Great fun! Butternut HF9V got me over the pond for some great
contacts :-)

This is my second time to join this contest and i'm enjoying it i
hope i can get lot of W/VE station...good luck fellow hams....

QTH Kasumigaura-city Ibaraki-pref.
K3 KPA500 Running 500W
28:7ele 21:4ele 14:3ele Yagi

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I was enjoyed it with the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I could enjoy the good contest.
Tnx for a fine contest again.
IC-7600, Dipole-Ant.

joined only limited time, enjoyed however.

It's only for fun.
I appreciate working with my station, i partecipate with remote station
only for testing the opportunity maked by Remotehamradio.com for all
youth amateur radio perator.
Thanks a lot.
Carmelo, IT9GHW.

Op. Matthew, power 100W via RHR station in 9A.

COPIED FROM YOUR CONFIRMATION:
 QSOs in Log:	223
Raw Score: 666 Qpts x 91 Mults = 60,606

Just a comment - 223 x3 =669, not 666, so score is 60,879...

Bands were great !!

100 watts abd all wire abtebbas at 25-32 Ft. AGL

Effort consisted of few hours Friday night and some on Saturday
with no operation on Sunday at all.  10m was fantastic!  Glad to
see the cycle on the upswing.  How much better can 10m get We
will see as the cycle progresses.  Thanks for all of the QSOs.

Although my hopes of (finally) using a beam in a contest temporarily were dashed by a windstorm, my
80-something foot wire, a very quiet WV mountaintop cabin location, my IC-7300 (that turned out to
be great at digging signals out of the QRM), and potent bands more than made up for my
disappointment. You know that the bands are back when you can hit Australia with 100W SSB and a wire
at 3AM on 20M. Got around 60 DXCC entities with just 100 watts . . . fun time! May even have to stop
logging QSOs with a pen and paper (although I finally uploaded them to a database to submit here -
it was like an IRS audit where they found an error in my favor, as the ARRL bot found additional
multipliers).  73s, John

63" EFHW, IC-7300 100W. Had a blast! Not sure how to calculate score. Had 127 QSOs x 42 entities x 3
points per qso.

Enjoyed participating in this contest for the
first time!  Hope to do it again next year.

The high bands are much improved. I enjoyed the event. Thank you for the contacts. I hope to be back
next year. 73 es 88, Caroline

CONDX and Qs on 10m and 20m were much better than
expected. But Qs on 15m was bit disappointed.
CU on the next year.

Well that was brutal! 12 hours 20 minutes total operating time.
Propagation was relatively good. Lots of strong signals, but some
brutal pile ups. Amazing how much difference a good operator can
make at the incoming side of the pile up.

Checklog entry

I am 13 years old. This was my first DX SSB contest, cut short by
family matters.
I operated 40-10 meters and got a couple of new ones! 73 DE AI7OW

ROOKIE

This year's cq contest is very interesting

The C33A station announced repeatedly in the cluster, DOES NOT
EXIST!!, the CQ3A operator pronounced the callsign incorrectly and it
seemed that he said C33A instead of CQ3A. We warned him of the
circumstance but he continued the same throughout the Contest

PESIMA PROPAGACIN

Muy buena experiencia y desafio personal para implementar nuevas antenas y practicar mas.

TNX to all for a fun contest I am work only 17Hours by a local
problems Vy 73

Really enjoyed it as always despite load QRN and even intentional
QRM... see you all next year!!!

First time using the FT991A in a contest. By far not the ideal radio for this, but it worked ok. A
second VFO would be very useful for hunting multipliers. The loop dipole worked better than I
expected although with only 100W a Yagi would make a difference. The Heil mic was not performing ok
(got reports saying audio was too bass and stuffy - I must fine tune the audio settings) so I had to
switch to the hand mic :(
Propagation on 10m band was good, I enjoyed seeing all that activity in a usually silent band. I
will be back next year with better conditions I hope! 73

:)

RIG Yaesu FTDX10, ANT HyEndCompany LW 20m, 100W Power

There where some difficulties in understanding my call sign, but I hope that all is OK :-).

Last contest paticipation was in 1981. Had only sufficient contacts on the 15m-band.

Icom IC-705 + 6 ele OWA Yagi @60 ft.
Handing out a few points while testing a new logging setup with wireless control
of the radio.
Lots of people didn't want to believe I was QRP but really guys, it was just an
IC-705 on battery power! The heavy lifting was done by the antenna, of course.
QRP means low power, not compromise antennas. ;-) Obviously good enough to
generate some small runs, too, at least after being spotted on the cluster.
Thanks for the QSOs and see you in the next one!
73, Olli

IC-7610 + ZS6BKW + EFHW Vertical for 15m

Challenged me to use the amplifier :). Tnx fer contest, nice and quick QSOs! Work mostly done on the
other side, small station here.

Elecraft K4D, KPA500, Kelemen dipole, OBI-9/5 Beam, 500W max

Didn't have time to operate the phone part of the ARRL DX and decided to hand out some points from
the BMW headquarter club station. Had to call security both days to grant me access and had to leave
before the high bands died. Will have the station remotely controlled shortly to allow for more air
time. Thanks everybody who called in. Enjoyed every single contact. Pit - DK3WE

tnx es 73

it was great fun, although it wasn't easy with the small antenna and 80W in SSB mode. See you next
time,73 Kasimir, DL2SBY

Yaesu FTdx3000 - Icom IC2KL - SteppIR - Loops

mni tnx fer very good contest

PWR 200 Watts

A great contest!

Not so easy with 100 Watt, but nice contest !

just a short participation - but veery good condx on 20m from south-DL

Very nice contest...interesting because there is only one band in QRP(with 2 Elt.Quad) and SSB !!to
work...Im curious about. vy 73 Ingo DO3KTM

CHECKLOG ONLY !!!

beginner contester

Great 10 meter propagation for this contest.

TNX TO ALL PARTICIPANT IN THE CONTEST VERY HAPPY TO HAVE SOME QSO USING MY WIRE ANTENNA AND A
BAREFOOT POWER IN USA COUNTRY SEE U NXT ARRL CONTEST DE DV1IIW MABUHAY 73

100 WTS

TS-590SG
MOSLEY TA33WARC

It's was very fun! Gracias  :)

EA CONTEST CLUB

Generally good conditions on 10m.It was fun seeing so much activity!

Hello everyone.
I did the contest from my mobile on a mountain, only with 90 watts and a 10 meter antenna.
It's hard to break pile-ups in these conditions or get a frequency and not have it "taken" away.
But the truth is that the landscape is idyllic and I had a lot of fun participating in the contest.
73´s
EA8TR

P.D.
I want to apologize to WH7T, I got carried away by "the heat of battle" and made contact with your
station to get the state of Hawaii, even though I had read in the databases that it was not a
workable state for stations outside of USA and Canada. Sorry

GREAT CONTEST ONLY 3H TNX QSOS

Tnx all for QSOs!

Fantastic 10m band many thanks to ARRL

My first little participation for this contest, only Fritzel FB 33 @t
6m AGL in my poor location for radio. Thanks all for QSO. 73 QRO  CU
next year  F4CVO JAY

IC-7300(100w)+IT-100+EFLW_27m

73'S

TNX bests 73 for all.

It was really fun to participate in this event with moderate power (55w) and a modest antenna
(rotary dipole Fritzel FB13)
The 10m was the most appropriate band to cross the Atlantic Ocean
73 Micke F4HZR

THANK YOU TO ALL US STATIONS FOR THIS NICE
CONTEST, ESPECIALLY ON 10M !
73

73

Nice condx here i west F

My second ARRL-DX SSB with my daughter, this contest is always appreciated. Thank you to all the US
stations for your responses. We will be back next year.
Jerome & Morgane(YL)

First contest in QRP. Lots of fun with 5w. TX: FT-818, R8 cushcraft
vertical antenna and 10m home made bazooka vertical antenna.

