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  • 12/14/2004 | KF9US

    This was my first contest, since moving to a new QTH in Wisconsin last spring. Being 250 miles further north really changed the propagation patterns and made it much more difficult. I never heard Europe, and barely worked EA8 and CT3. Plenty of acti... Read More

  • 12/14/2004 | KP2/KL7JR

    Murphy paid me a visit one hour before contest time. Tuner broke down, but luckily my A-99 vertical was resonant enough on the low end of 10 which saved me a lot of work by not having to take the antenna down for trimming. I had several good runs and... Read More

  • ON6QX on the CW-Key

    12/14/2004 | OT4A

    Hello,

    Murphy was on his visit @ the first 5 hours of the 10m contest.
    Everithing that could be broken, were...............
    After all, it was a nice contest, with terible conditions @ the northeren half.

    Operators on OT4A were : ON4ASB - ON6LK - ON6UM ... Read More

  • ON6QX on the TX and ON7DTI as writing safty-log

    12/14/2004 | OT4A

    Guys,

    Murphy was on is visit during the first 5 hours of the contest.
    Everithing that can be broken, did.............................
    After all, it whas a nice contest, with terible conditions on the northeren half..........

    The operators @ OT4A : ON4A... Read More

  • 12/14/2004 | VK2CZ

    Hi all,
    Experienced extraordinary peaky band conditions where the doors were wide open for brief periods, then long periods of signals near the mud - ridden with slow QSB. Using the best of QRP techniques with a high power station, managed to extract 1... Read More

  • KC9BWW left and KC9EYC right

    12/13/2004 | W9NAA

    This year the Rose Tech Radio Club at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology did very well considering the contest was over a school break, so it ended up being myself, Joseph Aubin KC9BWW (president), Eric Tollefson KC9EYC (Vice President), and Brandon M... Read More

  • 12/13/2004 | W5WZ

    Location: Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
    Ground elevation at my home is 235 feet above sea level.

    Single-Op
    QRP to a dipole for transmit and receive
    Icom 756ProII
    116 QSOs

    Wow! This was fun! My first time on 160m. Before the contest, I had mad... Read More

  • 12/13/2004 | KC0DEB

    Even though my free time was very limited, I managed to find a free minute here and there, and made a few contacts this weekend... Since I figured that I wouldn't be able to participate this time, I did not bother to raise the antenna.
    So with the wir... Read More

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