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2E0FFQ- YAESU FT-950
SLOPING VEE TRAP DIPOLE
Condx not particularly good but fun nonetheless
2E0TPP- FT857D
7 BAND VERTICAL
HAD ANOTHER GO AT CONTEST 2DAY AS FELT BETTER WITH
HEALTH. DID BETTER THAN YESTERDAY /PORTABLE
2E0TPP/P- FT857D FT840
FULL G5RV AND 7 BAND VERTICAL
GREAT FUN BUT MADE PIGS EAR OF LOGGING PROGRAM STILL
QUITE NEW TO ME SO KEEP PRESSING WRONG BUTTONS
STILL ENJOYED CONTEST STILL I'LL SO NEEDED LONGER BREAKS
WILL TRY HARDER NEXT YEAR THOUGH
3Z900R- RIG TRX IC730 60W
ANT DELTA 42m
OP. HUBERT SP9MDY
CALLSIGN 3Z900R IS SPECIAL CALL 900 YEARS OF
RACIBORZ CITY
4Z5LA- Thanks for nice contest ! 73 shalom de 4z5la - Ros
5B/G0TSM- Initially I was going to operate in the DXPedition section but my amplifier suffered a component failure. I was extremely lucky to be able to borrow an amp from a resident on the island.
Hard going on 40M, I couldnt break through between the Eus.
Rig was FT1000MP, FL7000 Amp Comet 4 band V dipole. Shack was located on third floor next to balcony with wonderful sea views to Eu and NA.
5B4AFB- IC-756
3 el Beam and Butternut Verticle
Found conditions down on last year
Enjoyed using SDI once I remember how to use it.
5P5CW- Havy call for this contest! How much OMs loged SP5CW???
6M0HZ/2- We definitely could use some more sunspots, although we did have fairly decent short skip propagation on 10/15 meters to Japan, China, Asiatic Russia!. Just had a dipole for 40 meters, but managed some west coast U.S. and European QSOs.
7J4ADE/6- KENWOOD TS850S
14MHz Monoband
Entry is 14MHz single band
Conditions this year not so good.
7N2UQC- I was able to enjoy this contest.Tnx for a fine contest again.
Rig:IC-706, ANT:Dipole
9A2RK- FT 817 ND
Multiband INV VEE
My first experience in that contest.
Regardless of using QRP I really enjoyed.
Very good conds on 10 m.
SDI did a great job.
9A3W/P- Good news - good activity as always
Bad news - more operators giving IOTA ref. only from time to time (same thing with their own callsign in pile-up)
more operators not willing to spend more then a couple of seconds with week signal stations
9A5ST- TS2000
Inv.V G5RV
See you next year from V.Drvenik EU16 . I broke my leg
so i stay at home this year.73 to all!!!
9A5W/P- For the first time participated in IOTA. A lot of fun!
9A7T- First time in MS LP non-island category. Tactics is completely different from island dxpedition tactics. We decided to concentrate on island QSOs and as many
multis as we can find. Final result approved our tactics, 784 Qs, 465 multis and 4,7 million points. Conditions were very good especially on 10 and 15 meters
which brought us many 15 pointers.
9M6DXX/P- Yaesu FT-857D + Tokyo Hy-Power HL-1.2Kfx at 350W.
Butternut HF6V vertical.
Great conditions for 5 or 6 hours before the contest
started but abysmal conditions during all but the first
hour of the contest! Roll on Cycle 24.
AB4SF- Had to QRT early because of work so Im already looking forward to next year and hopefully a sunspot or two. 73 to everyone and CUL!
Wray, AB4SF
AD5WB- Great contest. 1st time and I will be back. Interesting propagation. Sometimes I wondered if my antenna was still up! HI. Thanks to all.
AD5YU- First Contest - It was great!
AM1S- Nice to be on the air again from Sisarga Island, lot of
work carrying the equipment up the rock, but lot of fun also.
AM3A- AM3A is a special contest call sign. Operator EA3FHP. TOTAL 80 QSO.
AN5L- As every year I enjoyed a lot of this contest
AN8L- hello IOTA Chasers !!
We want to thanks to all contacted station for QSOs and points in this fantastic competition.
We have spent it very well thanks to you, for this reason we hope meet us in the next edition in other place of the World.
see you and Vy 73! de AM8IL AN8L 2008 Lobos Island Team.
WWW.ISLOTEDELOBOS.COM
AO8NQ- Station description:
TX/RX: Yaesu FT-897D (100W output).
Antenna: G5RV Jr. on top of a 8-story building.
Keying/Logging: NA v10.65 + home-made Accu-Keyer.
Very bad propagation for my modest working conditions.
See you in the next contest! 73 DX.
AP2NK- Kenwood TS-950S
2 Element Multiband Yagi - 40M Dipole Inverted V
Poor band conditions - My first attempt to take part in
IOTA contest. SDI program is very good for this
contest and program is easy to operate. Hopefully will
have better conditions next year.
AT6T- A very casual effort due to family commitments. See you all next year. 73 de prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT and now AT6T (till 27 September 2008)
BO0M- A middle scale typhoon stroke our location during this contest, the number of QSO is not so many as expected, but we have a knowledge tour trip on this Islands for its famous battlefield where the Taiwans defense guard troop against Red China for last 4 decades. A really hard work with bad weather as well as poor propagation. Hope to meet you all with better condition next year on PengHu Is.(AS103) or Pratas Is.(AS110).
C6APR- The antenna improvements and networking the computers paid off, our score increased over last years. But bring back the sunspots.
CE2EYN- Kenwood TS430S
TET Triband Yagi
CN8YE- KENWOOD TS 430S
HALF WAVE DIPOLE FOR 20M
CQ2I- Bad weather but nice propagation.
cu next year
CQ9U- Organizing a DXpedition to a Deserted, Natural Protected and Remote Island like Selvagem Grande was a very challenging Project for us, the expectations were very high. Fortunately everything went well, we all enjoyed very much the experience of this activation, including the 26h trip in a 11m long Sailing boat. We are also proud for the excellent feedback we´ve got, not only from Amateur Radio community but also from the society in general (news at Radio Station, Newspapers and Television). We look forward to organize another Island activation very soon.
CT/LZ3ND- 350m wire
Cu agn on the next contest!
CT1ENQ- Icom IC-706
Home made o.c.f. dipole
Improved results from last year but mostly because of
mixed mode. Short skip on higher bands and QRN on lower
bands. I worked a little more than 12hours so must go
into 24h category. I'm here for the fun! Nice to see
CQ2I but this time from the other side. Good luck guys!
CU1T- This was our first participation from Santa Maria island. Propagation was not good and we had only few short openings on 10m and 15m. See you all again next year from Faial island, CU7!
CX6VM- Very nice to enter for the first time in this contest.
Nice to work many friends
73,
Jorge
CX6VM
DA0T/P- Good wx this time with a lot of qrn on lowbands.
DB0GX- FT-900 + FB23/GPA30/Kelemen
DB1WDA- ICOM IC-7000
PKW-Bazooka (italy)
Problem on 40 m and on 80 m with my tuner.
SDI is a very fine programm. Thank you.
DD1IM- Hi all, I really missed a lot of VE/W-stns this yr agn. Also far away from the qso amount I achieved the yrs before, but was delighted about more islanders, yeah did meet so mni friends all over the bands :-) Tu all ops for the contacts - and RSGB for the logs analysis and summary, the contest itself, too. Hpe participate agn. Vy 73/55, gl es cwfe de Sascha DD1IM (member of DARC, DOK K27)
DG1EA- FT-1000MP Mark V +HF9V/W3DZZ/FD4
DG4YGW- First time i logged with N1MM Logger - nice Program. i think i will use it now for all contest.
hpecuagn next year
73 from Germany de Andy - DG4YGW
DH3RB- YAESU FT-1000MP, antenna DX 88 by Hygain, 100Watt, microHAM DIGI KEYER
excellent contest, great fun
DH6DAO- Nice contest again with better ES-condx than 2007, mni tks!!
DJ1AA- I like this special island contest. C U in 2009 perhaps 24h on the air. 73 Mirko DJ1AA
DJ5DT/P- Kenwood TS-870
6.5m wire
fine contest particularly for small stations
DJ5QK- 5w QRP
Long Wire
A very fine contest with a lot of activity in CW mode
DJ6QT- Sorry that we had not great activity over long distance.(5000 KM>)
Thanks for the nice contest.
DK1EAW/P- During Radio Club Field day - Great Wx, great people, food and beer were provided by club fellows while I could work on the radio - I was a bit disappointed not to hear many announced stations! Made some nice new ones for IOTA and DXCC band points though.
DK3RED- Dont forget: the fun is the power!
DK6BT- YEASU FT1000MP
3-el-Tribander with 40m-Extension
DK7AN- I would not take part in this contest, but fantastic short skip conds on the upper bands...
DK8EY- ICOM IC-7400, Ameritron AL-80B, 5-ele tribander, dipoles
DK8NT- Only my 2nd contest, and my 1st IOTA contest. Amazing how many IOTAs could be worked, including some goodies. I'm content with my results. Mni tnx for organizing the contest, and 73s de Gerd DK8NT.
DL1CW- IC-7000
R-7000
Not enough time for more...
DL1XAS- TS-50
FD-4
good and fast logging because of going to hoilday this day not so much qso
DL2DCX- My first RSGB IOTA Contest !!! Nice !!!!!! vy 55/73
DL2KDW- Yaesu FT-817
LW 20m long and 2 indoor magloops
A fine contest and a real pleasure to participate!
73 and cuagn sn!
DL3MGK- Icom IC7000
GP 21m high
Better conditon, more time, more fun, good SDI Programm
DL4HRM- DL-DOK = W35; LOCATOR = JO51XL
TRX ICOM IC706MK2G (<=100 WATTS)
ANT 1 DIPOLE 2x 27M LONG FOR 160M + 80M + 40M
ANT 3-ELEMEMT-3-BAND-YAGI FOR 20M + 15M + 10M
DL4JWU- The radio was an ic706mkII and the antenne a 12m vertical with glass fibre tower. Nice contest. I worked again in my garden because of lower man made noise.
