Thanks for organizing the contest. Conditions down here were difficult. When we had 
prime time to the US on 20m everybody from the US worked to Europe on 10 and 15m . 

There was only a very short period at saturday when we got good condx to the east coast. Many
signals then were very fluttery and auroral (via the pole). 

Biggest problem is the QRM situation. Most of the time QRM level is up to S9 and 
burries out the signals. Only in the local morning hours this situation is better. 
The lowbands are almost unuseable. Even 20m is demanding. With this situation several 
QSOs were just at the "limit".  vy 73 de 3W9MAE Wolfgang

QRV from Kasumigaura city Ibaraki-pref..
100W output

I enjoyed the contest.

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

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 the contest.

I have enjoyed contest very much.

TS 2000s; CP6 vertical ant;conndx vy poor

Kudos VE7UF, found me, called me, and worked me on the the
2-bands where I made a signal.

A very non-serious effort.  Had a bit of fun during a few available BIC hours.

FTDX10; RGv RainGutter Ver. 5 Antenna; LDG RT/RC100 REMOTE ATU;
HP PRODESK CPU; N1MM

Thanks for sponsoring the contest! Thanks to those who worked me!

Conditions were fair based on recent solar activity with Low SFI,
high A, and K in recent days. 160m and 80m were better Saturday
night rather than Friday night in EM65 Middle Tennessee Thanks
all the QSOs. Seemed like turn-out was not a good as in the past,
but plenty of stations operaing to keep us all searching with
butts-in-the-chair.

With only my G5RV Jr at roof level I could only work 40-10m and had limited time over the weekend,
but it was still fun and I made my goal of 200 contacts and 100,000 points. Just barely! Thanks to
those of you who had to dig me out of the noise.

I recently got back into amateur radio after 30 years!  Shared the experience with my son who is 9
and it was an amazing experience to chase DX together.  Now we have big plans to put up better
antennas.

Claimed score is more than Guam record which was scored on 2025
by us.
See you on phone mode too in the next week end.

Extremely tough conditions from Tianjin, China (OM89PC). A persistent K=5 geomagnetic storm and low
SFI of 110 created severe auroral absorption, effectively blocking polar paths to North America.
Higher bands were mostly closed; the few signals that made it through suffered from intense auroral
flutter and rapid deep fading.

The CW signals had a strange character — raspy, fluttering, and wobbling unpredictably. In the
Chinese ham community, we call this distorted sound “jun ji diao” (军机调), as it sounds like
old, unstable military tube radios. This made copying marginal signals a real challenge, with RBN
spots rarely exceeding 10 dB SNR.

Despite the brutal environment, I managed 407 QSOs with my FTDX101MP. Huge thanks to everyone who
pulled my weak, fluttering signal through the noise — you made it worthwhile!

73 de BD3TE

We planned a visit to Madeira with my friends to celebrate our 50th year of age and friendship of 35
years. Besides having fun together they helped me building the antenna and allowed me to operate
during my favorite contest the ARRL DX CW. The site at 650m ASL at the edge of the rock and the
thoruly tested 4 element quad at home provided an amazing contest experience by hearing all replied.

Thank you to everyone who had the patience to put up with my lack of experience...
I promise to improve!

CT1HIX, Gomes

just 20 meter wire

rig K3  80W out
ant. vertical

I ONLY USED A FT-817 WITH 5 WATTS + VERTICAL INDOOR ANTENNA

@10/15/20m:ANT=4M VERTICAL, PWR=100W;
@40/80m: ANT=DIPOLE, PWR=300W; 
KEY=HST-III;
ON-AIR-TIME: 3h 13m;
THANKS FOR THE FUN - 73, Tom, DG5CW

IC-7610 100 Watts Vertical, Dipole, Quad

holiday style operation .... 50W and end fed wire (20m).... glad to have worked W/VE with very
limited capabilities (and lots of hotel local QRM hi)   tnx to all hams and congrats to their good
ears ...

@DL0GK

Rig.:TS-890; 100 W PWR,
Ant.: MP1 on balcony in abt. 28 m over gnd:

IC7610, ant:W3EDP @15mtrs

Flexradio 6600
Antennas: UB 6-20 / Dipol

100 Watt

Nice conds - but several states were missing

Thank-you for organizing the contest.

100 Watt  GP-Antennas

Flex 8400
Antennas: Optibeam OBW10-5, Groundplane, Dipole

no antenna for low bands, so only 10,15,20m this time.

First time operating this event from the opposite side of the planet. It's a very different
feeling.

Hector, XE2K, spent more time on the tower than he did on the radio. But we have made great progress
in getting antennas in the air here at DU0A. Much more to come!

My first ARRL-CW-DX contest

TS-590 , 4xVERTIKAL + 2xDIPOL , 2xBEV.

FLEXRADIO 5000
dipolo DX-B Alpha Delta o hy gain avq 14+expert
1k
jmmaotf@gmail.com

Icom 7300

ICOM 7610

Antennas:

Enjoy SD

My antena is a dipole for 10-15-20-40 direction to USA

FANTASTIC CONTEST, REMOTE OPERATION 100W IC7300 TNX QSOS

Antenna: 4.85 metres of SotaBeams wire on a fiberglass fishing rod, with an Aliexpress 49:1, not in
the highest part of my roof. 
Rig: Xiegu G90, used the ATU to tune.
Software: not1mm (similar to N1MM), CAT-connected to the rig.
MFJ-564 desktop twin paddles.

SD, K3.  All CW by hand on Begali HST MK II single-lever.

Saturday was very enjoyable on 10m with all but North Dakota in the USA worked and Manitoba and the
more difficult VE's also missed. Sunday a disaster, the band just did not open to EI, managed to
pick about 50/60 qsos for the day. You pick a band and sometimes it refuses the game.

10 WATTS

just dropping by

FTDX 3000 - DIPOLES

Just a few hours on Saturday night. 
FTDX101 + GS35 amp and 1/4 wave vertical antenna - no dedicated receive antenna

single vertical 14 MHz home made. TS 590 SG .

Low power : 20 watts

Participation on Sunday evening on 80m with 100w, excellent
nighttime propagation with east coast.no log

Due to other commitments, I was only able to participate in the contest
for 5 hours and only 20/15 and 10m. 15 and 10m opened quite late with good
signals. Thanks to everyone for all the contacts. 73 Bert F6HKA

Just few hours after french cup contest

IC756 proII  (built-in antenna tuner), ZS6BKW multiband dipole on 80, 40 and 20, fan dipole on
15/10. Both antennas are on a 40 feet single pole in inverted V config, oriented toward NW.
Aware of the 15/10 poor performance of the ZS6BKW, I quickly installed a fan dipole and the results
were astonishing, especially on 15m...
20m was disappointing, too much powerlines noise and too strong signals from the EU. Maybe I should
have added a 3rd wire to my fan dipole!
I managed a few great runs on 40 and 15m and that was fun ! Thanks to all who came back to my tiny
CQ's
PS: I also participated briefly in the REF-SSB, but it was far easier to work W/VE on 80/40 than it
was to work F-stations with LP on those overcrowded bands !
See you in the next one !  Patrick

Part time only - watching olympics!

Conditions average, hard on QRP. FT710, 75ft lw, 5W

Didn't intend a serious entry but did 28 hours in the chair! Wire
antennas under 50ft qualify me for the limited category. Fun to work
so many friends, and some good runs.

