OVERVIEW: In 2008, Minnesota Wireless Association was granted the privilege of operating the IARU Secretariat Club station call of NU1AW/0.  My station was given 20M SSB and 10M SSB assignments. Calvin - K0DXC joined me in activating the call this year, and Cal did 95% of the operating. As 10M SSB did not really open up, we concentrated on 20M SSB.

RESULTS: In just a little under 13 hours of operating, we managed 1070 QSO's, and over 50 ITU Zone multipliers to add to the total NU1AW/0 score. Cal was able to sustain a run rate close to 100 per hour. The first 5 hours of the contest was clipping along at approximately 125 QSO/s per hour. Very impressive!

Pictures below: Shown below is Cal - K0DXC at the main operating position. Also a picture of  the visitors who stopped by. Pictured (from left to right) are Dennis KF0QR, Dave - K0IEA, Harold - N0ACH, and Jim - K0JUH. Including myself, this group comprises over 150 years of operating experience, all enjoying watching Cal running the 20M position.

OVERVIEW: I seldom operate the CW CQ WPX event as it usually falls on Memorial day. Foster - N3KCJ was in town and looking for a station to operate, so we decided to do a multi-single effort. It was enjoyable to meet Foster for the first time, and be able to accommodate his wishes to operate this event.

RESULTS: 27 hours of operating netted 1048 QSO's, and a score of 1,321,294. Shown below is N3KCJ at the operating position.