Couple of years since doing this contest but now with the new power allocation it seemed a little
easier to take part ,enjoyable contest

One contact with my Xiegu G90 and homebrewed wire dipole

we_are_member_of_ORARI_LOKL_KEDIRI

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

Icom IC-7410   &  4 el.yagi(8m up)

This contest was an interesting one, first time doing single band!

Thoroughly enjoyable contest.

Thanks to those who worked me.

Limited Antennas Overlay - Single End Fed wire antenna

Mostly a two day effort only Friday evening, most of Saturday,
and a couple hours late-Sunday afternoon running low power with
lots of calling and attempts to make a QSO.  Thanks for the
patience of many, not all waiting on my QSOs.  Always a fun
contest.  10m was great.  Low bands better Friday evening than
Saturday evening.  Thanks for all of the QSOs and see you next
year or sooner in another contest.

Cabrillo. Can't something 20th century be invented? Jimminy.

Another fun contest that I did between the time to and from work, and when not working.  All mobile
or portable with my Outbacker Steath Antenna.  Lots of fun and I picked up three new contries.

I had a blast throughout this contest!  Band conditions
were great when I was operating even though there was a solar
disturbance.  Added some new countries and beat my personal goals
that I set.  Thank you everyone for making this contest possible!

RESUBMITTED SECOND LOG TO CORRECT 2 ERRORS FOR EI7M & HD1A

First time working this contest.  It was very enjoyable.

I am new to HAM radio. I got licensed 2 months ago and got my radio 3 weeks ago.
It was a thrill to speak to so many DX stations this weekend. Unfortunately, my FT-991A suddenly
stopped working so I couldn't carry on. 

Yet I have to I am thrilled what I was able to accomplish with my barefoot 100W setup running into a
hidden wire dipole antenna (hiding in my attic because of HOA).

Thanks to all stations for a fun weekend!

Got my first Japan and New Zealand SSB contacts this time!!

First contest, lots of fun. Thank you!

This was my first DX contest as a newish Ham, ~1yr licensed. I had a
lot of fun!! I operated QRP 5W Limited Antenna with a Yaesu 817nd and
a Nelson 9:1 - 41' EFRW @ 30ft height. It's all I've got! I managed to
work all the places I've been wanting to get in the log - Europe,
Russia, Japan, Australia & New Zealand, and some cool Islands!  My
favorite DX I got was V55Y in Namibia, almost 2000 miles per watt! I
just about fell out of my chair when he came back to my call. I
appreciate the efforts of all the DX stations in pulling my 5W out of
the noise. Working DX QRP is a great challenge yet very exciting when
it does work. I look forward to participating in many more ARRL
contests. Thanks for all the great contacts! 72 from ID.

I'm relatively new to contesting so I was mainly just trying things
out for this contest. My rig was a 100-W Kenwood TS-520 feeding into a
3-band inverted-vee dipole of my own construction, which was hung from
a nail in the gables of my one-story home.

Thanks for ARRL-DX, I can get contact with more station of North America. And I got my first Canada
QSL!

Always hard work from 5B to NA... but conditions were pretty good this year. thans for QSOs

For checklog

Good contest. I was surprised mostly on 10 meters band with an opening propagation and an amazing
pile-up.

Conditions:
Logging software: N1MM+
Rig. Yaesu FT-920 Ant. Cushcraft MA-5B and a Sigma-Eurocomm SE HF-360

Much fun as little pistol, many stations with good ears

Best weekend to test my home made 10m EFHW for portable operations.
I really enjoyed this 10m activity.

MNI TNX FR CONTACT  VY 73

10m Monoband, part time activation, 750W, 6ele mono yagi, 222 QSOs

Antennas:

Please correct my entry : Contest Club is Bavarian Contest Club

end-fed wire

Yaesu FT-950, 100 W, Matchbox with 60m end-fed wire from 16m to 4m

ARRL SSB 24

Missing this year states AR, NM, OK, NV, WY and SD. Thanks nice
contest. cu  next year.

Yaesu FT-950 - Icom IC-2KL - SteppIR - Loop

TX: 400 W + Vertical antenna

This was my first proper participation in the arrl. Therfore I completely underestimated the first
night. 20m was open until sunrise, something I did not expect nor have seen before. On the second
and third night 20m closed as expected around midnight. 10m and 15m were really booming on both days
with really good pile-ups. My best time was on saturday evening on 20m with a 250 rate for 10 QSOs
and an overall 150 rate for one hour. This is something I still have to practise. The last night was
sadly really weak. I did around half my dupes in the last hours with unfortunately no new multis,
while still missing some states. But I can undestand that the US- und VE- stations don´t want to
leave the highbands when they are still open.
Luckily no technical problems came up while contesting. After downgrading the PC to a 2-core CPU the
microham device router had this time no problems. Also DxLog worked fine for the whole time.
Unfortunately I forgot to record my CQ-call beforhand. I still coudn´t figure out how to record
with the mk2r+. Nexttime I want to try the recorder of the TRX.
Overall fun contest with good pile ups.
Big thanks to everyone who called (and spotted) me and to the colleagues of my clubstation
DF0SAX/DA2X for letting me do SO.
73,
Robert DM7XX

we had a lot of fun working portable with the students

OP Simon (10 years)

100w Mobile ANT

Limited Antenna Overlay: BUddipole

part time entry only

My US multiplier wanted to have coffee, in the middle of the pile up, grrrrrr....
I said hey man stop, have a beer, and he responded by telling me it's too early in US, but he'll
have a whiskey later. OK, the time difference,in Germany was lunchtime. We had a good laugh. A nice
contact, 73 de Toni, DR6R

1st time

LIMITED ANTENNA OVERLAY

PWR 100

Portable IN80CM

FUN

QTH: Torrejon de Ardoz
Locator: IN80GL
Rig: YAESU FT-817ND
Power: 5 W
Antenna: Wire (8 m long) + Tuner (LDG RT-100)
Thanks to all YL & OM who listened and answered my QRP whispers...    :-)

2 hours operation, good conditions on 10m to NA.

TNX QSOS FB CONTEST, ONLY FEW HOURS. 73

Antennas:

Way too many kW on the air from Europe!

Really enjoyed the contest, even though conditions were not the best

Tranceiver IC7610
Antenna OPB 9-5
Power 600W

VERY GOOD MOMENTS IN THIS CONTEST.
THX TO ALL STATIONS IN MY LOG

I made a mistake at the start of the contest. I sent exchanges to 200 instead of 100.

I only have 100w of power available.

Thank you in advance for your consideration

73's F4TNK

The ARRL DX SSB was the first contest I participated in when I moved to France last year. My antenna
situation has improved from "none" to "not much", so my goal was just to do better than the previous
year. Poking along at 100W and a dipole, I was duly crushed by the kilowatt signals zipping back and
forth overhead. At least I found some shelter on the low bands in the middle of the night when
reasonable people were sleeping. When I came back from dinner on Sunday afternoon, I believe the K
had risen to 6 and that was pretty much it for my ability to hear anything above 20m. My goal for
next year is to have some sort of directional antenna in place and then... watch out, world!

ftdx101 100W steppir 3elts 10m up

73

When I can onky pick out a couple of letters and just say these two letters, the response is an
exchange without a full call sign. I cannot comprehend that the other person fails to fathonm I do
not have their call sign. I have to ask then again for their full call sign. Thus the time to make
this one QSO is twice as long as just a regular exchange, This happened at least hundred times in
this contest. Why has this become such a problem now? Luckily the majoirty of operators are not this
clueless, but over a hundred is ridiculous. Everyone over time mis copies a call sign and dupes
someone. This is just a common error. Not listening to someone who comes back to you call and
clearly does not have your complete call or has mis copied it and not  doing nothing about it is
just beng, yes, a LID.

I really enjoyed participating in the ARRL-DX-SSB contest.

Really struggled to break through the pile-ups of much stronger and better equipped stations, I
really need something better than an 80' endfed but that needs a bigger garden and sadly that's not
going to happen. On the other hand I really enjoyed the experience of working Stateside stations
only as apposed to world wide as in some other contests. Look forward to the next time. Thanks ARRL
for a great contest.

