CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| KK7VL | SO QRP ALL | Radio is a stock Yaesu FT-817ND. The antennas that I used were phased 20m magnetic loops hung vertically between two 30 foot masts over a ground screen and oriented East/West;phased 40m Inverted Ls; phased 20m verticals; 160m loop. Biggest thrill of the contest was to work Australia and Japan on 40m with 3 watts output. |
| KK9A/4 | SO HP 20M | My 50th birthday occurred during the contest, what a great way to celebrate. |
| KL2R | SA LP ALL | Some general comments: I spent 95% of the time S&P. I noticed on Saturday and Sunday, starting in the local afternoon, I had to point north to work some folks in W3/W8/W9/W0. Azimuths to US/VE are almost all due east from my QTH. I still do not understand that! There seemed to be a lot of bogus spots with busted calls and incorrect frequencies. If I didn't know better, I would swear some of these were intentional. I worked the Moroccans on 20 Saturday. Saw CN2A spotted on 15 Sunday and thought I would check, and they were loud as the W7s. I worked the other guys, too, a few minutes later. It was well after sunset their time. Hmmm...no EU on 15, though. Some of the bigger W6/W7 stations were 5 kHz wide. I could see that on the band scope. As they were ever-present, a lot of unnecessary QRM. Sorry to miss some of my KL7 and VY1 colleagues, who were well spotted! I didn't even try 160. I went to bed early both nights, as I have been under the weather lately. |
| KL7AIR | MSH | Great contest, we even beat our last years score by a bit! See you in the next one. |
| KP2DX | SA LP ALL | Nice propagation, bands wide open, Especially 15 meters. |
| KQ2M/1 | SO HP 15M | 15 Was WILD on Saturday but poor on Sunday. Great fun all weekend in my favorite contest! Thanks for the Q's and Mults! 73 Bob KQ2M |
| KQ4Y | SO LP ALL | Good time! |
| KX5A | SA LP ALL | Had a great time! And I earned alot about my new K3, and the interface to N1MM. Had some antenna issues - the yagi array with the C31 and 240N wouldn't turn due to lightning damage to the rotor, and the antennas were pointed to 315. The other C31 is side-mounted fixed to 45 degrees. So I spent alot of time switching VFOs with and without N1MM (sometimes on purpose, sometimes accidentially), and switching antennas via the K3 switch or the RCS8_V. And I even managed to load the old Fritzel OCF dipole on 160 enough for 4 stateside Qs. |
| KX5RW | SO HP ALL | What a great test! Tnx to everyone who participated! |
| KY6LA | SO LP ALL | First contest in a long time using my dipole rather than the SteppIR MonstIR Beam. As expected the dipole sucked... Real motivation now to reinstall the motors on the MonsitIR and actually be able to make QSO's again. Thanks to all who tried to hear my very poor signal. |
| KZ1A/4 | SO HP 40M | 5X4R and FK8EM calling me late afternoon on 40mtrs? Was I that lucky, or are they qso busters. |
| KZ5J | SO HP 15M | Super conditions here Friday night. |
| LA2HFA | SO LP ALL | 3 breaks 2010-03-27 at 0122 to 2010-03-27 at 1049 9hrs 2010-03-27 at 2152 to 2010-03-28 at 0722 9hrs 2010-03-28 at 2035 to 2010-03-28 at 2359 3hrs Total 21 hrs break, 27 hrs activity |
| LN5O | M2 | Many station have 4- 10 khz signal ! unbelieve QRM ! Highlights was 15 m with all the DX and all KH6s on 20m |
| LP1H | M2 | We had a blast during WPX SSB. The participation is increasing and so is the quality of the operations! 73 to all de LP1H. |
| LU1UM | MM | We started this contest to teach the new guys that come into this branch of the hobby, but I had to leave my teaching to having the flu. The rest of my friends did too, because they are not very experienced with the use of software and other accessories. Anyway, very happy, Jose LU2ECP, and Carlos LU6UOL, Dx never done, so far, and were encouraged to do so for the first time. |
| LY1AKM | SO LP ALL | yaesu ft-920; ANTENNA(s): inverted-v 80;40;20 |
| LY1G | SA LP 80M | RIG: FT-1000 MARK-V; ANTENNA: Four square phased verticals for 80 metre band |
| LY1XA | SO HP ALL | ; ANTENNA(s): DIPOLE |
| LY2CO | SO HP ALL | 73 ! |
| LY2OM | SO LP ALL | Icom IC-751; ANTENNA(s): INV.V-1,8;3.5;7mc 5el Yagi 14;21mc |
| LY2SA | SA LP ALL | RIG: IC-736; ANTENNA: GP, dipole |
| LY5W | SA HP 80M | I'm lucky for new LY Record. |
| LZ1FJ | Checklog | Trcvr 70 W; wire 27 m |
| LZ2FQ | SO LP ALL | Radio: Icom 706 Antennas: Vertical for 20-15-10m, MFJ-1622 for 40m attached to balcony |
