W6YX Contest Operations

W6YX Contest Coordinator:
Mark "Mork" Aaker K6UFO
Tel. (408) 974-4347
E-mail: contesting@w6yx.stanford.edu

Updated W6YX HF contest results compiled by N6CCH are available here.

Older Contest News:

2007

Four operators (Rebar N6CCH, Mike N7MH, Risto W6RK, and Dave AA6XV) logged 21 hours in the ARRL 10 Meter contest on December 8 and 9, 2007, completing almost three hundred contacts on a sunspot-deprived HF band.
Rebar's report can be viewed at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-12/msg00741.html.

W6YX also participated in the 2006 ARRL November SSB Sweepstakes. In addition to the multi-op entries using the W6YX call, Tom ND2T and Mike N7MH are submitting single-operator class entries from W6YX.
Detailed reports on the SSB sweepstakes weekend are available at:
  • W6YX (K6IF, K6OWL, N6CCH and W6RQ, ops.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-11/msg01307.html;
  • W6RQ (N7MH, op.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-11/msg01176.html; and
  • W6AMM (ND2T, op.).

    W6YX, operated by Mike N7MH, participated single-handedly in the 2007 ARRL November CW Sweepstakes, making contact with all designated ARRL sections. These scores also are used for the Collegiate Championship. In addition to the single-op entries using the W6YX call, the site hosted multi-op entry using the K6SU call.
    Detailed reports on the CW sweepstakes weekend are available at:
  • W6YX (N7MH, ops.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-11/msg00620.html and
  • K6SU (K6OWL, KI6CCH, AND AA6XV, ops.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-11/msg00661.html.

    Nine members, including Rebar KI6CCH, Tom K1TW, Mike N7MH, John W6LD, Everett KG6RYB, Jim KG6DJV, Steve AD6AB, Dave AA6XV, and Dean N6DE, participated in the Phone edition of the CQ Worldwide DX Contest, October 27-28, 2007, completing nearly 900 contacts throughout the world.
    Comments from Dean and Rebar are included in the report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-11/msg00103.html.

    Dean N6DE completed 250 high power RTTY contacts in four hours from W6YX in this autumn's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, October 13, 2007.
    Read more about it at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-10/msg00656.html.

    Mork K6UFO, Mike N7MH, Chris W6KNS, Everett KG6RYB, Dave AA6XV, and Dean N6DE joined forces to make 1,281 CW and 1,895 SSB contacts as a multi-multi school entry in the California QSO Party, making a clean sweep of all available multipliers by contacting all the US states and Canadian provinces over the weekend of October 6-7, 2007.
    See Dean's analysis at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-10/msg00581.html.

    Mork K6UFO organized a team for the CQ Worldwide RTTY Contest over the weekend of September 29-30, 2007 including Mark K6OWL, John W6LD, Dave AA6XV, Dean N6DE, Tom ND2T, and Mike N7MH which completed almost 1,400 contacts throughout the world in a multi-single high power effort.
    Mork's analysis can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-10/msg00218.html.

    Dean N6DE operated from W6YX in the North American CW Sprint on September 15, 2007, making almost three hundred contacts in four hours with just two band changes.
    Read Dean's report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-09/msg00604.html.

    Mike N7MH submitted a single-operator entry from W6YX in the North American CW Sprint on September 8, 2007, completing three hundred contacts using two radios in four hours.
    Mike's report is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-09/msg00234.html.

    Rebar KI6CCH logged 184 contacts on the six meter, two meter, 222 mHz, 432 mHz, and 1.2 gHz bands during the ARRL VHF QSO Party on September 8-9, 2007.
    Rebar's report is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-09/msg00415.html.

    Dean N6DE, Everett, KG6RYB, and Rebar KI6CCH teamed up for a multi-two entry in the Phone weekend of the North American QSO Party on August 18, 2007, with 340 800 contacts from W6YX.
    More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-08/msg00651.html.

    Mike N7MH submitted a single-operator entry from W6YX in the CW weekend of the North American QSO Party on August 4, 2007, with more than 800 contacts in 10 hours.
    More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-08/msg00147.html.

    Rebar KI6CCH recorded 26 contacts during the ARRL UHF contest on August 4-5, 2007, including two DX grid squares.
    Find out more at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-08/msg00359.html.

    Dean N6DE led a crew of Rebar KI6CCH, Mike N7MH, and Risto W6RK on Saturday, July 21, 2007, to operate in the North American QSO Party RTTY in the Multi-Two category with almost 800 contacts in 12 hours.
    Dean's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-07/msg00893.html.