Submitted for checking only

I thought the conditions were good, and certainly added to my list of contacted states. Thanks All
Antenna: Hyendfed 400W 5 band antenna at approximately 26'

Great conditions. Very enjoyable.
Being permitted to Self spot really levels the playing field.

Limited operating time 6hrs in total. Many thanks for all the
contacts, 73's

Nice run on 80m the first morning, and some good runs on 10m on
Sunday afternoon before the aurora hit. Only using wire antennas
but the downslope to the west really helps.

Saturday great conditions, Sunday not so good.
SD is a great contest programme.

Great multi-op 100W fun in the secret nuclear bunker! 

Video of events can be found here: https://youtu.be/rQ-LfqX_Ets?si=wd-Rxzy855g4THhO

6 ele monoband LFA yagi on a 40ft boom @ 40ft AGL only. 552 qsoâ??s/49 mults. My favourite one of
the year but very limited operating time this year - only managed an hour on Saturday and 2 hours on
Sunday. Band in great shape though and managed a decent QSO rate. Worked 44 NA states - missed ND,
WY, UT, ID, AK & HI. Also wkd less VE provinces than Iâ??d have liked. Very enjoyable nonetheless
and one of these years Iâ??ll get a proper effort made! Thanks to all those that called in. Rich
GI4T

good contest
Sorry newfoundland if I got prefix wrong nf or nl

Strange propagation conditions - quite difficult from N. Scotland - 73 Chris

Good to give a few points will try to put a full entry in next time

I operated for less than 6 hours but did not see a box to tick for time operated. If I do not
qualify for that option, I apologise.
                   Dave GW5L

20m EFHW at 13mh

ICOM756pro 100w
dipole, delta loops

Flexradio 6600
Antennas: Beam

Antennas:

10m was great.

Ant: 5band Kelemn
Rig: SunSDR2-DX-100W

A contest with quite difficult propagation conditions. A challenge of
unexpected dimensions that helped me to learn a lot and develop greater skills and
abilities

Nice contest. Good propagation the first day, quite hard the second one

very few hours bur was great to say hello to a lot of friends.

ARRL20IG9ITO

VERY NICE PROPAGATION!!!

The contest rules should clearly specify that Not Assisted operators can
connect to the cluster and self-spot. The Self Spot topic is only mentioned
in the blog which doesn't represent the contest rules.
To me, self spotting in not assisted category is conceptually wrong.
At this point it would be better to remove the Not Assisted category as in WPX.
Anyways, thanks to the excellent solar conditions I enjoyed the contest.
Thanks everyone to have called-in.
73s Luca IK2PFL

ft 817 4 wout
Gp for beginning and then convert in VDA.

the contest is always a lot of fun, and the American operators are always very nice and helpful.
I attended for about 2 hours, and it was enjoyable.
IK2UME

Amazing!

arrl dx24 10m

ONLU TESTING ANTENNA

Only one hour and thirty minutes of activity, just to participate.
Dipole 10-15-20

ARRL CONTEST

Yaesu FT-950, MicroHam Microkeyer II, SPE Expert 1.3K-FA, Heil ProSet 6,
Vertical Groundplane 40, 20, 15 and 10 mt.

TNX 73 IT9NAN

I worked the contest for few hours on saturday and on sunday afternoon.I
have a lot difficulty to reply with my 100w and 2 ele tri bander
antenna,note I increase score than last year. I noted US big guns
partecipate every year on the contest.Anyway I say many thanks to all
stations that I met during the contest.Hoping better next time.Very 73's

73 GOOD LUCK TO ALL :)

100w + balcony 5 meters long stylus at 11th floor!

op age 23

73's de IU1QCW

ARRL

ITALIAN CONTEST CLUB

8 hours in relax mode. Nice contest

73 tò all IW0SAG

TNX FOR CONTEST
73

Surplus TX, Softrock RX, Ant T2FD. No assistance at all, no cluster, no internet, no log
suggestions, just ears and eyes for the waterfall.

Excellent propagation but maybe too stable and too wide so for a low power search and pouncing op
there
was a kind of pile-up everytime. So propagation was better than
previous years but there was less "wave surfing".

CHECK LOG

TNX to every station that I had contact. Many many station on air and very good propagation. See you
next year. 73

Elecraft kx3 + 3 yagi monoband
Thanks to all

Beautiful and unmissable Contest, great participation and great fun, it's
a shame not to have had the same propagation conditions as the CW round,
I was hoping to improve the result but no appointment for the next
edition hoping to improve in everything. I thank all the stations that
had the patience to connect me. 73 to all of IZ8GUQ Giovanni

IC7300, 100 WATTS WIRE ANT @20FT

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

ICOM IC7300 100W
Inv VEE, Vertical

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

ANT  10M-14mH 4ELE    40M-14mH DIP
RIG  IC-750A    PWR < 5w

I enjoyed the contest.

GOOD CONTEST ARIGATO
FTdx5000  5EL
FTdx5000  5EL

I enjoyed the contest.

We enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Hight-Band condition were not good.

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.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Condx is so so but not stable

Expected a better condx like CW two weeks ago and as we are in
around the sunspot peak but was not.
Sri abt aurora like the last year. Guess murphy came to bad.
Mni tnx for picking a limited antennas station of me up and
patience thanks to great ears, guys!
Anyway nice to work you in this contest & to say "Hi!" again as
usual :-)
Inv.vees for 160 thru 10 up abt 11-12mtrs with 50watts.
73's Akira, JA8RWU

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
TNX FER QSOs 73

It was a lot of fun though Monday morning condition was so poor in Japan.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
But no ggood condx.

I entry on a single-op 80m. The condition was very bad.
I QSOed 43stations in this year.
I QSOed 43stations in 2023 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.

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.

This year, even the 10m propagation between Japan and the US is changing rapidly,I enjoyed.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you all stations!
(40M QSO Checklog)

I enjoyed the contest.

Out put 50W + single element loop.
Thank you for the contacts. See you again.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
Thanks for ARRL All Staff

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I 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:4ELE,

Many thanks!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed this contest.Thanks lot.

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.

15  3/2  0117      N9RV       59  MT



15  3/2  0121      N6WM       59  CA




15  3/2  0125     VA7KK      59  BC




15  3/2  0137     N5ZO       59  CA




15  3/2  0149     KE8FT      59  CA




10  3/2  0154     N2IC       59  MN




10  3/2  0156     K3EST      59  CA




10  3/2  0200     K6LL       59  AZ




10  3/2  0203     N7DD       59  AZ




15  3/2  0207     NC7M       59  OR




20  3/2  0452     VA7TU      59  BC




20  3/2  0508     ND7K       59  AZ




20  3/2  0522     W7WA       59  WA




20  3/2  0525      W6PH       59  AC




20  3/2  0535      N6AA       59  CA




20  3/2  0543      K5RX       59  TX




20  3/2  0550      N9GB       59  KS




20  3/2  0558      K9CT       59  IL




10  3/2  2201      K7SS       59  WA




10  3/2  2206      KV0Q       59  CO




10  3/2  2219      K9BCL      59  IL




10  3/2  2227      KK7EXT     59  WA




10  3/2  2230      KY7M       59  AZ



10  3/2  2234      VE6UM      59  AB




15  3/2  2238      VA5DX      59  SK




10  3/2  2240      K3LR       59  PA




15  3/2  2247      K1TTT      59  MA




15  3/2  2250      KU2M       59  NJ




15  3/2  2258      VE5MX      59  SK




15  3/2  2301      W9RE       59  IN




15  3/2  2316      WI0WA      59  IW




10  3/3  0112      W7YED      59  WA




10  3/3  0121      W6AFA      59  CA




10  3/3  0125      VE7BC      59  BC




10  3/3  0130      K5GN       59  TX




10  3/3  0200       AA7A       59  AZ




15  3/3  0202      W7RM       59  RO




15  3/3  0208      W6PH       59  CA




15  3/3  2223      K1KI       59  CT




15  3/3  2230      K9CT       59  IL




15  3/3  2314      N3RD       59  PA




15  3/3  2353      NF7E       59  AZ




END-OF-LOG: 2.0

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.

