CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| W9KEY | SO HP ALL | EFHW Resonant Wire in the Backyard Trees |
| W9MW | SO LP ALL | First license 02-2022 |
| W9RE | SO HP ALL | Testing amp but it wouldn't ever fault |
| W9TCV | SO LP ALL | Nice to see the world on 10! Thanks to all who participated and 73, W9TCV |
| W9USO | SO LP ALL | First license 04-2022 |
| WA1LBK | MSL | 1st time participant, won't be the last! |
| WA4ZXV | SO HP ALL | Just a short attempt for practice. Fun |
| WA6KHK | SO HP ALL | Still using the HF9V Butternut vertical! Three months of the pineapple express |
| WA6URY | SO HP ALL | Operated remote from Tokyo, Japan |
| WB0YLE | Checklog | dates automatically entered by log program do not track from hand-written log |
| WB4DKU | SO HP ALL | First license 07-2020 |
| WB7EUJ | SO LP ALL | first contest |
| WB8RGE | Checklog | Checklog |
| WD5CAY | SO LP 10M | TS-590, 102' WHIP ON TRACTOR HOOD, BEHIND BARN. HAD FUN, STILL LEARNING |
| WD6T | M2 | Always a pleasure to operate from the expansive Stanford Amateur Radio Club station in the scenic hills above campus (near where I did my graduate work 40 years ago with the Stanford AI Lab computer music group.) We had a significant handicap this time, as a recent major “atmospheric river” wind storm wrecked the 4-element 40 meter Yagi (also damaged the 20m Yagi.) Still, the 40m inverted-V held its own, at least for a while (more on that below). N7MH and I operated rotating 8 hour shifts at his operating position, so each of us were on all 24 clock hours on one day or the other. The second position was manned by three newer contesters from the Stanford ARC community. They did a FB job with major BIC, excellent focus and improving technique as the contest progressed. (Note to self: recruit for NCCC!) Band conditions: 10m - Europe was late to open, stayed open for a short time, and was not runnable. We were also hampered by intermittent wide-band noise, possibly due to a nearby repeater. Double beaming SA/JA was productive on Sunday afternoon. 15m - Conditions good to Europe and elsewhere else, though not as good as ARRL DX SSB. It was possible to run EU part of the time the first day. 20m - High noise/absorption during the day, but a decent EU opening later at night and a US opening in the early morning well before dawn. 40m - As expected, our Achilles heel, given the double points and importance of JAs to the W. Coast. We were able to hang on until the sun set in YB-land, when the number of stations CQ'ing doubled, many of whom couldn't hear us. There was also another noise issue that hampered in-band scanning. 80m - 80m count lower than it might have been, as we favored the 20m opening the second night. JAs worked on 80: 24 the first night and 6 the second, between 923z and 1217z. 160m - A brief stop to say hello and then get back to business. Thanks to John W6LD and Mike N7MH for use of their equipment. And congrats to John on his P40L low power effort. Thanks also to those who spotted us, particularly ND7K and NR6O. We tried to return the favor when possible, but had limited scanning ability, due to above-mentioned in-band issue. Congrats to , WC6H and KL7RA for excellent M2 scores (and see my March 2023 NCCC JUG editorial advocating the online scoreboard.) |
| WF0GM | SO HP ALL | WOW! One of the best ever! My only big complaint is all of the time wasters not giving callsigns for 10 minutes or more. Frustrating |
| WM7C | SO LP ALL | 1/4 wave ground mounted vertical whip for 10 meters load vertical for 40 meters ground mounted vertical hamstick for 15 meters |