Flex 6600
Antennas: Hexbeam / Doublet

Flex 6300
Antennas: 3-ele

Quite a challenge, with the solar disturbance making some
paths quite difficult. But good fun - annother great contest.

good propagation and activitat on 80 m, 61 QSO with 100 W and FD4 ant.

Remote SO2R operation from HG9X station.

ICOM756pro 100w
delta loop, dipoles

Nice Contest

Elecraft K3  100 Watts
Force 12 C-4s (2 elements on 14/21/28 MHz shortened Dipole on 7 MHz)

RIG XIEGU G106 - ANT HY GAIN EXPLORER 14

TX FT 710  100 watt antenne verticale JNC radio MC 750 portable

Antenna used a 5/8 wave vertical antenna, 6 feets above ground

FT991A, EFHW 4010 at 10-meters

Just few hours in a busy weekend. CU next one.

Flex6600/Sunsdr2dx - Antennas: Verticals

It has been another very good and enjoyable contest weekend.
The weather was nice and sunny, in the radio shack the temperature was comfortable.
I originally planned a not assisted category, btw it happened that I changed to assisted run time on
Sunday seen the geomagnetic storm.
I started on 40/80 and switched to 40/20 after few minutes since 80m didn't produce a decent rate, 
despite 20 "looked" closed I run on this band for quite a while at the beginning.
Everyone experienced the blackout on Sunday and the early 10/15 closure on Saturday btw at the end I
cannot complain and could have been worse seen the low SFI and no sunspots and increasing in K.
Despite that I managed to improve my last year score by 10.5%, mostly because the lower bands
offered better openings, compared to last year my mults increased by 15, also qso increased by 220
thanks to the high rates of Saturday.
While the solar cycle is going down, low bands are getting better!
On 160 the openings were spotted and happened earlier than the expected in the first night, while
the second night it was quite slow.
On 80 there was good activity especially on Saturday night.
Insisting to gain some mults from mid/west US, I logged one stn from WA on Sunday around my sunrise,
it was quite difficult to copy it and had to ask for many repeats. Some minutes later another W7
arrived with a strange "watered" signal, too low to copy on my beverage.
On 10/15/20 it was great fun, on these bands I enjoyed  long hours of 2bsiq.
On Saturday many stns arrived from west US and Canada on 10/15m, btw the signals were generally
weak.
I have noticed that despite the geomagnetic storm that 15m stayed open much longer on Sunday,
respect Saturday.
Also 20m didn't  work very late both days and a consistent rate gap started to show before the
opening on 40m.
Thanks everyone for the QSOs, it was a pleasure to work so many very skilled correspondents from
US/Canada !
73s Luca IK2PFL

ottimo contest poco tempo a disposizione.

I choose 10 metres and these are the stations who heard me. I had RF in
the TV: My wife was watching the winter olympics on Sunday the hockey
match USA vc Canada. So I had to reduce power. On Saturday 11 w and on
Sunday 30. 73 Gio ik2ait I have been glad that also a low signal was heard 73 Gio ik2ait

CKECK LOG

I was rusty in cw I never participated in a hf contest I only did a lot
of activity in vhf. My condition ic7300 100w slooper antenna with electric
wire 73

Yaesu FT-897 90W Endfed 73

Lot of fun, excellent operators and thanks for the patience to get my tiny qrp signal, some
difficulties in Italy to hear zone 7 and 0 US stations.73 to the fellow Hams de IO5T (IK5TBK)

Very nice contest as usual, lot of fun and big signals !

I worked as always SO QRP (5W of my KX3) and all homemade antennas: a
helical vertical "monopole" for 80 and 40 meters + two "3 Elements
Vertical Parasitic Array (VPA) Vertical Yagi" (one antenna for 14 MHz and
one for 21 MHz) while for 10 meters I used my "ESG - X 10 - Special" a
compact wire beam, 2 opposed elements (a "W" dipole as a radiator and an
"M" dipole as a director) all antennas directed NNW for USA and Canada.
Propagation not exceptional, the 10 meters closed early, good 15m, 20 and
40 meters were not brilliant. I couldn't get close to my 2024 "record" of
425 contacts (score 128,817) due to bad weather (I operate outdoors with
a portable radio), very strong winds, and rain that damaged the antennas,
and I lost time fixing them. Great fun and fair play from all my
correspondents, I'll try again in 2027. 72 de Gian IS0ESG QRP

RIG: QRP Labs QMX+, Power: 3W, Ant: EFHW for 21MHz

Flex Maestro at home and 6400 + vert 10 15 20m and delta loop
40m+80m+dipole 160m at IB9T contest site!

Thanks for organizing and managing this classic contest ! Propagation was very poor, with a smoothed
sunspot index of only 11. I tried to do my best in the little time I had, but my limited power and
antenna did not help in such poor conditions.
See you next years ! Francesco, IU0PJS

IU1TLD_ARRL_DX_CW_2026

cw the best

In my first QSOs, I entered 5W as the exchange rate by mistake because I wasn't familiar with the
logging software. I later corrected it with 20W, which was the correct exchange and the power I was
using during the contest. Thanks for your support.

TNX

FLEX 6600
Antennas: EXBEAM DIPOLE 40/80

Equipment: IC7300, Begali simplex, dipole multiband home-made.
Tnx, good operators! ..73'

cw keeps us young

A beautiful and unmissable contest, with great participation and endless
charm. It's a shame I couldn't fully participate, and especially the
bizarre propagation. See you next year, hoping to improve everything.
Thanks to all the stations who had the patience to connect. 73' to
everyone from IZ8GUQ Giovanni

CNDX was so so.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest. I used homemade yagi.

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I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for many QSO.
See you next contest. 73!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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I enjoyed the contest.

Enjoy Contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest

Tnx FB Contest !!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

GOOD CONTEST ARIGATO
FTdx5000  5EL IV
TNX QRS !

I enjoyed the contest.

SOSV

RIG:IC-706 50W   ANT:Vertical

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
Thanks a lot.

Appreciate all staffs and partner STNs very much

I enjoyed the contest and Thank you for picking up my weak signal

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I participated for few hours at seaside on Sunday morning. I used an IC-7300M into a VDA antenna.

I thoroughly enjoyed the contest. I'd love to take part again next year!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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I enjoyed the contest.

Poor propagation, short-time QRV, however it's fun having QSOs.

Condition was not so bad. SSN was low but still opening to east coast.
But number of Multi was 10% down this year.
I enjoyed on 10M contact in 2nd day of contest.
I hope to continue to hold good condition on 10M in next year.

 Using Antennas:80M-4Sq, 40M- 4Ele yagi, 20-10M - 5x5 stacked yagi and VERSA Beam (20M-10M, 6Element
at 30M)

 See you in the contest everybody!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest on 15m!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

First day was good propagatin.
Second day was poor
SSN 0 and K index 5

Worked on 20-10m using&testing a new small whip antenna on the balcony
for a few hours.
Glad it did work ok and will enjoy using a real "limited ant", hi!
It was a shame that I missed the low-band operation time this time.
This is the first contest this year and the second one after I moved
to JA1 in Dec 2025.

I enjoyed the contest,
See you next year.  Yoshi

I enjoyed the contest.
TNX FER QSOs 73

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I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest a little bit.
Because I have no time enjoyed  on 1 day.