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

RIG: YAESU FTDX-3000D
ANT: Dipole
Operator's License: Japanese 1st class
Very fun contest. I want to spend much longer period next year.

2024arrldxssb

I enjoyed the contest very much.

I enjoyed the contest.

FT-817ND DP Yagi

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

It was my first time participating but it was fun.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

The conditions were bad.
2ele HB9CV 14mH 200W

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Condition was ok for both days. I had QSO from coast to coast.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

TNX CU AGN

RIG is TS-850S and ANT is vertical(7/14MHz) or dipole(21/28MHz)
Power output is 50 watts or less

I enjoyed the contest.

5W claimed
age as of 76
I hope to enroll net year

I really enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

79 years old

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

This is my first time participating in a DX contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG: YAESU FT-450DM
ANT: 12mh Vertical
Operator's License: Japanese 1st class
I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

All Asian DX Contest

FT-450DM, Mobile Whip
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.

It was a lot of fun.

I enjoyed this contest.tnx

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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

Tnx contact

I enjoyed the contest.

TNX QSO!ALL STATIONS!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Condx was not so bad, but poorer than I expected.
Especially Geomagnetic storm of Sunday night
disapointed me so much. But I could enjoy well.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I really enjoyed this internation contest event with my HAM friends in
the world.  I will definitely join the contest next year.

wire and 100w from Japan

I enjoyed the contest QRP.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thenk you.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thanks QSO.
IC-7600 KPA500

I used QRP(5W)RIG

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest. vertical Zepp' antenna 7mh

I enjoyed the contest.

CHECKLOG

Rig: Elecraft K4D, KPA1500
Antennas:
OptiBeam OB5-9 at 50'
144' doublet with ladder line.
Logging: N1MM

Great conditions, really enjoyed it!

Thanks W1YRC for letting me operate your station (the bazooka)!

On Sunday afternoon when things were going slow T42T described the
operating site in detail.  The shack was a grass hut in the jungle
east of Havana with tropical breezes and antennas in the palm trees.
It sounds like the perfect place for a winter contest DXpedition.

YCCC 10/13 NT2X,  WA2BOT,  NG1M, W1SJ, N2KW, AE1P, W1TO, NJ1F,
K1TTT, K1BG

While this contest seemed to be low key, once it got going everyone got excited.

With my 5w station to an end-fed 53 foot sloper to 30 foot height, I don't really try ssb qrp dx
much as it is a real challenge. Thought I'd give it a try and was happy with my 20 plus completed
qso's. Yep - was as challenging as I thought it would be but was enjoyable none the less 8>)

WOW,
Wish I had operated more!

I've worked a fair amount of phone and cw qrp over the years, but this is the first time I've
participated in a contest limited to 5w ssb.  Suffice to say, it was challenging. My strategy, such
as it was, was to try to start as early as possible to avoid the crowds.  My antenna is a 57 ft long
end fed with a 9:1 unun at the feedpoint and a max height of about 7 meters AGL (yep, HOA). So I
knew my PW signal would need to have as little competition as possible if it was to be  heard.  I
want to send a special thanks to the ops who worked hard to drag my signal out of the mud so we
could complete our contact. I am very appreciative of their efforts.  I ended early, but feel I
learned a few things and I am willing to give QRP contesting another shot.  Thanks all!  73 de K2ORC

5 watts to a magnetic loop antenna.  Good band conditions.

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 2024 ARRL DX SSB. We hoped to beat the 1133
Qs and 1.166 M score we claimed in 2023 ARRL SSB. We did, by a
lot; 1.5 X the Qs, 1.2 X the mults, and 1.5 X the score claim.
High bands were hot; 522 of the 577 more Qs we got in 2024 were
on 10 thru 20 M. Low bands poor to fair. At start 00-0340Z N3UM
got 66 Qs on 40 M, 12 on 80 M, & 7 on 20 M by back and forth
hops when bandmaps cleared. He quit to return early. W5MPB 00-
0410Z did high-band hops for 173 Qs; 18 on 10 M, 41 on 15 M, &
114 on 20 M. And 0306 to 0505Z QRT he got 30 80-M Qs and 33 40-M
Qs. Back on at 1206Z, N3UM took his high-band turn; he got 131
15-M Qs, then 118 10-M Qs and quit to eat at 1602Z. Back on at
1402Z W5MPB got 19 20-M Qs, 63 10-M Qs, & 4 15-M Qs and quit to
eat at 1721Z. Back 1827-0155Z, W5MPB band-hopped for 128 10-M Qs
and 104 15-M Qs. He then got 9 15-M Qs & 11 20-M Qs by 0311Z and
quit to return early. Back 1832-2059Z, N3UM got 104 20-M Qs, 54
in a run at 65/hr. He then band-hopped 2101-0212Z for 60 20-M Qs
and 31 40-M Qs. His plan was ~0530Z QRT. But, with just 37 Qs on
80 M, 9 on 40 M, & 5 on 160 M, N3UM quit at 0439Z. On 10 M 1131-
2236Z W5MPB got 305 Qs & DXCC. And, he lunched and in 10 hops
from 10 M he got 1 40-M Q & 64 15-M Qs. On 20 M 1433-1706Z N3UM
got 58 20-M Qs, then 7 15-M Qs and lunched. Then 1954-2258Z N3UM
got 85 20-M Qs, 54 in a 1-hr run. W5MPB got 6 80-M Qs by 2313
QRT. Rare/far mults; 5Z 7Q 9V FK H40 J5 S0 TL TN V5 and ZD7.

"There was hardly a clear frequency during peak activity on 10m!"

Great Contest many poor quality signals

MY NORMAL QTH IS VA, BUT I WAS IN MYRTLE BEACH SC SO I USED 59-SC AS
RST AND QTH SENT.

Antenna is a HOA friendly invisible wire.  Inverted U with apex at 25', 60 buried radials.  All
contacts S&P.  Most memorable QSO was T32AZ for last contact in contest.

Rig: Elecraft K3+, at 75 watts, with Heil HC4 mic element
Antenna: MFJ-1890 10M Moxon at 26 ft in attic

Appreciate all the participation. Good paths to South Pacific from W4 for new DX phone contacts for
me!

Tri-band yagi (Cushcraft A3S) mounted inside my attic (15' AGL)!

Conditions were excellent except on 80 and 160 M.  I badly needed
SO2R capability, but the new station construction progess is not
there, yet.   A cold was just hanging on, but still managed to
operate 1943 minutes.  Also had constant line noise from the NW
on all  bands and an intermittent one on the high bands from the
NE.

Good to have 10m open to spread out the activity.

Mainly casual S&P with the big knob, enjoying the very good band conditions.  Paid no attention to
the clock or specific off-times.  Just one small CQ-run into Asia.  Enjoyed saying hello to lots of
old friends-- the best part.  Thanks for the contacts.

I'm not big into phone contests, but I ended up operating twice the
amount of time I did for ARRL DX CW. My runs were not nearly as
productive as in CW and I did a lot more S&P. The result was only a
few more QSOs and quite a few more multipliers.

Conditions seemed very good at times - I particularly enjoyed
sweeping 15 meter Eu stations on Saturday morning, hearing all those
great signals, and feeling strong with everyone returning on the
first call. Later in the contest I could barely break some of the
pileups, including not-very-rare stations like PY.

Thanks to everyone for the QSOs - 73, Dana

Station: Elecraft K4, KPA1500, running about 1200 Watts
Antennas: 160m inverted L over 70 radials, 80m top loaded vertical
over those same radials, 40 meter 4 square, 20 meter 4 element yagi
at 55', 5 element 15 meter yagi at 49', 5 element 10 meter yagi at
48', A3 tribander at 40' for quick direction changes.

