An enjoyable ARRL Contest

Special event call sign 3Z50DVP is to celebrate 50th anniversary of the amateur radio by Krzysztof
(Kris) SP6DVP, and will be active begining from October 15st , 2019 till April 30th, 2020.

Certificates Contest ARRL - IARU : SP6DVP -  3Z6V 

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Thank you very much for pickking up my weak signals!

I could enjoy the good contest.
Tnx for a fine contest again.
IC-7600, Dipole-Ant.

I enjoyed the contest on 20m.

@9A4M, BABINO BRDO, JN85EI

many stations just heard, pse call CQ to us low power....

Contest was a real challenge for me, my Yaesu FT897 and home made wire antennas.  Thanks and good
luck to all.  Until the next Contest.  73. Ivan

FN33vh

Nice Contest. Good conditions for 80, 40, 20 and 15 meters. Good number of participants. Tried out
my new SteppIR DB36 with 80 meter dipole. Worked great. Thanks for all the contacts!

Ended contest participation early due to faulty Internet connection (ISP equipment failure) between
base and remote.

1st license August 2017

CONDX BETTER THAN EXPECTED. ALSO, NEW TOWER REALLY HELPED. CABRILLO LOG SUBMISSION WAS EXCEEDINGLY
DIFFICULT; WEB SITE NEEDS TO DO A BETTER JOB OF INFORMING USER WHAT ERROR(S) IT FINDS.

Cinditions do not compare with the recent ARRL International CW
contest.  In this SSB contest I was not able to make QSOs with
100w category; therefore, I had to power up my amplifier and
compete in the high-power category.
(160m) was nothing like the CW contest.  Heard only a few
stations.  Saturday and Sunday mornings, there was not many (if
any) still on the band calling CQ just prior to sunrise here in
TENN.  Ten (10m) meters was terrible and did not hear any signals
either day.  I lost some good multipliers due to bd 10m
conditions.  On  bright note, was glad to work many Europeans on
15m on both Saturday and Sunday.
faulting out.  Believe it was a patch cable recently crimped.  I
beleive I like soldered patch cables better ensuring a real
connection.  Switched patch cables a few times.
many QSOs and looking forward to next year.

Always a favorite contest of mine, didn't get to play very long, but had a blast!

ARRL DXSSB CONTEST

General DX Log

I decided not to change antennas, and just stay on 20m.

Slow start in this one but got through it.  Had a good time on the low bands and then 15m opened for
some more fun!  Tough staying inside in the nice wx we had here. 
AJ4A

My station is not setup yet at my new QTH in Tennessee.  I wound up operating
with a 15 meter wire delta loop in a tree.  The only operational rig at hand was
an old FT726R with an HF module that covers 15, 12 and 10 meters.  I decided to
operate single band on 15 meters with 10 watts output, and had a lot of fun
doing that even though it was often difficult to be heard.  I was pleased to
work a few Europeans on Saturday.  As expected most of the propagation was to
the Caribbean and South America.  The vast majority of stateside stations were
heard via weak backscatter.  I managed to make 71 QSOs in 32 countries, and I
was satisfied with that given the station I was able to cobble together.
73, Walt, AJ6T

due to time, couldnt make more...tnx

TNX all callers in the QRM, see us again next year with better conditions especially at 15 meters.

Only 50 QSO in this Year. Not many time for Contest. Vy 73 de Geri,
DG5MLA

Haven't been active in this contest for a long time, since we usually have a large regional VHF
contest at the same time. Has been great fun. Thanks for all the stations pulling out my LP signal.
CU next year...73

IC-7800, ACOM2000A, 750W, Monoband Dipols Inv V for 80m & 160m
17 Ele. Yagi Optibeam OB17-4 10m,15m,20m,40m

TS130v + TL120 + AT130 100 Watt >> 2 Ele Mini-Yagi MFB23
11m high

Only shared a few points, mostly on 20m.

Icom IC-730, Yaesu FL2100B PA, Fritzel 5-Ele beam, Dipole

The 20m qso with vy2zm was with 2 watts from portable location.

Frederik 8 years old, supervised by father DM9EE

ICOM 718 20M DBZ ANTENNA

Played very lightly. Tower is down from 18 to 6m high, waiting for replacement. 2L quad worked well,
with great grayline activity and variable the rest of the day. Good fun!

ARRL-DX-SSB

Congratulations, good contest, but bad propagation for our.

RX/TX Kenwood TS830S
Antenna 1/4 wl vertical

MONOBAND IN 20m

Had lots of fun. Needed to stop for 4 hours at Saturday evening. I couldn't catch DL6FBL after that.
Congrats to Ben for his incredible effort, specially on 20 m.
During many hours 40 m was the place to be. Some EU stations produced too high splatter levels, the
contest committee should take note of those using excessive bandwidth.

Icom IC756 ProIII, Doublet Inverted V Antenna 10m above ground level, 100 watts output.

After ten years without participating in competitions, I had a lot of
fun this weekend. Few contacts on Friday and Saturday, the weather was very windy to install the
quad antenna. Sunday without wind was much better. Thanks ARRL and all the North Americans. 73! de
EA8AUW - Edu.

