I enjoyed the contest.

Radioexperimentadores de CIudad Juarez - CRECJ team

It's my first time using my own callsign in contest. There are few stations on 6m band, which the
only band I am permitted to use due to the Chinese regulation for teenager ham. Though there are
only 3 QSOs, I really enjoy this contest.

Created by ADIF2CABR V.3.12 (C) SP7DQR

Thanks for preparing an evaluating the contest! 73 de DH0HAN

I participated in my first digital contest and received a lot of duplicate
QSOs, which I answered. I also generated some dupe QSOs myself on day two,
when WSJT-X kept crashing in the afternoon and failed to add completed QSOs
to the log. I eventually added those entries manually.
On day one, the conditions on 10 meters were decent, but on day two, they d
eteriorated significantly.

QTH: Torrejon de Ardoz
Locator: IN80GL
Transceiver: Yaesu FT-817ND
Power: 5 W
Antenna: wire (8 m long) + remote tuner (LDG RT-100)
Software: WSJT-X

Great people !
Worst propagation....
73 and thank you !

Fun contest, but it did feel like activity levels where quite low.

good contest, poor propagation on 08/06/2025, it's pity, Eternal father permitting, next year!,
hi!...

Propagation not very good especially on the first day.
Overall average very low.

10.01.2023

Radio: YAESU FT-817ND
Antenna: Mobile Whip

I enjoyed the contest.

I'm always QRV on the car .
Using Mobil Whip.

I enjoyed the contest.
TNX FER QSOs 73

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

FT-817ND EH DP Yagi

Condx was not good.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest by QRP.

Thank you for listening to my weak signal !!

Generally, a frustrating weekend.  I wasnt able to put in a
serious effort this year due to some scheduling conflicts.  The
big goal for this event was to give SO2R a serious effort thanks
to my new-to-me Flex 6600.  Overall the radio played pretty well;
there were a few unexplained reboots and one period where the
tuner decided to retune on every transmission cycle.  It only
happened on 10M and it was able to find a good tune every time.
I did try disabling it but the natural SWR was a bit high for my
taste (~1.7).  It did eventually stop but I did miss a few Qs
because of it.
me.  Solar conditions were meh so I cant really blame that.
Plenty of stations that were -1 or better were just not hearing
me.  A quick look on PSKReporter showed I was being heard, but
apparently not well enough for folks to make a Q.  Looks like I
need to spend some time improving my antenna system.
need to remember to change the JTAlert Worked B4 log file so it
can correctly identify worked stations before I start to call
them and N1MM calls them out as a dupe.
Qs!
dipole for 10, 15 & 80

First time in this contest, was interesting. Did work a new country and a new band country, hope
they LoTW. Just got a Flex radio a couple days before contest and got it figured out the day before
the contest. No dupes worked as had WSJTx set to not work dupes.

Conditions a bit challenging, but lots of fun. I'll be back next year with a better antenna.

I Used the family club call for this one.  Conditions were very good Saturday evening on 20 lots of
ft4 stations. More EU than I expected 40m was decent over the late night into Asia.  When the sun
came up the good times ended.  Propagation on all bands was gone. Finished down about 10% from last
year. lost about 90 minutes due to software crash. 59 DXCC entities worked.   Thanks for the QSO's 
Dave Ka6bim

Decided to fill the lack of entries in M/S QRP. Our strategy
was to operate when high bands open, and work for maximum
distance contacts for maximum points. Fully remote operators
to the K6MTU mountaintop station. I setup the remote box
at the station, checked it a couple times in the days before
the contest - and it worked flawlessly. Our rate was just
under 20 per hr for the 15 hrs we operated. 20m was fine
(and open all night), 15m was the best band all daytimes,
10m was disappointing. Lots of Pacific (JA, BY, YB, VK).
Lots of USA and South America. Just a handful of Europeans.
All FT8, no FT4. Ran out of stations on the contest
frequencies, so trolled the regular FT8 frequencies a lot.
Thanks for the contacts.

K6UFO (K6TD K6UFO NN6U @K6MTU)

Flex 6700 at 5 watts
SmartSDR, Writelog and Digirite software
JK Mid-Tribander at 95 feet high

Single Op, one radio, 8-hours: IC705 (5 watts) portable at US-11527 and US-10420 (POTA 2-fer)

Third year with my QRP-Labs QDX transceiver and triband rotary dipole at 20 ft.  Doubled previous
best QSO total but 15 meters was in and out and 10 meters was quiet.  Rapid QSB interrupted a few
QSOs.  Best DX was two JAs and a VK.  It's amazing what 5 watts can do!

Thanks for the QSOs, every single one!

First digital mode contest. Need to have programs talking to each other better next time!

Operated on the north shore of Oahu about 50ft from the ocean with my Icom 705 and DX Commander
Rapide antenna. The DX commander was used for 15m and 20m and a EFHW was used in an inverted V with
the center point at the top of the DX commander for 40m.

