CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N1NN | SO LOW ALL | 4TH CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST, SSB |
| N1UR | SO LOW ALL | Fantastic Conditions...finally. 10M was a bottomless pit of Qs, at times almost overwhelming |
| N1VVV | SA LOW 10M | Great propagation however weather conditions here in New England were not good with high winds and a blizzard that caused a lot of power outages. . N1VVV |
| N2BEG | SO LOW 10M | Operated entirely from the mobile(parked)on 10m at 100w with a hamstick. Very small effort but still lots of fun. Highlights were breaking the pileup for ZD8O and working zones 25,30 and 31 right before the end |
| N2EIK | SO HIGH 10M | It was great to be working 10 meters again! |
| N2FF | SA LOW 10M | This is a single band entry but I want the all band score to be assigned to YCCC and to the Order of Bolied Owls club competition. Great contest despite a Nor'easter that came through on Saturday with plenty of snow and wind we did not loose power or antennas. It was a good weekend to be inside and on the radio. I decided on single op assisted, single band operation for ten meters. I did make a number of contacts Friday night on 40, 20 and 15 meters and also on Saturday morning and evening when ten was not open. Those points go to YCCC and the Owls team effort. My all band score was 800 QSO's and 805, 143 points for almost 24 hours of operation. With winds predicted to reach 60 mph or more Saturday afternoon I kept my 3 element quad at 30 feet for the entire contest. As great as things were it would have been much better to have it at 50 feet. But that was a risk I was not willing to take at the first contest of the season. Also I had no problems with snow static. Some experts claim that is because it is not high enough. The splatter may have made up for the lack of snow static. I started on ten at 12:57 Saturday morning just as the band was opening here and it was go all the time pouncing on packet spots. I tried running once and made about five QSO's before someone moved in on top of my 100 watts. I decided I would be a "packet pouncer" for the rest of the contest figuring I would wast les time that way trying to establish run frequencies. Fortunately my mouse hand made it through without injury. I also did not bother to load the voice keyer with the contest exchanges. My voice lasted but my wife did accuse me of yelling at the radio. She pointed out correctly that would not have been good in a multi operation. In 40 plus years of marriage she has learned more than I realized about the contest addiction. In all I had six hours with rates above 40/hour and two above 60/hour. It's not running but I probably had more mults than were I running. When I threw in the tower at 2243 Sunday night I had a total of 800 QSO's with 588 of them on ten meters and some 124 countries and 31 zones for 265,050 points for ten meters. It has been a long time since I had 124 countries on ten meters in any contest. In fact I am not sure that I have ever had that many. While I did not set any record I believe that I did manage to increase my numbers for the DXCC Challenge. It will take me awhile to figure that out. On Sunday evening I developed the feeling that every male on Guam was a ham. I neve saw so stations from Guam on the air at the same time. Meanwhile thanks to all the great operators in far distant lands who listening for my signal and made it so much fun. Our ears are collective well splattered after this experience. It will be fun to read others summaries and adventures |
| N2MTG | SO LOW ALL | Mother nature did a number of the East coast with an early snwo fall. Lost power for 38 hours |
| N2NUR | SO LOW ALL | 100 WATTS |
| N2OBY | SO LOW ALL | Didn't get a lot of operating in due to the freak Halloween snowstorm, but much fun was had. 73 & good luck in the contest! |
| N2SLO | SO LOW 10M | This was my first CQ WW SSB DX Contest. I operate an Icom 746, power set at 50 watts, with an IMAX 2000 5/8 wave antenna at 35ft. My expectations were low, but the 10M band conditions have been open for weeks. I was very happy with my result, approximately 180 contacts, and several countries. The highlight of the contest for me was around 2200 on Sunday night, near the end of the contest. I first worked ZM4T (New Zealand), then KG6DX (Guam), then closed the night with VK4KW (Australia). What fun, only 50 watts and a vertical you can work the world. 73 David |
| N2WN/4 | SO LOW ALL | Obviously 10 and 15 were the big story this year, amazing to hear so many signals on 10 after the long dry spell. The CW session should be very interesting indeed! |
| N3BM/4 | SA HIGH ALL | IC-756PRO III AL-811H Force 12 C-3SS Inverted L |
| N3EH/4 | SO HIGH ALL | 1st CQ World Wide |
| N3NRN | SA HIGH 20M | Lost Power during Snow Storm! |
| N3RS | MULTI-TWO | Power failure & icy antennas made this a bust. Better luck next time |
