I was testing my 3 element beam at 8 ft off the ground and this station heard me on 5Watts.  I
hadn't noticed Cabrillo logs are different for every contest as I'm not really into contests when
sharing with 1++KW stations with my measly 5watts, but glad I tried!

After many attempts to upload the log, I eventually worked out the formatting with the help of
N1MM+.

I would like to congratulate ARRL for creating this wonderful and very enjoyable contest among all
amateurs. I learned a lot of experiences joining this contest. More power to ARRL (National
Association for Amateur Radio) Good Luck '73.

Thank you ARRL!

El primer día fue clave para mi operación, pude hacer más de 1600 QSOs en las primeras 24 horas
del contest y bueno que las pude aprovechar porque las siguientes 24 horas no estuvieron tan buenas.
Estoy bastante contento porque logré superar mi récord previo de QSOs de casi 1700 en un contest
de 48 horas, ahora a seguir mejorando la estación y la programación del N1MM Log+ para poder pasar
los 3.000 QSOs en los próximos concursos. Todavía falta bastante por mejorar en mi pequeña
estación  siempre operada con el TS-590S en esta oportunidad con 95W y alimentado como siempre 100%
con energía solar: panel de 100W, batería LifePO4 de 36Amp/h y una de plomo a 100Amp/h como
respaldo por si tengo que operar mucho en la noche cuando ya la carga de la LifePO4 ya no es
suficiente; una antena Dipolo 5BDQ y otra vertical Hustler G-2537 que no prácticamente no use. 

Usé el reporte 59 99 por comodidad, muchos se sorprendieron y otros decían ok 100W y yo les
recalcaba 59 99, me reí junto con varios que les pareció ingenioso el reporte, de vez en cuando se
me enredaba la lengua para decir 99 pero me parece mucho más fácil decir 99 que 100 en ingles. 

Puedes ver mi operación en vivo en mi canal https://www.youtube.com/@yv5rab/stream, más adelante
voy a poner todos los QSOs como capítulos en el video para que sea más fácil de buscar alguno en
particular.

Saludos a todos de Tony YV5RAB 4M5A

__________________________________________

The first day was key for my operation. I managed to make over 1600 QSOs in the first 24 hours of
the contest, and I'm glad I took advantage of it because the next 24 hours weren't as good. I'm
quite happy because I surpassed my previous QSO record of almost 1700 in a 48-hour contest. Now,
it's time to keep improving the station and the N1MM Log+ programming to exceed 3,000 QSOs in future
contests. There's still a lot to improve in my small station, always operated with the TS-590S, this
time with 95W and powered as always 100% by solar energy: 100W panel, 36Ah LifePO4 battery, and a
100Ah lead-acid battery as backup in case I have to operate a lot at night when the LifePO4 charge
is no longer sufficient; a 5BDQ Dipole antenna and a Hustler G-2537 vertical that I practically
didn't use.

I used the 59 99 report for convenience. Many were surprised, and others said okay, 100W, and I
emphasized 59 99. I had a good laugh with several who found the report ingenious. Occasionally, I
stumbled over my tongue saying 99, but I find it much easier to say 99 than 100 in English. 

You can watch my operation live on my channel https://www.youtube.com/@yv5rab/stream, later I will
put all the QSOs as chapters in the video to make it easier to search for a particular one.

Greetings to all from Tony YV5RAB 4M5A.

Grim conditions.  NA stations were invariably engulfed in pile-ups.   Better luck next year :)

Most holiday-style QSOs were on CW but I took time to make a few QSOs
in the contest though I was not able to operate at prime time. Very
hard work with 100watts and a vertical but I was pleased to break
the Samoan record which had stood since 1998.

Thanks for nice contact, see you again next year..73

I enjoyed the contest.

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.

Memories of contests during the fasting month this year

First QSO with Japan.  Thank you JH7MQD.  Band conditions were
wonderful most of the time; please requisition the same band
conditions for next year's contest.  Added nicely to my 5BDXCC
efforts.  Great fun!  Thanks for all the QSOs.

This was a 175 watt, part-time effort (except to QSO 9N7AA on
20m). Conditions not so good Friday and Saturday nights at my
QTH. One issue I encountered was with N1MM keying my rig
everytime I logged a station QSO.  This is the first time ever
seeing this, but attribute it to computer issues on my side.  I
am sure it is not an N1MM issue. I am having issues with another
application doing funny things as well.  I will say that for some
reason N1MM is showing two 14 lines in my contest summary sheet -
wierd.  Annoying issues, but that drove me to not participate as
much.  May need PC overhaul after this expereince. Did not
participate Sunday morning or afternoon.  Thanks for the QSOs and
73.

Enjoyed the contest this year. 10 and 15 were the best bands to me.
I wanted so bad to operate outdoors from the patio this year but it
wasn't to be, just too cold here.  Had a great time and a big thank
you to the contest organizers and DX stations!

For the Love of God, DROP Cabrillo and use a simple spreadsheet!

The bands conditions were very good. I worked 282 contact off a 30 foot end-fed wire with tuned
counterpoises.I was wonderful to contact so many Hams from around the world.
Thanks, ARRL

Jerry AE9L

10m CONDEX on the first day was not so good, but 10m CONDEX on the
second day was much better. However we could not break our Guam
recoord. CU on the next year.

< 1 hr op time

Great propagation. Limited radio time. Great fun while it lasted.
Primary 15m antenna is down and tuning the alternate antenna was
very narrow equiring retuning with nearly every frequency change.

Fun as always! Headphone and foot pedal made all the difference from the last time!! - Team :Big
Bend Contest Group

Can we get a vintage radio category?
Any radio with at least 1 vacuum tube?

2025 ARRL DX SSB

For info I am not sure if my claimed score is alright once
my log4om dont convert the log to cbr and dont
calculate. Tks to all NA stations for the contacts.
Rig. Yaesu FT-2000 , Cushcraft MA-5B

It was very nice to participate again in the Contest. I worked with only a wire antenna about 10
meters above the ground. My old man (CR8ACL) spent many hours making the operation possible. In the
middle of the Contest, one of the bobines unwind (the wind was strong and it was raining). I had
problems in the 10 and 15 also, because it was not possible to work with the amplifier.On the second
day it was so much hard work because the propagation was not like on the 1th March and I had a huge
local QRM. So, another challenge for me! Thank you all!!!

