World Wide Digi DX Contest
World Wide Digi DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| JA1IE | SO LP 15M | I very enjoyed DIGI-Contest |
| JA1WTO | SO LP ALL | bad Condition. but Enjoy Contest |
| JA6CVR | SO LP ALL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JA6VQA | SO HP 20M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JA6VZB | SO QRP 10M | Condition is getting better, so I enjoyed the last season of. cycle-24 |
| JA8DKJ | SO HP 20M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JA9EJG | SO LP ALL | I enjoyed the contest. TNX FER QSOs 73 |
| JE0WCQ | SO QRP 20M | Condx was bad |
| JE5HTN | SO LP 15M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JF3DCH | SO LP ALL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JF6MGC | SO QRP 40M | Thanks!!!!!!!! |
| JH0WJE | SO LP ALL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JH0WJF | SO HP 15M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JH1FNU | SO HP 20M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JH1JJV | SO LP 15M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JH1VIX | SO QRP ALL | I enjoyed the contest.,Thank You |
| JH3DMQ | SO QRP 40M | Rig: FTdx-101DM ANT: 23mH V-DP(CD-330V) OATH: I swer PWR down QRP 5W |
| JH4UYB | MSH | Great Contest ! |
| JH6QIL | SO LP ALL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JH7UJU | SO QRP ALL | FT-817ND EH DP Yagi LW |
| JH8CXW | SO LP 15M | ANT PWR 50W |
| JI2IXA | SO LP ALL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JJ1IMG | SO HP ALL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JJ1SSY | Checklog | very hot in tokyo even in the midnight |
| JJ1XQU | SO LP 15M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JK1HIY | SO LP ALL | Contest is fun! ,I'm amazed at how far away I can communicate using FT8 |
| JL1WRV | SO LP 20M | I enjoyed the contest |
| JL3ZHU | MSL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JP7TIT | SO LP ALL | I enjoyed the contest |
| JR2EKD | SO QRP 15M | I enjoyed the contest by QRP |
| JR3GPP | SO LP 40M | Thank you for listening to my weak signal !! |
| K1DC | SO LP ALL | This time out it was just me and my ?100 watts and a wire? pea shooter station. Add to that a Murphy running rampant through the clover and you have the makings for a frustrating weekend. This was my first real attempt at SO2R contest operation. FT* is a near-perfect match for this style as it has well defined intervals for TX and RX. My Flex-6600 made it dead easy to setup two slices on two antennas feeding N1MM configured for SO2R. I had tested this setup a few times and found it worked well. Well, that was then. It wasn't long before Murphy arrived. It was subtle things. N1MM would be logging fine, but the clock stopped updating... and the online scoreboard stopped updating... the info window stopped updating... and JTAlert started adding 6 character grid IDs. ARGH! Also, the N1MM - WSJT-X connection window turned red as if WSJTX had crashed - it had not. Seeing that the log was being recorded I pressed on. After a time, N1MM become unresponsive and I restarted the PC. It would be fine for a short while but eventually the symptoms would return. UGH! Rinse/Repeat. FT4 was quite active this time out which made for a much more enjoyable rate. However I quickly discovered the shortcomings of my pea shooter station I heard lots of people but many did not hear me. Perhaps I could replace signal strength with BIC time? After a lackluster 13hr shift I opted for some sleep. Back at it at ~10Z for a final push to the end. 40M FT4 was a real surprise - lots of activity and 77 Qs. The other FT4 bands were active but not as productive. 10M was a complete bust as has been the pattern of late. 20 & 15M FT8 were the money spots with ~140 Qs each. A few highlights were VU2DX, ZP4MNB, 2 x ZLs, TI1M (for obvious reasons), DV1K, BI4KYT, and 9J2FI. Clearly I have some troubleshooting to do ? and perhaps some antenna work. Hey, if it were easy everyone could do it! 73 & thanks for the Qs! |
| K1TTW | SO QRP ALL | I assumed good propagation would be available so I went with QRP and I wasn't disappointed! |
| K5LD | SO LP ALL | Operated just a short time in this one, but had a greet time. Looking forward to the next one |
| K6OK | UH | Updated submittal. Previous one had wrong category-transmitter |
