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    03/30/2004 | EA5DFV

    Hello! This is my favourite contest and this year I was planning to run SO2R for first time. I can get some competitive second rig and other stuff, and this contest is very adecuate for it with my fixed antenna setup. But the February 7th I broke my le... Read More

  • Smokey the Goat kept coming over to see what we were doing. I think some of our contacts heard him on the air.

    03/24/2004 | N2LWL

    After almost ten years of being off-air, I decided to get into the swing of things with the ARRL DX Phone contest. I picked up 16 new countries towards DXCC, and my 10-year-old son Eryk saw I was having lots of fun - now he wants to get his ticket! Ery... Read More

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    03/20/2004 | 7J2YAF

    I was almost ready for 15 meters single band operation.
    Just 20 minutes before the contest starting, Gozilla(Strong Wind)
    came to my station and broke my tower down. Read More

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    03/18/2004 | ZS6WPX

    Nice Contest! I only spent about 1/3 of the time on as I had other
    things taking me away from the radio, and only managed to work 10/20m. Bottom line: Mega Fun!
    de ZS6WPX Read More

  • This was the really big event of the contest weekend, my 4 year old "Jon-Jon" learning to ride his bike without training wheels!

    03/17/2004 | NX9T

    Greetings! Just a quick note to say hello and Thanks for all the q's during the contest. I was only able to participate for approximately 8 hours due to family obligations(two boys, ages 4 and 6), but had a great time. Logged slightly over 525 conta... Read More

  • 03/17/2004 | DD1IM

    ...maybe the only one ham with german license class c (means cept class 2), who participated at this cw-contest.
    Sorry, but I have had not much time, so only my intention to make 50 qsos, and to make the "dd" prefix getting "cw-public", hi - I did it.... Read More

  • Iced up in Montana

    03/16/2004 | WB0SMS

    No snow on ground even when contest started. This is what the CL-36 and the 40 meter beams both at 75 feet looked like at 7 am Sat. morn. Ended up with two feet of snow and went down in the bitteroot valley on Monday and played a round of golf in a t... Read More

  • Post-contest R&amp;R at the Divi... "Kickin' back with Jack (Daniels)". I could have stayed for a month!!!

    03/16/2004 | KP2CW

    My 1st Major Single-Op DX Contest in 30 years, and a 60th birthday present to myself after being away from HF & DX until November, 2003.
    It was fun, but I was pretty QLF from lack of sleep before contest started. I didn't make my 5 MEG point goal, but... Read More

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