CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N6HI/7 | SO QRP ALL | Ran 5 Watts to a 20 foot end-fed wire. Condx were rather poor overall, reflecting the changes in the solar cycle. This was a fun contest, not a ton of DX, but enough to keep it interesting. Surprised to work OA4SS on 10 meters, the ONLY station heard here on 10. This was a satisfying end to the major contest season, looking forward to this fall's contests! Thanks to all for the QSOs! GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! 73, John N6HI - Always QRP |
| N6MI | SO HP ALL | Field Day style portable operation near Alvord Mountain |
| N7VPN | SO LP ALL | Visitors from Far away. Contest stopped. 73 Jeff |
| N8BB | SO QRP ALL | Another fine contest. QRP 5 watts is a challenge but it was fun |
| N8II | SO HP 15M | Great to hear 15M open well with good activity after a very poor May. The band was open to every area except East Asia west of JA at some point. Both days there was a 2ndary EU opening 20-22Z after the band closed early |
| NA3DX | SA QRP 20M | QRV in Delaware for part of the weekend |
| NC6B | SA LP ALL | This was my first large effort in a CW contest |
| NC6K | SA LP ALL | I learned a few new lessons about trying to operate low power in a DX contest. I figured with my shiny new 4-element SteppIR DB36 at 60', I could operate as if I was using full power and all would be well. Not quite. There's nothing like calling an Eastern European station that's S9 for 10 minutes and he doesn't hear you at all. Then there were the Qs that required me to send my serial number at least 6 or 8 times! I think the record was 12, but I wasn't checking that closely. Running was interesting - I'd find a relatively quiet spot and start calling CQ for a while before another station running high power and having serious key clicks would slide in right next to me. End of run on that frequency! I was only spotted four or five times in the entire contest, which was super frustrating, and two of them were with 30 minutes left in the contest and right before another high powered station parked himself almost on top of me. I had to move far enough away that the spots were useless. Conditions seemed fantastic on Friday afternoon through Saturday morning. Even 80 Meters was very usable and the noise levels were reasonably low. 20 was tremendous Friday night and early Saturday, but by Saturday night, I was really struggling with the noise on both 40 and 80, so went to bed early and slept in a bit instead of taking a nap and getting right back on. All-in-all, I operated quite a bit less than the full 36 hours. It just didn't seem worth losing sleep to endlessly call CQ. It was a lot of fun, and I did pick up some new band-entities. I think it's safe to say that I won't be running LP in any more worldwide contests (I might do it for some of the US or NA-only ones). It takes a lot more than a four-element yagi to be competitive from the West Coast, I guess. It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I tried it this one time |
| NE4AA | SA HP ALL | I used NE4AA in memory Ron, WD4AHZ (SK) |
| NF4A | SA HP ALL | Part time effort.....holdiay weekend with family obligations. 80 and 40 were noisy in the South |
| NG1I | SO HP ALL | hearing impaired, rotten propagation but a great challenge. Thank you all |
| NM1G/4 | SO HP ALL | THANKS TO CHUCK FOR LETTING ME USE HIS CALL...NOT QUITE UP TO PAR.. AS HAVING SOME MY BACK PROBLEMS...UP AND DOWN A LOT...OFF TIMES WERE WHEN I HAD TO GET OUT OF THE CHAIR....THANKS TO ALL AND TO CQ FOR SPONSORING THE BEST OF THE BEST |
| NN5Z | SA HP 15M | Ken's station worked perfectly, as usual. Thanks to Ken and Lynn for their hospitality |
