CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| M0CVO | SO LOW ALL | Saturday 10m was rocking but Sunday there was terrible QSB during Storm Bert |
| M0KHX | SA LOW ALL | First license 03-2023 First licensed: 31 March 2023 |
| M0RNR | SA HIGH ALL | Good fun giving points away in this contest. Enjoyable few hours on the radio |
| M0UHF | SA LOW ALL | JUST PLAYING / LEARNING |
| M0WJE | SA LOW 20M | Casual entry during a weekend away with friends. 100W barefoot from Ic7300 to quarter wave monopole in the garden |
| M0XUU | SA LOW ALL | One more interesting weekend. Topband and 10 meters were difficult with no proper antennas. Something to work on for next time. As always participated for 24 hours |
| M1AFQ | SO LOW ALL | made change not being a contester as such, i enjoyed it, |
| M1DDD | SA HIGH ALL | Only a couple of hours search and pounce. Single 9:1 EFLW at 7m |
| M2G | SA HIGH 10M | This is the best CQWW I have ever done 10m was absoultly brilliant |
| M2O | SA LOW 20M | 100w - |
| M4N | SA LOW ALL | FLEX6400 to a Doublet. Great contest of course. Thanks for all the QSOs. Very wet and windy here in part of the UK - and ladder line doesnt't like it much!! So a lot of re-tuning at times |
| M5M | SA LOW ALL | Didn't expect to do this one but a cold and arrival of new kitten had us grounded. ATU decided to let in water, so I was left with 20/15/10 verticals. Bands seemed good and I enjoyed several short sessions in between other duties |
| M6W | SA LOW ALL | Was hoping to better my 2014 score but nowhere near |
| M7N | SA HIGH 10M | We had a gale - 'Storm Bert'- bent mast survived |
| M9B | SA LOW 15M | Operator age 21 |
| MD4K | SO HIGH ALL | Antennae were not at full height due to predicted storms and actually limited the choice of directions at times. Conditions were good but there were terrible echos on some stations on HF ! Guess conditions can be too good. Enjoyed the contest overall but was very tiring pile ups immense at times from an EU location! |
| ME5G | SO HIGH 15M | Storm damage to antenna only one day of operation |
| MI0BPB | SA HIGH ALL | Great conditions, thanks for running contest. 73 Andrew |
| MM0T | SO HIGH ALL | Conditions good. Was surprised to work JT5DX and EX9A on 80 |
| MM2T | SA HIGH ALL | thanks for all qso great week end 73 Phil GM0LIR |
| MM3T | SO HIGH 10M | Thanks to all who worked me |
| MM8Z | SA QRP 40M | Flex 6600 Antennas: SteppIR BigIR |
| MM9I | SA HIGH ALL | Well that was great fun. Happy with the score. Thanks for all the Qs |
| MW0IDX | SO HIGH ALL | Band conditions in good shape this year, especially 10m. S&P only. SD logging worked great |
| N0SMX | SA HIGH 10M | Elecraft K4, KAT500, KPA500, EndFed Sloper @ 35ft |
| N0UY | SO HIGH ALL | yagi feedline trouble so did it all on 40m vertical |
| N1AU | SA HIGH ALL | Great conditions and participation |
| N1DC | SO LOW ALL | My best CQ WW CW score ever. 660K points on Saturday and 1.2M on Sunday Incredible conditions on Sunday. I had a 500 QSO run on 10M in less than 4 hours |
| N1NN | SO HIGH ALL | 20TH CQ WORLD WIDE DX CW CONTEST |
| N1SP | SO LOW ALL | Bands were great- I just didn't have enough free time!!! |
| N2BZD | SO LOW ALL | Great Propagation to Indian Ocean and Asia 20 M was open all night and 10 M open until local 9 pm |
| N2DYT | SO QRP 15M | 5 Watts Flex 1500 - Indoor loop 4th Floor Apt |
| N2FT | SA HIGH ALL | In spite of two intermittent problems (one MAY be fixed) and an unusual problem with my computer keyboard, this was my most successful contest performance. I increased my score by 38% compared to 2023 and increased my Q's by 30% and the zones and countries by 10% and 2% respectively. I operated about the same number of hours as last year. Because I live in an HOA, my antennas are all temporary. I put them up a day or two before the contest and take them down the day after. So there is usually the fun of assembling and retuning everything under time pressure. For the DX tests, I hang a 40 meter quarter wave wire in my only tree with two elevated radials and load the radiator and radials for 80 with loading coils that can be easily bypassed with jumpers and alligator clips for band changes. It's good to get out of the chair occasionally. I also used the portable parasitic vertical tribander (based on N6BT's ideas) pointed at Europe, but I did pick up the 15m reflector and move it to point the 'beam' at JA Sunday evening. The reflectors also have jumpers with alligator clips to disable them if I want to temporarily switch to ommidirectional mode to work SA. I've been trying to find the 'unsolved' intermittent for a while. It manifests as a decrease in receive sensitivity that sometimes clears when I transmit. I've tried