WES Results

Another fine WES and conditions better with new antenna.

Looking forward to next month!!!!

Once again, great fun! Bands were quite busy with WES. Was great to work several on multiple bands.

15m was buzzing with stations. All great fun and some DX in there too. Ran 100 watts to a Cushcraft MA6V small vertical. Key was a ITT MARINE (by I.M.R. Co) key, ex GNI, Niton Radio, England.

Couldn't participate Saturday night and most of Sunday because of a family reunion but got in a few scattered hours of hunting c/t's and new states on the higher bands. Had a great time and 5 new c/t's logged.

Just 1 QSO with Joerg DL9YCS. Thanks and see you next event

Used the PRC-320 at home on batteries High Power 10 watts. Next sprint hope to be portable.

What a nice Sprint. Good conditions and plenty of stations. Tagged two of the James Gang but "Slim" was allusive. Equipment a K2 at 70 watts, 40M Loop, G5RV and a tri-band yagi. Keys, a Vibroplex "Champion" and a J-38. Thanks to all that participated. See ya all next month. 73

Nice WES for me with much more Qsos than precedent WES. Good propagation on 15M. Many new SKCC N° Qsos. Good partipation, funny contest... Thanks to all contacts. See you soon, best wishes from France. 73's Philippe

RIG= K3

ANT= EDZ

A beautiful fall day in CT - too nice to be inside! Thought seriously about how to move my rig outside under a tree - not possible. Maybe next time? Greetings to all the familiar call signs. And it's great to have more and more overseas ops in SKCC! 73 'til next time.

Since this may be the last nice weather WES of the year I decided to work from the yard with the portable hex beam. It was relaxing and easy to jump up and turn the beam. I wanted to take advantage of the sunspots while we have them and focused on 10/15m. Very strong opening on 15m to Europe Sunday. Bert and Phillipe sounded like they were in my driveway! 10m was also open to the east coast Sunday afternoon but I didn't have many takers. Too bad--the reverse beacon site shows I had a signal to noise ratio of over 40db into the north east for quite a while but it seems few were listening. I did have a great 10m rag chew with an non-member in NY who was only running 400mw.

Only had a few hours this month but it was fun. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Brian

Not the highest score for sure, but this is first contest running QRP. Had to try out my new Sierra. Running 2W out on 20 and 3W on 40 sure puts you at a disadvantage; but will be more ready (I hope) for the next one.

Only worked a few minutes, too many things going on this week end. See everyone next time.

Used my J-38 for outlaw shootouts. Old J-38 fell apart while in QSO with K4CML and had to be repaired. Worked W0DEW and W0DE back to back. Noise was high but made contacts on 160-10 meters. Had a lot of fun and thanks for the QSO's. Captured 22 Missouri outlaws before their big escape at 2400Z guess I need some new rope. C U next sprint. 73 Dick

It was great fun once again. I worked the sprint all QRP and made contacts for the first time on 15 meters. Even managed to get six of the outlaws. Only one of the ring leaders though. Looking forward to the next WES. charlie

Was able to work all three of the outlaws at least once each and Mark reminded me of a future antenna project needing attention when he asked me to go to top-band! We made it work but it was a struggle to get the antenna to work on my end. Great time again as usual for the short time I was able to operate. See you all next month. 73, Kieth wi0s

Got in a couple hours at the beginning and the end. 5 watts on 20 and 40 meters into dipoles in my attic, about 30 feet up. Always a fun challenge!

The "Show Me State" did in-fact show us how to participate, way to go MO. Thanks to all. 73

I did manage to catch 10 of them thar Missouri Outlaws, including the ringleaders. Only a couple of them were found on a second band. I found hunting them down to be quite enjoyable.

Usual rig this time around. FT-2000D @ 200w into a Mosley CL 36 triband @ 65 ft, and an inverted Vee on 40m @60 ft.

The Big Help showed up several times to lend assistance!

I have to start reading the SKCC web site WES section to find out the theme BEFORE the sprint. Managed to nab four of them Missouri outlaws anyway. I got fairly decent signal reports from my 5 watts. Rig is K3, key is Begali Blade, and antennas are ladder line fed 102' doublet at 15' for 80, 40, and sometimes 20, 20 meter dipole at 20', and a 4BTV vertical on the roof for those "DX" contacts. Would have spent more time in the sprint on Sunday, but I was hoping to see the Browns win their home opener for a change (oh well, maybe next year). The women's final tennis match (US open) was on TV too, and that was a great one. Hope to see you all in the next sprint. 73, Art

Had fun during this WES. I was glad that I caught Bert-F6HKA once again on 15 meters. He had a great signal coming into Massachusetts.

