CQ World Wide WPX Contest
CQ World Wide WPX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| M2W | MSH | Excellent contest, reasonable conditions, and a 10m opening too !! |
| M5E | SA LP 40M | K3 to low 40m loop |
| M5W | SA HP 15M | Quick play with Short Contest Call when 20m went quiet... |
| M6W | SA LP 40M | Hopefully 2011 will be more than just a couple of hours in WPX. |
| M9X | SO HP ALL | Murphy, his cousins, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters popped in for tea - one after another. Still had a great time though. Thanks Randy for organising a superb contest and to you guys for the Qs. Cheers, Terry, G4MKP/M9X |
| N1NN | SO LP ALL | 3RD CQ WPX CW CONTEST |
| N2EIK | SO HP ALL | I should have stayed in bed! |
| N2FF | SA LP ALL | Just about the worst conditions ever in any contest! UGH!!! |
| N2LK | SO QRP ALL | 5 watts and indoor attic dipole, I am amazed!! |
| N2SO | SO LP ALL | This was my first WPX CW contest. Just S & P this time. I enjoyed it very much. On Saturday there was a lot of QSB on 20 mtrs probably due to a minor geomagnetic storm but Sunday it was a easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Worked several new countries. My station equipment: 8 Band Hy-Gain Vertical, Elecraft K3, N1MM Logger w/winkeyer USB. Thanks to all! |
| N3GD/4 | SO LP 40M | S & P, ant sloper |
| N3UM | SO HP ALL | Disappointing to claim only 1.35 M points this year after claiming nearly 2.2 M points in 2009 in the same 27 hours. Propagation was mostly terrible: predicted solar flux 80, actual 73; planetary A index of 33 and then 19, K index mostly 4 to 5, minimum of 2 to 3. I started on 20 meters; at first I thought this was a mistake because rate was mediocre, but when I switched to 40 after an hour, rate was slow there also, much poorer than last year. Results were also poor on 20 M Saturday, even in the afternoon: I never got 100 QSO points in any hour Sat., while in 2009 I had 4 hours Sat. with 110 to 129 points. Sunday was only slightly better, with 2 hrs. of 136 and 159 QSO points, but still way behind Sun. in 2009 when I had 5 hrs with 104 to 150 QSO points. I made only 458 EU QSOs this year, vs 627 last year. In the end, my claimed score was 2.7% less than my poor showing of 1.38 M in 2007, when there were few to no sunspots. I did do just a tiny bit better on 15 m. this year than last year, so maybe there's hope for next year. |
| N4DXI | SO LP ALL | Both days, terrible thunder storms, had to QRT |
| N4FY | SA HP ALL | This was fun! |
| N4MM | SO LP 20M | Little time to operate due to family activities. |
| N4PSE | SO LP ALL | Played golf twice during contest; not sure which was worse, band conditions or my golf! But I still improved my WPX score vs. 2009 with less operating time. Only good conditions seemed to be late Sunday - just as I got home from golf! I missed most of it. New rig and a roof mounted Butternut seemed to yield much more productive CQ'ing results with my LP station. I'll be back next year and maybe can stay in the chair a bit longer. Thanks to all for the Qs. |
| N4YHC/9 | SO LP ALL | My first CW contest. It was a lot of fun. |
| N5KWN | SO LP ALL | Thanks for a great contest.. I really enjoyed it. |
| N6DW | SA HP ALL | Stealth vertical and 500 watts -- mostly domestic points - almost no Europe. |
| N6MI | SO HP ALL | Hid a transmitter for our group on two meters and went Field Day style near Palm Springs. |
| N6WG | SO QRP 15M | This run was sort of an experiment. I did a 10m SB run last year, so decided to try 15m SB this year. I did a great deal better than I had on 10m, so reasonably pleased with the results. Condx were not all that I had hoped for, but I worked enough WPX to feel the effort was worthwhile. I stuck around into the late evenings, in hopes of an opening to the South Pacific. No joy this time. Maybe another contest. Setup was just my K3 at 5w and a 15m EDZ up about 40 ft, blowing East and West. Now that the contest is over, I'm working on a second antenna that will favor JA and LU. Not sure yet what to do about ZL and VK direction. Some things never change. There were the really strong stations that would never reply to a call, and others barely copiable that came right back to me for a quick Q. Overall, the standard of operating technique seemed excellent this year. Thanks to all for the QSOs. Hope to see you on again. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude |
| N7EIE | SO LP ALL | Had a great time! 10 meters was even open to CA and South America for 16 contacts. My 40 meter station didn't work, but 80, 20, and 15 were hot up in the NorthWest. CU next year! |
