2009 CQWW SSB
Call: NQ4I
Operator(s):
NQ4I,W4SVO,W1MD,K8NZ,K0EJ,W4IX,KF4GTA,VE7ZO,K4NV,N4FD,W4LT,WF3C,K4BAI,WA1S,W4DD,WI4R.K4PK
Station: NQ4I
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Griffin, Ga
Operating Time (hrs): 48.0
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 174 17 41
80: 373 22 87
40: 1164 31 120
20: 1560 36 147
15: 1490 33 142
10: 203 15 43
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Total: 4964 154 580 Total Score = 8,562,844
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Our score is 8% higher than last years score...conditions were way down on the
lower bands for us this year...a great team was assembled and every one had a
good time...food was good, and conversations were good....new 10m stack seems
to be playing nicely...one more antenna to add to make it a 4 high stack....I
need a remote transmitting site in New England...we could hear many EU's on 80
and 160 who could not hear us at all! Very frustrating. A few repairs to do and
we will be ready for CW....60 seconds of silence were observed just prior to the
test in honor of the C6APR crew...RIP....see everyone in 4 weeks..de Rick NQ4I
2008 CQWW CW
Call: NQ4I
Operator(s): NQ4I,W4SVO,W4IX,N3ZL,K0EJ,K1XX,VE7ZO,W8ZF,W1MD,K4TD,KY4F,K2UFT
Station: NQ4I
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Griffin, Ga
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 220 19 76
80: 625 29 112
40: 1693 37 147
20: 1872 37 150
15: 546 29 105
10: 47 9 16
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Total: 5003 160 606 Total Score = 10,079,028
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
160m. Op W4SVO
80m Ops W4IX and N3ZL
40m Ops K0EJ and K1XX
20m Ops VE7ZO, W1MD and W8ZF
15m Ops K4TD and KY4F
10m Op K2UFT
First Timers W4IX, N3ZL and W8ZF...had fun and will be coming back again...they
really did a great job. I have never in 48 years of contesting seen poorer
conditions on 10m than what we had...40m team made a new station record...Great
Job Mark and Charlie! New antennas on 160m, 20m and 15m are doing nicely...just
need some sun spots now......a new 10 element 10 m yagi has been designed and 4
copies are being planed for a four high stack totaling 40 elements! It will be
ready in the Fall of 2009....we can work the mults on all bands...just need
qso's.....Seasons Greetings to all...see you in ARRL CW in Feb...de Rick NQ4I
2008 CQWW SSB
Operator(s): NQ4I,KY5R,W4SVO,K4PK,K0EJ,W4LE,KF4GTA,VE7ZO,N4FD,N4OX,K4NV,K4BAI,K5KG,W4DD,WI4R Station: NQ4I Class: M/M HP QTH: Griffin, Ga Operating Time (hrs): 48 Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 222 16 59 80: 588 27 108 40: 761 30 116 20: 1740 38 148 15: 1065 33 122 10: 90 8 12 ------------------------------ Total: 4466 152 565 Total Score = 7,911,378 Club: South East Contest Club It was certainally fun using the Getscores.Org site to watch the race between K3NA, K1TTT, and ourselves...wish the band by band breakdown was working...but what a see-saw it was...I can only say that the propagation here in the South East US was not at all like what was experienced in the North East US...It was our best ever on 160 meters yet...excellent job by 160 M op Tim KY5R...making qso's and mults right up to the end of the contest...our antenna improvements have indeed helped here..planning on 2 more of the "Bulldog" slopers to make for an even 4 of them...80 M saw our best ever score also..the new 6 element array really has helped improve our score from previous years...its our best ever for 80 meters and "hats off" to 80m op's Mark W4SVO (aka the Bulldog) and Don K4PK...40 meters continues to puzzle us as to why its not making the grade...the antennas will be examined and analyzed to try to see if improvements can be made...I know that op's Mark K0EJ and Gene W5LE put their hearts and souls into manning the stations on 40 meters...20 meters suffered from adsorption during a large part of the daytime, and we never produced the rates that others most definately had...Jim VE7ZO, Larry N4FD, Dennis K4NV, and Jay N4OX really put in the hours....thanks for