Condx were good, but not *quite* as good as the amazing CW weekend!  I'm not much of a phone
contester, especially with low power.  So I didn't spend much time at it (only 3 hours total).  But
it was great to hear so many stations on!
73 - Jim K6ZH

K3, 4-element SteppIR (20m to 10m), 40-2CD (40m), Inverted Vee (80m)
N1MM+ logger

We had record high winds and so could not crank up my tower to it's
full 75 ft. This greatly effected my sloper on 40/80/160 but still
got out OK. 10 mtrs had great openings for me.

This was my first contest. I just put up my first antenna (50ft EFHW). Using an Icom IC-706mkiig.

Was Fun however I had some station trouble with a bad coax switch

Came down with a severe cold the day that the contest started so only got to work about six hours of
the contest.  Ten meters was wide open but my voice was so weak it was difficult to make contacts. 
I still enjoyed searching for DX stations on ten meters. This was my first DX contest using only a
Hustler vertical antenna and with low power.  In prior years (when I was WB7RGN) I had monoband
antennas and an amplifier, so this was a new experience.  I still enjoyed the contest.  I'm hoping
my voice is better next year!  73's, Lee

15 3/2 2208 KH7M 59 1000
15 3/3 2143 KH6WI 59 100
10 3/3 2146 KH6AQ 59 100

I am not as interested in phone contests but the great conditions
keep me on the air making contacts.  Pulling one signal from the
crowds required careful listening.  I tried running a couple of
times with no luch but found I could get a one to two stations a
minute rate with S&P.   I think station had good operating and
only heard a few bad/distorted stations.

Society of Midwest Contesters

D4S, A4S 100W ICom 746 pro.

In the last couple weeks two of the 80 meter 4 square verticals lost the top 22.5 ft.  Saturday I
lowered the remaining two and slid the tubing back in and added more hose clamps.  I figured out how
to make the connections better, but will need quite a bit of tubing.  The hint that something was
wrong was a crackling sound from the tubing moving.  

SteppIR did not resonate on 40. The 40M 4 square is under construction. The next step is trenching
and soldering. I took down the backup vertical which was in place where the 4 square is now.  27
QSOs on 40, what a shame!

I'm glad I worked on them because the wind was howling on Sunday and it was hard to walk between the
house and shack.  The success of cutting 55 trees (mostly hollow, deformed, or damaged) this past
summer was evident.  There was not a single large branch down!

My intent was to run stations since I rarely get to do that and 10 meters was good.  The antenna
seems competitive for what it is, but I would have loved stacks!  There were plenty of Europeans and
JAs and since I DX I chose good times and filled in the slower periods by S&P, naps, and medical
things.

The XYL brought me a couple great meals that coincided with good propagation.  I wish they made left
handed boom headsets so it would be easier to eat left handed.

Hour long power failure.  I rested, but generator took care of everything.

Max Rates:
1658Z 7 per inute, for 1 minute, 420/hr.
1703Z 5.1 per minute for 10 minutes, 306/hr.
1719Z 3.3 per minute for 60 minutes, 197/hr.
I'd love to get in the position where lots of guys call and it is fun to pick out 2 calls out at
once.  I rarely get spotted, but one time a guy said he spotted me and a minute later the fun
began!

Runs:
1621-1635Z, 10M, 56 QSOs, 256.2/hr
1651 - 1751Z, 10M 181 QSOs, 180.7/hr
2039 - 2126Z, 20M, 123 QSOs, 155.8/hr
1326 - 1433Z, 15M, 813 QSOs, 165.6/hr
1452 - 1459Z, 10M, 28 QSOs, 240.0/hr
1726 - 1747Zm 15M, 50 QSOs, 145.9/hr

fun contest but didn't have alot of time this time. 73 matt ka0pqw

Who turned off the band on Sunday

It's been a few years since my last entry in this contest. Forgot about how much fun it can be with
my low power and modest antenna configuration (Inv. Vee at 30 ft.)! Hope to participate in many
future events!

I had a lot of fun! I worked it for 12 hours, off and on, and had a high score of 
21,624 the highest score that I ever had in a contest.

KA7RRA

I had a great time, this was my best score ever!

This was fun. An excellent way to create a DXing strong bond, and continue to build upon my
long-distance journey. Highly recommended to any ham radio operator.

submitted the cq160 contest file first by mistake.  please delete it.  current log for arrl dx
contest is submitted.  my goof, sorry.

First time entering ARRL DX SSB contest in 21 years.  Given facilities available, operated 10m only
with the limited antenna overlay.  Saturday conditions were much better than Sunday, with the band
open for 12+ hours. The hoped for propagation opening to Europe on 10m during Sunday did not occur
here at my Oregon QTH.

The bands were UN-BE-LIEVABLE! Lots of fun with KD8MVI and KC8ODB. Maybe we can get some more of
this next year, too!

Had a blast participating in my first ARRL-DX contest. Only had around 9hrs availble to participate
but was able to pick up a lot of rare DX stations and confirm my setup is functional across the
expected bands. Also found out my neighbor is hearing me on his stereo so I'll be examining what I
can do to minimize interference, but worked with him to implement some ferrite chokes for now.

This was a really part-time effort on Sunday morning. All S&P,
just going after the "low-hanging fruit," so to speak...those
stations I could hear without having to battle through a pileup.
All 10/15, there wasn't much on 20 in the morning.

OCF dipole, 1 KW, had fun.

Great to have 10 meters open all weekend!!!

END FED WIRE ANTENNA UNDER 50 FT.

My first ARRL DX SSB Contest

This was an awesome event! I am a technician still working towards my general, and this was one of
the first events that I can say I was able to do successfully on my own. I had fun and learned more
about my radio and antenna setup. I look forward to future contests.

Very fun contest, thanks to God for great propagation and DX. 73 KF0GVX Ryan

Great weather and wonderful band conditions for my portable operation setup on Corpus Christi Bay.
Using 3 small vertical antennas I'm always amazed how the saltwater boosts signals. Used a vertical
dipole on 10mtrs, 32ft wire on 40 & 15 and mag mounted 18ft on 20mtrs. Used my radio mounted in my
truck signals were strong bands, bands packed for the entire contest. See you next year Garry KF5VDX

Thank you all for your patience! Thanks for all the contacts and many
new contacts. I hope to hear you all again. There was a solar storm,
and I noted some QSB. In the US General portion of 40 Meters there is
a lot of intentional QRM. I used my Cushcraft R-7 Vertical for this
contest. My Rig is Yaesu FTDX-1200 My Power 100 Watts.

10M band was good!

LIMITED ANTENNAS

Having fun in Vegas

ROOKIE APRIL 2022

FM18cc SPO VA IC-7300 Carolina Windom 40

This was my first time working a contest. It was a part-time effort due to
a conflicting work schedule during the contest.
I did not plan on working this contest at first, but decided to join in on
the fun. I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST!
Once I started the contest, I made a goal of making 100 contacts. Unfortuna
tely, I fell just short, at only 78 contacts made by the end of the contest
.
I was not able to make any contacts on 160m-80m, as I couldn't hear any sta
tions from my QTH.
I've never heard SSB DX on 40m before until this contest!
10m-20m did exceptionally well for me.
I worked several new DXCCs and several new countries during this contest.
All bands were worked on a Yaesu FT-710 using a 136 ft. TennTennas 49:1 EFH
W antenna, approximately 20 ft. high, at 100 Watts.
1 or 2 QSOs were actually made on a 15Ah battery, due to a short power outa
ge at my QTH. The rest were all on commercial power at my QTH.
Software: RUMlogNG on MacOS
Unfortunately I did not film any of my QSOs during this contest, but I will
be doing a post-contest self-analysis on my first contest in the coming da
ys on my YouTube channel, hope you'll check it out. youtube.com/@KI5IREhamr
adio
I have already uploaded all QSOs from this contest to LoTW, QRZ, eQSL etc.
Please QSL via LoTW, QRZ or direct Mail.
Stats:
Band  | DXCCs | QSOs | Total
160m | 0 | 0 | 0
80m | 0 | 0 | 0
40m | 13 | 14 | 14
20m | 30 | 44 | 44
15m | 6 | 6 | 6
10m | 11 | 14 | 14
Total: 40
Sum: 60 | 78 | 78
234 QSO Points x 60 Multipliers =
14,040 total points
Thank you to all the stations out there who worked me. Hope to work you all
again, and more next year!
73 de KI5IRE!

