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12/14/2009 | AI0Q
When I turned on the rig Saturday afternoon all I heard was meteor scatter signals popping out of nowhere and quickly fading away. I heard partial call signs but not enough duration to make an exchange. By sticking on frequency, eventually a more int... Read More
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12/14/2009 | N5LUL
This was a really interesting event this year. The band seemed dead for the 1st day, then... opened up full blast on Sunday afternoon. (I'm sure I didn't have the RF gain knob turned all the way to the left before then). Really suprising to hear all th... Read More
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12/14/2009 | KD6WKY
This year my friend Scott KI6YYZ and I took turns casually working the 1meter contest between slices of fruitcake and coffee. Maybe in a few years we'll work stations east of the Rockies when the sun spots charge up the ionosphere a bit more. Still h... Read More
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12/14/2009 | NQ2W
48 hour contest...36 hours of operating time...4 hours to make more than half of my total Q's - What a band! Lots of listening to static and tuning through my Capital Region fellow contesters calling CQ - Thanks for letting me know my radio was still w... Read More
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12/14/2009 | WB4QNG
I thought the band conditions were some of the worst ever. I was fully prepared to spend at least 30 hours on the radio this weekend. After listening for the first 6 hours of the contest without a contact I kind of gave up on that. I did get another 10... Read More
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12/14/2009 | KX1G
After a few years doing the contest as a single op, I once again did a Multi with AB1X and KG1V. We had fun, but, man, other than the fantastic band opening on Saturday night (150 Q's in 90 minutes) the lack of propagation made it painful.
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12/14/2009 | K9WIS
I only got of for an hour near the end of the contest and it seemed that I could only work TX. Finally K9KR from across town got on and doubled my score with a new multi, WI. Thanks Lynn
73, and Merry Christmas to All and to all gud DX,
Brian K9WIS Read More -
12/14/2009 | KC8TEE
I do not know if this is some sort of record or not, but in the two days of the contest I only completed 4 QSOs. All of these were on Saturday night. Three of them were to South Dakota, W0SD, KD0S and W7XU, the other was local to KD8LEA. Maybe next yea... Read More