putting up with one of the more difficult bands guys!! 15 meters was a pleasant surprize all weekend...Sunday was much better than Saturday...John K4BAI and George K5KG really milked this band for all it was worth..and on top of that we had JA openings both Saturday night and Sunday night...good job John and George....10m had to be the most frustrating band ever..we are too close to the Caribbean to work a single one of them..it was only South America for us and then only LU, PY, CX...really disappointing propagation....Jeff W4DD and Lee WI4R spent many hours cq'ing on a really dead band.... Now for my soapbox....if you compare my line score with K3NA and K1TTT, it is very apparent that our point per qso is much lower...and I am guessing that we had somewhere near 500 zero point qsos(and all logged) ....I can only re-emphasize that there should be recognition for all qso's....points should be given for one's own country...it will not make the contest into a qso party, but reward one's efforts accordingly... We will see each of you in the CQWW CW in a couple weeks...gotta get 3 amps repaired...and get ready for cw...a few spots "puleeze".....de Rick NQ4I
2008 CQWW WPX CW Results
W4KZ
Call: W4KZ
Operator(s): NQ4I
Station: NQ4I
Class: SOSB15 HP
QTH: Griffin, Ga
Operating Time (hrs): 24.4
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15: 948
10:
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Total: 948 Prefixes = 498 Total Score = 803,274
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Well, this weekend was to test out all the antenna work I performed after the
Dayton Hamfest...I re-installed 7 yagis, 20m and 15m to improve the figure of
merit on those bands...result was a new 3 Hi stack for 15m..top antenna at 155
ft, middle antenna at 105 ft and bottom antenna at 55 ft...all 8 element
designs..and it really played well!! I was amazed at the conditions..with a
Solar Flux Number of only 69, and the propagation was un-believable! I worked
3V8BB at 0930Z (thats an hour and half before my sunrise, and during his EU
run!! And EU stations called in way into the afternoon at my qth, something
that only happens during a much higher sunspot number! Did not hear or work a
JA....bummer! I took 3 hours off on Sat afternoon for a family cook out....and
got to bed early each night...can't wait till those sunspots return...see
everybody in CQWW SSB and CW this fall...de Rick NQ4I
NQ4I
Call: NQ4I
Operator(s): VE7ZO
Station: NQ4I
Class: SOSB20 HP
QTH: GRIFFEN, GA
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40:
20: 1911
15:
10:
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Total: 1911 Prefixes = 871 Total Score = 3,399,513
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
What was originally going to be a first trial for the new 20M stack turned out
to be a good exercise for the single 8 el. and a 204 BA in a SO2R
configuration. The band was in decent shape for almost the whole contest but
during the European daylight hours, rates diminished severely due to high
absorption. It was great to hear the band open over the north pole into
UA9/UA0 in the evenings once again. Propagation favored northern and eastern
Europe with relatively few strong signals out western Europe.
While listening on the 204 BA, I found K3ZO working the far east on Sunday
morning. Fred seems to be a bellweather for this propagation and after
swinging the antenna over to JA, was rewarded with a number of BY's, JA's and
XW1A. Rates were low so unfortunately I couldn't persist as long as I would
have liked.
It was a pleasant weekend with three single band efforts being made from NQ4I's
station - W4KZ 15M (NQ4I), NQ4I 20M (VE7ZO) and WI4R (N6GQ) Thanks to Rick and
his family for being great hosts once again
WI4R
Call: WI4R
Operator(s): N6GQ
Station: NQ4I
Class: SOSB40 HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40: 1116
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 1116 Prefixes = 598 Total Score = 2,377,648
Club:
Comments:
First, a big thanks to Rick, NQ4I, for allowing me to use his fantastic station!
