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JK2VOCASSISTED LOWLong Wire
JM1SMYSINGLE-OP LOWI enjoyed the contest.
JN1FAOSINGLE-OP LOWI enjoyed the contest.
JN7TANSINGLE-OP HIGHI enjoyed the contest.
JO6NZNSINGLE-OP LOWI enjoyed the contest.
JQ1TARASSISTED HIGHI enjoyed the contest. My first 160m operation with just installed in my backyard.
JR1ABSSINGLE-OP QRPI enjoyed the contest QRP.
JR1USUSINGLE-OP LOWPortable: Midori-ku, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Pref.
JR2DWASINGLE-OP LOWLong Wire
JR2PMTSINGLE-OP HIGHI enjoyed the contest.
JR7ASOSINGLE-OP LOWI enjoyed the contest.
JS2MKUASSISTED HIGHEnjoyed contest for short time.
K0ACPASSISTED LOWLoop, max height 45'
K0KXASSISTED LOWInverted L with max height of 25 feet
K0PKSINGLE-OP LOWAntenna was inverted-L at 35' AGL.
K0TCASSISTED LOWInverted L hung off my tower at the 30ft point.
K1BZASSISTED LOWK3 and 160G5RV @40' /DL
K1GUSINGLE-OP LOWInv-L Wire (Check mark shaped) running up the side of the tower to 80 feet. K3. Receiving Beverages.
K1IBSINGLE-OP LOWT top wire vertical, 50 ft high, 16 in-ground radials.
K1LTASSISTED HIGHSince 2006 my performace this year is: 4th by points per QSO exactly in the middle by number of 10-point QSOs bottom third by score, and third from last by number of QSOs. Since points per QSO seems like a better metric than number of QSOs, I'm g
K1VRASSISTED HIGHSaturday night was just too dreadful, yet P33W heard me!
K2NVSINGLE-OP HIGHOne of my favorite contests. Conditions Sat night were very good into EU. Always have to trudge the woods to check and repair the beverages before the contest. Through snow and muck. Not fun in WNY winters! But worth it... Thanks for all the QSOs. 73 Tony
K2QBASSISTED LOW132 foot EFW at 40 to 45 feet above ground running SE.
K2SGASSISTED HIGHHad a busy weekend planned and not much time for contesting.
K2ZRASSISTED LOWRIG: K2 @ 85W ANT: 40M OCF WIRE @ 15' PLUS CONDO GUTTER SYSTEM 73, DICK, K2ZR/4
K3AJMULTI-OPK3AJ operated from the shack. WT3K, K3WA and ND3D operated remotely
K3CCRASSISTED HIGHK3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. As the only CW op I (N3UM) did SOHP Assisted in the 2024 CQ 160 CW. I hoped to beat the 727 Qs & 94 mults I got in 2023 CQ 160 CW to claim
K3ESSINGLE-OP LOW246 ft doublet up 50 ft, with window line back to the shack.
K3STXASSISTED HIGHDiscovered my pennant receive antenna was dead, so everything heard was on my transmit inverted L. Not ideal! Great fun, as always.
K3TWSINGLE-OP QRPIt was great to hear many DX stations with strong signals!
K3VZSINGLE-OP LOWEndfed random wire antenna 155' long. Using a 9:1 balun. 150' 0f RG8X coax with 10 loops of the coax wrapped around a FT240 ferrite core for a line isolator 20' from the radio connection end of coax! Height varies from 8' at the balun and ramping
K4FTOASSISTED LOWBackyard 30 foot base loaded vertical with limited radial field
K4HAASSISTED HIGHVery noisy here tonight, not sire where it is coming from but it needs to get gone fast!!!!
K4HQKSINGLE-OP LOWAntenna was one-half of an 80 meter dipole, 15 feet above ground.
K4RFKASSISTED LOWjust a dipole at 35 feet. Not great for 160 but I made contacts
K4YJSINGLE-OP QRPqrp, 5w, 160m off center fed dipole center up 40', ends up 20'
K5GNSINGLE-OP HIGHSurprisingly good condx after weeks of doldrums! Only Saturday evening was open on the calendar, but I had a lot of fun.
K5MRASSISTED HIGHEFHW wire up 25 ft on HOA lot
K5RXSINGLE-OP HIGHTerrible static crashes the first night caused me to take many sub-30 minute breaks. Actual operating time about 17 hours. Without the three new Beverages (for a total of four), I would have given up entirely. Even the second night provided a higher-than-
K5VGASSISTED LOWNon resonant dipole 40 ft above ground
K5WASINGLE-OP HIGHUsed my remote for this one and managed to find a bad coax about 8 hours in so I was just on for the first evening. I shouldn't have been on because we were stuck in the middle of some terrible thunderstorms and I really could hear. Still got a f 73, Bob
K5XUSINGLE-OP LOWGood results for me considering the WX and my antenna.
K5ZDSINGLE-OP HIGHActive as N1W in WWA. Only 96 minutes of operation. Fun to be a new station on the band the second night!
K6FASINGLE-OP HIGHMainly looking for States I need for my WAS on 160. Did work FL and hope that person uses LoTW.
K6NRSINGLE-OP HIGHConditions were decent on Friday night but signals from the east were a good deal stronger on Saturday night with some amazing signals heard. It was common to hear someone with a solid signal and call them without success. I assume this is a combination o
K7ACZASSISTED LOWTxcvr: IC-7610, Ant: Trapped sloper from top of tower 35 ft high
K7NJASSISTED HIGHCouldn't use CW Skimmer due to some computer problems. At least Telnet worked. Rig is K3 modified to K3S with an Acom 2000A amplifier. Transmitting antenna: 54 foot top-loaded vertical with 60 full-sized radials. Receiving antennas: 3 bi-directional Bever
K7OVGSINGLE-OP LOWINVERTED V TRAP DIPOLE APEX 40 FEET ABOVE GROUND
K8BZSINGLE-OP HIGHInverted L, 35 feet max height.
K8CNSINGLE-OP LOW135 foot doublet at 25 feet Just a quick S&P pass over the band on Saturday morning - too much self-RFI to the logging computer to make it fun spent more time correcting gibberish entered by RFI than operating!

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