AA4FU ALAN KNIGHT HAD A GREAT TIME BEING A "RARE ONE" EVEN WITH THE LOW MULTI-BAND DIPOLE. IT WORKED BETTER THAN I EXPECTED AND EVEN WORKED A COUPLE OF DX STATIONS ON 80M. QRN WAS QUITE BAD ON 40M EARLY, BUT IT GOT BETTER IN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS. TOO BAD I COULDNT HEAR TOO MANY MOBILES UNTIL ABOUT SUNSET. DL3DXX DIETMAR KASPER BAD CONDX AT THE BEGINNING, BUT 20M IMPROVED MORE AND MORE IN THE EVENING. BAND WAS WIDE OPEN EVEN AFTER 23Z BUT MOST OF THE ALABAMA STN HAD ESCAPED TO 40 AND 80 SO I FOLLOWED AT MIDNIGHT. SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO BREAK HUGE US PILEUP. I MISSED A FEW COUNTIES WHERE I COULD NOT GET THROUGH BEFORE THE MOBILE LEFT THE COUNTY. GOOD ACTIVITY, MANY MOBILS AND PROFESSIONAL CW MADE THIS CONTEST A MEMORABLE ONE. WORKED A LOT OF NEW ALABAMA COUNTIES WITH A TOTAL OF 42. ONLY SORRY THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH 100 QSOS AS A CW ONLY DX STATION. WILL BE BACK NEXT YEAR FOR SURE. THANKS TO ROBERT SP5XVY WHO LOANED ME HIS NEW K3 TRANSCEIVER FOR TESTING. DL4FN PETER DINTELMANN STATION: ICOM IC-7400, 100W, DIPOLE K0JPL PAUL L. HAEFNER 79 QS, 9 PHONE (9 MULTS), 70 CW (39 MULTS). TNX TO THE "MOBILES". GOOD TURN-OUT. K0RRP MICHAEL EAGEN THIS WAS MY FIRST AL QSO PTY CONTEST. K2XE JAMES A. STEEL, JR. GREAT QSO PARTY! THE ROVER STATIONS REALLY HELPED WITH MULTIPLIERS. K4EXT GARY BEAM THIS YEAR MY SON JUSTIN/KG4VBK AND I MANAGED TO VISIT 10 COUNTIES DURING OUR BACKROADS TOUR OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. WE ALWAYS DID STOP-N-OP, THEN WENT QRT WHILE DRIVING SO THAT I COULD FIRE UP MY VERY RF-UNFRIENDLY HEATING PAD FOR A LITTLE BACK/HIP RELIEF. I PROMISED MY XYL WE WOULD BE HOME BEFORE DARK - WRONG! I INDICATED THAT I MIGHT DO A LITTLE SSB DURING THE CONTEST - WRONG! I HOPED TO KEEP UP WITH JUSTIN ON QSO COUNT - WRONG (HE HAD TWICE AS MANY QS AS ME)! BUT WE REALLY DID HAVE A GREAT TIME. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR FOLLOWING US AROUND AND WORKING US DURING THE CONTEST. AND THANKS TO JIM/KC4HW AND THE ALABAMA CONTEST GROUP FOR ORGANIZING SUCH A GREAT 2009 AQP AND MAKING US NEWBIES FEEL WELCOME! K7RFW RAY WHITE YAESU FT897D, 20 FOOT HIGH 130 FOOT DELTA LOOP A BATTERY, AND THE N8XJK 12 VOLT BOOST REGULATOR. NOT MANY ALABAMA STATIONS ON, BUT THEN I DID GET A LATE START. KB4MDD DANNY LLOYD, KB4MDD THIS IS MY FIRST AQP LOG SUBMISSION - I ENJOYED THE CONTEST. KB6NU DAN ROMANCHIK THANKS FOR A GREAT CONTEST! KB6TAL JIM WALDEN THANKS TO ALL - MAKE MY TRIP A PLEASURE THRU APACHE, NAVAJO, AND GILA ARIZONA. 73 JIM KE0G DAN ALWIN, KE0G ENJOYED THE CONTEST. KF4JQP JAMES KELLER, KF4JQP I HOPE THIS IS CORRECT. THIS IS MY FIRST CONTEST AND I HAVE BEEN A HAM SOAPBOX: FOR 13 YRS. THANKS FOR LETTING ME PARTICIPATE. KI4ACW WILLIAM GLENN LOTS OF FUN SURE HATE DOING LOGS KM4JA HARVEY LUKE KN4Y EDWARD PALAGYI ENROUTE TO ALABAMA I HIT A TREE LIMB AND DAMAGED THE ANTENNA. RAN THE QSO PARTY WITH A BENT SHAFT AND TAPED RESONATORS. GOOD WEATHER AND GOOD BANDS EXCEPT IN COOSA COUNTY WHEN THE BANDS WENT OUT, MADE 5 CONTACTS. BANDS CAME BACK IN AND ALL HECK BROKE LOOSE. DID NOT OPERATE ON 80- METERS, IT WAS QSOS FROM COUNTY LINE TO COUNTY LINE ON 40-METERS TO END OF PARTY. HAD MY SHOTS AND PAPERS IN ORDER BUT NEVER GOT STOPPED. TO MAKE IT AN ALABAMA EXPERIENCE I STOPPED AT A CRACKER BARREL. ILL BE BACK. N4ARO DICK CHURCH PUT IN 2 HOURS OF FUN. QRN WAS A BIT HEAVY, BUT SIGNALS WERE GOOD ON 80 AND 40 NOT MUCH ON 20. HOPE SEE YOU ALL IN TN QSO PARTY IN SEPTEMBER. N4BCD MARK BROWN OPERATED PORTABLE FROM THE PORCH OF IN-LAWS NEAR MOUNTAINTOP HOME IN BLOUNT CO. ANTENNA: LADDERLINE FED 130 DOUBLET AT 55 STRUNG E-W. N4DTC N4DTC SCHOOL CLUB ENTRY N4PN PAUL H. NEWBERRY, JR. THANKS FOR THE PROMOTERS AND PARTICIPANTS. GREAT COVERAGE FROM THE FIXED STATIONS AND MOBILES. "RUFF GOING" BEING NEXT DOOR TO ALA. N4QLB MICHAEL BURNEY HAD FUN. THANKS FOR ALL CONTACTS. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. N6MA PAUL GAGNON OPERATING FROM W7 ARIZONA NE4M RICHARD BROUGHTON AT TIMES THE PILEUPS MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS RARE DX I HAD A GREAT TIME AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR SD LOGGING PROGRAM WORKED GREAT I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!! THANK YOU ALABAMA CONTEST GROUP FOR A GREAT QSO PARTY! NO5W CW SANDERS K3, 80/40/20M DIPOLES AT 25 FT, CQ/X LOGGING SOFTWARE, NAVIGATOR BY US INTERFACE WOW, THAT WAS A GREAT PARTY AND, FROM WHERE I WAS SITTING, THE BEST AL QP YET. THE ORGANIZERS, AND ALL THE STATIONS PARTICIPATING DESERVE KUDOS FOR THE PARTICIPATION AND THE OPERATING WITH A LOT OF GOOD CW OPS AND SOME GOOD SIGNALS INTO HOUSTON ON EACH OF THE BANDS. THANKS ESPECIALLY TO THE MOBILES INCLUDING: NY4N(14), K4ACG(13), N5WR(13), KN4Y(11), KC4HW(8), K4EXT(3). THANKS TO ALL FOR THE QSOS AND HOPE TO PUT YOU IN THE NO5W/M TEXAS QSO PARTY LOG IN SEPTEMBER. 73/CHUCK/NO5W VE3HUR DON STALKOWSKI HAD LOTS OF FUN USING AN HW-8 AT 1.5 WATTS. W0BH BOB HARDER ( 137*2 ) + ( 93*1 ) = 367 * 92 (56CW 36SSB) = 33764 W0PQ DAVID C. MOSES 5 WATTS K1 & G5RV, SKILLED OPERATORS, GOOD FUN W1END ELDON BURKINSHAW NICE TO HEAR INCREASED ACTIVITY THIS YEAR. THANKS TO ALL. W2LHL HECTOR J. KESSEL THANKS FOR A GREAT CONTEST AND FOR YOUR QSOS. W2UDT WILLIAM HUDZIK WAS ONLY ABLE TO PUT N A PART TIME EFFORT BETWEEN WEEKEND CHORES. 40M SEEMED TO BE W4CTK CARLTON FLOYD I CERTAINLY ENOYED THE AQP. THANK YOU FOR SETTING IT UP. PLEASE NOTE I DID NOT COMPUTE THE POINTS BECAUSE IT COULD NOT ETERMINE HOW TO DO IT... LIKE FOR THE CANADIAN STATIONS AND FOR THE NON-ALABAMA STATION. LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR! 73 W4HOD HEART OF DIXIE ARS GREAT CONTEST. K9MUG DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB. OUR MAIN GOAL WITH THE AQP IN 2009 WAS TO WORK ON THE CW PORTION OF THE ARRL TRIFECTA AWARD. W4JHU ALEXANDER HAGERTY THANKS FOR A GREAT CONTEST. WAR EAGLE. W4LEE TOM MOORE IT WOULD APPEAR WE BEAT LAST YEARS SCORE BY APPROX 2K PTS. LAST YEAR, WE HAD W4UCZ MARK ROWLAND THANKS TO ALL FOR PUTTING ON A GREAT PARTY! W5ESE SCOTT A. MCMULLEN I HAD A BALL. THANKS FOR SPONSORING THE AL QSO PARTY! W7GVE ED BECKER AS USUSAL THE MOBILES DID A GREAT JOB. PICKED UP A FEW NEW COUNTIES-NOW ONLY A FEW TO GET IN AL. W7OM ROD LINKOUS NO 80M AND LITTLE 15M SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. W8KNO JOSEPH L. WEHNER   THIS YEAR 40 METERS ONLY! WA0MHJ MARK ENDORF THANKS, HAD A GOOD TIME. CONDX WERE NOT THE BEST-ESPECIALLY 80M, BUT THE MOBILES DID A GOOD JOB OF PULLING MY SIGNAL OUT. WA1FCN ROBERT BEAUDOIN IT SEEMS TO ME PARTICIPATION CONTINUES TO GROW IN THIS QSO PARTY. I SAY JOB WELL DONE TO ACG OFFICIALS. IN QSO PARTIES I ALWAYS ENTER MIXED MODE IF POSSIBLE, JUST THOUGHT I WOULD TRY CW ONLY FOR A CHANGE. I FOUND ENOUGH CALLERS THAT MADE THIS FUN. 73 BOB WA1FCN WB5BKL CRANZ NICHOLS HAD FUN. WB8JUI RICK CARRIER GREAT JOB BY ALL, ESPECIALLY THE MOBILE/ROVERS! WQ7A TERRY DUMMLER NOT MANY CONTACTS, BUT FUN. WX4RUS JAMES HERRING, WX4JIM OPERATED FROM THE RUSSELL COUNTY, AL EOC.