CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N7XU | SA HIGH ALL | 10m sure was great! |
| N8FYL | SO LOW ALL | Rig:Icom IC-7610 Antennas: G5RV/ZS6BKW at 48 ft 80M dipole at 30 ft Not a huge score, but the best I've achieved in the 7 times I have played in this contest. Good band conditions helped! |
| N8GB | SO LOW ALL | Had a blast! |
| N8II | SO LOW ALL | Best over the north pole conditions of Cycle 25 in a DX test, but not many JA's found on 15 and 10 and ran only a handful. I managed to hold 28568 KHz run frequency for 2.3 hours Sunday morning making 310 Q's in 2 hours. 15 and 20 were just too crowded for LP runs from here, had a short one Saturday on 15 for 35-40 Q's. Great to work BY, DV, AH2, YB, R0L and 9M6 on 10M! |
| N8VCL | SA LOW ALL | First license 10-1984 |
| N9DK | SO LOW ALL | Lots of fun! 10m was wide open through sunset |
| N9EDL | SO LOW 10M | First license 01-1980 |
| N9OH | SA LOW ALL | First CQWW DX for me after a multi-year break from contesting. Conditions were great for me on 10-15 meters with my EFHW dipole up in a palm tree |
| N9OK | SA HIGH ALL | After a rough start on Friday (very few Q's) propogation improved Sat and Sunday. Made some rare to me contacts and had a great time. I like the competition of the scores on the online scoreboard, helps me stay focused |
| N9TF | SA LOW ALL | The good news, the high bands, 10 and 15m, were in great condition, and activity world wide seemed at an all time high for this contest. 15m was stacked up with signals overlapping about every 1-1.5khz, and 10m during the EU openings to NA, both Saturday and Sunday, saw activity all the way up to 29.200Mhz. As a LP single antenna 6BTV station, I found it much eaiser to S&P above 28.700 both mornings for a better chance of working DX with a bit less 'pile up' traffic. I found much less NA pile up traffic to contend with, but as much, or more EU to EU pile up traffic. It's one thing to have to contend with NA traffic to EU, but another dimension is added when US needs to break the EU to EU wall as well. It seems to me that the 1 point EU ops get for working EU-EU is a big incentive, and gives EU stations a leg up in points against US stations. It's great that US ops at least get zone mult for working another US op, but that still does not overcome the disadvantage of not receiving at least 1 point for the Q. Would it not make sense to level up the points playing field and allow one point for US-US contacts! Maybe that small change may incentavise more EU ops to work more US rather than clog/block out US stations from being able working EU. Yes, that happens to be a strategy I have been aware of. I noticed a lot more EU-EU pile up log jams this contest from other past CQWW SSB contests. I hope CQ will consider a serious discussion of the points/Q structure. Thanks es 73, Gene N9TF 100 watts to 6BTV ground mounted |
| N9WKW | SO LOW ALL | Had to work the weekend, so was not able to get the contacts and scores I was really after. Had a great time though, even with 100 watts and a stick antenna on the trunk of my car! |
| NA4DA | SA HIGH ALL | very limited time |
| NE6I | SA HIGH ALL | Worked the contest between home remodeling tasks (big job under way). 15 and 10 meters were in great shape. Great to hear so many YLs in the contest! |
| NF5Y | SA LOW ALL | Thank you to everyone who made this possible |
| NF6P | SA LOW ALL | Wow is how I start. Low power, only wires, my best score ever, and broke the million-point threshold, too. So glad that I built and installed a 40-meter Delta Loop on Friday. I did not have any time to optimise, but it worked well on 40 - 15 and allowed me diversity RX on my FTDX101. As others have said, 10 meters was amazing, but 15 was a producer for me, and allowed a couple of small runs. Without any directionality, it's hard to run. My ears are still recovering. Too many badly adjusted amps on the air. This was memorable |
| NG0T | SO LOW ALL | Great 10 meter conditions |
| NI0K | SA HIGH ALL | Many consider this biggest contest of the year, and it is in the books now. At NI0K Murphy came and stayed. The rotor on tower 1is MIA so the 20/40 Yagi is stuck. 20-10 on tower 3 still works though and propagation on this contest was hitting on 16 cylinders on 20 & 15 with 8 cylyinders on 10 although 10 was hopping on Saturday. Just like most years I wasn't able to get a run going. Oh, and did I mention the shack PC went into the toilet on Friday afternoon? The second PC was OK though, only needing N1MM and some configuration to work. Speaking of toilets, do the contest rules have anything to accomodate runs? Not the on-air kind, the kind where your eyes get big and 'uh-oh' is involuntary. Good thing the loo is across the hall from the shack |
