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Announcing the 2024 CQ World Wide WPX Contests

  • SSB: March 25-26 / CW: May 25-26, 2024
  • Starts 0000 UTC Saturday; Ends 2359 UTC Sunday
  • Log Deadlines: SSB – 2359 April 5 / CW – 2359 UTC May 31, 2024

Thrill in the chase of thousands of unique callsign prefixes from hundreds of DX entities in the world’s largest everyone-works-everyone radio contests.

The CQ World Wide WPX (WPX) contests are immensely popular operating activities that enjoy broad participation by amateurs around the globe.  The events attract amateurs at all levels of proficiency from beginner to world champion and are rich hunting grounds for bagging callsign prefixes in pursuit of the coveted CQ WPX Awards Program endorsements.  WPX features a diversity of categories for single operator and multi-operator stations, including the Youth Overlay for entrants 25 years of age or younger, so please come and join the fun!

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Analysis of the Active USA Prefixes in the 2022 WPX CW Contest

By Ray Conrad, NM2O

Leading up to either section of the WPX contests, the question arises: “What is a rare prefix?” In the USA, the question is what calls are active.

This analysis discusses the prefixes in the 2022 WPX CW Contest. The list of active prefixes and the number of logs in each prefix was provided by the WPX Contest Director. Note that there may be a few prefixes active that did not submit a log.

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Analysis of the Active USA Prefixes in the 2022 WPX SSB Contest

By Ray Conrad, NM2O

This report presents an analysis of the active USA prefixes in the 2022 WPX SSB contest.

The FCC could possibly issue 930 prefixes. Of these, 820 are in the “lower 48.”
Some prefixes such as NP0 and NP1 have no calls issued now and may have never been issued.

This analysis of callsigns is based upon a master file received from AA3B, the WPX SSB/CW Director. The table was prepared using a custom data analysis script written by N3QE. Thanks to Bud and Tim.

Of the 930 possible prefixes, 480 were active and 450 were inactive. 248 prefixes had only one active station. The activity drops off for two or more stations.

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