    Rebar KI6CCH put in an individual effort during the International Amateur Radio Union contest on July 14-15, 2007, making over 1000 contacts in twenty-four hours.
    Rebar's report can be found at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-07/msg00957.html.

    Rebar KI6CCH operated single-band (20 meters), single-operator, and single-mode (SSB) during the annual Canada Day contest making 133 contacts in six and a half hours on July 1, the anniversary of Canada's confederation.
    More information is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-07/msg00118.html.

    ARRL Field Day on June 23-24, 2007, was outstanding! Over forty people participated and everyone's contribution is appreciated. Our score should put us in the Top Ten again and establish a new record for Class 4F.
    See the full report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-06/msg00733.html

    Risto W6RK organized a group of "brass pounders" including WX5S W1AR N6DE N6KJ N7MH ND2T and K6OWL using the WX5S call in the forty-eight hour CQ Worldwide WPX Contest CW over the weekend of May 26-27, 2007 in the multi-two category, making 2,195 contacts throughout the world on the 80 to 10 meter bands.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-06/msg00170.html.

    Mork K6UFO led a team including WX5S KI6CCH KG6DJV N6DE K6OWL using the WX5S call in the forty-eight hour CQ Worldwide WPX Contest SSB over the weekend of March 24-25, 2007 in the multi-single category, making over 1,200 contacts throughout the world on the 160 to 10 meter bands.
    Read Mork's report about it at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-03/msg01534.html.

    Dean N6DE made almost 300 high power RTTY contacts in four hours from W6YX in this spring's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, March 10, 2007, placing in the top five nationwide in his first effort at this contest.
    Read more about it at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-03/msg00703.html.

    Dean N6DE led a crew of Rebar KI6CCH, John W6LD, Mike N7MH, Risto W6RK, Mark K6OWL, and Mork K6UFO to operate in the North American QSO Party RTTY on Saturday, February 24, 2007, in which W6YX finished in first place of the Multi-Two category with a record-breaking 1,047 contacts in 12 hours at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. This is the fifth first place finish for W6YX in this contest.
    Dean's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-02/msg01875.html.

    Mike N7MH made 302 contacts in the February 10, 2007 4 hour North American CW Sprint.
    Details at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-02/msg00444.html.

    Matt WX5S led a team of seven operators (WX5S, KI6CCH, K6OWL, ND2T, W6LD, K6PR, and N7MH) in a multi-two effort as WX5S in the 2007 CQ Worldwide WPX RTTY contest over the weekend of February 10-11, 2007 making 1,692 contacts with 528 different prefixes.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-02/msg00730.html.

    Risto W6RK made 214 contacts in the February 3, 2007 4 hour North American SSB Sprint.
    Details at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-02/msg00073.html.

    W6YX was on the air over the weekend of January 20-22, 2007 for the ARRL VHF contest thanks to Rebar KI6CCH, Bob KC6SXC, Alan WA6AZP and Carol W6GEM. They made 208 contacts on 5 bands with 15 different grid squares, placing first in the Pacific Division.
    Details at http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2007/janvhf.pdf.

    Mike N7MH submitted a single-operator entry from W6YX in the CW weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 13, 2007, with more than 669 contacts in 7-1/2 hours.
    More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-01/msg00698.html.

    W6YX was the site for two multi-operator/single-transmitter teams in the 2007 ARRL RTTY Roundup: (1) Mark K6OWL and Rebar KI6CCH made 572 QSOs with 74 multipliers for a score of 42,328 using the W6YX call; and (2) Tom ND2T and Risto W6RK logged 1246 contacts to 88 multipliers to score 109,648 points as ND2T.
    Read the full reports at:
  • W6YX - http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-01/msg00232.html and
  • ND2T - http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2007-01/msg00336.html.

    2006

    Mark K6OWL, Dean N6DE, and Mike N7MH faced the bottom of the solar cycle and made a few contacts over the weekend of December 9-10, 2006, in the ARRL 10-meter contest.
    See more at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-12/msg00808.html.

    Risto W6RK submitted a single-operator single-band (15 meters) entry in the forty-eight hour CQ WW DX contest on November 24-27, 2006. Single-handedly, he reached 92 countries and made over 600 contacts. In addition, Mark K6OWL and Dave AA6XV made some DX contacts on other bands during the weekend.
    Read more about Risto's activities at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-11/msg01698.html.

