2010 CTDXCC CQ World Wide WPX Contest, CW
Call Station Ops Category QSOs Mults Score
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N5DO N5DO N5DO SOAB QP 631 277 309,409
WT5R W5ZL W5ZL SOAB QP 369 197 114,063
N5AW N5AW N5AW SOAB LP 517 287 280,686
KX5A K5XA K5XA SOAB LP 300 188 80,276
K3TD K3TD K3TD SOAB LP 107 79 13,114
K5WA K5WA K5WA SOAB HP 1993 638 2,520,100
WC5T W5KFT K5PI SOAB HP 2139 599 2,316,333
NQ5K W5ASP NQ5K SOAB HP 910 307 349,366
KM4DR KM4DR KM4DR SOAB HP 661 262 208,028
NT5C N3BB N3BB SOAB HP 238 133 44,208
K5IID K5IID K5IID SOAB LP A TS 516 272 259,760
AC4CA AC4CA AC4CA SOAB HP A 946 390 682,500
KT2Z K5NA K5NA SOSB 160 176 109 31,283
NQ5D K5NZ K5NZ SOSB 20 642 336 311,202
K5DU K5DU K5DU SOSB 10 535 258 167,700
W5GAI W5GAI W5GAI SOSB 10 192 130 36,010
W5VX W5VX W5VX SOSB 10 153 109 24,089
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"WPX is FUN! Oh, to have more time and some aluminum in the air!" - K3TD
"Saturday conditions seemed pretty lackluster, and I was having a lot of
trouble being heard. Virtually no Europeans. I was actually surprised at
how well ("well" is a relative term) I was getting out on 40 meters, as it
got later on Saturday night. I ran out of gas around 1:00 AM local time,
just about the time people were starting to come back to me on the first
call. On Sunday, things seemed to perk up a bit. It was very nice to see
some action on 10 meters." - W5ZL
"I thought that I would spend more time on this contest, but the conditions
were lousy and and my granddaughter had a piano recital; I lost interest,
especially after starting several hours late. I did work some stuff in Europe
with good signals, but the opening didn't last. I heard K5DU banging away and
working stuff that I couldn't hear." - W5VX
"12.8 QSOs per hour - woohoo!" - W5GAI
"This was my first serious attempt of running N1MM in the CW mode. It was
a real learning experience, but I managed to get in some practice. I ran
between 200 and 600 watts, depending upon the band. I utilized a half square
for 20 meters and a 389 foot long wire for the remaining bands. Thanks to
K5XA for getting me back into contesting. It was fun." - KM4DR
"I didn't get to spend as much time in the contest as I had hoped, but I
learned more about N1MM, and had a little fun trying to figure out how to
drive the K3 sub-receiver with the logging software. I think what's said is
correct - learn how to use one VFO (or radio) before you go on to two!
Most of my contacts were while I was calling CQ, which was a surprise to me.
Despite running low power, I was pretty much able to hold my frequencies rather
low in the bands that I was in. This may have been because conditions were
not terrific, and I didn't find the bands to be very crowded, at least while
I was on." - K5XA
"My primary goal was testing hardware and software for WRTC. I used two
networked computers for logging - one on each radio. It is actually a
pretty good setup for SO2R. There were rather odd conditions - 10 meters
and 15 meters benefited from E skip. It was good to work some Europeans on
15 meters but no Japanese." - N5AW
"It was a long and noisy weekend for me while doing a single-band effort on
160 meters. Before the contest, I didn't do a good job of verifying the
status of my Beverage antennas. I had taken 6 of them down for summer mowing
and had only 4 remaining up. On Friday night, I found that only one of the
remaining beverages, the ENE beverage, was actually working correctly. The
NE didn't work at all, and the other two worked only marginally. On Saturday
during the day, I went out to the field and tried to fix them all.
But one of them, the SE, failed again sometime during the second night.
Spending much of the day working in the 96°F heat and then trying to
stay up again all night was a problem. I was very tired the second night
and struggled to stay awake. The result, however, was a new W5 record on
160 meters, breaking a 25-year-old record set by K5UR. I could have done a
little better this weekend had I been more prepared for the contest.
But that's the way things go sometimes." - K5NA
"It was a fun weekend, even with the disturbed conditions. 10 meters was
in surprisingly good condition, but activity was low there. This was my
first attempt at QRP in this contest. I'm sure it will not be my last QRP
effort. Thanks to K5ZD and others for the searchable online results for
this contest. It adds to the fun by being able to see where you stand
compared to others in previous contests. I printed out the results for W5,
and kept track as I climbed up the ladder." - N5DO
"We had thunderstorms on Friday and Saturday nights, so I'm sure my accuracy
on 40 meters will suffer. Sunday morning sure had some nice Japanese runs
that I have not heard in a while. I finally got my control system running
well enough to use it in a contest, and it felt really solid. Having a
single touch screen for all switching functions is nice, but the effort I
put into making a solid RF path really showed the most benefit to me.
Everything worked well and held together as expected. That is a change from
my previous attempts when coax and switches were scattered all over the place."
- K5WA
"On Sunday afternoon, I called CQ on twenty meters and immediately had a huge
'fresh meat' pile up, apparently from a packet spot. Everyone was exactly on
the same frequency and I spent the first twenty minutes trying to separate one
or two letters. There were stretches of ten minutes at a time when everyone was
zero-beat and I had to pick off the stations on the edges, or had to go back to
the packet spot pile and ask for one or two letters, and usually had five
stations with none of those letters call. Not a great experience for high level
operating. But it was fun, and it underscored the changes that packet makes for
the poor souls at the other end of the pile up." - N3BB
"I had a ball. I was suprised and amazed at 10 meters both days... Only North
America and South America, with very few exceptions, but still fun.
I was able to work stations that I could hardly hear. I was surprised they
heard me! I can't wait until next year." - K5IID
"I had a crazy week and just couldn't get up for a full-time effort. I
operated about 29 hours. 10 meters was fun. I worked about a half dozen
Europeans on 15 meters." - K5PI
"Conditions were terrible. I copied either your call or your sequence number
but probably not both. I also did something terrible to the computer and lost
about 10 QSOs and several prefixes. Other than that it was good." - K5DU
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