CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| K3ZJ/8 | SO HIGH 20M | The 20 meter reflector fell off the C31XR tribander the day before the contest. But the remaining director & driven element seemed to be useable as a 2-element beam with the short 13.6 foot (4.14 meter) spacing. Given the predicted poor propagation, I decided on 20 meter SOSB notwithstanding the impaired antenna. Most QSOs were S&P because I never was able to run despite multiple tries. All weekend I had trouble even working EU. But there were a couple of notable hours during which I felt that the antenna worked miracles. Early Sunday morning, during an hour or two of Pacific propagation, I worked multiple VK/ZL as well as rarer VP6AH, A31MM, T32AZ, VK6NZ for zone 29, and FR4NT long path for zone 39. Then, near the end of the contest, UP2L in zone 17 broke through VERY late at 2230 and an hour later B7K in zone 24 answered my first call through a deep pileup. The final score is less than half the score I made two decades ago when I last operated 20 meters single band in this contest. But it always is a pleasure to get on the air and greet friends and acquaintances old and new, no matter the score |
| K4ELI | MULTI-ONE LOW | Silver Comet Amateur Radio Society has been submitted to the club list |
| K4KAY | SO HIGH ALL | Fun contest, band conditions excellent on all five bands |
| K4SXT | SO LOW ALL | Condx were awful -never heard zones 16,17,18,19 or 25 |
| K4VBM | SO LOW ALL | Thanks a lot for the fun. Enjoyed my second CQ WW DX contest even if only for Friday evening! |
| K4VUQ | SO LOW 20M | 42339 |
| K4WBF | SO LOW 40M | First contest for me. Enjoyed operating in a contest. Rig ICOM IC-7100 Antenna Chameleon Ecomm II 60' at 18' ALT Many thanks to all who answered and 73's |
| K4WLG | SO LOW ALL | 42070 |
| K4XL | SO LOW 10M | Because of lots of other things going on, including packing for a vacation trip to the Yucatan, I decided to limit my participation to 10 mx only. That turned into a PY fest! Lots of my Qs were with Brazil. (Muito obrigado!) I did work a few Africans and a few Spanish and Portuguese station in Zone 14, but never really had an opening to Europe...let along Asia. All in all, a fun contest in which I got to practice my rudimentary Brazilian Portuguese! |
| K5BIO | SO LOW ALL | Rookie Date of First License |
| K5ELF | SO LOW ALL | 41590 |
| K5LRW/5 | MULTI-ONE LOW | We all had a great time. even got some of the new hams on HF for the first time. what a way to cut your teeth on HF! |
| K5OA/6 | SA HIGH ALL | Prop poor but fun anyway new SPE amp flawless |
| K5RX | SO LOW 40M | Conditions were so bad I thought I was running 5 Watts instead of 100 |
| K5XU | SO LOW ALL | Friday night was Awful, Saturday and Sunday were a little better |
| K6BY/4 | SO LOW ALL | First time to enter! |
| K6LRG | SA HIGH 15M | conditions marginal but fun to work my friends all over the world! |
| K6MBD | SO LOW 40M | 42357 |
| K6RAH/5 | SA HIGH ALL | Poor propagation was disappointing |
| K6RIG | SA LOW ALL | Licenced Feb 3 2014 |
| K7ABV | SO HIGH ALL | that was tuff...no Europe all weekend...bands were ugly |
| K7BIK | Checklog | LOGGING SO KV0Q GETS THE MULTIPLIER CREDIT |
| K7ELC | SO LOW ALL | 42452 |
| K7JAN | MULTI-ONE LOW | Conditions were sooo bad !! |
| K7MLN | SA LOW ALL | 42420 |
| K7RI | MULTI-ONE | Thanks to everyone who worked or tried to work us |