I am in the middle of moving out of Hawaii for work and didn't think I would get to participate. I
was scheduled to leave Hawaii before the contest but it got pushed back a few days on short notice.
Most of my radio gear had already been picked up by the movers. I would have loved to operate for 24
hours, but I didn't have any plans worked out ahead of time. I chose to operate from a beach I have
been to many times doing POTA and working satellite passes. Most of the time there is very little
QRM. 

I wanted to start around 0100 UTC on 08 June but didn't get running until 0300 UTC. I watched an
amazing sunset while operating on 15m. Once I had run out of stations to work on 15m, I switched to
20m. I worked 20m alternating between FT8 and FT4 when I would run out of stations to work and
occasionally going back to 15m. By 0900 UTC there were very few stations left that I could hear and
that could also hear me. Had I started at 0100 UTC as planned, I could have worked more stations on
15m earlier in the day. 

Band conditions were pretty good, much better than the previous days. S-0 noise on 15m and 20m. I
wish I could have worked more 20+ point stations in Europe. I was able to work a few high point QSOs
in Europe, some in Brazil, and several in Indonesia. With Hawaii being so far from major populated
land masses, my QSOs averaged 15 points each with 9 points being the lowest scoring QSO I made all
evening. 

Overall, I had a really great time. I couldn't think of a better way to end my time in Hawaii than
sitting on the beach playing radio at sunset.

Bands were not great, 10 was pretty much dead the entire time.

I had fun on 15 and 20 with FT4

Enjoyed the 8 hour category. Being over 80 years old, it was a good fit for me. Saw quite few
familiar callsigns. Had a good time. The searching for distance points between grids reminded me
somewhat of the fun of searching for Sweepstakes sections.

Great contest and setup plan for SO2R worked great. My rigs are small pistols but portable as QRP.
This time I elected to stay in the backyard which was much easier. One 15M band dipole, one 6M band
Jpole and a dipole (which I wont use again), a perfomer vertical which I used for 10M, 20M, and 40M,
and a 98ft EFHW. I will do this setup again next time after making some refinements.

WEIRD CONDITIONS.  I ONLY HAD ABOUT 4 HOURS AVAILABLE THE WHOLE WEEKEND.  LOTS OF ACTIVY IN THE LAST
2 HOURS OF THE CONTEST.

Casual operating just for fun:)

E-MAIL: GEORGE.BLAKESLEE@GMAIL.COM

2025 Jun 7 ARRL Int'l Digital Contest

This contest is a great warmup for ARRL Field Day since I am again the Station Captain for the
Lynchburg Amateur Radio Club’s Digital (FT4/FT8) Station. In recent years we have operated 3A,
with one CW station, one SSB Station and one Digital Station which runs FT4 and FT8. This contest
basically uses all the same software and setup processes (other than band pass filtering) that I
will be using for FD so it’s great practice. 

Signals seemed weak to me in the early afternoon Saturday but seemed to pick up later especially on
10 and 15 meters. Family events kept me away around dinnertime, but I came back Saturday evening for
a little awhile. I got up very early Sunday morning, but it was a slow slog making contacts since
only a few stations seemed to be on. After breakfast and Church, I got back to the radio just before
lunchtime and then for a few hours afterwards. I had planned to get back on around dinnertime, but
we were having lightning and a severe thunderstorm warning, so I was done. It was a good contest,
and I had fun. One thing I discovered late in the game was that there were more contacts available
in the regular band segments then in the suggested contest segments. To keep confusion down, I
turned off the Contest mode and just operated normally, which worked really well, and since all the
necessary exchange information was there it seemed OK to me. I will remember this for next year. As
always, it helps to bounce around a lot between the various bands and band segments to keep fresh
contacts in view. I learned that some stations, who were not in the contest, and giving signal
reports, were using software that got stuck unless it received a signal report back. In these cases,
I would disable the automatic sequencing and send RR73 which satisfied their software and therefore
moved things along. 

The Scoreboard provided me with some good motivation but there are a few things I don’t quite
understand. 
1. Why do people class themselves as high power in a low power only contest? 
2. Why don’t people keep N1MM connected to the Scoreboard at all times, instead of dumping their
contacts into the Scoreboard manually late in the contest? Is this some sort of strategy, do they
lose connection, or do they simply forget? 

It was fun and based on the Scoreboard, it appears we did well and will win the Club competition. Go
PVRC!

20m was the only steady band! When 40m became good here in Alabama, I had to shut down due to
thunderstorms. Tough band conditions!

Operated on only 1 watt using Xiegu G90 with bad finals.  It was a fun challenge.  73

Great time this year and really enjoyed participationg on a team effort.  Thank you one and all for
a great contest. 73 - Alan - N8CJ

Band conditions not the best. Decided after 8 hurs to call it.
Saw many of the same callers already worked. Many CQs went
unanswered. 26 DXC plus U.S. and VE in log. 166 FT4 and
71 FT8 Qs. 73 Gene N9TF. 90 watts to 6BTV ground mounted.

Great contest, thanks ARRL.

