The final results of last year 2023 CQ World Wide DX Contest SSB have been announced.
Awards available for download.
The equipment at this time was IC-7700 (100W), 20m high Nagara 20/15m band Yagi T2-5DX(20mH), 15m band working with 5 elements.
Previously, the boom length was about 8m with 4 elements, and the T2-5DX is just under 12m with 5 elements. I think this difference was well reflected in the results.
But this season, I sifted to the 10m band with 6elements Yagi.
CQ WPX Contest review by JA6WFM.
Over the weekend, I participated in the CQ WPX SSB contest on a 10m band.
The contest started at 00:00 UTC at 9:00 in the morning Japan time. Normally, the North American area is open and be able to hear a lot of strong signals. It was less.
I quickly exhausted all the North American stations I could hear and started running, but I was rarely called.
Fortunately, I could hear a lot of nearby stations belonging to Oceania, such as YB and DU, so I gave up trying to QSO with North America and turned my antenna from northeast to southwest to accumulate points.
At around 3:00 pm Japan time, 06UTC, QSO time with Europe will begin. A lot of stations were heard compared to morning North America and conditions. This continued until 12 UTC around 9:00 pm Japan time, and I was able to accumulate more points.
The second day was much the same as the first day. On Monday morning Japan time, the A index was down, so I was hoping for an opening in the North American direction towards the end of the season, but it only recovered a little from the first day, and I wasn't able to accumulate points as usual.
That said, compared to last year's conditions, this year's conditions were much better and I was able to achieve my target score.
Hiro.
Audio review https://youtu.be/3wfqIMmuAtw
IC-7700(100W) 6ele Yagi N1MM
Time / QSO Zone
Running QSO(True) and S&P(False)
On the weekend, I participated in the Hungarian DX Contest on multi-band.
I started at 21:00 JST/12:00 UTC on 15m band and did a few contacts, then early the next morning I did a dozen stations on 40m band and hoped for Europe in the afternoon.
I restarted to operate on 15m band at around 15:00JST/06:00 UTC, and looking at the band scope on 10m band, I could see that the number of signals was gradually increasing and it was getting busier. I shifted to SO2R at this point. At the peak of conditions, the 10m band was busier than the 15m band. I focused on 10m band until the evening, then returned to 15m band and continued SO2R operations with 10m band as conditions began to drop.
One hour before the end of the contest, at 8:00 p.m. Japan time, I was sitting by the window of the shack and felt a chill in half of my body due to the ineffective heating. It might have been the effect of an approaching cold air mass.
The 10-meter band was also gradually losing condition, so I finished here.
Next is ARRL International DX CW in February, and WPX RTTY before that.
IC-7700(100W) IC-7610 7MHzRDP, 21MHz5ele, 28MHzHB9CV
N1MM, u2R for SO2R
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Have fun this year with the Contesting.
Received a nice award early in the New Year.
This weekend I participated in the JIDX Japan International DX Contest Phone on the 15m band with 100W.
The 10m band seemed to be busy at the start time of 16JST/07UTC. In the first hour after the start, I was able to make 49 QSOs mainly in zones 14 and 15. The first day ended here.
The next morning around 06JST/21UTC, North America, including Zone 5, was starting to open up. There were only a limited number of stations that made Run in North America, so I started as Run, Zone3,4,5 started calling me little by little and peaked around 08JST/23UTC, where I was able to make some 50QSO/hour contacts.
I wasn't expecting much, as there hadn't been much participation from North America in recent years. However, with improving conditions, has there been a slight increase in North American participation? From Kyushu ( zone JA6 ), located at the western end of the Japanese archipelago, the North American stations heard moved from east to west and continued until about 11 JST/02UTC.
From here until late evening, we expected to hear BY/YB/DU from neighboring areas, but there seemed to be little participation. In the afternoon, Europe began to be heard again. Conditions may not have been that bad, especially since zone 14, which is further inland from Europe from Japan, was also heard well. Perhaps because I had already communicated to some extent on the first day, I was not able to hear this opening earlier than the first day.
At the end of the day, I was able to make 262 QSOs on the 15m low power band, so I think I did well. Next up will be WW/CW.
Articulo en español
Este fin de semana he participado en el JIDX Japan International DX Contest Phone en la banda de 15m con 100W.
La banda de 10m parecía estar ocupada a la hora de inicio de 16JST/07UTC. En la primera hora después del comienzo, pude hacer 49 QSOs principalmente en las zonas 14 y 15. El primer día terminó aquí.
A la mañana siguiente, hacia las 06JST/21UTC, América del Norte, incluida la Zona 5, comenzaba a abrirse. Sólo había un número limitado de estaciones que hicieron Run en Norteamérica, así que empecé como Run, la Zona3,4,5 empezó a llamarme poco a poco y alcanzó su punto máximo en la zona 08JST/23UTC, donde pude hacer unos contactos de 50QSO/hora.
No esperaba mucho, ya que no había habido mucha participación de Norteamérica en los últimos años. Sin embargo, con el mejoramiento de las condiciones, ¿ha habido un ligero aumento de la participación de Norteamérica? Desde Kyushu, situada en el extremo occidental del archipiélago japonés, las estaciones norteamericanas escuchadas se desplazaron de este a oeste y continuaron hasta aproximadamente las 11 JST/02UTC.
A partir de aquí y hasta la noche, esperábamos escuchar BY/YB/DU de las zonas vecinas, pero parecía que había poca participación. Por la tarde, se empezó a escuchar de nuevo a Europa. Es posible que las condiciones no hayan sido tan malas, sobre todo porque la zona 14, que se encuentra más adentro de Europa desde Japón, también se escuchó bien. Tal vez porque ya me había comunicado en cierta medida el primer día, no pude escuchar esta apertura antes que el primer día.
Al final del día, pude hacer 262 QSOs en la banda de 15m de baja potencia, así que creo que lo hice bien. El siguiente será WW/CW.
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IC-7600 20/15m 5ele Yagi N1MM with Voice memory
