CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2E0SDV | SA LP ALL | First Licensed March 2014 15 Year old Op |
| 4K6FO | SO LP ALL | TNX all best 73 cu Used IC-745 100 wats and GP antennas 160-80m 40m and 20-10m GP |
| 4M5EN | SA QRP 40M | Unfortunately I had to stop the contest to attend a family emergency. I could only operate 35% of the scheduled time |
| 4O3A | SO HP ALL | High bands alive overnight, but no exclusive opening to NA/JA. EU percentage too high for a better score |
| 4O4SM | Checklog | QRP rig, only CW, 10m-2W,15m-3W,20m/40m-5W, 80m-2W, SQUARE LOOP 88m/3m up Keyer K16(K1EL), Begali Simplex Basic Iambic paddle, 600m/asl, LOGGER SD sorry for late log sending, familly problems |
| 7K1CPT | SO QRP ALL | K3 power 5-Watts ALL QSO Made 5Watts output. Delta Loop Dipole QTH: Saitama-city Saitama-pref |
| 7S0X | SA LP ALL | Even a very limited (little pistol) station can have lots of fun in WPX! This time I only had the opportunity to do a limited effort. I decided to play around in the SO-LP Assisted category from my city apartment. I didn't expect much from 15 watts into a simple mobile whip with an auto coupler on the rail of my balcony, but I had fun and with a more serious effort the results should be much better. In about 12 not so efficient hours I was able to log 158 QSOs. I went to the radio in bursts for as longs as my 18 months daughter would allow me. Of the 158 Qs 10 where DX and the longest distance bridged was 8000 km. Almost every contact was a prefix which is natural in WPX. Having a "good" prefix is key and helps running, especially in a CW contest where even the weakest signals generate RBN spots. I haven't been using my rather unique "7S" prefix for a while, but it came to good use now and this helped in my micro run sessions. Usually a new run would generate 3-4 Qs after the first RBN spot, then I went off to S&P again. My focus was on 20 and 40 meter using two different mobile whips on the balcony, manually replacing them when doing band switches. The 20m whip tuned with the LDG RT-100 coupler helped hook some mults on 10 and 15m. My apparent building is low and surrounded by other buildings in almost all directions. There is a small opening in SW which helps, but most DX directions are obstructed. This weekend I was experiencing quite low man made noise on 20m (S3) but higher on 40m (S7) which might explain the lower QSO count on 40. I was using the SunSDR2 PRO SDR transceiver barefoot with about 15-20 watts output. The panadapter provided a great overview. CW skimmer was hooked up to skim the two bands of the independent receivers. N1MM was hooked to CAT and to the telnet server (for spots) to ExpertSDR2, the SunSDR control software. In addition I played with overlaying RBN spots on the waterfall which is a really nice feature (example and info here www.sunsdr.eu/expertsdr2-update-2/). Everything was running on a HP Laptop creating a small but efficient contest station in the home office. To compare the experience I was also logging a few Qs using SE0X controlled via remote. See separate log entry/3830 report. 73! |
| 8J1ITU | MM | Thank you from Kasumigaura-shi, Ibaragi, Japan for many contacts. Not very good condition, but we enjoyed interesting propagation WW |
| 8N2EJT/2 | SO LP ALL | Thank you all stations! |
| 9A5TO | SO QRP 40M | FLEX-1500 + MAGNETIC LOOP INDOOR Other QSO's not 2-way completed |
| 9A7DX | MSH | Burn 3 Rig's but it was great fun :) |
| 9M6XRO | Checklog | My Rig Antennas @ 27m (HF) 2-el Lightning Bolt Quad (LF) Butternut HF2V Many thanks to the organisers. 73 to all from Borneo |
| 9V1XX | SA LP 15M | FT-897 DP |