DL4JYT- IC 740
dipole
DL4MCF- Great contest! TNX to all island-activities! cu next year! vy 73 Tom
DL5ALW- station: FT900 about 90 watt, Antenne W3DZZ 7m over ground
DL5AUA- ICOM IC 756 PRO III
Windom FD4 / 3el Beam FB 33
This year from home - so I hope next year agin qrv
from Island
DL5AWI- Much problems with thunderstorms and high static level, but a lot of fun!
DL5JRA- harofi aol.com
W3DZZ
DL5KUD- EU-057, RUEGEN ISLAND, FIX (RESIDENT), 12HRS - ICOM7400 80watts dipole up 10m..
Earths magnetfield quiet but thundery noise levels very high at afternoon.
Good 15/10 m opening, lot of activity from many islands - thanks 73 Jo
DL5XL/P- It's been six years since I last operated from Helgoland Island in the IOTA contest, and it sure was great to be back. As poor conditions had to be expected, I decided to use a beam antenna and high power, even though this meant that about 100 kilograms of freight had to be shipped to the island. Luckily, DF6QC and DG1BBU were there to help
with the setup of the antennas. Conditions throughout the contest were as bad as expected (or even worse), but the high level of activity in Europe really helped to keep one busy. A few hours after the start of the contest, I suddenly noticed an intermittent SWR on the beam
antenna. It turned out that one of the traps was damaged. As I did not want to lose too much operating time, I decided to continue on the Windom type wire antenna. This worked quite well for me on 20m, but
was not feasible on 15m, as the antenna was not designed for that band. Luckily, the 10m band performance of my beam was not affected by the faulty trap, so I still had good antennas for four of the five bands used in the contest. In the end, I lost quite a few QSOs and multipliers on 15m, but managed to keep up a rate of more than 64 QSOs
per hour throughout the entire contest, so I really had fun! I was even able to exceed the result of my last contest participation from Helgoland in 2002 by a small margin (before log checking, that is). I'd like to thank RSGB for organizing this fun event! After the contest, I still had a day left to enjoy the hot summer weather at the
beach before I returned to my home QTH.
DL7UMK/P- Nice contest agn, my first from IOTA island. Nice QSOs on all bands.
Worked with FT857 and LW 42mtrs; 6 mtrs up. Cu next year.
vy 73 de Manfred DL7UMK/P
DL7VSN- TS-450s
3-ele-beam and dipoles
DL8RDL- My first time in IOTA-Contest, much too short for me. Next time longer with more qsos :-) DL8RDL
DL9SXX- RIG: TENTEC ARGO 556, 4 Watts, Dipol up 12 METERS
DL9ZWG- YAESU FT990
R5+Dipol
I enjoyed using SD by EI5DI.
DM2BPG- FT-1000 MP + FB23 + TITAN DX + 36m LW
DM3X/P- Vy tnx for the nice short skip propagation !
DM4DX- Participating just for fun. The first 6hours with QRP, the next 6hours with 100Watt.
DM5LK- Station: TRX: Yaesu FT-897; ANT: 20m Vertical Dipole with SGC SG-239;
MIC: Heil Pro-Set Plus; LOC: JO60HR
DM9PT- ts-870
10-15-20 Beam
DO1SPK- Fun fun fun!
EA3EGB- Good contest i hope to work the next year 2009 tks for nice contest
EA3KT- Kenwood TS 530 S
Rotary dipole
Only 3 hours in 15 m Very nice work
I enjoyed using EI5DI programms.
EA4DTV- Kenwood-TS-850-S
Cuscraft-A-3
Me hubiera gustado llegar a 100 diferentes Iotas.
yes
EA4DUT- Congratulations to winners.
I missed a great 10m opening on Saturday evening due to RF
feedback into the station. Fortunately I solved it in time
to catch the Sunday morning opening.
EA4DXP- ICOM IC 706 MKIIG (at power output of 80 watts)
Vertical for 10-15-20m. Dipole for 40m both home made
Mni thanks to Paul EI5DI by SDI, its a very useful
program for this test.
On the other hand; propagation was not good.
Good luck to all and see you in the 09 test!
EA8BVP- Vy bad condx hr and poor antenna. hpe better condx next year!
EA8CDI- Awful conditions.... not good propagtion at all, but with plenty of fun :-)
EA8MQ- Very interesting contest thanks to all until next QSOs, 73
EB3FSS- FT-2000
MA5B
EC2AH- Some New Ones
EI/W5GN- New Zero-Five 43-foot vertical performed very well on the bluff overlooking the Atlantic in County Clare.
Conditions were good; even 10 meters was open, and this year's score more than tripled my 2006 operation.
EI2II- Icom 7800
Windom for 40m & 80m Tennadyne T10 for 20m 15m 10m
Good contest this year Thanks to all.
SDI worked a treat. 73s
EI3IO- FT1000
3 el tri band yagi Doublet and Delta Loop
EI5DIs SDI loging program worked well as always
EI4CF- Icom 7800
X7 for HF 4 square for LF
Got caught for some parish duties but still had a lot of good fun.
EI4GXB- Yaesu FT-897D
Cushcraft A3S
Great condx across all bands
EI5GJB- ft1000mp
homebrew
sdi very good
EI5GM- ft1000d
x7 yagi
operated for just 2-3Hrs.Great contest
sdi worked great
EI8GS- Kenwood TS950SDX
Hygain TH11 and dipoles
Just went in it for a bit of fun and hoping to get a few
new Islands or countries but no DX; loads of near stuff
and I spent too long in bed, I always enjoy the IOTA
contest
EI9HX- This was my first IOTA contest and really enjoyed it.
Many thanks to all the organisers, and i hope this will be a annual contest for me.
Equipment used: IC-7800, IC-PW-1 Linear, 4-elm Cubical Quad @ 17m Windom 160 @ about 30M.
EJ0GI- Thanks for running a great contest. We enjoyed it very much.
Thanks for taking the time with the log etc.
Daniel
ES0/YL2PN- My 1st attempt for IOTA Dx-pedition. Too late (2008.07.26 08:30 UTC) arrived at this unknown for me island. Antennas were partially disrupted in Saturdays evening by Ruhnu guests participating in local barbeque with terrible singing, dancing, crying and using some alcho. I did not checked my antena farm during contest and check out the damages only when RSGB IOTA Game was over. 1st panncook always is not the best one. Please visit my homepage at http://yl2pn.vitanet.lv to see some pictures from action place. From DX Summit spots:
DL6IAN 28023.8 ES0/YL2PN eu178 0952 27 Jul
DL1EFD 28023.8 ES0/YL2PN 0944 27 Jul
UT7UJ 14062.0 ES0/YL2PN 0819 27 Jul
YL2GE 3677.0 ES0/YL2PN EU 178 PETERIS RUHNU ISL 0614 27 Jul
===== some (un)usual info about me:
http://www.qrz.com/yl1zn
http://www.qrz.com/yl2pn
http://www.qrz.com/yl2008eoc
ES4MM- TRX IC707 95 WTTS.ANT DIPOLES 80/40M VERTICAL 20-10M
Thank for CONTEST!73, ALEX
ES8UD- Elecraft K2/100
Home made GP for 20m 15m 10m HM dipoles for 40m 80m
Just relaxing holiday activity from small island
with completely home made equipment. Nice weather
well-being, peace.
A little bit disappointed with SDI logging software,
that did not allow me to correct any callsign or
exchange, if once entered wrongly.
F/DJ7JC- Just short after the contest a thunderstorm had destroyed my laptop - only the laptop - so I need a lot of time to rescue my dates...so I hope I did it well. F/DJ7JC Norbert
F/DL3OCH/P- First time that I attended in QRP class but it seems like EU058 was the right IOTA for that. All the rare Multis did not hear me but I made much more QSOs than expected. It was a lot of fun even so my laptop died on the island and I had to log on paper.
F/OE5JKL- Worked with my ICOM IC7000 out from a caravan staying on a camping place at the beautifull southern mediteranean coast of france, called Marsaillan Plage. The antenna was a 2*6m Dipole, mounted on a 12m glasfibre mast between the caravan and a tree in the neighbourhood. Are there better holidays for an Old Man?
F/OT7E- On Holiday at the peninsular of St Tropez, I feel me a little bit on a island. TRX FT-897 and Atas 120 on the roof of the car. Blue sky and temp. about 30°C. Great time!
F4DBJ- Yaesu FT1000MP MarkV
Yagi 4 ele.Mono
By SDI logger
F5PAL- FT-1000MP YAESU
2 ELTS QUAD + DIPOLES 40 / 80 M
F5UKL- Nice contest. See you next year. Andre - f5ukl
F5VIH- Congratulations to all expeditions that provided once more lots of fun! CU next year! Nick SV3SJ/F5VIH
F5VKT- Very casual entry this year only had a few hours free to operate - still good fun
F8AKC- Began the contest a bit late, but had a nice weekend chasing new IOTA on 10M. Even with the Cluster's help, it is difficult to QSO IOTA and I find this very challenging.
See you next year.
73 Serge
F8CFE/P- Too bad the multi-op class only allows 2 stations. The band we were ended up being 4 single op stations on the same beach. Anyway, we were here to give away an uncommon IOTA reference and have fun!
G0ADH- FT847
G5RV / 2 ELE BUTTERNUT
Seemed to be very good conditions within Europe but
not much from other Continents
G0CER- Enjoyed the contest again.. I think Ive come up against limits of my antenna and QTH loc. Best one so far though.
G0HVQ- My first IOTA, great fun, only operated approx 10 hrs on and off due to family committments. Condx generally not that good but some very welcome Es on 10m and 15m, including a few QSOs across to W/VE.