Fantastic contest as always, Tnx qsos and CU again next year 73 de EC1KR aka ED1R

SDR trcvr SunSDR2-PRO, SPE 1.3KFA, VERTICALS

TS 130S , Moxon .

little time due to family obligations

Used FT990  100w + LW 42m

Only for fun!
100W from an Icom IC-7300 + 7 element Multiband Yagi

ic7700 pwr 100w ant steppir 3elts(30/40) + dipole 80m only home made (ON4UN/K6TU) 15m up

73

High level of statics difficult to copy stations on all bands but
enjoy a 2  hours and a half 136 qso on 80m . On my side 20m was bad
more than in the cw test in february. 15m even if some big gun were
spotted no signal readable on my side. Very pleased to operate in this
contest and give US/VE some points and multiplier If god will see you
next year 73's and greetings from France F6BNH Bernard

Nice contest but low propagation. CU next year!

poor condx
we need solar cycle 25

I think it is important to support contests with a log even with just a few QSO's like me. Condx
better than may be believed from propo reports.

My first ever amateur radio contest. Limited by low power and a primitive antenna, I was delighted
to make 14 contacts with US and Canadian stations.

The Gilwell Park Scout team got together for our next attempt at
this contest. After a frantic rotator replacement on the
tribander tower on Saturday morning and rapid deployment of a NW
beverage half way throught the contest, we felt that our small
team made as much as we could from the conditions. Scratchy QSOs
on 15m and even the big boys were not strong on top band left us
three contest bands to carry all the traffic. Lots of fun
nonetheless and Im sure we will be back next year

THAT WAS A STRUGGLE TO WORK !!!!!!

Another enjoyable trip by the intrepid 3 Brits for the ARRL Phone contest.
In the last 3 years we have moved further and further west, starting in PZ
then on to P4 and now here we are in HP, where to next year? A very big
thank you to our host Jay, HP3AK. We had some problems with the 40m
beam when we arrived, but managed to get it repaired and back on the tower
thanks to Jay's mechanical engineering and tower climbing skills. We were
less fortunate with the 160m antenna, which try though we did we couldn't
get it to radiate very well. We also suffered a number of long power failures,
thankfully the on site generator kept up going. No 10m opening again, maybe
next year?

Rig-YAESU FT2000
PA-HENRY 3K Premier
Ant-205BA
The first day quite nice condx.
Thank's to All for QSO's
Best regards from Hungary!
Charlie (HA4XH)

operator: HB9GFW HB9GFT

First time HB9NE in the air. Tnx QSOs

Trying out new Verticals Phased, got the first Q with Low Power, so had to stay on low power. I was
impressed with the perfomance. I live in Ecuador at 8,300'. But I use a Ga address as the mail
service isn't worth a dime here.

After 22 years removed from the radio, I return to the passion of the competitions. I really enjoyed
this contest, despite the various inconveniences I had. Something more than 1100 contacts and 58
multipliers I think is a good return. Thanks to Camilo Fierro, HK3TU, for providing me with your
station.
HK3EA (Ex HK3MAE)

Many stations. Good sign.
Equipment: KWD TS430s at less than 70W with Inverted V.
73 to all

SOAB LOW POWER SSB

Great contest
Lot of fun, sadly for poor propagation,
few band open

Closed high bands and antenna for 80 and 160 poorly performing. About 14
hours of activity on 20 and 40 meters and 10 QSOs with well-equipped
stations. It was not easy to log 160 qso.
I noticed that many stations with 100 watts and others even with 25 watts
were able to pass me despite having used 500 watts.
Highest final score of the previous edition.

CHECKLOG

Log de IT9DGG op. Gianni

I worked the contest for few hours only on 20M.I say thanks to all
stations that i met during the contest.Hoping better next year.Best 73's

Thank you so much.Beautifull contest.I had a lot of fun.See you at the next ARLL DX SSB contest.
Greetings from Central Italy from the Umbria region (The Green Heart of Italy).

license 13/07/2017

Questo  stato il mio primo contest, grazie a tutti coloro che mi hanno
collegato.

ARRL DX SSB 2020

operatong qrp with 5watt antenna dipole eco rf6 . more  activity in the
band  . nice job researce  station and multiplier on frequency
only 2 qso on 21 mhz . band not opened in the contest..
see you on the next contest best 73 to all
Dado iw2nri

ARRL contest 2020

COMPLIMENTI PER IL MAGNIFICO CONTEST 73 ROMANO

Operated for a brief time QRP battery powered portable from a mountain top. Lots of strong signals
in the band, was great to be able to work a few of them with my constrained antenna.

FEW TIME SPENT ONLY ON 20M BAND PASSING POINTS TO USA AND
CANADA STATIONS

Beautiful contest, large participation limited by very little propagation
in zone 8. Not Satisfied with the result of a shame having lost part of
Saturday night due to the breaking of a hexbeam wire then settled in the
morning. Appointment to the next edition hoping to improve setup and
score. Thanks to all the stations that have had the patience to connect.
73 'DE IZ8GUQ Giovanni

I enjoyed the contest.

Poor propagation, though I enjoyed.

I enjoyed the contest.

Enjoyed the contest 73

CONDX SEEMED TO BE POOR

I enjoyed the contest.

Tnx FB Contest !!

I enjoyed the contest.

ANT  40M-14mH DIP    80M-13mH DIP
RIG  IC-741S    PWR < 5w

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest since 1968

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
FTdx5000 Ant 4elyagi

Better than last year's contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed 20m single band.

I entry on a single-op 80m lowpower. The condition was not
so good.
I QSOed 34stations in the last year.
But I QSO only 7stations in this year.
Because I had very heavy OTH lader QRM from U.S.S.R.
That OTH lader transmit point from 42.861213°N 133.653435°E.
The Eeast of the coast in Nahotoka.
I was using only 100W and small fishing rod vertical
only 10m length antenna in my balcony of my small aprartment.
We JA ham got a new 75m band.
Please look for JA under a new 75m frequency!
3599�?3612KHz�??13KHz width
3680�?3687KHz�??7KHz width
3702�?3716KHz�??14KHz width
3745�?3770KHz  25KHz width
I was using only 100W and small fishing rod vertical
only 10m length antenna in my balcony of my small aprartment.
I was disapointed to disapare a separating of output power
categoly each single band section. It is very difficult to get
an award on the low band in the same categoly with high power
stations!!
Please separete high power categoly and low power catagoly in
each single band.

