Fun contest - tricky from England with 50W and Attic dipole

Exciting contest with good conditions on the higher bands; done entirely with a 'CQ Ham Radio Vega'
limited edition manual CW paddle, IC-7300 radio, Heil headset and ACOM 600S linear and paper log (no
computer or interface used). Antenna was a multi-band Windom wire.

Thanks! Always a good fun contest :)

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
I have operated in JA2 area.

I enjoyed the contest.

I was enjoyed it with the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Condition was good.

It was my first DX contest. So very nervous.

I enjoyed the contest.

TU FOR CONTEST!

OP 9A2VR

Remote operation from 9A1TT by F5SNJ (who's still a beginner at
CW contesting!). After quite a few latency/jitter issues testing
before the contest, I decided to go with N1MM rather than DXLog
because the Winkeyer appeared more reliable. I didn't look back!
Everything performed vitually flawlessly. Quite good LP opening
on Sunday. Sincere thanks to station and callsign owner Richard
9A1TT, as well as to the RHR team. I was running 99.5% of the
time, so need to improve S&P, especially for mults.

Thanks for everyone's great ears and antennas copying my 5W QRP
sig from New Jersey!!  Exciting to work KL7, KH6, ZL, VK, and JA
this time!!  And, working at least 2 stations from each continent
made this a QRP WAC 'test for me!!  Thanks!!  Rig:  Hermes Lite 2
(<= 5W), using Quisk software transceiver,  to ground-mounted 20m
and 40m 1/4-wave verticals with 32 radials.

Decided to spend time Friday night on 80 and 169m.  Spent lots of
time searching for signals.  Signals on 160m were weaker than
expected at my QTH, but was able to work many.  Saturday had good
run going until my amp bit thedust.  Took time searching for
cables, but finally found tube in amp faulty, so began using my
backup amp which worked great the rest of the contest. Sunday
conditions were not good with lousy propagation and lots of noise
on all bands.  Endured the noise and picked up my best total for
this contest at my QTH.  Thanks for all of the QSOs and to the DX
that spent time working the contest. It would not have been as
good without the contesters worlwide participating in this great
event.

Thanks to the organizers, very good game.
best 73.

Una experiencia unica!!! Mis Ultimos concursos fueron hace 20 años atrás, estaba oxidado en CW,
pido disculpas a muchas estaciones que me llamaron e insistieron en el QSO y no los contacté..será
para la próxima.

Have two electrical cuts here and lost some QSOs but It was a very fun contest, thanks to all CWOps
members and to all CW lovers in the world!! Vy 73 Noe

Elecraft K3s - 80 Watt
Beam for 10-15-20 meter
LongWire for 40-80-160 meter

Many thanks to the Ponta Delgada Radioclub for letting me use your facilities and giving me a great
experience at Azores.

One of my favourite contests, my thanks to everyone who worked me.  Elected to do SOSB 15m LP, which
turned out to be a good decision as conditions were really good.  Sunday was a struggle to find new
multipliers, but breaking the wall of KW EU stations to work VE5 with my 100W was probably the most
satisfying one!

It was very good, profiting from good WX, which is a ra
Used SD Contest Logger, faultless.

heavy weather did allow only wire antennas to be up.
73s to all qso partners. cuagn

Optibeam OB9-5
HyEndFed

Just4Fun-the G5RV was dancing in the wind. vy 73

IC-7300 100Watts 2-ele-Quad 21,4m Vertical

FT991A (100 Watt) > MFB23 (2 Ele-Mini-Yagi, 11m high)

Lots of fun with 5W and 3 el.

good expierence testing new rotary trap dipole project
using SD logging

tnx for all your patience and your good setups, that make qso possible with 4 Watt and wire antenna!

Elecraft K3, Kelemen dipole, OBI-9/5 Beam, 400W max

hi, 
sri no antenna for 160m at the time , and 10m not open, see us in the next year

Tnx for organizing this excellent operating event; 73, Hans

conds fair, pleasure spoiled by strong squalls constantly shaking
the ants ,IC7600, 400w, 3el tribander, zs6bkw, gd skip to the
west coast during late afternoon on 14 mhz.

IC-703, K3/10, 5 watt; Spiderbeam, lambda/4 for 40 m and 80 m
Thanks the organizers for the contest and all who dug my qrp sigs
out of the noise. This year it was only a part-time endeavour due
to the heavy hurricane hitting the north, which prevented to lift
the antennas during the first part of the contest. Afterwards, at
least some antennas could partly be raised. Anyway, it was great
to see 15 m back to life which compensated for the poor and noisy
conditions on the low bands the second night. 10 m was dead here
in the north.

TS480SAT, 100 Wtt, TITAN DX, 3m up

IC 7610, ant:W3EDP @15mtrs

250w   dipole 15m haig

I was only able to take part for a few hours but every year i have lots of fun ! Hope i could
provide some precious points :-)

CHECKLOG

Not so easy with 100 Watt, but nice contest !

Due to several severe storm systems my antennas a in the secure down position. So i choose 15 meter
single. Fun anyway,

100 W, 5-ele
Several ufb cq-runs on 20 and 15m

Checklog!

FT817 and multiband dipole

only 14w in a 4 elemn cubical quad

ICOM 7600
dipolo DX-B Alpha Delta o hy gain avq 14+expert
1k
jmmaot@eresmas.com

Thanks to all operators. Very fun contest, QRP is a real challenge.
Best 73!
Javier

Icom 7300
eaXbeam
Dipole

Icom 7610
EeaxBeam And Dipole

EA CONTEST CLUB

Nice to take part of ARRL DX´s Contest once again. I had only 3 hours to participate but it was fun
dealing with W/VE stations on the pileup. Not so rusted ear as I thought! Hi..Hi..

Fantastic contest, Tnx qsos CU again during SSB leg. 73

Around 5 hours of quick play in the middle of a long and heavy work weeken
d. Fun!

SDR trcvr SunSDR2-PRO, SPE 1.3KFA, VERTICALS

SD WinKey K3 P3

Great conditions on 15 and 20 metres
Used SD for logging, a great free program from EI5DI.

TNX & 73!

TNX & 73!

TS430S 100W ANT GP, LW

73

5 watts

73!

Very casual short-time participation

FTDX 3000 - DIPOLES

Home made TRX 3W + some wire antennas

It is always very formative to be confronted with excellent operators.

F5VBU visually handicapped.. For check log purposes only.. Mni tks fb contest..

Enjoyed the contest although hard work with only an old Icom 706mk1 and a CB vertical !!!

Pleasant and interesting condx wkg test qrp 5 to 25w saturday night

none

THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS CONTEST BEGINER. LOT OF FUN

Great contest. See you next year!

FY is certainly not the best spot to enter as SOSB40, but it offers the possibility to share the
remote station with Hervé TO1A (F5HRY) on 15m.

TS-590s + 3el @ 30m

Tnx for the QSO !

Just a few contacts in my first ever CW contest.
I really enjoyed participating.

enjoyed myself, thanks for all the Q's. 73 to all - www.g0ghk.com

Time limited this year only Sunday PM also due to our
very high winds, Yagi down to 5M, but really enjoyed
the session, was surprised how well the 5W worked with
the low antenna, tks guys for your good ears or FB Ant
cu next year God willing (91 this year)

As usual I had no spare time to make a full entry but managed odd
periods over the weekend. 160m was very poor on Sunday. No contacts on
10m but the other bands seemed very good. Only 100 watts to low
di0oles here so always amazed to be heard over the Pond!

Many thanks to the U.S.A & CANADA for making it an enjoyable
contest weekend. Trying to improve each time. 73's Keith

Conditions prior to 0400z poor good after then.

One of my favourite contests of the year though I was not in a
position to do a full entry, and I only have wire antennas. Nice
conditions on 160 the first morning, but HF conditions were really
not good and I never caught any of the brief openings on 10m.
Great to work many old friends.

Some very good stations around to hear my 20W. Lots of fun.

Due to several named storms I had to lower my antenna's to their safe level.
This and other weather related events stopped me from taking effective part in the contest.
It gave me a chance to try one or two changes to my way of using N1MM+.
The multplier window was found to be especially useful.So must make more use of it in future events.

We had bad storm conditions in England with high winds, snow and very
heavy rain starting just before the weekend and continuing throughout.
There are also more storms ahead of us.  In the contest, 10m was
disappointing here with only three QSOs. 15m and 20m were both good.
40m, 80m and 160m were average.  Overall the contest was fun but the
weather was a continual worry.