"Outlaw" bonus was a great idea! I intended to operate WES for an hour or so, but got sucked up into it and ruined my Saturday night. Now I'm looking forward to next month.

Heard but missed Jim, VQ9JC, in the pileup on 15 mtrs around 1320Z, maybe next time; I expect Jim will set a new WES continental record for Africa this month. Almost as many Alabama stations worked as Missouri this month. Excellent activity and always more stations popping up to work. Nice to catch Ed, W7GVE, on 10 mtrs (as well as 15 and 20). Best is working new SKCC Members I've not run into before.

Good conditions and a fun theme.

Good to see 15 open for business in spite of mediocre SF, it and 20 carried most of the load here. Thanks to Gabor/S57WJ for pulling my signal out of the noise. My 3/2 wave 15 Meter dipole evidently has a pretty sharp null in his direction. Didn't capture any of the Outlaws, but did corral three MO stations. Lots of fun in spite of limited time to operate. See y'all for the SKS.

Another great sprint. Like last time, I worked QRP using my PFR3 on 20 & 40 meters. Used the FT-950 with power cranked down for the upper bands. QRP is always fun, but especially so when able to work a DX station. This month I worked Phil (F5JWH) and Bert (F6HKA) on 15 meters. Thanks to all who responded to my 5 watt signal. Looking forward to the next event.

73, Bill - W4CUX

Another fun contest. Wished I could have started earlier.

Trabalhei no sábado de noite e perdi as horas iniciais do WES, mas achei bom para minha primeira participação, a propagação não ajudou, agradeço a todos os colegas que retornaram meu chamado. FT-897D, 50W, ant G5RV e V invertido, Vibroplex Lightning Bug 1953 e K112 da Signal Electric Co(SK).

73 es QRV Nathan PS7HD #8094C

Great theme this time! The MO gang set a high standard for the future. They were everywhere. The local QRN from storms was high here so there were a number of stations I just couldn't pull out of the noise - sorry. But I was happy to work several QRP stations and was glad to see so many new high skcc numbers. Thanks to all for the contacts. vy 73, Tom

FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW, TH6DXX. Time was limited. Band conditions on 20 and 15M seemed very good. Glad to work a number of DX stations. The MO Bonus points added interest. See you all next month. 73, John, K4BAI.

This varmint (SKCC # 1111T) enjoyed handing out Missouri contacts from Jefferson City. I worked the event for a few hours on Sunday. Thanks for all who participated and made my day enjoyable especially my outlaw friends.

First WES for me in a few months. Worked some on Saturday and Sunday in between other things going on. Ten Tec Eagle with a Begali Soark and Bencher RJ-1. I worked some old friends, and some new members too. Nice to hear the high numbers. I worked the MO Bros too! Had fun as always, and catch eveeryone on the air again!

73 DE Scott N3JJT 255T

Missed the first few hours of the WES. I couldn't believe they scheduled the Missouri-Georgia football game 15 minutes before the Missouri Outlaw WES started. ;-) Turns out I should have skipped the game.

K3 100 watts, dipole and tribander, Begali SK.

Had a trip planned to my son's home west of Charleston (about 260 miles SW of here), so I threw together a little portable station so as not to miss the entire event. My antenna was a 71' piece of hookup wire running out the window and tied to a fence post. Avg height of wire was a little less than 10'. I peaked the ant tuner for max noise and let the auto tuner in the K2 do the rest. Running QRP @ 5 watts was a bit challenging but even with all of the QRM from a dense housing development, I managed to work Phil in France, F5JWH on 15m. Wrked KA2FIR on 80 late Sat nite, so had contacts on 80 through 15 with my little antenna. NO ground or counterpoise either!

Rig was the K2-10 and the key was one of my J-37's. Made all contacts using battery power from the small 7ah pack shown and lighting at nite was from the little camp lantern. A very uncomfortable setup with key chest high and sitting on a tiny child's chair.

