CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| UX7QD | SO LP 20M | RIG(s): 100W; ANTENNA(s): a sloper |
| UY2UQ | SO LP ALL | Tnx for nice contest. Good luck! |
| UZ1RM | SA QRP 80M | SDR1000 home made 5w InV antenna |
| V73NS | SO LP ALL | Activated on 80m, first time since 2008. First time I had entire weeekend off in years too |
| VA3QV | SO QRP ALL | Flex 1500 Elecraft T1 Tuner Working the world with 5w and a wire |
| VC1E | SA LP ALL | Special Event for the 98th Anniversary of the Halifax Explosion. Info at QRZ.Com under call VE1ZA. QSL Info at EQSL (AG) under VC1E |
| VE2FU | SA HP 80M | Since every pool hardware are off... I run 80M SOSB before Christmas lights switches on ! |
| VE2GHI | SO LP ALL | I just came from an airplane trip. No time to sleep... So i was so tired i could not keep the beat. Propagation seem good the station work ok. Some qso make me real happy.... Alaska, Algeria .... I think i break the barrier of 200 countries. I will check that in my LOTW files. See you on next contest 73 de Jean (VE2GHI) |
| VE3DXK | SO LP ALL | Licenced since Aug-2014 |
| VE3KI | SO QRP ALL | There seem to be a lot of people who are ashamed of their call signs and don't want to let anyone else know who they are |
| VE3KQN | SO QRP ALL | This contest is generally brutal for QRP but this year, for me, was exceptionally tough. I was using an indoor magnetic loop antenna, 28 inches in diameter beside me on a camera tripod. Thanks to all who pulled my meager signal out of the noise. Pet peeve: the operators who don't wait for my exchange to be sent... did you receive my info? Did I get logged by you? |
| VE3OM | SO LP ALL | Great contest - as usual! |
| VE3PN | SO HP 40M | Tried another band,Two dipoles E/W & N/S installed Thursday |
| VE3THX | SA LP 15M | Canadian callsign of W2IRT, operating on vacation |
| VE3VEE | SA HP 20M | Rotator failed few hours into the contest so I had to stop :-( |
| VE3VN | SO QRP ALL | Well, that was an interesting weekend of QRP torture. Many things went well and many things went badly. Significant score reduction from 2014 due to very little Europe on 10, and a shorter and narrower opening that way on 15. The best improvement was due to slightly better antennas on 40 and 80. It's only a few db but with QRP every decibel is worth gold. Perhaps my biggest mistake was on 10 meters which I ignored too often because it couldn't deliver the Q's. I missed many mults on that band. I'm very unstructured in my approach to single-op contesting, keeping only a few notes on broad strategy in mind. I just tend to go with what works in the moment. For example, since there were north Europe and Russian stations coming through over the pole during their night I made a note to check 20 at intervals during the night. I scored a few nice mults that way. I still missed a couple that were S9 but could not hear me. I made a special effort to bulk up on Q's this outing rather than go too crazy chasing mults, with their pile-ups that I can rarely bust. Throughout the day I unavoidably had to take many short breaks, even during hot band conditions. But I should be back to 100% within a couple of weeks. I went very casual in SS Phone last weekend when I was in still in poor shape. Biggest panic was connecting the new WinKeyer to the KX3 a few hours before the contest. I had made a mental note to buy or build a keying cable for it, but forgot since it's not the rig I normally use. Fighting the Canadian "faux" version of Black Friday in late afternoon wasn't fun. Shack - KX3 (5 watts), N1MM+, WinKeyer 160 (see 80, but with high and uncorrected SWR) 80 - tower vertical with short radials 40 - inverted vees @14m E-W and N-S 20, 15, 10 - Explorer 14 @15m, and the inverted vees Thank you to the many operators who often went to unreasonable effort to dig me out of the noise to put me in their logs |
| VE3XD | SA LP ALL | 25 watts into attic dipoles for 40, 20 and 15m |
| VE5SDH | SO LP ALL | LICENSE DATE JULY 2 2013 i'm a blind Ham and haven't got a logging program so hope this is ok i'm not sure what my claimed score is, if i manage to earn an award or certificate that'd be neat and surprising |
| VE6WQ | SA HP 40M | Operating from VE6JY |
| VE7BGP | SO LP ALL | I had a lot of fun operating in this contest with my newer FT-897D & venerable old IC-751A. As usual I had limited time for this contest. It was a cold weekend I had to keep the woodstove stoked up with wood. 73 Gerry |
| VE7BQO | SO QRP ALL | I enjoyed the contest very much |
| VE7VR | SO HP ALL | Operated from Parksville, BC on the beach. The SteppIR BigIR vertical worked amazingly well over salt water...and the view was also awesome. :) |
| VE9CB | SO HP ALL | My biggest thrill was being called by JR1IJV on 80m. Conditions were great on all bands except 10m |
| VK2BJ | SO HP ALL | Great condx on 80 overnight Saturday and good on 10 on Sunday. Really enjoyed the contest |
| VK2BPL | SO LP 40M | Actual TX Power: 100W |
| VK2IA | SO HP 15M | First contest from new country QTH - FD style |
| VK3FM | SO LP ALL | Another fine contest, although 100 watts into a Hustler 6-BTV can be tough going from VK3. Heard lots - worked a few! |
| VK3MEG | SA LP ALL | Lots learnt from this one ready for next year. thx for great contest |
| VK3MI | SO LP 80M | Only had time for a few hours in the contest. Used a Flex-3000 with a vertical antenna for 80M and dipoles on the higher bands |
| VK4AFU | SO LP 10M | 65 W, WITHOUT AMPLIFIER SO QUIET INTERESTING. Thanks,73. Daniel |
| VK4EJ | SO LP ALL | Great conditions, with plenty of activity, electrical storms made it even more exciting |
