CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| K5CI | SO HP ALL | Check Log |
| K5RX | SO HP 15M | I knew there would be thunderstorms and wanted to avoid static crashes, so stuck to 15 m. But storms were so close, I heard static crashes constantly until Sunday afternoon. A tornado came very close and I lost power for about three hours. I had planned to operate a total of 24 hours, but only got in under ten hours. Most DX was not as strong as usual, but there were exceptions. Very loud were CR3DX, followed by CN3A . KH6s, 3D2SP and 5W1SA were loud, too. OH0V via F layer to Canada then Auroral E layer was very loud late in the contest. RL3A also came in via that path, but I heard no other stations in the favored area, despite CQing while beaming straight north for some time. There was an unusual amount of fairly rare DX to work, e.g., 9M6, A71, JD1, V85, ZA and ZD7. Despite my very limited time of operation, I worked 82 countries |
| K5TS | SO LP ALL | Awesome fun contest. Wish I had more time for it, but granddaughters come first! |
| K5XU | SO LP ALL | Had to cut it short unexpectedly, but still had fun |
| K6CSL | SO LP ALL | Great Conditions |
| K6EI | SO LP ALL | I usually get a large volume of JA contacts on 40m between 2230 and 0030z, but both mornings there was strong broadband interference across the entire 40m band coming via skywave from an OTH HF radar somewhere in Asia. Anyone know where it’s based? A local intermittent RFI source somewhere in my neighborhood hammered 15 meters Saturday afternoon, but fortunately didn't reappear on Sunday |
| K6ICS | SO LP 10M | Bands nearly dead in Los Angeles. Nearly all signals were on the noise edge with QSB |
| K6NR | SO HP ALL | Operating from Williams, Arizona dipole in trees 10-20 meters, vertical on 40, inverted vee on 80 |
| K7HBN | SO LP ALL | Used SD for logging simple and easy to use especially low power 50 watts S&P Fun contest almost every Q is a mult |
| K7QA | SO HP ALL | Very similar condx to last year's WPX. 15 and 20 were spectacular deep into nighttime here with prop from all over. It didn't matter much where the beam was pointed. At least 10 woke up a bit with short SA and OC openings and spotlight paths to CN3A and D4Z, both were 10/9 at times. 40 loaded with QRN and only weak EU prop both nights. But decent AS action at SR both mornings. JAs were loud but rather sparse. Only a few loud NA stns on 80. Only DX found there was KH6 and V31. A few new DXCC band adds snagged including 9W2, A71, EX8, FW, C7 and V85. S&P almost drained each band for new Qs so did about 50% Running this year which certainly helped the score. Good to see so many Ukrainian stns on again |
| K7VIT | SO HP ALL | Guess the sun has 2 faces. A couple of weeks makes a difference. 15m was outstanding for me. 10m not so much. Best wishes for CQ Magazine. Thanks for those who are continuing to support this contest! Thanks to all who answered my calls. 73, Jerry |
| K7ZX | SO LP ALL | It was fun participating, even though I was not really competing. I did get a good evaluation of my +- 35 ft. vertical antenna and will work to optimize it. Thanks for the great contest! |
| K8GL | SO HP ALL | Interesting conditions. More hours next year |
| K8LG | SO LP ALL | Operator age 18 |
| K9AXT | SO QRP 20M | 4-Watt QCX+ with Attic Dipole. Hand-keyed-exchanges. Paper-to-Cabrillo log |
| K9KJ | SO LP ALL | First time trying out RHR |
| K9UIY | SO LP 15M | Thunderstorms with much lightning in the area prevented me from making any meaningful QSO's until 1100 UTC. And I continued to shut down periodically as more storms rolled through with high winds, lightning and heavy rain static. Thanks for all the Q's over the stormy weekend. Looking forward to a better showing next year. It's still one of my favorite contests! |
| K9WA | SO LP ALL | Shared WPX weekend with XYL's birthday so limited time. Time out for dinner and evening out.... As the saying goes, 'happy spouse, happy house'! |