What a great station!
This was my second contest with the my new K3, starting to get a handle on it
and really liking it.
Station used:
Rig: Elecraft K3
Amp: Henry 3K
Antennas: 3 over 3 (fullsize) at 155'/85'
Conditions were ok, some heavy QRN the first night but that settled as the
weekend progressed. Some excellent signals from Europe in the middle of the day
(localtime) and some great greyline QSOs, too!
Thanks to everyone for their QSOs, see you in the next one...
Jeff (N6GQ), WI4R op @ NQ4I
2008 Ga QSO Party, K4HYB (@NQ4I)
Call: K4HYB
Operator(s): NQ4I, WI4R, K4NV, KG4CUT, KD4ONL, KF4GTA, AB4HQ, N4EEB, WA4ILO
Station: NQ4I
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Griffin, Ga
Operating Time (hrs): 13.0
Summary:
Used Win-Test, Texas QSO Party, and it would not score properly...it did a nice
job networked with the bands displayed...hopefully Larry and Oliver will
include the GQP in the contests available...we had 4 new contestors who tried
their hands in the contest game...everyone had a blast...condx were lousy, but
the Ham Radio community was pleasant and responsive to the GQP...we were 800
qso's down from last year, and that was directly related to conditions...we had
problems with 2 amps...they are in the shop now...our transmit audio on the 20m
SSB station was a little too hot ( ok it was a lot too hot) and we even swapped
radios trying to fix it...on Monday after the test I was able to solve the
problem by adjusting the sound card interface audio levels...seems like in the
heat of the contest its hard to figure out how to fix something, but afterwards
its easier to focus on the problem and it's solution...hi...we knocked off at
1530 hrs local on Sunday...it seemed that we had worked every serious GQP
contestor...we need a rule change to keep our activity level high...once we
work a station, it leaves us with very little to do...there are only so many
committed participants on cw and ssb....so having band and mode related mults
would keep the activity level higher for us.....Thanks to all for the
qso's.....This year's activity will be one of the best yet!
de Rick NQ4I
| CW Qs | Ph Qs | |
| 659 | 1849 |
Total Score = 250,000+
2008 ARRL DX CW
Call: NQ4I
Operator(s): NQ4I,VE7ZO,W4SVO,K2SX,WB4A,K1XX,K5KG,K4TD,KY4F,W5LE,K4BAI,K2UFT
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Griffin, Ga
Operating Time (hrs): 47
| Band | QSOs | Mults |
| 160 | 188 | 69 |
| 80 | 637 | 88 |
| 40 | 1117 | 109 |
| 20 | 1823 | 121 |
| 15 | 213 | 76 |
| 10 | 19 | 9 |
| Total | 3997 | 472 |
Total Score = 5,656,929
160m W4SVO FT-1000D and Alpha 77...new sloping vertical system did great job..we
passed last years score by the end of the first night...best score ever from
here on 160m! Good job Bulldog!!
80m K2SX and WB4A FT-1000D FT1000MP Alpha 77 and Alpha 78...3 element vertical
array still doing great job...will be adding the next 3 elements this spring
and then we will have a serious 80m antenna!!K2SX and WB4A hung in there till
the end!! Excellent job!
40m K1XX and K5KG FT-1000D x 2 Henry 4K and Henry 3K-A...we moved Charlie K1XX
from the 20m team for this contest to 40m and he and George K5KG did an
excellent job...worked 3 HS0's XU, BY, 9V1, 9M6, UA9 etc...Charlie and George
may have found a home on 40m now...
20m VE7ZO, K4TD,KY4F, and W5LE FT-1000D x2 Alpha 77 and Henry 3K Classic
II...for 20m we deployed our greatest assets ZO and TD to our greatest resource
20m....it payed off with dividends!! Our best 20m score in a very long
time...the 8 el was the best Mult antenna..in and out in one call! The long
nights were lonely and not very productive...ZO had 2 back to back 175+ hours
Sat morning! And TD had some great runs Sunday morning...looks like we now have
the 20m team in place! W5LE is back in Ga and made it down...glad to have you
back Gene!