G0IBN- ic756pro3
folded g5rv inverted vee 2el quad
I had an enjoyable time even if I did miss summer. SD was a great help
G0KDS- VERY LIMITED ANTENNAS AT LOW ELEVATION
G0MRH- Kenwood TS-870
145ft Doublet
Just a small entry making best of the time available.
Interesting and welcome to find 10 Metres open.
Super Duper SDI excellent for logging.
G0ORH- FT2000D, 200watts, 3ele tri-bander,40/80m dipole, G4FON logging for IOTA.
Enjoyable as ever. Did seem here a lack of Multipliers on offer! But I never went SPing, instead just ran what came along.
I think Ill be joining EU120 team next year after a few years on the side lines. I miss the DXpedition element of IOTA!!
Ken..G0ORH
G0OTT- Yaesu FT 990
40mtr Windom
1st contest on hf cw and 1st time with sdi
sdi works easy
G0PSE/P- IC756PRO2
CAROLINA WINDOM
THE 12 HOURS SECTION IS MY FAVOURITE CONTEST.
SDI WORKED PERFECTLY - AS USUAL
G0RPM- Very enjoyable, thank you. Sadly, my operation was very restricted due to a bad back problem - too painful to sit for any length of time. I'll definitely be back again next year!
G0TLA- Yaesu FT897
G5RV
Good Contest..Good Fun
Bit annoyed some stations too Inpatient To verify Detail
Some Stations Would only talk to Islands-Refused Others
G0UKX- ic706
26th in error random wire 27th g5rv
Had problems entering EU080 for ED1HV
G0VOK- Kenwood TS-570DGE
20m long Doublet at 6m agl.
Plenty of activity on 10 15m but couldn't break the
pile-ups for North American Islands. Great fun and my
first IOTA contest.
G1VDP- Hard going on 40M as the band never opened overnight
so went to 10M for some fun
G2B- Yaesu FT-1000MP
TA-33 + Multiband Homebrew Dipole
Many problems at the start but a good weekend by the
seaside for the Bittern DXers
G2F- Great fun from main land with a very modest station. M0OVLs culinary delights were most welcome.
G2XV/P- Elecraft K2
80m doublet
Cambridge and District ARS
Hot hot hot and that was just the weather
G3GLL- FT1000mp and AL811 amp
3 el triband yagiand vertical
SDI worked ok
Local noise level very high.
HF band conditions poor.
G3JJZ- IC756 PRO III
85 LW
SD makes it all so easy! Tks Paul.
Condx terrible then 10 and 15 suddenly burst into life.
G3KKP- TS-870
10/15/20 Ground Planes
Limited time entry. Log sent in as unchecked.
Apparently some problem with call sign correction
but no time to cross check this log for that
possibility.
G3KNU- IC756pro111
3 ele tribander + W3DZZ Dipole
Only time for a few contacts
G3KZR- IC756PRO + EXPERT AMP
GP/INV L /HEXBEAM
VERY BUSY CONTEST WITH 10M OPENING A BONUS
G3LHJ- YAESU FT 990 - 100Wts
3El Triband Yagi TA33Jr - 80/40M Loaded Dipole
Great contest and condxs were good to us - although
the East on HF was poor - only 1 ZL in the log and
no VKs - cu next year god willing 73 de Derrick LHJ
G3MPB- TS-570D
Carolina windom (68ft)
G3MZV- IC706
DIPOLES
MY FIRST CONTEST USING A COMPUTER FOR KEYING AND
LOGGING AND SDI WORKED WONDERFULLY WELL DESPITE
ONLY HAVING A FEW HOURS PRACTICE
G3RSD- TS940S
INVERTED VEE TRAPPED DIPOLE
THERE WAS VERY HEAVY STATIC NOISE ON THE LOW BANDS
G3SAD- IC756pro II
Multi Beam / Long Wire
One of the best IOTA contest we have had for a long time -
band condx good throughout 24 hrs.
BBQ on Saturday night was a winner!!!!
Mni thank to Paul for a superb piece of contest logging
as usual
G3SWH- Kenwood TS-570D
Inverted vee dipoles
G3TTC- IC735
dipoles
Good condx for a change!
G3TXF- Sorry, but was only able to make a part-time entry this year. Hopefully will be back with a more substantial entry next year. IOTA is indeed a great contest.
G3VIP- RIG IC7000 - 30W - 40M LONG WIRE - HOMEBREW LOGGER
Poor condx. Only a token entry.
G3VYI- TS930S
Marconi/Loop/GP
SDI great condx poor I think
Struggled to raise some islands with 100w!
No USA islands worked really odd !
SDI great !
Enjoyed it for first entry
G3WW- High QRN on 80m but some welcome sporadic E on 10/15m. Improved score and strategy compared to last year but still must do better! Plenty of islands to work, especially from EU but lacking in Caribbean stations.
FT-1000MP, 100W, low 160m dipole.
G3YMC- Slow start due to poor conditions, which didnt improve.
But with persistence got a reasonable entry. It is hard on
QRP with low wire antennas!
Rig Elecraft K2, 5W, 65ft longwire. 73 Dave
G4AFJ- TS690S + TL922
TH11 sloping dipoles on 40m
Getting more used to computer logging
My band strategy was wrong this year got distracted by
the Es on 10 & 15
G4AIU- FT-847
Long Wire
Once again a very enjoyable contest.
SDI worked great.
G4BJM- K2 400w
DIPOLES LOOP TRIBANDER
Good fun. Had to go out Saturday night so
operated around that in the 12 hour section.
Had cluster on but did not do much mult. chasing
Lots of activity and conditions good,
bands still buzzing at the end. Used SDI, thanks Paul.
G4BRA/P- Yaesu FT-102
G5RV
G4BUE- First time we have done this contest. Being mixed mode, it is ideal for (my wife) June to do SSB and me CW.
The new Elecraft K3 and 1K-FA amplifier combination worked flawlessly, as did the new 3L Steppir antenna at 60 feet.
Four-square for 40m and Butternut HF6V for 80m, (next year I must remember to find a way to re-tune the Butternut from the CW end of the band to the SSB end, or better still put up an antenna with a wider bandwidth).
G4BUO- Missed being on the Isles of Scilly, hope to be back next year.
Just a few hours fun on CW, a little over 7 hours operation.
G4DBW- Elecraft K3 5 watts output
G5RV dipole
Essentially a European Contest with very few non EU stations heard at my QTH this year. First IOTA outing for my Elecraft K3. Good short skip openings on 21 and 28MHz kept me busy. Another enjoyable IOTA contest.
G4DDL- ft2000
30m longwire at 8m: 30m INV V at 6m
not much DX worked but good fun even so.
G4EKT/P- Kenwood TS850 or IC756 PRO 3 + LINEAR AMP UK RANGER
TH5-40/80m DELTA LOOP-3X40m PHASED VERT.-80m SLOT
Very enjoyable contest - nice to have activity on 10/15
- We like the lack of a 24hr setup rule - SDI is a
joy to use. Most of our ops are not hot on the keyboard
so we use a log chit which is passed to the logger to
enter. This is our get out of jail card! Very useful.
G4FAL- Conditions seemed a little poorer than last year but 10m was in good summer condition. I tried to use the five bands and two modes fairly evenly which I think proved quite helpful. I was glad to have some good runs from my conservation area station. Thanks to everyone for the qsos. I still find the cw exchange complex and keep the speed at 26WPM, which is
about as fast as I can copy and type the complicated exchanges! I think I should have taken up contesting at a younger age - but my xyl would disagree with this!
G4HZV- FT1000MP + Acom 1000
Vertical
G4IIY- A part-time entry, mainly focused on running for the few hours that I was on the air. The low mult score reflects that. First time that I have been at home for IOTA for over ten years, having operated at GU8D for many of those and because this event falls on the same w/end as we usually take my track car to a motor event in Germany. IOTA from home is a lot cheaper!
G4IUF- IC-7400
C4XL Multiband 9ele Yagi
Bit of fun from here the serious stuff was from G6MC
Enjoyed using SD
G4JSR- Yaesu 757GX/FL2100Z linear plus FT 817
Half size Windom plus a metal Vertical aprox 20ft high
G4LMW- Just a bit of fun. Hope to mount a serious effort next year.
G4LWB- ICOM756 PRO
INVERTED V DIPOLES
Enjoyable contest but my operating time limited
SDI easy to use and will again
Main object to give multiplier points
G4MKP- Elecraft K3, Challenger 3 amp + N1MM. Antennas 40M vertical and wires
for 80/20/15.
Much better result for me compared to last year with
some good runs. Multipliers are king to post even a modest score so my strategy, for what it's worth, is a few good runs and then SP for multipliers and finish off the last hour with just mults. Next year needs even more effort to work the mults which are there but you have to join the queue.
There are a few SSB Qs in the log but I couldnt cope with the endless repeats so gave up after 5 Qs.
Thank you for the Qs everyone and see you next year from 5B4.
Cheers,
Terry
G4MKP
G4OPL- Thanks for Running the Contest Most enjoyable
G4VMX/P- FT2000
GAP TITAN
Conditions fair operating standards generally good.
SDI as always is joy to use.
G6CSY- Running Icom IC-7400 @ 20W and vertical and parallel 20m long inverted L's
Logging via DXLab WinWarbler and DXKeeper
http://www.g6csy.net/ham
G6MC- Great contest enjoyed by all the team in North Yorkshire. Improved over last year with better planning and equipment changes, including a complete overhaul of the filters between the two stations. Conditions were slightly up on last year, though no major runs to North America.
G6OKU- IC756PROIII
1/2 G5RV
G7RTI- Yaesu FT-840
20m end-fed wire (very low!!)
G7SKR- Icom IC-7400
Various wire dipoles not above 8 metres AGL
First IOTA contest. Didn't work much outside Europe so
must try harder or try CW next time!