CENTRO RADIOAFICIONADOS ROCHA

some support

Solar powered Transceiver.

QRP 5 Watts from FT817 to 2 Ele Mini Yagi MFB23 11m high

Yaesu FTdx3000 SteppIR Loop Long Wire

"A" License in Mai 2023

Ant three feet short vertical on balcony 9th floor
RX:  NRD-515
TX:  NSD-505

part time but great fun!

What an incredible contest weekend! We thought we wouldn’t have any contacts since our G5RV
antenna had a high SWR reading and we were in a remote area. However, we decided to build a 10-meter
dipole, and in the final hour, we managed to get on 10 meters. Beyond making QSOs, our young and
dynamic members honed essential contesting skills, preparing for upcoming challenges like CQ WPX and
All Asian DX!

Many thanks for this beautiful contest 73's

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

Congratulations for such a great contest!
I hope that the next year I can enjoy it more hours (this year I only could operate on Saturday).
Cheers!
73 de EB1AF

One more year with great enthusiasm and fun for this wonderful contest, but now being a father with
a 5-year-old son, time is limited and participation is only for the hope of continuing to acquire
skill and auditory agility...no high scores

CATALONIA CONTEST CLUB

cx3acs@gmail.com

Lost an hour on Sunday primne time due to power mains failure.

Big Thank You to Neil EI3JE for his hospitality and outstanding station!
Conditions were very good, especially on Sunday. There is no band like TEN! Tnx to all!

Good fun - as usual.  I always use SD for logging.

I participated for the first time in the ARRL DX Contest. I really enjoy competing in contests. Due
to health reasons I participated very little in this contest. My setup is simple: Yaesu FT-891 and a
homebrew Hexbeam 6-band antenna.

TNX

With my small setup (5w with long wire, badly installed).
Thanks to all stations who forced to hear me ;)

This year I used a very small Chinese transceiver called USDX (white buttons) on its internal
battery, with a small chinese amplifier Micro PA50+ connected to a cell phone Power bank. I had 20
watts.

Limited Antennas Overlay

FIRST Contest

73

ARRLDXSSB2025

Submitted for checking only

I had only an hour to operate in this contest, but it was a privilege to work the 12 stations I did.
5w can go along way.
Thank you for the QSOs. 73

Condx not great the first day but they improved during Sunday.

K3, SSPA, 200W TA31Jr@9m

Used SD Contest Program during the contest, excellent p

15 mtr inverted-vee dipole, 13 mtr high.

Tough going with only 5 watts, but worth it

Great fun! Sadly I couldn't take part on Saturday because of a family celebration, but on Sunday I
had my most successful ever day on the radio and got a few new states and provinces in my log.
Looking forward to taking it more seriously next year.

Regarding to falily celebration I have very short time. I enjoy. Thank you, 73! Sanyi

Flexradio 6600
Antennas: Beam

Flex 6600M
Antennas: Hexbeam

Antennas:

Portable style operation. Wire antennas and generators. Tnx all for
QSOs. See you next time.

Limited time due to poor conditions. 15M was a good choice to have a little fun.

Nice competition very crowded and tough. Low propoagation the first day

This year's ARRL DX Contest in the 10m range was fantastic.
Powerful signals from the East Coast to the West Coast reached Southern Europe.
It was impossible not to have fun...!!!!
73' by I5NSR Sergio.

I could only partecipate for a few hours and with limited antennas, but
it's been lots of fun as always!

Great fun as usual. First hour of race lost due to RFI problems. tks for
participation.  73 Pat

arrl ssb 2025

AN UNEXPECTED FAILURE OF THE 20-10M ANTENNA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTEST, FORCED ME TO CONTINUE
ONLY ON 40M, IN THE FEW HOURS OF PROPAGATION ALLOWED BY THIS BAND. I HAVE ONLY REACHED A FEW QSOs.
TOO BAD, I WILL TRY NEXT YEAR.

QRP STATION 5 WATT OUTPUT

Buona attivit soprattutto bande alte

Just a few hours but a lot of fun!

Another challenge for a growing team always with friensdhip and a heart full of joy

great fun... very limited setup: TS-590SG + fishing rod 6.50m (22ft) +
autotuner

Was amazing ! First full time Remote Contest ! Flex 6600+Maestro.

Actually, I couldn`t resist. After my first-ever 2BSIQ operation in CW
leg, which was fun, I decided in latest moment to spend some time in SSB
leg via remote. Not a serioud appearance on the bands, but still I found
a bunch of challenges within the part-time activity from Palermo.

Those who ever worked with RemAud without foot-switch will understand
what am I talking about :)). In addition, my kind host, Gabry (IT9RGY) -
who was running with crew of IP4X - needed to resolve several issues
appeard on the station. Many thanks Gabriele for your persistance and
support. Finally, I did not have luck with low bands, but was happy to
hear many of my friends on the three higher bands. Most of the time we
had good propagation conditions, especially on Sunday afternoon/evening.

The Spiderbeam@40m above ground performed quite well, even at outage of
the linear amplifier.

Congratulations to performances of Jose, CT1CJJ as CR6K (SOAB) and Roli
LY4A; Randy, K5ZD (last one from his home in Mass.); Vlado, E70T@E7DX
@15m; IP4X (M/2). Respect to all the ohter not mentioned high
scorers.

At the other hand, I feel sorrow with Braco @KH6J, who was losing his
voice at the certain moment and Ivo, S57AL (Bithday Kid) who stayed
without power supply at the finish.

Many thanks to all for the exchanges. I enjoyed the weekend socializing
with you all on the bands and looking forwart to seeing you down the log
in the CQ QPX CW Contest again.

Best 73, Suad DK6XZ

ARRL DX 2025

I worked the contest for 1 hour only on 15M.Propagation was very poor for
my side so I worked "old men" big pistols as everytime.I used with 2 ele
no rotary dismached beam antenna hi.Hoping better cdx next year.73's

iu1qqw

ARRL SSB CONTEST

IU7KDY

ITALIAN CONTEST CLUB

IV3KNU ARRL SSB 2025

73 to all!!

good contest

"Brand new" IC-765, Softrock Ensemble as panadapter, Ant T2FD. No cluster, no internet, just surfing
progagation.

contes arll ssb 01-02-03-2025

Beautiful Contest, great participation and always great fun. Too bad that
this round was not assisted by good propagation, few openings in 10-15 mt
and very poor in 20 mt, not having yet installed the antennas for the low
bands I participated only on the upper ones trying to log as many states
as possible for the award was. See you at the next edition hoping to
improve in everything. Thanks to all the formidable American stations
that had the patience to connect me. 73' to all by IZ8GUQ Giovanni

I enjoyed the contest.