| NI1Q | SA LOW ALL | This was my first serious contest with the Flex8400. It is possible it may be the last. After a few hours, I switched back to my 7610 and doubled my throughput. I was only able to 18 hours - the contest is on the same day as the Mexico City Grand Prix, and my age is catching up with me. But even though my time was low I had a very good time. Being able to have N1MM+ play the voice macros directly in the 7610 was very efficient and had some very high-rate search and pounce sessions |
| NL7V | SO HIGH ALL | Good conditions. Had fun |
| NN4TT | SA HIGH ALL | Started the contest as an afterthought. Of course, Murphy ruled. No 40M antenna to start with then lost the TH7 due to a bad connector or balun at the antenna. 75M wasn't too bad but ran out of gas when EU sun came up. Back to 6 meters! 73 |
| NO9E | SO HIGH 20M | Tried remote operation while in KH6.Not too much luck as their evening was US night and EU morning |
| NP3V | SO QRP 10M | TNX . 73! |
| NU1D | SA LOW ALL | Operator age 15 Youth Op - 15 years old |
| NU4Y | SA HIGH 20M | FTdx10 - 1 kw - The driven element for a tri-band bean used as a vertical antenna, 1/2 vertical/ 1/2 horizontal. |
| NV1U | SA HIGH ALL | First license 06-2024 |
| NV6T | SO QRP ALL | Fantastic event - so happy there were the plethora of operators on-air |
| NX9T | SO HIGH ALL | Limited time and very limited antennas.... but unlimited fun! Great time and awesome conditions for sure. Thanks to all. 73-NX9T |
| NZ5W | SA LOW ALL | First license 01-2024 |
| OE1OPW | SA QRP 15M | very good condx and good operators QRP operation with Beam Antenna |
| OE1XTU | MULTI-ONE LOW | Artificial intelligence operated. CQ WW is quite the challenge for AI. Lots of QRM on crowded bands and OPs speak fast |
| OE2S | MULTI-MULTI | Great to have this new category also in CQWW. Actually we were M/2 Distributed, but had lots of fun |
| OE3BHM | SA HIGH ALL | First license 05-2025 |
| OE3LDV | SO LOW ALL | First license 05-2024 Licensed 05-2024 |
| OE3MCS | SO LOW 10M | RX/TX: TS-890S Ant.:High End Fed LW Power:100 W TNX for Contest! Never seen so much activity on 10m! |
| OE3MYS | SO LOW ALL | First license 06-2024 |
| OE4AWJ | SO LOW 10M | First license 11-2023 |
| OE5BAE | SO LOW ALL | First license 11-2023 |
| OE5T | MULTI-TWO | Nice CONDX, great participation and fun on the radio. What else could you ask from one of the greatest contests of the year? |
| OE5XPM | SO HIGH ALL | Operator age 16 |
| OE6RER | SO LOW ALL | 11/28/2022 |
| OE7TOK | SO LOW ALL | First license 06-2023 |
| OE8DLE | SO HIGH ALL | First license 04-2025 |
| OE8KKS/P | SO LOW 10M | my 1st Activity on my new Call in my new 2nd home QTH! |
| OE8TTR | SA HIGH 10M | Hi all! ...10m propagation were very good in my opinion and so I was able to make many nice contacts out of our valley (all via S&P, 1kW, 3 elem. Yagi @ 14m AGL). My personal goal was/is (applies to all my contest activities!) to work 100+ DXCCs (if multiband operation with max. 150 Qs) if possible. This time I reached the goal after abt 200 Qs with single band operation - other Qs were just for fun and enough time with the family... The only downside is that with only 100W, I probably wouldn't have reached half of the DXCCs as this PWR would hardly have been heard in the PWR battle... 73 de Hel, OE8TTR |
| OG1F | SA HIGH 15M | Quite nice cndx. TU! |
| OG5O | SA HIGH ALL | Just giving points. No CQ |
| OG6N | SA HIGH ALL | A challenging operation as a lot of antennas were broken and the main tower not turning. I did not have time to fix the rotator of my multiplier tower either. Had some issues with my logging PC with virtual ports so I could not get my second radio connected. I mostly did chase DX and multipliers and threw in a few pile ups. Not the best propagation to USA and Asia so made too much QSOs into EU. I hope I will get some issues fixed before the CW leg |
| OG8M | SO HIGH 15M | Nice condx! Lady Aurora was absent, I didn't miss her at all :-) Thanks everyone for the qso! |
| OH0AA | SA HIGH 80M | Thank you for CQ WW ! |
| OH0V | SA HIGH ALL | Thank you for the CQ WW ! |