| N3UM | SO HIGH ALL | My 10th year doing CQ WW SSB from this QTH with comparable gear. Biggest factors this year: lots more sunspots, BUT my BIC time was limited to 18.3 hr. vs 27.5 hr. last year, and 25 hr. or more '04 thru '09. Reasons: I had hernia surgery 3 weeks before the contest, and Sun. afternoon there was a concert I wanted to attend with my wife. Even with 2/3 as many hours, I found 11 more multipliers than in 2010, most of the extra mults on 15 and 10 m. Got only 560 QSOs vs 773 last year, so my claimed score this year was lower, though I did do better than in 2009 and nearly equalled 2008. Improved conditions best illustrated by my making 83 QSOs in EU on 10 m. vs NONE in EU last year. I didn't do quite as well on the low bands, simply because fatigue required me to quit and go to bed 1.5 to 2 hrs. earlier than in recent years. I always enjoy finding rare mults: this year HZ and ZA on 10 m.; A4, A7, and OX on 15 m.; and BY, HZ, C5, ZD8, and RN1ANC in Antarctica on 20 m. Activity level was excellent, as illustrated by the semi-rare EUs available: HB0, C3, and T7 |
| N3XUD | SA HIGH ALL | Great contest once again and good band conditions!! |
| N4BP | SA HIGH 10M | 2011 CQWW SSB |
| N4CR | SA HIGH ALL | FANTASTIC PROPAGATION. HAD A GREAT TIME. IT'S GREAT TO SEE SO MANY GOOD OPS ON THE BANDS |
| N4DXI | SA HIGH ALL | For once in a long time, 10 meters was the money band |
| N4LZ | SO HIGH ALL | WOW! Great band conditions |
| N4PN | SA HIGH 15M | WOW!! This was really a great weekend for CQWW. Too many nice surprises from all over the world to name...Worked all 40 zones when FR5EW called me on Sunday morning...Hope more of the same for the CW contest |
| N4RWH | SO LOW ALL | Great Contest!!! One of the best. It was a fantastic DX contest!!! One of the best I have participated in! |
| N4TZ/9 | SO LOW ALL | WOW! Great to see 10m open; sorry to see 160m not live up to past |
| N4UEZ | SO LOW ALL | 100W MAX POWER USED |
| N5DO | SO LOW ALL | Maximum power output 100W (Elecraft K3 barefoot) |
| N5DTT | SO LOW ALL | Fantastic conditions on 10 Meters |
| N5MX | SA HIGH ALL | I do appreciate the QSO's with new entities during the contest |
| N5PD | SO LOW ALL | Driveway Mobile |
| N6AN | SO HIGH 10M | Wow!! 10 meters was alive this weekend! What a thrill to work 35 zones and 110 countries. Highlights include: 9V1YC, JT1RF, ST2AR, 5H3EE, C91KHN, D2QV, 9Q6CC. It is amazing how many stations can fit on this band! |
| N6DW | SO HIGH ALL | It is hard to be one of the great unheard. I am happy that I could only operate 7 hours. It limited the embarrassment. A stealth vertical and 600 watts doesn't cut it on the west coast unless you can only work Sunday afternoon when all the stations with big antennas have worked everybody else |
| N6EE | SA LOW 10M | Very limited time for this one so I focused on working as many countries as possible on 10M running low power. No CQing, just S&P and Cluster spots yielded 101 countries. What fun! There's no meters like TEN METERS! |
| N6MI | SO HIGH ALL | Portable operation from Alvord Peak, San Bernardino County, California |
| N6RV | SO LOW ALL | All I could say is Wow! The bands held up all weekend! I worked over half the contacts on 10 M! |
| N7EIE | SO LOW ALL | This was my first phone contest after 172 CW contests using 75 watts. I need a linear. DX stations couldn't even tell I was in there unless they were over S9 with no pile-up. How do the QRPers do it? |
| N7JLC | SO QRP ALL | had rig problems on ten, so started qrp, and ran off and on as time allowed, lots of fun, qrp was a challenge! |
| N7VPN | SO LOW ALL | Had a lot of fun. See you next year |
| N8BV | SO LOW ALL | 100 Watts |
| N8II | SO HIGH ALL | Heavy heavy snow caUsed my wires to come crashing down Saturday, but not that upset because I had to work during the day time anyway. Plenty of JA activity, but 10 was only wide open to there Sunday evening. Not much of anything rare worked despite mostly all S&P. Most fun was start on 15 running down BD's,RA0's ,9M8Z. Also fun to work all continents on 20 in about first 1/2 hr |
| N8MPX/4 | SO HIGH ALL | Thanks to all It was fun N8MPX |
| N8MWK | SO QRP 10M | This was the best conditions on 10 meters for over a decade. I used only a Yaesu FT-817 at 5 watts and a wide spaced 3 element monoband yagi. I hope the ARRL 10 meter contest has this kind of propagation in a couple of months. I am sorry I didn't have more time to devote to the contest |
| N9BT | SA LOW ALL | Very good conditions on 10 m, wish I could have operated more |
| N9CIQ | SO LOW ALL | 10 meters was as good as I can ever remember - signals all the way up to 29.200! |
| N9OK | SA HIGH ALL | 10 and 15 M bands were in great condition on Sunday, open to SE Asia |
| N9UY | SO LOW ALL | 336 contacts 211 multipliers 10 meters this year was rocking - like 20 meters on a really good day not that very long ago! |
| NA4CW | SO LOW ALL | 18 Housr part time. Excellent condx on 10 and 15 |
| NC4MI | SO HIGH ALL | Glad that 10 and 15 meters are finally back and they were hot with all kinds of good dx |
| ND0C | SO QRP ALL | Wow! What a blast! 10 meters was unreal: 94 countries and 30 zones with QRP! A total of 105 countries and 32 zones using 5 watts from the "Black Hole"! I had to force myself to leave 10 meters to pick up mults on 15 and 20. 40 and 80 were tough going with mediocre antennas. What's with the guys that don't give their call signs. Those of us not using packet spotting don't know who you are! |
| ND3R | SO LOW ALL | Had alot of fun. Great to see 10 meters crowded again. See you all next year |
| ND4V | SA HIGH ALL | Can't wait to see the big guns scores. Conditions were great with openings to SE Asia Sat and Sun evenings (local time) |