CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| KB5HPL | SO LP ALL | I had a great time this year! The bands were defintely open more on 40 & 80 this year. |
| KB7N | SO HP ALL | Thanks for another WPX contest |
| KC0FUE | SO LP ALL | Ft 897 Alpha Delta DXEE |
| KC0NXB | SO HP ALL | This is the first contest I have participated in, and it was fun. I have had my general license for about a year now. |
| KC0WCF | SO LP ALL | Working DX Stations |
| KC6X | SA HP ALL | Just did the first 5 hours from the work QTH station. I'll hopefully have more time for the CW part next month. |
| KD0S | MSH | Two new operators this time with their first contest operation. Was quite a bit of fun hearing all the great signals with lots of band activity. Thanks to everyone for their patience with those learning to operate in the contests. |
| KD2MU | SO LP 20M | Didn't have as much time this year, but still fun. |
| KD4D/3 | M2 | As usual, thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting us invade the "farm" for the weekend. The highlights for me were working my first YJ8 (Thanks, YJ8TZ) on 40 after our sunrise, a 105 hour on 40 SSB, and getting the last ten rate over 220 on 40 for a few minutes on Saturday evening! We stuck to our strategy of TRYING to run Europe on the low bands to maximize our six point QSO's, probably sacrificing a few too many USA one-pointers. |
| KD7DCR | SO HP 20M | I have done some QSO Parties, this is my first BIG Contest with CQ. It was a hoot! Beats field day with all the overseas stations active, picked up almost enough for my first 100 Countries worked...Managed a couple of rare'er ones to boot! I'll Be Back, eh... |
| KD8CDC | SO LP ALL | Maximum power used is 100 W. Off Period between 1859 and 2256 |
| KD8GKL | SO LP ALL | Yaesu FT897D with random wire antenna and manual tuner |
| KE5LHC | SO LP 20M | Output power was 100w. Buddipole horizontal dipole |
| KE6GFF | SO LP 20M | Using Collins KWM380 barefoot.- KE6GFF |
| KE6K | SO QRP ALL | I've GOT to get a beam up! |
| KE8UM | SA HP ALL | THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME IN THIS CONTEST. IT'S A LOT OF FUN. I WILL BE BACK NEXT YEAR. |
| KF0X/7 | SO LP ALL | Icom IC-7000, ground-mounted vertical, 100 watts |
| KG4W | SO HP ALL | Please establish a (low band) category for this contest. |
| KG6DX | SO HP 10M | 10 meters still has some life in it. |
| KG6RCW | SO LP ALL | This was my first contest I did and all from a wire about 30 ' off the ground. Can't wait for the next one. 73 Tom kg6rcw |
| KI4MF | SO HP ALL | Gtreat contest. Band conditions not great, but lots of folks on. Good exchange. Keep up the good work! |
| KI4ZGF | SO HP 20M | First contest |
| KI6JJW | SO LP ALL | Neighbors failing light wiped out 40 and 80 meters. Ouch. |
| KI6LZ | SO LP 20M | Where were the sunspots? |
| KJ4VO | SO HP ALL | THANKS MARK FOR THE USE OF YOUR CALL. LOTS OF FUN NOT MANY KJ4's ON YET...FIRST DAY CONDX NOT GOOD BUT MADE UP FOR IT THE SECOND DAY. |
| KL7AIR | MSH | Had some trouble with the software and Band switching so expect we will lose some points. But was a great contest and all here had fun! See you Next Contest. |
| KO0U | SO HP ALL | pretty much a domestic contest for me lowest number of Q's lowest mults = lowest score in years |
| KR7RK | SA LP ALL | Thanks to the many DX stations willing to work to pull out the weak signals! |
| KS7T | SO HP ALL | Judging from some guys with 2 or 3k qsos- I guess there's a lot of stations I just never heard boxed in by mountains and only a G5RV now all bands! |
