CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N4PN | SA HIGH 15M | THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY AS GOOD AS IT CAN GET...WOW! WHAT GREAT CONDX FOR THE GREATEST CONTEST OF THEM ALL...THANKS TO CQ AND ALL WHO SHOWED UP FOR THIS WEEKEND... WILL BE HARD TO EVER TOP CONDX LIKE THIS AGAIN |
| N4TZ/9 | SO LOW ALL | double peak, indeed! Guess we had a double peak on this sunspot cycle. Too bad I didn't fully use the great conditions. The second day was relatively disappointing here due to some hardware problems. The first hardware problem I knew about before the contest. During the ARRL CW contest I found that one of the Orion's would have a very temporary power output problem - one fellow said it sounded like the amplifier relay wasn't picking up - but of course I'm barefoot here. I found that after several hours of heating the problem would start to appear fairly reliably on cw. Didn't seem to appear on SSB so operated the ARRL SSB and WPX SSB with no aparent problem. Of course, the power varies all the time with voice, so it's harder to see on the 'scope. Well, the problem started to show after only an hour or so the first night out, so basically down to one radio. I could find stations to work on the bad radio and use the swap radio function in TR4W to put the good radio on the desired station, but couldn't cq while s&ping using that technique, so of limited use here. The second hardware problem wasn't anticipated. I found out Saturday aftenoon that the prop pitch rotor turning the top 20 and 40 wouldn't turn. FOrtunately it was stuck on Europe. I used the lower 20/40 on the ring rotor at 61' to try to fill in the other directions, but to Asia and the Pacific the lower antenna is quite a step down in performance, especially on 40. To make things worse, I forgot to park that antenna back to Europe when finished with 40 to JA on Sunday morning. A gust of wind caused the ring to sit in a spot that I couldn't turn from. I didn't notice this until late Sunday afternoon when I went to turn the antenna to work South and found that the antenna was pointed NW. Several trips to the back yard and I had it going again and pointing in the desired direction, Monday I found that the problem with the prop pitch rotor was a loose wire in a junction box at the base of the tower. My wires and cables to the tower all lie on the ground and I have to move them back and forth each week to mow. I guess the movement (coupled with yanking to get things to lay back in place when finishing mowing) had pulled out one of the multiple DC return lines. The remaining return line was just barely good enough to turn things sometimes, but not other times, due to the time-out feature of the controller. My QSOs were all made with TR4W's DVP feature. One fellow broke out laughing, kindly, upon hearing his callsign generated by the computer. The 293 QSOs made when I was calling CQ would not havve been possible without that feature. History shows that W9RE generally scores 4 times as high as I do in this contest when conditions are poor (low sunspot activity) and about 3 times as high when conditions are good, so I guess I shouldn't be too disappointed with my score. I will swap out the troubled Orion for the Omni VI backup this week for the CW contests, where SO2R is a bigger factor for low-power folks |
| N4VZ | SO LOW ALL | New rig - ts590 just hours before the contest. Love it! Sidelined 4 years+ but now ready to play again |
| N4YHC | SO LOW ALL | Worked from home and mobile around town. Hard to get multipliers in your own country |
| N5CAA | Checklog | I HAD A GREAT FIRST TIME |
| N5JDT | SO LOW ALL | had a great time! glad to hear the bands open!! trying the classic overlay for the first time |
| N5KAE | SA LOW ALL | Good condx on 15 & 20 !!! |
| N5PA | SA LOW ALL | Great Propagation! |
| N5ZY | SO LOW ALL | Single Operator 100 watts Radio is Icom IC-7000 Antenna is electric fence wire, inverted V, in my attic 16 foot above ground |
| N6HE | SA HIGH ALL | TenTec Omni VII, SB-220, Writelog, all low wires, and S+P; had a good time. Jeez, it was good to see 10M Phone Band so fully occupied! 15M wasn't that far behind, either. Some great ops, some guys reeeeeeally slow, but we were all on the bands doing our thing. Sure wish some folks had spent their money on better receivers rather than their speech compressors! |
| N6HI/7 | SO QRP 10M | Ran 1/2Watt into a 20 foot piece of wire thrown out the window into a tree. Used this contest as a means to add to my 500mW countries total. Opening to EU both mornings amazing. Hope its like this in the CW Contest!!! I'm not really all that nuts about SSB contests, but this one pushed me over my goal to work 100 countries with a 20 foot wire and 1/2Watt, the contest provided #100 (Cyprus) and #101 and 102 also. Yep, it's a DXers dream: 100 countries in ONLY 11 years!!! ;-) GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! |
| N6LB/7 | SO LOW 20M | 4300 feet above the valley floor N6LB with her G5RV |
| N6OIL | SO LOW ALL | 10 M was a hot band! Also I had lots of fun |