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.
I QSOed 27 stasions in 2023.
I QSOed 34 stasions in 2024.
I QSOed 24 stasions in 2025.
I QSOed 15 stasions in 2026.
It is very difficult to QSO with U.S.A. stations using low
power RIG.
I think it is very good a new 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 +
YAESU FT-710 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 the U.S.A. stations with
my MV antenna!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest with low power.
Thanks to copy my weak sigs.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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I enjoyed the contest.

RIG: ICOM IC-7300 50W
ANT: Mobile Whip
Operator's License: Japanese 2nd class

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest!

Thank you all stations!

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I enjoyed CW contacts on all bands. Thank you.
Using 50W + Dipole/Loop/Long wire+ATU

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
SOSV

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
RIG:TORIO TS-890S
ANT:Vertical Antenna

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I really enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Put your comments here.
Use multiple lines if needed.

Thanks for joining contest
TX IC-7610 1000W
ANT:2ELE,

Many Thanks!

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

Many stations sent KW as numbers. I sent QRP as numbers. KW seems to mean 1000. How about QRP Some
stations requested me real numbers. Now I knew the word QRP is not available in this format. I
replaced the word QRP with 005 below.

I enjoyed the contest.

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I vy enjoyed the contest.

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ARRLDXcontest is VyFB!.

I enjoyed the contest.

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I enjoyed the contest.

Rig: TS-890S(50W Model)
ANT: 20mH V-DP(CD-330V)
OATH : I using Vol to lower output to 5w.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
see you next year !!
TS-890S/100W+21mh6eleYAGI etc

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Great Contest !

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed this contest using a wire delta loop.

I enjoyed the contest.

FT-817ND  IC-905XG EH DP Yagi LW

PWR100W/WIRE+ATU @11m

I enjoyed the contest.

I used an EFHW (End Fed Half Wire Wave) antenna with a long wire of about 3.3 feet (about 10 m) to
QRV. I'm grateful to the many people who picked up the signal.

I enjoy the contest

Tx Power 50W

FUCHU AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
POWER:100W

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I enjoyed the contest.

TNX everybody !!

Dear DX station, I look forward to seeing you again next year! 73

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG is TS-850S and ANT is vertical on 14MHz band
Power output is 50 watts or less

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

PWR=2W  ANT(40m:Twin Delta Loop) (160m/80m:LW/DP) (15m/10m: 4ele YAGI)
Age=52 / RIG:  HAND MADE QRP CW (FINAL: 2SC1957)

Ant: End Fed Half Wave, Single Wire 40meters Long, 10meters High

I had successful QSOs across the entire range from 7MHz to 28MHz.
FT-1000MP had a lower noise floor than IC-7300,
which allowed it to pull out weak signals much better.

I USED POWER LESS THAN 5W.

TNX CONTEST.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

PWR 5W QRP ANT 3el Ygai (^_^)
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...
Excellent CNDX.

I enjoyed the contest.Thank you,73!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest though my anenna and CONDEX were bad.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I enjoyed the contest.

It was fun joining again after a while.

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I enjoyed ,VY TNX

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I enjoyed the contest. TNX!

I enjoyed the contest.

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I enjoyed the contest.

SHARP HAM CLUB

Enjoyed very much. QRP Labs QCX+, 50W Amp, Delta Loop antenna.

IC-7300M_BuddiHex

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

500W 4ele Yagi and 200W DP

Worked on 10M with 100watts and Hentenna.The number of QSO by the final morning was the same as last
year.
However, the conditions were very poor on the final morning and I was only able to make QSOs with
two TX stations.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
FTDX-3000D/DP

I enjoyed the contest.

.

RIG: YAESU FTDX5000MP
ANT: DP,EH

I enjoyed the contest.

I really appreciate your help.

I enjoyed the contest.

FT450DM
LONG WIRE Antenna

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Unfortunately, the conditions between France and Japan were very poor. Tha

I enjoyed the contest. FT-991AM[5Wset]/DeltaLoopANT with FC-40..
Sorry for the weak signal. Your RX performance helped me. Thank's

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

TS-2000 T2LT

I enjoyed the contest.

It's the first time to join this contest.
I really enjoyed it. Hope to challenge more next time.
Thank you.

I enjoyed the contest.

cu next test 73

Seemed like bands not that great Friday night and Saturday, but compared to the geomag dump we got
Saturday night into Sunday, they seemed pretty decent. But after Sol broke wind, seemed a little
like losing ur starting QB just before a championship game.

What happened? Weekend solar details if interested: https://g.co/gemini/share/a64cf0158413

IC706MKIIG
EFHW out the window
All hand keying, no keyboard entry

LOG ONLY, NOT COMPETING

We belive DF6FQ was sending serial numbers. He sent his exchange
as 3 digits each time and we asked for repeats on both of them.
We have faithfully recorded what we copied.

Old Dog, New Trick! 

Although I have been a ham for many years, I haven’t done much contesting, other than the Novice
Roundup in the 1970s and field day. I had a blast! I will be in the contest next year for sure!
Thank you ARRL for sponsoring this great event!

This is the most I've done in 25 years. all bands humming.

EFHW 20W

K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. As the
only CW op I (N3UM) did SO U HP in the 2026 ARRL CW DX test. Each
year I hope to beat my last-year's score claim. But, the Sunday
daytime WX forecast was bad; freezing rain, then snow. The K3CCR
shack is a 0.3-mile round trip from my cottage, on a private road;
snow is cleared, unclear when. Sat, WX to be clear & dry. So, my
plan was to be on for ~5 hrs. from 0Z start, then back on ~1230Z
for ~10 hrs & QRT, avoiding the work & risk of snow. At start 00-
0158Z on 40 M I ran for 131 Qs at 67/hr, then clicked spots for
110 Qs at 58/hr. Then 0405-0500Z I got 63 80-M Qs at 69/hr & quit
with 704 Qs; same at 0509Z QRT in 2025. Back at 1237-1621Z, high
bands hot; I got 250 Qs in 3.7 hrs, 67/hr; 69 20-M, 108 15-M, & 73
10-M, & quit to eat & do chores. Back 1949-2225Z I got 112 hi-band
Qs in 2.8 hrs, 95 on 20 M, just 40/hr, NOT hot. Low bands worse;
57 40-M Qs & 23 80-M Qs 2246-0121Z, 31/hr. The big rate drops had
two causes; Kp jump to 4+, and W3LPL & W9PA spots BOTH off, tens
of min, several times. So, I quit at 0121Z with 746 Qs, 16 more
than the 730 Qs I had after the 01Z hour in 2025; consolation.

28 extra contacts on other bands.

:Activity was noticeably lower on 1he higher bands indicating a decline in the current sunspot
cycle."

Flex 8600
Antennas: Dipoles

The ARRL DX CW was my first major contest since recovering from the flood caused by Hurricane Helene
in Sept 2024. Since then our home (incl the shack) has been rebuilt and new antennas installed.
(Hurricane Milton destroyed my antennas days after Hurricane Helene.) Since then I have added a new
JK MidTri-40 yagi @60ft and installed an Optibeam tribander fixed @30ft facing SE. The Elecraft K4D
and KPA1500 were activated as  a single station, and it was great to be back on the air again.

But wait, the is more! I attended the 2026 Orlando Hamcation, only to come home to failures in both
the KPA1500 amp and Hamation 2x8 antenna switch.  These failures were presumed to be caused by
lighting, although no storms were reported at my QTH. To recover in time for the contest, I used my
KPA500 amp to replace the KPA1500 and overnighted a new 2x8 ant switch, tnx to K7MI at Hamation.