I enjoyed the contest.

Good opening for east coast from JA on 20m 21z-23z. Especially calling from north east of canada,
were so exciting.
On the other hand it seems decrease that number of paticipants from west coast.
That makes tough operation for asian station.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

My 1st QSO with W/VE, My 1st DX contest.  So, I am very happy!

Thank you for QSO. I operated
from my hometown.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

It was so tough for me in a bad propagation but excited.

Thank you all stations!
Codix was wrong hi hi

I enjoyed the contest.

ARIGATOH!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIGIC-7610 / ACOM 1000
ANT 2/4ELE YAGI

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
see you next year !!

RIG: ICOM IC-7610
PWR: 100 W
ANT: TA-371,DP
E-MAIL: jh6ftj@jarl.com
Very nice contest!

I enjoyed the contest.

FT817ND, 5watts. DP YAGI

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
But condition was not good.
But condition was not good.

I enjoyed the contest.

IC-7610 YAGI DP

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I HAVE A LOT OF FUN.

I enjoyed the contest.

I used power less than 5W

Thank you!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG: YAESU FT-1000MP
ANT: Vertical R8
Operator's License: 1st.class

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Enjoy the contest

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
JST-245/DP

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG: YAESU FTDX5000MP+VL-1000
ANT: DP

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for QSO.
IC-7600 KPA500

I used QRP(5W)RIG

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

100W with 40M Dipole (CFZ) in Attic

On the reservoir with FT-857 and Buddipole

My first contest, this was A LOT of Fun!
TU VM - 73 K0FE

Band     QSOs     Pts  Cty  Pt/Q
1.8       4      12    4   3.0
3.5      35     105   26   3.0
7      61     183   37   3.0
14     209     627   62   3.0
21      60     180   30   3.0
Total     369    1107  159   3.0

Score: 176,013

Midwest propagration great Sat on low power, Sun a struggle wish I'd had an amp!

Stations very weak and a lot QSB at my location. Only had a
couple hours to workthe contest. Hopefully more time next year.
Thanks for the contest.

Gave wrong state (MA) for first three QSOs.  Oops!

First contest

****2ND SUBMISSION -WITH- SCORE CORRECTION*****

Six hours of 100% S&P spread between Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. An RF feedback problem
popped up Saturday evening that was tracked to a bad connector 15 minutes later. Otherwise
uneventful. Good CONDX and lots of fun.
TNX for the Q's!

K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. N3UM and
W3GB operated Multi-2 HP in ARRL SSB 2020. Our goal; to beat our
best past ARRL SSB result, in 2017. We did that, and had fun;
condx and activity were good, and we had 2 radios on for ~half
of our 25 total hrs. At 00Z start W3GB got on 40m. and did well,
123 Qs by 0533Z QRT. N3UM got 122 Qs by QRT; 19 on 20m, 85 on
80m, and 18 on 160m. We could not run, but got decent rates and
139 mults clicking spots and tuning. Sat. 14-18Z W3GB got 92 Qs
on 20m. while N3UM got 66 Qs on 15m. At 18Z we had 226 mults,
78% of our 290 final total after 37% of total hrs on. From
18-2213Z we zig-zagged between 15 and 20m with offset breaks to
eat; W3GB got 67 Qs and N3UM 36 Qs for 103 total, 76 of these on
20m. After dark we found the low bands slow and full of dupes;
W3GB got 32 Qs on 40m, N3UM got 40 Qs on 80m. and 11 on 160m,
but we got 34 more mults by 0407Z QRT. Sun. AM W3GB was away.
N3UM found great condx to EU on 20m; he got 38 Qs clicking spots
in 36 min, 1329-1405Z. He then ran 1411-1508Z  for 91 Qs in 57
min, 96/hr, and clicked for 21 more Qs by 1542Z. Then, a typical
slow Sun. PM. W3GB got on 20m. at 1645Z and got 78 Qs, 18 in our
only other run. N3UM got a last 20 Qs on 15m. after 19Z. At 22Z,
there was no one left to work; bandmaps clear, CQs not answered,
so we went QRT. We claimed 843 Qs and a 733.4K score vs our best
past result of 765 Qs and a 612.8K score in 2017. We were amazed
to get 45 countries on 15m including KH6, ZL, and 6 EUs with 100 W
to a backup C3 antenna on a low tower, and no sunspots!

Low-profile, low-power station using portable HF vertical.  Quite a challenge, but bands were
remarkably quiet so my results surprised me in spite of the poor propagation.  Worked Hawaii 2x and
Australia on 40m!  Many thanks to the "Big Gun" stations for their patience!

"Compared to CW, Phone is always a struggle!"

This was my initiation into SSB contesting!  I have been operating CW since getting my Novice
license! Most of my time was spent setting up my IC7300 for optimum SSB operation.  CW certainly is
clearer and simpler to operate if one doesn't have an amp and a beam!  I'm really a QRP guy! HI  I
did operate 100w during the contest. I have to admit, it was a nice change of pace, but I can talk
on a cell phone every day.  Morse code is something different and unique!