| KS9K | SO LP ALL | As KQ2M likes to say, WPX is a contest all about strategy. Of course, the clever general must examine the capability of his troops, equipment, and location, as well well as those of his enemy to come up with a winning strategy. This is true whether one is battling on the world stage with other super powers (read 1500 watts) or in a more localized arena in a regional squabble (read 100 watts versus other USA stations). With this contest coming exactly 28 days after the ARRL DX SSB contest, I expected conditions to be similar to those prevailing that dismal weekend. However, since the DX stations could work anyone, not just US/VE stations, I knew that I couldn't count on my low power station working 28 different DX countries on 160 as I did 4 weeks ago, but I hoped to pick up a little slack by picking up some VE 4 pointers there. (Normally, the 160 and 80 meter antennas are removed following the ARRL phone contest but with the really poor conditions I left them up a month longer.) I hoped that 10 would pick up a little, but never heard a signal here although WD5K ended up with 52 ten meter QSOs. I heard one EU Sunday afternoon on 15 beaming SE but no contact resulted. From the center of the country it is hard to beam in a direction which picks up both DX and domestic QSOs. Since this contest originated as a DX contest with no points for domestic QSOs, I decided to try to favor the DX stations whenever possible, since 30 DX contacts would equal 90 USA contacts. Of course, the USA has lots of prefixes nowdays, so when I'd worked all of the DX available to my S&P efforst, I would try to find some USA guys to work. I ended with about 198 different USA prefixes in the log. I seem to have been moderately successful with this DX first strategy. Early returns show AC0W (1234Qs x 452 prefix) and WD5K (1125Qs and 498 prefixes) made more QSOs but ended with lower scores than my 1007Qs x 497 prefixes made. |
| KW9L | SO QRP 40M | THIS IS MY FIRST QRP SSB ATTEMPT. LOTS OF FUN, BUT BEST RESULTS EARLY AND LATE IN THE CONTEST. TENTEC ARGONAUT AND A DIPOLE AT 25 FEET. |
| KX5RW | SO LP ALL | Great test this year! |
| KY4P | SO HP ALL | This was my first WPX from the USA. Previously worked WPX from A22AA, S92SS, SV0LM & S9SS |
| LA6CF | SO LP ALL | DIDN'T KNOW I GOT OUT SO WELL ON SSB..... |
| LR1H | SO LP 20M | very good contest |
| LT5Y | SO HP ALL | Por momentos regulares condiciones de propagacion, pero estuve interestante felicitaciones por el contest y mantenerlo. |
| LX1ER | SO LP ALL | SEE YOU NEXT YEAR AGAIN |
| LX7I | SA HP ALL | This was not a serious entry! Just for fun to gsive some points to the freinds ! CU next Year ! Philippe LX2A / LX7I |
| LY2OU | SO LP 160M | TU for nice Contest. |
| LY3X | SO LP ALL | Tnx for nice contest |
| LY4DX | SO HP ALL | Sometimes very bad conditions, only local QSO |
| LZ130JA | SO LP 20M | RIG: FT-100D 100W Ant: 4-El. Yagi |
| LZ1IKY | SO LP ALL | IC746PRO GP; DIPOLE W5GI |
| LZ2FM | SO LP 40M | rig:ft100 ant:lw |
| M0BPQ | SO QRP ALL | Came on to give a few points away. Some nice DX on 15m. |
| M0EZP | SO LP 160M | Yaesu FT-747GX to base loaded Inverted-L Datong RF Clipper Awful results, think my aerial has turned into a dummy load! |
| M0MCX | SO LP ALL | I just dipped in and out this year for a bit of fun. Thanks to all for working me. Callum. M0MCX. |
| M0RNR | SA HP ALL | Another enjoyable contest even though I only managed 10 hours of operating. Conditions to US, South and Central America were better than last year, much fun was had throughout. |
| M3ENF | SO LP ALL | My 1st entry into CQ WPX - fantastic, loved every minute, can't wait for the next one! |
| M3OHI | SO LP ALL | No score entered as didn't want to get it wrong! First ever competition entry so apologies for errors Entries 101 & 103 duplicate ( see entries 25 & 58) |