Storm Eunice went through this part of the UK over Friday night/Saturday morning so the antenna was
not in place until 0900 UTC, therefore missed the first nine hours of the contest.

Part time only - 73 Chris

nice to see conditions improving   roll on next year!

Enjoyable contest with reasonable conditions

RIG:HOME MADE TS9D
POWER 5W - 2xKT922 at 13,8V
ANT YP3 PORTABLE 3 ELEM. YAGI

Rig-YAESU FTDX3000, PA:HENRY 3K Premier,
Antennas:5 el
monobander Long John Yagis for 28-21-14MHz,14MHz,Bi-square
(E-W, Lazy-H antennas for 7 MHZ (NW-SE/SW-NE),
Single Quad for 3,5MHz (NW/SE),Delta loop for 1.8-Mhz(NW-SE)/BOG to USA
Single wire new Beverage 300m/325 degrees (TNX to Jan  OK2ZAW).
Complemented by a HA4IW preamplifier, the antenna performed super
well in the 160-80-40 mts bands With this RX antenna we were
finally able to race with the HG5A super contest station in the
lower bands as well and were pleased to see the online Realtime
Contest Scoring that sometimes had even higher scores than
theirs.
73's es DX!

I'm 74 years old ham. Thank you for nice contest, and thanks for all americans! 73'

IC-746, Wire dipols

ic7000, vertical

Running LP with only wire antennas

Elecraft K3  100 Watts
Force 12 C-4s (2 elements on 14/21/28 MHz shortened Dipole on 7 MHz)
Kelemen Dipole for 3,5 and 1,8 MHz

First entry after a long time. Modest antenna: Kelemen trap dipole and power out 70 Watts.
Propagation on Saturday was excellent - only 10 m not open for my setup. On Sunday very poor
propagation and i had to fight for each single QSO... hi. I am happy with the result.
73 de Bruno HB9CBR

RIG: IC-7851,  OM2000A+    ANT: HEX-Beam HX-5Bi and 2x34m inverted V
center fed dipole for 40-160m using SAMS antenna matching system

After a tough week with a lot of traveling and little sleep, I decided to participate in a "lighter"
category than usual. 
I defined the achievable target: beat the current Swiss 20m record

The HB9NE station performed nicely, according to the online results I was doing very well; at 5PM on
Saturday I realized that I had already achieved my target, so I stopped and enjoyed sleep & company
in the shack for the rest of the weekend.

Hope I'll be able to do it again next year, hopefully fully rested..

Marco HB9CAT

I ran 100w to either a Windom or a Cushcraft R7 vertical next to the Pacific Ocean on 15m.  The
pileups were fun!  Using N1MM + the Mortty-V4 CW keyer (designed by K8UT+N8AR) made the contest a
blast operate in.  QSL via K8LJG or Lotw.

It's always something to experience while participating, but in countries other than the US mainland
and Canada, communication with the US is only done during the opening hours of propagation.

We plan to participate frequently in ARRL contests in the future.

ARRL is working hard to develop HAM.

Kyu, HL2WA

y

Rig ELAD FDM DUO 5W qrp Antenna wire calculted tap 40m long 12m high

IC746+all bands antenna=2m antenna mast plus AH-4 automatic tuner

Domestic station, running barefoot with rotary dipole

Very beautiful Contest!

Thanks to IZ2FOS, IZ2KXC, IK2TDM, IU2IBU to let us use their fantastic contest station!

STATION IR4X

Ottimo contest

73

good contest, 73 Mario
ic 7000 80 watts 3 el. yagi

s.op all band low power

Thanks everyone for the QSOs!  73's Luca IK2PFL

I worked in flashes in my free moments. Elecraft KX3 radio - max 5 Watt,
long wire 16.20m sloper and vertical antennas.

TEST

Icom 706 100 W
Dipole 40-80 mts.
Vertical 10-15-20 mts.

Good Propagation on Saturday
Bad in Sunday
Operate with Elecarft K3 80 Watt Power Out
Antenna for 40 meter Delta Loop
3 elemts full on 20 meter and 15
73 de IV3BCA Paolo

SOME AFTERNOON ACTIVITY AT MY DOWNTOWN STATION WITH VERTICAL ANTENNA AND
FT950 BAREFOOT

Great contest, but fun

busy with my family, just a couple of hours, but fun! 73

from my new worksite shack!

YAESU FT 897 - 50W - INVERTED V DIPOLE UP 15m

15m CNDX was GUD.

I enjoyed the contest.

50w operation

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for QSO.
See you next contest 73!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Radio: YAESU FT-817ND
Antenna: 1/4 wave vertical

SOSV

I enjoyed the contest.
2019-01-01

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Condx was not good but I have enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I am comeback  since 2016.

I enjoyed the contest.

Tnx FB Contest !!

I enjoyed the contest.

ICOM IC7100 100W
Inv VEE, Vertical

SOSV

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I coulld enjoy the very wonderfull contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I attended at coastline of landfill.
But I was annoyed by noise because there was a big factory nearby.
Thank you for picking up my weak signal.

Thank you to the staff.
TS590D/50W+L.W.

I enjoyed the contest with LW
antenna.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thanks for QSO's, 73

Fun to have QSOs. Thanks.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest on 15m.

I enjoyed the contest.

I am happy to be able to partcipate in the ARRL INTERNATIONAL CONTEST.
Tks for QSO that is my small signal, and confirm my call sign .
also Tks for management of contest to your staff everytime.
See you next time and hopefully have a chance to QSO again.

Need more station for Contest.
and good propagtion

Enjoyed over the weekend both radio & non-radio(watching olympic games).
Never worked nor heard any W1,W2, but nice to work at least single contacy
both on 10&160m using just low inv.vees for each bands running 50W.
Mni tnx for picking me up with wonderful ears & having patience, guys!
73's Akira, JA8RWU

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
This is my first time participating.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed QRP operation.

I enjoyed the contest.

I entry on a single-op 160m lowpower.
I QRV on a single OP low power. This yerar the condition was
very poor as an last year.
I QSOed 4 stations in 2014.
I QSOed 12 stations in 2015.
I QSOed 9 stasions in 2016.
I QSOed 5 stasions in 2017.
I QSOed 38 stasions in 2018.
I QSOed 15 stasions in 2019.
I QSOed 29 stasions in 2020.
I QSOed 19 stasions in 2021.
I QSOed 29 stasions in 2022.
It is very difficult to QSO with U.S.A. stations using low
power RIG.
I strong desier to low power categoly in sigle band category!!
When the sunrise time at the westcoast in the U.S.A. , I could
heare the very week singal of U.S.A stations in top band.
I used my MV (Micro Vertical antenna) 12mHigh on my blcony +
Elecraft K2  tranceiver.
My MV antenna was only 3.6m length and it was up only 12m
high from my balcony of my small condminium.
I was surprised that I could QSO many U.S.A. stations with
my MV antenna!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for QSOs.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Not good, because the band wasn't in perfect condition for me.

Thank you all stations!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

FTDX5000(200W) & VD(10mh)
I enjoyed the contest.
I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

V-DP,18mh100w

I like CW. I love QRP. https://kurobe3463.blogspot.com/

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest. very much.
i will participate again next year.

I enjoyed the contest.

I really enjoyed this contest.
Thanks,

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIGIC-7610 / ACOM 1000
ANT 4ELE YAGI

Thank you!

I enjoyed the contest.

3.1. Single Operator (use of spotting networks is NOT PERMITTED):
3.1.1.3. CW only
3.1.1.3. CW only

I enjoyed the contest.

Born: 1997

I enjoyed the contest.

I had worked and enjoyed so much.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest. I worked with US on 3.5MHz for the first time.

I vy enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I am very happy to be able to communicate with the U.S. Station for
the first time.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Tnx nice QSO everyone.

I enjoyed the contest.

Rig : TS-890S(50W Remodeling)
ANT : V-DP 19.8mH
OATH: I dropped the output to QRP5W and operated it.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
see you next year !!
TS-890S+21mh6eleYAGI etc

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

TNX FB QSO es HPE Cu AGN

FT-817ND  DP Yagi

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

TS-990S 200W
2ELEHB9CV14-21-28
Vartical

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you very much for picking my weak signal up !!

FUCHU AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Condition of 7MHz was good, I enjoyed the contest in a short time.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

using mobile whip ant

I enjoyed the contest.

Glad to be back in the contest!