I really enjoyed the contest. 100w into a vertical HW wire dipole worked amazingly well.  thank you
N American stations - all very professional and friendly.

Fantastic contest.100% polite operators.
Great to work new states.

Great conditions. Very enjoyable.

Conditions did not appear that good however did enjoy the
activity/contest just a pity I was only able for shorter periods
thus small operation this year. 73's

Just a brief entry with one QSO per state heard

Had some fun on Sunday afternoon. Wire doublet on a sloping location.

Great to hear 10m open

Great to see 10 meters so noisy again, after many years
of silence.

Clansman PRC320 miltary radio with 30w power or Elecraft K4D with
100w and G3TQX Hexbeam antenna

sunday afternoon rebuilt 10m antn and had 3 hours  of  play
used SD for logging
It always amazes me that US and VE hams can hear my 5watts to a bit of wire

Had only intended to 'give away some points', but
conditions really good an decided to stay and play! Mostly
good camaraderie and great to hear mobile and QRP stations
working US and VE. Running 200W but to indoor fan dipoles
at 30 feet agl! Thanks ARRL!

The Gilwell Park Scout station hosted a number of newly licenced
operators this weekend to introduce them to contesting.

Always enjoy this contest and 2023 was no exception
despite the poor conditions especially to the more
northerly and westerly parts of USA and Canada from
this latitude (57.6 deg N.). Used same 6 el vertical
array by the Atlantic Ocean as in previous years.
Missed OK, VO2, VE4, VE5, and VE7 and the northerly Canadian provinces.  Great to get several VE6's.
Lucky to get OR and WA and MT on Sunday morning 30 mins before my sunrise as thought
band had closed for me. Never give up and keep going is the moral!
Will be interesting to compare results with an Italian station with
the alternative way of getting a gain antenna on 80m (very high 4 el horizontal wire yagi).
He is further away of course, but also further south.  The latter helps with
the more northery and westerly paths.
Thanks for the qsos and see you next year hopefully.  Sad that VY2ZM station no longer there.
73, Rick GM3PPG

Yes I really was using 5 watts, conditions on 10m better here on Saturday than Sunday so nice to see
all bands open. I even managed a couple on 40m even though it was wall to wall. Most audio was fine
but still the occasional over processed over modulated station who would shout down the mike, they
will never learn .
72 Bill GM4M/ GM4UBJ

Superb and exciting conditions on 10m during Saturday, had to investigate a high SWR on the log
periodic on Sunday morning, unknown fault that cleared with some WD40 and TLC. Thanks for the QSOs,
it was fun!

Rig:YAESU FTDX3000, PA:HENRY 3K Premier,
 
Antennas:
5 el monobander Long John Yagis for 28-21-14MHz,
4 el Slovenian Quad for 28-21-14MHz,
Lazy-H antennas for 7MHZ (NW-SE/SW-NE), 
Single Quads for3,5MHz (NW/SE)/(SW/NE)
2 el NVIS for 3,7 MHz (N-S)remote tuned dipol (TNX to HA5IW)
Single wire Beverages,300m to 325 degrees,100m to 285 degrees and 160m to 50 degrees,(TNX to Jan
OK2ZAW!)
Beverages complemented by a HA5IW preamplifier.

Nice activity and  enjoyable contest! Particularly, 10 meters was fabulous on Saturday afternoon.

Thanks for all QSO's! 

Vy 73's es DX! CU in WPX SSB!
  
Yuri(HA4FB), Zoli (HA4FF), Charlie(HA4XH)

ICOM756pro 100w
HF4V, dipoles

IC-746, wire dipol

On the air again for the ARRL DX-contest phone, after 3 years...!

Nice contest. All done with 10W and Vertical

Daniel, HB9DDS

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

Very chancing conds. Anyway i have a lot of fun durnig the contest.

Snce I am part of a modest DXpedition, I had over 200 DX stations
call me who wanted to work HC8, perhaps for ATNO. I logged all of
them.  Sometime Ientered DX as the exchange, sometimes they gave
power and I logged it.  I assume there is no penalty for these
zero pont QSOs.  I was trying to give out HC8 to as many as I
could while operatded in the contest.  If there is an issue with
this, please notify me.  I could remove them from the log or mark
them as in active if needed.  Thanks KE2D

Nice contest. Lots of stations. Good propagation especially on Saturday

I just worked few hours with a simple dipole and 5W but I liked very
much; I wish to have more time next year
best 72 to all
IK1BBC

My 100 watts and my antennas (only monoband dipoles) are certainly not
ideal to be able to compete in a contest like the ARRL SSB.
However, I had a lot of fun in the few hours I was able to dedicate to
the contest due to the usual Sunday family commitments which naturally
take precedence.
We'll see if next year I can have better equipment.
Congratulations for the contest.
'73 de IK1HZZ - Giorgio

IK1JTP

Arranged to participate "on the fly" so didn't have enough time
for setup preparation for this ARRL dx SSB.
Had issues with the dvk, self feedbacks, levels, and radio
settings as well, so my modulation was quite bad the first day
at least ... apologizes.
Overall it was fun, especially the surprising opening on 20m the
last 2 hours.
Happy to see 10m in good shape.
As usual bad spots like IL2Q produced long strings of dupes, all in the log btw.
Thanks everyone for the QSOs
73s Luca IK2PFL

singolo op arrl 10mt

I worked the contest on only 3 bands (10-15-20M),propagation was closed
during the night from my site.I met old "big gun" as usually every year
with a lot pleasure.I say many thanks to all stations that I worked on
the contest.See you next year.All THE BEST 73's

Solamente 10 ore totali di contest x svagarmi e passare un po di tempo..

Not excellent propagation and low power (only 100 watts) did not
allow much to be done. Participation in the contest for only one
hour on 15 metres.

FTdx5000MP + 11th floor balcony stylus

A beautiful contest. I had a few hours available to participate in the
contest, but I had a lot of fun. I managed to connect 12 American states,
with 100 w with a self-built windom antenna with a 4:1 balun and a HY
GAIN vertical antenna AV-18AVQ;AN ICOM IC-7300 TRANSCEIVER, with only
100 w of the transceiver.
Next year I will participate again.

ARI ROMA

tnx for the qso 73 from ITALY

IU1QCW Mauro

Thank you!

For Checklog

As usual great contest great opportunity to contact overseas .  Thanks again everyone.

Launched myself in the struggle on Sunday afternoon, with Xiegu G90 kept at 15 watts and mobile
vertical antenna (Outback HF-1899). Went up to a little Aosta Valley village (JN35oq), with view on
Mont Blanc (Europe's first roof). Started from 10 meters, which was well open, then when darkness
brought away signals, stepped back to 15. I would have never bet on working WA, OR, TX and NE on low
power. Next year will go for two contesting days! Thanks for all the fun...

TX Codan - RX Softrock Ensemble II - Ant T2FD

BELLISSIMO CONTEST, OTTIMA OCCASIONE PER CONOSCERE STAZIONI AMERICANE E CANADESI, NON TROVO GIUSTO
METTERE ASSIEME ALTE POTENZE MESCOLATE...500, 1000, 1500..NON E' LA STESSA COSA !

RTX: Yaesu FT-DX-10
ANT: 18 meters end-fed longwire

Very nice vertical 100 watt ft10

One of the best contest of the Year!