Excellent conditions for a QRP try on 15 meters, until Sunday
mornng when Europe was inaudible for several hours after sunrise
here.  I feared it would not open at all.  When it did, signals
were loud, but with Auroral flutter for some time.  5 Watts
seemed to get through better than the day before, maybe because
being farther south was an advantage.

Thanks to KH6J for Hawaii on 160.

Much better conditions than expected. Especially to Asia!
Not as much out of 10m as I had hoped.

Well the band conditions were not good for working into Europe
from here.

Great contest, I managed to work almost 21 hours which is a lot for
me. Conditions were generally pretty good, although 10 meters
was not good on Sunday. We had very strong signals from Japan on all
bands, and I made 538 contacts there (and 100 more to the rest of
Asia). Haven't gotten up to work JA on 160/80/40 for awhile, but
I did this time with reasonable success. Some strong EU signals on
20 and 15, but 10 seemed only open to parts of Europe on Saturday
and not at all on Sunday.

Lots of dupes on Sunday afternoon. Pet peeve: folks calling CQ TEST,
giving their call sign, and ending with another TEST. Always throws
off my timing.

Thanks for the QSOs - 73,  Dana
Station Info: https://www.qsl.net/k6nr/remote

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Only had limited time (7 hours total), but I decided I'd better take advantage of good condx to EU
from the West Coast on 10m and 15m while we still can.  That kind of worked, but 10m was a no-show
on Sunday.  Had my best EU run on 40 meters on Friday evening.  

20m was still open at 06Z on Sunday- *very* fluttery, but loud, EU; and a ton of JAs.  I also had a
big JA run on 15m toward the end of the contest on Sunday afternoon.

73 to all - Jim K6ZH

Ran the contest with my 68 year old 75A-4 and CE 100V.

Dedicated to the memory of out comrade, mentor and hero, John, N8AA
(SK).  Rest in peace, old friend.  You are missed.

Antennas: Alpha Delta DX-EE Fan Dipole in attic

My first all band contest in 25 years. Living in a condo with simple antennas. Surprised how well I
was able to do with low dipoles and a 40 m vertical!

Mr Sun played games on Sunday and decided to put a hex on
10 meters.  Thanks for the Contest!

Started Saturday Evening and two hours Sunday morning.  Was
surprised at how good 160 meters was during late night the second
evening.  Still had my long wire set for working on 160M which
then didn't allow operating on 80 meters.   I need that remote
Highpower Antenna tuner.

Society of Midwest Contesters

fun contest

When using this form, laptop at times erases [] all my entries and I
must spend too much time re-entering them. At 81+ years old, I am
thinking contests are TOO MUCH TROUBLE ! To send in an entry that is.
I find using N3FJP's system to be too cumbersome as I frequently am
unable to find my log entries for submission. Just my 2 cents worth. I
still LOVE HAM RADIO ! Log submission twice failed twice to ARRL contest_primarydb DB

My first time breaking 1 million points. I'd like to thank all those who are in the log for helping
make a personal best score happen.

I had a blast running 100 Watts into an OCF dipole.

It was great to see the abundant participation and good band conditions. Despite about 7 hours of
intermittent S7 power line interference I was able to complete a personal best.

Flex 6600
Antennas: 160 Inv-L, 80 4sq, 40 rotatable dipole, 10-20 tribander

i HAD SURGERY THE DAY PRIOR TO THIS CONTEST AND WAS NOT ABLE TO CONTINUE SO IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE IT
TO A CHECK LOG THAT IS OK ALSO

Had a few solid operating hours on Saturday afternoon and evening
(00:00Z - 05:00Z). Decided to make my life difficult and run QRP. Made each
contact all the more special! Hi-Mound MK-706 paddle keying a FlexRadio 6600
w/ATU, running 5W into a home-brew fan dipole (40/20/10) up 15 feet (5m).

First ARRL DX contest. IC-705 with external amp at 60W.
Quarter-wave vertical on Jeep hood mount, portable hilltop.

This was probably my first real effort. It was the weekend after February break, so I was not
burdened by homework. This was my first time operating LP in a contest, since my dad and I repaired
a power supply that was able to run my radio at 100W. I was planning to put together an 80m OCFD
before the contest, but the wire was delayed in shipping, so the EFRW had to suffice. It was very
noisy on the low bands and likely very inefficient, but I was surprised by how well I got out.
Another issue I faced was that transmitting 100W CW dropped the voltage in the mains circuit enough
that my computer turned off momentarily, closing all of my programs and restarting the system. I
worked around this by plugging the radio into an extension cord to another circuit.

Though I had a couple semi-decent runs, most of my QSOs were S&P.

Overall, this was a fun contest, and I look forward to future ones.

pv6y callsign is questionable that I got it correct.

132' EFHW @ 25', 500w

Wasn't able to operate for the entire contest period, because of
other
events that I had scheduled over the weekend. Jumped on 40 and 80 on
Saturday, then 20 and 10 on Sunday. 20 was jumping! 10... not so
much.
Still had a great time!

KC7DVF

Moderate score for us in the contest this year as the 3 of us KD3TB, KC3NNO, and KD3RF continued
worked on remoting two Elecraft K4s (one in Pennsylvania, the other in Maryland) in as a
multi-single station.
 
We lost about half a day due to some networking issues and an IP conflict between the K4D and the
KPA 1500 in the station in Pennsylvania, which KC3NNO was finally able to work out.  It turned out
that the KPA-1500 needs either a USB connection, OR a Network connection for remote operation, but
NOT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME! 
 
When the amp and the rig were both connected to the network at the same time they were assigned the
same IP address from TP Link router in my shack resulting in a port conflict, and the amp would go
offline.  More research is needed, but our simple solution to remove the network cable from the amp
solved the problem and we got back on the air.

Our goal is to get the process worked-out so a remote operator could log into the primary station to
participate in the contest at any time.  It worked well for a multi-single this time, and we will
eventually work our way into an all-remote multi-2 or a multi-multi.
 
Total operating time was 20 hours.

Ten Tec Eagle running 60 watts to wires. 73, Dan  ke0tt

Great band condition. Thanks to all the contest operators with good ears who could hear me.  100
watts and a wire.

I have been a ham for 48 years but never have participated in the ARRL DX CW contest. Quite
different than the other one I have worked once.  A bit challenging with all the differnt formats of
callsigns.  Took me a bit to get used to it and my ears atuned to what what being sent, but overall
it was FUN! I do participate in Feild Day and some other contests, but I am not a big contester.

<<<<< Harry - KF2N >>>>>

Operated from FM29ix

QSOs: 178

178 QSOs x 3 Points / Contact = 534 Points.
534 Points x ~40 Multipliers = 21360 Points.

Thank you for the 2026 ARRL International DX Contest, CW.

Very PT just making sure backup radio works.

Heavy storms brought lots of rain static which wiped out all bands at
times.  The rainstorms were replaced by geomagnetic storms on Day 2.
But we all had fun anyway.

rigs/ants: Elecraft K1 (3AHr LiFePO4) 1-5W to 44 ft doublet (40, 20m)
or 135 ft end-fed Zepp (15m) up 40 ft; portable: MTR3b (8AA) 2W to 20m
end-fed wire sloper up 40 ft (20m)

My first Int DX Contest for CW

Just for fun. Sunday on 20 was miserable, 15 OK

A LOT OF FUN

It was a great contest for me, the bands were good and there was
lots of operating time.  Nothing to complain about there - what a
blast!  Sadly my amp starting acting funny and in the last hour,
I couldn't milk any more watts out of it.  You might ask why run
it into the gournd.  My excuse is that the amp was behaving
erratically and having been an electronics tech back in the day,
I know that intermittant problems are hard to fix, so it makes
sense to get to a hard failure.  Right  In any case, I'm
barefoot for the foreseeable future. 73

Fair propagation on the first day, however the 2nd day was a bust
here in the Far North!

