12/21/2007 | WB8YYY One of my favorite contests, even though I don't have a good antenna for top band. I ran QRP with my K2 and ~ 250 foot long off-center fed dipole, only 25 feet above the ground. 203 QSO's and 45 multipliers. My signal put a lot of ops to work, and some with S9++ signals were deaf as maybe they were using their DX receive antennas. Surprise was finding I3MLU who was as loud as an east coast station when I QSO'ed. Late in the evening worked a handful of western US stations, otherwise everyone was east of the Mississippi River. We'll have to come up with a self-supporting inverted L (or something to erect onto my 80/40m vertical). -- WB8YYY