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Band Date Time Call-Copied RST-Copied QTH_or_Pwr-Copied
10   3/4 1255 vy2tt       59         PE
10   3/4 1332 k3lr       59         PA
10   3/4 1406 k1lz       59         ME
10   3/4 1431 wx3b       59         MD
--------------------------------------------------------

Beautiful and unmissable contest, great participation and good
propagation. It's a pity that I didn't spend much time and didn't have
the new antenna available. Appointment to the next edition hoping to
improve in everything. Thanks to all the American stations who have had
the patience to connect me. 73' everyone from IZ8GUQ Giovanni

I enjoyed the contest.
I like this DX contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

100W and 5mH Moxon antenna operation .

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I enjoyed the contest.

10m was great condition!

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

ICOM IC7300 100W
Inv VEE, Vertical

ANT  14mH DIP
RIG  IC-750A    PWR < 5w

GOOD CONTEST ARIGATO
FTdx5000
FTdx5000

I enjoyed the contest.
Good propagation.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
100Watts

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
Aso city Kumamoto Pref.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest on 10m.

I enjoyed the contest.

Good Condx on 10m

Nice to work in this contest & to say "Hi!" as usual.
Condx was worse than expected and CW last month. Sri abt storm or aurora.
Mni tnx for picking me up and patience.
Inv.vees for 160 thru 10 with 50watts.
73's Akira, JA8RWU

I enjoyed the contest.
FTdx5000 Ant 4elyagi

I enjoyed the contest.

I was very happy to see 10m coming back.
It was a lot of fun!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I felt the beginning of Cycle 25 al little.

I entry on a single-op 80m. The condition was very bad.
I QSOed 43stations in this year.
I QSOed only 30stations in 2022 year.
I QSOed 66stations in 2021 year.
I QSOed 34stations in 2020 year.
I QSOed 7stations in 2019 year.
JA 75m BAND has very heavy OTH lader QRM from RUSIA.
That OTH lader transmit point from 42.861213N 133.653435E.
The Eeast of the coast in Nahotoka.
I was using only 100W and small fishing rod vertical
only 10m length antenna in my balcony of my small aprartment.
We JA ham got a very narrow 75m band.
Please look for JA under a new 75m frequency!
3599~3612KHz 13KHz width
3680~3687KHz 7KHz width
3702~3716KHz 14KHz width
3745~3770KHz  25KHz width
I was disapointed to disapare a separating of output power
categoly each single band section. It is very difficult to get
an award on the low band in the same categoly with high power
stations!!
Please separete high power categoly and low power catagoly in
each single band.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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.
Thank you.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you all stations.

I enjoyed the contest.

I could QRV only 6hours.
CU AGN next year!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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

RIG: ICOM IC-7851
ANT: Whip
Operator's License: Japanese 1st class
I enjoyed the great contest. Looking forward to the next year.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG:FT-991A ANT:Vertical+ATU

Arigatoh!
Thanks!

I enjoyed the contest.

Thanks for joining contest
TX IC-7610 1000W
ANT:4ELE,

Many Thanks!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed so much, thanks

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest. The high-band condition was not so good.

I enjoyed the contest.

After almost 3 years in repair work, my 36-m SKY-NEEDLE stretchable
tower, derived from Frank, W6KPC, is now fully reharbished and put in
position again. Lucky enough to say hello to my old friends.
TNX for the QSO's, and ARRL DX SSB brought me a lot of fun!!
One thing I worried about: Some operators send their call only once,
even if I requested them to repeat.  SSB is different from digital
QSO using your computer. It has to be noted.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

ANT: CD-330V V-DP 19.8mH
RIG: TS-890S(50W)
OATH: I swer PWR down QRP 5W.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I enjoyed the contest at 100W !

FT-817ND  DP Yagi

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
50 W 4ele Yagi 9mH

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I participated on 2nd day. Condition was not so good.

Using whip antenna

Nice to be able to participate again in a phone contest
with a whip antenna!

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

200W claimed
age as of 75
I enjoyed the contest.

I really enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Very tough for me, 100w & LW,
but enjoyed my contest.

I was there for the last hour only.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
I was able to QSO with my friends.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

FT-450DM, Mobile Whip
I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

And I really enjoyed contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest. 73

I enjoyed the contest.

ARRL International DX CONTEST  thank you very much. from  JN1IFX

RIG: YAESU FT-1000MP
ANT: KA1-DP
Operator's License: 1st.class

Tnx contact

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.

My new 10m 4el Yagi worked
very well and made QSO with
very well and made QSO with

I enjoyed the contest.

Enjoy the contest

Thenk you.

I enjoyed the contest.
FTDX-3000D/DP

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Good condition
IC-7600 KPA500

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

IC-7300 1/2WL GP Antenna

I enjoyed the contest.

It's the first time to partecipate this contest.
I'm so happy to get many statidons on 40m band with my shortened DP.
Thanks for catching my weak signal.

I enjoyed the contest.

So cool to see Australia, New Zealand and Japan coming in on 10 meters. Things are looking up..

Another first experience from the United States: This time an ARRL being part of
North America, and not on the DX side.
I had the opportunity to be part several M/S, M/2 teams and even have been part
of the M/M in HK1NA that still holds the record in that category. I also had a
chance to win SOAB Unlimited from ZW5B in 2021, but I still had to participate
on this side of the continent.  
I really found myself with a very challenging experience, very entertaining and
totally different from being on the other side, and even making unintentional
mistakes worthy of a beginner from which I have learned and there is no place
for them to be repeated.

This adventure started when we arrived here in Maine two weeks before ARRL DX CW
with Krassy and Velimir to set up the station for the M/M category.
Krassy offered me to try a SOAB in the SSB version which, of course, I
accepted.
As already stated in the writings of the previous contests, Velimir stayed with
me for a couple of days after the contest to set everything up for SOAB with 2
radios and then I stayed alone here to test and improve some things.
 Between the two ARRLs was the CQ160, so of course I also decided to participate
to try to get to know a band that was totally unknown to me.
 Despite the horrible weather in the week leading up to SSB version, I was able
to improve some of the Beverages that were not performing well. It wasn't easy
walking through the forest with knee deep snow, but honestly I enjoyed it and it
was a lot of fun.
 In the previous days I tried to test everything, even calling DX on two bands,
even to soften up a bit for more than 40 hours of operation that I had ahead of
me.
 We all know that before the contest everything seems to be in order, and even
some small things can go wrong and are easily fixed, but when the competition
starts, everything seems to be different.
 The macros worked horribly, I had almost a second delay between pressing the F
keys until the message was played.  Even every few minutes, one of the radios
would stay on transmit and the only way I knew it was to look at the red light,
then I had to manually press the �??transmit�?� button on the IC7800 to get it
to release PTT.
 This drove me crazy, made me very nervous, and made me quite frustrated.  I
tried resetting everything and booting again, but the problem kept coming back.
I understood that this was going to happen throughout the contest, so I had to
accept it as part of the challenge and stop complaining or getting frustrated
because I was not going to achieve anything at all, even so I could never
completely let go and calm down.
 I only used the F1 to call, and nothing else, but still with that �??freeze�??
PTT issue time after time. The rest was all vocal, and to top it off, I started
shouting not realizing it until I turned on the monitor at one of the few times
I used a single radio on the second day.
The first 30 hours of the contest I didn't get up from my chair at any time, I
drank very little coffee and ate absolutely nothing from Friday at noon until
Sunday night once the contest was over.

