CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| UA4FCO | SA HP 80M | FT-1000MP; Ant - DL 80m |
| UA6HFI | SO LP ALL | RIG: FT920 100 WATTS ANT: DIPOLES FB TEST. TNX! |
| UA9AB | SO LP 10M | Condx (on 10M) was like 7Mhz band!! |
| UA9KB | SO LP 20M | FT-2000 XL-222 |
| UA9WIK | SO LP ALL | YAESU FT1000MP Ant: delta loop 1 el. all bands |
| UA9XF | SO LP ALL | On 10-15-20m - Tribander - 2 el Yagi On 40-80m - Delta-80m FT-1000MP MARK-V Field |
| UN8FR | Checklog | Home made TRX - 100Wtts Antenna's: Dipoles |
| UP4L | SO HP ALL | Time off: 13.40-17.40, 02.35-08.05, 21.30-23.59 |
| UR2VA | SO LP ALL | IC-7400 100W VERTICAL |
| UR3IQO | SO HP ALL | First time HP in WPX (not really HP, but much more than my usual 20W). The conditions on 10/15/20m were amazing, the 80/40m were very bad due to local thunderstorms and lots of QRN. There we too litle JA's and almost no Africa/VK/ZL. I was surprised with the azimuth of incoming signals from West Europe (300-20deg, instead of usual 250-320deg). Nice weeked - lots of fun! Thanks for all who called or answered me! |
| UR5IHQ | SO LP 80M | home made 30 w ant.dipole 3.5Mhz |
| UR5IKN | SO LP 10M | Ten was opened two days but mostly to EU and AS with some AF/SA, good activity on the band. Really missed NA... anyway much fun as usual! |
| UR5LAM | SO QRP 20M | RIG Elecraft K3 PWR 5watts ANT Vertical, Vertical Loop |
| UR5QA | SO LP ALL | Trsvr - FT-950 Ant - R7000 + Delta 80m |
| UR5WX | SO LP ALL | KENWOOD TS570, DIPOLE |
| UR5ZTH | SO LP ALL | RADIO: KENWOOD TS-570 D, 100 W ANTENNA: DIPOLE |
| UR8IDX | SO LP 10M | Nice opening on 10m!! Used simple wire as antenna. :-) |
| US0HZ | SO LP 40M | Thank you very much for a contest. It was a great pleasure to meet old friends. QSL MNG: W3HNK |
| US1IV | SO LP ALL | TNX for nice contest |
| US4IXT | SO LP 20M | TNX For nice contest |
| US5XD | SO LP 10M | DELTA LOOP 3/4 el BEAM (20,15/10)M |
| US8MX | SO LP ALL | TS-450; Dipol/GP |
| US9PA | SO LP ALL | Great Contest! Just testing my new K3/100 #783. Outstanding DR/blockingperfomanc |
| UT2UB | SO HP 15M | TNX for nice contest! |
| UT3RN | SO LP 15M | TNX FOR CONTEST |
| UT4NY | SO LP 15M | RIG: 50W ANT: DIPOLE |
| UT4WA | Checklog | Radio: Home brew, 150 W Antenna: GP |
| UT5UKY | SO LP ALL | TRX: IC-756PRO3 ANT: DELTA 40-80 M |
| UT5UUV | SO QRP ALL | HOMEMADE TRX 4 WTT OUT ANT TRAP GP 10-40 ANT 40 m high vert 80-160 |
| UU4J | SO HP 15M | IC-746 PA 200 WATTS A3S |
| UU5JZ | SO LP ALL | Great opening to EU and Asia on ten mb! |
| UW7W | Checklog | Radio: TS-50S, 100 W Antennas: 4-el & 5-el QUADs |
| UX7QD | SO LP 20M | trx 100W HM ant a sloper IBM386DX40 N6TR |
| VA2WDQ | SA HP ALL | Time off 05/24/08 06:00Z - 05/24/08 11:17Z 317 mins 05/24/08 16:58Z - 05/24/08 17:58Z 60 mins 05/25/08 05:58Z - 05/25/08 12:09Z 371 mins Total Time Off 12.46 hours Total Time On 35.54 hours RIG: Yaesu FT-1000, PA: Ameritron Al-80B 750 watts ANT: 2 el. MQ-26, Inverted L I have improved my last years results up to 1.5 times. (2006 and 2007 was around 1,200 QSOs and the score of 2M ). I hope to keep my 1st place in Canada in category SOAB-HP/TB-wires as it was in 2006/2007. All targets I made (1,5K QSOs 3M/score 600/mults) have been reached. That was a real fair! 20 and 40 meters were opened all 48 hours, 80 meters was not bad but noisy. Even 10 meters was opened! What was a joy! That's why we all are Contesters! When I was CQ during daytime on 40m VK, 9K, 4L and all EU were calling. That was fantastic! CU in next Contest! 73! de Victor VA2WDQ |
| VA3RKM | SO QRP ALL | K2, 5w, verticals. |
| VA3SB | SO QRP ALL | Not too much time available this year. A couple of hours here and there.Glad to make some qsos on 15! Fun contest. Keep up the great work. 73s Serge VA3SB |
| VE1AYY | SO LP 20M | Enjoyed listening to the big guns operate... and the old style hand logging. |
| VE7JKZ | SO LP ALL | Where are the sunspots........? |
| VE7XF | SO HP ALL | Did somebody cut my coax on Sunday morning? |
| VK2CCC | SO QRP 160M | Could only operate during the first night as I had to leave next day for DX-pedition to Macao. |
| VK2GR | SO LP ALL | Band conditions poor, particularly contacts to Europe were very difficult from VK2! |
| VK3FM | SA HP ALL | Some contesters obviously prefer sending fast, rather than precisely. |