For Call History File

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I enjoyed the contest.

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

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

We enjoyed the contest.
The condition was quite not good, but it was enjoyable.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

ANT  10M-14mH 4ELE    40M-14mH DIP    80M-13mH DIP
RIG  IC-750A    PWR < 5w

GOOD CONTEST ARIGATO
FTdx5000  5EL

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 on 10m!

I enjoyed the contest.

Poor CONDX but enjoyed last TWO hours under good propagation.

Expected better condx like a week ago, but it was not.
Like CW weekend two weeks ago, condx was worse from here.
But last morning was much better and 10m came to life!
Again mni tnx for picking up a limited antenna station for me and
patience thanks to great ears, guys!
Also nice to say "Hi!" 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

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
10m was Bad .So I QSY 15m.

I entry on a single-op 80m. The condition was very bad.
I QSOed only 11stations in this year.
I QSOed 42stations in 2024 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 CHIA.
That OTH lader transmit point near Foochow-city in CHINA.
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
3791~3805KHz  14KHz width

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
Thank you everyone.

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
Very fun contest. I want to spend much longer period next year.

I enjoyed the contest.

Although the number of stations QSO with was small, I enjoyed with stations on the East Coast of the
United States.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you all stations!

I enjoyed the contest.

This is my favorite contest.
I am very happy to be able to participate in both CW and SSB again this year.
Sometimes it is difficult to enter the shack due to the heavy snowfall.
I am looking forward to communicating with many North American and Canadian friends in the future.
JF9JTS

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Put your comments here.
Use multiple lines if needed.

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

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
I am 73 years old

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

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.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I participated just a little.
I accidentally called K7RI three times, I'm very sorry.

I enjoyed the contest.

FT-817ND DP Yagi

I would like stations other than W and VE to be counted even if they are not multi-channel.

IC-7300+IC-PW1
I enjoy contest

200W
HB9CV 14mH

I enjoyed the contest.

I used 21MHz single band full size dipole antenna approx. 10m height drive 5W.

I joined the contest only on 2nd day.
Condition was not stable, but I had a few QSO.

I enjoyed the contest.

Icom-IC7800 with 1kw-Amplifier(Icom-IC-PW1)
10m-4el-CQ, 15m-4el-CQ, 20m-2el-CQ, 40m-3el-Yagi

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Dear DX station, I look forward to seeing you again next year! 73
FTDX10 out100W 4ele-Yagi,RDP

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

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.
This is my first time participating.it was a lot of fun

I enjoyed the contest.

2023.2.28

I USED POWER LESS THAN 5W.

TNX CONTEST.

thx FB QSO.
I hope see you soon on the air
very fun time this time too

RIG: YAESU FT-1000MP MARK-V
ANT: 12mh Vertical
Operator's License: Japanese 1st class
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 got new states !TU

Thanks to all the staff for their hard work!

I enjoyed this contest.tnx

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for the QSO with America and Canada stations! 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.

As usual, I enjoyed this contest very much.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thanks QSO.
IC-7600 KPA500

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

IC-7300 MV Antenna

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Great conditions, really enjoyed it!

Used an indoor fan dipole and 90 Watts.

GREAT FUN, 10 METERS WAS HOT.

61 years a ham--still not a contester 

ICOM IC-7610, 3 ELEMENT TRI-BAND BEAM AT 33' AND A G5RV AT 30'

ARCNEM - K3NEM

Amateur Radio Club of the National Electronics Museum
ICOM 756 + amp  Butternut 9 Band Vertical
Mentored 14 year old first contact and contest.

Great contest great conditions

Enjoyed some success with 100 watts and a wire (doublet antenna at 35 feet). Many contacts made on
first or second call. That's a tribute to the excellent ops on the other end. Also, I worked China
for ATNO!

Elecraft K3+ with Heil HC4 mic element
attic at 26 ft oriented South, N. East and NN West.

All contacts were made using one indoor antenna.  Due to HOA antenna restrictions, I have mounted a
Cushcraft (not MFJ) A3-S tri-band yagi inside the attic above my garage at about 15 feet above
ground level.  The antenna is fixed in the Northeast (45 degree) direction.

Best 73,
Dave - K4VV

I'm a new ham with a technician license, and on the air less than three months. This was a great
learning experience!

Lots of great operators. Thanks to all for a fun weekend.

Last big contest from this location.
See you from Ohio next year.

Lost the last 1.5 hours due to local lightening storms.

First time operating a SSB contest in many years. Was fun. Probably worked new countries and
hopefully my last Zone (34). HAd to stop early as a storm came in and heard thunder so turned
eveything off. Hope everyone confirms via LoTW.

Station: IC-7610, AL-1200 amp, F12 C33 yagi, 40/80/160 sloper at 85 ft
My pet peeve is stations who do not give their call and just say QRZ.
I waste too much time waiting for an ID to either give a call or to
discover it will be a DUPE. KP2M was the worse offender, only sending
QRZ with no callsign for over 12 minutes then saying it so fast it was
difficult to understand. Second peeve are stations who give their call
too fast. With QSB, QRM, and accents I had to listen for a long time
to get the call of several stations. One DX keeping calling CQ with his
call really fast with no replies. I finally sent YOUR CALL and he
sent it again too fast. I replied YOUR CALL SLOWER and he replied
with his call much slower. I needed him and completed the contact and
then a small pile up or five or so people began calling him. So I wasn't
the only one who could not copy his call. After that I started using the
DX Cluster to check for spots of the stations either not giving their
calls or sending too fast to understand. Normally I enter as not
assisted but I waste too much time trying to copy others calls.
I was disappointed with 20 mtrs. Did not hear much activity. 10 meters
was my best band with 15 next.

Better Than Last Year, 73 de K7KIB

That East Coast wall to Europe was in full force!

Great training event for new contest ops in the club. Lots of fun
too.

