CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| KC0FOT | SO LOW ALL | First time working WW DX contest |
| KC1BOH | SA LOW ALL | Licensed April 7, 2014 |
| KC2LST | SO HIGH ALL | What a shindig! If 10 meters was fabulous on Saturday, and it was, it was absolutely on fire on Sunday. The band just kept giving and giving nearly all the way to 29.0 MHz and signals were loud! I never managed to generate any callers when I called CQ, but it didn't matter when search-and-pounce produced such copious results. I was able to achieve my best score ever in this event by far, using only 52-foot wire dipoles 15 feet off the ground. Heavy rain earlier in the week into clay soil helped give my signals a good bounce off the ground and this week's sunspot activity was the icing on the cake. This will be an event to remember! Thanks to all for the QSOs |
| KC3DBG | SO LOW ALL | I was first licensed on 6/18/14 |
| KC9UHH | SA LOW ALL | Great fun with my "new" beam! |
| KC9WAV | SA HIGH 10M | entering as a rookie high power single operator |
| KD0JBN | SO LOW ALL | What a great way to add countries to your log! |
| KD0UKC | SO LOW ALL | First licensed 2013-02-19 |
| KD3RF | MULTI-TWO | With family and work commitments, this year the VE2DXY Team stayed in Pennsylvania and operated from KD3RF's location. We missed one of our operators who came down with a stomach virus. It gave us an opportunity to test or Mosely Jr. antenna's against a full quad and realized they perform very well. We also missed the opportunity to be on the receiving end of a continuous pile up. Great activity on the high bands. Low bands were very slow and noisy |
| KD5FBA | SO LOW ALL | 2014 First CQWWSSB |
| KD5UVV | SA HIGH ALL | Had fun using my wire antenna and KW |
| KD6WKY | SA HIGH ALL | 10 meters was wide open! |
| KD9AHP | SA LOW ALL | ROOKIE 2014-01-30 |
| KD9BVD | SA HIGH 10M | licensed 07/23/2014 |
| KD9GN | SO LOW ALL | Deliberate QRM and ops tuning up on air. Grow Up! |
| KE4S | SA HIGH ALL | My first MAJOR effort in big contest. What a BLAST! Next time I will have a better low-band antenna |
| KE6DM | SA LOW ALL | First licensed 04/30/2014 |
| KE6K/7 | SO QRP ALL | Good opening on 10 meters really helped |
| KE8FT | SO HIGH ALL | Removed 2014-10-25 0301 KE8FT 59 04 CN2AA 59 33 0 because was a DUPE |
| KF2O | SA HIGH ALL | wonderful high bands, poor low bands. usual great contest |
| KF5SLK | SO LOW ALL | 10/23/2012 |
| KF5TXU | SO LOW 40M | First licensed February 2013 |
| KF6ILA | SO LOW ALL | Could hear more than I could work |
| KF7KTC | SO LOW 10M | First time participant in this contest. Enjoyed it, and learned a lot about pileups. Looking forward to next time |
| KG2AF | SO LOW 20M | Great Fun! Thank you to all who heard my MFJ magnetic loop. 73 |
| KG5DEC | SO LOW 10M | First Contest |
| KG7FXT | SO LOW ALL | First Licenced 10-17-13 |
| KG7OHG | SA LOW ALL | License Granted: 2014-09-24 |
| KG9Z/8 | SA HIGH 20M | Many bad audio. Tons of splatter. Had fun |
| KH6/NN7SS | SA QRP 20M | I had used this KH6 station remotely for JARTS RTTY, so I thought I'd try it during CQ WW SSB too. I noticed in the CQ WW Records for Oceania there was no entry in SO QRP (A) 20m or 40m. I only planned to operate a few hours the first day, so 20m would work better for me than 40m. I setup the remote equipment early Friday and tested it on the target site and another site. All seemed well. At the opening bell, 20m wasn't really open from KH6 to anywhere. The few USA and Caribbean I could hear were weak and running stations louder than me, so at QRP I couldn't get noticed. So, time for a break... I checked the propagation maps and with SFI 218, the MUF around Hawaii was over 40 MHz - not good for 20m band :) The X Class Flare just 2 hours earlier wasn't helping either. An hour later conditions were much better and I worked zones 3, 4, 5 and 31. No luck getting through the early pileups to the Caribbean or South America DX. I guess being QRP and 2,000 miles from anybody makes pileup busting difficult. At 03Z conditions were fairly normal, and I put 12 more countries in the log. Then I shutdown so my wife could get some sleep without me "yelling" into the radio... I checked at 13Z still night in Hawaii) and heard only weak South Americans, two middling VK's, and extremely weak Europeans. Oops, there had been another X Class Flare at 17Z. At 18Z only a few weak stations. Still no loud, new stations at 22Z. Better signals at 02z like the FR/DJ7RJ station, but I couldn't break the pileup QRP. My operator time ran out. I had worked my 14 Countries, 8 Zones for the possible first entry and record for Oceania, SO QRP (A) 20m. Clearly, the high solar flux conditions favored 10m (or higher) for activity, but at least I filled in the entry book |
| KH6QJ | SA HIGH 20M | Thanks for a great contest |
| KH7XX | MULTI-MULTI | The high bands were great! Tough going on the low bands the first night. Good fun and good friends. Thanks for all the QSOs. A special thanks to Alex, KH6YY, for the use of his great station. See you next month and next year! |
| KH8B | SA LOW ALL | American Samoa is back! |
| KI7DG | SO HIGH 10M | 5-10 minutes for a station to ID takes the fun out of the hunt and pounce |
| KI7M | SA HIGH ALL | Noise, Noise, Noise, 59+10, +20, +30 on lower bands. Lots of QRM (especially 15 meters). Many zone 20 stations!. Got some sleep especial second night after deciding the lower bands were a bust. Noted when dark comes and bands die it's like someone turned off a switch |
| KJ8O | SO LOW 80M | Didn't have much time, only 80 meters this time |
| KK4HEG | SO LOW ALL | LICENSED FEB. 2012 |
| KK4HOK | SO LOW 10M | Licensed: 03/12/2012 |
| KK4RV | SO LOW ALL | 10 meters was awesome! |
| KK4TUX | SA LOW ALL | LICENSED 2013-09-10 |
| KK4UBQ | SO LOW 10M | 41537 |
| KK4UHK/1 | SA HIGH 10M | DATE FIRST LICENSED 10/17/13 |
| KK4VNH | SO LOW ALL | DATE FIRST LICENSED 11/26/2013 |
| KK4YOK | SA LOW ALL | Rookie Operator |
| KK6NLW | SO LOW 10M | ROOKIE, TECH TICKET DATE: JUNE 20 2014 |
| KK6PCO | SO LOW 10M | ROOKIE 09/25/2014 |
| KK7VL | SO QRP ALL | RADIO IS A STOCK YAESU FT-817ND. MAXIMUM POWER OUTPUT WAS 2 TO 4 WATTS DEPENDING ON THE BAND |
| KL0ET/W4 | SO LOW ALL | 10 was incredible all weekend! |
| KL3WY | SO LOW ALL | Interesting propagation this year. The numbers looked good but at high latitude I got a lot of noise until 1400 local. Afternoons really cleared up, and 10 meters was hot just as the contest closed down. Worked new zones at the very last. Working CN2AA was a treat. The operator had a good sized pileup, but pulled out my low power signal. Good ears. DP6T and HQ1NA operator were also very good, both working with another station just off of their freq. My experimental 10 meter antenna was a failure. Feedback in my shack and VHF repeater. Had to use the old one |
| KL7AIR | MULTI-ONE | Great Event |