My score seems to be very very good…So now I’m waiting only the confirm.

He has operated in SO20HP category and I have made my WPX in SO80LP category.

I have not a good experience about 80mts. I would thank to all members of A.R.R.S.M. for this great opportunity.

I made some strategic errors due to few hours of sleep.

But it was a wonderful contest, the setup was perfect: a full size 1/4 vertical for TX, 3 directional beverages (one for N-E dir., one for W-E dir., one for S dir.) for RX, my FT-950.

I have heard beautiful signals, in particular from USA during the morning daylights. I have made just few QSOs during the morning and first afternoon with Italian and German, I hoped better. Despite the excellent path to Asia,I was not able to log any JA. It was a pity!

Some graphs and numbers:

Time ON : 29:17 Hours
Time OFF: 18:39 Hours

Summary QSO/Points:
BAND    QSO    PFX    DUPE
———————————
160             0          0           0
80            985     504        0
40               0         0           0
20               0         0           0
15                0         0           0
10                0         0          0
———————————
Tot.              985    504       0

Score: 2126 Pts. x 504 Mlt. = 1.071.504

QSO per Continents:
EU: 946  ( 96,0 %)
AS: 12  (  1,2 %)
AF: 8  (  0,8 %)
OC: 0  (  0,0 %)
NA: 19  (  1,9 %)
SA: 0  (  0,0 %)

Best Rates:
Best        QSO/h    QSO   Period hour
—————————————————–
10 min    162         27   0245…0254 27/03
20 min    135        45   0245…0304 27/03
30 min    116        58   0238…0306 27/03
60 min    107       107   0207…0306 27/03
120 min     78       155   0115…0314 27/03

My conditions were: FT-857 and mobile antenna PROXEL PRO-X1, only 100W.

I have obtained very good results from this antenna, it works really fine altought its dimension, I have heard strong signals from europe, but also incredible signals from USA at sunrise until also midmorning. I think these unbelievable results are due to particular 40m conditions in this period!

My little antenna was supported by some wires as radials with 1/4 lambda length for 40m and a magnetic base positioned on an alluminium chimney. With this setup I have noticed a good performance, especially in RX.

I have used the same setup from JN66BM Cortina, on the Dolomiti. In that case I had a great ground by the metal roof, but there were mountains that have attenuated all signals…. In the last case I was near the sea….

The logbook is been uploaded into my main online logbook so you can research your qso with me without problem!!!

“First and foremost, congratulations to everyone on the accomplishment of 1st Place North America and 2nd Place World in the 2008 CQWW SSB. All of you were fantastic operators and made a great team. This is a huge accomplishment for 6Y1V!

I have attached a scan of the certificate I just received from CQ Magazine.

Again, thank you all for your participation and a fantastic job.

Thank you kindly,

David ~ KY1V”

Thank you David, it was been a very incredible adventure! You are a great man, a great DXman, but also a great Teacher, you have taught me many things about the fantastic world of hamradio and contests! See you in contest GD!

My great friend Giorgio IZ4AKS, who was in Bejiing to work, was trasmitting from the Big Radioclub B1Z using the temporary license IZ4AKS/BY1RX. He was at 14.195, for me the beaming was 50°NE, into my Delta Loop the signal was 59+10dB, a wonderful report from China!

Giorgio is a great DX Man, one of  E44M, 1A4A, 1A3A, 9H3KS, HB0/IZ4AKS, HV5PUL, T70A (T71SM), IE9X,

OM/IZ4AKS, 4U1UN, 4U1VIC, OE/IZ4AKS, 3A/IZ4AKS, W2/IZ4AKS…and so on….

Listen this Music……and enjoy the DX!!! To the next Giorgio, around the world, see you in the pileup!

You can visit him website for photos and others news…    www.iz4aks.com

Some friends will be active from club station Z37M, Macedonia, during the CQWW SSB 2009, the next weekend!

The operators are: IT9SSI Dario, IT9YVO Antonello, IZ8CCW Antonio, IZ8CGS Gianni, IZ8IYX Pasquale, IZ8JAI Domenico, IZ5MOQ Alessandro, Z36W Venco & Z35X Chris.

They were departed this night from Bari, my city, on a ferry boat for Durazzo, Albania, tomorrow they will reach Skopie, capital city of Macedonia, and than they will arrive at Z37M club station.

They will mount some beverages for 160m, especially one for EU direction. Some test will be made before the contest, so STAY TUNED.

Some photos will be uploaded soon…

21/10——–NEWS———-

The team is safely arrived in Macedonia at club station Z37M.

Many people are involved and the interested area is very large, there have been another strong earthquake also in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Different DXpeditions are in this area at the moment, I hope all are well. Good news from 3D20CR, Conway reef, they are well and the first station is up on 20m now. We are waiting for other good news.

For other photos and news about this disaster you can visit this blog: http://www.pagopago.com/blog/john/2009/09/29/tsunami

This is news about Sumatra earthquake:

ORARI (Organization of Amateur Radio for Indonesia) is using 7075 Mhz for emergency communications in Sumatra. Please leave clear this frequency, especially during European afternoon when the propagation is open for Indian and Pacific ocean.

This is a very great news! Our score is the second in the world, after the Canarian station AO8A. We have a score of 14,094,054.

We thought that it wasn’t a good score, because the propagation on 10 and 15m was been very poor. But now we can say that it was a very good job.

I remember to all the team:

David KY1V, Dave G3NKC, Dave G4BUO, Martin G4XUM  , Manu LU9ESD, Frank IZ7KHR.

This is the extract of the official score:

Location is Cortina D’Ampezzo, a wonderful place on Dolomiti mountains.