet
LZ8USA QRP 20MRIG: SKY-SDR , ANT. DIPOLE , VERTICAL
M0CVOSO LOW ALLMain Contest Antenna down so used wire OCFD
M0HHGSO HIGH ALLI enjoyed using SD Thank you
M0HMSSO LOW ALL1st every entry
M0HOMChecklogjust giving some points away, nothing serious this year
M0JBASO QRP 20MThanks to those who struggled with my QRP signals
M0KPDSO HIGH ALLOperated from my mobile station :O)
M0MCVSO HIGH ALLTremendous activity. Great to see the contest activity improve the propagation! Good to see 15M in good shape, and to catch some South Americans on 10M. Almost 1,000 Qs made on 40 and 80M alone!
M0NPQSO LOW ALLICOM IC-7300 ,Delta Loop Antenna , 100W TNX for Contest ! 73,GL
M0NPTSO HIGH ALLIt was a great contest
M0RBESO HIGH ALL10MTS WAS DEAD WORTH GIVING IT A GO
M0SDYSO LOW ALLFT897D, G5RV & 80w

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