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Call	Category	Comments
JK7UST	SO QRP 20M	Rig:K2 Ant:4EL YAGI
JL1QDO	SO LP ALL	Rig: FT-2000 Output 100W Ant: 4-Band Vertical
JM1DPL	SO QRP 40M	I enjoyed the TEST. CU Next Year!
JM1XTB	SO QRP 40M	TEN-TEC 1340(3.0W), MFJ-1640-T(Whip) MFJ-1640-T(Whip) with Coaxial Counter-Poise
JM8GJB	SA LP 15M	Licence date September 19, 2014
JN1VFF	SA LP ALL	I enjoyed the contest. IC7200,100w,10mhDP
JN3DMJ	SO QRP ALL	The actual maximum power output used is 5 watts
JO1SIM	SO HP ALL	RIG:FT-2000D ANT:8mh HB9CV DP
JO1WIZ	SO LP ALL	IC-7300M (50Watts) Loaded DP
JO3PSJ	SA LP 20M	Rig YAESU FT-450 100w Ant Verticals Condx was too bad, but I enjoyed contest!!
JO3QVT	SO LP ALL	71 years old
JP3QAO	SA LP ALL	It was very difficult challenge for me. I'll improve my skill for next time
JQ1COB	SO LP ALL	I short time the contest
JR0BUL	SO QRP 40M	Many thanks for the nice contest
JR1BQJ/1	SO LP 40M	I enjoyed the 1st time WPX contest. TRX:ICOM IC-7000M(50W) ANT:15m/HENTENNA-LOOP Other BAND/10mLong VERT
JR1EMT	SO LP ALL	Hope 10m open soon!
JR1JCB	SO HP ALL	I enjoyed the contest, Thank you !
JR1LEV	SO LP ALL	I enjoyed the contest. JST-245/DP.ATU+Wire
JR1LLD	SA QRP 15M	Rig:The KD1JV Tri-bander (assembly kit from Hendricks QRP kits,Inc.) Power:5W, ANT:End-fed full-size dipole on veranda at 11mH
JR1NKN	SO QRP 15M	I'm very glad to have many QSOs. Thank you for the QSOs. I enjoyed very much. I hope to see you again. The maximum output power in the contest was five watts
JR2EKD	SA QRP 15M	I enjoyed the contest by QRP
JR3KAH	SA LP 15M	FT450DM MAX POWER 50W GP Antenna
JR3RIU	SO HP ALL	IC-7600, KPA500 500W
JS2KHM	SO LP ALL	The contest was bad ondition. Very egrettable. Very egrettable
K0GEO	SO LP ALL	The usual part time effort on a (holiday) weekend. Great fun as always. Wonderful to work a few Q's on 10m. Many thanks and 73
K2MV	SA LP ALL	First licensed 07-Jul-2015
K3CCR	SA HP ALL	K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. For the 2017 WPX CW, multiple non-ham obligations limited our participation to just 5.3 hrs by one op, N3UM. The first hour was great, 71 QSOs on 20 m., 42 running and 29 click-and-pounce on skimmer spots, mostly 3-point EUs. Got 48 more Qs on 20 and 83 on 40 m. in the next 2.7 hrs until 0342 Z. Sat. 14-16Z was slow, just 58 Qs on 20 m, but got LU and JA. I regretted not being able to get on either afternoon during the best hours to EU, but did take some satisfaction in finding 231 mults out of 260 total Qs
K3JT	SO HP ALL	Solar storm at the end made for real interesting challenge (A=51)
K3NDM	SA LP 80M	Wire antennas
K3TW	SA QRP 40M	Band conditions were good for QRP (5 watts).
K4AFE	SA HP ALL	42299
K4RUM	SO LP ALL	Lots of fun. Great condx on Saturday. Not great condx on Sunday
K5ME	SO LP ALL	Good contest. My 40m antenna was kaput. Thunderstorms Sunday evening
K5TMT	SA LP ALL	42429
K5URU	SA LP 40M	23 QSO Points x 10 Mults = 230
K5XU	SO LP ALL	It was nice to find some contacts on 10 meters today
K6AAM	Checklog	Take this log as check-log only
K6CSL	SO LP ALL	Fair to good conditions
K7VIT	SA HP ALL	As far as I could tell, these were tough band conditions. For me 15m wasn't too good on Saturday (local time), and it was worse on Sunday. A sign of current conditions in the solar cycle. Thank goodness for 20m. Thanks to all who answered my calls
K7XC	SA HP 20M	I Began my 20M Mono-band effort right at 0000Z with wonderful propagation in all directions. At one time I ran a pileup that was open to EU/RU/JA simultaneously! As it got dark the conditions over the pole only improved! I stayed up till 2AM PDST and finally gave up and hit the rack as I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. Woke up at 8AM Saturday morning with the band still cooking in all 3 directions plus now the Caribbean was in on the action as well. Slowly the skids fell of the propagation with the band very noisy. The openings over the pole are gone so I stopped around noon to take a needed nap after lunch.. I never quite made it back to the radio until midday Sunday as my energy reserves were depleted. Don't have the stamina I once had since my 6 day stay in the hospital back in Feb. With a bit over 2 hours left I am punting for now to come back another day. The June VHF QSO Party is coming up soon so I will bank up some energy reserves for that event. Thanks to all who worked me! The station here is an old IC-746 driving a AL-80B to 750W output into a home-brew 3ele 20M mono-band yagi (An EF Johnson HF array kit from 1954) up 43' atop a stack of AB-577 Heavy Duty Military Surplus Mast. I recently refurbished a 40+ yr old Fritzel FB-33 Tri-bander that's ready to mount atop another 30ft of heavy wall mil surplus Aluminum Mast in time for the Fall Contest season. I sure Could have used a 2nd 20M Yagi This weekend as the rotor got quite a workout! KB!! 73s from Nevada de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk Adapt... Overcome... Succeed!
K8LF	SA LP ALL	Using the newly added built-in N1MM IC-7300 spectrum scope feature
K8PJK	SA LP ALL	First Licensed in 2016
K8TS	SA LP 80M	sour cdx on 80--rig interface pbms--poor score
K9GY	SO LP 20M	Was sick so couldn't spend much time with the test
K9UIY	SO LP 80M	Seasonal band QRN plus lightning crashes made copy very difficult at times. Plus condx did not allow many four and six point QSO's. Would have liked to have had more activity on the band
KA2FHN	SO LP ALL	Conditions were good..10m opened about 4:30 local. See you all next year!
KA3DRR	SA HP ALL	Never a dull moment in RadioSport! See you next year
KA6BIM	SA HP ALL	Roller coaster conditions this weekend. Great on Friday then went downhill
KB1KXL	SO QRP ALL	Fun contest
KB8TYJ	SO LP ALL	Great contest, especially On 40 Friday night and 20 Saturday morning!

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