Well I wondered if I was getting a bit old for
these night time bands. This years activity
sayu YES !.
I turned 78 years old friday the 20th.   . I have been
very inactive the past year due to serious
health issues  with my XYL.  May she rest in
peace now.

This is one of my favorite CW contests.  Unfortunately I had to limit participation since family
arrived at 2200z on Saturday to stay for a couple of nights, so I missed the last 26 hours of the
contest. But satisfied with the results I achieved with my peanut whistle - 100w and a G5RV antenna.
 Had fun while I participated!  See you next year!

This was not only my first CW contest, these were my first CW QSOs, save a few practice ones.   I
entered the contest mainly to improve my nascent CW skills, and to learn how to contest in CW mode. 
And, boy did I learn a lot!  I am certain that I made many mistakes, especially with respect to DX
Power reports, Hi.  But, I overcame my fear of working CW and am now inspired to not only work DX
and Contest in CW, but to become conversant - it is a wonderful mode.  

Thanks for the QSOs and apologies for any copy errors.

KN6ZZI

What a difference a day makes. Sunday another solar storm
messed up condx and sunspots dropped to only 11 and the EU
and JA prop I had on Sat. on 10 disappeared here in the RF
absorption zone. Had a few qsos on 10 in Carib. and S.A. despite
NOAA reporting the muf was 16 mhz.

Antennas:

Flex-6600
Antennas: SteppIR DB32, SteppIR 3el

Thanks - 73  tom    Rig = TenTec Eagle @ 100 Watts.   Antennas =
Mag Loop (40 thru 15), an Isotron-80, and an indoor 10 meter
dipole, all  in the attic 12' above garage floor.

Great conditions on Friday night and Saturday, saw lots of
activity on 15 and 10. I think this is my best score ever for the
ARRL DX CW.  Thanks for all the QSOs!

Bad condx on 80 m, aurora

Antennas:

100W and Wire Antennas. Thanks for all the contacts, great fun!

Gud condx during the weekend, sunday slower than saturday because
of few minor G1 storms. Many US multipliers, a bit short on the
VE multipliers compared with other years. As always very grateful
by the patience and ears of the operators that allowed me to run
the contest. Hopefully see you all next year. Cheers! 73 de Pedro
LU7DZ/LT7D

Please read 3830 Write-up. Thanks Philippe LX2A for hosting and CC for
evaluation. 73, Suad

Antennas:

IC-745 + EFHW dipole (20,25mtr.)

FT77-100W
Ant Vert 5b 40m dipol
UCX log

I worked on Xiegu G106, whose power is 10w and does not meet the QRP category (my mistake), so I am
checklog. 73,LZ1KZ

Log of LZ6E is check log

TRX FT-710, PWR 100W, ANT OCF Dipole 40/20/10/6 M, tks and 73! Val

Antennas:

100W from IC7610 and 80m EFHW at 12m. Newly learned CW (<1yr) so
just dipping toes with some S&P.

Great fun

Sunday was tough going, took an age for the band to open properly and when it did some signals were
skewed path with flutter (even East Coast). Eventually came good and managed to work a few more
stations although no more mults.
On Saturday afternoon, worked all US States and only missed three Canadian territories.
Thanks to those who called and see you in the SSB Contest!
73
M2L (M0BJL - Shaun)

FLEX6400 to Doublet at 10M

SB Dipole ant 9m AGL

Played for fun!
Nice to get a VE on CW and to get K on 40m

Limited time only this year due to work committments

4 hours of listening to 10m during the usual state side window. Thanks to all who worked me.

Yaesu FT-710 and 100W to 41.7m longwire with 9:1 Balun

Started the contest as a single band entry on 10. Great conditions with a 4 hour
opening to Japan Saturday afternoon. I set a goal of working Stan Stockton, K5GO's crew at ZF5T on
all the DX contest bands. Mission accomplished at 2153 UTC on 20 Meters Sunday afternoon.  While
chasing ZF5T on the various bands, I worked other stations to help them out. I was fixed mobile on
10M QRP, rain gutter antenna on all the other bands. The rain gutter performed surprisingly well on
80M and got ZF5T, ZF1A and XE2X in the log on 160M.

Been off the air most of the last few years for graduate school. I am so glad to be back!

Good fun!
Operated for a total of a little under 9 hours and picked upa few few new D
XCC's.

22ND ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST

Not much time at all to operate- so please use this as a check log.

Propagation on 10 m and 15 m was down from last year.
40 m propagation was good thru early morning even after sunrise from NJ to Central America

Fun contest, enjoyed the 80 and 160 meter openings on the first night, even picked up a new country
on 160 with HD8R!

I only had a few hours to work the contest but had a good time. I was glad to see 10m open well
after sunset Saturday here in NE Wyoming; my best contact on that band was with VR2RC at 0144Z.
40m was noisy on Saturday night.
Sunday morning (local time) 10m was very quiet. ZF1A was the only station I heard and worked around
1420Z. I worked several EU stations a little later, but conditions were not as good on 10 Sunday as
they were on Saturday.
Looking forward to the DX SSB contest in March!

Had fun. Station worked well: k3, quadra sspa,
arrays for NE, S, W.  One Beverage NE 440'.
Country totals were down from usual.

10/15 Meters wide open friday and all day Saturday. Great comm , nice time overall...

2026 Feb 21 ARRL DXCW

Great conditions on all bands...worked 5 new entities on 80 meters

ENTERED 160M - UNASSISTED
USED ASSISTANCE FOR OTHER BANDS
FREQUENCY OFTEN NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON RIG

Worked a new one - Galapagos Is.

QRP, NON-Assisted, "Full 5 Watts" to a 20 Foot end-fed wire,
thrown into a tree out my window, 15 feet max above ground.
No internet or other assistance used, just S&P tune and find.
Good condx on upper bands, 10m was the best band for me.
Friday evening and Saturday were quite good, Sunday poor.
11 QSOs with EU, poor compared to last year. 14 Qs at 1/2W.
and 2 special Qs with 100mW: Japan and As. Russia. TNX!
My hearty congratulations and THANKS for your patience,
and for adding 130 QRP DX QSOs to my station log!
Pure radio fun! GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! -73- John N6HI

good contest 15 was the money band. Had a good time.

This weekend was a lot of fun!

Conditions started out wonderfully: at the starting gun 10 was
open into Asia and I enjoyed good rates for almost two hours.
Then 15 stepped up for another hour or two.

By then, 40 opened up into EU allowing Mitch’s to land over
300 contacts in four solid hours into EU.

I picked it back up for the wee-hour shift (midnight local to
6 AM) and had the most fun I can recall on the low bands
overnight--especially 40 which continued to thrill with good
rates into both EU and Asia.

Saturday morning continued with great conditions, with
openings into EU on 20, 15, and 10. And the afternoon provided
continued performance into Asia mixed with EU.

Conditions were amazingly even--the bands were firing on all
cylinders (160 through 10) and we realized we might have the
makings for a new state multi-single record.