I wish I could have spent more time operating, but I stayed on as much as I dared for being on a family visit. Broke the station down at 3 pm for the trip home. It was a fun WES, but I will appreciate my home station more next month!!

Best contest yet, gets better all the time. Fun being a bonus station. I would like to see more guys drop down to 160 and put out a CQ. Conditions were very good for me but a lot of QRN on 40 and the lower bands and QRM from the NA contest.

Always fun.

What a great theme, the Missouri Outlaws! We Illinoians are a neighbor state to Missouri and have our own notoriety. Pehaps we could come up with a similar theme. Maybe we could call ourselves the "Illinois ex-governors who are in prison" hi hi! Enjoyed the WES and I am looking forward to the next SKCC event. SKCC is the greatest!

Well, I was portable with the KX3 and Buddipole Vertical this Sat/Sun and today, Monday ! I was kayak camping for the WES at Patagonia Lake State Park in southern Arizona.

I load everything into my 14 foot Sea Eagle kayak and paddle to remote campsites on the north shore of the lake. No noise, no people to bother you, or trip over your antenna and campsite !!

Only ran 1 watt, didn't want to bring a lot of batteries, it worked out well. But I think I'll take the KX1 next time, less bulk and weight, and it does the same job at 1 watt !!

Again, had a great time, thanks to all who pulled my 1 watt out of the noise ! See everyone next month, maybe portable again from the lake, we'll see..........73 de Ed

While there hasn't been a WES I didn't enjoy, this one was particularly fun. Great theme idea - of course I may be a bit biased here, but it appeared to me that others enjoyed it too.

I had a lot of fun "bushwacking", but still had a chance to try and run a couple frequencies here and there. Nabbed 6 fellow outlaws, including all of the ringleaders, WA0BGV Slim, N0UMP Bill, and KI0I Mark. Also rounded up K2HT Dick, WB0PYF Ray, and my neighbor down the road a piece, K0LWV Larry. Thanks gents.

One of my highlights was working Don, WODEW #2446, on 5 bands. Don is a local radio friend, and one the Kansas City area's great ambassadors for amateur radio, and a natural teacher. He's been saying he wanted to get more active with CW again, so I pushed him a bit for this WES, and looks like he dove in with both feet! Thanks so much Don.

Thanks to all. I'd like to see this an annual event.

I was able to get in about 3 hours of operating. I work the late shift and have to sleep during the best operating times. Tnx to Slim, Bill and the other Mo stations that gave this QRP Jayhawk station some extra points.

Joe/KF0XV

I got on Sunday afternoon for half an hour on 20 meters. Enjoyed every minute of it :-)... and nabbed two outlaws, too. Tnx & 73!

The opening nite was QRM Alley with the NA Sprint, not complaining, I should have spent a little time working states I needed on 80 CW but didn't. Really liked the theme, those Outlaws are really putting their state on the map in this event. I noted that 7 of the 37 contacts I made had SKCC numbers over 8000.

What a fun WES! 20/15 and a bit of 10m was open on the West Coast on Sunday, with some very good signals from back east. In fact, other than CA and AZ, it was hard work working anyone closer to Oregon than MO (no knock on the outlaws, of course).

BTW, Ed, W7GVE, is my SKCC touchstone. Ed was my first CW QSO when I got back into the hobby a year ago, and has been my first WES and Sprintathon contact each month. Ed was in the thick of it this weekend on every band I visited. He gives a lot back to the hobby and it is appreciated. Cheers to Ed.

Best,

Don KF7DS

Good fun. Plenty of outlaws around but couldn't corner the ringleaders.

Wished I could have played longer... Enjoyed it as always, 73 Rick

At times,sounded like a cat fight on 20 and 40...atnospherric noise seemed above average. Good theme goal

Thanks to all I made contact with. Heard some good fists out there!

This was first time, will be back and plan time to be on longer! Been over 40 years since used the trusty J-38 and was a lot of fun!

73

Ed

K1EDG

Very nice Sprint, good prop on 14, 21, 28 and 50MHz!

Managed to work 11 Outlaws plus the ringleaders Slim, Mark & Bill (Really... was ambush by them )) WTG guys!