| WM7Z | SO LP ALL | First weekend with a brand new radio. What a great way to break it in! Thanks for all the operators that showed patience and class |
| WO1S | SO LP ALL | First time this contest and XYL's logger. K3 & 65 feet of wire. Woopie! |
| WO2X | SO HP ALL | Missed most of the contest due to other commitments but still enjoyed the time I was able to participate |
| WO3X | SO LP ALL | I hope to have a higher score than previous times |
| WP3GW | SO LP ALL | Noisy Saturday afternoon, but nice propagation on Sunday. Nice time with Europe |
| WP4KEY | SO QRP ALL | Use wire dipole with Yaesu FT 891 |
| WP4TZ | SO LP ALL | First license 07-2022 |
| WQ6X | SO QRP ALL | This was TRULY a last minute WQ6X remote operation from WA6TQT's Super Station in Anza. An antenna rotator problem convinced everyone scheduled to run as NX6T to bail out at the last minute, offering WQ6X the opportunity to run the Elecraft K3 remotely as a QRP operation. While stacked yagi's were available for 40, 20, 15 & 10, they could not be rotated so they were all pointing N-E (more or less to EU). Needless to say, Asia and South America were largely not possible, altho several VK stations were worked off the back of the yagi stacks. For 80-meters there was a 4-Square vertical arraying stuck-pointed N-E and 2/3's of a tri-square vertical array also stuck-pointed to N-E. Thanks to all the stations who managed to copy my QRP signal. At LEAST I can say that I played in the 2023 Ssb Weird Prefix contest. LooK for a write-up on this GiG soon at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com |
| WW4LL | MD | 10% OF SCORE FOR SWAMP FOX CONTEST GROUP 90% OF SCORE FOR SOUTH EAST CONTEST CLUB |
| WX4DAT | SO LP ALL | Great Fun Ic-718 100 watts and a wire |
| WY4A | SO HP ALL | Thanks to Pedro, WY4A for making the call available. My longest ham friendship, 42 years and growing. Broken rotor does NOT help trying to work EU off side of antenna. Top of list to fix. Best DX, called by B7C on 15. Worst DX, couldn't break a pile for HZ1TT on 20, see side of antenna comment above. Strangest DX, CY0S calling CQ on 40 and 75 with NO takers... 73, Dave NN4TT |
| XE2N | SO LP 10M | Great time with my Raspberry Pi in the contest -) |
| XF2C | SO LP ALL | Operated from IOTA NA-135, Isla del Carmen |
| YB1AR | Checklog | CHECK - LOG |
| YB1BBW | SO QRP ALL | please ARRL amateur from Delawere US *sced with me if read this message thanks |
| YB1FTC | SO LP ALL | Congratulations & succes for holding The CQ-WPX Contest 2023. See you at The CQ-WPX Contest next year. '73. De YB1FTC |
| YB2TDP | SO LP ALL | semoga sukses kegiatannya |
| YB2XVT | SO LP 10M | Thanx 4 the contest |
| YB3BGM | SO LP ALL | NICE CONTEST CU NEXT EVENT GB GL 73 |
| YB3BRP | SO HP 40M | LOKAL MALANG RAYA |
| YB3GER | SO LP 15M | Good luck. 73 |
| YB3IZK | SO HP 10M | ENJOIYED JOINT WPX SSB HPE CUAGN SOON 73S |
| YB4DCE | SO HP ALL | CONRATULATIONS AND SUCCESS FOR THE WPX SSB CONTEST IN 2023 SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT YEAR |
| YB4HPI | SO HP ALL | PF cq wpx ssb 2023 |
| YB4NY | SO LP 20M | Good Luck WPX SSB Contest 2023 |
| YB7FQA | SO HP ALL | TANK YOU CQ WPX |
| YB7XO | Checklog | Great contest! |
| YB8SHY | SO HP 40M | TNX 73 |
| YB9YSS | SO LP ALL | 18/11/2024 |
| YC1JNV | SO LP 15M | Succes WPX SSB 2023 |
| YC1LJT | SO QRP 15M | Operator age 22 16 NOV 2000 |
| YC1RDH | SO LP 15M | First license 02-2022 |
| YC2COM | SO LP ALL | THX 73 |