    W6YX participated in the 2006 ARRL November Sweepstakes, making thousands of contacts with all designated ARRL sections. These scores also are used for the Collegiate Championship. In addition to the multi-op entries using the W6YX call, Mork K6UFO, Tom ND2T, and Mike N7MH are submitting single-operator class entries from W6YX.
    Detailed reports on the CW sweepstakes weekend are available at:
  • W6YX (K6OWL, W6KNS, and W6RK, ops.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2006-11/msg00726.html and
  • K6SU (K6UFO, op.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2006-11/msg00749.html.
    Detailed reports on the SSB sweepstakes weekend are available at:
  • W6YX (K6OWL, W6LD, W6RK, and W6RQ, ops.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-11/msg01407.html and
  • W6RQ (N7MH, op.): http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-11/msg01494.html

    Six operators (Mark K6OWL, Dave AA6XV, Mike N7MH, Tom ND2T, John W6LD, and Max KC6MAX) participated for eight hours in the 2006 CQ WW DX SSB contest on October 27-29, 2006.
    See more at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-10/msg01305.html.

    Mark K6OWL made more than 150 RTTY contacts in four hours using five watts from W6YX in this fall's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, October 14, 2006, placing first nationwide among QRP and sixth nationwide overall.
    Read more about it at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-10/msg00441.html.

    Mork K6UFO organized a group of eight consisting of Curt W6RQ, Risto W6RK, Mike N7MH, Andre, DG3SDK, Chris W6KNS, Ward N0AX, Dave AA6XV, and John W6LD to make 985 CW and 1230 SSB contacts in the California QSO Party, contacting all the US states and all but one of the Canadian provinces over the weekend of October 7-8, 2006.
    Read Mork's analysis at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-10/msg00325.html.

    Dean N6DE led a group including Dave AA6XV, Mark K6OWL, Mike N7MH, John W6LD, and Risto in a multi-single category effort in the 2006 CQ Worldwide RTTY contest, making over 1,500 contacts during the weekend of September 22-24, which appears to be in contention for first place among USA entries in this category.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-09/msg01044.html.

    Risto W6RK completed almost 200 SSB contacts in four hours from W6YX in the second phase of the fall installment of this year's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, September 16, 2006.
    Risto reports at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-09/msg00508.html.

    Mike N7MH made more than 300 CW contacts in four hours from W6YX in the fall installment of this year's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, September 9, 2006.
    See his analysis at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-09/msg00218.html.

    Mork K6UFO, Dean N6DE, Mike N7MH, and Risto W6RK worked the August 2006 North American QSO Party SSB with a multi-two entry. The team faced difficult conditions, making just over 900 contacts, with more than three-quarters of these on the twenty and forty meter bands.
    See Mork's report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-08/msg00723.html.

    Mork K6UFO, John W6LD, Mike N7MH, and Risto W6RK operated in the August 2006 North American QSO Party CW with a multi-two entry. The team made more than 1,000 contacts, almost half of these on twenty meters.
    See Mork's report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-08/msg00252.html.

    Six operators (Mork K6UFO, Mike N7MH, Tom ND2T, Risto W6RK, Everett KG6RYB, and Dean N6DE) participated in the July 2006 North American QSO Party RTTY with a multi-two entry. The W6YX team exceeded expectations and submitted its best ever score in very challenging conditions, with 821 contacts, nearly 200 more than achieved the prior year.
    The complete story by Dean is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-07/msg00757.html.

    Mike N7MH, Dean N6DE, and Risto W6RK participated July 8-9, 2006, in the 24-hour International Amateur Radio Union HF championship and the simultaneous running of the World Radiosport Team Championship this year sited in Brazil.
    See Dean's writeup at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-07/msg00494.html.

    ARRL Field Day on June 24-25, 2006, was Fantastic! Everyone's participation is appreciated. Our score will put us in the Top Ten again and establish a new record for Class 5F.
    See the full report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-07/msg00511.html

    Risto W6RK led the efforts of seven operators including Mike WA6O, Mark K6OWL, John W6LD, Matt WX5S, Dean N6DE, and Mike N7MH in the CQ Worldwide WPX CW contest on May 26-28, 2006, making more than 2,800 contacts and scoring more than 6 million points in the multi-operator two-transmitter category.
    Report available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-05/msg00916.html.

    Mike N7MH, Dean N6DE, and Risto W6RK operated the inaugural 7th Call Area QSO Party ("7QP") completing more than 450 contacts with operators in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming over the weekend of May 6-7, 2006.
    Dean's report is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2006-05/msg00307.html

    Mike N7MH completed 141 CW contacts in four hours from W6YX in the second annual running of the single-operator Low Power CW Sprint on Saturday afternoon, April 1, 2006.
    Details are available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-04/msg00111.html.