| AA6DX | SO LP 40M | Just "stopping by" -- |
| AA6W | SO HP ALL | 15m again this year had good openings to asia and pacific. Tnx for all of the cw contacts - Don |
| AA7CR | SA LP ALL | Wow, what a hard contest..... Rig: FT-2000 100W Antennas: TH6DXX, wire 1/4 slopers for 40M-160M |
| AB3TM | Checklog | Too nice of a weekend to really play in this contest, and too high of a local noise level (S7-S9) when I did find the time. I know I busted several exchanges, so here's my checklog |
| AB3WS | SA QRP ALL | Licensed 9-22-2014 |
| AB4LX | SO LP ALL | Not the best conditions, but plenty of people to work! |
| AC4CA/5 | SA HP ALL | Lightning storms and another SteppIR problem stole my WPX mojo |
| AD0IU | Checklog | xmit serial number is incorrect in some cases so checklog |
| AD2KA | SO LP ALL | First licensed 07-Jul-2015 |
| AE5XQ | SA LP 15M | Condx not good on Saturday morning, better on Sunday to EU. Too many hitting F1 and not listening |
| AF4RK | SA HP ALL | New high score for me. glad 15 meters opened on sunday |
| AF6N | SO LP 20M | Tnx for another great contest |
| AK1W | SO HP ALL | Only part time. Conditions were entertaining |
| BH2RO | SO LP ALL | 2014.8.14 |
| BH6KOK | SA LP ALL | 42396 |
| BI4OJF | SA LP ALL | 2014.09.22 |
| C6AKV | SO LP 40M | Part time vacation operation Saturday. IC 7000 and wire verticals |
| CE3AA | SA LP 20M | increible, malas, buenas, extra?as condxs, siempre pasa algo con Do?a propa, pero lo importante que lo pasamos bien!!!! |
| CR2X | SO HP ALL | Great contest. Some QRN problems on the high bands |
| CT1AOZ | SA LP 10M | there is no words for so poor propagation. wkd only 3 W and 1 VE... 73.. Jose |
| CT1DRB | SO QRP ALL | Very nice contest all the time |
| CU4DX | SO HP ALL | Note that SV1PMQ was sending "001" after what was probably his real serial number. For both QSOs I logged what he sent |
| DC4A | SO LP ALL | Had to stop at the end because of heavy thunderstorm |
| DC9ZP | SO HP ALL | Nice contest, TNX and see u next year. Vy 73 de Manfred, DC9ZP |
| DD0VS | SO QRP 40M | Due to limited time i used 40m mainly. Condx were limited, tnx for all that listened my QRP sig. vy 73 Harald |
| DD5ZZ | SA HP ALL | My first CW contest - see ya next year! |
| DF0BV | SO LP 40M | I had only a few hours time for this nice contest because of the 1200 year celebration of our village. While my activity we had lot of thunderstorms around with high QRN. See you next year! Alex |
| DF3IR | SO LP ALL | Stressed by heavy QRN on the lower bands. Rig K3, 100wtts., mtrs., UCX-Log |
| DF5RF | SO QRP ALL | Lightning, rain, power outage, 80m almost unusable, 15m no condx. 10m was fun with short skip, 20m good openings. Using K2+KX3 5Watts, Quad Looop 40m, Dipole 80m, 20/15/10m 3ele MiniBeam, 20/15/10 LZA6-3 "light" w/o 20/15m reflectors due to weight issues |
| DG1RPU | SO LP ALL | Kenwood TS-2000, Dipol |
| DG7RO | SA LP ALL | I noticed too late that I sent the first 24 QSO the same serial number. After this I sent normal numbers. So the 24 QSO partner did copy my serial correct (bad to receycle a contest esp. cqwww) |
| DG8KAD | SA LP ALL | I not so good in CW, sorry for the errors |
| DH5MM | SO QRP ALL | This year I gave points to LoTW users |
| DH7TNO | SA LP ALL | First test of the new QTH |
| DJ0MY | SA QRP ALL | Only a few hours this year with Elecraft KX3 connected to our large club station antennas |
| DJ2MX | SO QRP 40M | Yaesu FT-817 (5W), sloping dipole |
| DJ3GE | SO QRP ALL | QRP 5 Watt from FT817 via tuner Z11 to antennas: FD3 - off-center-fed dipole, 21m long, 8m high for 40m , 20m MFB23 - 2 Element Mini Yagi for 15m, 10m |