 I devoted myself to trying to be everywhere, always calling in two bands or
calling in one band and going through others with the second radio.
 I pretty much followed the footsteps of Uncle Jeff K1ZM who kindly sent me his
2014 VY2ZM log when he set the NA record. He actually promised me a bottle of
Jaggermeister if I beat his record, so I had to work hard for it! That's how I
decided to use the same way, just the radios. No assistance, no self-spot.
 At the end of the first night and seeing the few QSOs and multipliers I had at
160M and 80M, I knew that it was going to be almost impossible to achieve. If
the low band propagation didn't help, I wasn't going to be able to get my
Jägermeister and finally it wasn't possible to make it.

On Saturday morning, 10M opened very early and it was a party but not on Sunday,
where it took a long time to open and I think I wasted a lot of time calling
without success.
15M was good for Europe but not for the rest of the world from these latitudes,
enough to say that I was able to work the first JA four minutes before the end
of the contest!
 Only on Sunday I was finally able to work Asia on 40M long path and manage to
add several multipliers.
The last two hours I decided to give up a number of QSOs to go out sweeping
bands and hunting fairly simple multipliers, mainly from the Caribbean and
Central America, which would at least help me to reach the barrier of 6 million
points.

 A couple of highlights that come to mind:
 - M0PLX/M has worked me in 6 bands! Congratulations for that mobile station!
 - A50A responding to my CQ in 10M and taking it to other bands, although
without success. Thanks for the attempt!
 - To have been the first in 6 bands for HB0A who let me know it on the air.
 - Working British QRP (5W) stations on 40M at 3:30pm local time on Sunday.

Thanks to everyone who accepted QSY to other bands!

Thanks again to Krassy for trusting me once again, for letting me learn a little
more every day.  
It has been a fantastic 3 consecutive weekends for K1LZ.

73 Manu LU9ESD/AC1NU

I absolutely had a blast working this contest. This is the first time that I have ever submitted a
contest log.  I'm looking forward to the next contest.  I used my new Yaesu ft710 into 160m dipole,
80m dipole, and R7 Vertical.

During the contest, on Saturday, I assisted in a developing life and death emergency involving
several other hams. A man and his wife were trapped in their home in San Bernadino, California when
the roof collapsed, leaving them seriously injured and separated in different areas of their home.
They were able to send a weak signal from a battery-powered radio on 10 meters asking for medical
assistance. I could not hear their signal, but could hear another ham struggling to hear them under
the crushing pileup on our frequency. I was running four watts in the QRP category, and had just
worked MW0ZZK in Wales, but cranked up the power to clear the frequency of the QRM so that another
ham and the victim with the weak signal could maintain contact. I do know that emergency personnel
were attempting to reach the victims, but do not know the result. If anyone else can provide
additional information, please contact ARRL and me at k2gmy@arrl.net. This is another example of the
value of Amateur Radio being there when needed. I especially appreciate how quickly MW0ZZK and the
others moved off frequency when I told him of the emergency. 

73,
Dick Gaul - K2GMY

Used an indoor fan dipole and 80 Watts.

K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. N3UM and
W5MPB did Multi-2 in 2023 ARRL DX SSB. We hoped to beat the 907
Qs and 66.7 K M-2 score N3UM and W3GB got in 2021 ARRL SSB. Wow;
we got 1.25 X the Qs and 1.4 X the mults for 1.75 X the score.
We got 233 fewer Qs and 26 fewer mults on 160-20 M, but 459 more
Qs and 124 more mults on 15 and 10 M! SFI of 170-180 helped. We
ran for just 129 Qs, all on 20 M 19-23Z. Spot and tune gave good
rates. Bad start; a computer crashed at 0Z. No Qs till 0011Z to
restart and fix config errors. N3UM got 33 40-M Qs 0011-0121Z,
18 15-M Qs 0132-0202Z, and 16 40-M Qs 0207-0245Z. A break, then
15 80-M Qs 0302-0346Z, and QRT to return early. W5MPB got 62 Qs
on 20 M 0011-0159Z, then a break and 11 80-M Qs in 10 min, 0211-
0221Z. Back on 20 M 0223-0242Z he got 8 Qs, then 4 Qs in 4 min.
on 15 M and 5 on 20 M by 0313Z. He got 24 Qs on 40 M 0317 to
0441Z QRT. Back at 1239Z, N3UM got 65 15-M Qs by 1334Z, then 131
10-M Qs at 76/hr 1339-1538Z, and quit to eat. W5MPB checked at
1410Z and found few sigs on 20 M. But after N3UM was done with
the C3 used on 10 & 15 M, W5MPB got 32 15-M Qs 1546-1653Z and
quit to eat. He then got 16 more 15-M Qs 1752-1819Z, 32 20-M Qs
1834-1943Z, and 63 15-M Qs 1946-2259Z. N3UM got 49 10-M Qs 1830-
1939Z, then 88 20-M Qs 1949-2207Z, 43 in 2 runs at 66/hr, and
quit to eat. After 23Z W5MPB hopped bands for 10 40-M Qs, 24
20-M Qs, & 21 15-M Qs, then quit at 0236Z to return early. After
0021Z N3UM hopped for 17 40-M Qs, 38 80-M Qs, & 6 160-M Qs by
0455Z QRT. Back 1208-1647Z W5MPB got 81 15-M Qs and broke to
eat. N3UM 1527-1627 got 9 20-M Qs and 39 10-M Qs and broke to
eat. W5MPB 1754-2253 got 49 15-M Qs, then 4 40-M Qs by 2339Z.
N3UM 1854-2329Z got 137 20-M Qs, 89 in 3 runs at 34 to 62/hr. At
2330, a computer crash; we let this be A Sign Unto Us, and quit.

Just worked 10 Meters and really enjoyed the contest.

remote RHR W2/Jefferson

"Ten meters is BACK!"

First time and great experience! Learned much on propragation

Great Contest but many distorted signals

Would be a whole lot easier if we could do this an Excel spreadsheet

conditions were good but maybe not quite as good as the CW portion.  10 M amazing.  Best full 1 hour
rate 161 Q.  Rig K3s->SPS amp-> 3 Ele Yagi 10-20, 3 ele 40 M, 4 square 80 M,  
Southeastern DX Club .........

Great Contest. Was slow for me since I had other obligations. It's sure nice to get back into the
contesting groove again. Thank you to everyone that worked with my QRP repeats.

Rusty K4SAA

Yeah. Only four contacts. Got interrupted with personal matters. Maybe next year.

For log checking only

This is my first contest ever and I think it would be nice to have a "single wire" category because
because all I have is a single buckmaster OCF hung from a tree and it is very hard to compete with
stations that own a tower (even if theya re only running 100w). All the best, K5HIP

Conditions were fantastic on 20, 15 and 10 m.  Only had the 160
inverted L until I got an 80 meter Zepp working Saturday evening.
It is in inverted V configuration with the apex at about 90' and
the ends at 50 - 60'.  It does not seem to have the pronounced
nulls in its pattern compared to when it was at 180' and
horizontal at the old QTH.  However, some directions were clearly
favored.  E.g., one of my few CQs attracted calls from 9N7AA and
RA9V (southern Zone 18) on 15 m.  Only about 14 1/2 hours of operation
due to time spent doing antenna work.

Loads of fun, as usual!

Ten meters was wonderful!

Terrible snow static on Friday night caused me to
give up.  Back on Sat morning for lots of fun.
So much splatter and bad signals from Europe.

Went to 10m for the start and never left.
V55y, Z35T to name a few. Not bad on LP.

Really great band conditions especially on 10m. It felt like I was running a 500-watt amp, yet only
ran 100 watts with a dipole at 35'.  Worked some great dx into Europe, Africa, South America, the
Caribbean, Asia, South Pacific.

Lost JA caller at 0250Z 4 Mr due to logger crash. My error.

