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01/23/2017 | WB3IGR
First January contest from my new home FN-10. Small tower and antennas but did just over 5 K. Read More
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01/23/2017 | K2DRH
WSJT MSK-144 was a major factor in this test but the call freq 50.280 was chaos. Congestion can be greatly reduced by observing some old established Ms protocols that we have used for over 10 years with the older Ms mode FSK-441 on 50.260 (and origin... Read More
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01/23/2017 | K2DRH
This has been a strange winter in the Midwest. Unseasonable below zero temps in December and a week long January thaw with fog and some temperature inversion tropo just before the contest. Of course that fell apart and contest day dawned with conditi... Read More
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01/19/2017 | WA9STI
It was fun to participate in another SKN using a Heathkit HW-8 with a J-45 key on a leg clamp to a CB amplifier. When I wrote in last year’s Soapbox about my 2016 SKN, I mentioned that I only operated for an hour in the evening because I had to get ... Read More
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01/14/2017 | W4AAA
I had some free time over a rainy New Year’s holiday and used it to set up the computers and radios for this contest. I even added a sub-receiver to my second Elecraft K3S so both radios now had SO2V capabilities. I made a few contacts in the RU pract... Read More
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01/12/2017 | N2N
ARRL RTTY Roundup is one of my favorites! I used a special 1x1 callsign, N2N, this year. Read More
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01/12/2017 | W1FP
Another great SKN, although the 80 & 40 meter bands were so long at night Sunday evening that I could not work my buddy K1WPO, 200 miles away. I did work others though , including local friend WA1TEO. I used a KX3 rather than boat anchor gear this ye... Read More
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01/11/2017 | ND8L
Great activity this year! Even with the sunspot numbers down, worked a few JA's. One small observation though...a thousand years ago in my first phone contest I called KH6IJ and his response was as pithy and relevant today as it was then. "KH6IJ, Kilo... Read More
