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Call	Category	Comments
N5TIT	SA HP ALL	After a year-long break in contesting I have the station back on the air. I had moved my station to Mississippi to operate remote, however with 400 plus millisecond response times across the wire was not conducive to contesting. So earlier in the week I made the drive to Mississippi to pick up my equipment and rebuild my station here in Texas. Last week I purchased an MFJ1838 Cobweb antenna and assembled it on a Military pole tripod at 16 feet, This is a temporary setup until I can get the antenna mounted on the roof when the temperatures come down in a few weeks. For this contest, I operated mainly on 40 and 80 meters and pulled a few Q's on 15 meters however 15 just never opened up at all. 40 Meters was pretty good for NA but EU just was not that strong here. Now the Cobweb antenna at 16 feet is not high enough to make it efficient so I am pretty sure that once I get the antenna on the roof plus 5 feet or so that EU will be easier. AS and OC was nonexistent for me this contest but I was able to nab 13 SA, 11 EU, and 3 AF, so not bad for 16 feet
N6AR	SA HP ALL	Line noise on 15 gone after 5 years. No condx!
N6HI	SO QRP 20M	Busy weekend, so this was a part-time effort. Ran QRP, ONE HALF WATT to a 20 Foot End Fed Wire. My hearty congrats and THANKS to all for your patience. GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! 73 John N6HI
N6OPE	SO LP ALL	First contest entry other than field day and first RTTY contest
N6RV	SA HP ALL	Missed Eu openings. Asia openings were sparse! Just playing around!
N7BV	SA HP 20M	Thanks for all the QSO's. 73, Chuck N7BV
NC4MI	SO LP ALL	THUNDER STORMS ALL DAY SAT
ND3N	SO LP ALL	This is the first international contest I've done since moving my QTH to Ohio (about 50 miles east of Dayton). I could tell that quite a few ops were using pre-fill as many had me confirm my zone and state. Hope that those who didn't ask aren't penalized too badly. This is also the first contest I've done without being associated with a contest club (PVRC). I've done some searches, but haven't been able to find a contest club in my area. If you know of one please contact me - my is on QRZ. Maybe I should consider starting my own? In any case, a good contest, band conditions limited me to mostly US/VE contacts, so I put as much of an effort as I could into maximizing the number of contact over searching for multipliers
NK5P	SO LP ALL	Great times and decent conditions. Thanks to all for the Qs!
NN2NN	SO HP ALL	CQWW RTTY always a lot of fun. Thanks for the Q's!
NN4NT	SO HP ALL	RTTY is alive an well! Great fun
NN5T	SO LP ALL	First and 2nd night, I thought no EU on 40. In Sun afternoon, found regulars on 40 at 21z. Boy, 40 is really acting like 20 at the bottom of cycle. Not enough DX but still fun contest. Tks for QSOs
NR4O	SA HP ALL	Beat last year's score. Spent more hours. Rate per hour was down
NX6T	SA HP ALL	This was another WQ6X remote operation from NX6T in Fallbrook. I ran the usual Elecraft K3 into an Expert-2K amplifier dialed back to around 700 watts keeping the shack-heat down to a mild toasty temperature. I began with a C-31 yagi for the high bands until a pair of THIEFS towed the tower trailer away for next weekend's CQP GiG. Switching over to the 3-el Stepp-IR allowed running BI-directional, working JA & SA simultaneously. While I found little 15-meter activity, calling CQ identified a PIPELINE to South America. One by one, new countries and zones quickly made it to the log. Because of the low sunspot cycle, 40 meters made almost as many QSOs as 20. My BIGGEST BEEF were the IDIOT LIDs who were running RTTY on EXACTLY 14.100.1 - the 20-meter NCDXF Beacon frequency - KNOCK it OFF Dingle Dorks. (Note to contest LCR software or humans, DQ ANY LOG that has 14100 as its operating frequency.) The BIGGEST difficulty were the random 2-3 sec. internet dropouts causing the VNC viewer (my logging screen) to FREEZE. This would require terminating the frozen program and starting a new instance. If I seemed to 'disappear' and then come right back but unexpectedly, this is probably the reason. I must've restarted VNC 500+ times during the weekend - I kid you not. LooK for a write up about this GiG at http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com
OD5ZF	SO LP 20M	17-Apr
OG6N	SA HP ALL	Very tough conditions up here in the north. Just gave out some QSOs
OG70AD	MSH	Tnx for all QSOs under Aurora Borealis umbrella
OG8T	SO LP ALL	IC-756p2+iNRAD ROOFING STEPPIR 2 EL 80 & 40 ??wave dipoles
OH1SIC	SO LP ALL	73 de OH1SIC / SM5SIC G??ran
OH1TM	SA HP ALL	Poor cndx this time
OH2EUU	SO LP ALL	Wire antennas
OH2KW	SA HP ALL	Thanks for the nice contest
OH2LU	SO QRP ALL	IC-756ProII, max. 5 W, Triband Yagi, Trap Dipole Time on = 14h57min 216 Qs, 459 p, 27 zones, 90 cty, 10 sp, claimed sc. 58293
OH3OJ	SA HP ALL	Should be one more overlay called Aurora Borealis !