Pretty good for only about 2 hours operating, in my humble opinion.

Had a great time.

Not as good on ten as I had hoped. Abandoned the single band effort.

2 calls 1K watts, rest 100 watts

This contest was the best contest I have participated in.   Propagation was great and many stations
participated.   I appreciate ARRL's sponsorship of these contests.   

I used S&P method throughout the contest and used methods I learned with my club, the Rochester (DX)
Association, to break pileups and snag hard to get entities.

Great contest!!

Truly a fun event

Wow, what a weekend!  Operated about 16 hours due to flu.  10
meters was like it was when I was a kid.  Must admit that I got a
little excited.  I'm sorry if it showed.  Better next time.

Many thanks to everyone that worked with me throughout this weekend. This was a fun contest. This
time I planned on working mostly daytime and on 15 and 20 meters and I got decent results. 10M was
better in comparison to 15 for the number of QSOs. I got good results on 10M and especially via a
Moxon antenna. Early the next morning I got out early and converted over one antenna set up as
vertical from 15M to 40M band and I got a nice low SWR of 1.076 and good bandwidth to work SSB.  At
the end of operating, I successfully worked 18 countries and had a great time on SSB. Looking
forward to next year. 73.

Limited antenna overlay

Being a new operator (licensed General June 2023, Extra test next weekend),
my objectives for this contest were: 1) Have fun, 2) log QSOs with as many
rare stations as possible, 3) Learn a lot, and 4) achieve as high a score
as possible given limitations (skill, QTH, Station).
Fun & exciting! So many stations and so many previously unheard (by me).
Many great openings - due no doubt both to DX station quality & propagation
.
My station/QTH worked well for So America and Asia on 10M and 15M - CQ stat
ions almost always answered my first call.  I was able to hold a couple of
runs for 20-30 minutes on Saturday.
Station/QTH Performance: Yaesu FTdx101D, Elecraft KPA500, SteppIR Urban Bea
m (2 element Yagi).  Northern beam headings limited by hill immediately Nor
th of QTH.  In contrast, unobstructed perspective over Pacific Ocean, 1/4 m
ile distant, So East through No West.
Unable to penetrate Northern Europe pileups except for a brief opening on 2
0M mid-day Sunday  (unclear whether lower traffic or better opening).
Was able to complete QSOs with Southern Europe & African stations without t
rouble except for rarest locations.  Learned a lot about negotiating pile-u
ps to complete QSOs!
Happy to have made 36 "New to me" DXCC contacts.  Highlights included:
Africa: Malawi, Madagascar, Namibia, Madeira Islands, Morocco, Cape Verde I
slands
So America: Suriname, Haiti, Peru, Paraguay,
Europe: Finland, Balearic Islands, Corsica, Cyprus
Caribbean: too many to list

Limited Antenna Overlay

Great to hear the world-wide propagation; especially, on ten meters.  Fifteen meters was my
workhorse.  I limited myself to 100 watts and backyard vertical antennas.  TU everyone for the Qs.

I'm just a POTA activator trying out contesting. I had fun this weekend and hope to do another
contest.73's

Off-Center DiPole <50'

Work QRP is Not that easy, Last year make a better score with 20w.
This one with 5W I am getting closeto that scorer. 

In 2023 contest QSO'S 735   Mult - 56	Total Score 123,480 with 20w.

In 2024 contest QSO'S 614   Mult - 53	Total Score 97,626  with 20w.

My personal Goal is win the 80m Hight power with QRP.
Last year with 20W bet the high-power score.
My antennas were better and higher This year.
Antennas Delta Loop at 85feet high and 2 full verticals / \. 
Radio Icom 751A. No final amp board. 

73 and DX. 
DE KP4KE.

Exciting openings that were lots of fun until the
CME/Proton shock on Sunday.  Thanks for all the
qsos and mults!  73  Bob, KQ2M

Limited Antennas

My 1st DX contest,Had a blast. I had to work around a work schedule. Hit the radio everytime I was
able. Running part time and 100 watts and a end fed dipole I feel good about the contacts I made.

Did not try to rotate the 40m vertical, but did demonstrate that it does not work well on 20m.

Time was limited by other commitments and several bouts with Murphy,
but still an enjoyable, but low key effort. Conditions were OK, but
the CW weekend was better. Go FRC!

The K index dropped to 5 on Sunday and so did the qso total but I
can't complain too much because normally when the K is 5 I can't
hear any DX let alone work it but somehow on 20 mtrs. in A.M. only
coming in were 3 E2 stns and I wrkd them all with 45 w. out/3el.

Single antenna 80m OCFD at 32ft

Casual operating just for fun.

Fun contest with good reception.

I had a wonderful time. I usually don't do SSB contests ,yet I was  totally engaged in this onw.

As some of the most talented contest ops have said " there is no meters like 10 meters" great
conditions for a SSB weekend! Conditions were so good I thought my TH2 grew more elements plus even
the law bands were no that much static till early Sunday just before the end, Great Fun!

Overlay: LIMITED

Great conds on 10 meter sunday. Did not have too much time
playing around, but very fun anyway!

Fun to be able to work NA with only 5W and a vertical.
BIG TU to everyone for pulling me out of the noise!

First contest of LP1D as a multi op.

Specially thanks to team leader LW6DGI and LW2DJG (Joaquin- YOTA contester) for this contest. 
We really enjoyed it

73 LW6EGE Emi

SD worked well as usual

DXspider:  dxs.ddns.net:7300; AR-Cluster 6:  arc6.ddns.net:7373; CC Cluster:  dxnode.ddns.net:8888

Not a serious entry due to other commitments, but operating'split' on
40m was fun while it lasted.

Enjoyed the limited time I had on air.

0.625 VERTICAL at 20 feet. 100 mins op time. S&P only

SOTA activation from Gun G/SP-013

Thank you to all. A very fun contest.

Overall conditions not as good as CW weekend. But a few good contacts
including RT0F, ZB2BU and TK5MH. Note Aurora flutter Sunday.

For this contest I was experimenting with a non-resonant quad loop
antenna. It is resonant around 16 MHz.  I used a 4:1 un-un and auto
tuner at the feedpoint.  A 32 foot tall push up mast gets it up in the
air, with string pulling out the side corners.  The loop seemed to
have a nice front-to-side ratio on 20m and 15m.  It seemed to be
omnidirectional on 10m.  Compared to my vertical and low dipole
antenna experiments, the loop was very low noise.  I live in a big
city with plenty of noise, so that was a nice result.  I was hearing
JA's around 2100 UTC on 10m, and 15m a couple of hours later.  That is
unheard of with the verticals and low dipoles at this QTH.  Sweet!
But alas, very little of the DX heard me.  The 7 contacts I captured
was all I could do with 5 hours in front of the radio.

I would like to use the Limited Antenna Overlay as I used an OCFD at 45 maximum feet above ground.
I became a General and then an Extra this year. This contest was my first use of HF and my first HF
contacts.

Fun contest - lots of activitty this year!

Transmit side on 40m contact with DL1GLH was above 7200.  Rig is a Flex
6600M and I couldn't figure out how to operate split while also playing
SO2V.   I TX'd on second VFO while RX-ing on first VFO...but logged the
contact on the first VFO's window in N1MM. This entry isn't competitive,
so penalize me if you must...but I'd prefer not to lose the points for
the club score.

Great fun! 10m was terrific. Great opportunity to work on my 10m
DX. Worked abotu 8 hours on this between Sat and Sun afternoons.

Conditions were great for a wire at 45 feet with 100 watts .Had a ball!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was my first contest ever, also the first time I answered a random CQ. I've done a lot of POTA,
but that seems different to me. A ham friend of mine was telling me about all the QSOs he was
making, and he just got his license, made me want to try. And my antenna partially collapsed but it
still worked. It turns out that let me use the "Limited Antenna" since it was now lower than 50
feet. That's a benefit of procrastination!

enjoyed the test...interesting band conditions... Had a GREAT time.....

