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  • 03/05/2012 | KA0P

    Was only able to be on a little bit. Hope for more time next year. Read More

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    03/04/2012 | NQ2W

    WOW! I can't believe they actually heard me. The highlight of this contest was working 8 stations, 7 new DXCC entities for me, on 80m. The antenna pictured is the one used on 80m - a homebrewed, near-bottom loaded vertical with too few radials - that h... Read More

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    03/03/2012 | DF5WW

    First time working on all bands with my small QRP Rig. Using here a Flexradio Flex-1500, 5 watts out into a 2 x 25 mtrs. doublet with balance feedline. See ya next year :-) Read More

  • 02/29/2012 | K4WY

      As I enter my 44th year of enjoying the DX contests I have to tell you this was one of the tougher ones.  We had a mild fall and winter in Virginia that allowed me more time up the tower and in the trees to focus on antennas more than ever before I h... Read More

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    02/27/2012 | W1RT/R

    John & I were surprised to see the official results.  We were certain after initially looking at the Submitted Logs page here that we had come in a distant second.  So after 4 months of letting pictures and videos sit in the digital camera I figured it... Read More

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    02/25/2012 | KW6G

     My best score ever!  138K with 316 valid contacts (3 dupes, sorry about that) and 146 mults.  All with my barefoot 756proII and ground mounted Butternut HF9V vertical.   Holiday weekend meant the neighbors were away and no plasma TV RFI.  I worked a l... Read More

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    02/21/2012 | K5ME/R

    This is a story about traveling almost 4,000 miles to rove in the 2012 VHF Sweepstakes in East Texas.  (This was posted by N6NB, who operated with K5ME/R.)

    For some years we have been watching the VHF contest successes of the Nacogdoches (TX) Amateur R... Read More

  • 02/21/2012 | WB9JPS

    One hilarious moment on the DX spots: A Zimbabwe station pops up near the end of the contest. A spotter comments, "Git him boys!!!!"  And at that moment all of the world's RF energy was focused on Southern Africa. We should check the world news for rep... Read More

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