I enjoyed the contest.

My first time to submit a log.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

A little bit only 1-hour ,But very enjoyd TNX

I'm a biginner CWer for 6 months.
This is a 1st-WKD with DX Stn.
I'm so happy and enjoyed by this contest. VY TNX.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG is TS-850S and ANT is GP /DP
Power output is 50 watts or less

2020/7/2

I enjoyed the contest.

I really enjoyed the contest.

Thanks for responding to my poor signal!

I enjoyed the contest.

ARRL International DX Contest

I WOULD LIKE TO GET WAS(CW). A LITTLE MORE.

Very tough for me, 100w & LW

The condition is getting better little by little. I enjoyed it enough.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Many thanks to all who were patient with me pulling QRP calls.
Every QSO is appreciated. (^_^)
Operating QRP & homebrew antenna was great fun,
but sometimes (often) frustrating...
15m band was very good. TNX QSO CUAGN 73

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed it very much.
Thanks a lot for your efforts.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed QSOs with CW !

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I got new states! TU

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

IC-7300M (50 Watts)
Loaded DP
..

I enjoyed the contest.

NO LUCK TO WORK CQ ZONE 2 ON 10M.  LOOK FOR NEXT CONTEST!!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I operated in very short time.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
My birthday is 2006/11/24

Enjoyed very much. Would like to thank all the W/VE stations who kindly picked up my small signal.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG: YAESU FTDX5000MP+VL-1000
ANT: DP,YAGI

I enjoyed the contest by QRP.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for listening to my weak signal !!

I enjoyed the contest.

Good condition on 15m.
IC-7600 KPA500

I used QRP(5W)RIG

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed contest because of
good condition.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

It's been a long time since DX contest.
Very enjoy.

enjoying qso

WHAT AN ADVENTURE

So this was really our first serious effort with remote contesting.  We had done a bit of it during
CQWW but this time we had remote ops really being a large part of the effort.  Only 3 of us were
here at the shack and all the others ops were remote.  Also for the first time in recent memory we
were not on the air as N1MM as Tom was using his call from home.  So we used K1DW and Dallas was one
of the remote Ops.  Lots of changes this time.

W1TJL consists of 2 stations, an FT-5000 on station 1 which was entirely used as local radio.  On
station 2 is a new Flex 6400 which has a very good receiver but all three of us local Ops kept
reaching for the VFO knob!  :-)  It seriously is a big adjustment.

The antennas consist of a 3 element 40M KLM beam, two 4 element SteppIRs, a full size 80 meter
vertical with raised radials and a nearly full size 160 folder radiator vertical with raised
radials.  Both of the beverages were out of play due to tree damage from the winds and storms.

Speaking of wind and storms the wind up here was AWFUL!  Huge gusts and all amid really intense snow
squalls.  Temps were at 8 degrees last night which reminded me of my years in the arctic.  Watching
the elements on the 40 was scary at best.

Conditions were not terrible, but I seldom get too upset with conditions as no one has yet figured
out a way to not deal with them.  They affect everyone.  Iâ??ve heard a few bemoaning the conditions
as being poor but I didnâ??t find it too bad.  The numbers werenâ??t great but it was open and even
10 meters gave us contacts and mults.

We learned a lot about remote operating and have some fixes to do before ARRL DX SSB in 2 weeks.  

Things that went well:

    â?¢ The first time we tried remote we used an audio software package touted to have very low
latency called Mumble (the server) and Murmur (the client).  It worked OK but is a real PIA to set
up and God help you if something goes wrong!  This time we used a different (easy to set up and use)
package written by DF3CB called RemAud (Remote Audio).  It does some other things too but it was a
breeze to set up and was amazingly fast transfer of sound.  Not exactly like being there but not far
off.
      
    â?¢ The FLEX only had a few issues which always were solvable by powering it down and back up.
Not sure what was going on - maybe RF (but wouldnâ??t you think that an electronic device meant to
be used in a high RF environment would be tolerant??) but it would occasionally just not want to
communicate.  It is a computer after all.  But other than that was quite good in the heat of battle.
 The receiver is excellent â?? not only I thought that but the other ops too.
      
    â?¢ The Yaesu FT-5000 was as always, ROCK solid.  Best transceiver I have ever used (so far).  
      
    â?¢ All the other hardware in the shack was working great, the antennas performed well (and
stayed up in the strong winds!) but sometimes the tower would not turn easily due to wind pressure.

Things to improve:

    â?¢ We had some inter-station interference.  Previously that had not been much of a problem but
this time we could occasionally hear the other station and sometimes it de-sensed the receiver. Just
this year I replaced all the inside the shack cabling with double shielded RG-400.  Both radios have
an DuneStar 6 band band-pass filter.  Grounding is very thorough.  So another thing to figure outâ?¦
 And why only occasionally??
      
    â?¢ We need better in-shack use of the remote station.  The Flex 6400 doesnâ??t really have good
ergonomics (does it have any??)  So when not being used remotely the control is with a keyboard and
mouse.  We will either have to get used to it OR figure out a way to hot swap the 2nd FT-5000 into
place when the station is being used locally.
      
    â?¢ We need better weather!  I am tired of the cold!

I want to thank all the ops (K1DW, K1EBY, N1EN, NO5W, W1UJ) for participating, Dallas K1DW for his
call and Susan who as always helps with food, hospitality and putting up with this bunch of crazies
4 times a year!

On to ARRL DX SSB...

Some things we noticed: IK8SCR worked us 3 times in 41 minutes.
Each time he sent a different number. We suspect he was sending
serial numbers. We kept the numbers he sent.  KL7E called on 80m
at 0704z on 2-19. I suspect he is a pirate. His signal is way too
loud for 80m. He also sent "AK" initially but I asked him for
"Power" and he replied "1500". If this call is removed we ask
that it we not be penalized as we worked it in good faith and
logged it in accordance with the rules. This same call sign was
on for the CQ 160m contest doing the same thing a couple weeks
earlier and I "worked" him on 160m in that contest. Also way too
loud in that contest. Both LW9EKA and ON9EEE were sending "QRP"
for their exchange. We had no way of knowing if they were 5w or
3w or even less so we left their exchange as "QRP" as they sent
it.  We believe HG7J was sending "NR5" which we logged as 5 but
it is possible he was trying to use serial numbers.

5w to a 53foot EF sloper.  Conditions seemed better than last year.

in all my years never had so many contacts! My radio was delivered on time for the one contest I was
most looking forward to.

Rig : IC-7610; ALS-1300  
              
Antennas : All wires: 3 element Collinear 20M (also double Zepp length on 80M); Tri-band half square
20-15-10M & 2 half squares on 40M.  

Soapbox : Wasn't able to make a complete effort timewise and couldn't install the 15 meter collinear
I had made for this event. I was able to work everything I heard on the tri-bander but that antenna
is a little weak to run. It was great to hear 10 meters popping on Sunday - a hint of things to
come?. Had a mini thrill when after seeing them spotted all weekend I was able to work OX7AM & D44AO
in the last 20 minutes of the contest! God willing and the creek don't rise I'll be back next year!

K3AJ operated from the shack. ND3D, K3WA and WT3K operated remotely.

K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. As the
only available CW op, I (N3UM) did SOHP U in the 2022 ARRL CW DX
test. My goal was to ~match the 1224 Qs I got doing SOHP in the
2016 ARRL CW. Nope; in 2022, I got 0.88X the Qs in 0.9X the hrs;
BIC is key. I did beat the ~650-920 Qs I got doing M-2 with W3GB
2017-2021. At start, 40 M was OK; I ran for 122 Qs and 29 mults
00-02Z and clicked spots 0210-0348Z for 101 more 40-M Qs & 30
mults. From 0358-0517Z on 80 M I got 87 Qs & 45 mults, then 25
Qs & 19 mults on 160M. At 0552Z QRT, 335 Qs and 123 mults. On 20
M 1613-1753Z I ran for 131 of 142 Qs at 92/hr + 42 mults, then
quit to eat. Sat. PM 1829-2139Z was steady but slow; I got 78 Qs
on 20 M and 58 on 20 M + 54 mults. Same after supper 0024-0255Z;
57 Qs on 40, 35 on 80, & 6 on 160 M. Then 0303 to 0312Z QRT, 6
Qs and 5 mults on 20 M; OA, ZP, LU, XE, & ZL. Fast rates 1254-
1536Z; I got 201 Qs on 20 M, 122 in a run at 83/hr, mostly EUs.
Then 1545-1622Z 44 Qs on 15 M, also EUs, 29 in a run at 94/hr.
After lunch 1914-2117Z, I got 53 Qs on 20 M + AK, JA, & VK, and
17 Qs on 15 M + AK, VK, & KH7. I got a last 51 Qs in 55 min.
2121-2216Z, fast-clicking EU spots on 40 M. Q totals show that
Kp of 3 & 5 in dark hours was bad for 80 and 160 M but not 40 M.

soapbox

"Band conditions were very good for my QRP, 5 watts output."