| N8BJQ | SO HP ALL | My lowest score in 10 yrs. Same # of Q's as 2009 and 150 less mults. Conditions were strange, and very noisy here. Nice to see 10 open up today. Mostly a 20/40 weekend. Never heard a JA or anything else from that part of the world. Had to take lots of breaks to let the swelling go down in my ankle. When the cast got tight and my toes started to go numb I figured it was time to get out of the chair and elevate. Expect my doc would have a fit if she knew I was sitting for 32 hrs. |
| N8HP | SO QRP 20M | Lots of fun running QRP!! |
| N9AUG/8 | SO LP ALL | Yaesu FT-950 sending 100 watts to a Maxi Turner then 260' center fed zepp on 40/80/160. Trap dipole on 10/15/20 |
| N9TF | SO LP 10M | Just enough time this busy weekend to grab a few minutes here and there. Focused on looking for two new DX on 10 meters to finish off 10m DXCC on LOTW towards 5bdxcc on LOTW. Good conditions to Central and South America every time I popped into the shack to operate for a few minutes. No new ones though for DXCC, DARN! Hope all had a good time. 73 Gene, N9TF |
| ND2T/6 | M2 | Big thanks to all the W6YX club members who helped to organize the contest, prepare the station, and fix amplifiers and feedlines that were not working when we operated in the WPX SSB contest. Shortly after the contest start we learned that the problem we'd had with our 6-element 20-meter Yagi in WPX SSB had not been fixed. It was still generating broadband hash when pointed in some directions so the C31XR became our only rotatable antenna for 20 meters. A fixed 5-element 20-meter Yagi on a 30-foot pole pointing toward the eastern US was used for most North and South American Q's. We thought our problem with working into Europe was because we didn't have our big 20-meter beam, but apparently everyone else on the west coast was also having that problem. We managed to find a few spotlight openings on 20, one to the Baltics and Scandinavia, others to Russia, Ukraine, and Sicily (but not Italy). Other than these few openings we only worked the big guns. 40 meters was definitely the band for accumulating points and 3254 of our 7239 QSO points were on 40. |
| ND3R | SO LP ALL | too bad bands were'nt better....had fun anyway |
| ND6S | SA LP 10M | Part time 10 meters, praying for sunspots. CU next year. |
| NF4A | SA HP ALL | Thunderstorms, QRN, one of my broadcast transmitters having problems.....Murphy was alive and well and living with me this weekend. |
| NJ1T | SO LP ALL | Nothing at all on 15 meters! 40 meters was fun but conditions very noisy |
| NJ4M | MSH | Operation from K5KG station |
| NM2L/4 | SO LP ALL | Another part-time effort, but a whole fist full of fun. Another good time. A couple of wire loops and 100 Watts and I managed to scratch off a couple of items on the XYL honey-do list. If Mama's not happy, nobody's happy. 73 de Greg NM2L |
| NN6NN | SA HP ALL | Although my operating time was limited by family obligations (sound familiar?), I achieved my main objection of testing my new SteppIR DB18E under competitive conditions. I am very pleased with its performance. Thank you Chet, W6XK, for use of the club callsign NN6NN. Station info: Elecraft K3 (fantastic CW rig) SB220 running 500 W max (neighbors!) SteppIR DB18E at 49 feet (love the 180 degree quick reversal) Writelog (worked AOK) Thanks for all the Q's. 73, Ron N6EE |
| NQ2W | SO QRP ALL | Thanks to everyone that heard my QRP signal! |
| NR3X/4 | SA LP ALL | A fun last hour, and a lot of playing with spot pouncing before that. |
| NR7DX | SO HP ALL | Good time again, what happened to bands tho?? No Europe Saturday or Sunday...nice to see 10 meters open for a spell too on Sunday.. |
| NS0M | SA HP ALL | Great condx for 18 months ago. Lots of State side QSO's, no EU's this year. |
| NT2DR | SO QRP 20M | FT840 PWR 5 Watts; Delta Loop |
| NU4I | SO QRP ALL | Thanks to everyone who copied my QRP signal. A great contest and great fun! |
| NX4N | SO LP ALL | Had a lot of fun as a casual entry with in-attic dipoles and 50-100W. 40m and 20m generate just too mcuh RFI - whole house lights up. Nice to see 15m and 10m slowing thawing out from hibernation; even a dipole stations can have a blast. 73, Chris NX4N |
| OE2VEL | SO HP 10M | Just a few points for BCC, 10m is still not as good as hoped |
| OG1M | SO HP ALL | Limited time for WPX CW this year - anyway this is one of my favorites |
| OG6R | SO HP ALL | YAESU FT-1000MP MARK-V Field + ACOM 1000 KW FORCE C-3 , Cushcraft 2 el 40M, dipoles |
| OH1NOA | SO LP ALL | ALL QSOS S&P, HAD ONLY 80M DIPOLE WITH ATU. |
| OH2LNH | SA LP ALL | RIG FT-897D, POWER 100W, ANT G5RV UP 10 METERS |
| OH3BU | SO HP 10M | It has been a long time since I made 700 contacts on 10 meters. Looks like we are going to get some sun spots in no time at all. Good stuff. |
| OH6K | SA HP ALL | Transceiver Elecraft K3 + ACOM 2000A |
| OH7FF | SO QRP 20M | QRP plus 5W, GP |
| OH8L | SA HP ALL | Quite poor condx, not so many dx QSOs here.... |