CQ World Wide WPX Contest
We are pleased to announce that the updated rules for the CQ WW WPX SSB and CW contests include a new Youth Overlay for participants that are 25 years or under on day 1 of the contest. The Youth Overlay scores will be highlighted in the final results, along with the Classic, Rookie and Tri-Bander/Wires Overlay scores.
The updated rules for 2022 are available at https://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm in English and several other languages.
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CQ WPX Committee
The raw scores for the 2021 CQ WPX CW contest are now available online at < https://www.cqwpx.com/raw.htm?mode=cw >.
The raw scores are calculated prior to log checking. This should give participants a good indication of their category placement at the World, Continent, or Country level. Score reductions of 2% to 15% (or more) are possible, so the log checking process must be completed before final results can be announced.
Please check that your entry is in the correct category. Report any errors or questions to < director@cqwpx.com >. Do NOT resubmit your log to ‘fix’ any problems!
Over 6,500 operators participated in CQ WPX CW in 2021; this is the highest participation level ever recorded. Thank you for submitting your log!
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CQ WPX Contest Committee
This was shared on the Yankee Clipper Contest Club email list on May 26, 2021, by Ray Conrad NM2O. Reprinted here with his permission.
There are 930 possible USA Prefixes, that’s for continental and offshore. Some like KP1 or KP5 are not active now. The rarest are in Alaska where there is only one WL2 and two WL3 calls. If we back out about 48 offshore prefixes, it’s about 880 in the lower 48. Someone with WPX honor roll might know if a prefix like NP1 or WP1 was ever issued.
In most districts, there are at least 22 calls assigned in each prefix where it’s mostly 2×1.
Some prefixes have thousands of calls where it can have 2×1, 2×2 and 2×3. KA1 has 5204 hits.
Continue reading “Some WPX Statistics”