Thanks all for the Q´s BCNU, 73 Walt.- - ..-

TA33 + 5 ele Yagi 50MHz / 50-80W / HM DSK + rare J-48A Crosley Corp SCR-284 set (BC-654)

Enjoy what time I could put in. Family weekend, so only had the late afternoon to put in some qso's. Nice working you all again and finally got to my next T level. Sill looking for that NM station for my WASC. XYL says she's some kind of kin to Jesse and the MO outlaws... hmm guess I better check into her background again, hi hi. 73 til next time.

A lot more difficult WES using my ICOM 703 @ 5W. You really get buried by stations with more power. I heard several bandits but they could not hear me even though I worked a station in NE and WI. Sunday I spent the whole day and evening in the hospital emergency room with a very sick wife. She is back to normal today (Mon) thankfully and recovered as quickly as the onset. I hope to participate next month but we are leaving for France the next day. Maybe I can get a few in.

Tnx to those who answered my very weak signal.

Always a pleasure to be here, event if for only five hours.

I am looking forward to the next WES.

73 to all and see you soon for a few brag QSO !

The QSB factor was noticable to me on 40M. It was a good WES Sprintathon and I'm wrangling to control my bug better. More practice will help and thanks to all who endured my poor fist. I found KI0I/p on three bands and N0UMP on one band. I was about to pounce on WA0BGV when our local power went down. I didn't hear him again but the chase was fun. The 50 watts I used worked most everyone I could hear. See you in October.

Breaking in my new KX3 rig and cutting a tooth or two on those Missouri Outlaws. Lots of fun!

Missouri Outlaw theme was good idea!

Thanks to the MOutlaws for providing a fun theme for the WES. Only QSOd one Outlaw but did manage several MO Varmits.

Sri to those I called who were DUPES. Logging computer was being cranky and I sure can't count on my memory.

Special thanks to K3UK and his invaluable SKED PAGE.

Not the greatest conditions here but managed to work a few and have a good time. Thanks everyone.

Fun as usual. I got to use my "new" 1920 Vibroplex Martin Junior throughout. Too close to Missouri to work the Outlaws on 20 & 15M, but this old Texas Ranger ambushed 3 of them on 40M. Back home to Belize early October. After two surgeries, my back seems to be doing well, though it required a couple of lay down stretches during the WES. Back to more key work. Thanks for all the QSOs gang.

Spent almost 4 hours Saturday night and another 4 again Sunday morning. Don't have the stamina for a "real" contest :D

This was fun !

Never before I saw the great activity on this WES. It was hard to make a QSO with some Dx due to big pileup.

Most of my activity was in 15 mtrs band.

Lucky to make my first 6 mtrs contact with an SKCC member

Walter LW3EX and also in 10 mtr with him.

Spent some hours off due to heavy QRN and QSB.

Hope to find the outlaws next time. They were hidding on the bushes. Thnks to all stations that gave me a call. Good luck to all.

I have some local interference that cropped up sometime this week. Its driving me crazy. S-9 like white noise making it difficult to copy stations. Thanks for QSOs 73s George

This is my first SKCC contest submission. Thanks everyone for all the new numbers. Used old J-38 straight key

73's

Ray

#5169C

I have had my number for a long time but have never operated any of the sprints or contests. Thanks to N3PDT, Doug I was talked into it and I enjoyed operating it. I will plan to do more as time goes on but first I am going to have to get the logging program for SKCC. I run Linux here and I read that the logging program works through Linux Ubuntu via wine so I need to get that installed first. I will see you all, hopefully on the next sprint.

Decide to spend more time for this WES, objectif was Centurion awards , tnx to all to have reached my dream .

Decide to care about 40 M with GP, lucky to meet W9LDN,KX1NH,KJ3V,N8ECC .Another time on other band , AK with nice report WL7WH, KL7IDA .

Tnx to outlaw KI0I who called me , let him go away , no jail HI! 73 to all.

I couldn''t get on Saturday due to a 50th wedding anniversary party for friends. Nice party too!. So I was limited to time before and after church on Sunday. 10M was open for a while and 15M was valuable. 68 Q''s on 20M, 21Q''s on 15M and 6 on 10M. I think if more folks tried 10M they would find it open more often than not. Just gotta call CQ and see what happens. 73 for now and thanks for the Q''s, Paul NG7Z

Having the MO Outlaws as the bonus stations really made this special ---- they have been a big part of the WES... I had to QRT twice because of thunderstorms-- but we need the rain!!Good fun as always.73 ED W7GVE.

