CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N7MZW | SA LOW ALL | Worked 3 stations in China and 1 in Republic of Korea, in the last 9 minutes of the contest! |
| N7VM | SO LOW ALL | OK, so the sun decides to burp a massive X-class flare partway into day 1: throw out the propagation charts and band plan! Ten was crazy after the flare: there were stations up higher in frequency than I've ever SEEN. I couldn't get any runs going until late day 2 into Asia. I'm still improving my skills on SSB using the panadapters and SO2R. Thanks for all the stations willing to strain to copy my low-power signal through the QRM, QRN, QSB, and occasional auroral flutter to make a Q! |
| N7VS | SO LOW ALL | Thank you for hosting another interesting event. Sorry I could not be more active. I hope to be more active next year. Thank you for the contacts. 73, Steve Brandt N7VS |
| N8ACP | SA LOW ALL | 100w and a wire (80m EFHW inverted V) |
| N8CJ | SO LOW 10M | First time operating in this contest. Thank you to all the skilled operators for being patient with my efforts. 73-Alan-N8CJ |
| N8GB | SO LOW ALL | Had a blast! |
| N8II | SO LOW 10M | Some great band conditions but not to Asia on Saturday and Sunday evening, JA's at best about 20db down from a good day. I was pleased with EU runs Saturday, Sunday proved very difficult best run for about 30 mintes at 1620Z. That gave me time to find mults such as R2F, 3B9, ER, MD, 4U1A, T7, A6, A7, and 7Q. Thanks for the QSO's! |
| N8NB | SA HIGH 10M | Submitting for 10m band only |
| N8TW | SO HIGH ALL | First CQ WW Contest |
| N8VLC | SA LOW ALL | First license 12-2023 TECH LICENSE 12/2023 GENERAL LICENSE 2/2024 |
| N8VW | SO LOW 10M | Nice conditions and activity. Thanks to all this is the best ssb contest |
| N8WXQ | SO HIGH ALL | 10m was a super, |
| N9ARX | SO LOW 10M | 73's from Nebraska. 10 meters was great! |
| N9MSG | SO LOW ALL | 100w and a Wire |
| N9OK | SA HIGH ALL | Some of the best conditions I've ever seen for a phone contest. Saturday afternoon in particular on 10M was pretty great. I regret that I didn't start the contest until Saturday around 1pm sinceI missed out on something special. Things were great all Sat and Sunday AM, died down a bit in the afternoon, then picked up again late afternoon. Overall it was really fun! |
| N9TF | SA LOW ALL | Interesting prop differences observed between 10 and 15 meters from the perspective of multiband ground mounted vertical station. On Saturday, I could easily work most all stations heard on 10m, whether it was EU, AF, SA, or AS. But I struggled on 15m to the same areas. Signals were just as strong on 15 as 10, but I got CQd in my face very often, and could never get any traction going. Looking back at my log and time spent trying to get something going on 15m, I would have been better off spending way more time on 10. I was hoping to crack 500 Qs in a shorter time than it took to hit 377. Tried running a few times on 10m Saturday morning since S&P was working pretty well. None of those attempts netted any Qs, so I stuck with S&P. Got up early Sunday morning before local sunrise to see if I might catch some Asia on 40, and was disappointed. I did catch KH6J for a four band sweep. I was hoping 10m would be as good Sunday morning as it was Saturday morning, in an attempt to hit 500 Qs, but no joy there. 10m seemed to start out decent just after sunrise. EU and AF were strong just like the previous morning, but now I was struggling to be heard across the pond like I was on 15m the previous morning. I had a hard stop QRT at 10:30am local time Sunday, so it is what it is! I did snag a few SSB challenge band Qs on 10 and 20, so that was a nice silver lining. I'll be focusing on better band management next month for the CQWW CW. At least with CW I won't need to scream into a mic to correct the 'T' in my suffix from ECHO received on the other end,to TAAAANGO, or TEXAS, or TOKYO! 73 and thanks for the Qs! Gene, N9TF K3S 100 watts to 6BTV ground mounted w/160m parallel inverted L wire at feed point |
| N9VPV | SA LOW 10M | 100W and a 10m Vertical @ 25 ft |
| NC1A | SA HIGH ALL | personal record for CQWW SSB |
