CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| KK6L | SO LP ALL | Turned on the radio late Sunday afternoon and heard the bands singing with CW. When I learned it was WPX-CW, I quickly fired up N1MM+ and started logging. Worked about 3 hours and had a good time. Rig was a Yaesu FT-450 running 100 watts into a dipole at 20 feet. Looking forward to the next contest! 73's es GL! |
| KM4SII | SO LP ALL | Operator age 20 Birth date November 3, 2002 (for youth overlay) It's good to be back! This was my first major contest in quite a while... I believe WPX CW last year was my last 'full-48' effort. College does indeed put a damper on contesting BIC time. As usual, this was a SO1R effort with simple wire antennas from my home QTH in North Carolina. However, this time I was actually sitting in the same room as the radio instead of remote from college in Alabama. The majority of my time was spent searching and pouncing as this time I decided to prioritize working high-point DX QSOs over rate. I would estimate that only about a fourth of my QSOs resulted from running. As always, it was enjoyable keeping an eye on the competition on the online scoreboard. If you haven't used the online scoreboard before, I would definitely recommend it! 80m was lackluster as expected. I was struggling to get the attention of the few EUs that were making it through the noise, so I quickly retreated back to 40m which was in much better shape. 40m provided a steady stream of 6-pointers out of EU that really boosted my score. Absorbtion made 20m a domestic band until the afternoon, but it remained open through the night with EU being workable until about 0830z on both nights. I was surprised to find many loud EUs on 15m in the 05z hour on night one, but there would be no repeat performance on night two. The JAs were also quite loud on 15m around 15/16z and 00z on Saturday, but I did not log any JAs on other bands. 10m produced a few weak EU QSOs, but for the most part I was only hearing the usual CN/EA8/CT3 and South American suspects. It was nice to be able to catch KH8W with minimal pileups before they were spotted. I was hoping to be able to work V85RH as well, but unfortunately, he was nowhere near as loud as he was in ARRL DX CW. All-in-all, WPX was a success with the sun behaving this time around. I was able to set a new personal best in this contest, surpassing my score from last year by a comfortable margin. The only things that hampered me this weekend were my poor CW skills and my awful suffix. I will be hearing 'SII SII S I I S I I' in my sleep. Too many dits! Thanks for the QSOs and see you in the next one... whenever that may end up being :) 73 Mason - KM4SII Rig: Flex 6300 Antennas: 80: 80m dipole sloping from 70 to 40 ft 40: 40m dipole sloping from 70 to 50 ft 20: 20m delta loop at 60 ft 15: 40m dipole sloping from 70 to 50 ft 10: 20m delta loop at 60 ft |
| KN7A | SO LP ALL | I worked the contest for about 12 hours and had a ball. The participation this year seemed lighter than last year. I met all my goals for the contest and can't wait until next year! KN7A |
| KO4GOF | SO LP ALL | Operator age 21 Youth. Birthdate November 2001 |
| KO4TFK | SO LP ALL | First license 09-2021 |
| KP2M | SO HP ALL | 40 and 80 were down due to increased solar activity. 10M did not open well though |
| KQ2M | SO HP ALL | Amazing propagation at the start of the contest with lousy cndx on Sunday. Always a challenge and lots of fun Wonderful to see so many Ukraine stations again! Tnx for the qsos and the mults! 73 Bob, KQ2M |
| KQ4DAP | Checklog | checklog up. thx for listening to my terrible cw |
| KR2Q | SO HP ALL | I had no actual antennas for 40 or 80, so I used my 160 inverted L on 40 (very bad SWR) and I used nothing on 80 (SWR was impossible). I also slept way too much (not by intention) due to being overtired from the prior week at work and working on my 'main' antenna which was at ground level for a MONTH..and still there. Still, had a fun time |
| KS4L | SO LP ALL | Yaesu FTDX10 to end-fed multi-band antenna with apex at about 50'. Worked 37 DXCC entities. Thanks for the Qs! |
| KS7T | SO LP ALL | Wow, once again a contest proves 2 major facts and they are 1. CW is alive and well with great cw ops world wide. 2. Not all all the bands are dead. All month I heard only a handful of EU stns on 20 cw around my MDST sundown. In this contest EU was coming in from 0000z til 0700z Fri nite, 1330z to 0700 Sat. and 1700z - 2400z on Sun. 15 open to EU Sat. but just slightly on Sun. Nil 10,40 & 80 |
| KV5Y | Checklog | CHECKLOG - Poor band conditions |
| KV8Q | SO LP ALL | Bands were a mess Saturday with very fast & deep QSB. That really stressed my already comnprimised antenna farm and me!!! Things straightened up for Sunday. I had hoped to get over 1K Q's but I'll gladly take the 1M+ points. Great signals from JA all weekend. Worked many CWOps folks. Sometimes it fels like a Wednesday. Lots of fun. Thanks - 73 tom Rig = TenTec Eagle @ 100 Watts. Antenna = an Isotron-80 for 80 meters, a mag Loop (40 thru 15), a 10 meter dipole, all in the attic above the garage |