    Mork K6UFO led a team including W6NL, N6RCE, ND2T, AA6XV, WX5S, W6RK, K6PR, W6RQ, W6GEM, and K6OWL in the forty-eight hour CQ Worldwide WPX Contest SSB over the weekend of March 25-26, 2006 in the multi-single category, making over 1,800 contacts throughout the world the 160 to 10 meter bands.
    Read Mork's report about it at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-03/msg01381.html.

    Dean N6DE completed 269 RTTY contacts from W6YX, reaching 55 band/countries on six continents in a six hour period during the BARTG (British Amateur Radio Teledata Group) contest held during the weekend of March 18-19, 2006.
    See his report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-03/msg00976.html.

    Mark K6OWL made 133 RTTY contacts in four hours using five watts from W6YX in the final installment of this spring's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006.
    See his report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-03/msg00642.html.

    Dean N6DE led a crew of K6UFO, W6RK, N7MH, W6LD to operate in the North American QSO Party RTTY on Saturday, February 25, 2006, in which W6YX finished in first place of the Multi-Two category with 868 contacts in 12 hours. This is the fourth first place finish for W6YX in this contest.
    Dean's report is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2006-02/msg01566.html.

    Risto W6RK operated thirteen hours of the ARRL DX CW contest during the weekend of February 18-19, 2006, completing 468 QSOs with 196 DXCC entities on four bands.
    Risto's report of his activities is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-02/msg00951.html.

    Mike N7MH made 291 CW contacts in four hours from W6YX in the second installment of this year's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, February 11, 2006.
    See his report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-02/msg00441.html.

    Eight operators (AA6XV, K6OWL, K6UFO, N6RCE, W6KNS, W6LD, W6RK, W6ZZZ, and WX5S) joined in a multi-single effort as WX5S in the 2006 CQ Worldwide WPX RTTY contest over the weekend of February 11-12, 2006 making 1,408 contacts with 508 different prefixes.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-02/msg00518.html.

    Risto W6RK made 185 SSB contacts in four hours from W6YX in the first installment of this year's North American Sprint series on Saturday afternoon, February 4, 2006.
    See his report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-02/msg00128.html.

    A large group of operators including Alan WA6AZP, Dave AA6XV, Dave K1SAT, Bob KC6SXC, Leif K6EEN, and Carol W6GEM participated in the ARRL VHF contest from W6YX on the weekend of January 21-22, 2006.

    Mark K6OWL submitted a single-operator entry from W6YX in the SSB weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 21, 2006, with more than 650 contacts in ten hours.
    More information is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-01/msg00852.html.

    Mike N7MH, Mark K6OWL, Matt WX5S, Risto W6RK, Dave AA6XV, John W6LD, and John KJ9U combined to make 1,334 contacts in the CW weekend of the North American QSO Party on January 14, 2006, including 120 QSOs on 160 meters with the recently refurbished double-L antenna.
    See the full report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-01/msg00618.html.

    W6YX was the site for two multi-operator/single-transmitter teams in the 2006 ARRL RTTY Roundup: (1) Mork K6UFO, Risto W6RK, Mike N7MH, and Mark K6OWL made 1234 QSOs with 98 multipliers for a score of 120,932 using the W6YX call; and (2) Tom ND2T, Bryan AC6TF, and John W6LD logged 1230 contacts to 102 multipliers to score 125,460 points as ND2T.
    Read the full reports at:
  • W6YX - http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-01/msg00126.html and
  • ND2T - http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-01/msg00078.html.

    2005

    Mike N7MH and Risto W6RK put W6YX on the air for the 2005 Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge, making 70 contacts on the 160 meter band, on December 17, 2005.
    More information on this effort is available at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-12/msg01248.html.

    Six operators found the band openings as we approach the nadir of the solar cycle and completed nearly 1,500 contacts using CW and SSB in the ARRL 10 meter contest, on December 9-11, 2005.
    See the full report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-12/msg00986.html.

    Four operators participated for forty hours in the 2005 CQ Worldwide DX Contest, over Thanksgiving weekend, completing over 1,100 contacts with stations in thirty-six of the forty designated "CQ zones" across the globe.
    More information is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-11/msg01918.html.