I'm a FISTS member as well as a SKCC member. FISTS was running their G3ZQS Memorial Straight Key Contest on Sat and Sun. On Sunday I was calling CQ FS/WES in order to take advantage of both contests. I'd like to recommend that contestants in any contest make themselves aware of other contests that overlap in time and familiarize themselves with the other contest's calling procedure, recommended frequencies, and exchanges. This can introduce opportunities for additional QSOs and will help prevent confusion. No-one owns a frequency in ham radio, but it would also be good manners not to pick a run frequency in the center of the other organization's calling frequency.

Worked QRP with my KX3 and attic dipole - 20m band only. Neighborhood covenants are the pits. Had fun and will do it again.

Great time as always. Neighbors weren't home so I ran 100 Watts. Every call got an answer ... kinda different than when I run 5 Watts.

Only 10 Meter signal heard and worked was Walt LW3EX in Argentina. Worked Bert F6HKA and Phil F5JWH in France. Think my exotic high-tech end-fed wire has a very sharp Major Lobe toward France. Don't recall having worked any other Europeans in our sprints.

FT950 @100 Watts to end-fed wire. Navy Flameproof key.

Fun WES Theme. QRP here. Bagged 7 outlaws. Came across outlaw N0UMP at the end of the roundup here in TX near Ft Worth. He was rustling contacts and fixin to keep an eye out for the TX Rangers, but just ole cow pokes round here

Many thanks to all those MO operators who answerd the call and provided many targets for the theme of this sprint. It was all in the spirit of good fun and I think we all had fun.

I myself got off to a poor start Saturday night. I had a fever and generally had a poor effort. However, on Sunday things started to pick up for me.

Wish there were more stations on 160.

Thanks to Pete and Mitch for their efforts in creating a fun event.

WA0BGV - Slim

hello all, not lot of time this day for Radio, but 2h30 worked give me a good moment, thanks all

Had a lot of fun providing MO. to others. Hope you all had a good time. 73: Jerry

Only got to work for about 2 hours sunday morning. Was a fun WES, Managed to join 3 mo outlaws for a quick escape plan and was bushwhacked or handed out 7 other numbers. Hope the rest of the outlaws were able to miss the necktie party. ready for next month.

Had a great time hunting Outlaws !!! Couldn't seem to operate and key very well except the T.A.C. Bug. Worked a bunch of my usual buddies and some new people too !!! Got 5 Outlaws caught and almost 2 more. Rig was a K1 and bug a TAC with ZeroFive 40 meter vertical. Great job by all involved !!!

A bit of a disaster for DX participants - the outlaws seemed to have corralled the herd onto 40 mtrs right out of the starter's blocks, so the first 8 hours were a write-off for me. I consoled myself with a massive run of JA's (but no members) on 6 mtr CW, and even deluded myself into thinking that I caught snippets of C21 & KH6 on 6 as well.

Mised the first evening. Had a few hours in the morning and at the very end. With fall approaching I hope to have more time but then football steals my attention a bit.

Alan

Pretty dangerous in those Missouri woods. I stumbled into one of the hideouts on 15 meters and had a shoot out with 5 bad hombres. Got away with a flesh wound but had to go down to the cantina for some red eye to calm my nerves. Got 2 of the ringleaders on 2 bands and KI0I on 3 bands. Hope its safe out there for the next WES. See ya'll then 73 Randy KX1NH

Great fun as usual! Weather too nice to be inside and had yard work to be done. 12 QSOs total - 6 MO. outlaw contacts. Maybe it was that Texas Ranger mentality?

Thanks all for a great time! You outlaws better find some better hideouts.

73's

WA0YEI

Russ

Fired up the FT-817ND, checked the antenna and then went outlaw hunting on 40M. The first thing I heard was Bill, NØUMP and I ambushed him with my trusty (and new to me) Hi-Mound Bug! Thanks Bill for being my first victim and my first contact with the bug. There were no more "outlaws" for me Saturday but Sunday afternoon found a group lounging in the shade and I got 4 more including another ring leader, Mark, KIØI. Thanks to all who patiently worked my 5 watts and shaky bug. The bug got wierd Sunday afternoon as a result of what turned out to be dirty contacts and was replaced by the Russian Spetnaz key. A really fun WES! Thank you to the Missouri bunch for being such good sports!