2022 ARRL International DX CW

CHECK LOG ONLY

With impending move to new QTH, I started out just wanting to
make an appearance.   I wound up operating 827 minutes.  All
Beverages and the 80/40 m. inverted V for NW/SW direction were
down, so no JA on the low bands.  On 10 m. at the start, I was
able to work one JA.  160 m. was so good to Europe the second
night, even without the Beverages and with plenty of line noise,
I  was able to work several.  10 m. Sunday morning, I worked some
western Europe.  Most frustrating aspect was the several stations
who seldom identified themselves - I do not use spotting
assistance.

Was just going to be a part time effort, but conditions were
so good that I couldn't stop!

Great Contest, nice to see the bands open!

GREAT FUN ON 10 METERS ...

Fun contest with the best conditions I've seen in a long while.
Started out good on Friday evening with 10 meters open to South
America AND Asia.  I was able to run some JA stations on 10 then,
as wellas during the last hour on Sunday afternoon.  Also ran JA
on 15 and 20, but was too lazy to get up early and work more on 40
meters in the mornings.  A total of 62, 185 and 79 JA on 10, 15
and 20 respectively.  I managed to run some EU on 20, 15 and even
40 as well.  Great to hear Eu on 15, looking forward to hearing them
on 10 meters in the near future.

If I was able to sit in the chair longer, I don't think there would have
been a quiet time in the contest the whole weekend.  Bands were good.

Thanks to my friends in Japan, and everywhere else, for all the QSOs.

Dana

Station: K4/KPA1500, running about 1000 watts most of the time.
Antennas: 5 element on 10 @ 48ft, 5 element on 15 at 45 ft,
4 element on 20 @ 50 ft, 4 square array on 50, vertical
on 80, inverted L on 160.

My first WW CW contest. Thanks to all I worked. See next year for sure. 100w and OCF dipole.

73
Rick/K7CNT
Kingman, Az
USA

Strange conditions perhaps owing to unsettled geomagnetic influence: Working Asia mainly LP vs SP on
40M.  Eastern EU stronger on 20M than Western EU.  Nice openings on 15 & 10M.

Jim K7EG

STATION: K3s + ACOM 2000A AMPLIFIER
ANTENNAS: 8-CIRCLE, 54ft TOPLOADED VERTICAL,
3 BI-DIRECTIONAL BEVERAGES EU/ZL, E/W, JA/S AMERICA
ASSISTANCE: RBN, CW SKIMMER WITH LP-PAN PANDAPTER

A great way to spend a cold February weekend.  Thanks!

Corrected log submitted on 20 Feb. 2022 at 1506 UTC.

Operated remote from hotel room while traveling away from home.
Easy to pickup 50+ QSOs on Sunday morning 20M and 15M.   Took a
few minutes to configure remote hams to control via N1MM for
Keying and rig control.  Used band map and computer mouse wheel
to move up the band for S&P.

Nice opening from Michigan to EU Sunday AM

LOTS OF GOOD ACTIVITY.
BANDS WERE NOT BAD CONSIDERING
SUNSPOT LUL. RUNNING WIRES AND
VERTICALS.

Society of Midwest Contesters

Good band condx on 10 and 15.  40 was great too.

Also submitted a checklog for other bands.
160 0  0
40 29 16
20 76 26
15 72 30
28 35 20

Grand total 701Q  157 Cty.

Used 80 meter 4 square only.  Had COVID the week before and I was too tired to work on antennas. 
Could have used RX antennas because band was noisy and lots of 100w stations from Europe called in. 
I even worked some 5 W European QRP guys!  During CQWWCW the band was very quiet and it did not seem
like RX antennas were needed, plus a lot of USA stations were strong. Rig Flex 6600 + Maestro + PGXL
+ TGXL.  Took a lot of rests, even during the night.  The first night seemed quiet with a few
western Europeans, F & G and only 4 JAs in the morning.  The second night seemed much better.  I did
not work any rare or far away DX all weekend.

2/26/2022 Looking at log to see what multipliers I missed.  Forgot to delete the XU7AGA contact 2-19
0759Z He was too strong and coming in from the NE. Pirate.  QRZ indicates he is inactive. So need to
subtract one country from the total.

I had a blast! I ran 5 Watts into an indoor magnetic loop, and made
six memorable contacts. I worked Maderia Island off the coast of
Africa, the first time I worked that continent.

Slowly, slowly...getting the ear back for cw.

LET'S GET READY TO CW!!!! Always a fun time with this contest. The highlight was being able to grab
two ZL's and Hawaii LATE at night on 20m. That opening didn't last very long either. Until next
year, 73!

73

interesting!!,EU hams are better at CW!!

50 watts driving two selectable dipoles up about 40 to 45' fed with ladder lines and tuners. Enjoyed
good S & P rate for the short time I was on.  Thanks for the fun!  C U next time, 73, Dan  ke0tt

Wow! What a marathon!

Excellent conditions, imho.  Did entirely S&Pa and noticed that more than a few stations, if not
calling CQ, went for long periods of time and contacts without IDing.  Spent more than enough time
waiting to see if needed only to find out that I had already worked them. Upside, a lot of new band
mode this time around

Operated from FM29jw

Duplicates - removed from submitted Log below:
21023 2022-02-19 1649 EF7N 599 KW
21027 2022-02-20 1531 PJ4NG 599 K
21043 2022-02-20 1636 CR6K 599 KW
21036 2022-02-20 1325 IR2Q 599 5TT
14012 2022-02-20 2028 G6XX 599 4TT

Can not confirm:
21071 2022-02-19 1425 YU1ZZ 599 KW
14028 2022-02-19 1814 GK5Z 599 K

Multipliers: 52 Total
20m: 29, 15m: 20, 10m: 3

122 QSOs x 3 Points / Contact = 366 Points.
366 Points x 52 Multipliers = 19032 Points.

Thank you for the 2022 ARRL International DX Contest, CW.

RIG: Yaesu FTDX-1200
POWER: 100 WATTS
KEY: VIBROPLEX STRAIGHT KEY
ANT: Cushcraft R-7

Band very quiet.

IC-7300 at 100 watts
Carolina Windom 40 with 75 feet RG-8X feed line
cabin 1 at Lake Anna State Park
Spotsylvania VA 22551
FM18cc

nO FUN FROM THE NORTH bLACK hOLE

Decided on a single-band 20m effort due to other obligations this weekend. I was not disappointed,
as conditions from KL were super much of the time. Rates were respectable. The best 10 minute rate
was 3.2/min. A steady, sustained 150/hour was very satisfying. I worked all states. No VY0/1 heard,
and I couldnâ??t snag VE9. I met my goal of 500 QSOs. I was happy to hand out KL to a lot of folks.

Used my DX-100B and my 51S1. (SOSB 160)  It was not easy, but it was fun, like 50 
 years ago !

During precontest testing, the Sixpack two radio antenna switch failed
so we reverted to a single radio antenna switch. First hour: 262. 
There only two second radio QSOS. Both were mults worked LP after that radiosâ??s amp failed.
The second radio monitored Spots and also the bands if we manually plugged in the correct antenna.
Operating MS was FB: Less stress, Less BIC 
(sustained hours in the chair), more social, more fun. 
73,
Phil KT3Y

This was the first contest test of the recently installed 80 meter Turnstile Antenna.  Seemed to
work fine. Missed VO1 who all seemed to be doing single op single band efforts on other bands. :(
The score Fell slightly short of the KP4 record for 80M. Happens when the other bands are on fire!
K3S, KPA1500 at a KW.

Unusual cndx and lots of fun as always.
Tnx for the qsos and the mults!  73 Bob, KQ2M

Yes, LOTS of Qs for me, but very few mults; it is not a mistake.  My goal was to work as many other
members of CWops as possible and that is what I focused on and why I went UNlimited category for the
first time ever.  Only 20 hours because my older daughter drove up from Phila, PA and visited with
us for the weekend.  So I had to cut short some of the best times.  But it was worth it.  Besides, I
had a LOT OF FUN during the ARRL contest working other CWops members.....plus many others.

