CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N0LD | SA LOW ALL | Approached this casually and then had a lot of fun! SFI of 217 with low noise made this contest lots of fun! |
| N0ODK | SA HIGH ALL | Used HF2V on 40M and 80M. Used Cushcraft X7 on 10, 15, and 20 meters. The 15 and 10 meter bands were a lot of fun. Great openings and I just operated S&P |
| N0SMX | SA HIGH ALL | GREAT conditions |
| N0UK | SA LOW 10M | First foray on to HF from the new QTH using a barefoot IC-746 feeding an MFJ-1786 Super Hi-Q Magnetic Loop antenna. Also, first time entering the CQ WW SSB contest. Great fun! |
| N0ZC | SO HIGH 20M | The contest was super fun! |
| N1UR | SO HIGH ALL | First CQ WW as High Power! |
| N1YE | SA LOW ALL | Great fun and one of my favorite contests! |
| N2SLO | SO LOW 10M | Excellent conditions. Worked Zones 25 & 30 from Long Island on 5/8 vertical |
| N3FJP | MULTI-TWO | Great contest! We wish there was a low power category for multi transmitter! |
| N3IQ | Disqualified | Classic is great when baby shower is at our house on contest weekend. Of course, baby is due (grandchild number 1) during cqwwcw!...FUN! |
| N3KF | SA LOW ALL | Done in bed due to severe sitting and standings disability |
| N3OJL | SO LOW ALL | Great contest, Lots of fun |
| N3RR | SA HIGH ALL | I would like to recommend that the CQ Contest Committee consider a new overlay entrant category, V.B.3. Classic Assisted, which would allow SO2R operation and QSO alerting assistance, in addition to other overlay rules that are not in conflict with SOA & QSO alerting assistance I am recommending. Those are the 'rules' I adheared to in my participation this weekend (SSB). Why? Primarily, to accommodate operators can't get on for the full 48 hours for various reasons, but who can get on for 24 hours, and allow them to compete in a category of others with op-time restrictions. I believe this would increase the number of logs in the CQ WW because this would allow older guys, new guys and others to have a category in which they may be competitive and which they would otherwise not enter at all - my 2 cents, Bill N3RR |
| N4DXI | SA HIGH ALL | Lots of openings on 10 meters |
| N4TZ/9 | SO LOW ALL | uggh |
| N4YHC | SO LOW ALL | Got to work a few stations, just not enough time set aside |
| N5CWA | SO LOW ALL | 5/28/2014 |
| N5JDT | SO LOW ALL | unlike last year could only make half of the contest. but still had fun and looked up where new contacts were on the globe |
| N5RWK | SA HIGH ALL | 2013 |
| N5YT | SA HIGH ALL | Highlight was working CN3A on 5 watts from Bush Alaska! |
| N5ZY | SO LOW ALL | 20M Antenna is electric fence wire in my attic 16 foot above ground. 15m and 30m are double bazookas in my attic, inverted V. I operated less than 24 hours total so using CLASSIC overlay |
| N6HI/7 | SO QRP 10M | Part-time effort, using 5 Watts to a 20 foot end-fed wire. Conditions were really WEIRD, 10 meters good signals, lower bands not so much. Thanks to all for the QSOs. GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! 73 John N6HI/qrp |
| N6MI | MULTI-ONE | Operated portable in N6MI van (n6mi.com) from Mojave Desert |
| N6RV | SO LOW ALL | A few hours before the start of the contest I was listening to a pile up on 15 meters while sitting in the station doing some other work. It was like someone turned the radio off. The pile up disappeared. I was not paying attention and thought the station went QRT. When I finished the work and looked up I noticed that the spectrum display showed the noise floor had dropped at least 10 to 15 dB. A quick check on the NASA website confirmed that there had been a significant flare. That was the first and biggest of three radio blackouts this weekend. Fortunately the bands almost recovered before the show began. It was interesting on Saturday when we had a repeat. Everything went quiet. Honestly 20 meters was a ghost town. It did come back but it was long after the normal European opening. In spite of this 10 and 15 were pretty good. In fact 10 was crowded from end to end. I have never seen stations all the way to the top of the band! Just think if we could spread out like that on 40 -15 meters the contest would be much more fun! The best part of the unusual conditions was the backscatter. I was working Europe when pointed over South America and the Pacific. Also at 3 AM local time there were Europeans on 20 meters again on backscatter. I am sure I picked up a few mults I would have missed otherwise. In 27 days we should have a repeat! That means more fun in the CW contest! |
| N6ZE | SO LOW ALL | Nice to work Canary Islands & Madera on 40 m |
| N7AU | SO HIGH 40M | A great contest |
| N7KRN | SO LOW ALL | First time - a lot more fun than anticipated! |
| N7TMS | SO LOW ALL | Life happened and I could only operate for a few minutes here and there. Even a few contacts are worth the effort. See you all next month! |
| N7VZU | SO LOW ALL | Looking forward to next year! |
| N7WY/0 | SO HIGH ALL | First licensed 12/13/1961 |
| N8DE | SA HIGH ALL | Set goals of 1000 QSOs and 1 Million points. Those were MORE than accomplished, as the number of QSOs exceeded 1100 and over 1,800,000 points !!! Glad that, in my old age, I can still compete WITH MYSELF and feel good (age = 77 years) |