Lots of good signal and good ops. Thanks for the Missouri contact, Mark. Fun theme!

Always lot's of fun, glad to participate.

Conditions were favorable for the Century 21 as I was able to work 5 bands with Outlaw Dick (K2HT) hiding out on 80 Meters, three 10 Meter contacts: Walt (LW3EX), Paul (NG7Z) and Brian (K7TKT), and Bert, Phil and Julio among others on 15 Meters. Plenty of Outlaws on 20 Meters and even 40 Meters (which is cranky with my set-up) was productive. I couldn’t pass up the nice weather on Sunday and took the opportunity to cut several fields on the big tractor.... but that didn’t stop me from checking in at the shack from time to time! Thanks to all.

N3EIN Ten-Tec Century 21/G5RV-Lite/SKCC Key

I had a fantastic time with this Outlaw sprint. I wish the propagation could have been better but I still had a great time. Kept running into Slim and Mark all of the time, but I also worked ten other Outlaws. Them Texas Rangers kept catchen up with me but I always managed to wiggle loose.

Many thanks to Walt, LW3EX, for the DX contact and also to my Canadian friends up north.

I heard more Kansas stations this time. I thought maybe Marshall Dillion and Festus had put together a posse and was looking for us.

I worked and hid everywhere from the 160m band to the 6m band.

Thanks Pete for doing this one and thanks to Mitch for suggesting it…..Outlaw Bill

Had a great time riding with the posse. Was able to rope two of the ringleaders, Mark KI0I and Bill N0UMP with my horizontal loop. But the ol'cus Slin WA0BGV got away even after a couple of sightings. Got eight of them outlaws in total before the trail went cold. Went down to the lower 40 but no luck there. I hope to round up more of those outlaws next month even if thay don't have a bounty on there heads.

See Ya than partners,

Ron

73

Always a fun event-a few Outlaws rounded up, a little DX for log, and a couple more 2xQRP! What more can one ask for a 24 hour event....maybe no yard work or football on TV to justify more time pounding brass? Thanks to all and catch you next time!

This was my best score ever. Band was good mostly 20 and some on 15. I heard nothing on ten. Thanks to all on the wes

This WES was lots of fun and the bands were in pretty decent shape. Thanks to everyone who worked me. I'm looking forward to the next one.

I caught up with Outlaw ringleaders Slim WA0BGV and Mark KI0I and live to tell about it. I tried to work through the pile-up on Bill N0UMP near the end of the Sprint, but I had taken my rig out of break-in to zerobeat a station and forgot to reset it. Doh! Also, thanks to Outlaws Ray WB0PYF and Jerry N0JRN for bonus points. How about some more state and regional themes in the future? 73.

I only had time for 4 contacts while I was working on a power supply but it was fun as always and it's nice to hear some good fists making manually-generated CW!

Once again this was fun. Propagation was not so good Saturday night but Sunday was better. I used 5w and a just re-built R-7 vertical (ground mounted) for most of the contacts. DX seemed to come in earlier with the vertical, than with the G5RV/Inverted Vee @55ft. Thanks to all for supporting the WES activities. Best 73 & God Bless. Ric KA3LOC

Caught two MO Outlaws. Larry KC0M and Lou N8LA. One long QRP 5w from AZ to MA Mark KO1U. Thanks for the fun time as always.

I finally remembered to get some operating in during a WES. My first 3 QSO's were from my shack. The other 2 were operating portable from the Kittanning Commuity Park while testing some new wire antenna's. My I bagged F5PKR and AI4UN while operating portable. My power for both was a whopping 2.5W. The antenna used for AI4UN was a 110' random wire and for F5PKR I used a NorCal Doublet (28' feedline and 22' elements). All in all it was fun operating in the WES. I will have make a note for next month. CU on the radio.

73

Mike

KC2EGL

SKCC 553T

Probably the best WES since I became member. Very good opening on 40/20 and 15m. Worked 10 Outlaws.

Key used : Czech Straight kex and I1QOD's bug.

Thanks evebody and see you in next activities.

73 Bert

Fun sprint. Wish I had more time to work it. TNX to the Missouri stations for the contacts. Good theme for this one. Thanks to the SKCC.

It was fun to work Bert on 40, 20 and 15.

