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  • Nigel G3TXF puts beam onto an 80ft crank-up!

    12/16/2003 | G3TXF

    Worked 500 Q's on first day and 423 Q's on second.

    On both Saturday and Sunday the majority of US stations were worked with the antenna pointing to South America. Signals were nearly always better on this skew path than they were direct.

    Worked only ... Read More

  • Here I'm explaining the finer points of contesting to my XYL.
<P> NB4K

    12/16/2003 | NB4K

    Thanks to all those worked us over the weekend. After the slow start Friday evening Saturday and Sunday turned out to be good for 10 meters. We broke in a new ham and lookout next year as he has really took on the contest mode. Had no probelm working w... Read More

  • 12/16/2003 | DL0SHF

    We chose 13cm and 10 GHz for the contest this year. 23cm was not ready so far for transmitting. Weather was fair in both parts with no high winds that could have forced us to stop operation. We made a number of contacts on both bands but activity has b... Read More

  • 12/15/2003 | W1JCJ

    Thanks to all for working me this weekend.... had a lot of fun in my second ever contest effort, CW low power.

    Last month after dabbling in the CW SS I thought I would put up a dedicated 10M wire array for this contest. Intrigued by the design and sim... Read More

  • This is the build sketch, but no actual photo of the big ant. (Dimensions are in millimetres).

    12/15/2003 | VK2CZ

    Hi all,

    With the culmination of a 9 month project to get an 8 ele yagi in the air, it was finished 1 hour into the contest. I initially thought it wasn't working, as signals were way down from what I'd seen in 2001/2. Some basic A/B tests with a 3 elem... Read More

  • 12/15/2003 | K3DSP

    Once again, HAD A BLAST.................... Read More

  • 12/15/2003 | K6RJ

    This was my first time working the 10m contest and was only able to work about 8 hours between Saturday and Sunday but had a blast anyway. I was able to complete a couple hundred Q's in the Single-Op Low Mixed category and kept tabs on 3 active kids t... Read More

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    12/15/2003 | W8JWN

    Very unusual conditions to say the least! Only four stations worked on Friday night. I started Saturday morning earlier than last year to be ready for the European opening...it never came! Actually, I only worked one station, a CT, the whole contest. ... Read More

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