CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| IP8T | SA HIGH 40M | just a fishing rod + TS-590SG + QRO... noise S9+10 (to investigate) a lot of fun |
| IP9C | SO HIGH 40M | My first experience on 40m as a single operator was amazing. Thanks to all the friends who called me. See you on wpx |
| IQ0ID | MULTI-ONE HIGH | Operated from San Pietro Island, Sardinia (IM0-IS0). Valid for IOTA ref EU-165 |
| IQ0JL | MULTI-ONE HIGH | Operated from Sardinia (IS0) using callsign IQ0JL. Please count this as Sardinia for DXCC/multiplier purposes |
| IQ6JU | MULTI-TWO | After last year?s adventure as a Multi-Single, this time we decided to jump into the Multi-Two category ? with just two radios and three operators. Not exactly the most balanced setup from a strategic point of view... but you know, we hams are a bit crazy sometimes (ahahahah)! Station setup: Radio 1: Elecraft K3 + 5B4AGN filters + OM Power amp. Antennas: Tower #1 (14 m) with a quad-band Yagi (2 el. 40 m, 3 el. 20/15 m, 4 el. 10 m), an L-shaped loaded vertical for 80/160 m, and a loaded rotatable dipole for 80 m. Radio 2: Elecraft K3 + 5B4AGN filters + OM Power amp. Antennas: Tower #2 (18 m) with a quad-band Yagi (3 el. 40 m, 4 el. 20/15 m, 6 el. 10 m), a wire delta loop for 80 m, and a dipole for 160 m. Of course, no serious contest effort would be complete without the essentials: a fully equipped kitchen for arrosticini abruzzesi (Originally known as rustell', rustelle or arrustelle, arrosticini are made of cubes of meat, about one centimetre thick on each side, that are threaded onto a wooden skewer, called li cippe or li cippitill, up to 20 centimetres long), homemade pasta, and a comfortable sofa for SOAPBOX: strategic naps! Propagation was far from great on Saturday ? 20 m was closed during the first night ? and we mostly focused on running instead of S&P, which turned out to be fun but not the most efficient choice. The final score ended up a bit lower than last year?s Multi-Single effort, where one of the stations was dedicated exclusively to multiplier hunting. Still, fun was guaranteed: arrosticini on Saturday night, fresh pasta with mushrooms and sausage for Sunday lunch, and plenty of laughs on the air. As for next year? who knows what category we?ll choose? One thing?s certain: L?Aquila, surrounded by mountains, will never compete with Madeira or the Canary Islands for location advantage (ahahahah)! See you all in the next one ? most likely as a Single Op in late November! 73 de Francesco IK6QON for the IQ6JU Team |
| IQ8AAC | MULTI-ONE LOW | This contest is always exciting and fun, and this year we participated for the first time with the NAPOLI RADIO CLUB Team. See you at the next contest... 73 de IQ8AAC |
| IR3Z | SA HIGH 10M | We want to dedicate this contest in the memory of our dear friend Vigilio IN3FSR recently passed away. Thanks for the friendship and the help at 'the node' contest station. 73s!! |
| IS0AGY | SO QRP 10M | Quet'nno mi sono dedicato sui 10 metri, una fatica, ma soddisfato del risultato |
| IS0GOI | SA LOW ALL | Is0goi |
| IS0KPN | SA LOW ALL | First license 01/2025 |
| IT9/DK6XZ | SO HIGH ALL | A Berlin Hotel-Room Remote Operation of IT9RGY’s Station in Palermo It was a real pleasure to take part in this event — many thanks to everyone involved for the fun time! Special shoutout to Gabry, IT9RGY: for a successful remote operation you need a good friend and a solid PC setup. It so happened that I had to stay in Berlin during the contest weekend - I did then the best out of it. Everything worked out nicely. Thanks to Win, DK9IP, I received a foot switch a few days before the contest, and with online support from Goran, S55OO and Gabry, even the voice keyer was finally working just 30 minutes before the contest started. Operating Goal: The plan was to seriously run the Classics 24 hours and verify the performance of the SO1R “Compact Contest Station” consisting of: - FlexRadio 6400 - Automatic PA - SpiderBeam (wire tribander / rotary dipole for 40) @40 m AGL - 80/160m dipole @40 m AGL It was also a good warm-up for the Highlight in November. Checking propagation conditions at the second peak of solar cycle was for me of great importance, since missing the bands for nearly 10 years. Operating Conditions Propagation toward NA was for me poor on Saturday — my first US contacts on 20m was well in the night of Saturday. Nihlil on 10/15 - just heard some. First on Sunday high bands opened to W/VE solid, but not so strong as last year. I asume the antenna at the location was too high for the given props. 