Had fun limited time to operate

Only my 2nd contest and first AARL International DX phone Contest. Had alot of fun and next year
will devote more time and gain more points. Thanks!

Finally back on the air after a 13 year absence.  Felt great to hear CQ Contest again.  Really
enjoyed this one.

Fun to work a lot of friends while not being serious about the score.
But I kept finding another milestone to chase ... 100Q's here ...
50 mults there ... another 100,000 point level ... even on 'phone!

Only 7 hours of operation, but with conditions as they were, more
time would have inceased my score very little.

It was great to hear the bands so busy.  15 was open but had only a fraction of the activity of 20. 
So much (exhausting) fun!

Really rough bottom or cycle conditions.

remote to K6MTU

had a fun time, even after my 40 meter 2 el beam died, after our 80 MPH wind event a week or so
ago.even so my trusty Inverted vee and vertical by Zero Five, do a nice job when the beam is
down...well be sometime before I can do anything with the 40 meter beam..so it goes...always have
another antenna to work on...thanks for all the q's and another fun time..doing this since
1959..still love to chase the DX..Eric K7ABV

First contest with Flex6600

Best condx into EU I've seen since moving here 9 years ago, on 20m it was basically for the entire
contest.

Not a fullbore effort but not bad for a SSB contest at the bottom
of the Sunspot Cycle. I was able to work DX on 160, 80, 40, 20,
and 15 Meters during normal expected openings. Managed to work
almost every European heard calling CQ on 20 and 40! 15 was
limited to mainly NA / SA, without a single peep from AS. 10 was
spotted but nothing ever heard. Had this been a CW event the
station would have played vastly better as my antennas are too
low to the ground to effectively run SSB EU DX from this far
West. Still it was a nice challenge! Station: Flex3000, AL80B @
750W, 160 Inverted L @ 30ft, Dual Band 80/40 Fan Inverted Vee @
38ft, 3ele 20 Monoband Yagi at 43ft, 3ele 15 Monoband Yagi @
28ft. Thanks for all the QSOs! KB NCCC!

This contest effort is dedicated to long-time K8AZ Crew member WT8C, who became a silent key
02/27/2020 after dedicating more than 30 years to contesting at K8AZ in over 100 multi-op contest
efforts.  73, Reno, and RIP.  You are irreplaceable and will be missed.  With sadness, Tom, K8AZ

Many Thanks! 20 meters was crowded beyond belief but you knew that!

Just tesing out the new remote Coax switch kit I just finished
building over the weekend.

15 Wide open all Saturday, then I sick all Sunday.  Oh well, there is always next year.

1st Contest in over 30 years.
Conditions were great on 80.
325 qso, 85 co 80k score but i did the whole contest long hand with paper and pencil. Transferring
to that damn N1MM program took me forever!
K8UR
8 element Yagi @85�??, Dipole @55�??, 500�?? Beverage
IC-7300, Al-1200

Finally AWESOME conditions on 80M.  Glad to hand out some contacts with
a simple 'wire' vertical and one above-ground element.

Indiana University Amateur Radio Club

Society of Midwest Contesters

Fun contest...and I actually made one QSO on 10 meters.

good contest 15 meters was open good sign!

We are operating portable Kerr Lake NC KX3 with 250 feet of wire
in the air over the lake.

First contest since the early 90's, getting back in the saddle!

1st time - great contest!

BETTER THAN LAST YEAR PROPAGATION IS IMPROVING

Had a fun time not many contacts , but I wanted to submit my entry so the ones I had a contact with
would get credit.

K KILO KILOWATT all the same ?  first contest

Had to turn on the amp for this one. All in all, I still had a
good time.

Fun casual operating for a few hours.

GREAT TIME

Thanks for the QSO's!

Great contest, I wish more DX would spend some time in the general portions of the band's, I think
they would be surprised by the amount of states they could fill with ease if they did not just sit
on one freq way down in the extra portion.

Can we stop with the constant recorded messages at the bottom of the general ssb portion of bands
referencing an extra freq. It not only limits our generals even more on freq span but is also just
rude.

2020 ARRL DX SSB  CONTEST

my first contest!!

Was a great contest.  Nothing on 10 meters but 40 and 20 were awesome!
On Friday night, you could talk all over the world on 40. Good to
participate in the DX contest again!  KF0GV

I operated Friday night, a little Saturday during the day, and Saturday night of the contest; made
contacts on 15, 20, and 40. 85 contacts, 44 unique countries, and one ATNO: 4U1UN. Using
�??QuickLog�?� on my iPad to log. Very busy, lots of signals, hard to break through.  Definitely
need to get my 80m antenna up again.  See y�??all next time!  73 de Jeff, KF5KWO, Texas.

ICOM 7300, 95W, 35' end-fed antenna sloping from 25'

I'm new to contesting, hopefully I'm doing this right.

The girls and Piggy had a lot of fun!

Had fun operating this contest while mobile.  It really helped break
up the 3 or so hour drive that I had.  Great to hear lots of countries
(including the Carribean!) on!

ARRL SSB DX contest 2020

Need to find better stealth antennas

This was some of the most fun I've had on the radio yet! Thanks to all the big-gun DX station out
there doing the heavy lifting to help my little station hit some many DX entities.

Nice DX for our low sunspot period.  Some surprises out there, which really makes it fun.  That's
why I like this contest!

Thanks for last minute reminder from Tom, N9NC!  Took a break
from some stressful matters to "relax" in the contest..Had a
great time.

Thanks earth people!!!!

Only had a small radio, and a small amount of time, but loved the few I got!

