CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| KG9X | SO LP ALL | As usual very challenging without the spotting network. Lots of tuning with the 2nd RX. Very lucky to have found and worked VU7T on 15. That took a long time out of my operating to get him but that is a ATNO for me. TNX to all the locals and CWOps who stopped by to give me a call. Some were mults for me. Condx on 15 Saturday afternoon (20-23Z) were amazing. It seems that the whole world had propagation. I was working Asia, EU, SA, PAC, even USA all at the same time! |
| KH6LC | SO HP 10M | A little tough sledding this weekend...I'm waiting for a new hip on June 9th...Hurting good...Oxy and ice help...Heather AH7RF was here and put in a great effort as a SOSB-15. I'd walk in the shack, play radio for awhile, then go watch some Indy & F1 racing, take a nap, play radio...You get the idea. Just enough to blow the cobwebs out. Good fun. Many thanks for your contacts. Vy 73 & Aloha, Lloyd |
| KI4AMD | SO LP ALL | I don't generally operate assisted, but I was using a spotting network to specifically hunt stations from Oregon because I'm working on my ARRL WAS and Oregon is the only state I'm deficient. Hopefully some of you OR stations will upload to LOTW also! |
| KI4DEF | SO QRP ALL | Rig: Elecraft K2 @ 1-5W to 44 ft doublet up 35 ft, powered by 3-AHr LiFePO4 battery |
| KK7UIL | SO LP 15M | First license 07-2024 Rig:Xiegu X6200, Xiegu XPA125B, 95' EFRW Antenna // Morse Keys: 1961 Vibroplex Standard, Putikeeg Stainless Straight Key |
| KM4FOC | SO LP 20M | Wow what a pleasant surprise.... I thought propagation would be so bad I changed my mind as to what single band I would operate. I normally pick SB 15 or SB 40. I believe this is my highest score ever in any contest.of past 60 years ! Maybe I am not 'over the hill' yet! |
| KM9P | SO HP 15M | Saturday was terrific. Sunday...not so much! Tnx to K4JNY/RCC for use of the callsign |
| KN2D | SO LP ALL | Had a great time! |
| KN6VQ | SO LP ALL | First license 09-2022 |
| KQ3Q | SO LP ALL | YL |
| KR7D | SO HP ALL | Thank you for the QSOs |
| KS7T | SO LP ALL | Wow, whatever influence those CMEs and CHHSS regions have on prop it messed up prop here in sw MT. Very selective prop on 15 & 20 into EU S3 and S5 sigs on meter but S9 in my ears, but many could not hear me when was hearing them for hours. My dipole got mni that the 3 el. beam couldn't get, yes, really, what a head scratcher! |
| KS7V | SO HP ALL | Varied condx through the contest period. My favorite time was Saturday evening when 20M was open everywhere with very low noise and low absorption. Everybody was loud and easy to copy for several hours. Spider Beam at 43' on 40 - 10 Fan Inverted Vee at 35' for 80 - 15 HyTower for 80 & 160 with occasional use on 10 when the Spider was pointed the wrong way. IC-7610 Alpha 9500 Saturday evening I had the Spider Beam pointed due North and the Inverted Vee is basically East/West. I used both at the same time and it worked very well on 20M. Didn't work at all on 15M - SWR was too high. Definitely would like to get 2 radio set up going, as that would have made a huge difference. Thank you for all of the QSOs! 73, Mike K7NT / KS7V |
| KT5J | SO HP ALL | Operator age 24 |
| KV8Q | SO LP 40M | Always a fun event. This year was no exception. Propagation was pretty decent from my point of view. I was fortunate to be taking a nap when the flare occurred. 35% of my QSO's were with CWOps members. Once I started running, I realized how many folks miscopied my call when I was S&P'ing. I try to correct it but many folks are just keep moving on. K4ZQ is my most common bust with KU8Q a close second. Overall it was 31 hours of fun for this old man.Thanks - 73 tom Rig = TenTec Eagle @ 100 Watts. Antennas = Mag Loop (40 thru 15), an Isotron-80, and an indoor 10 meter dipole, all in the attic 12' above garage floor |
| KW8N | SO HP ALL | Handing out some QSOs down the stretch |
| KX7L | SO LP ALL | I wasn't sure if I was in the WPX or the WAE contest. At one point I looked at my band map for 20m and it was 75% EU stations. 20m was the money band, but 15 and 40 were still quite productive. 10m was sadly not too useful here. Still, a lot of fun and one of my best scores in a long time |
| KY4RQ | SO LP ALL | Camping with my sons during the contest. First time trying to set up a field station. Used a home brew sloper. Enjoyed participating |
| LA5FJA | SO HP ALL | Flex6600 Antennas: OB 15-7 |
| LB3HC | SO QRP ALL | Only working a few qsos.Very casual operation inbetween |
| LN1K | SO LP 20M | First license 12-2023 :) |
| LN8W | MM | Strange propagation with heavy QSB, scewed paths, and sunday morning sometimes LUF above 14 MHz made 20m endlessly CQ and no RUN. 15 & 10m was good openings, but mostly RBN without activity… But at least a again a new record by the hard working team. 👍 Station worked flawless after nice planning & maintenance by the team. We enjoyed all QSO. QSL via LA9GX Station 6 x flex6600 6 x pgxl Tower 1 with stack for 10/15/20 and 2 x 40 4 el Tower 2 with stacks for 10/15/20 and 3 el 80 + 4 el 40 80 4 square + dipole 160 4 square 10m tower 5 el yagi 15m tower 5 el yagi Softwares N1MM |
| LU7U | SO LP ALL | jey |
| LX7I | SO HP ALL | CW is the music. A first WPXC after several years & the first one in 2BSIQ. My write-up about this excitment can be found on 3830scores.com. Thank you very much to the organizers for this traditionally great event and Bud for managing it. 73 Suad, DK6XZ aka E77XZ |
| LY4R | SO LP 10M | NO |
