Call | Category | Comments |
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LA8WG | SO QRP 20M | rig: FT817 QRP. ant: 3 EL QUAD up 20 m. Hard job but my 3el quad doing very good |
LA9BM | SO QRP 20M | My 1st WPX contest. Hard work with QRP but a lot of fun. Manage to work a lot of DX and pleased with the result. The 3 el. yagi help me a lot. |
LN5O | MSH | Just to give a few MULTS! |
LQ4D | MSH | Part of our file about the contest has been lost. We are sending the recovered part of the file. |
LR1H | SO LP 20M | VERY GOOD CONTEST |
LT5X | MSH | TS 870 TL 922A |
LU1FDU | SO HP 15M | First time on 15 meters, thanks to all friends. |
LU8SAN | SO LP ALL | IC 706 YAGI 3 ELEMENTS 3 BAND, DIPOLO 40M MUY LINDO, ME FALLO LA ANTENA |
LV5V | SO HP 15M | OPERATE ONLY ABOUT 11 HOURS.ON SUNDAY WAS VERY BUSSY, SO NO CONTEST HI. |
LX1ER | SO LP ALL | tx:ic-775 dsp antenna:1/4 wave vertical for 40 and for 80, multiband vertical what a mr.murphy week-end , first moved to a new place , because my pl ace was occupied , them no place to build up the 2 element quad . so o nly a vertical all band , and 2 verticals 1/4 wave for 40 and 80 meter s. then the message , that my amplifier is not finished from reparing :-( , so only low power , and with the good conditions and many qrm , not easy to work . so hope next year will be better again . regards from LX1ER Joel |
LY5W | M2 | Only game, not serious operation, for few hours |
LZ1IKY | SO HP ALL | IC746 PRO, DIPOLE |
LZ2JA | SO LP 20M | FT-100D 100W 4-el Yagi |
LZ2NKM | Checklog | Great contest! |
LZ9V | SO LP 15M | ft890 gp,5el.y. |
M0RNR | SA HP ALL | Only managed 13 hours of operating but beat last years claimed score. Conditions to Caribbean poor this year but another enjoyable contest. |
M2W | SA LP ALL | Just a small entry as club wasn't going to do WPX. Didn't spend as much time as I would have liked. Still was fun when bands were working for me. Need a better HF antenna, even a wire dipole. Club should be back to full power for CQ WW. |
M5AEF | SO QRP ALL | 129 QSO's . I heard but did was not able to work 9M8Z and work 9K2K. I was pleased to work 6W1SJ for new DXCC Very difficult with numerous stations just not hearing my call. 2 Watts QRP |
MJ4K | MSH | We decided this year to create the unusual MJ4 prefix, by taking our MD4K call for a fun entry in CQWPX to Jersey. One of our ops had to pull out due to a bad 'flu, so then we were 3 for a multi-single effort. We had a lot of fun, in bad conditions on HF again, but seemed to create some interest! LetS hope the sunspots return some time soon... |
MU0FAL | SA LP 20M | part time effort ,I Have lost my SSB mojo,much happier on cw ,but glad to be a bonus mult for a few people |
MW1MDH | SO LP ALL | Great contest, bands were packed to the rafters, and it was quite a challenge! Some stations running a few kHZ from the band-edge! Got best-ever DX of Malaysia, so was quite a worthwhile weekend! Running: ICOM 7400, 100W, Heil ProSet headset, Hustler 5-BTV, MFJ-962D ATU |
N1NN | SO LP ALL | IST CQ WPX SSB CONTEST |
N2MH | SO LP ALL | All contacts made with indoor antennas. First time out with new K3 Radio. |
N2WN/4 | SO QRP ALL | vk7re worked LP on the first call on 20M S9 plus 20 here! |
N3CHX | SO LP ALL | ICOM IC746 to a Kenwood AT-220 Tuner feeding an Inverted Vee @ 55Ft > 20Ft Finally a decent 15 meter opening both days, maybe a light in a long dark tunnel?? Electrical storms kept me out of the running for a good portion of the contest! |
N3FP/4 | SO HP ALL | Great contest, even with all the thunderstorms in Georgia. |
N3KUN | SO LP ALL | Having the whole weekend is a real plus, another great and very fun contest 73s |
N3UM | SO HP ALL | I have done WPX SSB seriously every year since 2003. Until this year, my strategy was to get maximum QSO points by going after 3 to 6 point intercontinental QSOs (mostly EU) until Sun. afternoon, when I would turn the beam west and run W/K stations for a few hours. This worked fine for 4 years ('03 - '06) when there were many sunspots and great 15 and 20 m. openings to EU for many hours per day. I easily ran up well over 2000 QSO points and over 500 prefixes for claimed scores over 1 million points every year. Then, in '07 and '08, the falling sunspot count pushed my claimed scores down to ~825K and ~634K respectively, despite more effort and better results on 40 and 80 m. So, this year I tried a new strategy: run W/K