G8MIA- FT2000, Inverted L 80/40m, Band conditions were flat
G8ZRE- Yaesu FT897
Hustler 5BTV Ground mounted vertical
Enjoyable contest more QSOS than 2007
SD easy to use.
EB5KB/P did not always sign /P so might cause problems
when scoring logs.
See you in 2009
GI0MPG- IC756PRO FT-1000
3el beam, 40m vertical, 80m dipole
Great contest, great QTH, great weather
What more could you want?
GI3YS- Conditions good, weather great, higher score than last year, what more can you ask for? Roll on IOTA 2009.
GI7AXB- icom 756PROIII
OPTEAM 10/5
40 mtr dipole
GJ2A- Low-band antenna problems, so decided not to stay up all night and submitted in 12-hr category again. Fortunately had unusual late-night propagation on 20.
GJ6YB- After a smaller scale expedition to Jersey last year, the Bristol Contest Group decided to use a full field-day line up this year. Two 80ft mobile towers were hauled across on the ferry, plus a good selection of antennas and generators.
All the equipment worked faultlessly through the contest, mainly down to a lot of planning and preparation, and also due to a change of software. An excellent site really made a difference. The antennas caused a minor stir on the island and were even mentioned on Radio Jersey.
Propagation was not good on 10m, except for a lucky Es opening to the UK and Ireland on Saturday evening. 20m was particularly good for us with about 170 mults on that band alone and some propagation over the pole to Japan and Oceania.
Weather was sunny and warm, a change from some recent IOTA expeditions. Overall it was one of the most enjoyable IOTA expeditions Bristol CG have done.
GM0B- Enjoyed the contest very much; looking forward to next year rain, fog, sun,thunder, but no snow and those midges ! Great weekend was had by all.
GM2T- Another great contest. The weather was outstanding and we all managed a nice sun tan. As always the hospitality shown by the island people was second to none Technical stuff - First full contest running a wireless network which ran superbly. Wintest proved again the best for software. Only issues were a Faulty Barrel connector in our 80M coax run to our Titanex and our 10M rotator not working which turned out to be that the cows had chewed our rotator cable!!!!!
GM3CFS- Kenwood TS570DG
Long Wire Sloper 66m 10m High
Plenty of activity but more Asian and African and South
Americans would be welcome. Nice to see 21 MHz
awakening but its far from what the band used to be.
73s to all.
GM3POI- FT1000D K3 plus amps
2el 20m;2el 15m;2el 10m + Three 4SQs
Better Condx than I would have thought Thanks to Es
Allowing two IOTA mults on each band/mode would increase IOTA acitivity
GM3PPG- FT990 ACOM AMP
4SQ FOR 80/40/20 AND VBEAM FOR 10/15/20
GREAT TIME AGAIN, GREAT WX IN HEBRIDES. NOTHING BROKE DURING CONTEST! DIDNT FIND ENOUGH MULTS ESP ON 10M
20M 4SQ NEEDS MORE WORK DOING ON IT (POOR F/B)
80 AND 40 4SQS FINE AGAIN THANKS TO ALL CALLERS
CU NEXT YEAR 73 RICK
GM4KGK- Elecraft K3
Butternut HF9-V Vertical
GM4SID- FT-1000MP/V + QUADRA
3 Ele Tribander (Stuck on North) Dipoles
My Rotator went faulty after only one movement and
was stuck on North for the duration. Apart from that sickener I enjoyed the contest again.
GM4W- Band conditions were much better than expected. Wintest logged well as usual and I had no shack problems at all this year. Only letdown was 80m on Sunday morning and failing to chase more mults. Time on air was 19.5 hrs
GM5C- Fantastic weekend but laptop crashed after event.
Two weeks later we recovered the log - phew!
GM7A- Our 1st attempt at IOTA Contest Dx-pedition, plenty of learning opportunities for station setup in 2009 and we've never seen so many midges in one wee spot at the same time! Thanks to Oban Marina for the hospitality.
GM7TUD- Hard work at times but lots of fun chasing.Lost one serial number from GI3YS with a computer crash at critical time.Equipment used Kenwood450 Heil proset, Cushcraft MA5B and Butternut HF2V.
GM7V- Great contest as always - brilliant sunny weather and lots of multipliers. Tough setting up antennas with only 3 ops.
GW8K- Great contest enjoyed by all. This year we invested in better computers networking links, coupling this up to new contest software was a big learning curve but it proved its worth. As this year we broke into the 3,000,000 claimed band. Sunday night was party night as No Beer on site during contest. So the B.A.R.S. RFI team will be back next year for another RF fix.
HA0HW- Unfortunatelly I had found several bugs in the CTWin 10.03.002.
My rig: FT1000MP Mark V. Filed,Drake L4B amplifier, 600-800 Watts out
6 el3 bander Yagi, inverted Vee all are at 22-25m hight
HA1AG- it is no contest for non-IOTAs... thus only DXing...
HA2MN- A bit more activity brought some more QSOs than last year. Even though the propagation was poor with short pin-point openings. Many thanks for Qs, see you next year!
Rig TS-530SP 100 W into a end-fed 21 mtrs long wire above flat roof.
HA3OD- FT990 + hm pa 300W, pyramids (80/40m), verticals (20/15/10m)
HA5JP- Elecraft K2+100W PA
HUSTLER5BTV
I have keying paddle of Elecraft K2 SDI software inter-
nal keyer not so good with my speedy computer and WINXP.
HA5LZ- YAESU FT-101ZD
Hy-Gain 18AVT-WB 5B-VERTICAL
Many thanks for the nice IOTA contest!
Using Logger SDI - very good working tnx for Ei5Di
HA5OB- RIG: FT817
ANT: T2FD
HA6IAM- LIMITED FT107M 5W
DUNAX GP SLOPER DIPOLES
HA8BE- Rig: IC-756
Ant: 8el. Log.per.
HB9CVQ- Stn: 1KW ACOM 200OA , 3 el Yagi Muliband, 2x25m Doublet (12m up)
Nice Contest with good participation (everyone -anybody)
Strong QRN in HB9 on 80m ....and a notorious QRMer.
73 Andy HB9CVQ
www.qrz.com/hb9cvq
HB9ICC- Hello ! Very nice contest. Poor DX condition, but some nice DX ! Thanks to all and see you in 2009 ! 73s. Seb HB9ICC
HB9XCL- Again a very very nice contest. Even I had not so much time as expected, I enjoyed each minute of this contest. No defects, the equipment worked great as expected, and even the weatherforecast was wrong (I expected some thunderstorm but at the end it was just sunny and worm. Cu next year again!
HS0AC- Low activity and poor propagation
I2AZ- Very nice Contest, this year many islands worked, unlucky only european islands. Poor conditions on 10 m, good on 15, 20 and 40m. Few QSO on 80 m. I hope to find many new-one islands!!!!! i2AZ
I2WIJ- Another operation from home. I definitely need to go to an island! 73 Bob.
I4JEE- NO good propagation !! Skip vy low and QSB on 10 mtr.
My antenna 4 Elm. W.space by Create - ( I think a Good Antenna)
I5JFG- FT1000MP + PA
GROND PLANE (TITAN)
Propagation very short with few DX stations
even if I have worked little I have had good time
glad to use SDI program for the first time
However I have a little improved my results of 2003
Next year I hope to use a beam
I8LWL/7- the contest is very fine...
IA5/IV3LZQ- We activated for our first time the Capraia island (LI) - ITALY, EU-028, the operators were IV3LZQ IV3PUT. RIG : K2-100,IC7000 ANT: VERTICALS FOR 10...40M and DIPOLE FOR 80 M.
Nice weather, nice location - on the top of the island -, nice accomodation and a lot of fun, our best dx-ped until now. Propagation not so good, but we made anyway enough QSOs, meeting our expectations for our first participation together to IOTA contest.
IA5/OK1DRX- A really expedition under tent and with shorted dipol 3m high. Beatiful island, but difficult contesting traffic. Nice contest!
IC8/IK6CAC- First time in Single DXpedition 12h. My working conditions were not the best, but I enjoyed very much the contest. I hope next year to do better. Best 73 to all.
IC8R- Last minute lucky effort, we reached our best ever!! Great fun, cu in 2009!!!
IC8TEM- TU fer all qsos. Really hard to do QRP test this year due to big QRM, some strange noise, but vy good participation. Logged some UA9 on 10m and a UA0 on 40m, that are a good result for me and my setup. Rig used: Knw TS2000 - 5w - 1/4wl Vert.GP for 10,15,20,40. Best 73 to all.
Costy IC8TEM (my qsl route availble on internet at usual webpages).
IC8WIC- ic-781
10-15-20: TH7 - 40 2el - 80 dipoles
This year problems again with vfo and did all contest
as runner only without possibility of SP. The only
Highlights were a couple of KH6 and E51 calling me.
Thank you to all that contacted me and cuagn!
GianLuca IC8WIC
IG9/IK8YFU- Very good experience for my first expeditions in IOTA Island.
Thanks to my wife giovanna (IG9/IZ8FEV) for your patience!
IK1BBC- ICOMIC756 PROII
KLM KT34A
in my opinion one of the best contests I enjoy every year; unfortunately I couldn't run low bands because of antenna problems; used EI5DI software so fast and easy best 73 and to the next time
IK2CFD- ft-101 zd
2 el yagi/dipolo
IK2RLS/5- A quick set up with FT897, Diamond mobile HF antenna and magnetic base mount on top of childhood house; a good beer and the IOTA contest in CW: the summary of perfect holiday.
IK2WFN- Yaesu FT-897
GP
Poor propagation: only european stations
SDI is OK!
IK5PVX- Rig: ts450 - Ant: homemade vertical and 80m dipole
IN3PEE/QRP- TOKYO HY POWER HT750, 3W
TELESCOPIC ANTENNA
IM VERY GLAD FOR 28 QSO WITH MINI QRP STATION
IOTA IS BEAUTIFUL CONTEST!