| ND0C | SO QRP ALL | Part time to allow KE0WPA her own separte entry also |
| NF4A | SA HIGH ALL | HAD TO RESUBMIT MY LOG TO CHANGE 7Q1X TO 7Q1....MY LOGGING SOFTWARE WOULD NOT ACCEPT 7Q1. FORGOT TO REMOVE THE X BEFORE SUBMITTING IT THE FIRST TIME |
| NF7E | SO LOW 10M | REMIND ME TO NOT GET SICK NEXT YEAR AFTER THE FIRST NIGHT OF OP. MISSED SATURDAY COMPLETELY BUT MADE IT BACK ON SUNDAY! |
| NG2P | SA HIGH ALL | I like to get up in the middle of the night and see what I can do on 40 with just my dipole |
| NI1Q | SA LOW ALL | Unfortunately with my partner's recent surgery (and ongoing needful puppy) I was not able to spend more than 18 or so hours. This was more of a high band event for me. I was not happy with my low band results on the new folded dipole, but I will wait to see other folks experiences before making a change. I heard a lot of stations on 80 but at low power I expected more responses when transmitting |
| NJ5F | SO LOW ALL | Thanks for an amazing contest! |
| NL7V | SO HIGH ALL | Bands were good on Saturday. Sunday was not as good. Had fun tuning around the bands |
| NL8F | SO HIGH 80M | NICE TEST NOT SO MANY GUYS ON THE LOW BANDS BUT HAD A GREAT TIME |
| NO9E | SA HIGH ALL | Weird conditions. Half of all QSOs on 10m, with very poor conditions on 160 and 80, and not that great on 40-20. The conditions improved the last night. I experimented with a better audio in Flex 6600 as its speech procesor is poor. I fed the radio through external processor TenTec 715 and had to drive the mic gain high to overide ALC. The average power at least tripled although the signal was not clean some stations copied my zone as 3, not 5. Still I felt much more competitive |
| NU0C | SO HIGH ALL | Stellar conditions this year! |
| NU6S | SA HIGH 10M | hvy QRN |
| NW6P | MULTI-ONE | Excellent conditions throughout the contest! 10m and 15m were the winning bands. Lots of exotic DX. Very exciting contest. Here's to the current solar cycle that keep on giving! |
| NY9X | SO LOW ALL | Great Time!! |
| OA4EFI | SO LOW 40M | First license 03-2024 2024 |
| OA7/DD5ZZ | SO HIGH 15M | Condx were very challenging but it is always great fun to operate from Peru. This time from 3600m asl in the Andes mountains |
| OE1OPW | SA QRP 10M | best condx since many years. Lots of new countries for me in the QRP class |
| OE1VMC | SO LOW 40M | RIG YAESU FT-857D ANT Wideband Folded Dipole |
| OE1XTU | MULTI-ONE | ANT SteppIR DB-36 Yagi for 20m-15m-10m ANT Fan-Dipole for 160m/80m/40m TRX YAESU FTDX-5000MP, PWR 200W 2nd Rx KiwiSDR sofware v1.702 WX overcast, TEMP 18C 189 contacts in OE1XTU log OE1XTU Log status of 27.10.2024 0111 UTC |
| OE3MCS | SO LOW ALL | RX/TX: TS-890S ANT.:High End Fed LW POWER.:100 W TNX for Contest! Never seen so much activity on 10m! |
| OE3OGC | SA HIGH ALL | Operator age 23 2001 |
| OE4MQW | SA LOW ALL | IC7300 40m EF-Wire |
| OE5T | MULTI-TWO | Again no antenna for 160 and 80. Nearly all QSO on the 2nd station used 100w due to problems with the PA. Otherwise lots of fun with great CONDX and good participation from around the world |
| OE5TWE | SO LOW ALL | Operator age 16 |
| OE6HLF | SO LOW ALL | I tested my wire antennas again, the best antenna was my Windom, 21m up., esp. for 10m contacts, i could not check the swr for my 160m antenna, so lost some multipliers. 73s from Austria - - Bernhard OE6HLF |
| OE6TXW | SA LOW 20M | First license 06-2023 |
| OE8DDX | SA LOW 15M | Operator age 16 |
| OE9SEV | SA HIGH ALL | Operator age 24 1999 |
| OG1F | SA HIGH 15M | Good cndx on Saturday Not-so-good on Sunday |
| OG2X | SO HIGH 10M | Thank you for a memorable contest. My all-time highest number of QSOs |
| OG6N | SA HIGH ALL | Several issues with antennas. Missing a 10m beam and 40m beam had a high SWR. This was mostly for fun and for testing some new equipment |
| OG8M | SO HIGH 15M | Great fun! Hats off to station owner OH8PF/OH8Z for all birch logging and antenna assembly prior to contest. Thanks mate! Thank you all for qsos! |
| OH/F4ETG | SO LOW ALL | I was able to enjoy my ham radio hobby in a great location while having a nice family holidays ! Perfect combination ! |