Surprised on big openings on 10 mtrs. 20 mtrs is normally my
hottest band but not this year. Signals not getting thru.
Missed my normal 20 mtr sunrise opening to EU. Almost no signals.
Couldn't even hear the big guns on the East Coast calling CQ.

WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND FOR DX

My first try

What a great weekend! It was nice to be greeted by friends around the world.  Conditions were good
and everyone was spread out between the three upper bands. 
My only annoyance is the large number of USA stations who want to work me.  This unnecessarily
delays me and has resulted in the DX stations calling beneath them to not wait while I explain that
this is a "DX only" contest.

While SSB contests are not my favorite I enjoyed the good
conditions.   Lots of time away from the shack so only a few
hours BIC time.

Just testing receive antennas on Top Band.  Not much activity on
160 meters, but the few contacts made were appreciated.

CHECK LOG

Society of Midwest Contesters

Fun contest but didn't have alot of time. 73 Matt ka0pqw

Just tinkering this year.
It was great to see such an active band on 10.

I decided to try my luck in this contest after Mike, W8ZY,
mentioned that he was going to try to make some contacts over the
weekend. I was amazed how 10m and 15m were packed with operators.
I was equally surprised how may stations could easily hear me
with my 100 watts and relatively low-to-the-ground wire antenna.
In all my years on HF, I have never made so many contacts in a
48-hour period.  I'm sure I made some mistakes in the log, but I
have never had such a successful outing.

180 watts  ft-1000mp

I had a lot of fun all of the bands seem to be open all over the place I wish 6 would have been open
looking forward to next year.

Ten meters was amazing!

What a great contest! I had a ball. Thank You ARRL.

This was my first time and it was a lot of fun! I can't believe I
contacted so many different countries with my 100W on a minimal
antenna setup!

Rig: Xiegu g90 , power: 20w , antenna: diy half g5rv

This is my first contest, I used the wrong database contest file in
my
logging software, so I figured it wouldn't be accepted, so I'm trying
this way.
I did miss many power numbers.
Please change my answer to "yes" for how I found my contacts, I used a cluster to find callsigns. 
After talking with a fellow ham, I believe I selected the wrong choice, I thought the question meant
if I spotted myself.
Thank you.

I think maybe my first fully solo contest? Hopped on for a few hours, had some fun! Looking forward
to contests to come

73s all,
KC1QYH

10 meters was awesome. I started out there and never seemed to leave. When I checked my stats I had
almost 50% of my QSOs on 10.

2nd contest. fun

4 element 10m monobander at 20 feet, 1kw
All S&P except for a good JA run Saturday afternoon and a smaller run Sunday afternoon.

Band conditions were outstanding!

Elecraft KX3 and end fed wire.

Ladies and gentlemen, 10 meters is back. This was a very casual
effort, but worked mostly 10m, with solid activity all the way to
29.0MHz. Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come.

Best band conditions in years. Had fun.

Great to have 10 meters open, Though I may have worn out the beam's rotor!!!

The bands were awesome!I've NEVER worked Asia so easily. This weekend was great!

I could not see where you would load the actual frequency of the contact....the N3FJP software did
not seem to ask for that. All my contacts were on the 10m band. I have the correct frequencies so if
this file is not right please instruct me how to edit...thanks this is the first contest I have ever
entered.
73 Bob

Used Homemade 2 element 10m Yagi and 500ft EFRW
Had to pack up and head to school on Sunday so only operated for 12 hours total on Saturday

Having Fun !

2022  ARRL DX CONETEST

Great first time experience with ARRL's DX contest!

My first contest

This contest marks my one-year anniversary of being a HAM.  I remember this weekend last year and
how jaw-dropping it was listening to all the DX... This year was BEYOND that!! What an amazing
contest.. and hope to continue celebrating my HAMversary with this contest for many years to come.

Makes a big difference to have 10 meters open.

60 COUNTRIES, 193 CONTACTS WITH CASUAL OPERATING. Great to have 10m open, it was full practically
all the way up to 29.000. My 10m Moxon really punched through.

Fews Qs

Had a blast until my laptop's battery and charger went out around 1630 UTC on the 5th. IC-7300 with
a Carolina Windom 40. Lake Anna State Park cabin 1.

Frequencies (did not double check submission, apologies)
28400
28464
28445
28342
28620
28402

WOW! Conditions like the early 1980's!   Great contest, lots of fun....73  KJ0I

Please Add "Chehalis Valley Amateur Radio Society"  to the club list drop down in the log submission
area ..thx

NOT BAD FOR STEALTH ANTENNAS IN A MOUNTAIN VALLEY. I MISS THE AMP!

lots of fun, eespeially on an open 10 mters!!

That was fun! Too bad I didn't know to log the exchange info to begin
with.

First ever contest.  Took a while to get going, but it was a lot of fun.  I learned a lot about just
turning the knob and listening.

2023 ARRL DX SSB Database 2/5/23

First HF contact I've made!

That was fun, and the rain storms moved out just in time. 1st and
likely last single band op...  Dead prop pitch on high band twr.
Good work out on the elevated SAL-30 antenna.  Several JAs, one
ZL, no VKs.  My bad.....  Overall, was a good test of the
antennas.  Thanks to everyone for their patience.  Run stations -
please ID more often.

QSOs 34-42 list a freq of 21000 because I lost the USB connection with
my K3S. So, I manually entered the freq 21000 for these QSOs as I was on 15M.

Great event, first DX contest! Thank you!

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE ENTERED AN ARRL CONTEST.
IT WAS A CHALLENGE FOR ME BUT WAS FUN.
WILL TRY ANOTHER SOON.

Enjoyed it.

Lot's of Fun! Worked tons of new DXCCs!

This was fun contest I beat my own record with this one will be back again.

First DX contest. Attic dipole antenna limited contacts to 40m & 15m.  The contest was a great way
to test the limits of my set up.

KP4DRB Site:Res.Campanillas St.No.5 House 640 Toa Baja
Island of Puerto Rico / 00949

Missed the first night but lots of fun as always.
YAY Cycle 25!!  Thanks for the qso's and the mults!
73  Bob, KQ2M

Sure glad 10 was open the whole contest because the other
bands suffered from solar storms much worse and 100w. did
a good job not only for me but a lot of dx I worked on 10.

The first 10 contacts are "stuck" at 28.536MHz due to a polling error between the logger and the
Flex 6600M.  I did not discover this until switching bands to 15m. At that time the Flex GUI failed
and I had to reboot the Flex and the PC to resume the contest.  I believe the times, callsigns, and
exchanges are correct during this early stage.  

I've been a licensed amateur since 1959 and have never seen the 10m band so crazy.  Signal density
was EXTREME.

73 Don/KT3V

TB-WIRES

10 and 15 m bands were in great condition. Being multi-op gave
Ted, KD2LKD some experience operating in a contest. He did great!

Casual operating just for fun.

Had just a few minutes for this one, but enjoyed the time I did have.

My first contest!

TH2@40ft OCF dipole@60ft small station but tons of fun this
weekend for just over 26hrs. Ten meters was a blast and stations
almost out to 29Mhz with better conditions this year!

HOMEBREW VERTICAL, 100 WATTS, IC-7410. JUST CASUAL OPERATING. LOTS OF
FUN THOUGH!

This was the first SSB Contest operation ever from Base Esperanza, Argentine Antarctica.

I enjoyed using SD

Very little time this weekend, so not a serious entry but good to
submit a log.

My first ARRL contest, just giving out a few points.

Really enjoyed my time on 15M, though the strong QRM from Europe was
unbelievable.

100W to a 20M long End-Fed wire at 6M agl.

eoin.ridoutt@btinternet.com

Amazing conditions on the high bands.