| LY5I | SO QRP 20M | 73 |
| LY5W | SO HP ALL | I am happy to claim New Lithuanian Record |
| LY7Z | SO QRP 80M | Elecraft K3 5W into 1/4 vertical and Inverted V @15m. Spent Friday at field with radials and other wires. New QTH seems to be OK for radio activity |
| LZ1AQ | SO LP ALL | I came earlier to my village house and found my 2-ele 5 bander delta loop crashed on the ground! I made an improvised G5RV on fishing rods as inv.V just for temporary antenna. Started on 10m band with my home made 2 W QRP but the propagation was no favorable for QRP . I hope that there will be sporadic E but this did not happened. Made only 6 QSO. Then I changed to 100W all bands participation just not to miss the contest. Part time effort. Missed the early morning NA propagation so I have very few NA stations worked. In any case I had a fun |
| LZ1IQ | SO LP ALL | TRX: FT77 100W ANT: Vert 40m dipole UCX log |
| LZ1IU | SO LP 20M | 73 |
| LZ1QV | SO LP ALL | Rig: Yaesu FT-990 barefoot (100 W) Ant: 1 ele delta loop for 80 m band at abt 25 mtrs |
| LZ1VKD | SO LP 10M | TB-WIRES |
| LZ5R | M2 | After a year of silence, we’re happy to bring LZ5R back into action. Following 10 months of maintenance and a full station rebuild — both antenna systems and inside the shack — Roman RN5M and Manu LU9ESD arrived just two weeks before the contest. With the help of a crane, they managed to raise all six 42-meter self-supporting towers with 28 Yagis, plus another 21-meter guyed tower — all in just 7 days. The final week was all about antenna cabling and setting up the shack and the switching room, including our complex antenna server system. We met our goal partially. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a crane tall enough in time to install the last sections of the 48-meter towers that hold the full-size Yagis for 80M and the top antenna of each 15M stack. Still, we decided to be on the air — especially since we had committed to welcoming our friends from Romania, who arrived by car Friday morning and completed a fantastic international operator team. Our target was to beat the EU record held by OM7M since 2021, and while we did manage to break it, our friends at ES9C went even further and ended up 1 million points ahead of us. Hats off to the outstanding team they put together for that amazing result. Propagation was nowhere near what we were expecting. Only 22.8% of our log came from NA. If you look at the disappointing 10M band, NA made up just 2.4% of our QSOs! Just to give you a sense of how tough it was — we threw up a single dipole for 80M and out of 427 QSOs, 5.1% were NA… that’s more than on 10M! 20M was once again the most reliable band, open practically 24 hours. 15M was unpredictable, with weak signals and heavy fading throughout. We’re happy we were able to maintain a good rhythm despite the station only running at about 80% capacity — and above all, we’re thrilled to be back doing what we love during one of the best weekends of the year. Special thanks to Sergei Rebrov UT5UDX, who-despite his packed schedule- found time to operate remotely from EA7, and to Nick LZ3ND who joined us from germany, both doing a fantastic job as usual. We’d like to thank and congratulate ES9C once again for always being visible on the scoreboard. That kind of transparency makes the competition more exciting, ethical, and fair. Sadly, there are still too many who hide — even top stations — using the scoreboard purely for their own benefit, acting selfishly, disappearing, or implementing weird “strategies” that only raise doubts about their own operation. Luckily, all these examples keep pushing the major contest committees toward making scoreboard visibility mandatory — a decision we fully support. Huge congrats as well to the Emirates Amateur Radio Society A62A for a flawless performance and a historic showing for the country, topping the category on the scoreboard. Truly impressive.Special congarulasion to my frends from Argentina.Fantastic job Romantito! Thanks for all the QSOs — see you in Friedrichshafen next month! Krassy K1LZ - LZ5R team |
| LZ6P | SO LP 15M | For fun....checking Delta loop |
| LZ7CC | SO LP ALL | RTX YAESU FT-991A PWR 90W ANT OCF DIPOLE 40/20/10 |
| M0CVO | SO LP ALL | 10m was in awful condition except for one lucky contact. 40, 20 and 15m produced some good results though. Overall an enjoyable contest 100W and a wire antenna |
| M0PTO | SO QRP ALL | N1MM went nuts at the beginning of the contest and sent 333 for my third contact. Couldn't stop it, so logged with that! |
| M0Q | SO HP ALL | Antennas: |
| M0RNR | SO HP ALL | Just giving away a few points really but enjoyed a few hours on the radio |
| M4E | SO HP 15M | Used a fan dipole up 40-45 feet |
| M4N | SO LP 15M | FLEX6400 to Doublet using SDC contest software |
| M6M/A | SO LP 80M | Only worked a couple as /A |
| M6T | MM | Only 5 CW ops available and not all full time, so no way we could be competitive. But we had fun! |
| M7M | MSL | M0SQC - Polish Amateur Radio Group |
| M9N/P | SO LP 40M | Just came on for a bit of practice, rather than a serious entry, this year. 73 GL |
| ME6W | SO LP ALL | Looks like last year the solar cycle peaked, 15m noticeably worse this year |
| MI4I | SO LP ALL | 10 poor but other bands in good shape. Some TERRIBLE CW signals about |
| MM1E | SO HP ALL | Managed 14:47hrs around family birthday celebrations and other visitors etc. Mostly Sunday operating only. 73 Gordon MM0GOR MM1E |
| MM9I | SO HP ALL | Condx not that great. Times not much on |