Murphy haunts me I think. Amp tuning capacitor decided to wear out
and not turn to peak finals right on the contest weekend. Rotated
load capacitor to 2 O'clock and it worked on 20 and 40 to 450w.
decided not gud fer tubes so used spare amp with an al811h with 3
instead of 4 cuz one tube bad, it still got 550 w!

TB-WIRES

I had more Q's the first day than the entire contest last year.
Then the noise came up the second day with the A-index going up
into the teens and the sunspots going down.  But, I had a ton of
fun. It's amazing that folks half way around the world can
actually hear me with this setup. Can't wait to do it again.
Thanks - 73  tom    Rig = TenTec Eagle @ 100 Watts.  Antenna =
Mag Loop (40 thru 15) and an Isotron-80 in the attic 12' above
garage floor and an indoor 10 meter dipole.

NIce to see the higher bands in such good shape.  I did better on
10m than 40m for the first contest in a long time.  20m was wall
to wall EU on Sunday morning!  Thanks for all the QSO's!

My 1st DX contest went well. It was different than the smaller domestic contests. There were many
operators happy for me to respond, despite my slow speed on the straight key (especially when they
didn't have a pileup). I did sometimes get responses the 1st time I answered, even when there were
others. From SC, I got multiple Hawaii and Alaska stations, back to back. It became hard to find new
stations near the end to avoid dupes (and I did end up with one unintended dupe). I got a couple
stations on 4 bands. I can't wait to go through the list and find out how many different countries I
contacted (and see how many confirm either on LOTW or direct). It was definitely a fun weekend. Hope
to hear everyone next year!

Excellent contest, good propagation conditions with the US and Canada almost all day on different
bands. Thanks to all the participants and especially to ARRL for allowing us to enjoy this event!!!
The CW is more alive than ever!!!

Seba LT6M (LU8MHL)

Elecraft K2/100 + KPA500
Dipole at 12 m
A few hours of pure cw pleasure!
Manuel - LU5OM & CT4IK

Licensed from 2019-10-30.

A contest doninated by the weather and the storms that are
currebtly crossing London. I lost the 40m antenna before the
contest and the high band yagi 6 hours before the end. Even so,
it was great to meet so may old friends coast to coast.

M0IPU DX cluster nodes /// dxs.ddns.net:7300 /// arc6.ddns.net:7373 /// dxnode.ddns.net:8888

A great contest despite v ery poor propagation on 28Mhz!

remote from home, 5w from Flex6600, 3el up 8m

With a K index of 5, this didn't look encouraging. I'd also lost my doublet and inv-l in the storms,
but was able to use the 18M pole for a vertical for 80.

As expected, conditions were patchy with some interesting openings to the west on 15 and 20, sadly,
I heard nothing on 10!

Another great event, let's hope I have all my antennas in order and conditions are better next
year!

Terry

Enjoyed the contest. Unfortunately poor GM weather meant that the only antenna I had in the air was
a vertical for 40m so only worked 40m and 15m.  Hoping to have a more serious entry next year!
Thanks to all for the Qs.
73 de John MM4D & GM4ATA

Saturday operated from home single band on 10 Meters using the old Radio Shack CB whip on our Weber
BBQ grill on the patio. Two Qs - XE2IF and ZF5T. Thanks. Sunday morning, I didn't hear much on the
CB whip.  Went out fixed mobile on a hilltop with a full size 1/4 wave whip on the SUV. Heard a
bunch of stuff. Best DX worked was D4L and CR3DX. Was hoping for Europe, but nil. Active geomagnetic
conditions earlier (K index went to 5) depressed northern paths. Sunday afternoon was warm here in
Lawrence, KS. 60 degrees F and sunny. So out portable again. Logged 4 Hawaii stations -- KH6LC was
very loud. Worked ZM2B, ZL3X, & ZL4TT. They were not strong, but all hear very well.  ZP6/N3BNA was
a surprise! With Solar Cycle 25 now picking up, considering plans next year to set up a portable
Yagi on 10 Meters for the contest.

18TH ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST

12/2020

Great time!  A little rusty.  Need more contesting!

I forgot when we invited friends to stay with us for the weekend that it was the ARRL DX CW weekend!
 Still, I managed to squeeze enough time between daytime and evening outings to produce a score.

This was the first year that I ran assisted and it really helped out with running low power on a
band that was not wide open over the entire contest.  It made it fun and kept me busy during
operations.

2022 Feb 19 ARRL DXCW

Improved band conditions certainly made for more fun; I'll bet
there will be more DXpeditions in the near future...
This
contest was a "fun experience" with Jim, W4TMO, operating
remotely from his home. I don't have the stamina required to be
effectively competitive by myself and Jim was my complement! We
alternated operating times and communicated by telephone and
texting! No major problems developed.
Many thanks to the
well-mannered stations we worked...it made for a very enjoyable
experience. I was a bit disappointed in pileup behavior towards
the end of the contest...I walked away from several pileups
because of that. Life's too short...
Thanks for the Q's de N4CW  and W4TMO

I OPERATED FOR ABOUT 5 HOURS ON 15M. I SPENT SOME TIME ON 10M AFTER FINISHING ON 15 AND INTENDED
THAT MY 10M CONTACTS BE INCLUIDED IN A CHECK LOG.  COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT SO DECIDED TO
MAKE IT AN ALL BAND ENTRY.  NO BIG DEAL.

I NOTED MANY INSTANCES (A COUPLE DOZEN) WHERE MY CALL WAS REPORTED ON THE RBN AS BEING ON BANDS THAT
I NEVER OPERATED UPON.  MY REPORTED CW SPEED IN THESE INSTANCES WAS USUALLY ABOVE 30 WPM.  I NEVER
SEND THAT FAST.  I OPERATE "SEARCH AND POUNCE" FOR 99 PERCENT OF THE TIME AND SO WOULD GENERATE VERY
FEW RBN HITS AT DIFFERENT TIMES.  OBVIOUSLY, SOMEONE WAS PLAYING GAMES AND BOOTLEGGING MY CALL.

Lots of noise but able to work some.

KX3, 5 watts, 100' doublet fed with CAT5 twisted pair, 15 meter
half-square fed with CAT5 twisted pair. Flint Peak, W6/CT-225.
Hand sent, paper logged. I hope my transcription is accurate.

N6CW @ W6XI

Soooooo happy to see 15 and 10 open big time!

QRP, NON-Assisted, "full 5 Watts" to a 20 Foot end-fed wire,
thrown into a tree out my window - my only station antenna.
No internet or other assistance used, just S&P "tune and find".
Band conditions surprisingly good considering the few sunspots.
My goal was to better my last years results ... I did, and I
even set a new "personal best" record with this years score.
I awakened on Sunday with all continents in my log EXCEPT for
Europe. Sunday morning provided the EU opening I hoped for,
so I easily made W.A.C. in this years contest running QRP.
My hearty congratulations and THANKS to all for your patience.
Most copied the exchange perfectly, with only occasional
repeats required, a testament to your stations and your skills!
There's NO Contest like a CW Contest! Pure radio fun!
Support the Unassisted Challenge: https://unassisted.org/rules/
GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS!  73 John N6HI

Used a small transmitting loop antenna (Ciro Mazzoni Baby Loop) and
100W for all contacts, but my QTH at Lake Tahoe NV is blind to Europe
and much of Africa and Asia. Regardless, had a good time!

15 just kept getting better and better!

First time to use the vanity callsign for the UCSB club.  N6RA was a long-term friend and member of
the club.  Tom passed away last year and the club (W6RFU) acquired his callsign as a secondary call.
 Tom's widow, N6LRA, also operated in the contest.  Her first contest.

Limited time to operate this weekend.

Split time with my chores and had a great time with this contest.

Put up another beam for 10 meters hoping it would open.  It was
at the start but after a while something seemed wierd.  After
some investiogation I discovered confusion over the coax resulted
in transmitting to the east when I thought it was to the west and
visa versa! 6 bands from KH6LC, JA3YBK, PJ2T and ZF1A!  Best
score ever in ARRL DX!

Nice to see 10 meters open again.

K4D, KPA1500 - initally plagued by RF into either the PC or the
WinKey - took two efforts to get the bad behaviour to stop.

first try at single band 20m.  Had fun and will do it
again sometime.
SD made logging easy!