stations whenever I could get a rate 3 or 4 times higher than that possible to EU, enough to make up for 1-point instead of 3 to 6 point QSOs. (A steady few VE and other NA QSOs at 2 to 4 points each would raise the average to 1.2 or 1.5 points/QSO even in hours with very few intercontinental QSOs.) This worked especially well early mornings 11 - 13 Z on 40 m., when SW broadcasters were QRT, but also mid-morning or late afternoon EDT on 20 m. when EU signals were weak and/or sparse. Comparing '07 with '09 shows how the strategies differ. In '07, in 27 hrs. I got 748 QSOs and 1883 QSO points for 2.5 points/QSO, and 438 prefixes for a claimed score of ~825K. In '09, in 22 hrs. I got 842 QSOs but only 1732 QSO points for 2.1 points/QSO and 459 prefixes for a claimed score of ~847 K. I made 38.6% W/K QSOs in '07, but 54.4% in '09. So, the new strategy worked pretty well, mostly because the high rates of W/K QSOs produced more prefixes/hour than working EUs at lower rates, enough to offset the deficit in QSO points. |
N4DXI | SO HP ALL | First major rainstorm and lightning Sunday 2 am, every thing had to be disconnected. |
N4FFP | SO LP 40M | Hearing West Coast very well but had hard time getting through with LP and low antenna. |
N4LS/7 | SO LP ALL | All contacts with mobile station. |
N4LZ | SO HP ALL | Worked C91TX for a new country. |
N4MM | SO HP 20M | Very little time to operate. |
N5DTT | SO LP 15M | 15 Meters in pretty poor shape but still plenty of contacts available with a little effort. I still had a blast as usual. |
N6GEO | SO HP ALL | Ancient Kenwood TS-130S driving a SB200 into a 6BTV |
N6IEF | SO LP ALL | My first WPX |
N6QZS | SO LP ALL | Condx didn't seem very good - much QSB |
N6TPT/7 | SO LP ALL | I haven't played in this contest in a number of years, but it is a fun one. |
N6UWW | SO LP ALL | Fun! Tnx to WB6BFG for letting me sit in the hot seat all weekend (what would I do without my technical guru, chef, bartender, partner in crime) |
N6ZE | SO LP ALL | Nice surprise to hear 15 meters open. No new countries in this one, but fun anyway. |
N7QS | SO LP ALL | Nice to see 15 meters open! |
N8AJN/0 | MSH | WPX SSB '09 was tremendous fun for us ! Station operations went very well, which further added to our enjoyment of every QSO. See you next year, sunspots or not ! |
N8II | SO HP 40M | I made huge numbers of stateside Q's and my quad loop worked very well for domestic Q's, more 40M USA Q's than ever in over 30 years of contesting in any contest. Trying to run EU was a struggle and I missed the first night follwed by below normal condx on Saturday night. KH7XS was ginourmous 20 db over S9 about 90 minutes past my sunrise! |
N8QE | SO LP ALL | Had little time to operate, but I had fun when I did. |
N8ROK | SO LP 20M | Wish I could have played more. Got started and was then called away and was unable to return. Seemed like fun what little I was there. |
N9TF | SO LP 40M | I knew I would be part time, but did not know what times I would be able to operate, so I decided to do a single band on 40m, figuring 40 would be open to somewhere at any time of day and night. I was also looking to fill in some holes on SSB for the ARRL triple play award. Ended up getting in about 12 hours here and there. Sure thought contacts would have come a bit easier. S&Ped and called CQ about 50/50. I think I was more productive most of the times I S&Ped, but always seemed to work all the new blood real quick. Band got noisy Saturday night with the spring snow storm arriving. Made an early exit Saturday night, as I was supposed to run in a 8K race Sunday morning. Well that never happened due to about 6" to 7" of snow falling between 3am and 10am Sunday morning! Went to church instead, and prayed for good band conditions for when I returned home! I'm sure I didn't come close to breaking anyones 40m low power TB-WIRE record, But I did enjoy playing in the contest for the time I had. See you again next year. Station conditions, Icom 756 ProIII, 100 watts to a Alpha Delta DX-DD dipole at 35 feet drooping down to about 20 feet above ground. 73 Gene, N9TF |
NA0CW | SO QRP ALL | Thanks to N0KE, Phil, for letting me use his station in this contest! It was an equalizer for the lousy conditions! |
ND3R | SO LP ALL | Had a great time....Can't wait until the CW test... |
ND6S | SA LP ALL | CU IN CQP |
NE4M | SO HP ALL | 15m actually showed a little life. Lots of fun. |