| K7XC | SA HIGH ALL | Great to work all the old friends again! Moderate to good conditions at the start but little from the North all weekend. Low bands were fun Fri Night till dawn. High bands were moderate to good but near sundown the bands began to degrade until the end. Worked hard to put up a brand new to me AB577 mast a friend gave me up in time to host the full size 3ele 20M mono-bander at 43 feet. took 2 weeks to get tuned but well worth the effort. Spent 4 days fabricating a new the rotor plate design and installing it on the tower trailer. Once done it was able to hold the 3ele 15M and 4ele 10M Mono-banders @ 25 / 30 feet. Installed the 80M/40M combo Inverted Vee at 39' with it finally resonating correctly just after sunset on the Thursday before. The 25 ft tall 170 ft long 160M Inverted L is now located on its own mast 150 ft from the shack and works OK but needs more work to make it what it could be. No beverages yet but have enough room and wire for two 1000 foot runs, hopefully in time for CW. The recently repaired IC-746 did a good job while driving an AL-80B to 700W or so. Overall it was lots of hard work with the mediocre condition. Most of Sunday was spent being distracted watching the NFL for most of the day, waiting for conditions to improve. Worked some last minute mults for the last 2 hours or so.... Did I say how much work SSB is with 1/2 power from a small station. Bring on CW! See you all in SS CW next month. 73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk Adapt, Overcome, Succeed!!! |
| K9GY | SA LOW ALL | Not enough time to spend in this one |
| K9PG | SA LOW ALL | Are Condx gonna get any worse before they get better? |
| K9SH | SO HIGH 80M | Single Band 80, High Power; Non-Assisted, INDIANA |
| KA7FIR | SO LOW ALL | First time participating in this contest |
| KA8SBI | SO LOW ALL | My First CQWW,Fun, Need better antennas |
| KA8SMA | SO QRP 20M | Ouch! As a QRP'er poor conditions made me work double hard for every contact |
| KA9A/6 | SO LOW ALL | Hard slugging thru the noise |
| KB1RI/4 | SA HIGH ALL | Enjoyed operating this contest after a 24 hiatus from contesting. Brought back great operating memories with my now SK friend KZ1M(Jim Dalterio). I'm sure he was looking over my shoulder during the contest. Looking forward to the next one |
| KB4LHP | SA HIGH ALL | Had a very good time. Thank you for inviting me. This is the very first contest where I worked from beginning to end, well some of the time |
| KC1FTJ | SO LOW 10M | Rookie |
| KC2LST | SO HIGH ALL | There were some odd band conditions for this contest. Some nice openings to Africa and South America on both days and additionally to parts of Europe on Sunday were experienced here on 10M, and 15M was pretty good both days. 20M however was spotty - on Saturday it was quite weak and unproductive, perhaps due to the persistence of good conditions on 15M, but 20 was better on Sunday. I heard a number of European stations on 80M but was unable to work them over continental callers. As always a fun contest but the this year the money band didn't produce as well as it usually does |
| KC3GPM | SO LOW ALL | No comments |
| KC3HEO | SO LOW ALL | licensed 5/19/2016 |
| KC4TEO | SO LOW ALL | Fun to work so many nice people in the contest! |
| KC7STK | SO LOW ALL | Bad conditions throughout contest here |
| KD2GIY | SO LOW 10M | 41759 |
| KD2JBC | SO LOW 20M | My first contest. Thank You! |
| KD2JOE | SA LOW ALL | rookie 1/14/2014 |
| KD2LCH | SO LOW 10M | 42506 |
| KD8ZXM | SO LOW ALL | First Contest, not sure how to score my own log. If there is a problem with the computer scoring my log, Please Call Me At (513)442-4029 |
| KD9GVC | SO LOW ALL | licensed Aug 2016 |
| KD9MS | SO LOW ALL | Horrible conditions for me, no JA and not much EU, but it was great! Lots of VE and SA available to have fun with! |
| KE0ARY | SO LOW ALL | Rookie 30MAY14 |