All time high for me. September must be a good month as last September I had 35, this year 36 QSOs. Still too many things going on and hopefully next month there will be less activities for me. Noticed a lot more participants this time, which sometimes makes for easier and more contacts, but also adds more QRM. Anyway, another fun filled event. 72/73 Phil

Was fun as usual. Had transmitter problems during the sprint, sorry for my chirpy signal. CU next month

The start of the football season had an effect here. The bands were quiet on Sunday afternnoon, then when halftime hit on the East Coast, the air came alive with lots of action.

Only had a few hours toward the end of the WES, but bands sure sounded nice... Started on 20m and ended on 40m with a long run, which doesn't happen too often here. Sure is nice working a new station every couple of minutes instead of calling CQ over and over... Only got 3 of the MO gang but GA and MA were out in force here (five each)... Also got a lot of guys from SKCC's 1st "millenium": Tom W0INS 201T; Ted AB8FJ 62C; Colin K4CML 224T; Scott N3JJT 255T; Jim W1WIU 486T; Greg WA1VIL 443T. Great they are still hanging around this club over 6 years later!... My rig: Elecraft K3; 100 ft wire up 30 ft; Junker straight key.

FIRST TIME IN A SKCC CONTEST

Thanks to all who participated! And a special shout-out to the Missouri Outlaws. Thanks for being such good bad guys!

A great WES from start to finish...Ed W7GVE was the first QSO and Tony W4FOA the last entry. In between Bert F6HKA on 40 M, a new band for us. F5JWH & F5DE also in the log...Walt LW3EX on 10M, even with the 10/S9 noise. The 706 noise blanker cut the noise well. The Missouri Outlaws banded together for a fun WES, BUT I noticed the Alabama & Texas stations were in numbers also. Thanks to all stations that I logged for a great time...Welcome aboard to the new stations as well as the past members that joined in...

Many thanks to Pete and the Mo Outlaw ring leaders for setting this caper up... 73 to all Rick

First WES. Used Yaesu FT-817ND with 5 watts, 200 ft. dipole up 35 ft. around roof parapet of condo complex fed with 450 ohm window line through MFJ-901B tuner, and SpeedX skirted hand key, in St. Louis, MO. Tnx to all who worked me. 72/73, Lou N8LA/QRP

This was my first WES! This sure brought back a lot of memories from my initial days in ham radio! Hope to be able to participate in more of these sprints in the future!

73

had to stop for football game hi but tryed at the and to catch up had fun any way

I Always enjoy the WES. I send along my thanks to those who take the time to work me QRS and tolerate my brain fades! Thunderstorm season here in Arizona cut out Saturday PM but I was able to get on Sunday PM. Thanks Again & 73 Jim

I was only able to participate Saturday night and Sunday late afternoon. Had a blast (as usual) and would like to thank F5PKR, Olivier, for pulling me out. My trusty old Les Logan Speed-X Model 501 was bug of choice.

Thanks to all and 73,

Alan.

As usual could not get bug to behave - it doesn't get enough exercise! Reverted to J-38.

What a wes, the outlaws rode hard and got away.I dodged a few bullets myself.The neighbors to my west were target shooting for a couple of hours Sunday morning,so it sounded like a real outlaw sprint round here hihi! Had a ball pounceing on the folks CQing and took some by surprise.Added to the fun by setting up portable at my timber hideout and powering the IC706 and Laptop from a battery with a small generator to recharge with. well the charger didn`t keep up and Sun. LW3EX gave me a 525 sig rpt to clue me in to a dead battery situation! TNX Walt. Hooked onto my truckBattery and 3 hrs later it wudn`t start HAHA! Lucky I rolled it downhill and jumped the clutch..goin again. Then ran the last few hrs at abt 30 watts to save power. Seemed enuff for 40m as sigs were strong by then. It was a great time with many memorable events and contacts.Worked MO stations nver heard before and some new dx also. My first qso was good friend K2HT and last qso was also K2HT! TNX Dick! Thanks to all who took part of the chase and for not hangin` any of us outlaws.73 see you next one Mark KI0I

Back after several months away. Nice to hear so many new members on the air. Also very good to work Dan - W9DLN - late at night, as always. Great fun.

