03/28/2008 | N4ARR The Dixie Radio Pirates, N4ARR (www.dixieradiopirates.com)participated in the 2007 ARRL Ten Meter contest from Shelby, NC, this year.
Thanks to Ron AA4S for letting us use his wonderful QTH, we participated in the multi-operator class. As primarily a VHF contest team, many pirates were working their first HF contest. Thanks to the many stations that worked us, and thanks to the Pirates that operated.

The internet was filled with everyone talking about how dead this contest was going to be at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, etc. This was the case for us Friday night into Saturday morning, felt like the Maytag repairman, calling CQ, but not many signals on the band. Someone threw the switch and finally the band began to buzz with signals, and before we knew it, we had several pileups on us. It was great experience for the operators to operate under pileup conditions, pulling out the callsigns out of the noise.

Everyone had a great time and hope to be back in 2008..

73 de N4ARR
Dixie Radio Pirates. -- W4GRW