I'm very pleased with my results using an A4 Tri-Bander and wire antennas for 40/80/160. I never
went looking for Mults and just ran, ran, ran whenever I could. Sunday morning was the pits with
only 20 meters open and covered wall to wall with EU signals. The Tribander is great BUT I need to
put up a 4 or 5 element monobander on 20M to help null out those pesky EU signals and hold a
frequency. I went almost two hours Sunday morning with zero Qs. The station performed flawlessly
other than N1MM logger or my desktop stalling twice to catch up to something. First time I had to
wait about 30 seconds and the second time about 2 minutes for logging to resume. 
The Elecraft K3S is the best SSB radio ever! Thanks to all of you rare states and provinces for
taking the time to call me and help my score.

Its an old problem but it keeps happening, DX stns insist
Bad enough to call a guy for a half hour in a pile  up let alone
Wasting another half hour qrxing for the call of a dupe!

TB-Wires

Casual operating just for fun.

I did not have a lot of time for contest but it was fun anyway.  South America and Bahamas came in
on 15 meters pretty well on 3/8 afternoon.

Still waiting for sunspots.

Challenging contest. Low power and a geographical location seemingly a little bit on the side of
mainstream US - Europe, together with crowded bands. Conditions on the bands rather poor. 80 m best
in early morning and late afternoon - evening, 40 m very much the same. Both the bands "dead" during
daytime. 20 m fair from about 10.00 UTC to 18.00 UTC, "dead" the rest of the time. 15 m absolutely
dead. 160 m and 10 m not tried.
Will try again next year, may be conditions will improve as the new solar cycle hopefully speeds up
a little bit.

Poor conditions. But lot of fun.

Saturday morning, 28 MHz problems with the amplifier led me to 21 MHz, funny contest.

LOT OF PLEASURE AND FUN RUNNING THE PILE FROM THE GREAT STATION OF LX2A/LX7I !
TU TO LX2A AND THE YOTA YCP, CU F4HWS.

Licensed from 2019-10-30.
Used EFHW 80(coiled)/40/20/15/10 antenna at max 9m height.
This is my first attemt to participate in DX competition.
I learned a lot.

Much better propagation when last year

Just Friday´s night to test a new home made antenna.
Operating from the car, FT Dx-101D running 100w.
Vertical antenna, 1/4 Lambda "fishing rod".
Very good performance, able to work from New York to California, and from Texas or Florida to
Washington, Oregon or Dakota, plus some Canadians provinces.
Very good Rx, but noticed more Tx power is needed to be able to be noted.
Great fun.

I enjoyed using SD
Thank you

S&P only, but a good run on 80M.

Fun weekend but conditions were not good. We struggled to
make 147 QSOs on 15 on day one, and added just one more QSO on
day two. Topband was also a disappointment, we monitored it while
running 40m but never found an opening so had to work hard
for 33 QSOs. Conditions on 160 improved in the last 15 minutes
of the contest, we QSYed but no-one spotted us, so no QSOs!
Our 40m total looks rather light as well, but it was very hard to get
any rate going especially on the second day.

Usual splatter from the KW+ brigade

Just did S&P as conditions were difficult with 100W.

Great test this year

1 Operator, 1 Station, 100W

Operated from Westport Astronomical Society

17TH ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST

Not much time to operate, but hope I helped some folks with VT multiplier..

Fun event this year!!  Sadly couldn't join the entire thing due to work.  Ugh! :(

2020 ARRL DX SSB

Check Log

mmm

Very Part Time

QRP, ONE HALF WATT to a 20 foot wire, Part-time effort.
Band conditions were, lets just say, not the best.
SSB just not really my thing, but Thanks for the QSOs.
Looking forward to upcoming CW ant Digi contests.
GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS!  73, John N6HI

Always fun... good to hear 4U1UN again

2nd contest, had great fun

Icom IC-7300,Heil Pro Micro Headset, Vectronics HFT-1500 Manual Tuner for 15 and 80 meters only,and
a modified ZS6BKW up 50 feet,running N-S at 6,053 feet elevation from Grid DN-71od in Laramie
County, Wyoming. A limited effort, with 100% Hunt and Pounce operating.Surprisingly decent results
using a single wire antenna, with 100 watts power output. I more than doubled my 2019 effort. ZF5T's
short and staccato canned audio made him sound like a "Munchkin on Meth",making copy very difficult!
I did not engage TM29X, who was operating on 14.349 MHz. Several stations worked on 3 or 4 bands,and
the majority on the first or second call. Always a challenging but fun event, with 100 watts and a
wire. Thanks for the Q's. November Seven Many Zebras Walking

Low Noise level on 20m and 15m into Michigan.

Used an Indoor 20M dipole at 25ft ASL and an outdoor 40M hamstick at 30 Feet ASL.  75 watts   Fun.

Gone until Sat night on business trip.  My daughter made a few contacts so it is multi-op this time.

Off and in effort using Less than 100 watts into a 92�?? end fed wire 9:1 unun

Hopping to pick up a few more countries toward DXCC

20M was brutal! Nothing on 10 but 15 was productive. I did not work anything at night as I wasn't
feeling well.

Fun Contest.  Did not hear many VE stations for clean sweep.

The bands were a little rough but was a great way to test out my new radio.

I started out on 40 meters at 0320z Friday evening and the first two contacts were Namibia and
Turkey.  Expectations immediately soared!  And it was good to get some 15 meter QSOs into the log
for a change.  