This is my first Digi contest. Bands were not good at all. So, will see where I stand with the rest
of the world. I did the 8 hour event at 100 watts. Had a fan on my FT-897D and it stayed as cool as
a cucumber. I used this as a tune up for Field Day. See you next Year. 73, NN8B

My first ever contest!

Steady QSOs in spite of band conditions.

TRX IC7300 30W,ANT VERTICAL DIPOL HOME MADE HIHGH 14m

I had a good run missed 160/80 and 10.

Did enjoy for a couple off hours, but not many contacts only on
20 meters in FT4.

73, cu all next time.

QRP (TR)USDX + HOMEMADE MAGNETIC LOOP ANTENNA.
OUTPUT POWER: 2.5w ON 15M BAND, 1W ON 10M BAND.

ASSOCIACAO DOS RADIOAMADORES DO PARANA

TNX 73

TNX 73

TX 5 Watts, Ant Magnetic Loop (indoor)

Please delete this log. It is wrong call sign. It shall be SM4DQE
I have sent a new log

I have sent wrong log earlier. Callsign is not SE4E it is SM4DQE

ICOM-756 PRO-II  70 W
Dipole InV-40/30/17/12 m

6:05 HRS OF OPERATING TIME.

The digi contest was a lot of fun this year again. 73 Gerry

Conditions were challenging in VK3 due to both solar conditions and local storms. QRN  delayed my
start time and forced me to change my plans. Some logging issues arose which meant I had to stop
using N1MM which compromised dupe checking. 10M was very quite due to poor local conditions. Thanks
for all the contacts.

Band conditions were really bad at my location.

I have been active in amateur radio for 18 months. This was my first long contest, working 24 of the
30 hours. I enjoyed the intensity of choosing contacts by distance and practicing patience in
pile-ups. I viewed this 24 hour effort as a warm-up to working in my club's Field Day operations.

First ARRL Digital contest and it was a lot of fun. Appreciate the 8 hour category. Thank you.

WE STUCK TO 20 METERS AT OUR CLUB HOUSE 
WE HAD 2 YOUNG OPERATORS UNDER 21 WHO ARE JUST CRAZY ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO AND THE DIGITAL MODES 
THANK YOU TO ALL OUR MEMBERS THAT RAN LIKE RAZY FROM HOME AS WELL 

THE GREAT SOUTH BAY ARC FN30HQ W2GSB

Had a blast with this one,
I went QRP with my killer Force 12 c3ss. The statement is true, it's all about the antenna 

I hope you had fun also

Age here is 65. My first contest ever. Enjoyed it very much.

Keith, W4KRC

First time doing this contest! Had a great time even with questionable propagation, spent most of
the time on 20m

THE WSJT-X VER 7  DATE FORMAT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE ROBOT YYYY-MM-DD AND REQUIRES HAND EDITING.


THE SUGGESTED FOUR 2 KHZ SUB-BANDS END UP WITH CONSIDERABLE SPECTRUM WASTE.
SUGGEST NEXT YEAR YEAR BE CHANGED TO FIVE 2.5 KHZ SLOTS WHICH FIT THE FT8
SOFTWARE AND CURRENT SDR RADIO IF BANDWIDTH MUCH BETTER.

SUGGEST SOMEONE MAKE AVAILABLE THESE SUB BAND OVERLAYS TAILORED TO THE ARRL CONTESTS.

THIS WOULD RESULT IN LESS CONFUSION AND SOME FOLKS STILL USING THE NON CONTEST DEFAULT VFO SETTINGS.


WHY DOES WSJT-X HAVE TWO DIGITAL CONTEST CQ FIELDS? TEST DIGI AND WORLD WIDE  ARE ALL BEING USED. 

THE WEB LOG SUBMITAL FORM IS OUT OFSYNC WITH WSJT-X VER 7 SOFTARE FORMAT. SUGGEST THE HEADER BE
GENERATED BY THE WEBFORM DIALOG AND THEN ONLY THE QSO: RECORDS  

THE NEW TEAM RULES ARE NOT CLEAR REGARDING DUPES BETWEEN TEAM MEMBERS.

Great Contest

First time working a contest

Attic dipoles

POWER SUPPLY ISSUES SO ONLY A LITTLE OP TIME ALWAYS A FUN TEST

I enjoyed operating (seriously!) and the scoreboard, my motivation to get to 1K/10K points kept me
in the chair.

Special thanks to Dave, K1TTT for letting me remote into his station for this event. One day I hope
to join the crew in-person for a multiop (I've been a remote op for Team K1SFA).

The speeds, especially for SO2R FT4. It was enough to keep me entertained, lots and lots of
clicking. It reminded me of clicking on the Trading Technologies price ladder trying to furiously
lock in a price on the futures markets.

ICOM IC-7100 (~60W) and mobile antenna YAESU ATAS-120A (~1.6m long!) on my balcony.
WSJT-X and N1MM Logger+.

SO1R - QRP - 8HOUR

8 hr category, worked the first two hours from, then drove by bus
back to university and did a few more hours remotely