Very difficult with 100w against the Kilo mob!�???

Great event even though the bands took a bit of a battering nevertheless copious amounts of fun were
had running with my K3 and my R5 vertical!

Excellent conditions

Operating from a disused underground secret nuclear bunker located in
the North York Moors National Park.

Wonderful time and quite good band conditions.  First time in this
contest and enjoyed it immensely.  N0GAF

Fisrt time participating even though I've been a Ham for forty years.

Only got a couple of hours in.   The Antenna Controller failed early in the contest putting me off
the air for the rest of this contest and most other on air activities until I can get it repaired or
replaced.

First time XYL and I did multiop together. Fun!

The Bands were great...

IT WAS A GREAT CONTEST, BANDS WERE GREAT, LOTS OF FUN!

updated and final

Certainly not the condx from two weeks prior (ARRL DX CW) ... we
had high hopes of 10M possibly but the low bands especially
didn't cooperate due to solar condx ... stuff happens
said, again we ate well (Dano's lasagne .. yum, XLY's squash
soup), slept some, enjoyed some fermented grape juice and lots of
very bad jokes ... Murphy was visiting elsewhere thank heavens
and other than me fabricating bad audio reports (my IC7000 used
as a monitor rx was simply producing some bad rx audio ..
separate issue) we didn't have much unplanned downtime
we had 2 remote operators K2XR and WA3AAN helping plow the new
ground of remote Ops at the station ... still have latency issues
to deal with and SSB is a bit more difficult as we have 2 way
audio requirements vs. CW still a WIP but we are always learning
.. Thanks XR!
for the use of the venerable N2AA callsign, we appreciate it.

make this happen!

I just submitted this Log.  When I reviewed it I saw an error.  I was not QRP.  i WAS LOW POWER- 100
WATTS.

Sorry for my error.  Can you correct this submission to reflect 100 Watts.  Or send me the procedure
to correct it.

Thank you,

Wm. J. Tamburri, Jr.
N2IMM

732 267-3540

GREAT BAND CONDITIONS

5-23-20

1st license 11/02/21

Too busy to work all day, but it was fun.

What a weekend. Still have a 40 meter RFI problem to debug. What a load of fun though. Scores
improving. Hopefully the sun's activities hang around for a few years. Hopefully next year I can
shoot for my first at home meg score!

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in my first ARRL contest!
I hope I will be able to join many more!  N3NIP

Check Log Only

Used my KX3 with N1MM Logger.  Since I couldn't figure out how to use the N1MM audio, I ended up
programming the KX3 message keys for audio call and exchange - and - what a surprise - it worked! 
My antenna was a loop of wire around my 2nd floor balcony.  This was an experiment to see if I could
actually make this work and it was lots of fun.  73 -- Don

Fun Contest. Thanks to those who helped make this event successful.

Great contest! Great propagation! 10 Meters was hot! Haven't worked this contest in ten years...I
had a blast!

Worked contest mobile from Galveston Island State Park K-3013

It was a lot of fun to be in this contest since most countries can only work W/VE, everyone had
their antennas pointed at us and listened intently for my call and report.  This was a great contest
for making phone contacts with people all around the world.  It was a lot of fun and exhausting at
the same time.  This is the type of contest where I really have to learn how to use and configure
everything very well for noise filtering, sensitivity, etc.  I love contests like this.  During the
contest I was getting out the book to remind myself how to modify certain settings, record audio,
etc.  The Heil Pro 7 and the IC-7610 were great and my 43 ft Vertical DX Engineering antenna really
did well.  The attic antenna proved to be too close to the ground for phone DX.. it picked up way
too much noise while the vertical in the backyard was quiet.

Check log.

Had a great time, exhausted but fun!

QRP, NON-Assisted, "Full 5 Watts" to a 20 Foot end-fed wire,
thrown into a tree out my window - my only station antenna.
Lots going on this weekend, so, for a short, part-time effort,
I decided to see what I could do single-band on 10 meters,
which turned out to be a good choice. I popped into the shack
whenever I could, and 10 meters was really fun, although it
seemed that conditions were much better during ARRL CW.
I only managed to log one EU station and no African stations.
I still much prefer the ARRL CW Contest, but this was a lot of
fun, and I will try to find more time for this next year.
Thanks to all for the QSOs and fun bursts of 10 meter activity.
GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! -73- John N6HI

Great propagation to have fun.

Checklog

MINIMAL TIME AVAILABLE, BUT I GOT CANARY ISLANDS...MIGHT HAVE BEEN A
NEW ONE FOR ME. THANKS TO ALL WHO GO ON.

I only have my 160 inverted V up at about 100ft at this time. Really thought there might be more to
work on this band at night. Did hear three more station but could not work them.

Wasn't really fun but I tried.

First time for contesting, had a good time.

Corrected band of 4 entries

THE BANDS WERE HOPPING.  I HAD LIMITED TIME BUT LOTS OF FUN

IC-7300,ZS6BKW up 50 feet, running N-S. Turned 66 this weekend, and was
rewarded with fantastic conditions on 10 and 15 Meters. More than doubled
my 2022 SOULP score from last year! Go GMCC!

Operated casually this time. Just responded to spots and tried to see if I could get 100 countries
(DXCC) in one contest. Fell short by about a dozen. Love the new solar cycle!

Happy to see propagation return

Happy moment came when an Italian station told me I was
his first contact in California.

Stopped transmitting halfway through the contest after my logging software stopped functioning. 
Appears that was an error on my part, but don't want anyone else to lose points as I worked many
stations.  Chris N8ACP

15m was the best band for me.

First contest ever.

Thanks for the contacts

First contest at the new QTH to feel good in and operating was fun. 10M was the place to be. My
daughter (KE8RWI) had a good time and realized how much fun her 10M privileges will give her. Look
out, probably have a new DXer!!! Can't wait for WPX!!!!

Bad wind storm Friday afternoon knocked power out for 32 hours.
Very bummed I wa not able to participate until Sunday 18:00UTC.
By then too late for any MOJO so just chased mults across bands
when I had time. 60 plus MPH winds for 3 sloid hours Friday
afternoon took down tress and power lines all over Clarksville.
Lots of homes with roof and siding damage. Conditions were good
when I was finally able to get on the air. 73 Gene N9TF
100 watts to 6BTV on the ground.

ANOTHER GREAT ONE FROM THE ARRL.THANKS es 73, BILL

Good conditions on Saturday, not so much on Sunday.

Solar off grid shack

Family kept me from starting until Saturday morning, but wow all
day Saturday was amazing! Although I failed to get any runs
going,the S&P was all POUNCE! The spots window was full of
multipliers and propagationfavored me, working most mults with
one or two calls.20 was a blast, open everywhere even in the
early morning Sunday. Europe and Asia were side by side on the
band. Things tapered off around 0200 local Sunday and I grabbed a
couple hours sleep. 0400 local saw me back in the shack.
Conditions were completely different by that time, with many NA
stations running instead of DX.Q's were much slower and mults
were far and few.Sunday afternoon there was a lull and I put in
for a short nap.Instead of an hour I slept for almost 4 hours-
whoops.Getting back on I found stateside ops had turned into
piranhas swarming around the DX. My goal of 750k faded and became
600k which I made comfortably. Overall I was pleased with the
results of last year's antenna work.The upper bands were
terrific, but the lower bands were poor.Next year's bands will be
even better!