And I was pleased with the 80 meter delta loop performance which I put up last summer.  I cut the
wire for the SSB portion of the band and then put a 200 Amp 12 volt relay at the feedpoint which
allows me to switch in a coil to tune the antenna to the bottom of the band.  By carefully tuning
the length of the wire as well as the turns on the coil I can cover either 3500-3700 KHz or
3700-3900 KHz at 2:1 SWR or less with a flip of the switch.  There is a quarter-wave length section
of 75 ohm coax at the feed point which is then connected to 50 ohm coax for the remaining run to the
shack. This was the first SSB DX contest for the antenna.  In the short time I was on the air
Saturday evening I was able to work Austria, Lithuania, Croatia, Bosnia, Spain in short order, in
addition to the usual SA/Carib/KH6/KL7.  So color me pleased!

And, yes, Murphy paid a visit. About the time Dan KE0OR was leaving early Saturday afternoon the PTT
(and VOX) on my Flex 6500 quit working.  On CW works it fine, but not on SSB.  The final few
contacts on Saturday were done from Taty's rig, a Yaesu FT-1000.  I haven't done any more checking
into the cause of that yet....Hopefully it won't require sending the rig out to fix.

It was a casual effort but great fun for both Dan and me.

Enjoying leisurely contesting with 100W, some wires, and a vertical.
RIG YAESU FT-857D
ANT 40m Folded Dipole above metal roof at 6m AGL
ANT 20m Quarterwave Vertical at 6m AGL
40m Mults = MD PA PEI,                   No. of QSOs =   3 ( 9x12 Pts)
20m Mults = DE IL MA ME NH NY PA PEI VT, No. of QSOs =  15 (45x12 Pts)
Raw Score: 54 Qpts x 12 Mults = 648
Log received at: 2020-03-08 13:15:00 UTC

giving some points... nice to see 20m open .. ..
RX/TX:Kenwood TS-890
ANT:Hyendfed antenna Longwire 7m about ground
Power:100 W

Part time operation. The conditions left a lot to be desired.

Op time 26 min with dipole.
73 de OH1SIC/SM5SIC Gran

ARRL DX SSB Contest 2020

Nice conditions during contest here in central Europe ;) see picture - thats all americans

The propagation was weak so I have not much qso.
But I enjoyed the contest.
Till next year.
73 Leon  ON5WL

Yaesu FTDX5000MP - Acom 2100 - Antenna Mosley TA53M

I had not operated the ARRL DX Phone contest from Aruba since dismantling my P40A station in 2011.
Many months ago my wife and I had planned an Aruba vacation around this time frame and just days
before leaving home I learned that the P49Y/P40L station was available. The owners Andy, AE6Y and
John, W6LD had just completed a major antenna overhaul in February so the station was in pristine
condition and they were so kind to let me use it. I had little available time for operating while on
the island except during the contest. We were quite busy vacationing and enjoying Aruba. We went
shopping, walked and swam the lovely beaches, ate at great seafood restaurants and even went scuba
diving where we saw a sea turtle swim out of a shipwreck. I added a few new vacation photos
including the turtle to http://www.p40a.com. On Friday afternoon we essentially moved into the
P49Y/P40L home for the weekend. The station is well equipped, however I brought along my Elecraft
K3S and peripherals because it was familiar. Everything at P49Y/P40L is clearly labeled and
organized and earlier in the week I talked with W6LD for an hour on WhatsApp, so I became very
familiar with the setup. I started on 20m and had a great first hour total of 253 QSOs.  As this
band closed for the night and rates diminished I switched to 40 and the 200+ rates resumed. I forgot
how much fun this contest was from a big station! Since I was the only active participant from
Aruba, I anticipated having the same big pileups when switching to 80m and 160m later in the
evening, however that did not occur at all. Low power is just not loud on the low bands and my first
QSY attempts produced no contacts. There were times later in the evening when propagation was either
a little better or I was spotting a lot and I did manage do pretty well on 80m. 160m was always a
struggle and I missed a lot of sections. The station has an incredible beverage system so I could
easily hear most of the 80m and 160m callers. 15m was open during most of the daylight hours and it
was a great place to be to avoid all of the 20m QRM however, propagation was spotty. In some areas I
was very strong and in others, especially to the west, I was barely readable. I missed some normally
easy multipliers but I made a lot of QSOs especially to the southeastern part of the U.S. While on
15m I listened to the station�??s K3 set on 10m hoping for an opening but I only heard South America
stations running the US. I did not make a single 10m QSO all weekend, I do not recall that ever
happening to me before in this contest. By the halfway point I had made 3600 QSOs, three years ago
from the mountain station in St Croix where I operated as WP2AA, I made a total of 3900 low power
QSOs all weekend so I felt that things were going quite well. I did not sleep at all on the first
night nor was I not well rested at the beginning so I took a five hour dinner, nap and shower break
which felt great. I was refreshed and hoped that this would allow for higher Sunday daytime rates
plus enough energy to move back into our rental house so that we could pack for the Monday flight
home. Unfortunately conditions seemed a little worse on Sunday and rates were about half of
Saturday's. I typically work all dupes however at times they can became annoying when there are so
many. In one 1/2 hour segment, near the end, despite clearly and slowly saying my callsign, 26
operators duped me which forced me to change bands. The contest was very enjoyable and the station
worked flawlessly. I would like to thank AE6Y and W6LD for allowing us to invade their home and
station for the weekend. I would also like to thank my QSL Manager, WD9DZV for putting my logs on
LoTW, Clublog and EQSL plus replying to card requests. Plus a special thanks to everyone for the
QSOs.