SSB with 5 watts - Indoor loop 4th floor - Flex 1500

I am glad that ARRL created the Limited Antennas overlay, but it should be revised.  I live in an
HOA and I am forced to operate with temporary portable antennas on tripods that I put up only for
the weekend.  I haven't been caught yet! Because I operate two small 20m verticals in phase, I am in
the same station category as the big contest stations with multiple 200 foot towers.  That does not
seem fair.

GREAT CONTEST, GREAT BAND CONDITIONS

25 Watt Mobile de Florida

I discovered there was a little too much oxidation in my mic connector. What an awful time to find
out.

This was my first DX contest, a great way to pick up new countries!

I was not going to participate, had many activities over the weekend.
I listened on Saturday, decided I would give it a go for a few hours
Sunday AM. Started at around 6.45am EST, finished around 9.30am Est. I
only wanted a few hours, so decided only on 10M. The band was on fire,
signals from 28.300 up to 28.900. Crazy stuff, signals were strong
from Europe. I used my Yaesu Ftdx3000, Acom 1000 only set at 300 watts
and my Imax 2000 at 35 feet. Most fun in a contest recently. No
stress, casual hunting and working stations. I set 100 QSOs as my
limit, I probably could have worked 500 if I put in more time and
other bands. Great time for 2.5 hours.

Thanks to the DX stations who heard and worked my QRP signal.

Best Raw score and QSO count in Contest ever!

Rookie Ground mounted Vertical

My first ARRL International DX Phone Contest. 

Participation expanded my knowledge of operating in busy bands, improved my knowledge of N3FJP
contesting software, and motivated me to improve my antennas.

Hopefully, next year I won't qualify for the Limited Antenna overlay, and I will be able to make a
successful contact on 160m!

TS-890S, Buddipole@19', 10M dipole@10'

Had fun in very limited operating.  Please count
the one 40M contact wth my friend Ken KP4AA.

Conditions on 10 meters were wonderful. Had a great time except RFI was getting into my rig somehow.
Need to figure that one out. Hope conditions hold for another year.

Only able to operate the last 7 hours or so due to being down with Covid ....for the second time.
The bands seemed to be in great form, I was being heard with my wimpy vertical.

The bands were in great shape and the contacts were usually
plentiful except for very early in the morning when many of the
stations on were Dupes.  This was by far my best contesting
effort to date.  The station performed nicely in spite of my
simple wire antennas and low power.  I had my usual Sunday
obligations which kept me busy away from the radio, so Saturday I
put in most of my effort.  I was stealthily chasing Rick (NN4RB)
all weekend, but he pulled away for good on Sunday.  Great job
Rick!  It was fun having DX stations actually want to work us!
Kudos to ARRL for creating this contest series.

FT-710 / EFHW

A casual effort, mostly looking for new countries for DXCC. I had fun and was happy with the station
performance. No 75m this year due to unfinished antenna projects hampered by weather. Thanks to all
that participated! 73, Mark

MY FIRST CONTEST, A HAM SINCE 2006. GREAT FORMAT, ALTHOUGH CREATING
CABRILLO LOG IS TRICKY SINCE MY LOGGING SOFTWARE DOESN'T SUPPORT IT.

First Contest

Portable setup on two SOTA summits in So Cal, W6/CT-225 and CT-226.
5 watts to a doublet on an 18' collapsible mast.
I operated between rain storms on Friday night, Saturday morning and evening,
and still managed to get wet. Conditions sounded good. My morning chances to
Europe were rained out. The radar map lied, hi. I had to pack up quickly and skedaddle.
Is QRZ a new country I heard it alot in lieu of a recognizable callsign.
It was fun while things were dry. Thanks for hearing my 5 watts.

QRP, full 5W to a 20-Foot End-Fed Wire.
Part-time effort. fun for SSB.
Tnx for your patience and the QSOs.
Go Arizona Outlaws! -73- John N6HI

nice to have 'over the north pole' propagation

First contest for me in several years. was great to visit with a SDXA member at PJ2T

Part time effort and I just can't get very enthused about SSB
only contesting.

I worked 15 meters low power. First time doing one band.  Sunday was as if someone had disconnected
my antenna.

Thank you for your sponsorship.The CW weekend was fun. The phone weekend was an ordeal. I only made
half as many contacts. Thanks for the contacts. Hope to be back next year.

73,

Steve N7VS

the lids chasing VP8WA on the Falklands are an embarassment

A few operators were so intense that they were rude. But, most were nice. It is interesting that
some stations were very strong but could not be heard more than 3 kHz away, while others had
similarly strong signals that could be heard 10 kHz away. In an ideal world, every big gun station
would have transmitter/audio issues worked out before the event. Overall, I had fun and enjoyed the
event, although I had little time available to work it.

Testing the Random wire

The highlight was working New Zealand late Friday evening.

Wow, 10M & 15M were workhorse bands this year!  Band conditions allowed this 100W station to be
heard amongst all the KW stations. Thanks to the DX stations for listening for the weaker stations
out there.  It was appreciated.  
73's all, 
N9ARX in Nebraska.

High bands were in great condition. 15m was open to EU an hour before
local sunrise Saturday and Sunday mornings, and this limited antenna
station was able to work EU on 15m with just a ground mounted 6BTV & LP
before sunrise...that never happens! 10M was elbow to elbow all the way
up to 29Mhz during the peak EU morning hours prop until almost noon local.
99% S&P, although I tried many times to get a run going on 10m and was
always muscled off my "attempted" run freak by a loud EU station, before
I could get established. So I settled on S&Ping. Spent some time in some
pileups to work a station either for that first entity , or to work that
entity for the forth band. This was a for band effort as 80m is set for
the bottom of the CW band and 160 was to noisy to even try with a very
short Inverted L. Main focus was on 10m. Had fun working a bunch of JA
Saturday afternoon evening. Lots of fun again on as we near the solar
Max. 73 Gene N9TF. Rig K3S 100 watts to 6BTV ground mounted.

First ARRL DX SSB. Much fun.

My fan dipole was only up 15 feet this time, so sigs were understandably way down; fun contest to
work though, as always.

DX Seekers Club

Other commitments limited my BIC time to 3.75 hours. 100% S&P.
Fun with a few good catches. Played with some new software
settings: Win4K3. No SO2R this time.

Did surprisingly well considering I was QRP and using an indoor scratch-made antenna!  It was fun
using my new IC-705 for the first contest operation since changing my QTH last summer. Thanks to
Scott, KN3A, for encouraging my activity despite the fact that it was not even close to a
contest-ready situation!  Run what you've got, as they say.  Also, with the sunspot cycle being as
good as it is the choice of 10m only seemed good, at least until the last couple of hours of the
event when there was significant attenuation of signals noted so I quit one hour early after only
making one QSO during the period from 2200 to 2300Z.

Hoping I made the log submission deadline.
Pete, NO2D

Great fun!  HOA restrictions.  Wire antenna in trees.  Just recovered from a lightning strike about
5 months ago.  Radio, Tuner, antenna switch, video card all fried.  Great to be back.

This was just a  test to check an external speech processor (Tentec 715) 
in Flex 6600. The results exceeded my expectations. Almost every station I called responded, Nobody
took my frequency. And my peak was 240 QSOs/hr for an hr, versus 150 max before.
Unfortunately, this tells how bad the internal processor in 6600 is.

Fun contest. First ARRL DX SSB contest in a few years. During day, tremendous noise on 20, so relied
upon 10 and 15. Need to get an antenna for 40 and 80. Satisfied with score and 100 Qs using 5 watts.
Was able to break a "pile-up" into the Azores, CR2X, on first call - after listening for a bit to
operating style.

My first try at this one; I had a great time!

On saturday here in Europe Short-Skips on 10m. Sometimes hard to hear the US Stations between the
european contest calling stations.

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

Part time operation.
Thanks for the QSOs!

Thanks !

