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DQ6ESO LP ALLTRX:FT2000 ANT:Magnetic-Loop
DR8MSO HP ALLDR8M is special call for 850 years of Munich
EA4AYDSO LP 20MI'm sorry don't work more stations, but I don't use computer.
EA7TNSO LP ALLTS-2000 (90w), Spiderbeam 10-15-20, Inverted Vee dipoles 40-80
EA8BVPSO LP 15MMy first WPX TEST. It was boring because of poor condx, although I worked some juicious prefix and new ones. Doing S&P most of the time because nobody answered my running. I hope better condx next year. TS480@75W EFHWA vertical
EA8MQSO HP ALLAnother year I participated very happy in this great contest many prefixes in the air heavily involved hope to hear all of them in the next contest thanks, 73
EA8NQSO LP 40MStation: TX/RX: Yaesu FT-897D (100 W output). Antenna: G5RV Jr. at 5 meter over a 8-story building. Logging/Keying: NA v10.65, Home-made Accu-Keyer.
EB3CMLSO LP 40MA slow key in a great contest: Testing my skills. CU next edition. 73. -SAL-
EC5KXASO LP 40MAt our station, EA5ELT, we need a good CW filter for the TS850.
EI2CNSA HP ALLI could not last the night on 160 M - top band operators are night owls. Instead of packing it in I started hunting and pouncing on 15 M using the cluster. Then worked 160 Meter that night and did not find any advantage to the cluster. Saturday was a twenty meter day when most of the Qs were made. Next year I may do 15 M single band. Thanks for the fun.
EI4CFSO LP 15MCould only dip in and out, but band open for most of th the day - 16 hours.
ES1CRSO QRP 15MNice conest for QRP/21MHz operation
ES4MMSO LP 10MTNX FER FB CONTEST!73 DE ES4MM EQUIPMENT: ic-707 90 wtts ANT VERTICAL-10m
EU6AASO LP ALLTnx for Contest!
EW3LNSO HP 40MPower abt 300 wt. @ ant. Inv.Vee
EW8DXSO HP ALLEquipment: Kenwood TS950SD Power Amplifier: 500 Wtts Antennas: 3-El Yagi, Dipole, Computer: Celeron-2, 733 Mhz, RAM 512 Mhz Contest Programm: N6TR-6.72
F/G4BJMSO HP ALLGreat fun, nice to have 10 & 15m open. SD logging worked great.
F5IQJSO QRP ALLTEN TEC ARGONAUT 509 - 5 W - ANT. VERTICALE GAP TITAN
F5LCUSO LP ALLTS-2000 100 W INVERTED L ANTENNA
F5OTZSO LP ALLFT 1000 MP / ant X9 and 10/15/20 dipole 40 and slooper 80m
F5SGISO LP ALLI DEFINITELY LOVE THIS CONTEST ! CONDITIONS WERE OUTSTANDING, INCLUDING NICE OPENINGS ON 10 M ALL OVER THE WEEKEND.MOST OPERATORS WERE IMPRESSIVE AND DID NOT CONFUSE OPERATING SKILLS WITH TRANSMITTING SPEED.
F5ULSO QRP 40MAs in 2007, I used the Elecraft K2 barefoot, running 4.8 watts to the same vertical 25 feet aerial, with an LDG tuner at his base. The propag was not very good during the day, from about 0800/0900 up to 1700/1800 and my best series was done early in the night!
F5VBTSO QRP ALLIC-703, FT-707S,FC-707, 5 watt out; lambda/4 for 40 and 80 m, invL for 160 m, GPA50 for 20, 15, 10 m
F6BEESO HP ALLToo tired before start, too much sleep during the contest, so not enough QSOs. Lot of fun after recovering a bit but it was too late !
G0MRHSO LP ALLEnjoyed the contest for the limited time I participate
G0MTNSO LP ALLOperator exhausted at the beginning, and station not able to cope with the winds. Sadly a much curtailed effort this year.
G0ORHSO HP 10MGood opening on sporadic E, a few contact to NA which w Used SD through-out and faultless logging.
G2HDRSO LP ALLCONDITIONS NOT GOOD. 14 MHZ NOISY SD WORKED WELL, AS ALWAYS.
G3JJZSO LP ALLRIG - ICOM 756 PRO III, 25 WATTS ANTENNAS - 85' LW
G3LHJSO QRP 20MEnjoyable contest yet again - condx were good but hard working the DX with QRP. CU next year god willing 73 de Derrick G3LHJ.
G3TXFSO HP ALLGreat to hear 15m and 10m buzzing with short-skip signals, as well as a few DX stations. Operated for 35 hours across all bands. But 20m remains the power-band until the sun-spots return for real.
G3VQOSO LP ALLjust a casual entry finding new band/slots and prefixes
G3WWSO LP 10MNice to hear North America on 10m in Europe again!
G3YMCSO QRP ALLA fun weekend as usual, plenty of activity and lots to work. Nice to have some sporadic E on 15m and 10m. Conditions otherwise pretty average, and the paths to the USA were a bit marginal on all bands. My 160m antenna is down and the moment and my longwire is poor on 80m so concentrated on the higher bands. 73 Dave
G3ZRJSO LP 10MSORRY I COULDN'T DO MORE HOURS CONDITIONS WERE PATCHY WITH SOME GOOD OPENINGS TO 9M BY AND 9V AND THE OCCASIONAL JA 28 MHZ WAS HUMMING ROUND EUROPE AND TO MID RUSSIA GREAT TO HEAR 10M ACTIVE AGAIN
G4DDXSO LP ALLEnjoyed the contest glad to see 10 and 15 open at last
G4EHTSO LP 160MSORRY DID NOT REALISE TO LOG THE RECEIVED SERIAL. MY FIRST WPX. USE AS CHECKLOG IF IT IS ALL INVALID.
G4MKPSA HP ALLAnother outstanding contest. Thanks for the Qs everyone.
G6CSYSO LP ALLRadio: Icom IC-7400 @ 20W Antennas: Hygain AV-14AVQ vertical and two 20m long parallel inverted L's Homepage: http://www.g6csy.net/ham
G6NUMSO LP ALLRig FT1000; Power <= 100W; Antenna W3DZZ Slightly sloping to SE 55ft at high-point, 26ft at low-point
G8MIASA LP ALLConditions excellent on 15m
G9ASO HP ALLJust a token entry as it was a bank holiday weekend and my xyl had other plans. Condx were really good
GM4FDMChecklogPlease use only as CHECKLOG
GM4SIDSO HP ALLBetter band conditions this year. SD Logger was superb again.
GM4UBJSO QRP 10M10 mtrs open at midnight in GM land during sunspot minimum ! well it was true maybe these contests create their own propogation after all. I used an ic7400 at 5w , a windom at 30ft. and SD to log but the most importan t was noise cancelling headphones for the teenage QRM !
GM4UYZSA LP ALLManaged a few hours on Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed what I worked. Nice to see some CW operators slowing down a bit to allow not so experienced CW operators to to work them. Wish a lot more would do that as not everyone can read 30+ CW. Yes great for them but I think they fail to realise that many people don't come on because they cannot read CW at those excessive speeds... should set 25 WPM maximum Radio: TS2000 Antenna: CUSHCRAFT R5 Vertical Power: 100W
GM5CXSO HP ALLnice conditions
GM7VSO HP ALL10m in great shape, but should have spent more time on LF. 73
GW3VQOSO LP ALLDrove down to Wales for a few hours with a different prefix - tiring but fun!
H7/K9GYSO LP ALLMaybe the new sunspots are starting? Lets hope so!

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