IN3VVK- Operated only 6 hours due to a big storm caused radio destroyed.
73 Paolo
IQ8OM/7- Great contest, many tnx to ALL for all QSOs, CUAGN in next contest,
best 73 de Strange Radio Team HQ
IT9RZU- YAESU FT920
DIPOLE
IV3DYS- Icom IC-706-mk2
G5RV HalfSize
I am pleased to participate in the Contest RSGB IOTA-because
always very interesting and a lot of participation.
Pity that the spread is still low and under conditions of low power hope to be felt decreases. 73 and the next-RSGB IOTA Contest 2009.
IW0HOU- Icom IC7800 + Acom 1000 PA
Optibeam OBW10-5
IW1QN- Very Funny Contest with Good propagation in All Band
IW3SSA- Nice contest but Ive had problems with my Heil HC4 and so I used the original micro of IC-7400. I worked islands from all the continents, VC1T was a nice surprise on 80. I Enjoyed hearing islands on all the bands with quite good propagation here.73s See You all at next Year!!
IW9FRA- RTX: FT-2000 + ACOM 1000
ANT: OPTIBEAM 11-3 + DIAMOND W-735 TOWERED @ 15MT
IZ3NVR- FT-857D
multiband dipole + MFJ 941E Tuner
IZ4JMA- A dream come true.....
This is my first real first SOAB effort in a contesta€¦
My friends @ IO4T know my passion for IOTAs and Id like thank them all for letting me use the station...
I am a lot satisfied for what I did, I could work more mults but my inexperience made me running instead working all workable mults....be better next year....
Thunderstorm prevented working 80 meters a lot, I had to stop for quite sometime...
Highlights were being called by E51JD and WH6R on 20 sunday morning, almost falling down from the chair !!! Also, great working HI3K YW6A C6APR VK7GK on 40......
Thanks everybody called in for a VERY enjoyable contest, cu next year !!
73 de Max IZ4JMA
IZ5GRS- Very good contest, but little time for contest.
I hope for next year.
IZ7EDQ- I am very happy for my top score low power! Thanks to all!!
IZ8FTW- KENWOOD TS 140 S
HOME MADE
IZ8FTW ... FTW ... For The Win ???
J28OO- Icom IC-7000 with Cushcraft R7 antenna.
JA1BPA- The propagation was very bad on 15mb and 10mb, and I had to do SP on lower bands.
The highlights were working with Mike, K9AJ/VY0, CQ9U and NL8F. Congrats also to KL7DX team on their brave efforts! I enjoyed their video very much.
JA1FO- TS-690S
2 ele. Butterfly
JA3AOP- It was unstable propagation condition from far east. but enjoyed the contest QSOs. See you next year !!
JA3UCO- ICOM IC-756pro
YAGI DIPOLE
Band conditions were very poor
JA3YPL- OP name is Akio Horie (JJ3TBB)
Power output is 50 watts or less
RIG is TS-450 and Antenna is GP
JA7ZP- No station on any band.
JF1SEK- TS-940s+renear
2el for 40m 4el for 20m
Conditions were not so good, but fun in the contest.
very nice sdi program.
JG1IEF- THIS IS MY FIRST ENTRY IN IOTA CONTEST
JO3EVM- I enjoyed the contest.
JR3SZZ/3- Thanks for FB Contest
K0AP- Thanks for all the contacts. The conditions were so and so and so.
But I still had alot of fun and got few new IOTA activations.
Special thanks to Rob,K0RU,for letting me use his
station, which proved to be very good. Hope to work more of you during the up coming contest season. See you next year for IOTA Contest. 73
- K0AP - Dragan
K2BBQ- I don't know if it was just me but I was surprised at not hearing many Caribbean stations. Where were you guys?
K2DSL- Kenwood TS-2000 100w G5RV. Thanks for all the contacts!
K3TW- "Band conditions were good for QRP."
K4VAC- Everyone had a great time this year. We more than doubled our score from two years ago. We experimented with a variety of antennas, but our work-horses were an 80 meter Carolina Windom on the run station and a vertical on the multiplier station.
K6NA- Thank you for sponsoring this fine event. Looking forward to some good conditions, so we can work the rare European islands!
K7RFW- Not really contesting, just seeing how I get out from the western edge of the Rocky Mountains during this poor propagation era. Not too shabby, my BuddyPole with 100 watts pulled in Costa Rica, Hawaii (easy, no mountains to the west), and Virginia, even on the dead bands for me. Heard Europe and Argentina but not well enough to get through the pile ups.
K8CQ- Rain gutter and flag pole antennas restrict working DX. Very noisy static on 80 and 40. Still fun. 13h oprg time spread over 24h.
Heard KG6DX, ZL2BR, JA1KPA loud on 40m 0700-0800Z. Could not get them. Too bad. I would have loved to give them NA-058 multiplier. Noted several stations I worked would begin calling CQ before I had chance to give them the NA-058. They apparently did not expect it. So they may not have it in their logs. Working QSK helps to avoid this. See you next year and hope to do better with increased sunspot activity.
K9NW- It was nice to work both of the first time activations from NA-229 and NA-234.
K9YC- Not as much operating time as I would like (9 hrs), thanks to time off to attend a very interesting NCCC/MLDXCC meeting. Conditions not good either -- nothing on 160 or 10, only one Q on 80. Thanks to the DXpeditions, who added nine new islands and two new 40M countries to my log since starting over two years ago when I moved to CA from IL (2,000 miles)!
KA1C- Not many stations heard, but a lot of fun anyway.
KA8NJW- only could do 20m this time hope to get a 40m wire up soon
KB3RML- I had wonderfull time, thanks everyone, 73!
KC7UP- Tough times now to make contacts in this part of the world.
KD8CDC- FT-857D
Dipole and Random Wire
Lots of noise but still fun to work many stations
MNI thanks to EI5DI for SDI logging software
KE7DX- MY FIRST IOTA CONTEST, AND I LOVED IT!
I'LL TRY TO MAKE IT TO AN ISLAND FOR THE NEXT ONE!
KG6DX- looking forward to more sunspots
KZ8E- IC-718
Hy-Gain TH-6DXX and Hustler 6BTV
LA2GN- FT840+tuner
W3DZZ
LA4WKA- To much sun to be contesting.
LU4MHQ- all made home
dipole
Congratulations for FB contest
Super Dupe THE BEST support
LY2LF- Home brew 100W
Windom
LY5W- Lithuanian Hamfest same time, but back home to do some effort in 12 hours format. First time used mobile internet.
LZ1DNY- icom 738
dipole
LZ1GL- Poor conditions but lot of fun !
12 hours is just enough for a single operator - nice option.
Used N1MM loger for a first time.
Thanks for the contest !
73 , Krasimir LZ1GL
http://www.lzopen.com
LZ1PJ- Hello,
Taking part in this years IOTA contest was fun as usual.
Unfortunately being a small gun with modest power and antenna did not allow me to take full advantage. Only a few stations from outside EU heard, still less worked. Missing one of the bands (no 80m antenna) also lowered my chances. Anyway, almost 500 contacts logged. First time ever used N1MM Logger. I installed it just a few minutes before the contest. A nice program, but I had to learn it on the run. Surely I used just a small percentage of its features,
and should spend some time learning more of it (packet spots, keying interface + built in keyer, TRX control etc.) for future contests. One major thing I missed (maybe it is in-there, but I did not find how to do it) was that I could not check if a station is a new multiplier, before I worked it. So, many times I spend a lot of time calling a station that I thought was a multiplier, which actually wasn't. End, a funny story at the end of the contest. Forgetting to look at the watch, I was calling CQ a whole minute after the end of the contest. An angry opponent warned me on the air, and, wow, I saw I really was off the contest time. So I deleted the last contact made, a UA9 station. Well, next year I will have to make more preparation work, new antennas, computer interfacing etc. Finally, forgetting all about problems, the good stuff is that I managed to work a few new for me IOTAs.
73, CU in the next contest.
Ivan LZ1PJ
LZ2NKM- FT-857
Dunax GPN4B
M0AXP- IC756PRO
R7000
SDI IS!!
SDI is fantastic
M0BLF- Was only going to be part-time anyway, and then had to abandon completely due to antenna problems.
M0BMX- Kenwood TS-50
Half Sized G5RV
Great contest as always - thank you. Conditions
could have been better. Worked mostly EU stations with
nothing heard from NA. Experienced a few interputions
from family members at start result in log errors.
You live and learn; will be back for another go 2009
M0CNP- Yaesu FT-920
Optibeam 10/5 and 132ft off centre fed dipole
M1A- Decided to only play this year with lots of tests. Thanks to Bob for all support as usual and for some FB mults. Thanks to Petr for coming all the way down here, bringing spiderbeam to test at mult station and for having good fun with us and good work. Thanks to EDF for half-major power cut letting us down for few hours.
Its been great fun, some excellent signals on the band with KH7XS in lead.Thanks for all Qs and we look forward to see you soon.
M1A,G0KPW Team
FT1Kmp/400W - TH5 + 40-2CD + 80m 40SQ
FT1Kmp/400W - 10-5 + 20-4 + R5 + SpiderBeam + 40vertical on mults
M1KTA- Clive (M5CHH) and I (M1KTA) thought we'd try and operate from my QTH this summer.
M3ENF- 1st IOTA entry - lots of fun!
M4T- FT2000
Dipole
Too many things to do this weekend. Next year will be
better
M4W- The best weather we've had in a long time. Extremely hot!
Tried out a new 2 ele quad for 40m which we were very pleased with.
Had a number of logistical problems and shortage of ops due to last minute family problems.
M5BFL/P- ICOM 756
KT34A 4EL YAGI & G5RV
GOOD CONTEST WITH GOOD ES
MD4K- Great Contest again, really enjoyed it.
