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A rare opportunity presented itself in July 2004 when I was invited by Alexander, 4L5A to assist him with hardware upgrading at his D44TT/D4B contest location before the WAE CW contest.

Finally I worked my first USA and that was Bob N7UA at around 04z. In the first 5 hours I had over 350 QSOs in the log from 13 zones and 56 countries! With a short vertical, 700W TX and no RX antennas! I was fevering! I couldnt wait till the next round.

There are only 2 more qualifying tests left in the selection race to the WRTC 2010. These are - RDXC 2009 and “On site championship of Russian Federation” (I am talking here about Russians). I would like to share some thoughts about selection Formula or “Selection criteria for participation in”World Radiosport Team Championship 2010” (“WRTC 2010”)

I wanted to publish this summary later, but finally decided to do it now. Although ARRL DX CW 2009 will take place in more than a month, many contesters are already concerned about "where to go?". I believe that this information will help them to make a final decision.

From Scott Robbins (W4PA) article "The 2005 ARRL International DX CW Contest. Is now the "good old days" of contesting?"

A few words about operators. Not all of the team members were “superoperators” and big contesters. However, the sum total of the team proves otherwise. Under normal circumstances, it takes only a few good operators to run a 24-hour operation.

A license has been granted to an Italian team and the period of their first activity will be from January 1 to January 11, 2009. The callsign released is E44M and it covers from 160 meters to 2 meters SSB, CW, RTTY and all digital modes with a maximum power of 1KW. They will have 3 stations active with beams, verticals and wire antennas.

EA5GVH Peter will be QRV from Aruba (IOTA SA-036) between January 12th and 28th. He will also count for WLOTA LH-0033 Callsing P40PZ

TS7C multi-national team (DL1BDF, F1HRE, F2VX, F4AJQ, F4EGD, F4EVR, F5EOT,F5PED, F5UFX, F6AXX, F6BIV, F6CTT, F6ENO, F8BJI, F8IJV, F9IE, FM5CD, G0OPB, I2VGW, N2WB, N6OX, OE8KDK, OE8SKQ, OE9AMJ and ON7RN).

There is an excited discussion now in CQ-Contest reflector, sometimes turning into opposition, concerning "open logs".

HK3CW, K5UO, WF5W will be active from San Andres and Providencia Islands from 24 to 30 of january 2009

CX2ABC, CX5BE, CX5BW, CX6ACY, CX6DAP, CX7AT, CX7BZ, CX9AU will be active from Flores Island, (Uruguay) with call sign CV5A Jan 22 - 26.

Ray WQ7R will be active in CQ WW 160m 2009 CW contest from Honduras with call sign HQ9R

Peter NO2R will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest from Cambodia.

Champ E21EIC will be active in CQ WW 160m Contest 23 - 25 january from Laos as XW1B.

Al CE1/K7CA will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest 24 - 25 January and in ARRL DX International Contest 21 - 22 February 2009.

Great video describing radioamateur activity from Antarctica

As a good teaching aid I used the recording of K9PG operating ZF2MM in ARRL SSB. Very much usefull listening. Of course I do not appeal to copy somebody's style exactly.

I think its better in this situation HK3CQ stay quired because his private interest is showed in this subject very openly

CQ WW WPX SSB 2008 Contest results received from open internet sources

From 21 of january till 1st of february 2009 US and North American radioamateurs getting great opportunity to make a contact with Zone 17 and EY on 160m band

UA9PC/RZ9OZO Contest station equipped with 3 el wire full size yagi on 160m.

A fairytale is a lie (not this one), but has a lesson for the youngsters!

CQ WW DX SSB 2008 as all the other contests was full of intrigues. I would like to take up the points which are the most interesting to me.

CU8AS, HB9CQL and HB9CRV/CT3FN will be active as CU8W from Albarnaz Lighthouse on Flores Island (EU-089) on 19-23 January.

On the way to Palestine (E44M) Leszek SP3DOI is visit well know radiomateur Dov 4Z4DX

Some pictures from E44M Palestine DX Pedition Thanks Leszek SP3DOI

Tom, DL2RMC is going to spend his holidays in Senegal from January 16 - 29.

S21RC S21AM S21DM S21S S21RO S21SA will be active from St Martin's Island (AS-127), 16 -22 January 2009 as S21DX.

OM3BH and OM3GI with some local CT3 operators will be active from Madeira Island in CQ WW 160M 2009 CW Contest as CT9M.

Tom 8P5A gained a victory in SOAB category with 20.533 million points, leaving behind the nearest rival FG/OM3LA with 16.105 million points gap.

Here we go, as promised, a brief review of the CQ WW DX 2008 results. Of course, not all of the results and categories are here but only a few.

This article has been written earlier, but I decided to publish it after the january 15 th, the CQWW DX CW 2008 log submission deadline. It has been discussed for a very long time that the logs should be submitted in a short term period after the contest, but nothing has been done yet.

Recording of a QSO between Petrus,ZS8T and Igor, RA3CQ on 20m.

Yasar, TA3D will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest in Low Power category

Alfredo,WP3C will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest 23-25 january from Pedro NP4A station in Single Op High Power Category

RK2FWA team will be active in CQ WW 160M DX Contest 23-25 january

E70R, E70T, E74AW, E76C, E77DX and E77E will be active in coming CQ WW DX

Richard, K2WR will be active in CQ WW DX 160m CW Contest 23-25 January 2009

Juan, CO8TW will be active in coming CQ WW DX 160m CW Contest 23 - 25 January 2009.

Val, RD3AF will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest 23-25 January

Well known contester Willy,UA9BA will be active in coming CQ WW DX 160m

Eric, K6VVA will be active in coming ARRL DX CW Contest 21-22 february from BVI

Nodir, EY8MM will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest 23-25 january in Single op High Power category

Dimitry, UT5UGR will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest 21-22 February 2009 from Martinique Island in Single op all band category using special callsign TO5WA.

RV2FW, 4Z5TA, 4X6ZK and 4Z5KJ will be active in coming CQ WW 160 CW Contest 22 - 25 January 2009 from Israel with contest call 4Z5J in Multi Single category.

LA5IIA will be active in coming CQ WW 160 CW Contest 23 - 25 january from 4U1UN United Nation Heaquarters Station

XE1RCS team will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest 23-25 january 2009 in Multi Operator category

Ozer, TA2RC will be active in coming CQ 160M CW Contest 23-25 january 2009 in Single Operator Low Power category.

A71BX will be active in coming CQ WW 160m CW contest 23-25 january 2009