| K9WWT | SO HP 20M | Excellent year for 20 Meter DX! |
| KA0PQW | SO LP ALL | fun contest 73 Matt ka0pqw |
| KA2D | SO LP ALL | PC ISSUES.. MANY MANY ERRORS ! |
| KA3TTT | SO QRP ALL | I had a great time operating QRP using a stealth end-fed in the heart of Philadelphia! |
| KA4JAM | SO LP ALL | Operator age 13 |
| KA6BIM | SO HP ALL | The Over the Horizon Radar obliterated 40 meters. It was actually painful to try and dig out cw signals. 20 was great at night and 15 in the daytime. Nice to even get some 10 mtr qso's Thanks for the qso's dave ka6bium |
| KB2URI | SO LP ALL | Only got a few in, and had long breaks between short runs. I can't deal with CW anymore. provided for non-spam |
| KB6JFL | SO LP ALL | Hard to copy keyboard CW |
| KC2PSA | SO LP 20M | First time in the contest. I made one contact before beginning a POTA acti vation. Thank you and 73 |
| KC2WUF | SO LP ALL | 80m OCF - 40/20 ladderline Inverted-V |
| KC5R | SO LP ALL | Had just repaired antennas on Friday afternoon before contest. Glad to see I was getting out ok! |
| KC6EOA | SO LP ALL | Thank you you are all awesome! |
| KD8W | SO LP ALL | Started late & got interrupted, wx didn't allow for more time. Did what I could tnx for sponsoring! |
| KD9LSV | SO HP ALL | Operator age 23 Operated at W0ECC. Birthday 08/19/2000 |
| KD9UYC | SO LP ALL | First license 04-2022 |
| KE0IAT | SO LP ALL | Flex 6400 Antennas: Butternut/ Inverted L/ Antron 99 |
| KE0TT | SO LP ALL | 100 watts to wire antennas. Thanks for the fun! |
| KF2TI | SO HP ALL | Between weather, power outages and a huge honey-doo list I could only throw out a few dozen contacts |
| KF6NCX | SO HP ALL | Great contest! |
| KF7UFF | SO LP 15M | Wire dipole |
| KG5VK | MD | We ended the Contest Early Due to the fact that one Guest OP KW5CW 's Hone was in the Tornado destruction area of Anna Texas. Fortunately he found his home without a scratch. Some of his neighbors were Not so lucky. After James departed to check on his home very early Sunday it was difficult for us to stay motivated to remain on the air. Cheers! Steve KG5VK |
| KH6AQ | SO LP ALL | A most excellent WPX with fine propagation and even finer operators |
| KI5YGT | SO LP ALL | First license 09-2022 |
| KI7KY | SO LP ALL | Unfortunately, I was traveling through most of the contest. Was able to stop at a POTA location to get almost an hour and a half in but the location (US-6084) was in a bit of a hole so that didn't help much. Also, oddly enough, was unable to tune my 40m efhw for 40m so missed out on a lot of opportunity as that would have been my best bet from where I was at. Ended up being my feed line. Still enjoyed getting a little time in on the air for the contest. -Ben CWOps #3540 |
| KJ3Q | SO LP ALL | First time in WPX contest. Just a casual op but lots of fun. Will plan for more time next year |
| KK4UZK | SO QRP 40M | First year working the CQ WPX CW. Had a great time! Thanks! |
| KN4GXM | SO LP 20M | FIRST TIME PARTICIPATING IN CQ WPX |
| KN6IPE | SO LP ALL | Band conditions were terrible this year due to CME's. I did not run a frequency at all this year. Nevertheless, there were many DXes to be made thanks to international ops who are patient with aurora flutter. My antenna this year is a homebrewed end-fed half wave wire antenna hung horizontally about 30 feet in the air between a tree and my eaves. The best addition to my station this year is an azimuth map of the world from my QTH. Hunting over the north pole paid off. The bands were okay from 20M to 10M during the day. 20M and 40M were wide open at night. Let's do this again next year! |
| KN6VQ | SO LP ALL | First license 09-2022 |
| KO0Z | SO LP ALL | Severe T-storms dampened time on the air. Oh well |
| KO1H | SO QRP ALL | XYL left me on Thursday after I took the season off to try and fix things Well I guess Im back in the test Prayers and Antenna help welcome in the Great White North |
| KO4OL | SO LP 80M | Too much going on to spend a lot of time on this contest |