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11/17/2008 | KB0HH

It was a good contest for us! It was also good to hear from you VHF guys operating the HF contest. WD0GTY, Jeff,and KC5DPT, Tad, did most of the operating while KB0HH cooked and worked on equipment. The weather was fantastic .. .. no tornadoes, hurr... Read More
11/17/2008 | AA2VK

Running 'Q' is always a love of the game... You know it won't be easy but you try it anyway.

The bands were a bit off with the early night on the east coast, I was doing better on 40 and 80m the first eve. Next day 20m was packed to the hilt. I was ha... Read More
11/17/2008 | WA7U

Todd, WA7U, spent the summer putting up an 80 foot tower and a 'shorty-forty' Yagi to compliment his TH-7 tri-bander already on a second tower. We decided to test the new antenna farm out with a multi-one effort in Sweepstakes. Fred, KE7X, lead the way... Read More
11/17/2008 | KI4MUG

For a QRP single band guy, it was rough. My last SS was 2006, when I barely got 100 QSO's. This year I only made 80. Conditions were quite different on 20 meters this year. New England didn't start coming in until Sunday afternoon. New York and Pe... Read More
11/17/2008 | K9WIS

QRP Phone sure was hard for SS. One guy would complement me on a 20 over S9 Signal. The next guy would never answer my call no matter how many times I answered his CQ. Thats the way it goes for us who surf on the edge of the MUF. Many thanks to the gu... Read More
11/17/2008 | WA4UJY

For the past 6 years my goal was a perfect 80 QSOs 80 sections. I finaly did it thanks to all the Canadian stations and the lone PR on 15M sunday afternoon. How did LAX become a rare section and AK and PAC become an easy one ? I was worried with only N... Read More
11/17/2008 | N1DJF

This was my first ARRL contest and it proved one thing to me. I definitely need a better antenna system. It was a lot of fun and I had a good time. Hope to compete in more contests in the future.

Thanks,
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11/16/2008 | W7RN

We experienced a wind and ice storm that coated the 80M dipole with ice and changed the resonant frequency, took down the internet connection and, eventually took out the AC power. We were only able to operate 22 of the 24 hours after the power was res... Read More