Worked many stations on 3 bands and it was fun to say that :)

Big thanks to OH2BAH for letting me use his QTH

RIG: Yaesu FT-891, 80 W
ANT: Vertical loop

ARRL DX SSB 2024

ANT: 160-40m Inverted L 10+41m  10m above ground, 20-10m GP 8m above ground

Saturday ok sunday bed.

FT1000MP MarkV, PA Acom1000 - 1kW
6el./10, 5el./15, 4el./20, 3el./40, vertical/80,160, beverage

Laura (10Y old) and Roza (8Y old)

my name is Adam Laczko...the log shows only Adam Laczk...and the adress is Kralov Brod ...not Krov
Brod, Thanks 73

TNX, 73!

Great opportunity to make douzen of North American stations. Cheers

ft991

The propagation was good also on 10 m so I could work
a lot of stations.
I enjoyed the contest.
Till next year.
73  Leon  ONWL

10w in hamstick on balcony gd condx

Testing homebrew 15m Yagi

Nice contest. Unfortunately, I had little time to participate. I
used 100 W and an FB23 antenna. 73 Rob PA1X

Amazing ears as only MAX 1 Watt was used on 40m only

my rig here ICOM ic-7300 3 el yagi antenne hight above street level 14 meter 300 watt solid state
amplifier

What a joy to hear 10 meters so good open to the USA.

CREATED-BY: KOlog v1.0

Lot of fun on a busy 10m band. 73!

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PWR: 80 W
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Nice to take part in the ARRL SSB 2024 contest. Just a few hours on 10 meters. 

Hope to be back next year.

73' Edwin PD5L

It was my first time and I liked it. See you next year

TS590, barefoot, max pwr 70Watts.
Antenna horizontal multiband dipole for 15, 20, 40 & 80M bands.

Missed some hours, so less points, but it went well. 
Elecraft K3 - 100 watts into a 5-Band EndFed on roof of 6th floor appartment building.

Tnx for the nice contest!
K3, KAT500, KPA500, 400W, Ant. FB-23 @12M a.g.l.
See you next time!

Nice contest. I participated first time. Quite a number of US stations calling 2 or 3 times on the
same band making duplicate contacts. Unfortunately, playing this way prevents others from
connecting!

LABRES-SC

FIRST ARRL CONTEST

FALCONS DX GROUP

YAESU FT DX 10 - 5 ELEMENTS

Great contest and using self-spot just
for a while, and don't like it. Need
to adjust it with my wife call sign.
I would like to have a "no-internet"
category, any contest...
Anyway, great to see old friends around!
Thanks for calling PY2NY!!

FT857 + VERTICAL 40-10 METERS

My balcony antenna - MFJ-1625

73 tnx !

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See you next year ! 73 !

P.O.Box 73

SJ8R - one operator told me that on my frekv it has spotted wrong callsign so there where some
working me but think another callsign. There for I did work some which where dupes in my log. I
asked after my knowledge of every one if they really worked me or not..some stations say NO so there
are some dupes which is not dupes...complicated any how.

Sodertorns radioamatorer

Thanks for a nice contest!
Participated for fun

FTDX 3000 ANT-DIPOLES

Lots of activity on 28 MHz. The band was in great shape the first day, on Sunday it closed much
earlier, following 3 hours of auroral flutter and strong fading.
Thanks for all the contacts!

First ARRL DX contest, YAESU FT-710 and ANTRON 99 with 100W
73s to ALL from SP3FLY

TS590+HM PA 1KW, GP40M

ft840

TS-590SG + Inverted V ant  short term operation

I am very happy that I could once again take part in the ARRL SSB Contest 2024 world competition.
This is already the 37th competition in my amateur radio life. This competition is quite difficult
due to the fact that I only work with FT dx 3000 and single dipole antennas hanging in free space at
a height of 45 meters above the ground. I would like to thank all station operators from the USA for
being responsible for me with such a weak signal on the bands and for their patience. See you in the
CQ WPX SSB Contest 2024. Perhaps I will start in the CQ WPX Contest SSB 2024 under my contest sign
3Z6V. Please visit my website at https://www.qrz.com/db/SP6DVP. It contains the most important news
from my active ham radio life from 1967 to the present day. Vy 73 Krzysztof SP6DVP-3Z6V

TRx Icom IC-735, ant. dipole

100W, End fed antenna, max height 30 ft.

Ft897 80W ant Delta Loop,

ARRL DX SSB 2024

With some antenna issue, but Im not disapointed :) CU again 73'

check log

3 ELE YAGI - 80W

Had a great time!

Pantelakis.anton@gmail.com
Use multiple lines if needed.

thx

END FED ANTENNE 10W

Thank you for this wonderful contest. Hope to see you next year. 73!

MANY THANKS TO ALL CONTESTERS

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

73!

73!

TNX, 73!

rw0cv@yandex.ru

73!

TNX/73!

73!

73!

Thank you for the DX support to V5 AF.Best 73's

I like the operation style of the US and Canadian fellows.
A lot of fun with my small station: IC-7300, ACOM 1010, Spiderbeam
with armstrong rotator. Had to fight heavily with the insects at night.

I had a lot of fun

Very fun, as usual.

Lic July 2021

That was a fun contest. Wish I had more time to operate.
15M were great!

New HAM.  1st Contest.  I am addicted!

SINGLE OPERATOR UNLIMITED

I appreciate the limited antenna overlay category.

I really enjoyed the contest this year because I added elements to my fan dipole and was able to
operate on 10 and 15 meters and conditions were great! I manged to add a few new entities to my log
too.
The biggest problem I had was submitting my log. I paper logged and used qrz.com. I downloaded my
log in adi but had a hard time converting to cabrillo. I almost gave up but I kept at it and finally
got it accepted by the robot! I hope I remember what I did for next time!

You had to be there to enjoy the good propagation from all around the world!

Rig: FTDX-10 @100W - Antenna: Hy-Gain DX-88 Ground Mounted. 73
Eric

icom ic 751 A and cushcraft R8 veritcal on fnce out back , very small
station.  litmited antenna.

It was a March came in like a Lion weekend so I passed the time
today working this Contest.

First time in this contest, had a great time.

Why have I not been in this 'test before! So much fun. Out in
car, IC-7300 on the seat, laptop balanced between knee, hand
brake, and shifter, mono-band 1/4 wave whip(s) on the roof.
It _was_ great fun being the focus of contacts for those DX to
us. 73 to All.

FB CONDX, GUD OPS, FUN. BIG PILE UPS.

Still dealing with equipment failures in the interface cabling for PC, amp and all-pass filter
antenna phasing, so very part time for a few minutes bare foot on 10m. Conditions seemed excellent
none the less.
David Burger VK2CZ

Yaesu FT891 & V Dipole Antemma

My first ARRL DX contest, thanks.

73 FROM PAPA-ECHO!

First contest and log attempt.

Really made me realize that contests arenâ??t just about points, but about geography and people,
something that was not apparent to me before. Thanks to W0BV for the great shack and antenna, and
for the great coaching!

My first contest after 20 years absence.  Very enjoyable, especially with good conditions and use of
a logging program - no more paper!

LIMITED ANTENNA

10,15,and 20 were great!

Fun for my first participation, but I do wish there were a rookie category (or something similar for
those of us with young kids who cannot participate all weekend.)

Awesome friendly contest.  Really learned rig operations

Claiming Limited Antennas Overlay

Thanks ARRL for another great contest.

Thank you to all who stuck with me!

For me, a big effort.

2024 ARRL DXPH W4/DL3YM

This is addictive. I had to quit for food, time with my XYL and Sunday church but otherwise it was
heads down.

A great weekend for 10 meters!

Thanks to all for repeats.

Please, account prefixes TO3 and TO5 for scoring purpose.

Barefoot with homebrew OCFD

First time in this catagory. Had fun!!

This was my very first contest participation and log submission!

Took me multiple tries to get it uploaded because I made errors entering QSO's and because I used
Log4OM to enter QSO's during the contest and had to export then import to N1MM to generate the
Cabrillo file.  AND I had data entry errors to find fix such as using "59+" in an RST report.  There
are a LOT of details to pay attention to during and after a contest.  But I got it sorted out and
loaded just in time with help from Elmers KR7D and KQ7I.