10 Meter activity was incredible on Saturday

First and foremost, I would like to extend a huge thank you to Felipe for making this happen. Had
Felipe not been gracious enough to host us, we would not be here today :)

As is typical with our remote operations, this was a last minute operation. Connor invited me to
operate mere days before the contest. After a minute of talking it through, we decided we wanted to
do a serious effort. This meant we needed more ops than just us two. I immediately recommended Sven,
DJ4MX and Connor confirmed. We also asked Brennan, K6BFL and he was excited for the opportunity and
replied with an enthusiastic yes. 

We had taken care of the operator situation, now to work out the logistics. Felipe was a wonderful
host and was very helpful in making sure we all had a seamless remote experience. On the Thursday
before the contest, we all got on and did a little bit of testing to make sure everything was
working. Even from Europe, Sven's connection to the radio was very robust, which helped a lot. This
was important in the end, as it turned out that Sven would be our anchor man. I think Sven did more
hours than any of us. That's a good thing, though, as he is a killer op. 
 
As with every contest, there are issues. This time, there were very few. The only real issue was
with the changing of operators. When someone is operating and someone else connects, there is about
700ms of latency introduced. This can only be solved by disconnecting and reconnecting. We have to
get that figured out before we do this again.

I think this was both Sven and Brennan's first contest from the Caribbean, and to say they were
impressed is an understatement. Both Connor and I have done contests from the Caribbean before, but
we collectively agree that it is always just as amazing as the first time. 

On behalf of the NP4Z team,

Bray KC1KUG/KP4

First Phone ARRL DX for me in 30 years.

better condx on saturday. On the first day I used my old FT-107M with an endfed antenna just 8m
high.

RX/TX: TS-890S
Ant.:High End Fed LW
Power:100 W

Part time operation.
Good conditions on Saturday,
Bad on Sunday

Big thanks to OH2BAH for letting me use his QTH

The amplifier failed at 1555Z on Saturday, so we did a SOUSB10
LP-tour at OH3MHA on 28 MHz for a number of QSOs, as the lower
bands were not open at all... Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA

FT1000MP MarkV, PA Acom 1000-1 kW, 10 el. LogPer

Nice propagations on 10m

Very nice conditions on 10m, Thanks for the QSOs!

Special thanks to OK1MU for support and to OK2ZAW QRO.CZ hamparts company for providing reliable
technical solution used for mny years in our club OL7M.

See you in text contests,
Standa OK1CID OK7W

Put your comments here.
Use multiple lines if needed.

om5avm@outlook.com

TNX, 73!

on 6 hours

RIG: YAESU-FT817, 5 WATT IN SSB
ANTENNAS: SLOPING DELTA LOOP / WINDOM AS INV. VEE

Only 5Hrs of ops and 17 dx contacts with my 5W into a bit of wire, but it was fun!

First time tasting how contesting works

Thanks for the very nice contest.Was only active around 9 1/2 hours.
Saturday the bands were in a better shape then sunday.
Seems allmost a blackout for a few hours to NA.
No NA on the bands...later in the afternoon it went better again.
Allways difficult to get ND , SD and NV. Also some provinces from Canada are very difficult to get.
But happy with my result and be back next year.

73's PB7Z / PA6AA

TU FOR THE NICE CONTEST, I HOPE TO WORK MORE STATIONS IN 2024!

Icom7300

Bedankt voor de fijne contest maar er waren veel oost europese stations die riepen en dacht maar
weinig uit de USA en canada.
Meeste stations op 10 gewerkt

see you next time on DX

thanks for the nice contest, see you next year.
kind regards PD3W .

Put your comments here.
Use multiple lines if needed.

RIG: ICOM IC-7400
PWR: 100 W
ANT: 6-BANDS HEX-BEAM HOMEMADE AND HY-GAIN VERTICAL AV-640

I spent a few hours in the contest and loved it. 73' Edwin PD5L

This ARRL DX SSB contests is held at the same first weekend of March as the IARU VHF (and up)
contest in Region I. Usually, I need all my time for handling VHF equipment, however this year
activity was very low. And conditions on 20-15-10m were very good. Even my hidden end fed wire gave
unexpected results!

FT991A, DIPOLE

First time PI4YLC in ARRL SSB, a couple of hours on sunday
Two team members having a lot of fun!
Only highband activation, with K3, KAT500 and KPA500, Ant.: FB23 (Height: 11M.)
Bands were full!
105 Q's, 57 Mults and 17955 pts
Tnx to all for a great time, and see you next year!
Proud 2B PI4YLC!

ARAUCARIA DX GROUP

LABRE-SC

RIO DX GROUP

Um evento que não tem o que falar 
obrigado a todos amigos radio amadores 73/51

FALCONS DX GROUP

Yaesu FT 1000 4 elements Yagi

That was a fun one...operated only about 2 hours on both Friday and Saturday nights.
73 de PY2KO

TNX 73

TNX, 73!

TNX 73!

TNX 73!

Only 6 hours on Sunday 15M I tested the Yaesu FTdx10 on SSB! Small but GREAT Radio!
In 6 hours I made over 1000 QSO all States (except SD and ND and sure no 4 North Canadian
Teritiries)  and a great number of WA and CA!
It was fun!

I was only able to get on a couple of hours on Saturday but, lots od fun. Thanks to everyone for the
QSO. I really enjoyed the call from Bob, K3EST CA ex CQWW Contest Director. We met here in Slovenia.

FTdx101, Acom 2000A, OptiBeam 17-4

FTDX 3000 ANT DIPOLES

FTdx 3000 + HVLA1K3

TS-590+HM PA-1KW, GP80M, Bev

FTDX3000 + AP8A

100 W,3 ele Yagi

TRx Icom IC-735, Ant. dipole

Power : 30 Watts
Ant: dipol

trx: IC7300 100w
Ant: Quad H 81,5m

Had a great time! Thank you for good reports. 73s Mike

73

QSL MANAGER VE7BV

OP: F4DVX @F6KNB Radio Club

Have not operated from the home station since 2003. A lot easier then going around the world to
operate!

This was a 4-operator effort from an ever-improving station, and first ever ARRL SSB in M/S. Great
interaction and friendship within the team, welcoming two new members including one promising
youngster. Great conditions on all bands (except 160)! The station performed amazingly, except a
small issue on inband station towards the end. Sorry we were not on the livescore, we just couldn't
make it work, despite Philippe F6IFY's invaluable help. Thanks to all who called us, and see you in
the next one. 73, TM7A Team. PS: QRZ.com is fake news ;-)

Good conditions on all bands. See you next year.

ICOM-718,ANT-INV VEE,LW 80 METRS

73!

73!

IC-775DXII

TNX/73!

TRCVR SW-2016 +PA 100 W, ant 2 el MOXON

73! Glory to Ukraine!

Hard work but a lot of fun. Still using a simple setup:
IC-7300, ACOM 1010, Spiderbeam with armstrong rotator.

I had a lot of fun

500 W

First time on this contest. Good HF propagation!

QSO Count=323

Seemed to be very few USA stations operating. Best SSB conditions
seen
in years.

This was the first time I participated in a dx contest and I welcomed the chance to add more
countries worked to my logbook and pit my modest station amongst the big guys!

I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to upload my log. Between .csv, cabrillo and conversions I
eventually achieved success!

When the weather warms up I hope to improve my antenna and get on more bands.

Rookie, Low Power, Non Assisted

We were hit with blizzard of the season on Friday and Saturday, complete wi
th thundersnow. Resulted in a very high level of snow static plus antennas
coated with thick wet snow. Conditions were good on 15 and 10 for most of t
he contest. Lots of QRM but that is part of the action!

CHECK LOG

Great contest. Fantastic to hear 10 meters
so active.

Low power and a wire antenna hung on a grain auger.  
Gray ve5gc.

need more power, better antenna, propogation

Home made wire antennas and 500W

March came in like a lion this year so I had more time for this
Contest

IC-7300 100w into AH-740 autotune vertical antenna on apartment roof.

