CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| K3K | SO HIGH 40M | 'K3K celebrated 2025 National Feral Cats Day.' |
| K3SNO | SA LOW ALL | First license 11/2023 |
| K3TW | SA QRP 15M | 'Band conditions are much improved now!' |
| K4IE | SO HIGH ALL | Really good band conditions. Had fun |
| K4ISU | SA LOW ALL | First license 12-2024 |
| K4ITA | SA LOW ALL | Love this contest ! Great Job !! |
| K4JPD | SO HIGH 40M | Fun contest. tried out new 7760 radio and small solid state amp |
| K4OJW | SO HIGH ALL | First license 02062024 |
| K4PZZ | SA HIGH ALL | Wow, what a great weekend! Last-minute erection of the tribander happened Friday afternoon which greatly aided with 20/15/10. The SB-220 was completed Thursday night but unfortunately has no output, so I have more digging to do into that. The SB-200 held up throughout, pumping out enough wattage to make a difference it would seem. For somebody that has had mostly fixed-direction or omni antennas most of their life, putting a little 3-el tribander up at 40' is night and day before this contest, I had 11 JA's in the log. I worked 39 JA's in this contest... and there could have been more, but I started hunting mults towards the end of the contest as the bands were opening to JA/VK/ZL. Planned on doing a semi-serious effort and wanted to put in some run time with SO2V S&P on the side, but couldn't get the audio worked out before the contest started, so except for a brief 15 minutes or so calling CQ on 15m, it was all S&P. Worked 37 zones, 137 DXCC. Once confirmation is received, I'll have WAZ finally (missing 26 and 34 before the contest). 12 ATNO DXCC's, and 56 band slots. Was hoping for a 'slight improvement' over last year and I think I accomplished that and then some! FT-2000, SB-200, TA-33 @ 40ft for 10/15/20, and a doublet on 40/80. Thanks for all the QSO's! |
| K4SWD | SO LOW 10M | First license 05-2025 |
| K4TMC | SO LOW 10M | Portable Field Day-style operation from ancient sand dune (15 to 18 ft ASL) at Atlantic Beach, NC (Bogue Banks), Grid FM14pq, IOTA NA-112, US Islands NC-010S. Wow! A great trip…the weather was great, the company (wife Mary Ann and dog Zoe) was wonderful, local beef brisket (yes…at the beach) was as good as ever, and the contest was awesome more about that below. Originally planned to drive down Wednesday afternoon such that I would have all day Thursday and Friday to casually get the antennas assembled and erected. I believe in the saying… you cannot have too many antennas. Sadly, we were not able to leave until noon on Thursday. So, it was a mad rush (again!) to get the antennas up and deploy the cables through the house to the rig. I would have liked to install at least 2 more fixed yagis. As it was, I was able to only get a short 1 hour nap (at 73 I really needed it) before dinner and the contest start. Friday night start was a bust, even though Friday afternoon the band was in good condition with lots of stations on calling CQ. Only managed 2 contacts over a 2 hour stint tuning the VFO knob between 28.300 and 28.600. So what does a good XYL say…”was this trip really worth it! Saturday morning I was up at 1030Z. With a fresh mug of coffee, I was mentally prepared to just do S&P-only for the day and maybe switch to running if the conditions were good. As it turned out, by mid-morning the band was full from 28.200 all the way to above 29.000. So, I just kept going with the S&P since it was getting me a lot of new mults with every turn of the dial. I finally did a short run in the afternoon before the weak Europeans disappeared. Worked a number of JA and VK before the band went out. Finished the evening at 2330Z, working a fading VK, with 357 Qs, 98 countries and 27 zones. I logged into the Online Scoreboard, entered my day’s results, and was surprised to be No. 1 in the SO-10 LP list followed closely by 9Z4CT. Sunday morning I was at the rig again, coffee in hand, waiting for the band to open and devote the day to mostly running. Finally started to make contacts at 1130Z doing S&P (with too many dupe stations and only a few new mults) looking for a good place to run. Found a good spot around 28.918 and started running at 1230Z. The first half hour run was slow, not much better rate than the previous hour of S&P. At 1300Z a MI1 contact said he was putting me on the cluster. Wow…I had a run-away horse carriage for two hours with rates between 121 to 240 per hour. I only picked up a few new mults during that period, including the rare Zone 40. Continued the run until around 1530Z, then switched back to S&P, picking up a few more mults and rare Zone 35 until 1830. I had to stop then as we needed to head back home around 6pm. So, it was another mad dash to take down and disassemble the antennas and masts, pack everything up, and hit the road back to Cary, NC for some appointments on Monday morning…yeah, poor planning. Final thoughts…this was one of my better efforts. A number of ATNO country and zone contacts. I missed Zone 34 due to the huge pileup, and Zone 18 due to the station not getting my call correct before I faded away. However, I like to think I could have done much better if I had more time prior to the contest and had stayed until the finish. With only the second yagi being manually rotated for SE thru NW, there was a lot of running through the house to the back deck for quick orientation changes. Rig: Elecraft K3+ with Heil HC4 mic element Logging: N1MM+ Antennas: Fixed to Europe 6-element 10M rope boom yagi (Buddipole parts) at 30 ft AGL (on 15 to 18 ft ASL sand dune) supported by two BlueSky Mast systems 4-element bent wire yagi on BuddiHex frame at 30 ft AGL, manual rotation PAR EF-10 end fed half wave vertical (used as low noise receive antenna) with top at 45 ft AGL on carbon/fiberglass telescopic pole. The bases of the 4-element yagi mast (Mastwerks) and vertical support pole were on 2nd floor deck, 9 ft AGL. 73 & High Rates, Henry – K4TMC |