OH5UQ	SO HP 40M	TS590S + Mfet PA 450W 40 q/w GP
OK1LO	SO LP 20M	IC-756ProIII, yagi
OK1PX	SO LP ALL	Rig: Kenwood TS-590S 100W, ant. 15m LW
OK2PYA	SA HP ALL	100W and LW on 80-40m. 500W and rotary dipole on 20-15-10m
OK2SWD	SO LP 40M	GOOD CONTEST. SEE YOU AGAIN FRIENDS. TCVR
OK2UHP	SA LP ALL	CQ WW RTTY DX Contest 2019-09-28 00:00 UTC - 2019-09-29 23:59 UTC Transceiver TS590S ( Power 100W ) vert.- CP6, FD4 , directional antenna ECO 14-21-28MHz
OK2VWB	SO QRP 40M	RIG SunSDR2 Pro - QRP 5W ANT Vertical 15m Decoder - MMTTY in N1MM Logger+
OK7N	SO LP ALL	CLAIMED SCORE CALCULATED MANUALLY by specific CQWW RTTY rules points= (17+8+0)3 + (36+9+1)1 +(1+2+0)0= 253 + 461= 75 + 46= 121 mults_CQ_zone=10+8+1=19 , Mults_DXCC=26+14+1=41, Mults_CTY=5+1+0=6 score = 121(19+41+6) = 121*66= 7986 upload to http
OK7O	MSH	FT1000MP MarkV, ACOM 1010-500W 10 el. LP, 3 el./40m, dipol/80m, beverages
OL6D	SA LP 40M	Remoted Flex3000 Vertical phased 100W
OM2DT	SO LP ALL	TS590 LW
OM2VL	SA HP ALL	Just for fun ... only first 16 hours
ON2AD	SO LP ALL	73 de Pat ON2AD
ON2CQ	SO LP ALL	Yaesu FT-450 and Multi-dipol
ON4APU	SO LP 40M	LOW PROPAGATION, BUT LOTS OF FUN
ON5IA	SO LP 40M	50W - IC7300 - Wire antenna in attic
ON6AT	SO LP ALL	Yaesu FT950 80 watt The FD4 and TH5DX antennas were set up temporarily. TH5DX was at 2m height and the FD4 was at 6m height. I also used the R8 Vertical
OR3A	SA HP ALL	Dispite the bad conditions, we had some good runs
OZ/DJ5LA	MSL	Camping Contester
OZ1QX	SO LP ALL	ICOM IC-7300 + Windom 6-80m
PA0AWH	SO QRP 80M	RIG ANTENNAS
PA0GJV	SA HP ALL	Nice to join the contest again. Strange condx sometimes
PA0M	SA HP ALL	Great fun in a test that startet as checking my equipment. Thanks all
PA0PIW	SO LP ALL	flex 6600m ant steppIR db18e up to 20 mtr pwr 100 watt
PA0TCA	SO LP ALL	TS850sat 5 elm beam 14/21/28 sloper 3.5 mhz vert 7 mhz
PA2REH	SO QRP 40M	Wkd 5W into 1/4 lambda vertical 40m. band. S&P was fun, nevertheless missed with QRP some nice dx. Took me a lot of time and patience but wkd also some nice dx like T6A, E2X. Hpe cu all agn, gd DX, vy 73

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