Training section for young VK6LIN

IC-7300
DIY lithium battery and small solar setup. 
Modified MFJ-1775.

None

Band     QSOs     Pts  Cty  Pt/Q
3.0
29   3.0
363   51   3.0

Thanks for the contacts. Thanks to the ARRL for sponsoring the
contest. 73 - Dan, W1QK.

A real challenge when running 100 Watts to a wire, but the conditions
on 10 and 15 were some compensation for the less than stellar
conditions on 20 and 40. Go FRC!

Wked 52 states on 10M.

This was a single operator QRP operation from NJ, only on 80
meters with the dipole antenna.  Prior to the contest I
envisioned it being very difficult to make any 80 meter SSB DX
contacts at this time on QRP.  I was pleased to see a good level
of activity on 80 during this contest.  My thanks to the DX
stations who worked hard to pull me out of the noise, and my
thanks to the United States and Canada stations who waited
patiently as I tried repeatedly to get my callsign to a DX
station.

Many family obligations this weekend. Only operated for 12 hours. Used 90
watts on 160, 80, and 40. Used KW on 20, 15, and 10. Did not run, hunt and
pound. Too many stations failed to give their call for long periods time. I
found this practice very annoying. I did have a lot of run working this co
ntest.t

Very fun contest! 73 de W3MIT

Operated at NE3F on Friday and a shift on Saturday.  Limited time
at home to operate.  Very enjoyable but not as much fun as a CW
contest.

My second year and it was fun!
Was great to see all the activity on 10 meters!

W3TB, Franklin TN

Not too bad for a just-in-time, informally organized, drop-in event.

Mrs. Bill (Mattie) Tynan (W3XO-SK) helped us celebrate the 1st anniversary of the grand opening of
our clubhouse by throwing out the 1st CQ of the contest.

A bit of fun.  Tried posting spots for most that I could hear.  tnx for QSO's

Great conditions, after 74 MPH straight line wind storm. Tnx for the contacts. 73's Bert

Thx for copying my QRP!

Propagation was excellent for a QRP 10M only entry. Spent 10 hours in the contest. 
Most QSOs were from W EU and SA, very few (7%) from Asia, Africa and Pacific.

ICOM 7600, DX Commander ABV

Found the weaknesses in my station - now how to fix

I love sunspots! Excellent propagation all weekend

When I checked into Las Vegas hotel 10 p.m. on Saturday night for
my business trip, I was fortunate enough to be assigned a room
with a big NNW window on the 24th floor. On Sunday morning, I
made a loop antenna for 10m and attached it to the window glass.
I heard SAs, Caribbeans and EUs. With the 50W of IC-7300M and the
QTH solely open to JA, I could work only some JAs with good ears.
It was a fun weekend.

First time on 80m. It was a challenge but enjoyable.

Awesome band conditions

Got dx on 80 and 40 for first time in this contest.  Worked Europe for the first time.

Great conditions on 10 and 15M.  Setup was IC-7610 to wire antenna configured as 2 element 80M
Bobtail Broadside, through MFJ-998RT tuner connected to one end of wire and metal water pipe ground;
worked well on all five bands used, but wire was too close to electrical half wave on 160M for tuner
to match (with vertical wire on far end removed, it is an excellent Inverted-L for Top Band and the
tuner likes it).  Presently using wire as Bobtail in hopes of getting seven more entities on 80M to
complete 5BDXCC.

W/VE ops just saying their phoneticized two letter state/province code, it seems to me, is far less
confusing to the DX operator than saying the name (often repeated several times before understood on
the far end).

Cycle 25 is my seventh solar cycle--first licensed in November 1954 (age 13) as Novice (KN6ILB),
Conditional (K6ILB) in late 1955.  Cycle 19 began in April 1954.

My story, I like it and I'm gonna stick to it.  73

Good condx; lots of great ops.

It was great to have the 10 meter band open both Saturday and Sunday well into the evening. I love
this phone contest. Ya got to love sunspots. It is good that Cycle 25 is better than expected.
Thanks to all who played this weekend. 73 Mike W9MK

So much DX, so little time!  Thanks for all who participated and
to the SUN for the wonderful signal propagation! Yay Cycle 25!
73, W9TCV

glad to be heard with wires and a skanky vertical

I enjoyed participating in this contest and was surprised at how well band conditions were. 15
Meters was my best band and I look forward to more contacts there during the coming months.

Great Contest and Bands were terrific!

great opening to europe on 20 late Saturday night! Bands were in good shape.

First time using RHR!  I was very sidk on Sunday so limied time on the contest.

Operated remote from Tokyo, Japan

I was there and gave others a point, and that was my point.

I really appreciate the fact that the ARRL has added more categories
last year with single band/power level entries.  This allowed me to
try running QRP with a simple dipole on 10 Meter SSB this year.  I
expected this to be a challenge and I had to run search and pounce for
the strongest signals in most cases.   Initially early in the morning,
some DX stations could not make me out and said try again later.  I
appreciate the DX stations that had the patience to pull out my QRP
signal, even if it took a number of repeats of my call.  It is
interesting how signals can get strong at certain times during the
day.  Mid-morning was good for UK and France and again later in the
mid-afternoon.  Signals on 10 Meters started at 28.300 and went as
high as 28.975, a full 675 KHz of activity during the busy time!  I
fully expected not to be able to get  Alaska, Australia, Hawaii, and
Japan, even though I could hear them.   I was still able to get 56
multipliers all told.  Cycle 25 looks very promising if nothing
strange happens over the next three years!

A fun weekend with mostly great band conditions. 100 watts and a wire still worked.

I had fun. I got Italy on 80 M ssb - which was a nice accomplishment.
Hopefully I will participate again here next year & spent more time
participating. Thanks for the good contest here.

I couldnt believe the activity on 10 spread from 28.3 to 29.0!

My beam broke on a storm just before the test, so I operated single band on 10M with my 80-40-30
Inverted V. Quite an experience!

Gave out a Few Q's on Sat nite. 73, Mark WG8U

What a fun activity!!  10 meters was booming, the world was
calling, and the log was filling!  Too much fun for a grown man!

This was another ad-HOC dual-OP ARRL Dx contest from the EB Section.
I was considering running QRP for this GiG, but being an Ssb operation
I decided against it.
Overall band conditions were AWEsome, altho there was a lot of leftover
QRN after the solar hit that happened before the contest.  Due to an
internet problem at NX6T Saturday morning, I had time to run 40-m as WQ6X.
NoT surprising, 10-meters was THE band this weekend.
LooK for a write-UP on this GiG at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com.

Good to see 10m open!

NO "Q R Zed" instead of a Call Sign Please !!

YBDXPI

Good luck. 73

It was a pleasant experience when taking part in the ARRL DX SSB Contest 2023.

Very happy to be a part of this contest, best of luck to everyone, de YC4SIZ 73

I enjoyed with your contest

Date of issue : 27-02-2022

PALUGADA

IC7100

ICOM IC-730, PWR 100W, INVERTED VEE ANTENNA

Antenna Dipole V inverted, QTH: EK53kr

Working on 40,mts on CW part was fabulous on Phone was not very good
using the same rig the propagation change and a lot of noise and
splatter anyway do the best ...see again next year

Just decide do the same that the cw part on LP on 15m conditios
were the best I have heard in years was fabulous on both afternoon
with huge pileups about 3 hours or more was amazing....
thanks to all and hope see again next year 73 GL

Band conditions appeared to be very poor on both up
until around 18:30-19:00 utc which made the contest .
very challenging.