Then . . . conditions began to sour.  The sun pouted,
providing a foretaste of times to come, manifesting its first
spotless day since June of 2022. ☹️ 

Although Sunday morning provided a solid EU opening on 20, the
EU opening on 15 was late and short,
with 10 a virtual no-show, yielding only 6 Qs on Sunday.

Thankfully, conditions held up such that we were able to
surpass the previous Washington State M/S record by a
reasonable margin:
4.1M claimed vs. 3.4M checked.

Most of the time we alternated 4-hour shifts, except overnight
where we alternated 6-hour shifts each night. We managed to tickle the
ether for 44 of the 48 available hours.

- 73, Tony (N7DX) with Mitch (K7RL)

With a flux of 111 I wasn't expecting much on the high bands but
10 and 15 meters were excellent to Asia on Friday evening while
trying to pick off what I could on 20M with the second radio.
Then a decent run on 20M but forced myself to 40 and 80 to get
what mults I could.  Saturday morning had decent Europe runs on
20 and 15 meters all morning but 10 was strange.  Couldn't tell
if signals were direct or skewed to the east.  Europe heard one
second and then gone.  20M was excellent to Asia and over the
north pole in the late evening.  Then Sunday... 20M seemed OK but
moved to 15M and the band scope was a flat line; same on 10M.
Had to check on the second radio to make sure I didn't lose the
receiver front end.  Started hearing signals on 15 after 1800
UTC; worked a few Europe and others.  10M was a waste land all
day, just a few contacts.  JA was pretty slow on 15 at the end.
Not the big finish I hoped for after a great beginning Friday and
Saturday.

If only I had worked everyone I called. A few watts to a low dipole meant lots of repeats, but
enough patient ops stuck with me that I beat last year's score.

Windows replacement crew found that 2 of the new windows were not
correctly measured, and new ones would be ordered

Antennas:

Limited Antennas Overlay

Best contest conditions I've experienced in a long time,
especially on Friday Night and before noon Saturday. This was a
great time!

Lots of fun. Spent more time in the chair then I had planned as Qs
kept coming. Hit my goal of 500 Qs and kept going. Friday night 40m
was a lot of fun. Had my best S&P rate of 65/hr, just simply spinning
the dial up and then back down the band before even looking for spots.
Easiest time ever making DX Qs on 40m, and it was packed! 80m was a
bit noisier than 40m, but I was surprised how well LP and the 6BTV
performed. Not quite as easy as 40m, but I worked all DX I heard.
15m both mornings up until about 17:30utc was packed with DX and
loud signals. 10M was so so, and late to wake up Sunday morning.
Got up just before sunrise Sunday morning to see what I might catch
for new mults out PAC and Asia way, and wasn't disappointed. AH2, FK8,
VK, ZL, 3D2, KH6, and a few JA's made the log in the first 35 minutes
back in the chair. Good activity all around from DX with good conditions.
73, Gene N9TF
Rig, K3S 100 watts to 6BTV ground mounted with 32 buried radials,
160 inverted L 22' vertical to knee, 100' horizontal traveling west.

I had a lot of fun

Thank you for all the DX that worked me. DX is what lured me into Amateur Radio. I’m the last of
the U.S. Navy’s CW operators. God speed hope to see you next year.

Doug//NA5YO

Had limited operating time due to conflicting commitments.

Once again, great contest. Band condx were pretty good this year. See you all next year!

2026 Feb 21 ARRL DXCW

PLEASE update the rules to eliminate spotting yourself.  Those doing this are totally out of
control.  

It should also be against the rules to have someone like KD4D spotting W3LPL 460 times.  Was he a
hired spotter so W3LPL didn't have to spot themselves?  That 460 comes straight from doing a search
on DXHEAT to view KD4D's spots.

Working on my CW skills. This is a fun way to practice copying
callsigns! The bands were so-so. I noticed the DX CW speed was
much higher in the last hour of the contest. Thanks for the Qs!

Not too bad for a DEAF man.

ARRL DX CW.  A fun contest.  All bands open wide on Saturday.  not so
on Sunday, but still good.  NO2D, Pete

WOW! 10 meters was on fire! Many great signals

Rig: KX3  Ant: HF9V

Blind ham running 100W from a Kenwood TS590SG to an Alpha FMJ vertical sitting on its tripod in my
backyard.

RX/TX: TS-890S
Ant.:High End Fed LW

Power:100 W
ASSISTED with
CW Decoder
 of TS 890S
Thanks for Contest!

17 years old op

twoQSO 1000 W rest 500 W

I send wrong report 00:00UTC  -04:15UTC. I send 599 15.... sorry
that..

IC-7610, FinFet 1kW FET amp, broken 3el kt34a at 6m pointing europe :D

TS-990S, 3el.yagi

ANT: all bands inverted L 10+41m, top at 10m

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

Flex 6500
Antennas: FD4, ECO 3x3

TCVR - SunSDR2 Pro / QRP 5 watts

Flex-8400
Antennas: FB-33, 80m horizontal loop

FT1000MP Mark V, PA Acom 1500 - 1 kW
6el./10, 5el./15, 4el./20, 3el./40, dipol/80,160, beverage

TRX DRAKE TR7 100W - ANT Windom 42 m long

TNX, 73!

Antennas: CWHIP

100W, dipole antenna 7m high. Next year it the antenna will be bether one ;-)! TRX FT-1000-MP.

Good contest with many US stations on 80 m
I enjoyed it. Till next year. 73 Leon ON5WL

ARRL DX CW

wire antenna

Sunday very bad cndx..all poor or fair...

A challenge to operate low power with an 10m end-fed wire. OK on
Saturday but on Sunday I did not work anyone due to the condx. But it
is always fun to participate even with modest station. 73 Klas OZ1DTF

Good activity, great ops. Worked 170 qso's using  magloop and groundplane with 100 watt input. Hpe
cuagn! Rienus  PA0RBA

QMX+ @ 5W, RSP1A for N1MM Spectrum Window via electronic T/R
switch, Winkeyer, Begali Sculpture Mono, ANT: 80 - 10M: 2 x 16m
doublet, 12m up, CG3000 autotuner, 160M: doublet as T-antenna fed
with a L-network tuner.

I had fun in 59 QRP QSO's on my Endfed sloping to the east
18 QSO's with just 3 Watt give more than 1000 Miles per Watt
I worked 20 states Which is much more than I expected
Info goto: pa1b-qrp.blogspot and click Label: ARRL int DX
Thank you for the fine contest

Flexradio 6600
Antennas: Wires and verticals

used SD for post contestlogging. Works FB
Good activity but sometimes band conditions difficult

Checklog

TNX fer the contact

Kenwood TS-590SG, 100 Watts, Rotatable dipole 20 and 15 mtr,
ZS6BKW dipole on 40 mtr. 73 Herman

First time in a cw contest just to try. Not many contacts but enjoyed it and hope to do many more

All QSO's in storm made 5 watt

Participated on 40m - 10m at PD8RW's station (rural area => no
man made noise). Saturday was OK with 10m open even to the west
coast, but Sunday started really bad on 40m and slow on the
higher bands due to the solar storm which hit earth overnight.
Later during the day conditions picked up again, but 10m never
opened well enough to raise a little pile-up and it was difficult
to compete with station south of me. So 15 and 20m had to
compensate for that. Anyway, had a lot of fun and made much more
contacts than anticipated. Thanks for calling me !!
Ftdx10, 400W amp, 40m wire vertical, 3 el TA-33M tribander @ 14m

I used about 80 watts with an IC-7300 and 
an inverted V antenna on the roof of a guesthouse in Sint Maarten, 
about 10 meters up from the ground! 
It was so much fun to run the ARRL DX CW contest from PJ7. 
I hope to do another activation somewhere else next year.