Operated casually on Friday night, and Saturday and Sunday mornings for a total
of 7.75 hours. Lots of kind and considerate operators were heard. 

Thanks for the QSOS! 73, Dave

FT-891 @ 100W into a 135 foot EFHW @ 40 feet. N1MM+.

Thanks for the great contest! I refuse to do self
spotting as my dog does that quite well by herself.

Had some bad power line noise that made running a problem.  Not
my favorite mode but you can get plenty of personality.  Had to
run 1.6 Khz filter setting to fight QRM.  Spotting not as good as
on CW.

First time trying this contest.  Casual operator in the evenings.  Glad to make multiple contacts
with Kazakhstan and also Galapagos Islands as ATNOs!  IC-7300 at 100W and G5RV at 30 feet.

Society of Midwest Contesters

3 hours hunt and pounce to see how many countries - done remotely

fun contest 73 Matt ka0pqw

I used a vintage Kenwood TS-820S barefoot into a Windom Dipole.  I purchased the rig on Saturday and
fired it up on Sunday.  It worked great and it was a lot of fun.

WHAT A GREAT CONTEST! I wish I had more chair time.

2025 ARRL DX SSB Contest

I had my first experience with HF during this contest last year after only being licensed for just
over a week.  This year I was able to participate from my own "shack".  While POTA and having
general QSOs is more my style, I enjoyed making contact with several new countries during the
contest.

Awesome first contest!

DX Worldwide contest

All mobile contacts 25w or less

Icom 7300 gutter downspout upside down U

Kenwood TS480SAT HexBeam and AlphaDelta

First DX contest. Rig FT-710 Antenna 41' random wire with a 9:1 balan. Had a blast!

I finished my mobile installation just a couple hours before the contest and worked the entire
contest from the mobile. I had a fantastic time!

I'm only running 100 watts with an endfed wire so my reach was limited but I absolutely loved it
when stations were like "hold up, there's a YL station. YL station only please" 🥰 I had a ton of
fun and lots of great sportsmanship, I just wish I could have spent more time on the air but family
comes first. I'm looking forward to the next contest!!

Limited Antennas overlay

Great contest, absolutely awesome conditions on 10 meters with excellent openings into the Pacific,
China, Japan, Guam, Mariana islands.
 
We lost about 2 1/2 hours of op time at the very beginning when my K4/KPA-500/Kpod stared acting-up.
Very strange behavior that we tracked back to induced RFI on the USB cable to the Kpod. Basically,
every time we transmitted the K4 (not the KPA 1500) would go into tune mode and send a tune command
at the end of every transmission.
 
As is usual, we tried everything else first.  Rebooted the rig multiple times, rebooted the
amplifier, restored the K4's configuration more than once, and even put ferrites on the USB cable to
the Kpod. Apparently RFI was getting into the Kpod which interpreted it as a "Tune" command.  We
determined it was the 10 ft Chinesium braided cable and replaced it with a much shorter one. The
rest of the contest went well except for a few more grey hairs when I imagined the worst, hi hi.
 
KD3RF & KC3NNO
Total hours: 35

My strategy was quality over quantity...Run as an assisted
station, chase the multipliers and knock them off the list as
quick as I can. Not a powerful enough station to run a frequency,
so it was all Search and Pounce, with heavy emphasis on the
pounce. Results were better than expected. I probably ended up
filling in a number of holes in my DXCC list.
I quickly learned the hazards of running Assisted. I ran into numerous
errors on the DX Cluster. I don't know if it's people being
sloppy, careless, or downright malicious, but it definitely
required taking extra time to confirm that the station on the
spot, was definitely the station I was trying to work. If the
Cluster contains this many errors, I can't imagine what their
logs look like.
Still, I was happy to put in a substantial effort on a major contest. It had been a while.

Wire antennas, 100-1000 watts, Yaesu FTdx5000 Had fun and thanks for the contacts.

Great Contest. I believe this is my first time in this one.

I was so excited to be participated in this ARRL International DX SSB.
My thinking is about how to make "HAM's life easier in the time to sending their log data. There
will be great to use ready table for every body of HAMs to fill out their confirmation data
(QSO/QSL). Also, there will be phantastic method to send out to ARRL log data automatically from any
log organization. So, HAMs need to be only to involve in participation of a contest and log their
connection log.
Hope on easier HAM's life in future contest participation.
Thank you in advance for consideration.
73,
KD9WIF

MY FIRST EVER LISTENING IN ON A CONTEST AND LEARNING THE HOW TO HERE.
BRAND NEW SSB RADIO, HAD ONLY BEEN ON VHF AND UHF PREVIOUSLY

Rookie March 2024

Antenna is a 3 band fan dipole 20-15-10M located in my attic.

Very fun and I love DX!

I changed logging programs from HRD to N1MM Logger+ on Saturday afternoon, so some of the early
contest contacts were imported to N1MM Logger.  I tried to modify information imported as an adi
file to match the N1MM program form.  I am hopeful those transferred correctly?  It appears they
were all listed in my entry.
Wow, after I got it all set up, N1MM Logger was terrific, I'll be using that for contests.  Thanks
73 de KF7F chuckw

First time ever contesting and logging. I learned a lot, like using a proper Cabrillo log to make
logging easier. 10 meters was off the chart this weekend, amazing!!!

Thanks for this contest again and for all the DX that dug out my signal. Fantastic opening initial
hours into darkness on 28 and 21 MHz from Virginia to Japan and Hawaii, and my first ever BV contact
in 55 years. Disappointed with 40M compared to my totals from previous 2 years, either propagation
or not as many stations I could find. First 24 hours had a pace which would have broken my personal
best but as usual quickly had difficulty finding new stations, so didn’t finish quite as high as
last year. First 13 stations I tuned at 1030Z Sunday morning were all dupes. So much time wasted on
Sundays just tuning with my Search and Pounce mode. Still finished almost 800,000 SOLP Virginia.
Someday our grandkids may ask “Tell me again about the great SSB Contests when 10 meters was full
of signals over 650 KHz”. Let’s appreciate the peaks of the sunspot cycle that gives us a
bangin’ ten meters (10-10 #5802).

Bands were good

Elecraft K3 on a G5RV at 33ft in an inverted V configuration

15M

IC-7300 at 100 w with RadioWavz 160 short hi power OCFD

First contest & actually my first DX QSOs, Thanks!

meh!....