15m K4BAI and K2UFT FT-1000D and FT-1000MP Henry amps x2...boy what a
disappointment 15 m was! On Saturday it was a struggle for each qso...John and
Dick kept smiles on their faces, but inside they were disappointed! John worked
our first JA on Sat and that was pretty amazing considering the poor EU opening
that morning...Sunday was a breath of fresh air with the conditions some what
better...
10m NQ4I FT-1000D and Alpha 87A...B-O-O-R-I-N-G...no qso's Friday
evening...only 5 or 6 qso's by the eend of Saturday...but on Sunday K1XM
spotted us on 10m and made the comment "weak and lonely" within 30 seconds,
GB2CP called in and was in the log for the only EU!!! We tried unsuccessfully
to move numerous other big signal EU stations from 15m with no success...
We had to shut down for a little more than an hour Sunday evening for
thunderstorms...so we missed our goal of 4000 qso's...We had only one equipment
failure of a Henry 4K Ultra amp on 40m at midnight on Saturday, and I wheeled
the Henry 3K from the 10m mult station where it had been sitting with no job to
perform and it took up the slack just fine the rest of the weekend...Mexican
food was enjoyed after the contest...nothing better than chips, salsa,
guacamole and margaritas after a long contest weekend! Our next outing will be
CQ WPX SSB at the end of March...ARRL SSB, the station will be in-active...it
was really fun to watch the leader-board scores...the first night K1XM,
K1TTT,W2FU and our selves as we each see-sawed up and down...K1XM with their
superior low band antennas(at W1KM) took the lead at the end of the first 12
hours and managed to hold on to it till the end...there was still lots of
jockeying around for the next 3 positions...I think that K1XM finally "got some
respect" this weekend!!! Great job guys! And I want to compliment our other
competition K1TTT and W2FU...That's what I call a great contest!! Great job!!!
GL to all and thanks so much for all the qso's ... See everyone in WPX SSB...de
Rick NQ4I
Thanks to WB4A for providing the photos.
2007 CQWW CW
| Band | QSOs | Zones | Countries |
| 160 | 277 | 20 | 82 |
| 80 | 783 | 30 | 117 |
| 40 | 1436 | 39 | 152 |
| 20 | 1817 | 35 | 152 |
| 15 | 716 | 28 | 120 |
| 10 | 106 | 18 | 35 |
| Total | 5125 | 170 | 658 |
Operators: NQ4I,W4SVO,K2SX,W4PRO,VE7ZO,AA4BI,W1MD,K1XX,K2UFT,K0EJ,K4TD,KY4V,N4OX
We had equipment failures of the 160m amp, the 20m run radio, and the Comtek 160 Switch box all during the first 30 minutes of the test...other than that all went well...3 Op's dropped out in the days before the test so we had to shift things around some...we had planned on 3 op's on 40m so we could have Partner mode staffed full time...we still managed to do quite a bit of it anyway...the 8 element 20 m yagi played very well as the mult station antenna....we had to use a single vertical on 160m as the 2 element array had some sort of glitch...conditions on 15m were less than we had anticipated...we finally got a JA for our single zone 25 on 15m....Sunday 15m was very quiet and we had a great run frequency..signals from EU were good, but no great rates at all....guess everybody was tired from staying up all night on the low bands... Our op's really like being able to check the real time internet scores...there was a decent amount of participation with the on-line scoring...sure wish others would join in and see how much it can motivate op's...I had done a lot of work on the 40m stack's after a very poor showing in CQWW SSB, and it appears that the work has accomplished some positive results...
It appears that there were far less "busted" spots this time??
