CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| VE3MZD | SA LOW ALL | december 30th 2015 |
| VE3PN | SO HIGH ALL | Spent most of Saturday fixing an intermittent Balun on a KT36XA and the putting it back up! Glad I did 10/15 were R&R Peter |
| VE3RCN | SO LOW ALL | Home from ship due to passing of my father. Some QSOs to his memory |
| VE3SCN | SO LOW ALL | First Licenced 08 FEB 2017 |
| VE3UTT | SA HIGH 15M | REMOTE - K3 / Optibeam marginal conditions here |
| VE3XKZ | SA LOW ALL | I have resubbmitted this a I forgot to check the rookie box previously |
| VE4EV | SO LOW ALL | Vertical and dipoles with 100w TS590S. 15 hours but still fun |
| VE6FRD | SA LOW ALL | My first time submitting. Obtain license in March 2016 |
| VE6SV | MULTI-ONE | The 40M band continues not to provide the required performance we keep on working for. At our QTH the 40M prop door is one way. European stations deliver S9 plus signals to our 40M yagis at over 100 feet, yet they continue to CQ in our face, not even a QRZ again. The window when we can gain access is very short here, less than 30 minutes |
| VE6WQ | SA HIGH 20M | operating from VE6JY |
| VE7BGP | SO LOW ALL | I had a lot of fun in the limited time I had for the Contest. Most of my 20 meter contacts were done on a vintage FT-101Z and FT-897D on 80. I used my classic IC-751A for my 15 meter contacts. 73 Gerry |
| VE7GL | SA HIGH 40M | Band went completely dead so I gave up early. Not a serious effort |
| VE7WGJ | SO HIGH 20M | Very new to the contesting. This is the first log I have entered |
| VE8NSD | SO LOW ALL | Early in the contest I hear W2##. I give him 59-01. With his voice dripping with contempt and sarcasym he respends with "This is the CQ World Wide Contest. We give zones, not serial numbers." Just when I thought I'd heard it all |
| VE9HF | SO LOW ALL | Excellent conditions for a change |
| VK2BJ | SO HIGH 10M | Conditions on 40 - 10 surprisingly good, especially 40 and 15. 10 was also a real surprise with openings to Asia, Europe and North America. 80 was poor and also high static levels with very few stations heard/worked. Nothing heard on 160.A great and very enjoyable contest |
| VK2BNG | SA LOW ALL | Radio |
| VK2GR | SO HIGH ALL | It was good to see some NA to VK openings on the 10m band |
| VK2LEE | SO LOW ALL | Actual TX Power: 100w Excellent conditions. Would have been great if My Newly erected HB35c had worked. I used a 40-20m dople at 25 feet. VK2LEE |
| VK3FMMB | SO LOW ALL | Actual TX Power ONLY 4 MONTHS NEW, FOUNDATION LIC OBTAINED 30 JUL 2017. WAS VERY HARD WITH LOW POWER, "AGAIN AGAIN" WAS SO COMMON COMEBACK. ICOM 7300 WITH A G5RV ON A BUSH BLOCK HELPED |
| VK3GK | SA HIGH 40M | It was great to get a 10m opening to the east coast USA in the last hours |
| VK3IO | SO HIGH ALL | For this contest, only time for a few qso's. Conditions on 40m band were surprisingly good. Hope to have more time, for the next contest. 73's from Ron |
| VK3MEG | SA LOW ALL | good fun contest nice to see 10m open to US in the final hours |
| VK3TNL | SO LOW ALL | Actual TX Power 100W First Licensed 4th September 2015 |
| VK4AFU | SO LOW ALL | 80w, very difficult conditions.73 |
| VK4ATH | SO LOW ALL | Actual TX Power: 100 |
| VK4CL | SO HIGH ALL | Bands came alive so good fun |
| VK5GR | SA HIGH ALL | Great contest and helped my DXCC count! 25 new SSB & 3 ATNOs. Tks CQ WWSSB |
| VK5LTD | SO LOW ALL | Hard going from South Australia this year |
| VK5MK | SO LOW 20M | Actual TX Power 100 |
| VK5UE | SO LOW ALL | Actual TX Power: 100w Location very noisy this year |
| VK6FLAB | SO QRP 15M | Operated from my vehicle near a local lake with a boot-lip mounted multi-tap vertical. The number of stations on 15m was wonderful and making QRP contacts was fun |
| VK6RT | SO LOW 20M | Contest entry dedicated to the memory of Nick VK6VAX |
| VK6WX | Checklog | 40m & 15m were open. 20m & 10m showed no activity at all! |
| VK7GN | SO HIGH ALL | A few hours each day. Conditions not great but fixed up some more antennas at the remote! |
| VK8RD | SA HIGH 15M | Tough conditions on 15m on Saturday |
| VO1BQ | SO HIGH ALL | Conditions better than I expected. D3 Dipole Ant at 30ft with 500w. 73 |
| VP5W | MULTI-TWO | First time from Harbour Rock at Turtle Creek in Turks and Caicos Island. Some challenges with band conditions, but over all a great contest. Station location was in great shape, especially after Hurricane Irma struck the island only a month before. Great group effort and looking forward to many additonal years |
| VU2DED | SA LOW ALL | Icom IC-707, Carolina Windom antenna, 40M - 10M Yaesu Tuner FC-700 |
| VU2NXM | SO LOW ALL | RIG TENTEC 540, ANT: LONG WIRE, 70W |
| VU2YVK | SA HIGH ALL | 3 RD CONTEST |
| VU2ZMK | SA HIGH ALL | 3/30/2017 |
| VU3ESV | SO LOW ALL | License Date- 03-03-2015 |
| VU3OXH | SO LOW ALL | MY LICENCE WAS ISSUED ON 7 NOV 2016 |
| VU3WBB | SO LOW 10M | First licensed as a radio amateur on 10th May 2016 |
| VU3XIO | SA LOW 15M | My licence was issued on 29 July 2016 |
| VU3YPP | SO QRP 40M | DATE OF FIRST LICENSE 20-05-2016 |
| VY0ERC | MULTI-ONE | We approached this contest with modest expectations. We expected to be louder as we were transporting an amp north, and we had some ideas on how to improve antennas. The amp arrived in good shape, but the hand-carried 3-500Z didn't as it appeared that the anode and cathode were shorting. Placing the amplifier in a non-standard position did allow for operation but originally only on 80m and 40m. On the second day, it decide to work on 20m as well! Our 80m vertical dipole did allow us to get on the band and we could hear lots of stations, but alas, we were not heard. 40m sloper and 20m Moxon together with the 5 band R5 vertical did okay for us. This year we added a rotator for the Moxon and that improved the 20m situation. On 40m, the 61 q's is by far our best effort on that band and while we didn't expect anything out of 15m the 3 contacts yielded 6 mults. The stars did align on the operating front and for the first time, we could maintain 48 hour coverage. So, our modest expectation was to beat last year and a hoped for 200 q's but in the end we more than doubled that and hopefully exceeding that of 2015. It's a modest score in comparison to other multi-single efforts, and our efforts will never overcome the reality imposed by a latitude of 80N and a location that is measured in 10s of kilometers from the geomagnetic pole. Our thanks to all that dug us out of the noise! In keeping with the educational component of our day jobs, we also are introducing some of our colleagues to the thrill of contesting. Some may have noticed a new "voice" from time to time. 73 de VE3KTB and VE1RUS |
| VY2GF | SO LOW ALL | Great contest! |
| W0CP | SA HIGH ALL | No ten, but 15 was better than expected |