    Six operators participated in the 2005 ARRL November Sweepstakes, making over 2,000 contacts with all designated ARRL sections. These scores also are used for the Collegiate Championship. In addition, Mork K6UFO, Tom ND2T, and Mike N7MH submitted single-operator class entries from W6YX.
    Detailed reports on the CW and SSB sweepstakes weekends are available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-11/msg01424.html
    and http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2005-11/msg01423.html Six operators participated in the 2005 CQ WW DX SSB contest on October 28-30, 2005, making 1,059 contacts with 136 countries. DXCC level achieved on 20 meters with 111 qualifying entities logged.
    See more at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-11/msg00088.html.

    Mork K6UFO made 111 contacts in the October 2005 North American 4 hour RTTY Sprint to to defend again the QRP title won by W6YX in the last two renditions of this contest.
    See the report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-10/msg00347.html.

    Six operators made 1024 CW and 970 SSB contacts in the California QSO Party, better than last year's score, despite declining solar conditions. The team contacted all US states and Canadian provinces during the thirty-hour contest over the weekend of October 1-2, 2005.
    Read more at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-10/msg00129.html.

    Nine operators participated in the September 2005 CQ Worldwide RTTY contest making over 1,500 contacts and more than doubling last year's score, which appears to be a second place finish among all reported North American multi-one entries.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-09/msg00880.html.

    Mike N7MH fought through active solar activity to achieve 307 contacts in the September 2005 running of the North American CW Sprint on Saturday evening, September 10. Dean N6DE also faced challenging conditions and made 302 QSOs the following weekend during the North American SSB Sprint on Saturday evening, September 17.
    Read all about it at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-09/msg00185.html and http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-09/msg00500.html.

    Four operators participated in the August 2005 North American QSO Party SSB with a multi-two entry, completing 1,147 contacts on all six bands from 160 to ten meters, which appears to be a 6th place finish among all North American multi-two entries.
    The full report can be read at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-08/msg00734.html.

    Four operators participated in the August 2005 North American QSO Party CW with a multi-two entry. The W6YX team completed 1,099 contacts on six bands from 160 to 10 meters, likely to finish at 4th place among all North American multi-two entries.
    The complete story is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-08/msg00231.html.

    Six operators participated in the July 2005 North American QSO Party RTTY with a multi-two entry. The W6YX team submitted a very competitive score in this category based on 626 contacts in challenging summer propagation conditions. Based on preliminary results, this appears to be the first place entry among all North American multi-two entries.
    The complete story is available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-07/msg00667.html.

    ARRL Field Day on June 25-26, 2005 was a great success, with 35 participants, 7,000 contacts, activation of the new VHF/UHF antennas, and FUN!
    Photos from this year's version of the annual operating event are available here.
    See the full report at:     http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-07/msg00511.html.

    Nine operators participated in the CQ Worldwide WPX CW contest on May 27-29, 2005, making more than 2,300 contacts and scoring more than 5 million points in the multi-operator two-transmitter category.
    Report available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-05/msg00705.html.

    Mike N7MH made 227 contacts in the new single-operator low power CW Sprint held on the evening of April 30.
    Read all about it at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-05/msg00045.html.

    W6YX, led by Dean N6DE, defended its first place title in the School category in the Florida QSO Party on April 23-24, 2005, working 66 of 67 Florida counties over the contest weekend.
    More details available at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-04/msg00753.html.

    Eight operators participated in the CQ Worldwide WPX SSB contest on March 25-27, 2005, making 3,112 contacts in the multi-operator two-transmitter category. Early unofficial results indicate this ranks third among US multi-two stations.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-03/msg01479.html.

    Mork K6UFO made 135 contacts in the March 2005 North American 4 hour RTTY Sprint in a successful effort to defend the QRP title he won last year in this contest from W6YX.
    See the report at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-03/msg00659.html.

    Seven operators participated in the 2005 ARRL International DX SSB contest on March 4-6, 2005, making 1,465 contacts with 112 countries. DXCC level achieved on 15 meters with 101 qualifying entities logged.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-03/msg00423.html.

    Eight operators participated in a winning multi-two effort in the February 2005 CQ Worldwide WPX RTTY contest making 2,020 contacts with 577 different prefixes.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-02/msg00747.html.

    Seven operators participated in the February 2005 ARRL International DX CW contest making 1,945 contacts with over 102 countries.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-02/msg01243.htm.

    W6YX set a record high score for the second year in a row in the February 2005 North American QSO Party RTTY.
    Details at: http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-02/msg01801.html.

    Dean N6DE made 321 contacts in the January 2005 4 hour Sprint SSB, followed by Mike N7MH making 318 contacts in the February 2005 Sprint CW. These guys are fast!
    Details at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-02/msg00331.html and http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2005-02/msg00482.html.

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