| K7QA | SO HP ALL | Almost spectacular condx on all bands except 160 with lots of activity. SFI and SN well over 200. My first attempt in this 5 year old evolving contest. I had planned to operate only a few hours looking for interesting DX but got sucked into the addictive radio contest vortex. Too many purists and competitive contesters consider FT a garbage mode and ignore it. It's like watching the grass grow or the paint dry they say. FT8 is painfully slow but FT4 keeps the rate reasonable. I do FT some, mainly because of its very impressive technology and presence of more rare DX. For most seasoned operators, the mode is supposed to be a low power weak signal experience, so I ran 100 watts for the first 9 hours on the high bands. Not a peep seen or heard on 10 but 15 and 20 were wall to wall. After dinner, it was hard to maintain a run tone freq with low power and so much QRM, plus too many callers on my freq and busted exchanges. So I decided to add 6dB. That helped make it more interesting working almost everything I saw, but I broke the low power golden rule for FT. 15 stayed open to midnight local and 20 well past then. So we missed the earlier 40 EU opening. The FT4 sub-bands were well behaved but got cleaned out rather quickly so we had to watch more paint dry on FT8. About half the stations Q'd there did not know a contest was on and sent only a signal report. The call history file helped there some but we did have to ask for grid squares too often. The WW Digi website has an excellent Tip Sheet on how best to run in this event and deal with that issue: https://ww-digi.com/operating.htm. For any digi contest, update WSJT-X to the current version V2.7.0 so logging and exchange formatting are correct. Along with the current version of N1MM+ logging, it worked pretty well for me except for not highlighting dupes. As this contest evolves and continues to work out various rules changes and software/logging issues, it's going to keep growing and become hugely popular. It seems most new hams coming into the hobby prefer either PTT or FT8. I predict it will rival the CQ and ARRL majors in just a few years. JMHO |
| K9SAT | SO LP ALL | Band conditions were ok. I was disappointed in not seeing any FT4 activity on ten meters. No DX on 40 at nighttime, but 15 and 20 were open. Made some contacts into some grids that I never had before on 15 when no one was on, but bands were open into the Indian Ocean area. India itself remains out of reach for me. Thanks for the Q's. 73s |
| KB3Z | SO LP ALL | KB3Z |
| KC1NHE | SO LP ALL | THANK YOU FOR THE CONTEST AND 73 |
| KI6BTY | SO HP ALL | Fun contest, didn't have much time to participate but enjoyed it |
| KS7T | SO LP ALL | Lots of activity world wide despite poor condx. Tnx to 9J2FI for making my day with a new FT8 Country. They are getting hard to come by. Could not work any of the many YB stns that were seen hr in MT on 40, but the VKs only 100 mi. away were no problem ? |
| KV4ZY | SO LP ALL | Casual operating just for fun. :) |
| KW6S | SO HP ALL | The contest went well, although using two radios didn't add much value with my small city lot station. My antennas are a three element tribander at 50 feet, and a sloping W3DZZ half-dipole for 80M and 40M. Radio 1 covered 80M and 20M, and Radio 2 covered 40M, 15M, and 10M, interlocked with one radio in each time slot. Software is two instances of WSJT-X 2.70, logging to DXLabs Dxkeeper, then exported to N1MM for scoring after the contest. All contacts were FT8, mostly in ???Contest??? mode |
| KZ5DX | SO HP 80M | Had a few hours to play on 80m for baseline score in Mississippi |
| M0UDD | SO HP 20M | FT710 , Ant : Delta Loop . Good contest, enjoyed it all |
| MM/HA0DFV | SO LP ALL | Thanks for the contest! |
| N3QE | UL | Making use of the new SINGLE-UNLIMITED category - I had no lockout relay between my two radios on different bands, and I depended on my logger to stop me from putting both radios on the same band. I found it useful to use FT4 on a band with very high rate while running FT8 on a band where I was going for higher-point value more distant QSOs. This wouldn't have been possible under usual Single-op rules, but SINGLE-UNLIMITED allows it.S |
| N3RTW | SO LP ALL | The less said, the better |
| N4IW | SO LP ALL | My Saturday this weekend was unusually wide open for playing radio. I started out with a goal to beat last year, which I did. The contest started out with a bang when I worked Australia and India back-to-back on 20 meters. India was an ATNO, so that was cool! I got another VU on 15 meters later. I used the Online Scoreboard as my motivation when things got slow, or I started zoning out, which can easily happen to me with FT4/FT8. It was tough going up against so many stations running high power. A great time was had by all! |
| N5SMQ | SO LP ALL | Had antenna issue and had to stop. Hoppefully next year!!! |