I worked the CW DX contest for 2 hours instead of a 1 hour Morse Runner assignment for my Advanced
CWA class

Decent conditions - nice to see 10 and 15 open!  100% S&P.

I missed the big opening Sunday evening! (You shoulda been here yesterday). I've
read many comments and scores. I wish everyone would include their operating
time to compare my score with. 

I've named my operating style in the this contest: "Nonchalant". I'm
not good enough at CW to be really effective in a big-time contest like this. So
I just clicked on the red spots and tried to work as many countries as possible.
I did break a few pile-ups which boosted my ego a bit. (Giving myself two
thumbs-up). 

Looking forward to the DX SSB!!!

Started out to run QRP. Messed up power about 21 contacts in, so am now
in the low power category.  Made quite a difference in the number of
contacts that I was able to make.  Pete, NO2D.

Enjoyable operation with pretty decent conditions.
Very nice EU signals on 160m during EU sunrise.

Wanted to try something besides 160 SB this time so went 40 SB, did OK for only having simple
vertical antenna

Ten-Tec Jupiter at 5W 2-element mini-beam at 25ft, 40m dipole at 60ft, 80m dipole at 50ft.

First DX contest in 6 years.   Had a ball.  What fun!

would be nice to have a club competition also for non ARRL affiliated clubs like Bavarian Contest
Club. Please rethink your approach!

Benefit for you is much more participants in your DX contests!

RX/TX: TS-890S
Ant.:High End Fed LW
Power:100 W
ASSISTED with
CW Decoder
of TS 890S
Thanks for
contest!

Part time operation

Operated remote. Had linear problem so we ran LP. Seemed to be good pileups anyway, especially on
Sunday afternoon on 15m when band was open. Low bands were poor.

Thanks for QSOs.

Short but FB contest.

Good propagation, 20m open very late (closed stn 22:UTC).

Thanks again for a nice ARRL DX Contest. Lots of good operators with big ears!
The propagation did not produce many QSOs beyond the big contest stations of East Coast,
but nice that the 21 MHz was also open on Sunday.

X-ray flux very low and spells below B2 with one flare up to C5.
Geomag jumpy with one K = 5 period, but not according to
forecast. Activation of various calls during the weekend...
Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA

Thanks to increased number of sunspots and higher solar flux the night time propagation from OH6
area to North America are back on 15 meters! I made more that 60 % of my contest QSOs during the
dark time of the day i.e. between 18 â?? 02 UTC (local sunrise/sunset at 06:00/15:30 UTC).

Day 1:

00 â?? 02 UTC the band was mainly open to W5, W6, W7 and VE7 area. Strong signals with not much
flutter on their signals. 36 Qs made.
12 â?? 18 UTC was nothing but struggle in bad auroral conditions. Mostly S&P. US signals were weak
and fluttery. Central and Southern EU QRP stations were beating me in pile-ups. Very frustrating
period. 153 Qs made.
19 â?? 24 UTC the band was slowly opening to North America. At the end W5 & W6 stations were loud as
locals. 236 Qs made.

Day 2:

12 â?? 18 UTC was better than day before but aurora was still making trouble. I was beaming all day
to South America to make QSOs to North America. Aurora oval was still blocking the direct route to
North America. Mostly RUN. Only Southern US signals were clean without flutter. 163 Qs made.
19 â?? 22 UTC the band opened earlier than day before. Surprisingly also East Coast was coming thru
eventhough it was mainly West Coast booming in. At 21 UTC yet another magnetic disturbance hit the
earth and the band died quite soon after that. 150 Qs made.

Rig: FTdx5000 + OM2500A / 1.5 kW and 3 x Hy-Gain TH7DX

Tnx for QSOs!
Jari OH6QU & OG6A
https://www.qrz.com/db/OH6QU/

ARRL DX CW 2021

Just S&P couple qsos.

Testing ICOM IC-705

AS I HAVE MY PRIMARY ANTENNAS THANKS TO WIND STORM DAMAGED I USED
AS MY ANTENNA FOR THE CONTEST AN SLOPER OF 200FT LONG I TUNED IT
THROUGH AN T-MATCH ON ALL BANDS... SO I CONTESTED WITH 100W AND
SIMPLE WIRE LIKE IN MY EARLY DAYS WIYH NO PROBLEM AT ALL...I WAS
VERY SURPRISED THAT IT WORKED SO WELL!

Break 2022-02-19 from  0736 to 1337
Break 2022-02-20 from  0251 to 1307

FT1000MP MarkV, PA Acom1010-500 W, 7el. TH7DX

ELECRAFT K2-5W, ant. LW 42m

IC-7300 with 100W & FD4 antenna. 73!

Rig[s] IC-756PROIII-100W,Antena[s] 3el.YAGI,LW82m

Sri short time QRV only, rig "K3".54 m LW aer + 3el tribander.

SunSDR2 DX, 3el. FB-33, 80m horizontal loop. Thank you all for
nice contest, 73! Jiri

TS590S LW ant 20m, 4 meters up

FT-891 100W, dipole

OPS OK6DJ

Some VO1 stations (VO1OK, VO1MP, VO1HP) sent as his state NL, but
it must be NF. I corrected it, so I hope not will be penalty for
this QSOs.

TNX, 73!

The propagation was good so I could make many qso
I enjoyed the contest and working US on 80 m
Till next year
73 Leon  ON5WL

Unfortunately the day before the contest storm Eunice passed by over my QTH and broke the reflector
of the 40m beam.
There goes my plan to do a SOAB.
Did not sleep well as the wind gust reached over 80 mph.
Knowing that I had a busy weekend with other things planned otherthan contesting, last minute
decision taken was to go for SOSB 15m.
Had a great time with the limited hours spent in the shack.

In 2 weeks I retire and will have plenty of time to spend in the shack but first job is to replace
the broken 40m reflector

Gear used
FTDX-101MP
Acom 2000A
Optibeam OB18-6
N1MM+

73 Joe
OP4K

My first ARRL DX Contest in quite a few years -- and my first CW contest from Greenland. Super fun
weekend, despite bad condx on the first night, the second one picked up nicely. Many hours of
moderate pileups. I did expect more but given the antennas were a hexbeam, a shortened dipole for
40, and a teo-band vertical for 80/160 -- I don't think I should complain. Thanks to everyone who
called -- see you all mext year! 73 de OX7AM

Using a low 45 feet end-fed wire and 100W on 40m monoband. On sunday I
had too much local noise. Even with a Noise Canceller and magnetic
loop for RX it was too much so stopped in the morning. But it was fun.
Lots of fine operators!

Due to heavy storm over Denmark I had to lower my Hexbeam and
could only use my 80 m vertical loop. I thus decided to operate
single band 80 m.
Rig K3/P3 with SSPA 600 W
Vy 73 de Steve, OZ3SM

Two winter storms Dudley and Eunice pounded across Europe on Thursday and Friday night and crippled
my hexbeam to barely unusable, so I had to bring it down. Made a couple of qso's on 15m with it at
Saturday at 1m above the ground!  Sigs on my ZS6BKW were not too hard from US and Canada and I had
strong competition from other European stations with my 100W FT2000 and the antenna at 6m height. 
Nevertheless enjoyed the contest and thank you for your patience. 

73, Harm de PA0HPG

3 Heavy storms in the  ARRLDXCW weekend,  Dudly Eunice and
Ferdinand tortured W-EU and forced me to ground antenna's. Only a
1/4 wave for 40m left. Saturday night i dared raise dipole
80 and i-L 160 ,100W thanks for good ears ...

Good activity, good ops. Used magloop ant and GP for 15m and higher

Nice contest as always. No qso's yet on 28 MHz. I try next year.

We had several heavy storms in The Netherland during the weekend.
The first one destroyed the 7MHz rotary dipole, so I could not
operate 40m. Due to the seccond storm it was impossible to raise
the tower so had to work with low antenns but I did manage to
work al lot of dx and made many qso's. Had fun anyway.

Tnx for this big contest.
Due to the heavy storms in my area, i had to remove my ZS6BKW antenna on top of the apartment
building. Put a Hustler mobile antenna whip on the indoor balcony and was able to work on 3 bands,
40-20 and 15. During on time I only worked S&P because of the very high power stations in Europe.
Glad to meet some friends again. Enjoyed, su next time!, 73 Hans, PC4E (ex PJ4LS, PJ2LS, PA0JLS)

It was fun thanks to the good conditions and the very high standard of operating practice from the
US/Canadian operators.
A pity that a couple of antenna's were hit by a severe storm on Saturday morning.
Luckily I was able to be back on the air on Sunday.
Till next year.
Hans PC8X

Thanks for organizing this contest, I really enjoyed practising my CW skills and have contact with
American and Canadian stations!