| KX7L | SO LP ALL | It was a busy weekend, so not much time for the WPX, but I squeezed in a few hours at the end. I was hoping to find some activity up here on 10m, but such was not the case. 15 was only weakly open. Thanks for the QSOs! |
| KY4GS | SO LP ALL | First license 04-2021 YL and Rookie (Licensed April 2021) |
| KY4KY | SO HP 40M | Surprised at what you can do with 500W and Inv Delta Loop! |
| KZ0US | SO QRP ALL | Just had a little time to put in. Always fun to try and work DX with 5 watts and give stations a new multiplier as I'm the only KZ0 on the bands contesting |
| LA100K | SO HP ALL | Casual entry for some hours, thank you for the QSOs |
| LC5P | SO QRP ALL | Great condx! I had a lot of fun with my KX3 @5W and DxCommander vertical. Thanks for all the patience with my weak QRPsignal |
| LC9A | SO LP ALL | Condx were decent although very little action on the higher bands from here. Great to work the world with 100w. Didn't quite crack 1000 Q's maybe next year |
| LU5OM | SO HP 40M | TS-590S, 400 W, 1/4 WAVE WIRE VERTICAL |
| LY2NK | SO HP 10M | Tnx and 73 |
| LY7K | SO HP ALL | Operator age 25 Born in 1997-06-19 |
| LY9A | SO LP ALL | Zero QSO with agressor countries - russia and belorus |
| LZ1AQ | SO HP 20M | 300 W, 2-ELE ROTARY DELTA LOOP 15M HIGH, INV.V 12M HIGH |
| LZ1QV | SO LP ALL | Ant 1 ele Delta Loop for 80 m at abt 25 m height Radio Yaesu-FT990 - 100 W Rainy weather with thunderstorms |
| LZ5B | SO LP 20M | 73 es mni dx! |
| M0IPU | SO LP ALL | Clusters:: DXspider: dxs.ddns.net:7300 ARcluster 6: arc6.ddns.net:7373 CCcluster: dxnode.ddns.net:8888 |
| M1GEO | Checklog | Just giving away a few points. Received numbers wouldn't convert, but if you really wish to know, I can manually confirm. Thanks |
| M7NNQ | SO LP ALL | First license 12-2022 LICENCED 22/12/22 |
| M8M | SO HP ALL | Only had a short time to participate on sunday evening, busy hour and a half. 250W and 3.5MHz EFHW in inverted V configuration |
| MI4I | SO LP 20M | If I only had more time |
| MM3T | SO HP 10M | A couple of hours in between chores |
| MM9I | SO HP ALL | Fun contest as always but condx were strange and not great for a lot of the time to USA. Asia was pretty good. Thanks for all the Qs folks |
| MR2J | SO HP ALL | 100W on 20M, 180W on other bands K3, SSPA 22m long doublet or TB31Jr @12M |
| MR3P | SO QRP ALL | My City Windom seemed to play well in inverted-L config. Please to get some runs, even from North America, with my QRP! |
| MR6W | SO LP ALL | Condx not bad but not stellar eiether |
| MX3W | SO HP 20M | Great propagation on 20m but only really good at dawn and dusk. It was great to work into the Pacific quite a bit, with good signal strenghts here. In the middle of the day signals were fewer and DX was not to be heard. Although RBN made searching for mults easy, I had lots of dupe callers due to RBN busts and lots of reported mults were busts too. This was possibly not the best point in the cycle for a 20m single band entry |
| N0JK | SO QRP 10M | from contest committee prompted me to enter. Thanks reminder! Was fixed mobile with 1/4 wave whip for antenna. Nice to see some Es and a little TEP on 10M. Best DX was VK1A. Also liked picking up AB2E/VP9 and FY5FY. FY5FY was loud Sunday afternoon, a golden opportunity for anyone in Midwest USA who needed French Guiana on 10 Meters. CW5W, ZX2E, VE5MX, NR4M & LU8DPM had good signals as well |
| N1API | SO LP ALL | Always great to hear familiar calls and old friends again |
| N1CEO | SO LP ALL | I AM LEARNING CW. IN SOME SITUATIONS I HAVE PROBLEMS UNDERSTANDING THE RECEIVED SERIAL NUMBER. SOMETIMES THERE HAVE BEEN PROBLEMS IN SENDING THE SERIAL NUMBER |
| N1NN | SO HP ALL | 16TH CQ WORLD WIDE WPX CW CONTEST |
| N2FT | SO HP ALL | Need an HOA category for hams that can't have Tribanders |
| N2MA | SO LP ALL | 2 1/2 hours, still recovering had a devil of a time copying. No Pix this time. Checked S25A. got all excited either operator transposed numbers or it dont smell right! |
| N3AML | SO HP ALL | First license 12-2020 12/2020 |
| N3HCN | SO QRP 20M | This one is for Lisa! |
| N4CW | SO HP ALL | Good conditions when I operated! Best score ever in WPX CW!!! |
| N4FP | SO HP ALL | Flex 6400, Ten-Tec Titan 425, Classic 33, wires |
| N4LSJ | SO HP ALL | Would like to have seen more ten meter action |
| N5GSG | SO LP ALL | This was my first time in this contest. I only made 7 contacts, but it was good code practice for me. I had to listen to some stations several times to get their call sign and to get the beginning of their serial number. Most of them kindly slowed down for the serial number |