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I tried 17 meters ssb from 1830-1900 with only 1 QSO, also was on 20 from 9-11 with a total of 6. first day was fun, glad I am able to help out. Ian- KN4TBG

I finished 80 meters in the 7-9 pm slot. I got about 50 contacts but worked through a lot of noise. But 80 meters is possible with patience. KC4DV, Terry, should pick it up at 9pm. 73, Bill de K3WD

I did a double-shift on 20 meter SSB, 3 to 6:30 pm today. 3.5 hours. Brutal. Wondered if anyone is still interested in 13 Colonies. Question answered. I had 325 QSOs, several nice pile-ups. Almost an annoyance, I got calls from England, Belgium, Malta, Wales, France, Spain, Norway, Poland, Italy, N. Ireland, ... wow. So there's QSOs to be had. Keep the faith, one more day. David, K2WPM

HVAC crew arriving, so QRT. 20CW is available if anyone wants it. Chuck K4QS

On 40 meters, QSY to FT8 at 9:30 to see if I can stir up some business. 73, Kay N3KN

A HVAC crew is showing up tomorrow (Thursday) to install a new heat pump at the house. I don't know when or how long this will take. I'll pick up a shift or two if the situation permits. Chuck K4QS

I got on at 9:10 and was encouraged by five contacts in 15 minutes. But then it dried up. After 16 minutes of CQ with no answer (and several self-spots) I gave up at 9:40. I came back at 10:35 and made 13 more contacts until 11:00. 73, Mike N4CF

I logged 20 stations on phone, with long dry spells between calls. At 9:30 I went to FT8, where the calls were mostly steady but as usual with this mode, not at a quick rate. 47 stations in the log. It's more fun to work a pile-up where everybody and his second cousin twice removed is calling you (as long as they don't act like feral cats). Looking forward to my final slot this afternoon. 73, Kay N3KN

This year I decide to operate at 13 wpm in hopes of attracting more of the slower ops. But I think what it did was just cut my number of contacts in half. What I should of done was send at a faster pace like 22-25 wpm. The slower ops know who is calling and would answer at their best speed. A lesson learned. Bob ka3ocs

Only once station called and was not copyable. We tried but unable to exchange reports. No further takers. S8 to S9 noise, taking a break before my 40 meter 9:00pm shift

David, I sent my log direct. Did you receive it? Chuck K4QS

Congratulation on your performance in 13 col I only got 550 or so. I think my problem was I sent too slow. I sent at 13 wpm for most of the event, hoping to attract newer operators, but what really happened was I cut my numbers in half. Oh well. I should have sent much faster. They would know that it was k2b calling even if they didn’t usually send at my speed. Again good work. I worked n4wdc but he was barely readable bob Sent from Mail for Windows

David, et. al., I did 325 QSOs in 4 hours. That is all the time I could spend this year on the event due to travel and work. I twas a good time when I was on. I really wanted to work something other than 40 meters but that wasn't to be this year. v/r John -- DE W5ODJ John Westerman

Here is report from France. Following your message, I would like to report on our activity this year First of all, I would like to thank all the radio amateurs for contacting us. It was, once again, a pride and an honor to participate in your Independence Day. This year, and for reasons both professional and due to the Covid pandemic which is resuming in France, we were only three operators with F5OGL, F6FET and F5RMK, the latter having only been able to broadcast on the weekend of the 2nd and July 3 (he drives a truck during the week) We have deplorable propagation on the 10, 12 and 15 meter bands with the USA. On the other hand, good propagation on 17, 20 and 40 meters. Our score is as follows: CW: 3558 SSB: 4442 FT4: 876 FT8: 571 That is a total of 9393 QSO's or approximately 1000 less than last year but 1 less operator plus an operator only active on weekends Everyone told me how happy they were to do the 13 colonies event Next year, I will find other operators to “expand” the list. Thank you again, Ken for these moments of pure happiness. 73's QRO to all Didier F5OGL

'Radio Animals' I don't know about that but we had fun and introduce SSTV to the event and students to the hobby. While Ken said it will be another email, I'll just say it's up to the state/bonus manager to know when he has enough people. Life gets in the way. Several of us worked during the week, but were able to fill in key shifts. July 4th is a big deal in Phila and ops spent time with their families. WM3PEN Total Qs = 12225 New High for us by 1869 (Last year 10356) cw - 3156 phone - 4054 digital - 5003 dstar - 12 Including 3 SSTV (a first for this event) and 81 Satellite contacts. We covered all bands. 20 and 40 were the big ones. Top Operator Joel, NF3R = 5835 Qs Operators: NF3R WA3GM K3UJ (Also serving as QSL Manager for GB13COL) W3WHK N3ZZK W3FRB WK2G, W3AZT KB3RIJ NY3A KC3SMW (SSTV) AJ3DI (DSTAR) NS3K (DSTAR) WA3BXH (DSTAR) WA3PZO (Team Lead - Trustee/QSL Manager WM3PEN) Villanova University Amateur Radio Club, W3YP.. (All satellite contacts) KU2Y (advisor) KD2UCB (student) Sanskar Agrawal (studying for Tech) (student)