What a fun few hours in Florida. 10 and 15 meters were hot!

Limited Antennas Overlay

Thanks for a fun contest.

10 METERS WAS EXCELLENT

I was first licensed in 1956 at the age of 13 and recently had my 80th birthday. I have always been
active... you can do the math! I was lucky to be licensed and on the air in 1972 and 1973 from Clark
Air Force Base in the Philippines (SK) as DU1GJM. And I have done several mini DX-peditions over the
years as well as being active from St. Kitts and Nevis for quite a few years as V47NS. I have always
enjoyed being and working DX. My home station in my condominium in Chicago and at my vacation home
in the Indiana Dunes have high power with good antennas. I am  spoiled.

For the past several years I have wintered in South Beach, Florida, right in the center of all the
action. (Think high noise level). I have an Icom 7300 running 100 watts into an MFJ 10-30 loop
antenna (which sits on my balcony). I have worked quite a bit of DX with that antenna over the last
few years -- and have become expert in tuning it largely based on the volume of signals on the
radio. I thought I would give the ARRL SSB DX contest a try.

I must say that I cannot believe the number of contacts and countries that I was able to work (in
most cases with no difficulty). Can you imagine -- with stiff competition -- working Japan, Hawaii,
Namibia, Turkey, and virtually all over Europe and South America. I was shocked that my little Icom
and not much bigger MFJ loop which sat just inches from the edge of the building, the balcony rail,
and my balcony table and chairs could sling a signal  through pile-ups virtually around the world.
Gosh I love ham radio!!!

Photograph enclosed of antenna on 16th floor balcony up about 200 feet with some opening out to the
Atlantic, and the small operating location on my work table. (And with no ground).

Background noise level on 10 and 15 with first preamp on was S4 and on 20 with no preamp S1 --
thanks to the astounding noise reduction by the Icom 7300...

Mike

Awesome to see so many friends from around the world again and
meet some new ones!  Wide open doesen't even cover it - great
propagation for me on everything but 160 and that's an antenna
(and noise) limitation.  Thanks to all who participated and 73,
W9TCV

Lots of fun!  Most contacts I've made in a contest.

Been 3 years since my last all phone DX contest.
I think it will be 3 years before another one. I think
this is my first contest that operated 100 % S&P.

Excellent conditions!

Band Conditions were excellent on 80-10m!

IC 7600 AND HF6-V VERTICAL

great band openings especially on 10m

Almost got DXCC on 15 meters with 98 countries!  Lot of fun.  10 meters even opened up on Saturday.

Operated remote  from Tokyo, Japan

The most DX I've ever worked in a single weekend - FUN!!

It is always challenging to get through the pileups on low power but I was able to make contacts by
watching the gray-line and coming back to the station later. After 58 years in amateur radio I don't
care about the score as much as making the contacts. Rag chewing is the best part of the hobby. 73,
Don WA8TWM

SMARTS - Southwest Metro Amateur Radio Transmitting Society

When you run QRP, you can expect several repeats of your call,
particularly if it is six characters.  It is interesting how signals
can get strong at certain times during the day.  Conditions were
moderate on 10 Meters and as expected, they were spread out over the
entire phone band!  Signals on 10 Meters started at 28.300 and went as
high as 29.000, a full 700 KHz of activity during several hours!
Rarer DX like V55Y and 3Q7M were above 28.800 to minimize pileup.   It
was a slugfest as conditions were good but not optimal, with a lot of
fading on signals.

Perhaps my most unusual contact was when I worked 9Z4CT.  Apparently,
there was a lot of fading on my signal, so he asked me to break up my
call - repeating the suffix first (AMU) and then repeating the
prefix (WB2).  That was great on his part!

GREAT CONDX - V DIPOLES 40, 15, AND 10M - VERTICAL 20M

It was snowing here so I had more time to play radio.
Thank you for all of the QSOs...
In the evening, 80 and 160 had high noise levels making contacts difficult.
I could hear a few stations on 160 but they did not respond.
Bill

Flex 6300, Hamsticks or Mad Dog Coil ant, DX spotter

Fun as always.

Excellent band conditions on 10M, like in good old times.

Worked almost everything I could hear. Many new ones for me.

alot of fun

homemade 10 meter wire dipole antenna 25 ft up in treehouse 100 watts

I had limited time for the contest, but successfully used N1MM
voice macros, so I'll be ready for the next one!

I rarely get into any SSB contest but this was done for our club. 
My Hexbeam is slowly being ripped apart from high winds after one of my 
spreaders was clipped by an above tree branch. 
but Made a 3 el for 10 meters which really works well on both ssb and CW
The money band for me was definitely 10 m. 

The con for me is Having to be on that QRG for a couple of hours and someone asking me to slide up
(What)
Well i don't operate much on SSB so maybe thats the way it is when there really isn't enough band
width for 100 operators.  
Also a couple of times for some reason I found that my Freq moved from where i was and quickly
apologized to the other station when he said (This freq in use) before i looked at the screen and
told him i was here for 
a couple of hours. (Embarrassed after i found that I was wrong )
he laughed , we both laughed and i apologized again as i went back to my QRG. 
Overall it was fun

1/4 wave vertical 100 watts

This was a 1st-time QRP run for WQ6X of the ARRL DX Ssb contest from WA6TQT
in Anza.  While there was access to all the antennas, the phasing cable on 160
Tri-Square prevented making any contacts on 160.  The 15m/10m rotatable tower
was jam-stuck at ~65-degrees, relegating a lot of SA/JA Qsos to be made using
the "inferior" KT-36 yagi.
I should have taken better advantage of 40-meters Friday night because at 08:00z
Sunday morning some sort of solar disturbance knocked the band out so completely
that I thought the yagi-array had crashed or the K3 front-end had died on 40m
(80m & 20m were quite active).  It was so bad that NONE of the (40-over S-9)
broadcast stations could be heard in Anza.  By Sunday morning, it was back
to being a typical morning on 40-meters.

My biggest beef in BOTH Ssb & Cw DX contests is that operators need to STFD.
Slow DOWN.  Weird accents, polar flutter and junky Space-Wx effects can
chop intelligibility out of hasty voices and 35+ WPM Cw.  The time you save by
running things at a faster clip is wasted when your repeat-rate goes up, or
nobody calls in because we can't understand you.  This weekend I re-recorded
the WQ6X ID memory (FKEY-4)saying my call S-L-O-W-L-Y.  Doing that reduced
the number of callsign repeats by about 80%.

Other than a couple of JA runs, this weekend was mostly a Search&Pounce affair.
My biggest frustration is when OP's had MOST of my callsign "WQ6" or "Q6X"
and then go work someone else.  When I run a frequency, I never answer
a station other than the one I am attempting to decipher.

Overall, this DX Contest GiG was certainly quite a CHALLENGE.
LooK for a write-up on this and other contests at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com

Limited Antennas Overlay wasn't part of the Cabrillo v3 spec for CATEGORY-OVERLAY header field.  I
hope this works...

Enjoyed the contest. Had to work Saturday so missed alot but still managed to put in 372 QSOs. 73 to
all stations.

100 watts and a multiband vertical

A little time with a big test, I enjoy this contest with my family and teaching new hammers ;-)

none

Good Luck. 73

HPE CU AGN SOON GL GDX 73s

Im Happy,.... TNX

exciting and fun contest

YB-LAND DXing PASSION IS

It's my first-time joint ARRL DX, I was having fun throughout the
race with my limited antennas.

73

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

I had a big problem with CAT....It stop working after 1 hour....This is my first SSB ARRL
contest...I think.  73,Acim

three YOTA ops

Antena Hy-Gain 5BDQ at 40 feet

Nice propagation on all bands but 80m, use IC.703 PLUS and 4 el
beam getting nice reports with my 5W  just enjoy very much tnx

Single Band (15m), Low Power, Limited Antenna Overlay
15 meters Single Band is the best choice for a "not so young" contester as myself. The band opens
and closes to Paraguay as if it run on a schedule, therefore, plenty of time to be with the family
and rest.