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  • 12/30/2004 | KE7NO

    I hope others had a great contest. Conditions provided a very poor weekend here at my QTH. Both days consisted of a QSB ridden opening to FLA and LU. It is bizzare to see how lousy you can do without sunspot support. There were a few contacts other... Read More

  • Can't forget to thank my wife for keeping the coffee hot and topped off!

    12/28/2004 | KD6HUC

    well, for starters I hadn't even planned on operating this contest, so I was scrambling to get set up about three hours after contest began. I am antenna restricted here, so I usually use Hamsticks and Hustler resonators to keep the neighbors satisfied... Read More

  • 12/27/2004 | WA9BXB

    Had a great time during the contest running low power, mixed mode. The CW contacts really helped to increase my meager score. This is the first time I actually sent in my log. Although the band conditions were terrible, it was a good training exercis... Read More

  • 12/26/2004 | N9TTX

    Well the Second year of operating the 160 Meter contest. Last year I tossed up the homebrew vertical, but his year due to weather and work conditions and schedules I did not tear down one setup and put up another, so I used the G5RV as the standard di... Read More

  • 12/26/2004 | N9TTX

    I can tell over the last three years that my operating skills are getting better. 2002 was filled with people. I could not find a decent open area to run until after 28.650, and most people I could hear I was able to work though I was not used to pic... Read More

  • 12/25/2004 | WA1MKE

    I have participated in the ten meter contest most years since the 1970's. This one has to be the worst from a propagation point of view. I heard no Europeans. This was mostly a north south event from my vantage point in 9 land. Only TX and FL were i... Read More

  • FT817 sitting on top MFJ902 ATU (not during Sweepstakes  there wasn't that much snow!!)

    12/23/2004 | N1XIH/7

    Following a telephone call and email to Dan N1ND at ARRL Headquaters on the Thursday I flew from London, England to Portland, Oregon arriving on the Friday evening. I wanted to take part in the contest from Seaside OR. Thinking that it would help in m... Read More

  • 12/22/2004 | N7IV

    My goodness, this year's contest was hard work in ND. The propagation up here was really strange and interesting with very FB paths to the Southern Hemisphere and very marginal paths everywhere else. I called lots of you folks with little effect; kin... Read More

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