This is our best effort by far on the low bands...160m even did it with just a single vertical!!! Outstanding effort by Mr. Low Band BullDog W4SVO!! Our 80m score really improved from previous years...I attribute it to removing the under-performing 3 element yagi...the new 3 vertical array is really doing great...I will be adding an additional 3 elements in the next few months and it will "soup up" or 80m signal!!
Plans are under way to shake up the antennas and their placement on all towers..we have a plan that will provide an additional 20 db of across the board gain to the station (and I don't mean an amp...hi) we all know that a db here and a db there, all add up...and its the continual search for another db that drives most of us to do what we do!
I am exceptionally proud of my op's and their sacrifice to their families during thanksgiving to be a part of our operation....this is our best effort to date in percentage of the top M-M's score...we are continuing to close the gap on the top three M-M's, and if things come together, we are expecting the rankings to have a top four listing vs top three!
QSL for this operation is available via K4PK or LOTW....
73's from a rainy, wet Georgia this morning...de Rick NQ4I
2007 CQWW SSB - Oct 27 & 28
| Band | QSOs | Zones | Countries |
| 160 | 132 | 14 | 36 |
| 80 | 455 | 26 | 96 |
| 48 | 716 | 29 | 111 |
| 20 | 2031 | 36 | 146 |
| 15 | 1504 | 32 | 137 |
| 10 | 256 | 19 | 55 |
| Total | 5094 | 156 | 581 |
Total Score = 9,511,722
Call: NQ4I
Operator(s):
NQ4I,N8PR,W4SVO,AA4BI,VE7ZO,KF4GTA,NF4A,N4OX,KY5R,K4NV,K4BAI,WI4R,W4DD. K4WI
Station: NQ4I
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Griffin, Ga
Operating Time (hrs): 48.0
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
No Equipment failures! New 20m 8 el worked great on mult station.
New 80m 3 el vertical array did a nice job also...will be adding an additional
3 elements to it in the very near future. Our score is up 20% from last years
score. A good time was had by all. Food was excellent. The weather co-operated
nicely. It was one of the nicest fall weekends yet.
2007 NAQP SSB August
Call: W4AN
Operator(s): WY4N, KF4GTA, K4BAI, WW4LL, W4DD
Station: NQ4I
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 12
| Band | QSOs | Mults |
| 160 | 31 | 17 |
| 80 | 122 | 35 |
| 40 | 513 | 53 |
| 20 | 554 | 44 |
| 15 | 13 | 9 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1233 | 158 |
Total Score = 194,814
Club: South East Contest Club
Thanks to NQ4I for the use of his fine contest station while he attended the
ARRL National Convention in Huntsville, AL. Some antenna work is underway and
some of the beams weren't rotating, but we had plenty of beams to the key
population areas. Also, two towers were hit by lightning Friday night and some
additional rotators weren't operational. We never heard a signal on 10M and
didn't move a local there due to the ten minute rule for M/2 stations. We
intended to start on 15 and 20, but 15 seemed dead, so we started on 40. After
just over ten minutes, we moved station 2 to 15 for about 15 minutes. We made
13 QSOs in 9 sections. Station two stayed on 40M for the rest of the contest.
We monitored 15 M, but heard only a few California stations and we had already
worked that multiplier, so we never went back to 15. Station one started on
20. Eventually we were switching between 20 and 80. After 20 closed, we
switched between 80 and 160. All the bands from 20 to 160 had serious QRN from
nearby thunderstorms. The beverages were very helpful on 40 and were essential
to copy on 80 and 160. We used WINTEST and it seemed to work OK but it didn't
count non-NA stations for points. The numbers above have been adjusted to
include points for the following DX: On 15M, CT1ILT. On 20M, VP6AL (Pitcairn
Island), HZ1GW, who wanted a GA QSL for WAS, and 26 Europeans.