100 watts. Palomar Engineers Bullet, 71 foot wire in my HOA.

Only worked Sunday Afternoon!

Been of the air for quite some time.  Dropped in for a few hours
to reprime the pump. had fun, so more serious next time.  TNX to
everyone.

Had great fun! 
Had minor issues with my autotuner affecting my autologging, but got it all squared away.
Thanks to all 209 stations I contacted!

I’m enjoying this contest a lot I’m very excited for the next one.

This is my second ARRL DX SSB contest, third DX contest overall.  I had fu
n as I continue to improve in my operating skill and shack.  Limited availa
ble operating time limited my score considerably.    Wasn't able to Run on
JA this year - propagation not as good as last
I was able to break most pile-ups this year (satisfying) given improved ant
enna and legal limit amplifier.   Really enjoy the good will and sportsmans
hip shown by nearly all HAMs encountered in the contest.

Lots of fun - made all nice contacts with my new ARRL EFHW end-fed
dipole, I put together. .  Worked well!  Thanks   My Elmer, thoughtful
gift he gave to me.  Thanks so much Bill!  N6YEL.   SK

This was my first contest, and I wrote my own software for spotting/logging because I'm blind and
wanted something accessible.

Limited time to operate plus a bout with the flu made this
challenging. Conditions were variable from good to mediocre,
especially on the higher bands. Hoping for a better outcome next year.
Go FRC!

Where do they all come from Just about every dx station on 10 to 40
had a hornets net type pile up. Many of the dx having trouble getting
calls due to qrm but mainly deep and rapid QSB. I was hearing a JA on 10
one minute armchair copy and the next down in the noise with a ground
wave type sounding signal the next, skipping over me wrking east coast

Casual operating just for fun.

Watching last Friday's Oval Office harassment of a visiting
president, wiped out my interest for the ARRL DX contest starting
a few hours later. Never imagined I would react in such way, but
the POTUS' (and his aide-de-camp's) evil eyes, disgraceful behavior
and devoid of any respect, really put me off and caused this silent
revolt of mine. Logged ten VE stations and called it a day.

Limited Antenna

A great contest, once again we have enjoyed a wonderful weekend with friends from our Radio Club in
Patagonia. We will see you next time.
73 de Sergio LU7YS!
LU8YE Team Leader

Antennas:

PARTICIPATION GREATLY CURTAILED BY LOSING MY VOICE EARLIER IN THE WEEK
- THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO LISTENED TO MY CROAKING COMING BACK TO
THEM!

FT710 + Acom 1010 600w // Ant : EFHW 80-10m 135ft long

First time I have taken part in this contest, using A 40m EFHW. I
had a go on Saturday and only heard 2 American stations.
I nearly gave up taking part in the contest.
On the Sunday at about 3PM I heard some stations and managed
to make some contacts.

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

Superb conditions on 10m on Sunday afternoon. Approx 3h 10m for 749 QSO's. Please enter 20 and 15
QSO's as checklog.

Fun contest. I enjoyed it! Thanks to those who made this event successful.

Got on to hand out a few contacts with CB mag mount whip on Weber BBQ
grill. Definitely a "limited antenna."

20 watts portable

Had a great time!

Well the antenna rotor broke last week so I was stuck at 225 degrees and had to work EU off the
reverse of the SteppIR.   Was not going to work the contest but Sunday decided to do a 10 meter
entry.   I ended up with 85 Qs and 50 Countries work.   Thanks to all the "pulled me out of the
mud".   -73-  Al

I had fun as a casual OP. 305 Q's and 150 countries.
10 meters was a blast! Thanks to all of the rare ones. 73 Andy

GREAT BAND CONDITIONS

Too many stations not identifying often enough , but overall a great contest!

Ground mounted vertical

Wow. 72 countries on 10 meters. 102 inch CB whip on a pole up 12
feet. A great radio weekend

Due to a busy schedule this weekend, I was only able to operate
sporadically. I found conditions to be good and stations to work
plentiful. I always try to use standard phonetics for my
callsign, November Four India Whiskey. I had to chuckle when an
Irish operator (EI7M) came back to me with November Four Irish
Whiskey. It was the highlight of my Saturday, but then I am
easily amused.

BUTTERNUT HF-9V VERTICAL IS MY ONLY ANTENNA BUT IT PERFORMED FLAWLESSLY ON ALL BANDS!

Limited operating time from Flint Peak, SOTA W6/CT-225, DM04vd.
KX3 and a 10 meter half square. Great to work other 5 watt stations.

Poor Conditions! Crowded Bands! Foot Switch broke! Almost all S&P. Still it was fun! Thanks for all
the contacts!

I have Myasthenia Gravis and it affects my speech. I use N1MM+ logger. I recorded voice messages for
the Function Keys. I used Function Keys almost exclusively. I didn't do great only making 194 Qs but
I made contacts, and that is cool! Thanks to the N1MM+ group for an awesome piece of software!!!

Great activity but for WWA, Europe did not show up until lat Sunday (PST)      Let's do it againg

Sure wish I had some power. I might have doubled my contacts

Worked QRP portable. Was in two different parks for PotA too.
IC-705 JPC-12 battery powered 
This was a fun one for me. 
I was able to finally break 100 countries QRP.

Just had fun and made a few contacts, but it was more than enough
to remind me that I would like to upgrade my antennas for better DX!
Good luck to the serious operators and thanks for putting all these
wonderful places on the air. 73 de N7VAZ

Strictly a low-key S&P effort using 100W and modest antennas.  Worked almost everyone I called on 10
and 15 but 20 meters with only 100W and two elements is tough.

k4d, mercury 3s, kt36xa

2 3/4 hours operating time

I was hoping for some 160M contacts, but low band was not good.  Had fun on 10, 15 and 20 though. 
73's de N9ARX

Conditions ranged from mediocre to excellent, improving as the weekend went on.

Thank you everyone for making this possible. I want to especially
thank my beautiful wife. And my artistic director, Miguel. Thank you
all.

