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12/11/2017 | WB4GVZ
What a tough year for scoring. The signals were at or in the noise level for me. Using three different antennas, a vertical, and extended doulbe zepp and an 80 meter loop. The loop proved to be the best receiving antenna with the lowest noise level ho... Read More
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12/11/2017 | KF9US
Wow. That was absolutely the worst example of conditions for a ten meter contest that I have ever experienced, and I've been a participant for over 20 years. I thought last year was bad. Thankfully, there was an brief opening from Wisconsin to Color... Read More
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12/11/2017 | WJ4VA
And I thought conditions last year were bad....I think I made around 100 contacts last year many of them west coast. This year I couldn't even hear anything from any state that didn't share a border with mine (VA)...25 (I think) contacts over two days... Read More
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12/10/2017 | ka1amr
I could hear Maine, NH and CT, but they couldn't hear me. It was 'painful'. Worst I've seen it in years. Twelve contacts in two days. No West Coast, Europe or South America. Canada was missing. No locals, either. Our 2-day snow storm didn't help out e... Read More
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12/10/2017 | K4SQC
One of the things I have learned over the years is if there is no propagation even with a a kilowatt and big antennas you cannot "force" the band open. But then I wasn't running a kw and my antenna was a Moxon. There was no propagation here in Geor... Read More
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12/09/2017 | W4AAA
During the preceding week I installed a couple of temporary Beverage antennas around the property. Then on Saturday morning I set up the station and software and luckily everything was working perfectly. Conditions seemed pretty good on the first day, ... Read More
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12/09/2017 | W4AAA
I have never operated both modes of Sweepstakes in the same year, until now. The station was still set up from the CW leg so there was nothing to do on Saturday except to start a new log and attach the microphone headset. In the CW contest 40m my best ... Read More
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12/08/2017 | W9GRS
We fired up the radio at school with the intent on getting the school station on air for the CW part of Sweepstakes and completing the CW portion of Triple Play. We managed to set station records in all categories and more importantly, added the last ... Read More