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Call	Category	Comments
W9NAN	SO LOW ALL	First license 01-2022 Rookie, barefoot, no assistance
W9POG	SO LOW ALL	First license 10-2022 ROOKIE
W9RE	SO HIGH ALL	Big change in conditions from Saturday to Sunday. Always a blast no matter what conditions are. Thanks to all for making this contest great
W9TCV	SO LOW ALL	What a fun time - 10M was wide open and both 15 and 20 were great as well. If only I had more op time...but there were many breaks and interruptions this year. Still happy with a new personal record and look forward to trying to better it again next year. Thanks to all who participated - there were SO MANY signals on the bands! 73, W9TCV
W9XY	SA HIGH ALL	First major contest effort after retiring. Got the DXCC Triple Play in just under 28 hours on 10, 15, & 20M. Set up N1MM to do real time scoring, that was fun to watch. Almost all Q's were S&P. I'm still more of a DX'er than a contester, but cracking 2 mil points made it a fun weekend!
WA1BR	SO LOW ALL	Bands were great!
WA2CLP	SO QRP ALL	I thoroughly enjoyed operating this contest. The guys in my club told me to get a signal and I had one, this time, running 5 watts from my Yaesu FT-818ND
WA2CNV	SO LOW ALL	Great Band Conditions!!
WA4ARB	SO LOW ALL	First license 06-2023 ROOKIE
WA5JMZ	SO LOW ALL	Great contest, 10 meters wide open!!
WA6GD	SO HIGH ALL	Great contest broke my record from last year
WA6KHK	SA HIGH ALL	Lots of good activity. Even 10 meters opened up. Firsr DX contest with 6BA-JK antenna up 80 feet
WA6URY	SO HIGH ALL	Operated remote from Tokyo, Japan
WA7RJ	SA LOW ALL	FUN!!!
WA8Y	SA HIGH ALL	My 5 Band 2 element Quad broke As I turned the rotator to the the SE the signals cut out. This condx worsened to the point I could not turn the antenna beyond due North I worked T2C on 9 bands and his acknowledgement on 40m SSB was another slot
WA9LKZ	SO LOW ALL	QSO 2023-10-29 USING RADIO SHACK HT-100 AND MFJ-962D
WB4SQ	SO LOW ALL	FT2000 2 el quad @ 35 ft
WB5SKM	Disqualified	First license 04-2023 License Issued 4-22-2023
WB6JJJ	SO HIGH ALL	Fun contest. I was able to play radio off and on this weekend... Family and friends stuff. Gads, 10 Meters was crowded clear up past 28.725 Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the QSOs, sorry for the one Duplicate. My error. Bill
WB7AKE	Checklog	Check log only - no entry
WB7NAM	SO LOW ALL	My first CQ contest so as meager as it is, it's my person best
WB7QMR	SO LOW ALL	Flex6300 or Hermes Lite 2, Hamstick or mad dog coil ant
WB8SMC	SO LOW ALL	First ciontest operation in years for the FAROUT ARC
WB8TLI	SA LOW ALL	First contest that I participated in (in a serious manner) in approximately 10 years
WB8WUA	SO HIGH ALL	I had fun here on my first WW CQ Internation event (PH). I am looking forward to participatE on the CW November International event. Thanks for this good contest, 73
WD4KTF	SO LOW ALL	Made my most contacts ever. Had a coax ground issue towards the end of the contest but was able to fix it and finish the contest
WE4AUB	SA HIGH ALL	Rookie: First licensed 8/14/2021
WE6EZ	SO LOW ALL	Excellent conditions on all bands. Was fun!
WF9N	SO LOW ALL	Operator age 22
WH6FAM/W3	SA LOW ALL	Large Loop Antenna on a sailboat in the Chesapeake
WH6GWS	SO LOW ALL	Operator age 17 2006
WJ2D	SA HIGH ALL	Fantastic band condx here in Western NC. Really hard to find a place to park and run so S&P was all I could muster
WK1O	Checklog	This submission is for check log only. I mixed up the contest rules and did self-spotting
WK9M	SA HIGH ALL	I don't do much SSB contesting so did this as a casual contest to get some DX from home that I normally wouldn't. Thanks for the contacts. (Mostly S&P this time, with some calling to test the amp at full power after repairs.) Hope to contact you again in the future 73!
WM2Y	SA LOW ALL	WATTS and a 80-10 wire end fed antenna. Fun Fun
WO2X	SA HIGH ALL	Due to health was limited in operating hours. Missed a portion on Saturday morning due to back spasms. Good to hear the upper bands alive and all the familiar calls. Thanks to all for the Q's
WO7T	SA QRP 10M	Love that 10M has recovered, and suitable for QRP operations once again. Thanks for all the contacts
WP3GW	SO LOW ALL	Ten Meters was the surprise of the weekend!
WP4WW	SA LOW 15M	It was a nice run
WQ6X	SA LOW ALL	This is another WQ6X CQ-WW random-dabble operation to test-run new equipment configurations, not to win anything. I was just screwing around this weekend as I play around with station changes. With so many things going on all weekend, the first QSO didn't happen until 02:50z on Sunday. The FT-2000 ran flawlessly into a 10-meter Long John yagi, which tuned AWEsomely on 15-meters as a rotatable dipole. For 20 & 40 the usual 8JK Cobra dipole configuration limped along. The solar storms this weekend sprayed noise all over the bands killing things Saturday evening, so I made it to a 75-meter round table sked at 05:30z and then signed off. Conditions were only marginally better on Sunday. As I write this: SFI-135 (up from 122) - A-28 - K-4 Read more about this at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com
WU7W	SO HIGH ALL	QRZ is not identifying you call sign. CQ and a call sign is an invitation for a running station. After trying to make a call then use QRZ to get a specific station to call again. I left 50 running stations because I refuse to play their game of QRZ with no call sign. How can you get their call if all they say is QRZ for 5 minutes?
WX2P	SO QRP ALL	THANK YOU TO ALL THE GREAT OPERATORS I HAD QSOS WITH AND THE ORGANIZATION FOR ITS WORK AND SUPPORT
WY6Y	SO LOW ALL	First license 06/2022
XE1MSK	SO LOW 10M	First license 04-2023
XE1QTZ	SA LOW 15M	First license 07-2023 2023-07-11
XE2B	SA HIGH 10M	Catastrophic failure of my beam's ASL-2010 insulated supports after 20 years of use, it lead me to an early retirement :(
XE2DL	SO LOW 15M	Operator age 19 Date of Birth 2004
XE2N	SO LOW 10M	Sharing this contest with my daughter your first experience -)
XQ1KK	SA HIGH 20M	LU Contest Group
YB0ULI	SO HIGH ALL	SEE NEXT CONTEST'23

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