sectionalizing the problem, and have theories, but I thought it was solved when I cleared the other intermittent - I had tuned all the antennas for resonant frequency and SWR the day before the contest, and then on the day of 'the show', the SWR went crazy and the amp started throwing faults. That cleared when I replaced the coax which didn't like the rain?. The receiver de-sense intermittent didn't appear at all during Sweepstakes, but it came back during this contest and was very annoying by the end. The final problem was with my computer keyboard. It is the type with lighted keys. I realized a few minutes before the contest that the lights had stopped working and I couldn't see the letters on the keys. My fabulous XYL found the manual on-line and we got the lights back on, but some of the keys stopped working altogether. Luckily I had a spare keyboard from my future SO2R upgrade. The keyboard 'fun' cost me about a half hour of operating time. Highlights were my longest successful runs ever. I think one was about 90 minutes on 15 meters. I always love working Japan because it's hard to do here in the HOA, and when 15 opened to Japan with booming signals, I was able to move the reflector and S&P a nice string of JAs. That's when the receiver desense problem started causing problems so I unhappily finished in very noisy conditions down on 40 |
| N2GA | SA LOW 20M | Operated portable from Arkansas. Tarheel Model 75A vertical Antenna and Elecraft K3S. Out of areas score so I didn't submit for any club. All from POTA # US-1088 Lake Catherine State Park in Arkansas! |
| N2NI | SA HIGH ALL | Part time effort. New QTH. Lots of antenna work and still unpacking. Next year will spend more time, I hope. That was a lot of fun |
| N2TO | SO QRP ALL | Thanks to all the DX stations who worked me. Portable, QRP |
| N2TX | MULTI-ONE | 1/4 Frankford Radio Club (N2TX), 1/4 Yankee Clipper Contest Club (KD2RD) |
| N3FR | SO LOW ALL | Nothing compares to CW! Not only did I beat my score from last year, I almost doubled it! Bands were well behaved the first half of the contest, and were just okay the second half. Worked several new countries, which really got the blood pumping! Looking forward to more CW contests! Bob, N3FR |
| N3RN | SA LOW 10M | 1/4 WAVE VERTICAL UP 4 METERS USED ON 10 METERS |
| N4AF | SO HIGH ALL | my hours were limited this year. Condx pretty good |
| N4AKV | SA QRP ALL | Operator age 22 |
| N4CW | SO HIGH ALL | REAT contest! Fantastic participation from all the best CW ops in the world! CQWW is definitely the best contest of them all. Thanks to the many DXpeditions from everywhere! What fun!!! Thanks |
| N4EFS | SA HIGH ALL | For Check Log Only |
| N4GG | SA LOW ALL | Still in the process of getting a smallish station put together at the new QTH. The new EFHW on the far end of way-too-long coax run plays okay on 80, 40 and 20 and is pretty much a dummy load on 15 and 10. Condx were weird at times, particularly the last two hours. 20 was open to everywhere in the world all at once. Lots of over the pole flutter reminded me of cold winter nights long long ago. Almost all S&P. Thanks for the Qs. FTdx10 100W, EFHW, WRITELOG |
| N4IW | SA LOW ALL | I got a late start on this one and operated sporadically during the weekend due to many other obligations. It was a lot of fun. I never ran out of contacts to make with lots of participation it seemed and European stations were constantly plentiful. The bands cooperated nicely. Thanks for the Qs |
| N4JRG | SA LOW ALL | Wonderful conditions on 15 meters. JA stations sounded like they were located in California |
| N4LSJ | SA HIGH ALL | Good condx overall |
| N5REL | SO HIGH ALL | Great band conditions. Always good to add to the log |
| N6BT | SA HIGH 15M | New station set-up in town and enjoyed about 18 hours of operating, even with a couple glitches. Antenna is a hybrid using a SteppIr Urban Beam with additional Yagis elements for a 2 over 2 stack on 15 and 4el on 10. Tower is 40' crank-up. Bandpass filters allowed guest op K7CNT to operate on 10 with me on 15. Rigs are both Flex-6600 with KPA-500 and ALS-600 amps |
| N6HI | SO QRP ALL | 5 Watts to a 20 Foot end-fed wire, thrown in a tree out my window. Completed 118 QSOs in 48 Countries. I achieved my goal, and set a record for my highest total number of Countries worked QRP in a contest, beating my last year CQWWDXCW contest by 2. -) 10m was the best band for me, with 41 Countries worked on 10m. Biggest Surprise Contacts: TWO Stations worked in St. Helena, plus some way I managed to make a 40m contact with Morocco. Thanks to all for your patience and the QSOs. Pure CW Fun! GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! -73- John N6HI |