| N8PPF | SO LOW ALL | Hope everyone QSLs to LOTW |
| N9BT | SA LOW ALL | Wish I had more time to operate. 10M seemed to really be open |
| N9NBC | SO LOW ALL | nov-19-2013 |
| N9OK | SA HIGH ALL | Very nice conditions on 10M made for a lot of fun in this contest |
| N9RV/7 | SO HIGH ALL | Nice to have SO2R working on SSB after about 10 years |
| N9TF | SO LOW ALL | Bands were in great shape! Fortunately, I missed the radio black out, as that was during one of my down times. I knew I would not have time to put in the full 48 hours, so I chose to do the contest in the "classic" old fashioned way. Spin the dial and see what calls I would find along the way! Just to make sure I would not be tempted, I unplugged the internet to the logging computer, NO DX spots!! 10, 15, and 20m were amazing. At one point Sunday morning there were signals as high in the band as 29.250Mhz! I don't ever remember ever hearing that much congestion on 10 meters. It took me a while to tune through the band the first time, and by then it was time to give 15m a look see. Two things that were a little frustrating for me were, 1, how close stations jam into one another. And, 2, so many stations do not identify with their station call for several minutes. Number one is to be expected I guess when you consider the amount of stations on a band, 3 Khz band width and changing/different band propagation at each stations location. But number 2 is just plain __________, you fill in the blank. I do mostly CW contests, and this phenomenon of not identifying is not anywhere near as bad as on CW as I have been noticing in SSB contesting. I found myself QSYing on to look for other stations if the DX did not identify after the contact I listened through. I guess maybe their thought is, "I've got a pile up, must have been spotted, life is good"! The only other negative I find on SSB and this weekend in particular is how poorly some station ops have set their mic gain and compression. I was told at least half a dozen times "worked B4" I went back in my log and found my error in being able to hear the other stations call correctly. Even phonetics are useless when you are garbled, or talking into a tin can. All in all those were minor detractors. The band conditions were great, and I worked most of what I heard. Three that I did not bag were BY3AA (15m), C37NL (10m) and A71CO (10m), although I did give it my best shot for all three, but spent way too much time in all three pile ups and came up empty. I still haven't learned when to tune away from a hopeless pileup! I am definitely pumped for CQWWCW at the end of November. I have my fingers crossed that band conditions will be as good or better. Hoping for some good counts on 40 and 80 that weekend as well. Station conditions, Icom IC-756PROIII 100 watts, TH2-MK3 2 element triband at 37' and a 80 meter OCF dipole at a apex of 35' for 40 and 80m. Thanks CQ for sponsoring such a great contest. Lots of fun. |
| NA3E/2 | SA HIGH ALL | Had a great time. Bands were in good shape |
| ND3R | SO LOW ALL | Great condx this year. Glad to hear the bands crowded |
| NF4A | SA HIGH ALL | 100% S&P....very casual operation....opening weekend of bow season here.....bands were on fire except for a few relatively short blackouts |
| NH6AB | SO LOW 10M | 10m was amazing, crowded, pure pandemonium at times. What a ride! |
| NH7PE | SO LOW 10M | Station description: ICOM 745 (1980), QRV Half-Square 10m antenna up about 15 feet, two small solar panels, 6-6volt deep cycle batteries; Glad I just got a comfortable office chair for the ham shack! |
| NM1C | MULTI-ONE LOW | Another fun contest, 10M was excellent. Introduced a newer ham (Mark KC1AHT) to contesting, he had a lot of fun. Radios FT-1000MP, Kenwood TS-440S(mult) Antennas 80M dipole, Fan dipole for 10/15/20, 40M vertical. -Matt NM1C |
| NM2O | SA LOW 15M | First CQ WW operation from new QTH. Planning better antennas from this QTH. Only using a 40 M dipole at 30 feet. It was interesting to work spots at 2 and 3 per minute. With this set-up; timing was critical to working people. Everyone is using computer logging, many thought I was KM2O or NM2A. I should be in super partial by now. Run rates were very high. It's good to hear non-native speakers of English running quickly. Overall, operating practices seemed very good. No waiting for station ID. Had intermittent problem with link to radio, some frequencies are shown exactly, others are shown as 21000 |
| NN4RB | SO LOW ALL | Worked twice - once on Friday night and the other on Saturday night. Busy putting roof on deck and not hamming. However, I used voice macros for the first time and went several contacts without speaking. Almost as automatic as RTTY except having to enter the call. Had fun |
| NN6DX | SO HIGH ALL | Overall great condx. Limited effort this year |
| NO2D/0 | SO LOW ALL | Had to hunt around the shack to find a mic. Not used to SSB, so had much difficulty copying calls. Dipole at 20 feet not very effective in pileups. But, a good learning experience. NO2D, Pete |
| NT4Z | SO LOW ALL | Great Contest. Thanks to those responsible for the success of this contest |
| NV2K | SO LOW ALL | Date first licensed 2013-09-24 |
| NY0T | SO HIGH ALL | 10 Meters was open! |