CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N2GA | SA LOW ALL | Elecraft K3S at 100w. JK MidTri @ 45 feet Sloper for 40m. There's no meters like 10 meters! 130 countries in 11 hours with low power and a tribander - wow! Conditions were the best I ever heard on 10! Thanks to all the great operators for the contacts. For a CW guy, these conditions almost make me like SSB! 73, George |
| N2LDV | SO LOW ALL | GREAT BAND CONDITIONS |
| N2NT | SA HIGH ALL | Fantastic high band conditions and activity |
| N3CMI | SA HIGH ALL | Best conditions for this contest that I've seen in over 40 years! Especially 10m |
| N3DMV | SO LOW ALL | Lot's of fun! Thanks everyone! |
| N3ION | SO LOW ALL | First license 06-2024 |
| N3JT | SA HIGH 10M | SSB contests are not my favorite but with 10 m open to everywhere on Saturday it was great fun! (Not as good Sunday!) |
| N3KF | SA HIGH ALL | Conditions were fantastic. I am awaiting bypass surgery so could not put tn the time I would have like too |
| N3MN | SA HIGH ALL | wrong club listed before |
| N3MWS | SO LOW 10M | First license 05-2025 |
| N3NQP | SA LOW ALL | Chameleon MPAS 2.0 Vertical, 34 ground radials, Yaesu FT-DX10 |
| N3RN | SO LOW 10M | Used a ZS6BKW up 10 meters. Also used it for and 80 meter CW net during the contest! I would S/P from 28.300 mHz to 29.000 mHz. Watch some football and then do the same routine again. Never expected work so many countries with this antenna |
| N3TTT | SA HIGH ALL | Original plan for remote operation at AA1K was abandoned Friday morning do to internet issues. Brought my Flex 6400/TGXL/PGXL home and operated using my OCF. Friday evening Windows was giving me audio issues. Saturday evening Murphy struck again when my SWR went high. Spent part of Sunday debugging the issue running new feed line to the antenna |
| N4IIT | SA LOW ALL | First license 01/2023 |
| N4IW | SA LOW ALL | All of my available operating time this weekend was on Saturday morning and early afternoon. It seemed like there were endless contacts available, especially on 10 and 15 meters! My station performed well, and I was reasonably pleased how I did in the inevitable pileups at the rarer stations. I had F4 and F2 programmed in N1MM to send my Callsign (November Four India Whiskey) and the Exchange (59 Zero 5) using recordings from Audacity, but I had a few people miss the India in my Callsign. When I repeated the exchange using Italy instead of India, it seemed to work better. Therefore, I will be recording another file that uses November Four Italy Whiskey and assign it to another F key and use it as needed. I have not taken the time to go through the new AI Piper TTS process to create the files necessary for N1MM to voice transmissions in my own voice, but I plan to do that at some point in the future |
| N4KS | SO HIGH ALL | Outstanding contest. 500W and a vertical did the job. Lots of fun working the DX |
| N4MCC | SA LOW ALL | Great contest this year. Wish there was a wires-only category |
| N4OC | MULTI-ONE HIGH | N4OC operating remote |
| N5VR | SO HIGH ALL | Short S&P participation with old radios: Kenwood TS-820, SB-220 on 15M and 20M, 100 watts on 10M. For some reason the amp would not tune on 10M. JK Mid-Tri at 75 feet. Seemed like among the best conditions I have ever seen on upper bands Sunday afternoon |
| N6DW | SA HIGH ALL | Comments: Obviously, I concentrated on the high bands. I was just not being heard on my 80 and 40 dipoles when I tried after 10pm and again about 11:30 both nights. So I went back to 20m which was active until my bedtime after midnight. 10m was the money band, through most of the day. I even managed DXCC on 10m. The last hour I spent chasing Asian and Oceania stations. JAs, DUs YBs, VKs, ZLs, BAs, HL, AHRR, KHs, 9M6A...and more! It was like being in California again. I upgraded my antenna to a JK XR6JK (2 full-size elements each on 20-17-15-12-10-6) and my coax to LMR600 (I have a 300+ ft coax run.) I had almost given up on CQWW phone because it was such a slog before. This time it was a joy. Proof that putting your money in the antenna is well spent |
| N6ENO | SO LOW 15M | checkfile only |
| N6GEO | SA HIGH ALL | First contest with my new TS-890S. Me like! |
| N6HI | SO QRP ALL | QRP, 5 Watts to a 20 foot end-fed wire, thrown into a tree out my window. This was a part-time effort, in and out of the shack, trying to catch the best times. My goal was to work as many countries as possible on SSB with less than 5W. 44 QSOs total, DX only, No USA, all S&P. Ended up with 26 Countries worked total. For me, 10m was the star of this contest. Tnx to all for your patience and the QSOs. and a chance to see if my mic still works. GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! -73- John N6HI |
| N6LGN | SO LOW ALL | Operator age 16 |
| N6RV | SA HIGH ALL | Great conditions! Thanks for all the QSOs. See everyone in the CW contest! |
| N6SPP | SA LOW ALL | A few interesting prefixes including: AZ1D-Argentina.. Got the T70A on 2 bands..Lots of fun |
| N6VOH | SA HIGH ALL | 10 AND 15 METERS WERE THE MONEY FOR THIS CONTEST |
| N7EMG | SO HIGH ALL | First license 01-2025 First licensed 01/03/2025 as KF0SVH |