| NO2D/0 | SO LP ALL | No luck getting Prolific USB to Serial converter to work in Windows 10. Used WinKey but no luck getting K3 to talk to N1MM. No band or frequency info. Then on Sunday morning Windows 10 decided to add 6 hours to the UTC time. Then after noon local time it switched back. My log is a mess. No excuse, though, for my own inability to copy and log fast cw calls and serial numbers correctly. I am sure I will lose lots of contacts and points because of that. Still, I had fun. Pete, NO2D |
| NO3M | SO LP 160M | Rig: Replica 1929 breadboard MOPA running a 203A final at 100W output Key: 1962 Vibroplex Champion bug Lots of fun; wanted to give the recently finished 160M 100W MOPA a good burn-in before the upcoming Summer Stew Perry (TBDC) in June. Worked a nice amount of west coast and several DX, including some in EU |
| NO9E/4 | SO HP ALL | A few QSOs with KX3 portable followed by a few hrs with K3/2k-fa |
| NP3CW | SO LP 15M | Worked less than 5 hours in 15 mtrs band |
| NR7DX | SO HP ALL | Thanks to Northern Rockies DX Assn for letting me use their call |
| NY4A | SO HP ALL | Interesting condx |
| OA4SS | SO HP ALL | When zero beating, if many are calling, pse change frequency slightly |
| OE2S | SA HP 20M | lots of static due to thunderstorms, so sometimes it was impossible to copy anything |
| OE5OHO | SA HP ALL | Condx ok. Had fun handing out points. Thanks for the contacts. Unfortunately not too much time to spend on the radio this time |
| OE6HZG | SA HP ALL | Spent a good few hours on the radio. Condx especially onSaturday were pretty good. PC and FT847 did not wqork together caused some troubles but all in all |
| OG5A | SO LP 20M | 20m low power was much tougher than the two earlier ones I did on 15 |
| OH0V | SO HP ALL | Thank You All for QSOs! |
| OH1F | SA HP 20M | Thanks for QSOs! |
| OH1SIC | SA LP ALL | 73 de OH1SIC/SM5SIC Goran |
| OH2LU | SO LP ALL | 391 QSO, 497 p, 272 mults, 135184 claimed score OpTime 15h 45 min Rig IC-756ProII, 10 W Ant Mosley TA-33M Tribander Tagi, Trap Dipole (40/80m) |
| OH2T | SA HP ALL | Thanks for the nice contest! |
| OK1BLU | SO HP ALL | BREAK 2016-05-28,0000-0600 BREAK 2016-05-28 2300-0000 BREAK 2016-05-29 0000-0400 BREAK 2016-05-29 1700-2000 |
| OK1FRO | SO HP ALL | RIG YAESU FT-950 + PA, PWR 800 W, ANT DIPOLE 2 x 20m |
| OK1GS | SO LP ALL | limited time for operation |
| OK1GSB | SO QRP 10M | FT-817 + Attic dipole |
| OK1JOK | SO LP 160M | FT1000MP MK5F INV.L |
| OK1KA | SO HP 15M | Antena Yagi made OK5IM 17m high PWR 300W |
| OK1KZ | SO LP 80M | RIG-TRX FT-847 100W ANT DIPOLE G5RV |
| OK1LL | SO LP 15M | RIG: FT897D 100W, ANT 3 el monobander. I declare that everythings in the contest was under the rules . Unfortunately the weather was terrible / strong wind and 3times thunderstorms... 73 Ivan *** |
| OK1PX | SO LP ALL | RIG: Kenwood TS-590S 100W, ant 15m LW |
| OK1QM | SO LP ALL | I operated from a great contest station of Martin, OL5Y Radio FT950 Antennas: ECO tribander 20-10 m bands Quad Monster 2 el 40 m, 4 el 20-10 m stack of 2 Spiderbeams 20-10 m INV Vees for 160, 80 and 40 m My special thanks to Martin, OL5Y for his hospitality and possibility to use his station. 73 and gl, Jan, OK1QM |
| OK1UKV | Checklog | FT950 100W, vert. ant. AV-640, 27m LV, UCXlog, |
| OK1VK | SA LP ALL | TS-590, 100W, TR4W, HEX beam and HF-dipole |
| OK2BFN | SA LP ALL | IC746 100W, 7.4m Roof Vertical with AH-4 Tuner, Inv.L for 160m |
| OK2BJK | SO LP ALL | Rig FT-897D Pwr 95W Ant W3DZZ my AGE 83 Yaers SRI GB OMs |
| OK2FD | SA QRP ALL | GOOD EU openings and some DX windows too |
| OK2PBG | SO LP 15M | Transceiver FT950 ( Power 100W ) Ant. vert. CP6 , FD4 |
| OK2SWD | SO LP ALL | VERY GOOD CONTEST WITH MANY STATIONS. SEE YOU AGAIN FRIENDS. TCVR: YAESU FT-897d 35W, ANT: GP |
| OK2TBC | SO LP ALL | tcvr:TS590S, 100w, ant.-GP7DX, |
| OK5NW | SO LP ALL | rig old SOKA FTdx-505, pwr 100W, PA rebuilded for 2 x 6P36S tubes |
| OK5SWL | SO LP 40M | VERY GOOD CONTEST. SEE YOU AGAIN FRIENDS. TCVR: YAESU FT-897d 35W, ANT: GP |
| OK7O | MSH | FT1000MP MarkV, ACOM 1010-700W 80-dipol, 40,30-3el., 15-4el.,10-6el |