CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| K2JF | SO LOW ALL | I never expected to be heard overseas operating SSB |
| K2MV | SO LOW ALL | First licensed 07-Jul-2015 |
| K2RR | SA HIGH 80M | DIFFICULT TO BREAK THRU AT SUNSET - EU TO EU |
| K2TE | SA LOW ALL | Tough going with a multi-band vertical, hi |
| K3ABE | SA HIGH ALL | 05/10/2017 ROOKIE |
| K3CCR | MULTI-TWO | K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. For CQ WW SSB 2017, N3UM and W3GB operated Multi-Two Assisted. As two retiree ops, we're ready to stay up late OR get up early, but no longer do both in the same overnight. We used our new JK Falcon beam (2 el. on 40 m. and 4 el. on 20 m.) for the first time in a DX contest. It did very well. On 40 m. we got 2X as many Qs and nearly 2X as many mults as we did in 2015 and 2016 CQ SSB using a good high inverted V. On 20 m. we got almost 2X as many Qs and a dozen or so more mults than in recent years, and made single-band DXCC. We were surprised at our good 15 and 10 m. results with SFI so low. We found it productive on all bands to switch among clicking on spots, CQing, and tuning, changing when the band map was worked out or the run or S&P rate fell. Tuning found many loud CQing stations that had not been spotted. Run freqs were scarce. We got a few fast but short runs, 100/hr but only for a few tens of minutes. We were happy with our final claimed score, our best in CQ SSB and better than N3UM got in 12 years of SOHP. We worked 116 total countries. It was fun to work rare and/or distant mults 5T, BY, FR, JT, SV5, and KH0 |
| K3EST | SA HIGH 40M | 3 X-QSOS ON WRONG VFO NICE TO WRK 4S7AYG ON LP. ONLY UK HEARD G3TXF CALLED FOR 20 MIN NO Q! |
| K3IE | SA HIGH ALL | DB-18 180 feature was handy on JA/SA openings |
| K3JD | SO LOW ALL | Late start. Old guy |
| K3LT | SO LOW 20M | First time entering the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. 73 de K3LT |
| K3NDM | SA LOW ALL | Only wire antennas in the trees |
| K3TW | SA QRP 160M | Band conditions on 160m were very challenging for QRP (5 watts). |
| K3URT | SO LOW ALL | DISAPPOINTING |
| K3WJV | SA HIGH ALL | Sure was nice to have 15 mtrs to EU again |
| K3ZJ | SO HIGH ALL | Guests departed around 1600 UTC Saturday, so I drove the 160 km to shack in WV expecting to put in a "classic" 20-24 hours. However, problems with software used with my SDR and an operator error required more time to be spent on equipment than actual operating. I'm still working to fix an audio delay problem that at times made operating impossible. The delights of modern SDR. Mid-afternoon Sunday thunderstorms struck, winds increased, and the temperature plummeted to 3 degrees Celsius (37 Fahrenheit). I took that as a sign to leave. But I did make at least one QSO on each band. Interesting to find one lonely signal on 10 meters at 1445 Sunday. It was CR3A working VU2 and EU before he heard me, I would guess off the side of his beam. JR8YLW also was worked on 40M with my trapped dipole at 1201, 20 minutes after sunrise |
| K4AFE | SA HIGH ALL | First Licensed 10-22-2015 Worked 5 contacts near contest beginning that were OOB |
| K4AKK | SA HIGH ALL | Licensed 06-2017 |
| K4EOR | SO LOW ALL | Thanks CQ |
| K4KAY | SO HIGH ALL | Good conditions even if limited to two bands |
| K4QR | SO LOW 20M | UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TRIP THRU SATURDAY OCT. 28 MORNING AND ACTION ITEMS POST THAT TRIP AND SICK (COLD) THRU ENTIRE WEEKEND |
| K4SXT | SO LOW ALL | My thanks to all those who struggled to copy my weak signal |
| K4VBM | SO LOW ALL | Thanks a lot for the fun. Enjoyed my 3rd CQ WW SSB contest! |
| K4VDX | SA LOW ALL | First licensed as KM4KGZ on May 4, 2015 |
| K4WLG | SO LOW 15M | 73 |
| K5LGX | SA LOW ALL | I was just licensed in 2016. I enjoyed this contest |