| M0MCV | SO LP ALL | Glad to take part this year with my new call and extra power. Good to hear 15m open and 40m was its usual self, with wall-to-wall signals. |
| M0RNR | SA HP ALL | A token entry this year as our new baby put pay to any length of time on the radio. Some good openings into Asia and Australiasia on Saturday morning. Bands were in pretty good shape in the UK |
| M1JJK | SO LP ALL | Didn't have much time to spend on the contest, but enjoyed it anyway. |
| M3ZJO | SO QRP ALL | I WAS AMAZED BY THE 15M BAND THIS IS MY FIRST PROPER CONTEST ON MY OWN I AM REALLY GLAD I TOOK PART I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE I CONTACTED 73 |
| M4U | MSH | Good fun. Plenty of DX around. Some anti-contest QRM Joint effort between two local clubs here. |
| M5T | SO LP 15M | Could have done with more power to work some of the DX that I heard but couldn't hear me |
| M6JJK | SO LP ALL | my first contest, was fun |
| M6T | M2 | Part time 1 Tx at a time Multi-2 entry! |
| M8C | MSH | hard to run with big guns but good fun only half effort |
| MD3YLX | SO LP ALL | FIRST LICENSED JANUARY 2009 - STILL LEARNING!! HI HI MNY TNX TO ALL 73 GD LUCK. |
| MM0DGR | MSH | Just spent a little time to take part. We were working as a DX-pedition www.gmff.org |
| MM0VTV | SO LP ALL | I really enjoyed the contest! But it really was hard work! It takes alot to be a serious contester! Cheers to all and good luck for the results, SD worked great as always! See you in 2011 |
| MW0IDX | SO LP ALL | Casual S&P when time allowed. Great conditions on 15m during the evening. K3 and SD logger worked well. |
| MW1MDH | SO LP ALL | Started Slow, but picked up again..beat my 2009 total but only just!..Bands packed to the rafters, and a bit of poor operating! Didnt make any contacts on 10, and only a handful on 80! Ran with IC-7400 (100w), Hustler 5-BTV and Heil ProSet |
| N0MA | MSH | First contest executed with no alcohol consumptiion and set a new high score over 2,000,000. Station worked well. |
| N0MSB/3 | SO LP ALL | Good to hear and work so many YL's. |
| N0OST | SO HP ALL | Conditions in the midwest were much better this year. Been a long time since Europe was so loud here. |
| N1BCL | SO HP ALL | Really great contest! It was nice to be able to work 10m for a change! |
| N1KON/9 | SO HP ALL | Never planned to submit, it was just for fun. Now I'm curious of my ranking. |
| N1NN | SO LP ALL | 2ND CQ WPX SSB CONTEST |
| N2FF | SA LP ALL | Saturday conditions were good but I was not on for long. Sunday was a BIG disappointment. Fifteen never opened to EU and SA was weak. In the afternoon there was a small opening to SA on 10 but stations were weak, weak, weak. Luckily I had not planned to make a major effort. It was a chance to check out a new 8 position remote antenna switch from DX Engineering and a repaired quad after winter storms. Four days of 70 degree weather made that possible. It was also a chance to take a new K3 for a test run at 100 watts without a voice keyer. It was nice to work old friends I will meet at Dayton and to work Sudan, Haiti and a few others. |
| N3FP/4 | SA HP ALL | Great conditions with super openings to the Pacific and to Asiatic Russia. |
| N3UM | SO HP ALL | My best claimed score in 8 years doing WPX SSB, every year since 2003. Best before was 1.27M in 2005, vs 1.409M this year. I see three reasons for the great score this year: 1). High bands are better now than at any time since 2005. 2). Many fewer QRO++ broadcasters now 7.1 to 7.2 MHz. 3). During the sunspot drought, out of desperation I improved my antennas, technique, and effort on 80 and 40 meters, and I still have those improvements now plus the sunspots. Even though total QSO points this year were my best ever, my number of QSOs was only 5th best (857 vs the max. 1016 in 2003). Also, I started 3 hours late Friday, because I went to a nice concert with my wife. So, I put in only 24.2 hrs. vs 27.2 hrs in 2006 and 2007, and still got a much better score than in those years. I did well despite fewer hours because the good conditions let me make mostly non-U.S. QSOs instead of having to pile up hundreds of low-calorie 1-point W/K QSOs, as I did in 2009. Only 20% of my QSOs were W/K this year, vs. 54% in 2009 and 38% every year 2006 thru 2008. There was a price: I missed K6, K0, N1, N3(!), N0, W9, and W0 multipliers. But, it was worth it: I still got 18 more prefixes than my previous best, in 2003. |
| N3XPD | SO LP ALL | Good Fun! 1st time submitting log |
| N4LS/7 | SO LP 80M | 80m DX is tough. |