| VK4TT | SO LP ALL | G'day to other ops. |
| VK5LJ | SO LP ALL | Actual TX Power 100W |
| VK6HG | SO LP ALL | Will sleep well after a 3am start |
| VK6SMK | SA HP 20M | Great conditions on my vertical. Thank you for another great contest guys. 73 |
| VK7BO | SO HP ALL | Great contest, 10m open for long periods, 80m thru to 10m worked |
| VO1BQ | SO HP ALL | Great Condx...lots of fun. 73 Joe |
| VU2CVS | SO HP 10M | I used Kenwood TS-480HX, 200W, with G5RV and Moxon(10M). Conditions are not good, especially on the Higher Bands. C U AGN. 73! |
| VU2LBW | Checklog | I planned to do a SOSB 80M High. But, due to a long power cut, i lost a lot of time. Wound up making a few qso's on different bands in the time available. Will be better prepared next year! |
| VU2MUD | SA HP 15M | RIG: FT2000D; ANTENNA: G5RV - 40M & HEX BEM 20-10M; POWER 150W. A WEEKEND FULLY LOADED WITH OUTSIDE THE QTH QRL WAS A DAMPNER ON MY CONTEST PLANS. BUT MADE IT GOOD ON THE SUNDAY 1115Z-1330Z RUN NETTING CLOSE TO 200 ON 15M. SO A CHECK LOG GOT CONVERTED TO SOA 15M !! WHAT A CONTEST!!! |
| VU2PAI | SO HP ALL | Murphuy called again in the form of visitors during the contest and the added frustration of not being able to tune the 160 meter antenna.but still a lot of fun and really enjoyed the contest. see you all in the contests ahead! 73 de pai,vu2pai |
| VU2PTT | SO HP 40M | TS-590SG + 400 Watts from AL-80B to 2-el Phased Vertical Array Had a blast doing a single band after a long time. Spent some time building this antenna and it worked! Thanks to all for the great QSOs - we await CQWW each year for the big year end radio party! Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty 7 852 2277 33 109 Total 852 2277 33 109 73 de Prasad VU2PTT |
| VU3KPL | SO LP ALL | Thanks to all who made this contest a great joy! |
| VY2LI | SO LP ALL | Small BIC time = small score. 73,Bill |
| W0EB | SO LP ALL | Lots of fun keeping rig from faulting all my antennas were ice covered due to a big South Central Kansas ice storm that started Thursday and has continued through the entire weekend. Fortunately the antennas stayed up but was unable to use 80 or 160 meters at all. The K3 heard well even with the ice but the loading coil/trap on the DX -LB dipole was shorted by the ice. Fortunately the A3S tribander was a little more forgiving and it loaded but I did have to keep retuning more than normal |
| W0JM | SA LP ALL | Limited time for contest but was able to operate in Park Rapids remotely. Band condx were not as favorable as last year |
| W0RAA | SA LP ALL | Great band conditions. Only in for a little under 6 hours and S&P only. Worked a couple DX stations via LP which was kind of surprising. Saw a few VK & ZL stations spotted, but didn't have a lot of success hearing them. As usual it was a fun contest |
| W0VB | SA HP ALL | Hi All, I only had a little over three hours to try out this unusual implementation. I made a few hours of contacts on 160 thru 10 meters at the start of the contest. This station was set-up to run as SO4R with WriteLog..... I have never even run a SO2R, this was an exciting endeavor. The set-up: - FlexRadio 6700 - four (4) panadapters with one slice on each panadapter - SDRBridge to control the receivers and CW Skimmers - four (4) CW Skimmers feeding the BandMaps for each of the four bands - one (1) THP 1.5K amp - N4PY Pegasus Control program to automatically switch the the following equipment (as determined by which "Slice had the XMIT flag set on")*** connect the correct coax cable to the amp put the THP 1.5K amp on the correct band select the SteppIR Vertical for 80 and 40 meters and tune it to the correct frequency - Antennas 160 meter inverted V 80 & 40 SteppIR Vertical 20, 15, & 10 Triband beam *** N4PY, and I, believe this is "The First Time" that legacy software applications could follow the slice selected in SmartSDR .... many legacy applications only log, or use, the slice A information for frequency, mode, etc regardless of where the XMIT indicator is set note - the model 6700 can have 8 panadapters (each with a slice receiver) active at one time. SO8R anyone? Observations 1. I had all the CW Skimmers running simultaneously - feeding four respective band maps - band maps showed "Only the stations being heard by me", no VE7CC cluster data was fed into the band maps... meaning you could work every one of the stations spotted because your station actually heard them . I thought this would be a big plus, realized soon into the contest that when I clicked on rare calls... many times that station had already moved on (they were in S&P mode) 2. by looking at each of the skimmer displays I discovered that I could set them to show "CQ W0AIH" in the vertical list and realized it identified the stations that would be there when I clicked on them, and it... did every time. 3. seeing four (4) skimmers (four bands) picking out the CQs was very enjoyable and productive 4. while four bands were actively sorting through the CW signals, the operator (me) is only hearing one receiver... the receiver selected as "active" 5. it felt like one radio running but four active skimmers collecting ALL the active spots, not very stressful at all. 6. It took me about two weeks to get this station operational..... including the changes made by N4PY to his Pegasus Plus application... but I'm excited to examine what did work, and what future "tweaks" will do to improve even more of the capability..... go MWA! Terry, W0vb |
| W1END | SO LP 10M | Rig was FTdx5000 (100w) and Butternut HF6V all-band vertical. Ten meters is a great band |
| W1ES/4 | SA LP 10M | Casual 10m only effort this year |