2002 CTDXCC CQ World Wide DX Operations
CQWW CW Category QSOs Zones Countries Score
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N5TW SO AB QP 621 107 249 609,828
N5AW SO AB LP 1433 151 485 2,545,272
W5KFT (K5PI, op.) SO AB HP 2010 147 429 3,074,112
NA4M SO AB HP A 170 55 159 102,720
N3BB ??? ??? ?? ??? ??,???
W5WC (@ AD5LW) MS AB LP 366 82 185 258,990
W5WC ops: AD5LW, W5WC
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"It will be interesting to check on conditions - they seemed OK. Worse,
and QRP is very tough but not ideal either. But it was fun - especially
finding a rare DX station before the packet cluster spots alerted the high
power folks. I more than doubled my year 2000 score, and came close to
making my 2001 score with more mults and fewer QSOs. Thanks to all those
stations with good ears!" - N5TW
"Given deed restrictions at Bob AD5LW's place and a well-honed slacker
attitude dating back to the late '50s when we started doing stuff like
this together, we used stealth dipoles for 10-40 (all fed by one piece of
RG-58) tied up under the eave of Bob's house and drooping down to some
handy cedar tree limbs below. For 80, we ran coax out to his Suburban in
the driveway with a big mag-mount and a Bug Ketcher with a 102" whip on
top (we didn't figure out to do the Bug Ketcher until late Sunday afternoon
and picked up a couple of quick mults to add to our already impressive
score). We beat last year's score by 258,990 points. All in all, another
successful weekend." - W5WC
"A personal best for this contest. Conditions were pretty good all day
Saturday and Sunday morning until about 1700 UTC. Then, propagation really
shut down. The Europeans that were coming through were weak and about the
same strength regardless of where the beam was pointed. I struggled to make
a dozen contacts some hours on Sunday afternoon." - N5AW
"Conditions on 40 were terrific with super long path on Sunday morning -
better than Saturday morning. Since I was S&Ping, I called CQ to 40 meter
long path for thirty minutes each morning, and scanned the (40 meter) band
for CQers. I worked UN7L, JT1CO (scatter path-270 degrees,) UA3, RW2, RA1,
VU2PAI, AT0N, and OH5 among others. There were some good ones in southern
Asia, and also northern Europe. UA0AB in Zone 18 was loud over the pole.
The bands were full of mults - the magic of CQWW!" - N3BB
"I got on for a few S&P hours here and there. Conditions seemed pretty good
overall, except 80 meters seemed better Friday night than Saturday." - NA4M
"It looks like I missed lots of DXpedition mults, probably because
I'm more familiar with ARRL DX (and spoiled on packet, I guess). I tended
to pass by the big DXpedition pileups, thinking I'd catch them during
the second half of the contest when they were begging. Well . . . the
pileups never let up. I had good success busting them, but I couldn't
make up for all the ones I'd passed by earlier." - K5PI
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