| VK4TT | SO LP ALL | G'day to all Ops in contest. Used " SD ' programme bu EI5DI worked very FB |
| VK8AV | SO LP 40M | 100watts & GP is insufficient for a big score on 40M. |
| VU2PTT | SO HP ALL | Rig: Icom 746 Pro + SB-200 Amp = 400 W Ant: Force 12 C3S Tri-bander @ 60', full-size 40m wire vertical with 1 elevated radial Log: N1MMLogger + Winkey USB WOW, what a contest! Just recovering from a bad flu and heavy doses of anti-biotics after last week's Bangalore Marathon run in which I participated. My 80m antenna could not go up due to the illness. Therefore, reduced my goals to: 1. Occupy the chair without dozing for 36 hours of the contest - DONE 2. Make at least 1 Million points - DONE 3. Shoot for 1000 QSOs - MISSED by 33 QSOs DAY 1 of the contest was pretty bad. Expected to have 800+ QSOs but ended up with only around 500. 15m which was supposed to be the money band never took off, attempts at starting a run there failed. I certainly wasted a lot of time trying to call CQ there. In fact, most of my time was spent on 15m for only 167 QSOs. It was like banging my head against a brick wall :0) Band Time Qs 40m 24% 96 20m 23% 554 15m 42% 166 10m 11% 151 All bands had weak and watery signals on Day 1, which was not expected. 10M opened between 0700-0900z to EU with good signals. 15m never real had much life and even the JAs were missing. In WPX SSB, the strategy of running JAs for prefixes worked, but not this time. Towards nightfall, 20m was staying alive with loud EU & US signals, well past the usual 1600z shutdown in this part of the world. Around 20z, over 30 US stations were worked and EU was also available. DAY 2 was pretty good with 10m open through the day to EU from my morning to night, around 0400-1400z. WOW! This sounds like the old days and the sunspots are certainly coming back with big signals out of EU. 15m never took off on Day 2 as well and failed to live up to expectations of the experience in other recent contests. 20m always gave a stream of QSOs but never at a rate greater than 70/hr. This was aggravated with most of EU pointing their beams to USA, and I was always fighting to get in through the back of the beam for many stations I called. 40m was a bit noisy and I was not in a real frame of mind to fight the QRN. A station improvement is planned in terms of a low noise receiving loop as the vertical is certainly noisy on receive. HIGHLIGHT: Finally worked California, USA after many years! The stations worked in quick succession around 1430z were K6TA, WO6T and W6FI with my beam on the Short path to the East coast. LOWLIGHT: As many noted, I needed many more repeats than usual this year with deep QSB & QRN. This seems to have been feature for many stations in this contest. Am I growing old at 43 or was it just conditions? Less time was spent on S&P which used to be my bread & butter in the LP category. In the HP category, i wanted to see how much of an improvement the amp and tribander were compared to the past 20+ years on LP :) And of course, occasionally fell into the DXing trap - finally worked OJ0J of all places, on 10m :) Ended the contest with a nice QSO with John K6AM @ ZF2AM. It was fun! Thanks for all the QSOs and hope to see you all in IARU. 73 de Prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT (ex-AF6DV) |
| VU2UR | SO LP 20M | HAVE ENJOYED A SINGLE BAND ENTRY, WITH LOT OF POWER FAILURES AND FEW QSOs,. NICE ACTIVITY. |
| W0EB | SO LP ALL | Forgot about this contest until Sunday morning -- probably not much of a score, but will work as a checklog anyway |
| W0ETT | SO LP ALL | Very nice condx on 20, 15 and even 10m! 20m into Eu in the afternoon/evening on Sat and Sun were very good. Hard to believe I made more contacts on 10m than on 15m and I put more time into the latter. Must have been that everyone was so pleased that 10m opened up to many parts of the states. 73 Ken, W0ETT |
| W0NV | SO QRP 40M | Next year the antenna will be more than a dipole up 30 ft in a tree. can't remember when I worked a contest in 30 years without a single JA. guess being a W6 has that advantage. |
| W0RAA | SO LP ALL | I had a ball in this one. Mostly S&P, but 10 & 15 proved to be productive, and that made a difference. Looking forward to the next one. Thanks to all who gave me a contact and for their patience when QRM prevailed. |