Here is K2D - CT This was a huge year for the K2D team. We had a wide range of operating skills from serious contesters to those wanting to get their toe in the water and help. In the end, our team broke the very ambitious goal set – 20K QSOS! Incredible dedication on the part of 28 operators who basically put the week aside and dove in head first. Phone 7908 Digital 7892 CW 4781 Sat 139 Total 20720 Our top performers: Phone N1IXF 2137 CW K1ZZ 1002 Digi W2TT 2994 Sat KB1HY 115 Overall W1RM 3117

From the boss Hi Managers: Well another one bit the dust :) 2022 is history. I know it was BIG! How Big? I will know after Y'all send me. Also nominate who you think had large enough scores to merit an award. Don't forget to tell me what category too! Only you can do this so we don't want someone to lose out who is deserving. THE Bonus stations: GB13COL had some problems. The 40m antenna atop of the Cherry picker failed! Their absence on 40m was felt. Also on 40m the GB13 stations can not go above 7.200 mhz. Band plans are different in EU countries. AND they are limited to 400 watts output! Hard to hear in bad prop. But they did quite good considering-6,234 total Q's. Now WM3PEN! What can I say! Bob and His radio animals did it again! 12,225 contacts, +1869 over last year! Great job Philadelphia. And Didier and his TM13 French team! Last I heard Didier had some magnificent numbers! I always ask myself why is it when we start operations, propagation decides to take a vacation in the bottom of a toilet bowl? Sun spots, solar storms, et.et. The day after the event ended? Prop was good! But ya know what? Bad prop? didn't matter. I think we all killed it again. L-I-D-s. A ton of them this year. I know a group of hams that are doing the LID thing on purpose. I know who they are, but, the majority are idiots. The disrespectful things that were said about GB13, K2C & K2D, the jammers, The stupid remarks on DXsummit, and the arguments and name calling on the Colony Face Book Page. I guess it comes with the territory. And let's not forget the poor operating practices. But I never heard any one of our Op's lose their cool on the air! I know that I would of There has been some discussion about limiting the number of operators per state. Some states have over 40 operators each! SCREEEEECH!! Time to talk about FT8/4..It appears that this mode is very popular! I am just concerned that some states over populate their staff with digital operators. There has to be a balance. One thing that surprised me! When I spotted myself on DXsummit, and remarked "Slow CW" it was quite popular. I know some states have slow CW op's, even for this year! It is a good idea to have some 8-10 WPM Op's working for those who feel comfortable at that speed. Maybe a new award category? All in all, I think everyone did a great job. Certificate requests are piling in already! One thing, I will NOT entertain Colony log sheets being emailed to me for a reply, except for special circumstances. I will delete them. If I did entertain them, my email would be destroyed! And believe it or not it takes longer to complete. So congrats to everyone on a stellar job. 73'/Ken 13 Colonies SE Coordinator K2A Manager.

Thanks to all for a great week. Really nice to see folks fill in those slots July 7. Can you please forward me your logs, at your earliest? Can you add your call to file name; adif is easiest, but I can pretty much do any format. I have to get the numbers to Ken by Monday. I will circulate a summary next week, showing how we all did, and compared to the other colonies. David, K2WPM

Attached is a summary for K2B - 2022. Lots of hard work in that week. I will do certificates as I can. As last year, I am sending $25 gift cards to the five top scorers ... last year Dunkin Donuts. This year ... gas cards! I will circulate results from other states when I have them. I'm pretty sure KO4ENU 217 birds is a K2B and a 13 Colonies record. KN2K 5 EME's is certainly a K2B record, maybe 13 Colonies too. I think my 2,633 was a K2B record. AA4SS, I never heard of an SSTV contact in 13 Colonies! And finally, KO4ENU was chatting ... with an astronaut on the ISS. Pretty cool bunch of hams! Vy 73, David K2WPM (No, I won't nag you any more). David, K2WPM

This was my first time participating, and I came away with a few thoughts I'd like share with the group, and especially with David. ---------- TIME SLOTS: I was frustrated by the two-hour time slots on the sign-up sheet. Several times I couldn't commit to two hours due to time constraints. One-hour slots provide more flexibility and encourage signing up. Look at it this way: Suppose I can't commit to a two-hour session from 7pm-9pm, but I can and do commit to 7-8 and start operating then. Now, at 7:50, I discover I CAN operate until 9pm, so I open the sheet to see if 8-9 is still available. It is, so I sign up and keep on operating. Easy-peasy. ---------- SUGGESTION: Modify the sign-up sheet to lock the row and column headers so they're always visible. On the current sheet, they scroll off the screen as I move around the sheet. For example, if I want to sign up for 20CW at 7-9pm, the band/mode and time headers disappear as I tab from cell-to-cell and row-to-row, so I don't know which cell to look at. Hheaders should always be visible. This is a standard operation in most spreadsheets. Here's an article: <https://www.automateexcel.com/how-to/lock-top-row-excel/> ---------- SUGGESTION: I think 13 Colonies should eliminate the Name from the exchange. Only a few stations ever sent their name, and I didn't even know it was part of the exchange until well into the event (OK, I didn't RTFM). I didn't hear ANY K2(x) stations sending a name. Why have it if no one sends it? Comments, anyone? -- 73, Mike N4CF Louisa County, VA USA Elecraft K4d / KPA500 / KAT500 Carolina Windom up 45' http://n4cf.mdodd.com