Got some good BIC time. The K index was high Friday and Saturday
nights so no 160 and not much 80M. Things perked up Saturday AM
with JAs on 40M. Saturday was good all day for SA, however as
usual lots of SA was using their bathroom as a shack, plus
claiming 100W with big signals. 10M had guys with wiiiiide
signals- wowza! And what's with never giving your callsign Meh!
After chasing my footswitch Friday night and all day Saturday I
finally taped it down.Sunday 20, 15 and 10 were wall-to-wall
signals, with 10M up too 29 MHz. Only got one good run on 10 but
it was very productive, over 140/hr for two hours. Thanks for the
great ops and go MWA!

Jeep Mobile operation from AZ parks

Thanks to those whom () make the contest possible.  NO2D.

A little part time work on 20M.

RIG YAESU FT-857D
ANT Wideband Folded Dipole

not the best Condx for QRP from Austria to USA.

On Saturday no VE/W signals at all on 28 MHz, but fortunately it
improved for the next day. Cheers/73, Zaba OH1ZAA

Big thanks to OH2BAH for letting me use his QTH

The 20m opening on Sunday evening was wagely reminding me the 1985 contest exactly forty years ago.
I was operating Grand Old Man OH2NB's station CT1BCM in southers Portugal.That time 40 meters opened
on Sunday evening so unbeliveable fine that I had to work 'em all regardless of 40 degree fever
caused by a food poisening. Thanks to that opening I happened to win Europe and that was the
highlite of my now 62 years long ham career. Will participate ARRLDX SSB as long as I live..

FT1000MP MarkV, PA Acom1000 - 1000W, 6el. Y

FT991A+800W amplifier, ANT: 160-40m Inverted L at 10m, 20-10m GP at 8m

On Saturday propagation conditions were worse on the higher bands. But Sunday made up for it. See
you next time, "73" David.

FT1000MP MarkV, PA Acom 1000-1kW, dipol/80,160, 3el./40, 4 el./20

TNX, 73!

I had a lot of fun during the contest, dispite the poor conditions on saturday.
Worked 100% as S/P, tnx everybody to pick my 25W signal's out.
See you next year
Vy 73's
Alan
ON3AR

5w in hamstick on balcony a challenge strugling

Used SD for post-contest logging. Works fine

Spent a lovely few hours during one of my favourite contests.

First time in this contest was nice to work only US stations, but
to bad some stations wo calling US stations don"t listen to the
operator. CU again.

Thanks for this event
73"s
PD2AE from Holland

Thanks for all the contacts people!

73, Mark PD2MS

sunsdr
Antennas: prosistel rotary dipole 10-40

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

FT991A 100W antennas all dipoles.

Really nice contest! The conditions weren't great but I managed to make 150 QSO's anyway.

Elecraft K3 - 400 watts - Hexbeam - Unfortunaly no 80/40mtr this time.

DATE IN TO RADIO: 25/09/2024

LP = LOW POWER = 100WATTS

Falcons DX Group

one rander

PY2MM

My balcony antenna - MFJ-1625

TNX 73!

73!

TNX 73!

Operation in memory of Georgy RN3DNM, who passed away untimely in January this year. Operation in
memory of a great enthusiast of radio and contesting. A man who did a lot for RL3A (RK3AWL) station.

Thank you for everything, friend, we will miss you.

RL3A contest team

TKS FOR NICE CONTEST
PWR_100w, ANT_VERTICAL,DIPOLES

73!

73!

TNX 73

Operating 11 hours Sunday. Nice pile-ups! 73s Janez S51DX.

It is never a surprise - in any contest - that some operators, especially those from a specific
country in the Mediterranean Sea, will get on top of you EVERY time you have good run. To then claim
that they were there for four hours and refuse to move just makes the whole thing even more
embarrassing :-)

Just for fun!

FT 450 D + ampli Ranger 811H pwr 500 w, ant. 3-el Yagi

This is my favorite contest, but I didn't attach too much importance to preparations. Aurora, on the
other hand, prepared perfectly for both the CW and SSB parts 🥲 Very weak first night, my beverage
150m and Hi-Z are too weak for this propagation. Many stations heard me, but I didn't hear them at
all. On Saturday late afternoon, a great opening on 10m, but for a very short time. Even 20m ended
at 20utc, but that's where the best hourly rate of 230qso/h. At Sunday morning nothing happend. Only
in the afternoon did the upper bands open very well, because the Kp index started go down. 20m
worked very well until the end of the contest, constantly 😎

Without any technical problems. MOAS manages the station exceptionally well, it will soon receive
new improvements. I also need to develop low band RX Antennas.

See you in WPX SSB!

Hi,

I would like to be in category Single Operator High Power, not Single Operator 
Unlimited High Power. The same problem  I got with my log from ARRL CW 2025, and I cannot change the
Category. It's not fair to be classified as "Unlimited" (where you can find stations useing !kw or
more) when I only had 500w. How CAN I compete with them?

50W,ant GP 10m balcony

Kenwood TEN-TEC ORION 565
Ant. Twin-Detla MB7PL

This year (March 1-2, 2025) I participated for the 38th time in the ARRL SSB Contest. I used the FT
dx 3000 (100 watts) and dipole antennas suspended 45 meters above the ground between two residential
buildings. I thank the operators from the USA for answering my calls in the contest. 73 Krzysztof
(Kris) SP6DVP-3Z6V
See you soon in the next CQ WPX SSB 2025 competition. I will be participating under my contest
callsign 3Z6V, please contact me 73 3Z6V .
Opole 3.03.2025.

TRx Icom IC-735, ant. wire dipole

100W, 3el. Yagi

FT897 100w, ant Delta loop

2008

YAESU FT-950  ANTENNA
VERTICAL
for 20M. 15M,10M

20W

GUSHCRAFT R7

Had great fun with 10M & 15M wide open!

Radio: Kenwood TS-590SG
Amp:  Elecraft KPA500
Antenna: SIRIO Vertical 10m dipole up 25 feet
Pen + paper log

Proof that a half-blind squirrel with only one good paw can still find a few acorns.

A very first time as a Single Op at F6KOP! a true outatime adventure!
I hope this score will help me reach my 3000pts goal for the WRTC
Plenty of pileups on the higher bands. unfortunately not a signle qso on 160.
Night operation full of surprises with a higher SFI, allowing smooth 20/40m operation trhoughout the
night.
No activity period between 0630-1300z ans the bands were all flat.
Special thanks to all the F6KOP team, in particular Larry F5PBM for his awesome support and to
another little special op for convicing me to stay up all night^^.
CU next year...from NA maybe!

nice conditions to west coast on 10m enjoy ARRL contest !

