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LM90NRRLMSHNorth America. turn after the storm Saturday. It ended up in direction 20, 15 and 10. The logyagi would not K1AW array for 40, 6 el logyagi for 20 and a Mosley A3 for Antennas Rig was a IC-7700 with a SPE Expert linear. to our four characters LA4C next time. NRRL celebrates its 90th anniversaty this year, so we will stick And we received many congratulations. patience from other competitors. We had to repeat and repeat and met a lot of Using an eight character long callsign was a challenge
LN1KM2a lot of QSOs were logged on the wrong band. Some problems with the logging software
LU1BJWSA HP ALLVery very poor propagation
LU2DXSA HP 15MThe contest was useful for learning how to operate my new IC-7610. Special thanks to Mario LW8DQ and Race LW7DX for their support. Many thanks to all of you who answered my calls
LY5QSO LP 80MDIPOL
LZ140LOSO LP 20MAnt: OB16-3 Rig: IC-700 100W
LZ7DSA LP 80MBest 73! Regards from Bulgaria! Antenna tuner Kenwood AT-120 Home made end fed antenna with 9:1 balun, only 16,2 m long. Yaesu FT-857D RIG:
M0ISISO LP ALLFirst licenced Apr. 2015
M0MCVSO HP 40MHowever, have to be pleased with 650 Qs with only a G5RV and 200w! Disappointing band conditions. No short skip, so 200 lost Qs!
M0RNRSA HP 20M73 de MORNR "eliminate" that one from a dirty power supply in the neighbourhood. I'lll have to Struggled on Sunday with Poor conditions and terrible electrical noise
M0UNISO HP 40MGreat fun, especially using my vintage Heathkit HW101 for some QSO's
M1KSO QRP ALLshort entry
M1KMCSA LP ALLTX/RX ICOM IC-7400 ANTENNA MA-5B @ 12M
M6NNCSO QRP 20Mvery hard to read - please proofread!
M6OXOSO QRP 40M73 Massive QSB 9+ with a few parts of the band not workable, thanks for the points
M6TTZSO QRP ALLLicenced on 20 May 2017
M6YTUSO LP ALLROOKIE FIRST LICENCED 02 April 2016
M9TSA LP ALLConditions reasonably good. 15m opening on both days. Nothing heard on 10m
MD1ESA HP 20MShort operation from Scarlett Point IOM
MM4DSA HP ALLBetter conditions next year! Always enjoy this contest. Already looking forward to Unfortunately a very much part-time effort this year
MN0NIDSO LP 20MSetup, Ft-1000mp into OB16-5 @ 75'
N0JKSO QRP 10Mstations. Great condx on 10 despite a SFI of only 68. Many loud Central and South American
N0UUSO HP 20MGreat conditions. Almost no noise. Asia absent, but everyone else there
N1ADMSO LP ALLLICENSED 2016
N1DIDSA LP ALLSaturday was great - Sunday not so much
N1KGYSO LP ALLTB-WIRES
N1TYHSO LP ALLFun Contest. Tough band conditions for a little station
N2BEGSO LP ALLSome of the worst band conditions ever. very tough going with 100w
N2BJSA HP ALLOperating remote my Flex 6500 in IL on vacation in FL
N2EMSO LP ALLThe ionosphere gets worse with each contest!
N2NYRSO HP ALLUsed IC7600 with ALS 606 Amplifier into a Hustler 5BTV Antenna
N3GLSO LP 20MGreat contest, one of my favorites
N5BIGSA LP ALLThis was my first solo contest. A little work, a lot of fun!!
N5ZYSO LP ALLThanks to everyone involved with coordinating/judging contest
N6AJSO HP ALLNIce to see 10 open. See you all next time
N6ANSO LP ALLout my weak signal. pole. I reconfigured the antenna for each band change.Thanks for digging Friend's backyard. K3/100W, N1MM+, 1/4 wave verticals on 40'SpiderBeam
N6EESA HP ALLRemote
N6HISO QRP ALLin poor band condx! GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! Thanks to all for the QSOs and your patience. end-fed wire thrown into a tree out my window. Part-time effort, I ran QRPp, ��W to a 20 foot
N6NFBSO LP ALLFirst timer - Had a great time!
N6RVSA LP ALLTrying out my new Flex 6600M and N1MM Logger+
N7MZWSA LP ALLNovember Seven Many Zebras Walking Cheyenne, WY. that worked my 100 watt "Boy and His Wire" station. which is a failure to comply with the clearly stated rules.Thanks to all ZS6BKW (G5RV variant) @ 50 feet.Many stations not sending signal report Icom 706MKII2G, Heil Pro Micro Headset, MFJ-939 Intellituner,and
N7RQSO HP 15Mand extra-good sandwiches. We'll be back next year. Tnx to my husband, Bob Epstein K8IA, for tech support services people would disappear a few seconds into the exchange. Strangest thing was the meteor-scatter-like conditions where Arizona Outlaws Contest Club members also toughing it out. Despite poor conditions I had fun and saw some friends and Thank goodness for so many nice and patient people on the air
N7VZUSO LP ALLLooking forward to better conditions
N7WYSO HP ALLFinding a spot to run and keeping it was a challenge on both days. 20 m was really nice Saturday, but not as good on Sunday
N8IISO LP ALLcall ins on 75M. over SA. Very hard to run any DX on any band, did get a few DX to SA both days and highlight was 2 EU at 20Z Sunday peaking made it very difficult, 20M very poor to EU Sunday. 10M did open Friday evening was very good, but by 24Z next day the disturbance
N8TCPSO LP ALLHad fun for the time I was on
N8YXRMSLFirst time as a multi-op since the kids were not on Spring Break
N9OKSO HP ALLbut I'm excited about getting more radials on it. (160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10). My new Hytower is working pretty well, Fun contest! It was my first contest ever working on all 6 bands
N9OUSO LP ALLFirst time in the contest and was amazed by the activity on 20m
N9YOSO LP ALLGreat first contest, 20 Meters rocked!

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