| K5LRW | MULTI-TWO | all had a good time. the newbies learned alot |
| K5QY | SO HIGH ALL | I was working DX in the CQWW Phone contest K5QY |
| K5RX | SO HIGH ALL | Horrible line noise and two broken antennas - a prescription for a quick QRT. I was able to copy LU2DKT calling me on 160 for at least a moment of fun. Of course, some helpful soul berated me for not hearing some statesiders calling me off the back and sides of the Beverage. Ham radio is mostly crotchety old men these days and they are getting older and more crotchety by the day! |
| K5SVV | SA LOW ALL | 5/1/2015 |
| K5XU | SO LOW ALL | I wish more DX had checked 10 meters |
| K5ZD | SA HIGH ALL | Highlight was a 263 hour on 15m Saturday morning! |
| K6MUG | SO LOW ALL | Conditions were tough. I struggled to get to 100 |
| K6PGH | SO LOW ALL | Another great contest. I had an extremely enjoyable weekend |
| K6TER | SO LOW ALL | what a blast. Thanks so much, I had fun!! |
| K7ABV | SO HIGH ALL | bands not too bad..10 meters opened sunday afternoon for some nice q's to SA...tnx to all for the q's...cu on cw |
| K7BVT | SA HIGH ALL | Fun contest! |
| K7HKR | SA LOW ALL | First licensed 05/20/2016 |
| K7RMZ | SO LOW ALL | Camped out in Central Cascades and enjoyed hunt and pounce in an evening |
| K7VNC | SO LOW ALL | Licensed 08/14/15 |
| K7XC | SA HIGH ALL | Started this one just to keep in practice on a SSB contest as my station needs better conditions to be competitive. With a flux of only 75 my expectations were fairly low. Fri nite began with moderate conditions as there were no solar storms degrading things. As time passed it was clear this would be on of those events where he who keeps his butt in the chair and grinds it out will win. 15M was open to ASIA at the beginning. Within Minutes I found VK9CI calling CQ unanswered and snagged him fairly easily which brightened my day considerably. If it wasn't for the local power line noise I would have done much better on the low bands. I Went to bed around 2AM & didn't get back to the radio until Sat afternoon. Both 15 & 20 were doing well with loud Asians rolling in mixed w/the usual Caribbean/SA suspects holding forth. I Went to bed around 10PM to chase the Morning path to EU on 20M which was not great but certainly workable with some repeats of info. Worked a 4S7 on 20M Long-path which really made me smile as its been many years since that has happened! The best surprise of the weekend was when 10M opened mid afternoon to SA and later the S PAC! Worked the band hard looking for every Mult/Q I could find. Only tried to run stations a couple of times with limited success so almost all of the weekend was Hunt and Pounce. All in all I am happy with the results of almost 500 Qs and several new ones on various bands. On old IC-746 driving a AL-80B to 800W or so. All Antennas Homebrew. 160M Inv L @ 30', 80M/40M Fan Inv Vee @ 38', 20M 3 ele Mono-bander @ 43', 15M 3 ele Mono-bander @ 30', 10M 4 ele Mono-bander @ 25'. See you in SS CW! 73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk |
| K8PJK | SO LOW ALL | First licensed in 2016 |
| K8YSE | SO LOW ALL | Nice to see some 10m openings to South America |
| K9TWW | SO HIGH ALL | ROOKIE First license 2016 |
| KA3MTT | SO LOW ALL | Had a GREAT time this year! |
| KA3PCX | MULTI-ONE | Every CQWW seems to have a distinct personality all its own |
| KA6BIM | SA HIGH 20M | Only a few hours on Sunday due to illness. Sorry for the rough voice |
| KB0GUS | SA LOW ALL | Love 15m |
| KB2KDP | SA LOW ALL | My first CQ WW contest from W2. Usually operate from new home QTH in VK2. Such different condtions and more activity on the bands. Other than Murphy showing up with Rig and Interface problems, lots of fun |
| KB4MG | SO LOW 20M | Great contest! |
| KB6OJE | SO LOW ALL | Sorry didn't have more time to operate |