| N6RV | SO LOW ALL | Wow! 10 could not have been better. When I heard that several CMEs were headed our way I thought this is going to be bad but all the bands were open. In fact 20 was open all night! Of course 160 adn 75 suffered because of it but it was the first time in a long time where I had to guess at what band to be on. 20, 15, & 10 were completely packed! Hopefully we will have a reapeat performance in a month! |
| N6TU | SA HIGH ALL | Ojective of this limited effort was to work DXCC. Worked 139 unique DXCC countries. High bands were excellent. Fun to joust with other local assisted stations arriving on the packet spot frequency at the same time. SO2R 2XKenwood USB Tribander, 40 meter dipole, 80 meter vertical. |
| N6ZE | SO LOW ALL | Not much time to operate due to family needs |
| N7AME | SO LOW ALL | Great contest and great operators this year |
| N7MU | SO LOW ALL | Great propagation, great fun! |
| N7MZW | SO LOW ALL | Nice to see 10 Meters open again. A limited time effort with 100% "hunt and pounce". Kenwood TS-950SD, Heil ProSet with HC-5 mic. element on VOX, and a 102 foot "home brew" G5RV "flat top" up 50 feet running N-S from 6,053 feet elevation in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Thanks for the contacts! |
| N7SMI | SO HIGH ALL | Licensed 2011 |
| N7TMS | SO LOW ALL | 2012 |
| N7VZ/0 | SO LOW ALL | The pileups were HUGE this year! Difficult to get through with LOW power and a wire antenna, but still fun as usual! |
| N7VZU | SO LOW ALL | Had Fun as always, See everyone next year |
| N8DE | SA HIGH ALL | FANTASTIC CONDITIONS! 10M WAS PACKED FROM 28.3 TO 29.2 DIFFICULT TO FIND A FQ TO CALL CQ ON ANY BAND |
| N8II | SO LOW 10M | Despite the very good condtions, Sunday after 1530Z was a real grind! Highlight was three VU2's calling in on Saturday. Lowlight was totally ridiculous impossible pile ups on 5H3EE and C91 with CR3A trying desperately to twist every QSO with unsimilar calls into a QSO with him, disgraceful! Conditions to JA about the best I can remember, close to 100 JA QSO's with LP. I heard a lot of callsign busts, ops need to be more careful! |
| N8NYI | SO LOW ALL | Had a blast with the upper bands. Missed getting Japan on 40m and Kazahstan, but did get Qatar. Can't wait for the WPX |
| N8SK | SO HIGH 20M | GREAT CONTEST WEEKEND WITH LOTS OF DX CONTACTS GREAT BAND OPENINGS DURING THIS CONTEST EXCELLENT PROPAGATION ON 20 METERS |
| N9BT | SA LOW ALL | 10 meters was excellent, wish I had more time to operate |
| N9BW | SA HIGH 10M | First CQ Contest Dipole at 30 ft |
| N9KY/4 | SA LOW 10M | 10M stayed so open I never bothered to check the other bands! |
| N9LB | SA HIGH 80M | 60 foot vertical |
| NB3C | SA HIGH ALL | In spite of the dire solar forecasts, the bands here were hot hot hot! 15M open till 2300 local! Haven't seen that in years! Thanks to all for a great contest |
| NC4MI | MULTI-ONE | 1st time to operate as a Multi-op station. We had a blast. Look forward to trying it again soon |
| ND0C | SO QRP ALL | The sun came out to play! Obviously awesome conditions - makes running QRP not quite so insane! Of course 10M was the place to be. I hope the committee looks hard at the stations that generated such ugly and broad signals - the splatter was bad. Similarly, there were a lot of US stations that were crowding the band edges with their sidebands well out-of-band. And of course there was no shortage of US stations that were even more obliviously going well below 7.125 to work the DX on their transmit frequencies. Besides being illegal, it provides an obvious advantage when some of the DX are not listening in the US allocation. Thanks to all the DX stations that work to pull my signal out of the din of splatter and noise |
| NF4A | SA HIGH ALL | Got on for a few minutes after returning from C82DX.....sounds like the bands were on fire !! |
| NG7A/1 | SA HIGH ALL | HARD DISK CRASHED AND LOST DATA THE FIRST 4 HOURS OF THE CONTEST STARTING AT 000Z. PLEASE DO NOT PENALIZE STATIONS THAT WORKED ME DURING THAT PERIOD WITH A NOT IN LOG PENALTY |
| NH2DX | SA HIGH 15M | Great Conditions but lost a few hours of prime time when the power went off |
| NH7PE | SO LOW 10M | 64 year old XYL licensed since 2002 |
| NJ0F | SA LOW ALL | Great Contest! Operated on and off over the weekend but had great fun |
| NJ2X/3 | SO LOW 10M | 10m was world-wide-open and fun! |
| NK4K | Checklog | PLEASE do not publish -- for help confirming only. Bands only -- ALL frequencies WRONG |
| NM9P | SO LOW ALL | New FLEX-6500. New vertical, raised OCF Dipole from 18 to 38 feet |
| NT7S | SO LOW ALL | My first CQ WW SSB. Had a great time, especially on 10 meters! |
| NW3H | SA HIGH ALL | Wow! This contest will be the stuff of legend and lore. Amazing conditions. New Personal Best! Best Days Ever! |
| NY0T | SO HIGH ALL | Great contest! |
| NY2GB | SA LOW ALL | First Licensed June 20 2012 This contest was a blast! The conditions were amazing. I never thought I would contract China, and neither did my grandpa; but I did! This contest has been one of my favorites. I can't wait to do it again next year |
| NY9H/3 | SA HIGH ALL | first time |
| OA4SS | SO HIGH ALL | I was only able to work half the contest this year, Saturday GMT, due to having to fly to HK4 for work. CU in the CW contest, work permitting. Ed OA4SS |
| OE2IJL | SO HIGH ALL | Nice Contest, good conditions. I am sorry that I had not enough time. Next year again. 73 oe2ijl |
| OE2LCM | SA HIGH ALL | 95% S&P - great fun! |