Anyone preparing for a competitive CQ WW entry is interested in knowing the record score for their planned category – at the world, continent, zone, or country level. Or perhaps you are doing well in the contest and want to see if you have a chance to set a new record…
You can find out easily by going to the records page. There is one page for the traditional categories and one for the Overlay categories. Both list all category records for the selected region (world, continent, country).
There is also a page that shows all traditional category records listed by CQ Zone.
Sometimes you may wonder what new records were set in any year. We made a page that lets you find the new records for a selected year. There is a new records page for the traditional categories and one for the overlay categories.
If you click on the category for one of the new records, it will show you all the scores for that region and category since the beginning of CQ WW. It’s a great way to see how the new record beats the previous entries. Many times, it is just by a few points!
It can be fun to look back at the winner of a particular category over the years. There is a page that shows the winners for any selected region and category. It is amazing to see how much the winning single-op all-band scores have increased since the 1970s!
Everyone likes high rates. Since 2004, we have been determining the highest 60-minute rate for each entry during the log checking. The rate records for the major categories and both modes are available on the Highest QSO Rates page. If you don’t see your call on the page, there is a search box where you can enter a callsign and see the highest rate for all entries where that was the entry callsign or an operator. It creates your own personal rate record page.
And finally, to complete our fun with data, there is a page for the number of CQ WW entries over the years. There is another page that lists the number of entries for each category. You can filter these by world, continent, or region. It is an interesting way to see how CQ WW has evolved over the years.
If you have questions or find an error in one of the tables, please use the contact form to report it to us.