MJ0X- Yaesu FT1000MP
Carolina Windom 160M
Really enjoyed contest first real attempt from
Island. We had local noise that hampered 80m but still
had a good time. We got pushed out of the band slightly
with qrm but moved immediately as we were made aware
It was a genuine error with minimal impact on outcome
MM0Q- Probably the BEST contest in the world!! My eighth year from Tanera Mor in the Summer Isles as a DXpedition station.Great fun as always with lots of stations to work. Thanks to all who make the special efforts to activate Islands for the contest and to everyone who worked
me. The cottage is already booked again for next year and plans are well under way. See you all from EU092 again in 2009. 73 de Jim, MM0BQI - MM0Q
MM0YEC- Found condx hard but text was fun anyway!
MM3M- Our best effort yet from the Island of Arran EU-123! Most of stations worked were in Europe but it was good to work into VK7 on 40m and the Far East on 20m. This year we used separate serial number sequences for the run and multiplier stations rather than risk an unreliable
network connection between the two stations. Our 40m antenna
used at the multiplier SOAPBOX: station worked really well, 4 S units up into VK7 over on the 165ft doublet, as it should being just 25 metres from the beach! Where were all the Caribbean, Pacific and Japanese islands?
Rigs FT2000 with SPE Expert amp - A4S antenna for 40-10m and an 80m inverted V on the Run station
FT1000Mk V Field and amp with Doublet and vertical and a VK2ABQ for 14/15 and 10m on the SP station.
MM3T- Elecraft K2/100 and 80m doublet. Located about 50m from the sea and about 20m above it. Blocked to the North but clear path to the SE. Percentage of UK to the rest on Europe really low on all bands. When I did work a UK station they were 599 so looked like a poor turn out from the UK for the contest. Lots of DXpedition stations to be had though. Didn't do the full 12hrs due to family commitments and
watching Otters/Choughs. Weather was brilliant, sunny for the duration of our stay with temperature reaching the high 20s! Had a whale of a time and already looking forward to next year. Thanks to all who took the time to work me.
MU0FAL- ft1000 mk 5
dipole
MU0GSY- Icom IC756 PRO3
Dipoles
Excellent contest as usual
thanks to all ops activating the islands
Used SDI for logging
MW0OPS- icom ic 7000
half g5rv
aas usual SD logger was brilliant in contrast to the op
will do a more serious entry next year
MW1MDH-
Couldnt operate the full stint :-(
N0YO- First IOTA Contest is several years. Had a great time but poor propagation and thunderstorms made for several hours lost operating time. Well there's always next year!
N1LI- A very enjoyable weekend with terrific activity. Tough to compete from North America with the European multiops; just cannot keep up with the multipliers on the low bands - congrats to GJ6YB, ES2Q, DR6IOTA, and GM7V for amazing 10M+ scores!
N2WN- I was still copying GW8K at 0133Z loud, particularly considering I was pointed into the Pacific and he was the only EU signal. Whatever they were doing worked well!
Conditions were more challenging this year. 20 produced the most QSOs, but never had a good opening into EU or Asia or the Pacific. 15 was better than last year with a decent EU opening and a quick visit from FO5RH. There was a little more Stateside participation which helped on 80. GM3POI had the best signal out of Europe on 80.
The KL7DX DXpedition was a nice catch on 40. They built in strength, unlike the rest of the West.
Added a few new ones to my IOTA total... need to send in an application some day ;o)
73,
Julius
n2wn
N3KUN- IC-745
Alpha Delta DX-CC @ 25
Enjoy the contest seemed to be a good deal of activity
Looking forward to next year more contacts with more islands
N3RW- Not as many European stations heard as in past IOTA contests.
More solar flux please!
N4A- Conditions were not great, but we were able to increase the number of qsos, mults and points over 2007. A large portion of our contacts were with local USA stations.
Our WX conditions were much better than 2007. Calm and relatively cool, we were in much better mental condition after setting up the antenna mast and the stations.
We had three operators this year,and the extra manpower really helped over the entire contest period.
The 20:00z busy period was late, but the hourly totals were all
better than 2007, but spread out more evenly. 20m was the best band but 40m and 80m were disappointing due to high noise levels.
The run station was an Elecraft K2 at 100w into either a 40m dipole or an 80m dipole. Both dipoles were hung from a 38 foot mast at right angles to each other. They were fed with ladder line and a tuner, and used for all bands. The mult station was a TenTec Delta into a Butternut vertical.
The Cape Lookout has no electrical service, so our electrical power was from a 3500 watt generator.
Thanks to everyone for a great contest.
More info/photos will soon be available at:
http://w4kaz.com/n4a/
N4LF- Great fun being the hunted for a change; unfortunately, condx were not good at this QTH. Great contest. Thanks!
N4PN- GOOD ACTIVITY - BAD NUMBERS SFI 66. THANKS TO ALL WHO
MADE IT INTERESTING BY ACTIVATING SO MANY ISLANDS.
RATE METER ON 20 SSB WAS AT 252 ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
THANKS TO RSGB AND ALL WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE.
N6VR/P- Nice to work what EU we did, but condx still poor. Not very many JAs worked. Very good location, could work almost anything we heard.
NC4MI- My first time in a IOTA contest.
ND0C- I wish there had been more activity from the Caribbean. Propagation was generally poor and 20 was very noisy here. But I was still happy with the overall results for QRP! Thanks for a good activity and awards program!
NG7Z- I didn't have much time available so just made a few contacts.
NS9I- Bad conditions for Midwest U.S.A. but still had fun!
NU4B- Rough conditions, but always fun. Best QSO - ES2Q on 40 meters. Maybe next year we will have some sunspots to help my 4 watt signal. Rig: Heath HW-9, Ant: Carolina Windom Short 80. Thanks all for the QSOs
OE2VEL- blew second RX after 3 hours, so was a very limited SO2R. Nice condx on 10m and 15m helped to improve score compared to 2007
OE6IMD- Thanks for some new ones!!!
OH/G4FSU- Elecraft K2
W3DZZ Trap Dipole at 10 metres
Beautiful weather compensated for less than perfect conditions. Invasion of ants in the shack gave new
meaning to the words hot seat! Thanks Paul for SDI
OH2LNH- 1st time in IOTA contest. Found it very much FUN! Sure to join in next time. Too bad that fine weather, good friends, antenna work and too long night sleep snip a big bite of working hours. Anyway managed to work 7 new islands. Thanks to organisators and all contesters for this nice event. 73 de OH2LNH, Heikki
OH6JYH- Kenwood TS-680S
G5RV
QTH: old railroadstation
OH6LI- Thanks! SSB was fun! Conditions prevented a good score as
upper band targets were not met.
CU in 2009.
OH9VL- Thanks for the contest, condx pretty rough for my QRPp 1W!
OK1DOR- RIG: IC-756PROIII ANTENNE: Delta Loop
As usually very nice contest. CUAGN in RSGB IOTA 2009
OK1KW- Very nice contest - every time!
OK2HBY- FT 897 PA 700W
FORCE 12 C4S
OK2KFK- OLD FT-277E, 100W
OK2SGW- Tx 50 W home made Rx double superhet
40 m long wire
I am pleased to say: SDI log by Paul EI5DI is very
friendly - it is nice to use it. Thank You Paul !
OK2SWD- VERY GOOD CONTEST SEE YOU AGAIN FRIENDS.
OL4M- I love IOTA
OL6P- Very nice contest with many IOTA stations.
Thank all for Qso. 73, Petr
OM3AG- TCVR Yaesu FT1000 MP MARK V Field , 100 w , Ant. 7 Band Verical ECO ,Microkeyer microHAM ,
OM7YC- TNX for nice contest. 73´
ON3AD- Fine Contest, I used 5 watt with GPA30 and GPM1500
My first IOTA Contest, no many times to contesting because of QRL but had fun in the contest.
73 and up to 2009 de Pat ON3AD
ON3ND- ICOM IC703
Dipoles for each band
The contest is a real opportunity to increase the
number of islands contacted. Many thanks to the hams
from an island CU Later!!!
ON4LPF- that was a great contest
ON5WL- TS870 100 W
Dipoles
I had not much time to work in the contest. But it was
fun to be in this contest. Much activity and good
condx on 40 m I like the mixed mode and SDI is a comfortable
program to log. Till next year. 73 Leon ON5WL
ON6FC- PROPAGATION BAD
ON6UQ- Lots of QRN from thunderstorms over EU. But pleasant contest after all.
An TS850/TL922 400W 4el.3bnd yagi+dipoles
ON7CC- Nice activity CW
ON7TR- Lots of rfi in the shack
TS440S 5 Watts + ant FD4 at 9 m asl
ON8NT- IC-703
Vertical and Longwire
Enjoyed very much
worked a lot of new IOTAs for me
Using SDI for logging - is simple and user friendly
OQ7T- Yaesu 1000MP V Field
5 ele 10-15-20M - 2ele 40M - Dipoles
sufferd from high static due to thunderstorm
always a pleasure to participate
SD worked exelent again
see you next year
OR2A- Great contest, always fun to take part !
OU3A- Rig: Icom IC-737A (90 watts output)
Antenna: Loop
OY1CT- Thanks to all those who called me, cu next year.
OZ/DL6MHW- Nice Contest again but problems with condx and setup (electricity and computer). Could not operate SSB during night because the close neightbours on the campsite. Aditionally I missed the CW pile ups on 40 and 80 during the dark hours. Highlight was the bandhopping, e.g.
with TK5EP, EJ0GI and some other top contest OPs.
OZ0FR- IC756PROIII
BIGIR Vertical (40-10m) + Windom FD4
temperature more than 30 degrees outside and more than
40 degrees inside the shack - others went to the beach
and we were active in the contest - but it was fun!