| N7EPD | SA HIGH ALL | The new N1MM TTS helps this non SSB operator quite a bit 95%+ get my info the first try. But the usual challenges of SSB for a small station like mine still prevent finding a good run frequency and holding it. Lost internet night before Sunday during the 'storm' so was unassisted for the last day and still out at the end of day so couldn't subit log until Monday |
| N7LQT | SO LOW 10M | First license 07-86 |
| N7MHR | SO LOW ALL | GRID LOCATOR FOR HOME STATION IS CN83HC ALL QSO ORIGINTATE AT CQ ZONE 03 CQ ZONES = 12 ( 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 33, 35) 50 QSO * (12 ZONES + 23 COUNTRIES) = 1750 POINTS ZONE MULTIPLIER = 12 * 1750 = 21,000 POINTS COUNTRY MULTIPLIER = 23 * 1750 = 40,250 CONTACTS BETWEEN STATIONS ON DIFFERENT CONTINENTS COUNT 33 INTERCONTENENT QSO IS 33 * 3 = 99 ADDITIONAL POINTS 1750 + 21,000 + 40,250 + 99 = 63,099 POINTS FREQ, MODE, DATE, UTC, OPERATOR, SENT RS, CALL, RCV RS |
| N7MSI | SA LOW ALL | I got to work the contest a few hours over the weekend. Had fun on 10 and 15 Meters |
| N7VGO | SO HIGH ALL | Great CONDEX I have not heard the bands this busy in a long time. 100% S&P |
| N7VZU | SO LOW ALL | Had Fun. Looking forward to next year |
| N7XU | SA HIGH ALL | 10m sure was great! |
| N8FYL | SO LOW ALL | Rig:Icom IC-7610 Antennas: G5RV/ZS6BKW at 48 ft 80M dipole at 30 ft Not a huge score, but the best I've achieved in the 7 times I have played in this contest. Good band conditions helped! |
| N8GB | SO LOW ALL | Had a blast! |
| N8II | SO LOW ALL | Best over the north pole conditions of Cycle 25 in a DX test, but not many JA's found on 15 and 10 and ran only a handful. I managed to hold 28568 KHz run frequency for 2.3 hours Sunday morning making 310 Q's in 2 hours. 15 and 20 were just too crowded for LP runs from here, had a short one Saturday on 15 for 35-40 Q's. Great to work BY, DV, AH2, YB, R0L and 9M6 on 10M! |
| N8VCL | SA LOW ALL | First license 10-1984 |
| N9DK | SO LOW ALL | Lots of fun! 10m was wide open through sunset |
| N9EDL | SO LOW 10M | First license 01-1980 |
| N9OH | SA LOW ALL | First CQWW DX for me after a multi-year break from contesting. Conditions were great for me on 10-15 meters with my EFHW dipole up in a palm tree |
| N9OK | SA HIGH ALL | After a rough start on Friday (very few Q's) propogation improved Sat and Sunday. Made some rare to me contacts and had a great time. I like the competition of the scores on the online scoreboard, helps me stay focused |
| N9TF | SA LOW ALL | The good news, the high bands, 10 and 15m, were in great condition, and activity world wide seemed at an all time high for this contest. 15m was stacked up with signals overlapping about every 1-1.5khz, and 10m during the EU openings to NA, both Saturday and Sunday, saw activity all the way up to 29.200Mhz. As a LP single antenna 6BTV station, I found it much eaiser to S&P above 28.700 both mornings for a better chance of working DX with a bit less 'pile up' traffic. I found much less NA pile up traffic to contend with, but as much, or more EU to EU pile up traffic. It's one thing to have to contend with NA traffic to EU, but another dimension is added when US needs to break the EU to EU wall as well. It seems to me that the 1 point EU ops get for working EU-EU is a big incentive, and gives EU stations a leg up in points against US stations. It's great that US ops at least get zone mult for working another US op, but that still does not overcome the disadvantage of not receiving at least 1 point for the Q. Would it not make sense to level up the points playing field and allow one point for US-US contacts! Maybe that small change may incentavise more EU ops to work more US rather than clog/block out US stations from being able working EU. Yes, that happens to be a strategy I have been aware of. I noticed a lot more EU-EU pile up log jams this contest from other past CQWW SSB contests. I hope CQ will consider a serious discussion of the points/Q structure. Thanks es 73, Gene N9TF 100 watts to 6BTV ground mounted |
| N9WKW | SO LOW ALL | Had to work the weekend, so was not able to get the contacts and scores I was really after. Had a great time though, even with 100 watts and a stick antenna on the trunk of my car! |
| NA4DA | SA HIGH ALL | very limited time |
| NE6I | SA HIGH ALL | Worked the contest between home remodeling tasks (big job under way). 15 and 10 meters were in great shape. Great to hear so many YLs in the contest! |
| NF5Y | SA LOW ALL | Thank you to everyone who made this possible |
| NF6P | SA LOW ALL | Wow is how I start. Low power, only wires, my best score ever, and broke the million-point threshold, too. So glad that I built and installed a 40-meter Delta Loop on Friday. I did not have any time to optimise, but it worked well on 40 - 15 and allowed me diversity RX on my FTDX101. As others have said, 10 meters was amazing, but 15 was a producer for me, and allowed a couple of small runs. Without any directionality, it's hard to run. My ears are still recovering. Too many badly adjusted amps on the air. This was memorable |
| NG0T | SO LOW ALL | Great 10 meter conditions |