Hi Folks-

2007 ARRL 160 Meter Contest certificates were processed today. Winners should start seeing them in their mailboxes in the next few days.

2008 RTTY Roundup plaques and certificates will be going out in the next couple weeks.

The 2008 Sweepstakes is now history. Thanks to everybody who participated! Conditions were pretty darn good for the bottom of the sunspot cycle, and the number of logs coming in to HQ is pretty amazing: 1127 electronic logs for CW so far, and 1029 logs for Phone Sweepstakes. That doesn't count the paper logs, either!

Special thanks to everybody in those rare sections that got on and made a few QSOs just for the sake of helping others with a rare multiplier. You may not have earned a Clean Sweep yourself, but you certainly contributed to others getting one, and that is pretty special. Thanks!

Do you have a great story to share about your Sweepstakes operation? Tell us! You can post your story to the Soapbox link here. Did you get a Clean Sweep or earn a Participation Pin? Tell us how! Was this your first experience with Sweepstakes? How did you do? What did you think? Let us know; I love reading the stories of your operations, and so do others.

Finally, this nugget of news for the VHF'ers among us: The web version of the 2008 June VHF Contest writeup has been MIA for a couple weeks. My apologies for the delay; our Web Development team had other projects to complete that were of a critical nature, and our June VHF results unfortunately got pushed back a bit. We should have these online by the end of the week.

That's the news here at the Contest Branch. As always, call or email me if you have something on your mind.

Sean KX9X