See you next year
OZ1ACB- IC756Pro
FB33 + dipol
OZ1DYI/P- No electricity, only solar cells and solar batteries, antenne 5 band butternut.Home address: Bakkevej 33, DK-6700 Esbjerg
OZ6TL- FT-1000MP
Dipole
Using SDI - great logging software
OZ8SW- yaesu ft 1000 mark v
gp (80-40) 3 ele beam (20-15-10)
enjoy the many g qsos (15 points !) nice condx both day
P3J- A most enjoyable contest as usual, in spite of fairly mixed conditions. No VK or JA stations worked! Good to find 10m open for most of the daylight hours, and to find 20m open to NA all night and even to ZL at 03.00 local time. This was the first entry in this contest from my current QTH, and the result, in terms of gross claimed score, is my best yet.
P43JB- Surprise tst, JA/VK/ZL/YB lots of USA and EU.
PA/ON6QR- Second time in QRP for the contest: better score than in VO1. What fun just using AA batteries and a vertical from a tent location. Despite the thunder and gales, delays for battery loading, it was nice. Still have work to solve station problems for next year !
Thank you to all taking care of little signals.
PA0ATG- Mni participants so nice to do the contest special for a QRP-station.
CU next year.
PA0FEI- Very good activity on all bands. Rain and heavy thunder kept me out of the air for several hours on saturday evening.
Thanks for UFB Contest.
PA0HFT- During the night, we must shutdown the station during a very heavy Thunderstorm above the Island. Lightning strike closer than 300m from our shack....and hit the Ferry. Not really reassuring if you are on the highest dune of the Island, with antennas above your head. We tried it again round 6.00 AM, but the QRN was still S9+++++, so we can only pickup the strongish stations. Maybe next Year better.
PA0IJM- Kenwood TS 830s Lin.ampl.AL-811
Dipole for 80 and 40 and a 5 ell for 20-15-10
The thunder and lightning give me so much QRN that I
must QRT 3 times for a long period. Hope for QRN free
contest next year. Have fun with the incoming logs.
PA0RRS- kenwood ts570d
gpa30 groundplane at 4 meter over ground
PA1PT/P- YAESU FT 847
G5RV GPA30
SDI is the best logging programm for me!
PA3AQL- Thank You for the nice contest it was a pleasure participating. Hpe cu next Year. It was for fun, not for a big score.
PA3DDP- Little time but gave my points away and made some points myself
PA3GVI- Really nice contest!
I could not join the full 24 hours but maybe next year.
Cheers to all who went abroad to an Island just for this contest.
73, Rob/PA3GVI
PA3JD- Yaesu FT 101
FD-4
My first IOTA contest.Did enjoy it.
Success with the administration of the results.
PA5KT- Just giving out points.
PA5TT- Happy to join the contest and to visit some of the many visiting stations. My receiver does not like so much the sigs from some of these stations (hi). But due to the law they all use only 400W
PA7ZEE- It was fun to participate in this contest. The suffix of my call is dutch for SEA. Via my job in the offshore industry and my hobby as Yachtsman I was and still am related with the Sea. The IOTA gives good memories.
73 de geert pa7zee
PB2M/P- We did better than last year but still a long way to go for the medal rankings. What do we do wrong? Maybe we should change the island? See you next year. For the inside story see: http://nol.uba.be/iota.html It is in Dutch otherwise everybody will know our secrets! HIHI
PD1EVL- Yeasu FT897 / Yeasu FT101ZD
2el hygainbeam and vertikal 10/20/40
PD2JAM- A STATION ASKED MY IOTA-NR: I ANSWERED THAT IF IT KEPT RAINING I WOULD PROBABLY HAVE A IOTA-NR NEXT WEEK!!
LONG LIVE A CONTEST WITH SOME HUMOR!!
BY THE WAY; IN THIS CONTEST EVERYBODY WORKS WITH EVERYBODY, SO WHY CALLING EXPLICIT (AND ONLY) FOR IOTA-STATIONS WHILE NON IOTA-STATIONS HAVE TO WAIT?
PD5CW- new station from the neterlands
I have local qrm on 40meters
I like contest
see you in the next contest
Jeroen PD5CW
PD7BZ- Tnx for the nice Contest. Nice to work IOTAs. Tnx to the OMs/YLs that did activate them. Without them,it wouldn't be this good.
PD9FER- IC-756PROIII
Mosley 3el tri-bander
Not many contacts this time.
Had to close the station several times (thunderstorms)
Next year better :) hi
PE1LTY- Many thanks for the nice contest. Hope to the next time. 73 Henny
PE1OLM- Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V
The weather was warm and sticky and lot of static on saturday evening and also thunder so have to disconnect the antennas. Condx was overall ok.
First time logged with N1MM was ok for me.
PE2KP- ft1000mp-m5 5 WATT OUT
DIPOLE
We had a few thunderstorms in my QTH and had to stop
But again a new top score for me with de iota
So it was a great contest for me. See you all next year
73 Adriaan PE2KP
PG7V- Lots of rain, thunder and lightning Saturday, so had to QRX for a longer time and decided to participate only for 12 hours.
As always this contest is fun. See you next year!
Rig: FT-2000, 100W, ant R7 vertical, G5RV dipole
PT6T- ts2000
g5rv
operated from Morro de Sao Paulo light house - DIB BA-05
and DFB BA-06. HARD OPERATION CONDITIONS, NO TABLE AND CHAIR,
90% OF TIME STANDING.
PY7OJ- TKS FB TEST.
PY7XC- It was nice to find so many islands active during the contest. Unfortunately I am not more a island resident as I did years before. Hope to be able to operate from an IOTA next year. Congratulations to all for very nice party.
Jim PY7XC
R15RRC- Many Thanks for the nice Contest. Greetings from Russian Robinson Clubs special activity R15RRC - 15th Anniversary of RRC foundation!
RN1CW- TNX for very nice contest ! No good ppropagation for this year . CUAGN for the next 2009 year ! THANKS ! 73
RN4AAD- My first IOTA contest. Many TKS who answer to me!
RU6HJ- Transiver UW3DI. 50 Watts. Antenna GP.
RU9CD- ft-897
dipole
RV0AE- Cool contest.
RV2FW/1- Thank you to all calling me. I love this Contest!
RW3AI- Icom 7800, pwr 5 watts, Ant CP6. LW
RW3QO- Sorry! No good propagation! HPE CU AGN in NEXT RSGB-IOTA contest in 2009 year.
S51DX- Great contest, wish to have better antennas but like to give the points to others. Hear you all next year. de Janez S51DX
S56G- A lot of fun again! Open 10m band was a nice surprise! Who needs sunspots anyway ?! I worked in holiday style (t-shirt, beer, shorts ... summer storms in the background) from the center of the city with ic746 and 3 band fishing rod on the roof. Thanks to all IOTAtors!
S57YX- TS 480SAT
3BAND 3ELLEMNT
S59A- I was going only to chase IOTAs, but then worked a few nonIOTAs too. Because I overslept the night and found in the rules 12 hours category , I stoped before contest end. All my yagis are down so it was interesting to work only with 160m dipoles and an 80 mtrs delta loop,with high SWR so the tuner of 1000Mp sometimes did not tune sufficient. But had fun anyway. Next year maybe better antennas. I was actually not going to participate or sending LOG, but you asked me for it, so here it is.
SC3N- Nice to hear HF-bands open!
SK0HS/0- I operated from Blido (EU084) one of the major islands in the archipelago of Stockholm. It is as always a very fun contest to participate in. I was lucky with the very nice weather that I had during the contest; Sunny, warm and nearly no winds. I will attend next year again.
SM/G3LAS- IC7000
dipole G5RV
It is bizarre that in an IOTA contest contacts between two
non-island stations can score points, creating QRM for the rest. SDI excellent
SM4EPR- IC-703
Multiband vertical GAP
First time in IOTA Contest. Not so easy to come through
with 10 watts that is activity was good :)
SM6BZE- Due to the silly (I had harsher words in mind) rule that I cannot use my contest call and upload to IOTA webpage for award purposes I only worked new ones this time. Sorry all EU-005s and AS-007s!
SM6CRM- FT817
dipole and 3 el yagi
SM6EQO/P- Rig: Elecraft K2 at 5 watts. Ant: Full 1/4 wave ground plane for 80 meters. Trapped end-fed half-wave dipole for 40 and 20 meters. Ground planes for 15 and 10 meters. http://hem.bredband.net/b101180/IOTA%202008.html
SM7ZAU- Thanks for a great contest. Only a 40m effort due to antenna problems.
SN3C- ic765 100 w and 14mc - 5 el. mono and 21mc - 5 el. mono yagis , only two bands but lot of fun 73 and good luck
SP1ADY- FT101ZD
Delta
SP1AEN- TS-430S 100 WTTS
LW
NICE CONTEST CU NEXT YEAR
SP3GXH- IC 756 PROIII ACOM 1000 ant X-7 INV.V
SP4AAZ- FT920
SP4AVG- RIG: TS-520SE
PWR: 100 W
ANT: 1/2 W3DZZ
SP6XP- IC-735
GP-7
SP9BNM- RIG: IC706MK2G
PWR: 100
ANT: DELTA LOOP
SP9DTE- FT 747gx
Ant: DIPOLE and GP7DX
SQ3RX- Thanks for all QSOs.
I hope to operate form EU132 next year.
TRX: IC746 100w
ANT: INV vEE DIPOL
Software: CT by K1EA
SV0XAF/8- TS 430 s
Dipole FD4
No to many DX on my dipole
Tnx to Paul EI5DI for using SDI. The best contest prog.
73 de Micke HB9EBC / SV0XAF
SV9/OK6Y- TRX: FT897D, ANT: G5RV, SW:N6TR
QTH: Kavros Beach Hotel (North coast of Crete)
Thank you very much for all contacts. I apologize to all I didnt copy.
Some pictures you can see on http://ok6y.blogspot.com/
SV9CVY- I was qrv about 20 hours out of the 24 .i was not going crazy during the contest.i am pretty happy with the result since band conditions were not very good. I want to thank all the stations that came back to my cq call
c u next year with a better score i guess.