73,

John KK9A �?? P40A
http://www.p40a.com

Great contest with many contenders. Pretty good prop with quite some west coast stations in the log.
In the end even hawaii came through, nice to hear, good to see 20 meters up and running.  Missed the
dakota's ? Only 20 meters this year, and a few on 15 and 40 meters due to shortage in time, but did
enjoy !!!  CU all next year and thanks again for the nice qso's. Not really easy to find a clean
spot on the band, but we managed ;-)

Rig TS590 barefoot; output max 80Watts.
Horizontal dipole, only 17m long, trimmed for 15, 20, 40 & 80m bands.
I'm very sorry, but could only take part for a few hours.

falcon dx group

Club Falcons Dx Group

Sorry, just 11 hours for the contest due to family commitments.

I was not prepared for this contest and my station is very simple
(specially antenna, a single 7m wire from the window of the
apartment to a tree + AH-4). Radio was a IC7300, software N1MM
via wine on LinuxMint. On saturday night I tried to join but due
to problems on computer I gave up. After install N1MM and review
my setup, without expectations, I called CQ in the last hour of
the contest. A pile-up formed. I loved the experience after many
year away of SSB contest. During that 1 hour my mind was totally
away of stress, it was a wunderfull. Recently I updated my
license. -- So, these was the first set of QSO on 20m I ever
made!-- Thank you for everybody that reply to my CQ. 73 PT2SR

FALCONS DX GROUP

FALCONS DX GROUP

Nice time again in company of  PX2A radio station friends, thanks
to the owners.

Noronha Contest Group

RIO DX GROUP

CDR GROUP

RIO DX GROUP

We like the contest very much and we are already looking forward to the next 2021

Licence number -17-02686
Date of issue 14.12.2017

TNX 73!

73 tnx !

r3mz@mail.ru

rw0cv@yandex.ru

73!

73!

TNX 73

Nice contest, hope to be on next year. Regards de Janez S51DX

Hi,
since I am late sending the log, use it as a check log only.
Best regards,
Danjel Voncina
S58D

-

Nice contest 
Locking after Iowa.an Nebraska for my was ssb but no lo of ham from PA

And we vaiting on better sunspot 
Best 73 sm3lbp/Anders

TS-590S,GP80/160, K9AY

FTDX3000 Ant HEXBEAM

RIG:FT-950 PWR:5 ANT:2el Delta Loop

73, TNX GL

ic730 50w, ant inw v

500Watt

My first ARLL DX Contest!  THX  for all !

TNX & 73's TO ALL COMPETITORS
FROM ISTANBUL

QSL Manager VE7BV

CHECKLOG only for fun ! it s a miracle to have contacted 40 US/VE
stations from my qth sadly closed to West.

Hard, very hard! Too much qrm! Propagation was average! Tks for qsos
Oli

TO3Z in Guadeloupe Island . Many thanks to all.

ICOM-718,ANT-INV VEE,DIPOLE FOR 20 METRS

Waitng fot better propogation to North America! Maybe next year? ))

TNX/73!

Delta loop 20m band, lower angle say 5 meter abowe ground. FT-817 and 5w only. And /p position in
the nearest park.

73!

Station worked great.  Single radio made band changes
more of a challenge. Line noise during both days
cut into the fun.

I had a lot of fun

wire dipole on apt balcony

Worked the contest part time and casually. First time I have ever submitted a log. What still amazes
me is the activity on 15 meters. Where are all the stations during non-contest time. I know
propagation is poor...but there didn't seem like there was enough band space on 20 sometimes!!

First ever contest log submission.

K3, verticals.

Had a few hours available on Sunday and enjoyed working just 15 and 20m. I was impressed with the
number of respectful and friendly ops in this contest.

Nice contest wish had more time, but had a good time.

Conditions pretty poor very very noisy

Wire Antennas only off 40' tower:
radials;
N)

TS-590S 100W into a GAP Titan vertical based at 15 feet

I had a lot of fun operating this Contest in the limited amount
of time I had to contest Rigs used a couple of Icom's Greats
IC-756 Pro and vintage IC-720A.

FIRST CONTEST EVER

Amazing long path propagation around 2100z each day with slamming doors.. literally the path opened
from zero with a 40 second crescendo of S9+ noise burst, followed by wall to wall stations across
20m, and then in the span of 2 minutes the S9+20 signals went to zero..  I learned a lot from that
path behavior.

Best effort was working Maine and Ontario, a tough gig from here, but made it..

Great contest again. Good weather conditions
here, with no QRN noise. Unfortunately, just had
my usual 160m dipoles on all bands. Not the
greatest antennas for the high bands, it was still
good enough for a lot of great contacts and give
a VK mult for some. Of course the 40m band was
the best for me at this time of the Sun Spot cycle.
73's all, until the next contest, from Ron.

First contest! Just reporting, not competing.  Not sure I did this right!

15 year old amateur radio operator.

3.3 hours of excrutiatingly distorted audio.  RT%*M and discover
ALC!

CHECKLOG

Logger disconnected from VFO 2020-03-07 1158 to 2020-03-07 1310?

Wish I had more operating time!

Had a great time operating with my son, KC1GDW during the ARRL DX SSB Contest

Thank you for sponsoring the contest. Too bad no propagation on
10M and very sparse on 15M. Bring on the sunspots.

S&P ONLY, 100 WATTS, WIRE ANTENNA. CONDITIONS FAIRLY GOOD, BUT NOT
GREAT. 4U1UN WAS A WELCOME MULTIPLIER FOR ME AND MANY OTHERS. TNX TO
ALL WHO ACTIVATED THE U.N. HQ STATION.