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

73!

TNX 73!

rw0cv@yandex.ru

TNX/73!

73!

73!

I like this contest. It's always a pleasure to work the fellows in the
US and Canada.

I had a lot of fun

licensed 2022-03-04

Full name: Roderick Murray
Email: va3mzd@gmail.com

QSO Count=475

Strictly S & P single band 10m

Really enjoyed this contest. Conditions were great on 10 and 15 meters and I managed a few atnos!
Always surprises me when my simple inverted v fan dipole squeezed into my small city back yard
allows me to work DX!

Club de radioamateurs de l'Outaouais

Amazing what an almost noise free band can do

I resubmitted my log without the 'limited antennas' designation because I did so
well on 10m with a monoband Yagi-Uda antenna (Mr. Uda never gets the credit he
equally deserves, BTW!) Everything else I have is a vertical or homebrew wire
antenna for HF, but the beam disqualifies me from the 'limited' classification if
I use it, and I used the HECK out of it! :)

Great contest! Thanks, ARRL!
73

used kenwood TS 870 and multiband vertical ,  LIMITED antennas.  and
LIMITED time no more than 24 hours.
10 opened up,  15 was good for while.  20 made QSOs    40 was rough
for me as usual.  I tried. participated.

A few hours chasing DX.

My Dad (WA4BD) sent me a text telling me that the contest was on and the bands were hot, so I
thought that I would give it a go.  I'm mostly a POTA operator, so I hopped in the car, drove to a
local park and did the contest with mag mount antennas.  Not half bad, I'd say.

What  a  great  contest  loolk  forward  to next  year

The ARRL contest was a lot of fun this weekend I got a few with
my vintage IC-740

That was neat. I was recently encouraged by a friend, posting to our new contesting e-mail list, to
look for Section records not tackled or possibly within reach. To that end I checked out 10 & 15 m
on the Friday evening with the thought of trying SOSB. Considered 15 m as a band of choice yet come
Sat. it was 10 m that held my attention. So, first time I've entered as a SOSB, up until now SOAB.
My first contact of the 'test was the Galapagos Islands! Wow! Sat and Sun I got down to business,
and while the long time in the car cost me a sore back after, I seem to have 99 contacts on 10 m.
I'm pretty happy. I noted a few things to help brief new contesters later, and have honed some of my
technique. The 1/4 wave mono-band whips do well enough, for now, esp. at the upper HF bands. I ran
across some new-to-me prefixes here and there. Thank you to all who offered contacts. 73

Operating 10m only because a windstorm took down my multiband wire, I had to decide when to head
outside and hand-rotate the Moxon beam. First afternoon I switched from Europe to the south too late
and the SA and Caribbean couldn't hear my QRP, but on Sunday I caught them.

Another great week at Harbour Rock, Turks & Caicos for returning team Wayne, KU4V, Jim, K4QPL and
Eric, NR4O with Mike,W9RE, here for the first time but fitting in with the team, the station and the
contest like the pro he is. We were honored to have him with us and we all learned some new skills
from him, especially on rounding up mults that can make such a huge difference to the final score.
We were still behind our 2023 record score, but close enough to be very proud of the team and the
results.
The low bands were not very good this year with local static crashes making copy extremely
difficult, even from stations who could copy our low power station. Station setup was basically
unchanged from CQ WW. 40M was considerably below our 2023 total.
Everything performed as it should except for losing an hour of operating time in the  0900 hour
Saturday night when Jim offered the others much needed sleep by taking the late shift single-handed
and dozing off himself when activity dropped to about zero. Good thing the radio wasn't on CQ-Repeat
at the time! 
Despite the ribbing, I think the crew was sharper on Sunday from the rest and had some really
impressive second day results.
Thanks to all for the Q's and helping us by moving to attempt needed mults and being patient when
noise made copy here very difficult.
73,
Jim, K4QPL
Wayne, KU4V
Eric, NR4O
Mike, W9RE

Some interesting PROP. this year.  Skipping over most of Europe and
working Russia   Also , Oceania was sparse   Was happy with my
results what with the limited time I had to work the contest this
year. Also , seems a lot of the regulars were missing this year.

A solid effort from the SLU ARC team!

President KK8C and VP KF0NXH held the fort down for Friday night. Saturday was lackluster in the
morning as the team was enjoying the festivities of St. Louis Mardi Gras. KK8C was back on Saturday
evening post-dinner. Thomas (unlicensed) took a crack at working some EU and UA DX. Both retired for
the night having just under 100k points. Waking up early to campus construction, he came back to the
shack in the early hours to chase EU on 10/15. VP KF0NXK joined in the afternoon to provide support
until the end at 2359z. Overall a solid effort and a good time for all at SLU ARC.

Limited antennas. Wire dipoles only. All under 50'

Fun weekend! Thanks to the DX stations for all the Q's.  Conditions from here seemed to improve
throughout the weekend.  73, Steve

Great band conditions Sunday!

Antenna for 160m: Lazy-H vertical, top at 50 ft.
Antenna for 10-80m: Inverted V, top at 45 ft.

Thank you for the contacts. 15M was in very good shape. Thanks to the ARRL for sponsoring the
contest and processing the logs. 73, Dan - W1QK

Operating on generator power at a checkpoint for the Can-Am Dog Sled Races,
deep in the North Maine Woods.

I'm not much of a contester, but I had a blast with this one!  Just wish I could've put more time
into it, but there's always next year.  Band conditions were great!

Thanks to everyone for making this a fun & interesting contest.
Lots of activity & 10M was wide open for most of the contest.


Radio: IC-7300
Power: 100W
Ant  : 3 element@20ft

Thanks,
Chuck, W2CSI
ncphotos@gmail.com

Thank you to all the big DX stations for picking barefoot, backyard USA ops like me up! Love seeing
the bands so busy, especially hearing all the DX on 40m at night. 

73 de W2DON

Great to hear everyone from around the world, on the air working together, to make this event a
success for all.  Thanks as always to ARRL for making this happen.  The W2NTN operation for this
event was single operator, about half the contest period, with the amplifier on, using only a dipole
antenna.  Lots of fun!