Best 73 de 4Z5LA / Ros

agu160145@hotmail.com

Tkanks Big 73 TU

RIO DX GROUP

100

not really one of my favorite contests any onger

30w

TNX 73!

ICOM-718,100Wt.,Ant.Balcony,all band

TNX 73!

73

GL! 73!

73!

73!

irk_romanenko@mail.ru

73!

RIG: "K3"; PWR: 500 WTTS; ANT: SteppIR 4 El.; KEY: VIBROPLEX SPEED-X MOD.515
TNX 73!

Regret to have short time to work in the contest. Anyhow it was exciting to contact  US/Canada with
only 5 watts to a light hex-beam. Thanks to all operators who have good ear to hear my weak sigs
through strong QRM.

127591

73!

TS-590S.  SAY5-9

An interesting skew path propagation effect was observed around 17:00 - 18:00 UTC 22 Feb on 20 mtrs.
Thank you for nice contest!

TNX 73!

73!

TNX 73!

TKS FOR NICE CONTEST
PWR_100w, ANT_6EL 3BAND YAGI

TNX end 73!

73!

No.

TX 5W, ANt MAGLOOP INDOOR

TKS 73!

This time I couldn't make it to the Pacific Northwest.
A G1 disturbance on Sunday afternoon ruined all hopes.

Working from Radioklub CERKNO contest location, near ski center
Cerkno. When I came there, I realized that antenna rotor is
turning, but not showing the direction. So I turned beam,
visually controled by GSM from phone, to about 310 degree. Two
element shortened beam is wide enough, to cover all needed area.
TRX was FTDX10, AirspyHF Discovery and home made linear
amplifier, set to 1500 W. Result was according to all conditions,
as expected.

Great Contest, good propagation on Sunday, low noise.
Worked with Wolf-2 DDC/DUC SDR TRX 70W (design by UA3REO, build by S56FPW) with low hanging shorten
Wire Loop for small gardens by G4LNA on 20m and vertical oriented Diopole for 15m.
73, Marko

control log

Antennas:

Flex 6600
Antennas: vertical

Running FT897D @ 5W out and 42m LW Ant up 6m.
playing with QRP. Thanks for all qso's.

ICOM  IC-7300
100 Watts
Windom

Elecraft K3 100W to KT34XA CL-33 and Inverted Dipoles

Antennas:

80M propagation better in Saturday morning. Improved score comparing to 2025.

Heavy rain deteriorated the propagation. RIG: TS-590SG + PA + GP5SP antenna.

RIG: FTDX 3000 abt 50-100Wtts. Ant.: Lw for all bands with MFJ-948

TRX IC730 100W ANT DELTA LOOP

IC 735 100 W

CHECKLOG ONLY

FTDX-10 100W AND WINDOM FD-3 ANT (20,5 M OF WIRE).

FT1000MP MARK V FIELD 100WATTS VERTICAL

trx: IC7300 100w
ant; Quad 82,4m

IC7100
Delta for 40m
No using PC in Contest!
OT29

FT897 80W ANT DELTA LOOP

R7 GUSHCRAFT
80 WATTS

73

Wonderful to see all the CW activity on 10m on both days, even with the sunspot
numbers in the tank. Worked all 48 stares + DC.
Antenna here is a SIRIO  half wave vertical 10m dipole mounted on top of a 25
foot aluminum flagpole.
Bencher BY-1 paddles and a CW memory keyer, plus a pen + paper log.

ICOM-718,ANT-LW 160 METRS,INV VEE

TNX 73!

tnx

GUD CONTEST, TNX & 73!

TNX 73

un4pd@mail.ru

FT-857DAnt. Delta

IC-746 + Dipole

Antennas:

Flex-6400
Antennas: Windom, Spider

Antennas:

ICOM-746

TNX! 73!

73!

Thanks everyone for your patience working me. At times the number of stations calling was so large
all I heard was a constant tone! I also need to offer an apology to several of you, it may have been
only 3 or 4 that were affected but still!  When I moved from 15 to 10 meters around 1940 UTC on
Sunday I screwed up my entry log (YES, it was ME, not the software).  It took me 5 minutes or so to
sort it out.  In that time I identified several stations as dupes that probably were not and could
not log them (another ME problem, not the software).  I got that sorted out now too so I will
automatically log any dupe in the future and let the software sort it out!  Again my apologies and I
hope everyone enjoyed the contest. I will be in SSB this year only but will be back in CW next year,
hopefully without any operator issues!  Will be on as V4/K0YA until MAr. 10.

First log I've ever submitted for any contest. Also the first time I stayed in a contest this long.
There's a limit to what can be achieved with 100 watts and a non-resonant multi-band vertical.  But
it was fun just the same.

FT-950

Flex-6600 with KPA500/KAT500
Antennas: Fan dipole in inverted-V

Even more cables to fix

running remote station ve3ria

QSO Count=1597

Great fun and good conditions - a great match!

I managed time to put in quite a few hours in this Contest

Only had Telnet Assistance band map for first evening then N1MM refused to connect with the DX
cluster.  I decide to not CQ during the whole contest, only search and pounce to make it more
challenging.  First serious attempt at contesting for quite a few years and I must admit I enjoyed
it.

Thanks for all the contacts!

A very part-time entry but still good fun. Rig was an Icom IC-7300 and a
DX Commander’Classic’ fan-vertical antenna.

Sri to all calling on sunday morning 80m static crashes killed the band!

Rig was an RGO-ONE running 50 watts to a 2-el Hex Beam up about
60 feet. Very limited effort compounded by the very limited opening we
get here on the other side of the world. I was able to work practically
everyone I heard - many great ears picking up my tiny signal. Thanks for
the QSOs and hopefully will have more power next time.

Like the other commentors , Sunday prop was much worse than Saturday.
Hardly any EU heard or worked. Thankfully Asia was available !!

Limited antennas description - Quarter wave for 40m (32ft) vertical tubing elevated base 10ft, one
above ground tuned radial wire, fed with 9913 coax. For 160m suspended from the top of that (40ft) a
"sideways V" bent vertical wire with a long top load T wire, aka Marconi style, to an insulated feed
point at ground level with one gull wing style above ground radial all cut for best resonance fed
with old RG213 coax. The 40m feedline has an MFJ tuner inline in the shack which can tune the above
(those antennas couple to each other) with acceptable SWR on 80m. Finally, for 20-15-10m there is a
fan dipole of 16ga wires also suspended via pully on other side from the top of the 40m tubing at
about 35 ft AGL fed with old RG-8X coax. Rig is an Icom IC-7300. MANY THANKS to all who worked hard
to hear my LP 100w signal from this wild bizarre arrangement!

This year the contest coincided with the week activation of W1AW/KP4  for the 250 USA Award,
coordinated by our section manager (KP4QVQ), for which I was the CW operator (OP. Jos KP4JRS). That
said, I decided to operate 20 meters CW on Saturday night to provide that contact for the stations.
The pile-up was a lot of fun.

Antennas (Lazy-H vertical for 160m, Inverted-V for 80-10m) under
50 ft height.