All QSO's in storm made 5 watt

Yaesu ft-991a and antenna doublet 2 x 21m

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the contest PPRT Forma Brasil 73!!

agu160145@hotmail.com

It is always a great contest. Lots of newbee s , glad to haer
that.

Nice weekend enjoying the ARRL DX CW from PX2A contest station.
We operated 10m SOSB HP (PY2PT) and 15m SOSB HP 15m PX2A, op. PY2BK).
Thanks for all Qsos. 

Ricardo
PY2PT

WELCOME BACK - TEN METERS !!

SO1R; TX FT-450D 100 w; ANT: YAGI-2el, W3DZZ

FT-2000  IV

TS-590S - 100 watts
20, 15m - 2 ele
10m  - 1 ele

SunSDR2 QRP 5W, Tri-bander 20/15/10

Thanks all and 73! 
Sergey R8TT

73!

my first cw ARRL contest!
TNX&GL!
73! Alex, RA3RLJ

IC756PROIII, Delta Loop 160
73!

127591

TS590S. DELTA 40M. DELTA 80M. INV V 160M. SAY5-9.

73!

Tnx 73

TKS FOR NICE CONTEST
PWR_100w, ANT_VERTICAL,DIPOLES

73!

IC756PRO3 100w  XL222 35m up
73!

TNX! CU AGN 73!

73!

A lot of fun. I shared the shack with S51J/40M. I took part on 15M, the only band with two antennas.
Improvement were LP/HP filters lend by S50K who was on 20M one hill away! We both made over 1000
QSOs.

7 hours operation. 73 de Janez S51DX

Working with club's radio FTDX10, 40MDY2 antenna and mine SPE
1.3K-FA amplifier, set to 1kW. This time on 40m, again by night!
I'm sorry to say, but I never had so much double QSOs in contest
as this time! It will be interesting to see UBN report, what had
boys made out of my callsign HI!

Great contest. Great team!

LIcence taken at May 19th, 2021

Always nice to participate in this Contest, wasnt able to stay in there too long, though.

Rig: Elecraft K2, 5W
Antenna: R7000 multiband vertical

Station call is SM5AOE

Elecraft K3 100W to KT34XA, CL-33, Inv Vee, Inv Vee

First contest with totally redesigned radiosystem including towers, antennas, grounding, cables,
switching, filering and schack.

My name is Göran Ingemar Backman, not Gran Ingemar Backman. 
My address is Uttervägen 6, 644 36 TORSH�LLA, not Uttervgen 6, 644 36 TORSHLLA. 

I would very much appreciate if your computer system was not limited to the ASCII character set.
ASCII characters and BASIC were used in computers in the 1960s and the 1970s, but that was 50 years
ago. Time for an update for ARRL. RSGB can handle my name and adress as well as the European
countries, China, Russia and Japan. How come it is a difficulty for ARRL? You may not have noticed
that there are more letters in other languages than English. Now you have been informed. Please sort
out this problem. Thank you for a nice contest. 73 de SM5SIC Göran

IC-746, Windom ant.

RIG: FTDX3000 abt 50 to 100Wtts. Ant.: Lw for all bands with
MFJ-948

TS-590+HM AMP 500W

FT-950 95W  W3DZZ ant

RIG: AVALA 01
PWR: 500 W
ANT: G5RV

TRX: ICOM IC-751A PWR: 100 W output into ANT: 33
meter long end-fed sloper 11/3 meter up, heading 290
degrees
Stay everybody safe! See you later! Stan SP7QO

Plik utworzony programem "Cabrillo Generator" - (c) SP7DQR

Trx Icom IC_735, ant. dipole

HM Husarek DSP and GP7dx antenna

rig-IC746 ; pwr-100Wtts ; ant-GP

3 ELE YAGI ANTENNA

TNX AND 73's TO ALL COMPETITORS
FROM ISTANBUL

73

IC-7600, IC-PW1, 7 EL 3 BAND (20,15,10) HOME MADE YAGI

CG3000 Tuner - 20meter wire - 100 W.

TRAC TRABZON

Put your comments here.

YAES FT-840,ANT-LW 160 METRS

TNX 73!

SunSDR2QRP, HLA 150, 100 w

TNX 73

un4pd@mail.kz

TNX 73

73!

FT-857D ANT-DELTA

IC-775DXII

IC-746 + DELTA LOOP

ICOM IC-756pro3, trap vertical

ant TH11-DX  TS480-SAT

SunSDR2 PRO
HLA150
Ant IV

ICOM-718

TNX! 73!

FT-107m Delta 80m Vertical Key

73!

73!

wow. twice the score I made in 2019. Thanks for the sunspots!

Remote operation suffered from an 8h long electric power cut on Sunday.

I was not planning to enter the contest this year for many
reasons but decided to make some QSOs on 10M as the main entry
band. Signals were loud from many stations in the Caribbean and
South America but with 5W most of them were having a hard time to
copy me. I thank you all for the patience to get me in the log.
Setup here was FTDX-10 @5W and Hy-gain DX-88. 72 VA3AMX, Eric

This was a very casual contest for me this year due to family responsibilities.  My goals were
improve my code skills, increase my CW country count and have fun!  All goals were accomplished!

Licenced in 2020. Flexradio 6600, Hexbeam for 10-20m, Hexbeam for
40m,  Vertical for 15m and 80m, Center fed dipole for 20m.

I was restricted to 20-15-10m on my 3el beam (15m was best), running 1100W on my 1980 Drake L7 tube
amp. I mostly did S&P for DX, including several Ukrainians & Russians not worried about war. Eastern
Europe was open, with Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Lithuania, Finland, & Latvia â?? as well as
Colombia, French Guiana, Uruguay, Madeira, Panama, Thailand, etc. I tried running CQ but was flooded
with no-mult JAs.

Good fun!

Guy VA7GI

First time actually trying after being a ham for about 30 years. Had a blast but am sure there are
many who are higher up than me. Wasn't at it steady but did my best

Not a big effort.  SD performed perfectly, as it always
does.  Good fun.

FT-950, DK II, AL-811H, AT2K, 40m loop

I enjoyed the contest. I'm not an accomplished cw operator,bu tI'm trying to improve my skills/ keep
from losing them, but accurately copying callsigns at over 25 WPM is getting more difficult for 83
year old ears.  I have probably busted some calls, but that's ok.  My old SK buddies are gone to
that "Great Hamshack", I keep at it in memory of them..................Len VE5WI

I had afun operating this Contest again. Rig used a new FTdx-10

Did a few hours of S & P.  Rain followed by cold had the Triband
Yagi rotor froze at 270 deg.  Hope it melts soon!

Used "SD" by EI5DI worked very FB

Very bad low band QRN.  No 10m opening on the second day.
The 20m long path openings were fantastic with long runs.
Thanks to those who called me.

This was my first "serious" ARRL International DX Contest; where,
instead of exchanging the odd few numbers, I decided to work as many
US & Canadian states/provinces and stations on 40m as possible - and
it was quite an enjoyable contest!  My station consisted of a
TS-480HX operating at 100W output to a switched Y-doublet at 15m
height.  Something I would ask NA operators to consider in future:
the Southern Hemisphere is in mid-summer right now, and the level of
electrical storm QRN on the lower bands is astronomical - so when
we're transmitting CQ calls at low speed that's our way of saying
"Please reply at a similar speed so we can copy you through the
static."  Unfortunately I lost some QSOs because I couldn't copy the
callsign or exchange from weak stations buried under the QRN and
blasting away at umpteeen wpm.  Anyway, thanks to everyone who
answered my calls, and to the ARRL for running the contest.  73, and
I hope to hear you all in the next contest!

Conditions on 40M to USA improved.Generally stronger signals compared to last two years. Always good
fun. Thanks for your patience with the 100 watts and Invee.
See you next year.73

At least some propogation. 15 was good for a change.

Limited time available, so went with 15M single band. Wire Vee @ 25' running Yaesu FT-950 interfaced
to N1MM and Rigblaster Pro.

Good contest lots of fun

Wow.  On Saturday afternoon 10 m was wall-to-wall signals.  I haven't seen this level of activity on
the band in years.  Very good participation on all bands, actually.  Thank you Cycle 25!