Fun Event mobile/portable

I enjoyed the WES while driving down US-131 returning from a fly fishing weekend in Northern Michigan. All stations were worked on 20-meters. 20-watts output to a UHV-6 mobile whip antenna. Once again, a low pressure, fun event.

Dabbled off and on hitting 20 Saturday evening, 15 on Sunday, and 40 later on. DSW-20/DSW-40 and MS-15, all at 3 watts. Got 8 new C's and T's and one more 2X QRP. Kate (K6HTN) heard my call ok and I got all her info, but I was not making it to the West on 15 meters. Anyway, had fun and see you all next month.

Not much time to get on and beautiful late summer New England weather resulted in only a few token QSOs. Should be on more when winter comes (assumimng my antennas stay up.....)

Just had a few minutes unfortunately but turned in what I had. Hoppefully next time I can play longer! -N9oL

Managed to catch two of the Outlaws, N0UMP and KI0I, as my first two contacts in the WES. Both on 40 meters. What a great way to get started! QRP with my K3 at 5 watts to the end-fed random wire. Key used was my Bencher RJ-2.

Listened all weekend. Made one actual contact (thanks N3PDT). I look forward to next month's WES.

THIS IS A CORRECTED SUBMISSION. DID NOT COUNT IN THE STATES. THANKS EVERYONE. ENJOYED WES. THANKS TO GENE KL7GLL

AND HANK KC3QU.

73,

JIM

First time I've done this. More interested in contacts for Tribune. The WES brought me a lot closer. Might try to do this more often.

Only had a short time to play Saturday night and was in a QRP mode. Thanks to all who heard my 4 watt signal from East Texas. Hope to be able to do better next month.

73's Allen KA5TJS

I wish my life wasn't so busy so I could have stayed in the shack a lot longer during WES. I had a great time. I can't wait until the next one.

Well, it was fun, but as normal life gets in front of the hobby.... Hahahahah.... I love CW and SKCC is just a lot of fun.It is great to catch some of the new members as well as some of those folks with two or three number membership ! And the DX ! Yeah, what a treat.

Although I do log all contacts, I do not keep score. The above numbers are a guess at best, sorry.

I just love CW and being able to add Rhode Island to the log for others.

If you are interested in why I do not keep score or have a C or T designator, send me an email.

See you on the air soon, I hope.

"I use the original form of social networking, Amateur Radio."

Only a few hours op time available again, but they were fun hours anyway. Even the rain didn't chase me away from the park I was operating from.

First time in an SKCC event and I got lucky. Two states, one outlaw and two Tribunes (KD2JC and N0UMP). Lots of points for only two contacts. Thanks, Don, W0DEW for pushing me into the event.

This Month we are on a road trip visiting friends in Camden NY.

although I HAD little spare time, I was able to get a few licks in for this month's WES. Glad I did, it gave me an opportunity to demonstrate my new KX-3 and We gained another new member, KB2EF. Bob was impressed and I think we will see him in future sprints.

My home made monoband QRP trx (3 watts out) rather a toy, than a gun for hunting outlaws, but I enjoyed the few minutes I could spend in WES. I hope, next time will have more time and a bit closer outlaws.

Well it was very nice to be back, involved in another SKCC WES contest. I had most recently purchased a "Horse Fence" dipole with very wide bandwidth. WES gave this weekend operator the motivation to retune it UP slightly, closer to the middle of 40M before raising it on halyards for the "contest".

I didn't catch any MO Outlaws which was surprising to me because from my QTH I normally work into MO FB. Maybe I just wasn't on at the same time as they on 40M. I also probably spend too much of my time up around 7.114 and I probably need to spend some additional time down around 7.055 where there might be a larger, or at least different, group?

Most surprising thing for me this WES, was that I clearly heard two stations on 40M contacting ED - W7GVE down in AZ but I could not hear ED's side of the QSO. Usually ED booms in here at 599+, but not a whisper this time, during those particular QSOs. Propagation? Beams? Magic? Who can say?

Anyway, more WES fun, as usual, was had by me and THIS WES I managed to actually get my score in the following weekend before the submission window closed :-)

Soapbox pix is just the key I happened to use for this WES.

C U next month! 73. Bill- W7JZE

Another fun WES! Snagged only 2 of the outlaws (heard stations working Slim, but didn't hear him)

Looking forward to the next sprint!

...Bob/AA2FD