73 de sv9cvy mike
SX5P- LIMITED PARTICIPATION DUE TO THE BIG FIRE WE HAD ON OUR ISLAND AND THE PARTICIPATION OF ALL THE OPERATORS TO THE COMMUNICATION CENTER OF THE STATE AND THAT OF THE RED CROSS . NOBODY COULD FIND ANY PLEASURE IN CONTESTING , THAT IS WHY WE JUST PARTICIPATED FOR FEW HOURS BOTH DAYS ...WE HOPE TO BE FULLY ACTIVE NEXT TIME ...
SX8R- Nice contest and activity.
TA3GO- YAESU FT 857D
MOXON ANT. FOR 21Mhz-28Mhz and WINDOM FD-4
I FINISHED MY NEW MOXON FOR 10M AND 15 METER ANT. I HAD
A CHANCE TO TRY IT. VY TNX TO ALL CONTESTERS, CONTEST CO
MITEE, EI5DI FOR SDI LOG PROGRAM 73 DE TA3GO CAN OKUR
TI2KAC- Nice Contest, next year from Dxpedition Island of Costa Rica.....73 see next year.
TM1W- First participation to this contest, and first tests with our new K3s planned to be used at FY5KE soon ... Quite glad with the result, despite being mainland ! CU in the next one.
73s
UA3AKI- It is everything, that was kept in magazine after breakage of the computer. Excuse!
UA3BL- A very interesting contest. Especially in 12 hour category. For pensioners it is difficult to work 24 hours nonstop. But 12 hours mode is OK, moreover one can choose resting periods himself/herself. I'd advise to have the same 12 hours active period in all longlasting contests. On the other hand it keeps radioamateurs healthier because the more time one spends on sitting upright the more harmful effect he/she faces.
Anyway thanks to IOTAs organizers all the participants and CU next year!
UA3BL
UA3ICK- Tks for contest !!!!
UA4PT- Icom 756 PROII
3 el YAGI for 10-14-10 m .Vertical system for 40m
UA6HFI- RADIO: FT920 100W AHTENNAS: GP
UA9KB- FT-2000
XL-222
UR3IQO- There were two big thunderstorms during the contest here, so I was out of power for the most of the contest time :(. Thanks for all who answered or called me!
UR5IKN- Much fun as usual, good islands on air activity. Five of them were a new one for me. Thanks everybody who have answered my low power / vertical calls!
UR7EZ- Used IC-7000 and Dipole Antenna. The propagation fell down before the Contest esp. on Low bands. But still have got some new IOTA refs!
UR8IDX- Hi! Thanks for all who contacted me.
US1IV- TNX for nice contest
UT4N- RIG: 50W
ANT: GP
UT8IT- TX: IC-746, ANT: Dipole
UW0G- Great Contest!!!! CU in IOTA CONTEST 2009 73GL de UW0G Team
UY5ZI- Cool contest.
VA3RJ- Wish I had more time for the contest this year, but other commitments took priority. Hope to have more time in the IOTA Contest 2009! 73 to all and thanks for the QSOs, from Dave, VA3RJ.
VA3RKM- K2, 5 watts, verticals and dipole. Thanks for working a weak signal.
VA3RSA- Yaesu FT-897
40/80m Inverted-L with 20/15/10m parallel whips.
First time in IOTA contest. Could operate only a few
hours. Great to hear distant islands like VK but could
not work them - maybe next year.
Used SDI logging program with Windows XP - works well.
VE2FU- Had to enter Mixed, as could not miss 1 QSO with G6PZ on 10M SSB incredible opening 59 in Quebec ! cu next year
VE2FXL- First time for this contest and I had a lot of fun doing it. Began with poor conditions on 20m but as time goes by in afternoon, the conditions were really better and its easy to see the results in my log. I hope I will have time to do this contest next year.
VE2GHI- TS-850
Windom
Very first IOTA contest
It was difficult becaus of strong local QRN
I have learn some tricks
I will be better next year
VE3GSI- Who turned off the propagation?
Very bad electrical storms in my area for most of the contest time.
VE3OM- Nice contest ... as always!
VE3VHB- 1kW
3 El. Tribander
Poor conditions no propagation to Far East. Good to
get 7 new IOTAs. SDI worked well in POST mode with few
problems except editing after the contest.
VE3ZZ/2- Yaesu FT-2000
Tribander and 80/40 meter dipoles
Great contest as always. Really nice surprise to start the contest with 9M6DXX/P as first QSO!
VE6CNU- My first IOTA contest and it was a lot of fun. I just wish I had more time to operate and dig out more island stations. Maybe one of these days I can operate from an Island. And of course, conditions couldnt be much worse, so Im sure to improve the score next time. CU all then.
VK2CCC- ic-7000
Single vertical with remote tuner
I got the impression that the first night was much
better than the second evening. Where have all the VK/ZL
stations gone?
VK2GR- Conditions to Europe and on the high bands were very poor and there was no 80M activity!
VK4BUI- FT1000MP MkV
20M 4 EL DELTA LOOP : 40M DIPOLE : 10-80M G5RV
SDI WHAT ELSE ?
CONDITIONS VERY DISAPPOINTING
VX1RNS/P- Just a hand-rotatable dipole and an 80M low dipole and an FT1000MP. And the ground plane of the Atlantic Ocean and three decent operators, of course. We were hosted by the volunteers who operate the Marine Museum on Bells Island who were appreciate of the publicity that the IOTA contest operators (VX1RNS/P) gave them and no request from us was denied.
W2IY- On vacation on Maines Mt. Desert Island - my first IOTA contest. Lots of fun with the vacation setup.
W3AG- After my first-ever visit to London in June, (I even attended the Queens birthday parade!), I wanted to participate in the RSGBs IOTA contest. We enjoyed our time in London and hope to be back soon. RSGB is a fine organization and this was a fun radio activity, even at QRP power. As usual my time was somewhat limited. Thanks and 73.
W4PM- RIG: Ten Tec Omni VII, Ameritron ALS-600 - 400W
ANTENNA: 176 ft center fed at 60 feet
Rather poor conditions on 20 but at least 15 was open a bit. 40 and especially 80 were covered with QRN making copy difficult. There were a number of stations who called me who I just could not pull though the QRN. This was the first time I was semi-serious about this contest and I enjoyed every minute in spite of the conditions. My ears are still ringing from the low band QRN. Ill be back next year!
Thanks for the Qs.
73,
Puck, W4PM
W5EPW- IC-751 at 60 watts
MFJ vertical up 4 feet
Logged with SDI on Linux via wineconsole
W7WHY- Sorry I didn't get to participate more, but Saturday was a work day here and couldnt get on for any more time than this. 73
Tom W7WHY
WB4ROA- Had fun, but not too many stations in the early morning hours. Did peak my interest in IOTA, and I will start tracking them in my log. Many new calls and that is a great indication of the increasing popularity of contesting. Look forward to next year!
XE1IM- NICE TEST TNX
xe1im@hotmail.com
YB0EIN- MY TRANSCEIVER : KENWOOD TS-450S
ANTENA : YAGI X-7 (3BAND)-10M-15M-20M LOCAL MADE
MY TOWER : 25M FROM GROUND ROTATOR KENPRO KR 600RC
POWER : 100 W
MY LOG : N1MM LOGGER
YB2ECG- Its always have fun joining the great contest: great contest and also great managements!
YB3MM/5- QRV from the west beach of Sumatra Is OC-143 with one dipole, one trx and one generator. Tepi Is and Tengah Is OC-262 are on the front of the beach, but could not go there due to bad weather. Hopefully next contest will be from OC-262. See you next year.
YC5OUB- Bad Propagation to EU, only some stations can hear
YO2CJX- TS 140 S ABT 100 WATTS
DIPOLES
YO3HKW- Very animated contest and despite family obligations, I had a lot of fun! Thanks to all and see you next year!
YO3JW- NICE TO BE IN THIS CONTEST.
YO5CBX- FT - 897 - 100 w
HM Spiderbeam - 14/21/28 Mhz
GP - 7 Mhz
YO5OAG- Rig: ICOM 7400, Antena:DIAMOND BB-7V, Dipol 20m, UcxLog 6.25
Tks contest GL
` 73 Sanyi YO5OAG
YO9CWY- Excellent contest and a alot of participants. Unfortunately the propagation remains poor.
YP3A- Good contest, see you next year!
YT2A- My favorite contest as always! Best 73! See You next year!
YT2AAA- Definitely my favourite contest
YT7AW- Thanks for a nice contest. Enjoyed it much for couple of hours I've managed to work. See you next year.
YV6BXN- ic-706
multiband wire dipoles
the propagation was very bad for low power stations
so thanks to any could hear me see you next year
with qro 73 Mel
ZC4LI- Thanks to all concerned in running the contest.
I had the intention of doing 24hrs this year, but a 2 hour power cut
just b4 the start put paid to that idea !!
73 Steve, in a hot 60C++ in the sun Cyprus.
ZL2BR- The contest start time coincided with the arrival of a strong storm with winds up to 120kmh. Lost my 80m and 6m antenna but the rest survived. Operated on 40m for the first three hours midnight-3.0am (1500utc) without a great deal of success, just 65 contacts. Got back in the shack around 11am (2300utc)and spend most of the afternoon on 20m, working mainly NA stations. Then on to 40m to work Eu LP and then W/JA etc. 20m was disappointing, only worked one Eu station. Best period was 0200-0400utc with 114 contacts on 20m, mainly NA.
Southern Eu was better on 40m LP than SP, with some good signal from that area. Northern Eu stations were very weak or non-existent.
Rig: TS-2000, AL-80B, 3el-tribander, 40m elevated GP.
ZL3PAH- Condx poor, first time I have tried this contest and really enjoyed it. Be back next year.