Tnx for the 15M QSO's. Great activity and band condx, Nice to
work so many CWops members too. Thanks to the ARRL for sponsoring
the contest and processing the logs. 73 - Dan, W1QK

Ftdx10 @ 70watts, ground mounted Hustler Vertical 4-btv, 10m loop
antenna at 15 feet high. Saturday condx were fair, Sunday condx
were terrible. W1ZZ

Flex 8600
Antennas: Hex Beam

Need to give points to US hams. 1 pt for an own country contact.

Managed to work a few after an early departure from K3LR due to the
impending blizzard in our area.

Bands from 80-10m  were surprisingly  good - even as the SSN's death-spiraled toward zero.  Go
Figure!  Thank heavens for strong participation from Europe, helping the all-wire antenna farm at
W3HKK work 874 Q's and 272 countries= 723,672 pts - in 27 hrs  ota, one of  my better  contest
results in recent years.  

Scattered openings to Japan and various points around the Pacific (AH2R was everywhere!!!).  I
worked 20 stations on all five of my operating bands which was an high number IMO. Apparently the 
contest stations kept things lively, while  far fewer Regular Joe's running 100w  werent making it
through the declining propagation. Things got pretty slow Sunday pm! Even S.A. was in relatively 
limited supply.  Very few exotic DX stations were heard, tho KP5?NP$VI made it into the 10m log,

de  W3HKK  ( since 1956)  age 84.

Part time effort at home.  Trouble with intermittent transmitting
with all the software and the flex 8600.  This has been an issue
and limited my participation in this contest and others.
Operated with the group at W3JZ as a result of transmit issues.
Was fun and my second favorite contest behind CQWW CW.

273' 80 meter loop at 35 ft for all bands
the USA Mens Hockey team take the Gold.

I had fun again chasing DX. All I have is an Icom 7300, LDG antenna tuner, and an Off center fed MFJ
40-20-10 dipole in my 55ft long attic due to POA rules! I operated on 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters but
liked 10 the best. So far I have 90 CW LoTW confirmed going for my CW only DXCC from this location.
Been on the air her little over 2 years. I feel like a kid again at 89 years old!

W3TB, Franklin TN  USA        Tennessee Contest Group

This was a lot of fun. I only wish I could have put in more time.

First CW DX contest.  Lots of fun, with great signals on 15m the entire time.Looking forward to the
next one.

Just a bit of packet spot punching and a/b testing a pair of dipoles.

After 43 years of HF hamming I finally have an HF yagi antenna installed, and boy did that make
things easier!

First time I have operated a contest since my wife passed away.  Good to get back on again.  Hope to
be soing this more often again like I used to do.  73
Tom W7WHY

Single Op, 7 hr 49 min, just having fun!

15 meters was the major producer. Moderate effort--slept to much.

This was my first attempt at a real contest. I struggled, but had a lot of fun.

Antennas:

No time to operate. Using mobile whips from dining room deck in a HOA condo.

Wow. This is by far the best i've ever done in a contest! 1500W
from the
wonderfully. This was a great
Propagation was terrible on Sunday, with SSN of
5 it was brutal.
year.

Just got married same day to XYL Caroline! Wanted to jump on for a
little while I had a free moment on CW before leaving on for the honeymoon on 02/21! (Where there
will be no radios).

Very good prop on day 1 but no so on day 2.
Great fun and activity.
Thanks to all who were able to operate.

None

Great fun with QRP S&P with my 1983 Ten Tec Argonaut 509, 80m
hexloop, hexbeam and 10m Moxon.  It amazes me how much 5W and a
decent antenna can do.  My first QRP contest.  Could not get on
until Sunday so tried something different.  Thanx to all the good
ears who worked me.  73s. WA1ONB

Is 30+ wpm really necessary

*sigh* still only have a verticle to use.I have a new QTH picked out but still have to sell old QTH.

SSN = ZERO on Sunday.   80 Meters was fun but I wish that some
operators would space more between characters during QSB conditions of
the band!

tough conditions on 40 meters were not great .... using my Xiegu G106 and ZeroFive 40 meter vertical
... 5 watts out

ALL INV V DIPOLES

It was fun while it lasted...
I couldn't get on the radio Sunday because of toooo many family things. And, we had to supply lunch.
EU was tough with the signals being watery but did get a few.
There were some interesting reported power levels... 67, 911, 90 Watts. And a few die hard 5 Watt
QSOs with great signal here.
I still had a good time.
Bill

Flex6300, Hamsticks or Telescoping vert, SDC-skimmer, telnet

Had fun just logging nice DX contacts. Thanks to all

My call sign continues to get busted as WB5N, so I kept my speed
28 wpm or less.  All S&P.  Condx 1st day very good.  New 10M Quad helped!

Decided to get back to my roots and operate only 160 meters in search and pounce mode and unassisted
using my 46 year old Kenwood TS-180s.  My main goal was to provide activity on 160 meters,
especially for the serious contest stations that need every QSO they can get.  Was surprised to find
160 meters open both nights into Europe from Midwest USA but thought conditions were much better the
first night (Friday night/Saturday morning) versus the second night.  Lack of thunderstorm activity
and low local QRN made for a really enjoyable and relaxed contest, and a big thanks to all the 1 KW
stations that were able to hear my little 100 watt station.  73, Don (wd8dsb)

Antennas:

Rough copying at Qth...

This was a completely ad-HOC run from the W7AYT QTH in SF East Bay.
Running the Yaesu FT-2000 into an MFJ-993b IntelliTuner to a 3-el 10-meter
Long John yagi.  Not surprising the QSO count DOUBLED on this band.
Because in-shack RFI was a HUGE problem, tuning the yagi (prolly as a rotatable
dipole) made for some interesting QSO distances - it even tuned on 20-m. KINDA.
For 40-meters the WQ6X 8JK Cobra array did the job, except on 80 - 20, the
RFI was so bad that it would take out the USB ports for the RigExpert CAT
device.  The RFI was relieved somewhat by dropping the power levels by 1/3rd.
When running JA pile-ups Saturday morning/afternoon, using the WQ6X Stereo-CW
method made a HUGE different in making pile-up running work more-or-less
effortlessly.
Read all about this at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com

Most of my operating was with my two toddlers running around and asking to
play with the CW paddles. We took a lot of breaks to put the transceiver in
to practice mode and let them pinch the paddles and hear the sidetone.  We
had a blast, even if the resulting score is underwhelming.

POTA operation, 40m EFHW 10 to 20 feet above ground

Skookumlogger, Flex 8600, 40M EDZ & 160M Horizontal full wave loop

Great remote operation working flex radio, thanks to xq1fm for your station, 40M I was so tired
waitng opening to USA (LP category), so It was not good to sleep...BTW it great to find om on the
air

Thanks ARRL DX Contest

This CW fashion contest is a great way to fill the time for breaking the fast during Ramadan 1447 H.

ICOM IC-7300, PWR 100W, INVERTED VEE ANTENNA

Around only 2hrs of total operation, Happy to give around some Qs. 73 Mircea YO3XX

TS 480sat 70w
Delta loop 43m

uSDR, 50W, OCFD antenna

100W from FTX1 OPTIMA ant EFHW(3.5&7MHz)+FTDX10 vert 5 band TNX to all W/VE HAM's

I am not sure that the log is corect.If not, give me a email message to corect it, explaining what
is wrong. 73!

FLEX-8400
Antennas: EFHW

Yaesu FTX-1F, GP 2 Elevated radials

great contest I did all almost in run mode lots of fun as usual see
again next year 73

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