| K4UW | SO QRP ALL | Nice Conditions!! 5 Watts as Usual! |
| K4VV | SO LOW ALL | The only antenna used in this contest was an old original Cushcraft A3S tri-band yagi (for 10/15/20 meters). This antenna is mounted indoors, in the attic above my garage, at approximately 15 feet above ground level (AGL). It is pointed in a fixed direction of approximately 45 degrees |
| K5AN | SA LOW ALL | +- 10m timesync issue until ~midnight UTC on 10/26. Unsure of specific deviation leaving as-is |
| K5AYO | SO LOW ALL | First license 07-2023 July 20, 2023 |
| K5ENS | SO LOW ALL | I'm pleased with my results for just 9 hours of S&P operation I logged 37 countries (a few new to me) and 13 zones. I worked folks on 4 bands. 70%+ o f my contacts were on 15M |
| K5FAM | SA LOW ALL | First license 09-2024 First Licensed 09-07-2024. Great contest, I made contacts it would have otherwise taken me years to find. Exhausting but fun, my ears are bleeding!! (just kidding) :) |
| K5KG | SO HIGH ALL | ELECRAFT K4D KPA1500 ' OCF DIPOLE FIRST BIG CONTEST AFTER THE HURRICANE HELENE IN SEPT 2024 |
| K5OPI | SO LOW ALL | First license 05-2025 |
| K5RX | SO QRP 15M | This was not the best year for 15 m. QRP! Really needed more than the two elements on the little C3e |
| K5TD | SA LOW ALL | First license 09-2024 First CQ WW attempt, less then 6 hours due to prior commitments. I will be clearing the schedule for future contest, this was a blast! |
| K5XU | SO LOW ALL | Best country total ever in a contest |
| K6BEW | SO HIGH ALL | This log has a correction for my last contact. Please note that the callsign for my last QSO has been corrected to read T70A |
| K6HU | SO HIGH 20M | Put your comments here. Use multiple lines if needed |
| K6NA | SO HIGH ALL | SOAB the old way-- tuning with the Big Knob. I could not devote full time to participate, but great to hear the higher bands in good shape. My 160m antenna was not installed, and my totals on 80m and 40m were quite low. Good to hear the friends, new and old! Thanks for the QSOs. Glenn K6NA |
| K6NR | SO HIGH 10M | 10 meters was fantastic, so I made this a single band 10 meter entry. On Sunday there were signals from 28.300 to 29.000 and higher. Probably on Saturday too but I did not check. Thanks for the QSOs. Station: K4, KPA500, 450 watts to 4 element 10 meter yagi at 40 feet, at 7000 ft elevation |
| K6VDU | SO HIGH ALL | First time in this contest, great experience! |
| K7BVT | SA HIGH ALL | BAANDS WERE WIDE OPEN. LOTS OF FUN. THANKS FOR PUTTING CONTEST ON |
| K7EZQ | SO LOW ALL | Had fun, worked out bugs on new radio.... well some of my bugs |
| K7HV | SA LOW 10M | GREAT CONDITIONS! |
| K7IU | SA HIGH ALL | Wow, condx were awesome for this contest! Sustained opening to JA and EU made this one for the books. Had a fantastic time as multiple bands were open pretty much the entire contest. It's so great to be at the top of the sunspot cycle and have so many ops on the bands |
| K7SWS | SA HIGH ALL | The first 5 hours were amazing! |
| K7TZD | SO LOW ALL | First license 06-2024 |
| K8DLZ | SA LOW ALL | Operator age 24 2001 |
| K8GL | SO HIGH ALL | Excellent conditions! Great contest! Thanks for all the expeditions and all the contacts |
| K8IY | SO LOW ALL | First license 09-2025 |
| K8LF | SA LOW ALL | I had to work the contest at 100 watts since the amplifier was in for service. Some of the signals I have heard on 10M SSB during the contest are some of the loudest I have ever heard. Some 30 over S9. JAs at 20 DB over S9 into the east coast of the US. I contacted Western Saraha S0S how do you like that call? S zero S I got him on first call I was using 100 watts. Pile ups were bad even late on Sunday. I am not used to having to call and call and call. Luckly for mostly S&P it was target rich for DX stations |
| K8ROX | SA HIGH ALL | Too much time wasted waiting on the stations to give their callsigns |
| K8ZAS | SO LOW ALL | First license 10-2024 October 16, 2024 |
| K9EMF | SO LOW 20M | CHECK LOG |
| K9GY | SA LOW 10M | No meters like TEN METERS! |
| K9JF/7 | SO LOW ALL | Indoor Dipoles @ 15' cost me 1000's of Contacts! |
| K9JK | SO QRP 10M | Forget about '100 Watts and a Wire'...this was '5 Watts and a CB Whip'. Radio was an IC-705 running off of its batteries (which were changed a few times) and the CB Whip was in a magmount base on the roof of my vehicle so I was 'BIDS' - Butt In Driver's Seat for all operating |
| K9JY | SA HIGH 10M | Terrific conditions. All S&P |
| K9RO | SA LOW 20M | Not as much time this year as last couple. Nice conditions and great ops as always amazed they hear low power and 60ft antenna!!!! |
| K9UET | SA LOW ALL | i got my bucket list DX. Thank you so much |
| K9WBT | CHECKLOG | Another fun contest. Learned a lot. Thank you |
| KA0PQW | SO LOW ALL | fun contest good to see the bands open |
| KA1EZE | SA LOW ALL | First contest just to dip the toe |
| KA1IOR | SA HIGH ALL | 100% S&P, NO rotator on Tribander fixed at 54 degrees |