40 was as usual (extremely) noisy and crowded. On 80 even the M/M beakons were not to be heard. Top-band was out of use on phone because of standard local noise. All in all Sunday was noticeably better, though high rates never really came (max 133 Q/h). Search & Pounce turned out to be highly inefficient due to the need to switch back and forth between waterfall and logger, so I spent most of the time running, only filling the bandmap during short breaks and jumping here and there in 'slow' hours. Result After ~26 hours total time: 2,067 QSOs / 320 DXCC / 102 Zones — approx. 1.28 Mio. points Band Statistics Band EU NA AS Notes 10m 58.0% 19.2% 14% only 2nd day shortly good to NA, obviously AS better 15m 63.9% 25.5% — only 2nd day solid to NA 20m 83.4% 6.9% — Productive for EU 40m 84.6% 9.4% — Very noisy 80m 94.3% — — — No DX 160m — — — — Only local eQRM Observations FlexRadio & Co. are excellent for Assisted categories, but not ideal for Classic (except one uses the Maestro console). For true WRTC-level S&P skills and the only way a real Unassisted works, just take a look at the log of DJ5MW — sincere congratulations to Manfred for the top EU performance! We all enjoyed the battles on the online scoreboards — great respect to Braco, E77DX @ EF8R for an extreme performance in station recovering, plus 48-hours-thrill. Both EF8R and the US/EU team at CQ9A, chapeau for breaking world records in their respective categories. Congrats for a few more records and amazing scores of my friends. Looking forward to working you in the CW leg — 2BSIQ @ LX7I! 73, Suad DK6XZ |
| IT9IHB | SA LOW 10M | 73 |
| IT9IWD | SO LOW ALL | great contest. I have enjoyed my qso. 73! |
| IT9JGX | SO QRP ALL | First license 11-2007 |
| IT9JVF | SA HIGH ALL | First license 01-2024 First license date 09/01/2024 |
| IT9JXR | SO LOW ALL | First license 12-2023 date first licensed 28 DECEMBER 2023 |
| IT9JYI | SA LOW 40M | Operator age 18 I try my station, i finished the contest whit IB9T |
| IT9KHI | CHECKLOG | First license 07-2024 |
| IT9KTF | SA LOW ALL | CQwwSSB |
| IT9OPR | SA LOW ALL | I worked the contest only on (10-15-20M) with my dismatched 2 ele statik yagi.Lovely propagation on 15M,but too difficult to find free QRG on 20m.I say many thanks to all stations that I met during the contest.Hoping better next year.73's |
| IT9PHU | SO HIGH ALL | 73 |
| IU0DUM | SO LOW 20M | SOSB low power |
| IU0SAR | SO LOW ALL | First license 10-2023 |
| IU0TOK | SA LOW ALL | my first CQWW - THANKS ALL FOR THE QSOs |
| IU1MRG | SA LOW ALL | Italian Contest Club |
| IU1QXL | SO LOW ALL | First license 092023 CQWW 2025 |
| IU1QYV | SO HIGH ALL | First license 11/07/2023 |
| IU1QZW | SO HIGH 10M | First license 09-2023 |
| IU1RUB | SO LOW ALL | First license 09-2023 |
| IU1RZX | SO LOW ALL | First license 10-2023 contest ww 2025 iu1rzx |
| IU1SBS | SA HIGH 20M | First license 12-2023 |
| IU1TEU | SA LOW ALL | First license 12-2024 |
| IU1TKJ | SA LOW ALL | First license 08-2024 LICENSE DATE : 20/08/2024 |
| IU1TKT | SO LOW ALL | First license 09-2024 |
| IU1TLD | SA LOW ALL | First license 09/2024 CQ-WW-SSB S.O. Low assisted Rookie |
| IU1TRI | SA LOW ALL | First license 12-2024 |
| IU1VDE | SO LOW ALL | First license 09-2025 |
| IU1VDW | SA LOW ALL | First license 09-2025 |
| IU2BHI | CHECKLOG | Licensed on Dec 1, 2013 |
| IU2QBG | SO LOW ALL | iu2qbg |
| IU2SKI | SO LOW ALL | First license 12-2023 |
| IU2SMA | SA HIGH ALL | First license 12-2023 |
| IU2UDF | SA LOW ALL | First license 01-2025 |
| IU2UEQ | SA HIGH ALL | First license 01-2025 |
| IU3RIC | SO LOW ALL | First license 12-2022 CQ-WW-SSB.DE IU3RIC |
| IU3RLY | SO LOW ALL | First license 01-2023 |
| IU3UKU | SO LOW ALL | First license 02-2025 |
| IU4DFR | SO LOW ALL | First license 11-2022 |
| IU4JNR | CHECKLOG | Not competing- Checklog |
| IU4KET | SO LOW ALL | Good propagation |