FRANKFORD RADIO CLUB

Using an Elecraft KX3 with KXPA100. Antenna is a Chameleon 18.5'
vertical 5 feet above ground

First ARRL SSB contest. Band condx were very difficult. Many spots on the AW and
bandmap I simply couldn't hear due to small antenna. Many calls not returned.
Heard nil on 15 meters. It was a struggle but I doubled my 2019 CQ WW SSB QSO
total and achieved my 200 QSO goal for this contest. Worked 3 KH6s and my very
first SSB VK. Worked several PYs on the gray line Sunday evening. Great to work
4U1UN.

Icom 7300 100 watts out w/stock hand mic
Icom AH-4 Auto Tuner
Antenna 30 ft long #22 gauge magnet wire up 30 ft in a sidewalk tree.
Dell Latitude Laptop w/Windows 10 & N1MM+ USB CAT @ 115200 baud
Frankford Radio Club GoFRC!

DUPE AT LINE 94 FOR EA7X WORKED A SECOND TIME ON 80 METERS.
INITIAL CONTACT AT LINE 14. WORKED ON 40 METERS AT LINE 95

Here's MAINE- VF condx. sri only 1 day ops...

80 Watts into an Hypowerantenna.com 6-80 OCF @ 65'  7.5 hours in the chair running Q's/mults window.

Fun contest. Got some new slots worked. However, my footswitch broke down
during the contest and I had to use vox.

Had fun but lost control of my rotor early in the game Friday night

Note to DX stations:  Some stations have pre-recorded their call and/or power.  When I asked for a
fill, the DX station just pushed the play button.  The reason that I ask for a fill is because your
recording is impossible to understand completely.  And it is a bit irritating to have to listen you
your QRZ call multiple times to try to get your call first, and really never get your call right.  
Otherwise, I had a great time in this contest.  Got my first Africa and Australia/New Zealand
contacts.  
I was building on the skill to listen to that empty quiet space between the monster stations.  There
is often a good contact there.  And after I worked them, the pile up was started.  Guess that other
stations heard me working that rare one.  
I was on 40 meters for the whole time that I participated in the contest.  It seemed to be as open
as if it wasn't a sunspot minimum.  Let's have a DX contest every Weekend!

A very slow weekend on 10M, especially Sunday.  Propagation was long and weak, so no Caribbean and
Central American Mults from here (GA).  Missed a lot of Q's as they disappeared before we could
complete the entire exchange.  Worked some SA stations who had great Rx capability and others who
seemed deaf.  Best DX:
V55 and EA8.  Missed HK and other Caribbean Mults.  Just too close for
Propagation.   Things will get better, right?

I enjoyed the contest as much as i could but it was tough going, 
i came down with the flu the morning of the start of the contest 
so i was only able to do S&P and even then i did not fare well 
at that, either way a day on the air is better than a day anywhere 
else. See everyone in the next contest

W4IPC


Radio: FT1000MP
Amp: AL-811HD

Had fun squeezing in a relaxed S&P in the few hours i had to play.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

Operating Club station to introduce new hams to contesting.  Operated
for about an hour.d

The Hustler works quite well on 40 Meters, I was
Impressed and worked 5 continents using 100 watts.

Now I know why my last ARRL DX
All Band low Power was 20 years ago!
SSB and low power don't mix well.

IC-7000,  TEN TEC 238C,  INVERTED L,  DX-88, 100 WATTS

I hope they pass the day light savings time bill so we don't have those 2 stupid time changes every
year!

Operated remote from Tokyo,

A few moments here and there in amongst building my antenna and farm chores.
For the heck of it I tried loading up my 40-10 Meter ground mounted vertical on 80 meters and was
surprised that I actually made three contacts.
Bill
WB6JJJ

Amazing to work so many European stations on 80 meter phone.
EU sunrise allowed me to work several who couldn't hear me before.
18 hours of operating, 13 hours with single digit rates,
but when I'd work a new mult, it was a special thrill.
Wish there were a single-band assisted category, but
was also fun discovering the stations myself.

ARRL DX Contest, PH 2020 for WJ4CP

I had a lot of fun. I did not plan to participated. I just wanted to
help the participants as a DX Station but in just 3 hours make 170
QSOs. It was an incredible experience. Had a lot of fun. looking
forward for the next contest.
I am not sure in my claimed score is correct because I am confused
with how the multipliers works so If I am incorrect please accept my
apologies.

This was just a screw-around operation from W7AYT's QTH in Concord
in between remote operating shifts with NX6T in Fallbrook.
Ironically, the only QSOs were with JA & KH6 (with a Kl7 bonus).
Altho South America was heard from this location, they evidently
could not hear WQ6X calls back to them.
Nevertheless, it was fun.
Read all about it at: WQ6X.Blogspot.com

Chihuahua Contest CLub

Great time with my QRP station sharing with great friends!!!!

GOODLUCK

For test a new anttena

ICOM IC-730, PWR 100W, ANTENNA DIPOLE

TCVR HOME MADE 100W VERTICAL ANT

RIG: KENWOOD TS-450SAT 100 W; ANT: FD4

GREAT CONTEST A LOT OF OLD FRIENDS HOPE SEE NEXT YEAR AGAIN 73 GL

Just checking out the K3 on phone in a check log submittal. In-house noice level made it impossible
to work 20m and above. 40m terrible as well but the biggest US stns could be heard some of the time.
Source now identified as related to a circuit through breaker no.2 on the main board. A good start
on bug elimination at our new qth.

Nice to get some QSOs on 15m but overall conditions were poor.
Didnt seem to be many USA ops on the contest this year....must have
stayed away due to COVID-19 - Hi Hi!

RIO DX GROUP