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W3MLJSO HP ALL3/8/2018
W3RESO LP ALLLimited time this weekend for contesting. First RTTY contest from my station
W3SASO HP ALLRunning TS-890, Expert 1.3k fa and 80m horizontal Loop at 35' Unusually quiet from the Caribbean since travel is limited by the virus. Took time out Saturday morning to take XYL for Covid vaccine shot #2. Got mine last week
W4BCGSO HP ALLGOOD CONTEST DURING THE COLD WX IN TN. THANKS FOR ALL THE Qs
W4EESO LP ALLFun contest
W4GHVSO HP ALLIC-7610 & G5RV
W4TTYSO HP 15MICE STORM knocked out power on Saturday and iced over antennas preventing a competitive entry. As always, Mother Nature was the winner
W6DMWSO LP ALLRookie
W6KSRSO LP ALLOriginal license grant, as KN6DBC, on 7/15/19
W7XZSO LP ALLUsed newly installed N7YG Digital Engine and found it to work hand-in-glove with N3FJP's CQ WPX software. My recently acquired (last Spring) IC-7610 proved to have a marvelous set of built-in features for RTTY
W8JESO HP ALLCHECK LOG ONLY Suggest an Overlay for Dipole-Only
W9JWCMSLThis was W9PLH and AC9YC first RTTY contest. Lot's of fun aside from software glitches!
W9YKSO LP ALLGlad to be heard!
WA1FCNSO LP 40MI lost my motivation Saturday afternoon
WA2VIUSO HP ALLFirst time ever operated RTTY
WA2YYLChecklogCHECK LOG ONLY
WA3KCPSO LP ALLFirst time using new IC7300 and DXLab softwar. Great fun!
WA4DYDSO LP ALLGave a few contacts while looking for some
WA6URYSO HP ALLOperated remote from Tokyo, Japan
WA9LKZSO LP ALLFIRST TIME FROM WA9LKZ HOME STATION WITH 100 WATTS/TRIANGLE LOOP ANTENNA
WB0TEVSO HP 80MDidn't have time to do much other than a little bit on 80m Saturday night
WB6JJJSO HP ALLFun contest - when you have power... We lost power all day Saturday and parts of Sunday. Lots of short outages to really mess things up. The ice on the DB-36 elements made them droop to almost vertical so the SWR was all over the place. Thanks for all of the QSOs this weekend. Bill
WB7QMRSO LP ALLFlex 6300, Ant: Outbacker or Hamsticks, MMTTY - 1st use., TelNet Spotting
WB7UOFSO LP ALLUnfortunately it took numerous hours to get the rig working properly. It was fun in the last hours to get make some contacts. Thanks for the fun!
WB8KSO LP 40MPart time effort. Lots of fun tweaking controls on a new radio and learning N1MM on the fly
WB9TFFMSHGil operated as WB9TFF and Donna as WB9TFF. Mostly S&P. Operation totals are the best we've ever done. Thanks for the qso's. 73 WB9TFF and WB9TFH, Donna and Gil
WD0TSO LP ALLExcellent participation, good conditions, and a LOAD of fun!
WD6TSO HP ALLWorked a few from small home station, on high bands, as I was part of NR6O remote on 40m. Nice 'fresh meat' run on Sunday 20m on prime real estate until big boys pushed me out to the corners of playground
WE6EZSO QRP ALLFair conditions: 80M very noisy and 10M dead. Liked it anyway as usual!
WE6ZSO HP ALLHad a lot of other obligations so I couldn't do a full time effort. But I had a lot of fun
WF6CSO HP ALLMainly testing K4 with MoRTTY FSK keying interface. Works great! Thanks to N2AMG of the N1MM Logger+ team for fixing an obscure bug in SO2V operation in the midst of the contest - that's great response!
WJ4HCPSO LP ALLCQ WPX RTTY 02132021
WK0BSO HP ALLMy first rtty test
WK9MSO LP ALLDid this one as a casual contest with just the rig power for a few hours after dark. I made use of the 500Hz filter this time esp. on 80m. Just called CQ the entire time for those doing S&P in case WK9U didn't show up he did and hopefully you worked us both! :)
WN3ISO HP ALLHad fun
WQ6XSO HP ALLThis is another WQ6X remote operation from NX6T in Fallbrook. There's a REASON it's called a WEIRD prefix contest, LoTsa weird things happen as well as the Weird callsigns. Nevertheless, working around shack heat problems in Fallbrook (as I ran ~1350 watts much of the time), on Sunday I dialed it back to a mere KW - Oh the sacrifices we make. Last weekend in the XE-RTTY contest, the 14.100 beacon corridor was completely QUIET. This weekend in the WPX GiG I was APPALLED at how it was JAMMED with signals OBLITERATING the beacon copy - no WONDER non-contesters HATE us. For this weekend, a recent change in Ethernet connections all but eliminated dropouts on the W7AYT end of the remote connection. If I disappeared on you it was due to the occasional 1.5-minute internet dropout that sometimes occurs in Fallbrook. I put out CQ calls several times on 10-meters (Saturday AND Sunday) and had no takers altho somehow I had a feeling the band was open. With the recent SFI = 71, it ain't no easy thing, but I gopherit anyway. The RBN showed no 10-meter spots then again it showed no activity on 80-m altho I was running frequencies more-or-less all evening. You'll notice I send '5NN' instead of 599 in a contest requiring a serial # afterwards. It's easy to confuse 599 with the serial # as happened when I received: WQ6X TU UR 599 599 599 - HuH? Overall it was an enjoyable RTTY GiG. I enjoyed all the activity from 14.101 to 14.145 and 21.100 - 21.40. The room is there - use it and enjoy relatively QRM-free contesting. I will write up this GiG soon at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com
WT4RSO LP ALLKenwood TS-850S and a all-band doublet
WU4GSO LP 20MIce storm had all the wire antennas down until things melted. Only got in an hour at end
WW4RSO HP ALLGreat way to stay inside and enjoy the radio when the weather is bad outdoors. Thanks to all the people working hard behind the scenes to make it possible. 73, Don n4zz
WW7ESO LP ALLToo much snow and ice to get to shack, so operated portable from my dining room table. Thanks for all the contacts! Rig: FT-450, about 75 watts Ant: Horizontal delta loop
XE2BSO LP ALLJust a few Q's to give points. 73
XE2NSO LP 10MThis contest was special because make tests with my antenna and equipment, with special results and funny time with my family
XE2OKSO LP ALLTNX for QSO, see you on the next year with better antenna, 73s
XE2UFSO LP ALLexelente concurso
XM2XMDHope you liked this rather special prefix
YB2BNNSO LP ALLGOOD LUCKALL PARTICIPANT
YB3BGMSO LP ALLNICE CONTEST
YB3HQMSO LP ALLTerima kasih, sampai jumpa lagi 73
YB3IZKSO HP ALLTNX FOR ALL STATION HPE CUAGN SOON 73
YB7HESO LP ALLCQ WPX RTTY SUCCES ALWAYS 73

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