CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| K1IX | SO LOW ALL | Approx 6H on & off Sat only S&P only |
| K1JHS/5 | SO LOW ALL | 10 meters was really rocking! |
| K1MC | SO LOW ALL | Had a lot of fun operating in a phone contest after 44 years of operating only CW. It was nice to have the 20 m, 15 m, and 10 m bands open on both days of the contest. The big learning step was determining how strong a station had to be on receive before he could hear my dipole and 100 W output power SSB signal |
| K1NOK/0 | SO HIGH ALL | First contest. |
| K1WCC | SO LOW ALL | Icom 7200 with wire and vertical antennas |
| K2GMY/6 | SO QRP 15M | 4 watts into a ground-mounted vertical |
| K2MFY | SA LOW 10M | Fantastic condx on 10 meters! Just like what to expect at the sunspot peak. Wall to wall DX from 28.3 to 29.3 MHz |
| K2NPN | SO LOW ALL | Enjoyed the contest. I look forward to next year |
| K2PS/4 | SO LOW ALL | Just a few hours spent trying to throw in my puny-weak callsign. |
| K3BZ | SA HIGH ALL | 10M was exceptional, especially to Asia. Need more time in the chair |
| K3CCR | MULTI-TWO | K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care retirement community in MD at FM18OW. In July we put up an 85-ft. tower on a hill, with a Skyhawk beam. We have two contest-quality high-power operating positions. We did a few state QSO parties with the new antenna, but CQ WW SSB is our first big international contest with it. We are pleased with the results, and hope to do even better in future tests. For details see the K3CCR bio page on QRZ.com |
| K3DCW | SO LOW ALL | Limited time to operate |
| K3EST/6 | SA HIGH 15M | Thanks to Ken, N6RO for the use of his great station! Almost no runs to Europe... almost all were S&P! On Sunday one European run lasted 45 mins. First time in 56 years missed zone 35! Friday night was a blast! Worked ~ 1/3 of all my contacts in the entire contest in the first 5 hours! Can't compete with stations in the Northwest...they can work Europe very well |
| K3STL | SO LOW ALL | 10 meters was amazing during this contest! |
| K3UHU | SO LOW 10M | Fun spending 45 min unsuccessful contact KH2L |
| K3VPZ | SO HIGH 80M | First SSB contest really enjoyed working all stations! |
| K4DMH | SA LOW ALL | Superb band conditions this year !!! Very disappointed the very high number of very low quality signals on the bands that caused severe interference with all stations within + or - 15 to 40KHz of their frequency. Many over modulated and badly distorted signals on all bands |
| K4IKM/3 | SA HIGH ALL | What a great event! My personal best this year! Thanks to all the DX who operated and made the even special! 73 to all! Steve...K4IKM...Go FRC! |
| K4KAY | SO HIGH ALL | excellent band conditions, had fun, not enough time to operate |
| K4TOJ | SO LOW ALL | Great Contest! Conditions on the bands were very good. Used a TS-590S with Carolina Windom compact 80 at 10M. Thanks to all who returned my call! |
| K5EWJ | SO HIGH ALL | My SteppIR is on the ground for repairs after a lightning strike last summer. I operated the contest with wire antennas, my Elecraft K3 and my SPE Expert 1k-FA Amp which gave me about 1 KW. My wire antennas were Inverted Vees on a 44 ft. pole with an Alpha Delta 80-40 with a 75 meter element. I used the tuner in the Expert 1k to operate all bands. I also have an inverted L which I used for 160 and 75 |
| K5MXG | SA HIGH ALL | Date first licensed 08-31-2012 |
| K5RX | SO HIGH 80M | European signals seemed at least 10 dB below normal most of the time. I was hearing well but it was as if my amp were off. One of the very few highlights was a surprisingly nice little run of 27 JA's the first morning. The only other highlight was being called by three mults very late in the opening the second night - GW3XHG, GI3OQR and CU7MD. Two zones heard, but unheard in, were 20 and 24 |
| K5WL | SA HIGH ALL | First licensed in 2012 |
| K5ZD/1 | SA HIGH ALL | Great conditions on the high bands! |
| K6CSL | SO LOW ALL | What a battle with the solar flares |
| K6JEB | SA HIGH ALL | Had to run my FT-857D into an AL-811H for 400 watts into a Yagi/vertical/wire. Still having an issue with the amp relay (and I've tried everything but replacing the relay). S-9+ noise levels during the day on 20m and 15 while 10m was productive with stations shoulder-to shoulder well past 29.0 MHz. See you CQWW CW Weekend! |
| K6RAH/5 | SO LOW ALL | Good conditions on 10 & 15 Meters! |
| K6ST | SA HIGH ALL | After the solar flare black out of most HF bands on Saturday 10m was good and then all the band came back very strong with better than average conditions. Excellent DX!!! |
| K6TU | SO HIGH 10M | FlexRadio 6700 with Alpha 9500 SteppIR DB18E at 50' FlexControl & K6TU Control iPad app for radio control |
| K6UN | SO LOW ALL | Licensed 02/15/2013 |
| K7ABV | SO HIGH ALL | I had 45 minutes to work the contest at the very end, I just got home from a long trip to Seattle...my shortest contest ever!! Thanks for the very few QSOs...was fun |
| K7ACZ | SO LOW ALL | AS and OC did not come alive until Sunday afternoon. Many southern Eu stations worked but not many northern Eu. I could hear some dx on 160 and 80 but they could not hear me answering them |
| K7DD | SO HIGH ALL | Murphy lives at my house. It was fun |
| K7JA/6 | SA HIGH 10M | I just intended to get on Friday and work some mults but had too much fun. Neglected the fact that Low Power is 100 Watts not 150 so this barefoot entry is "High Power." No deep polar prop to Zones 17/22 |
| K7JAN | MULTI-ONE LOW | Very fun with very odd conditions at times!! |
| K7JKM | SO LOW ALL | until next year 73 |
| K7VS | SO HIGH 15M | 15 meters wide open both days to west coast. Great time, great contest! |
| K8GL | SO HIGH ALL | A great time! I did not once get mad at anyone for not signing enough. A sign of age? Still using a single ground mounted vert on 10 and 15. I need my towers to go up! |
| K8SHB | SO LOW ALL | 41662 |
| K8TS | SA LOW ALL | s-9 noise for first few hours--yuck! |
| K9DRS | SO LOW 10M | First CQWW |
| K9GY | SA LOW 15M | SSB is not my favorite mode but I handed out some QSOs |
| K9JU | SO LOW ALL | Nice to encounter very good conditions on 10M and 15M |
| K9WN/0 | SO HIGH ALL | Just giving out some Q's |
| KA3YNV | SO HIGH ALL | Been a Ham for 20 years and this was my first contest ever...will not be my last. Had a great time! |
| KA4SFD | SA HIGH ALL | FIRST LICENESED 09/2013 |
| KB0ARZ | SO LOW ALL | What a great contest! It's been 2 years sence the last time I entered. TKS CQ Mag |
| KB3AC | SO LOW ALL | First licensed August 24, 2012 |
| KB3YQK | SA LOW ALL | Rookie: Licence issued on 27 April, 2012 |