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12/11/2008 | K0TV
Well, the rate junkie (N1IW) had fun at the start of the contest and just missed
putting 400 QSOs in the log during the first 4 hours. He actually got the last
10 rate well over 200 a few times and kept the last 100 rate above 100 for
quite a while. Wa... Read More -
12/10/2008 | WO2N
SSCW It wound up a typical text book finish for me. Clean Sweep, my main goal by early Sunday Afternoon, As in my previous 7 Sweeps.
Condx okay for low cycle, PAC first QSO, then things got kind of scary with no VE stations logged in first 2 hrs. Sunda... Read More -
12/10/2008 | KG5VK
you know your a Sweepstakes contester.........
when your Mom
shouts over the fence "did you sweep, yet"
on Sunday morning during antenna Farm tours
and Yes we did that morning with op KA5M grabbing KP4SQ
Our rates were down as compared to our best yea... Read More -
12/09/2008 | N8XE
What a way to start off the Christmas season: The ARRL 160M contest. This year it was c-c-cold and snowing at the QTH. A perfect setting for topband contesting. I did not get to operate as much as I would have liked because of Holiday activities, b... Read More
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12/09/2008 | N0JK
I live in a "no outside" antenna sub-division, with no trees either to put up wires. So to hand out a few points, I bought a 100 ft. length of 24 ga. wire from the hardware store for $4 Friday afternoon and taped it along side our house. Tossed the end... Read More
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12/09/2008 | KA5OAI
It seems I was one of perhaps 9 stations that put our WTX section on the air in last weekend's ARRL 160m contest.
N5DO, NZ5M, K6SXA, W5JMW, K5TDA, K5XM, W5ZO, KD9KC, KA5OAI
Heres a summery of play time from the San Angelo, Tx. side of WTX
"Modest WTX Q... Read More -
12/09/2008 | K4EME/AD4TJ
K4EME/KR4V/AD4TJ: We operated this year, as last year, in the Multi-op, Multi-Band( 50-1296 ), Mixed Mode, Neighborhood rule category.
AD4TJ and the 2 meter report: After improving my receive capability by putting the preamp close to the power divider... Read More -
12/08/2008 | KI9A
After loosing my big tree support for a 160 L a couple years ago in an ice storm, I put up a GAP Voyager vertical to help DX on 40/80 ( which it does FB!), and to get me on 160 again. Last year, I made over 400 QSO's, and missed WAS by ND and AK. But, ... Read More