I've been a ham since 1957, so I've seen the highs and lows of HF propagation. The conditions on 15
meters on the second day were startling. In 39 minutes with 90 watts and a beam that is stuck
pointing to Europe, I worked Europe from Portugal to Finland, Madeira Island in Africa, more than
half of the Caribbean Islands, and two Japanese stations. Great fun. Great contest.

No War and Peace novel or excuses here. Just a Thanks to JP
(W2XX), Lou (W1QJ), Mike (N2TX) and Justin (KN4BBO)for making the
trip to Long Island and making this a Fun and memorable event.
Also, thanks to all for the contacts!
N2TX 1/5 Frankford Radio Club
KD2RD 1/5 Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Limited time with multiple family birthdays.  Operated at NT3V as
well.  Seemed bands not great when operating this weekend.

1st Licenced KQ4ALH May 17 2022

10m

Icom 7600  DX Commander

Thye sunspots were kind. The deficiencies in my antenna system were had workarounds. The amp decided
it was tired midway, but I actually made 300 contacts!

Devils for life

80 Watts and a wire! I love breaking pile-ups with low power! Work smarter, not harder!

Rig: IC7300 @ 100W
Antenna: Homemade EFHW 80-10
Tuner: MFJ 949F
Location: Washougal, WA "The Gateway to the Gorge"
First DX Contest - A Big THANK YOU to all the contacts made!
73 - W7SKW

Limited Antennas Overlay

12 less Contacts &15 fewer Mults than 2024

Glad to be heard with wires!

Only S/P. 100w 2 el. Moxon.  Great propagation!

The bands were in pretty good shape the whole contest. 20 meters was absolutely packed on Sunday.
Highlight for me was working Guam, Kenya and Namibia and working Japan on 40 meters for the first
time. I feeI I did well considering I only have 100 watts and a dipole up 30ft!

All Bands were wide open! Had a great time!

I had a good time, it was hard working through the pileups at times but it all worked out. I knocked
out allot of countries this contest!

Another contest with no tower and only a vertical antenna to compete with.  I have a buyer for my
house and I found a new QTH on over 1/2 acre to put my tower back up.  I hope both deals happen!!!

Operated remote from Tokyo, Japan

I have been fortunate to participate in both the ARRL DX CW and ARRK
DX SSB contests for over 50 years.  For the past several years, I have
been focusing on single band efforts for these events, typically on 10
Meters, typically running QRP.   25 years ago, I had done some low
band effort on 40 Meters CW and SSB with the latter being split
operation.   I even did 80 Meter CW but never did 80 Meter SSB.   Part
of the reason was my house was on a small lot and putting up an 80
Meter antenna required some fancy arranging in the yard.   So
recently, I was able to put an L-shape antenna on my property for 80
Meters and it loaded up pretty good,  So, for the CW portion of the
contest, I worked 80 Meters and was debating between operating on
either 80 or 10 Meters for the SSB portion of the contest.  I chose to
do 80 Meter SSB as I had a lot of things going on during the day, so I
could do the band at night for DX.

I will tell you that the SSB portion of 80 Meters is a strange band to
work DX on.   You have many US stations rag chewing about inane
subject matters during the nighttime hours on 80 Meters and it was a
challenge to locate and dig out the weaker DX signals that were
situated between these louder stateside stations.   I think that it
was easier with a different band plan on 80 Meters 25 years ago where
split frequency operation was the rule.  I am amazed at how well the
DX stations were able to hear my 100 Watt signal.  It was fun to try a
new band for the contest!

Bands were open! I wish the stations with the pileup would ID clearly and more frequently. Spent too
much time waiting to hear their callsign. Lots of fun anyway.

After participating on and off over the weekend, it will nice not having to listen to fast spoken,
almost shouted call signs and overdriven audio from way too many operators.

My third contest after 25 years off the air. Pen and paper logging and casual (not "all-out")
effort. (I missed at least ten to 11 hours out of the contest period - maybe even a little more, for
meals, sleep and the Bermuda Net.) Limited Antenna overlay - single EFHW at 30 feet was surprisingly
effective.

Hermes Lite or Flex6300, Hamstick or telescope vert, spotting

This was fun!

fIRST hf PHONE CONTEST-LOTS OF ROOM TO IMPROVE.

I hate cabrillo format

This was my first long contest in nearly 10 years. My observations. The Dx stations running stations
are slow to give their callsign. NA stations don't seem to listen to the DX stations operting
technique and call while they are trying to complete a contact, they just keep calling. I had a good
time, but my one wire antenna seemed to have a problem after some high winds came through and I had
to constantly change my tuner adjustments from their normal settings. I have plenty of antenna work
to get done once the snow melts, so this is just one more item to be worked on.

Band conditions on 10M were excellent, with generally polite operation. The bad operation came from
some DX stations not identifying themselves properly. A few of them worked more than 10 stations in
a row by only asking QRZ after each QSO. That should be penalized! I enjoyed the contest anyway!!

Great contest as always!  The were good and everyone played
nicely.  Thanks to all.

Pretty good conditions on 10 meters and this year heard many
stations going on 100 watts.

This was a semi-serious WQ6X QRP operation from Ramona Ca.
The weekend was littered with Space-WX noise and yet there was amazing
10m & 15m openings to EU again this weekend.  Then again, it seemed that
JA participation was WaY down.

My biggest beef in this contest is that operators need to STFD.  Slow DOWN.
Weird accents, polar flutter and junky Space-Wx effects can chop intelligibility
out of hasty voices.  The time you save by speaking too fast is time wasted when
your repeat-rate goes up, or nobody calls in because we can't understand you.
This weekend I re-recorded two WQ6X ID memories (FKEY-4)saying my call S-L-O-W-L-Y.
Doing that reduced the number of callsign repeats by about 80%.

My other beef is when a station says "WQ6" or "Q6X" and then instead decides
to work KB6LID who boomed in on top of me - wassup with that  Just because we
are weak is no reason to move on.  The REAL answer is to tell others to STFU!

Read all about this gig in an upcoming Blog: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com

End-fed wire antenna less than 20 feet above ground

2nd SSB Contest, Still a rookie

Antennas:

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

13 YRS, YAESU FT-710 50W ANT 1/4 GP, JUST FOR FUN 73!

WIRE ANTENNA 6 METERS HEIGHT AND BUDDIPOLE ANTENNA.

Awful contitions from Nort America !!!