K3 / HexBeam @ 7m / 43' Vertical / 80m "V" / 160m "L"

Bands are hopping!

This was my first contest in over 20 years.   It was great to hear all the activity from around the
globe!

Remote from Japan.  Only low dipoles for 40 and 80 available.

Wow! Great band conditions this year with plenty of activity.
Thanks for the contacts and fun on the radio. Thanks to the ARRL
for sponsoring the contest. 73 - Dan, W1QK

Improved propagation led to a higher score than last year. 15 meters
came alive early, and 10 meters showed some decent openings as well.
Cycle 25 has begun, it seems. Go FRC!

Remotely operated the Gloucester County Amateur Radio Club
(GCARC) HF Station, W2MMD, with a temporary tower, tri-bander and
the 40m portion of a trap antenna installed following extensive
damage during an EF3 tornado spawned by the remnants of Hurricane
Ida on 09/01/2021.  Operation was limited to 10, 15, 20 and 40
meters.  The results definitly would have been better if 80m and
160m atennas were available.

Fun contest.  Lost time on trying to figure out N1MM
configuration back to CW from RTTY.  Learning more about N1MM.
Spent time operating at NE3F statoin as well.

W3TB, Franklin TN
40-10 meters, Inverted Vee for 80 meters.

Thanks!

My first time on this contest. Quite the humbling experience for a 15 wpm operator,,, took a few
minutes to make each contact, listening to the DX op for awhile to make sure I got their exchange
correct then I made my call. Great incentive for me to work on increasing my speed. I can do it!

A fun 4 band event here - poor 160 antenna and conditions and 10 never really opened for me.  80 was
HOT the first night with lots of 100w stations calling me and 40 through 15 were very good the whole
weekend. My 500w and wire antennas did about as well as expected, certainly no competition for the
big boys, but fun never-the-less!  My original goal was to make 1,000 contacts but once that was
realized why not try for 1,000,000 points.  It would be tough with no big opening and just a few
multipliers on 10 meters!  I therefore did a lot of cherry picking of multipliers on the other bands
and also managed enough contacts too squeak by! This was one of my better efforts in years in this
contest.  Thanks for all the contacts!
73,
Puck W4PM

It would be very helpful to non-assisted search and pouncers - like me - to have runners be required
to give their calls every few Qs instead of having to wait for several minutes to see who you are to
make sure you are not a dupe . . . After all, without S&P folks calling you, you would not have
anyone with whom to have a Q, would you. It's not all about YOU, it is about everyone. We all try to
do the best we can, but runners without S&Pers are nothing.

100 WATTS WITH LOW ANTENNAS ON A SMALL TOWN LOT.

Portable operations while in a campground. Rig IC-7100 and
hamstick. Tough going and thanks to all the stations who pullled
my signal out of the noise.

Nice to have sunspots again.  Best ever claimed score in this contest as
SOAB.  Inverted-L with MFJ-998RT worked well, 160-10M.  Two Flags on remote
antenna switch worked well for RX vs. local noise on 160-40M.  First time
in this contest was in 1956 as K6ILB, age 14, with score of 75 (5 Qs x 5).

It started as a very casual effort, but I got hooked and worked fairly hard all day Sunday.  I'm not
good enough at CW to run in a contest, but can copy enough by ear to S&P with CWSkimmer and a keyer
to assist.  All Q's were S&P only.  Good Fun, 73!

All Search and Pounce.

Operated about 30 hours. Was a challenge to keep focus in a DX contest with compromise antennas on
the high bands. Ended up with sleep during morning of second day. For 10, I used the 80 meter
dipole. For 15, the 40 meter dipole. Ususally I get a few Carribean stations on 160, but this time
only one. It is fun working JA, VK, ZL on low bands--this time on 40. And it is nice to see the WRTC
promoted with II8 and II4.

Thanks for the QSOs and 73! -Ron (W8RU).

Great 15m condx.

I had too many family and other obligations to operate in this contest.  I missed operating from my
favorite M/M superstation, K8AZ, due to schedule issues.  I turned on the radios and make a few QSOs
here and there during small time gaps.  

Conditions sounded mostly good.  DX was particularly workable on 40 m in the last hours of the
contest.  

73, 

Jim, W8WTS

Thanks to all the good ops worldwide.

Band conditions were great! It had been a long time since I worked
Australia from Western MN on 10 meters.

My first contest /QRP Thanks to all that worked my 5w and wire GP

After many years contesting  as mostly SB 40, I decided to
operate SB 15.  Age (birthday Sunday now 74 )
is certainly showing on me.  Sunday morning I felt like
I was rare DX.  I never had such a huge long pileup
of EU stations. Also in SP mode I had to call many
stations Many times, where as on 40 with my 2 element
at 70 ft one or two calls is all it took.
BoB WA1FCN

Second MFJ keyer to go out on me.  Kudos to 3G3R for running 5 watts!

Operated remote from Tokyo, Japan

First my radio was suddenly not working 5 minutes before the start.  It was 03:03 3 when I made my
first Q.  My Remote connection kept failing every 30 minutes or so.  Seemed there was a shortage of
bandwidth between South Florida and Central Michigan.  Every time I got a Run going my connection
failed.

In 2020, I had to miss the contest due to actually being in Germany and Austria (for the first
time!!) on a business trip.  For me 2021 was horrible - only 30 QSOs and didn't even send a log. 
This year was MUCH better.  My only regret was that I lost my 10m whips as 15m was wide open, and so
(I suspect) was 10m.  Ironically - I worked stations that were less than 10km from places I visited
in Munich and Salzburg.

Decent conditions for operating Ten Meters as single band effort.
Somewhat noisy conditions in the afternoon.  I was able to work four
stations in Europe during this contest.  I actually worked one station
from Brazil above the FT8 frequency of 28.074!

Propagation was very good. Most of the DX contacts were on 40 meters.

Flex6300, Hamsticks, CW-Skimmer

Part time S&P operation.

GOOD CONDITIONS. NICE CONTEST.

Good Conditions.

Yankee Clipper Contest Club

was very nice to hear more of a 10 meter opening. 
what a shame that I had other obligations on most of Sunday.

Spent a few great, fun minutes. Thanks all!

Running sharp v wire on low bands...

This was another WQ6X portable operation from W7AYT's QTH in Concord.
This was the 1st ARRL DX contest run with the newly acquired Yaesu FT-2000
transceiver feeding the Stereo-Cw setup I have written so much about in the
WQ6X Contest Blog.
I also ran remote operating shifts (mostly after midnight) for the NX6T Multi-
Single operation.  The antennas at W7AYT are nothing compared to the Anza QTH.
While the SFI was largely in the low 90's, the upside was no Space-WX storms
until AFTER the contest event - Whew!  15 & 10 meters had some incredible
openings (compared to previous low-SFI years).  This year, 20-meters was
quite a disappointment at the Concord location.
Overall, I had a lot of FUN this weekend.
LooK for a write-up on this GiG at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com.

The SFI helped a lot on the upper bands and managed to the best score since 2003 on LP.
The leg of my 40/160 Slopper developed a short. So, nothing worked on these bands the second night.

Great contest!

Success always ARRL Inter. DX Contest, CW...73

ARRL DX CW

Rig-FT991A, Home-Made PA 400W, ant. Home-Made Dipol for 160M  35M Up. N1MM Logger+  Software, LG
DeLUX computer. 
Thanks for organizing the contest, thanks for the QSOs, 73s Carol, yo2gl

IC-7300, 90W, 41m sloping wire, downtown location !.. 73 Szigy.

ICOM IC-751, PWR 100W, DIPOLE ANTENNA

RIG: KENWOOD TS-450SAT 100 W; ANT: FD4

trs. FTDX10 ant.EFHW tnx all QSO's

RIG: FT-897
ANT: FD4; DELTA LOOP

FT-1000MP MARK V Field

EXCELENT CONDITION ON ALL BANDS MAINLY ON SATURDY NOTHING ON
40 AND 80 SECOND DAY IN EARLY MORNING SOME MEDICAL WORK PUT ME ALMOST
7 HOURS OUT BOTH DAYSANYWAY ENJOY EVERY QSO HOPE SEE ALL AGAIN
ON THE SSB PART 73 GL

Very disappointed that I had to abandon the contest
due to problems with my PC. Was enjoying the contest
and making everyone happy with a qso with ZD7 on CW.
Hope to be there again next year.