Conditions for us were pretty abysmal on all bands. Apparently, they were
better for this contest from TX despite their weather problems. I had
anticipated that TX would likely be a better QTH for this contest than GA, but
hadn't expected quite as big a difference. W5WMU seemed to be getting much
bigger pileups on 20 than we did. We did finally work W5WMU for the LA mult,
but we missed most of the other close in mults on that band. Skip was
relatively long and there were almost no backscatter QSOs. We called an
Indiana station on 20 for a very long time, but missed that mult. We did work
HH and YN mults on 20.
Hope for better relative results next time with much better conditions, so we
can all have more fun. Thanks for the QSOs. QSL W4AN via K4BAI, as always.
73, John, K4BAI.
2007 IARU HF Championships
Call: NQ4I
Operator(s): VE7ZO, KF4GTA
Station: NQ4I
Class: M/S HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 9
| Band | CW | Phone | Zones | HQ Mults |
| 40 | 418 | 68 | 21 | 22 |
| 20 | 213 | 212 | 23 | 25 |
| Total | 631 | 280 | 44 | 57 |
We did a part time effort in order to get ready for the CQWW's. Thanks to Rick for letting us use his station while he was away.
2007 CQ WPX CW
Operator(s): NQ4I,N5BI,VE7ZO,KF4GTA,NF4A,K2UFT,K4BAI,W4QO,WI4R
We converted to Win-Test just 3 weeks before the WPX CW test...I
can't say
enough good things about it and how easy it is to set up and use.
Initially
before the test had some networking issues with the 14 computers,
but Bobby
KF4GTA our network guru and Webmaster fixed it in short time. We
used the score
reporting program to post our scores real time...I challenge other
M-M's to step
up to the plate in embracing this technology and get onboard by
posting their
scores too....
We had a few less operators than I really would have like ...but we managed to keep all the rigs going...could have used a few more mult op's...a couple new guys to the team as well, and fun was had by all....in the true sense of Memorial day cook outs we did Bubba burgers on the grill Saturday, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, and my mother's famous Pecan Pie....ummmm
For the first time in many years for this contest, we did not have to shut down for storms...
No equipment failures this weekend either...
Win-Test is certainaly a winner!!!
73 de Rick NQ4I
| Band | QSOs |
| 160 | 73 |
| 80 | 441 |
| 40 | 1427 |
| 20 | 1762 |
| 15 | 843 |
| 10 | 322 |
Total: 4868 Prefixes = 1070 Total Score = 11,981,860
2007 Ga QSO Party, W4AN (@NQ4I)
Tnx for all the QSOs. All QSLs for W4AN should be directed to K4BAI.
Call: W4AN
Operator(s): NQ4I,WI4R,KF4GTA,WY4N,K4NV,KI4MTU,WA4ILO,N5BI,KG4CUT,VE7ZO
Station: NQ4I
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Griffin, Ga
Operating Time (hrs): 13.0
Summary:
| Band | CW Qs | Ph Qs |
| 80 | 176 | 146 |
| 40 | 375 | 906 |
| 20 | 344 | 1295 |
| 15 | 6 | 21 |
| 10 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 901 | 2372 |
CW Mults = 41 Ph Mults = 85
Total Score = 338,094
Club: South
East Contest Club
North American QSO Party SSB- January 2, 2007
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: Griffin, GA
Operating Time (hrs): 12
| Band | QSOs | Mults |
| 160 | 152 | 36 |
| 80 | 430 | 49 |
| 40 | 504 | 55 |
| 20 | 446 | 52 |
| 15 | 116 | 17 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1648 | 209 |
Total Score = 346,080
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Words can not express how well both Bobby (KF4GTA) and Ashley (KI4MTU)
performed
in this contest. For their first showing at a M/2, they rocked every band they
ran on...GREAT JOB!!! I'm sure they're aren't many stations out there that
didn't work Ashley on either 20 or 40M or Bobby on 80M.
We had a good showing, bands weren't the best, but we had fun, and that's
what
counts!
Thanks to Rick (NQ4I) for loaning the station, to Dennis (K4NV) for searching
countless mults, and for Jim (VE7ZO) for being a good housekeeper.
73 Adam WY4N
