World Wide Digi DX Contest
World Wide Digi DX Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| N4BP | SO HP 20M | 2019 WW Digi (FT4/FT8) Contest |
| N4WE | SO LP ALL | This is a checklog. I don't see any easy way to determine QSO points |
| N6HI | SO QRP 20M | Ran QRP, ONE HALF WATT to a 20 Foot End Fed Wire. Band conditions were ... let's say ... as expected ... This was a really interesting and DIFFERENT contest. Contest exchanges went very fast on the FT4 mode. I found this to be a very relaxing and 'easy' contest to operate. I made the first two contacts from my station desk, the rest by remoting in from my cell phone to control my 1/2W QRP station at home. THANKS to all for the contacts and the fun of working a contest from my cell phone. GO ARIZONA OUTLAWS! 73 John N6HI |
| N6IC | SO HP ALL | I hope next year there is more software for keeping track of all the multipliers... better propagation.... still had lots of fun |
| N6NG | SO HP ALL | 400W and R7 Vertical.. Part time Good Luck to NCCC |
| N7EPD | SO HP 20M | Had low expectations of people being in contest mode but to my surprise it seemed like 98% were. If only the VHF contest crowd could read the rules and instructions as well- there are about 1/3 who still try to run regular FT8/4 in a VHF contest! Going great until a Japanese station was running EU VHF Contest mode- WOW what a way to get into my WSJT config and screw it up! Getting into Europe even with high power was tough but the K index of 3-4 wasn't helping. Really slow going at times. Interesting novelty contest |
| N7ZZ | SO LP ALL | first ww digi contest |
| N8GU | SO LP 20M | First time in WW-digi contest - challenging |
| N8TCP | SO LP ALL | Had fun for the little time I had. Looking forward to doing it again |
| N8URE | SO QRP ALL | RS-HFIQ radio with indoor 20m full-wave loop antenna |
| N9OK | SO LP ALL | Many comms error with my K3 |
| NA2NY | SO LP ALL | Not very good conditions |
| NC3O | SO LP ALL | Nice Contest. Thanks for organizing it! |
| NC6K | SO LP ALL | I only got on for about a half-hour to see if I could get my setup working in contest mode |
| NG7M | SO HP ALL | I gave this a good college try... Max NG7M |
| NH7U | SO HP ALL | Can only operate after the condo solar power shuts down at night |
| NN2T | SO HP ALL | Thank you! |
| NN4SS | SO HP ALL | Not sure if I had N1MM properly set up for scoring |
| NN6XX | SO LP ALL | WSJTX+N1MM FT4/FT8 ABOUT 50/50 |
| NN7SS | SO QRP ALL | I'm very pleased and honored to participate in the very first WW Digi DX Contest! As usual when I contest, I entered QRP. I couldn't schedule to be at the station, so operated remote, with a new internet connection just installed yesterday lots of glitches... sigh, its sometimes hard being at the far end of a long wire. I got up before sunrise for the start to try low band to Asia. On 80m worked a lot of USA West Coast VK and KH6. 20m busy, but I seemed to take w-a-y too many repeats. But there were always FT4 stations to call, so I kept at it. At one point I found my clock was 0.6 seconds slow. Yikes, I've never had that problem, and a restart fixed it. 'Maybe' QSOs went faster with less repeats... I would stop and check if my frequency was clear, and at QRP it hardly ever was... so find a new freq and start again. Otherwise, I tried to have a TX every cycle either a CQ or to call someone. Not that it helped when QRP... Overall, I think QRP has less of a 'disadvantage' than in other modes. If I had a clear frequency, and called in the right cycle - I had a 'reasonable' chance of getting anyone above SNR -10 or so. For a supposed 'automatic' and 'robot' mode - I sure had to do a lot of monitoring and clicking and maintaining to keep things working and progressing! Family activities took up most of midday, but I contested for an hour or two here and there. Lots of unlogged QSOs because the sequence was messed up and people wanted Signal Reports and didn't send RR73 so it didn't auto-log. Rules don't require signal reports - come on! I caught a few, but I'm sure I missed a bunch. Tried some FT8, but not as many stations, and s-l-o-w. I copied Europeans on 20m FT8 but no good working them QRP from WA. I only used the 'contest' frequencies, and FT4 when I seemed to be getting through efficiently, or switch to the FT8 when I needed more reliability getting through. I'd guess there was twice as much FT4 action as FT8 action on the bands. I tried CQing on 15m, but no luck. During the mid-afternoon slump I seemed to do better on 20m FT8 scaring up some South Americans and JA's for 3 points each! No sunspots, A of 36! and it showed on the bands... really weak. 40m was okay later, 80m very noisy and weak, I copied a bunch on 160m, but couldn't get an answer. I finally pulled the switch at 05 again before 12z. Done! A great introductory contest for new modes and a new exchange and scoring system. The software worked well, the operators 'mostly' worked well. I rate it an A-minus! Thanks for the fun. NN7SS Burt WA (K6UFO op) 15m, 20m 40m 80m, 160m Elecraft K3 at 5 watts RemoteHamRadio.com Writelog and DigiRite |
| NP4RA | SO LP 20M | tnx for nice contest 2019 |
| NQ0N | SO LP ALL | Let's have fun! |
| OE1GAQ | SO LP ALL | Shoutout to the amateur radio club of Technische Universit?t Wien OE1XTU. The first FT contest brought many new insights for me. Operation is still challenging, although the FT codes are error correcting. Digital split operation didn't really work as the band was too crowded. Lots of QRM from people switching to new frequencies. Some operators can throw waves of WSJT-X users into the wrong contest mode |
| OE3NHW | SO LP ALL | FT4 worked fine on many bands |
| OE4WWL | SO LP ALL | well organized, well attended, thank you |
| OH1MN | SO QRP 20M | Fun and lazy contest |
| OH2K | SO HP ALL | Horrible conditions. Few qsos outside EU. Only used contest mode |
| OH3MA | SO LP ALL | I liked the contest. The wsjt-x records into the Cabrillo as the logging time, when I have sent RR73. If the other station has not received my RR73 and resends Rxxx many times, my last RR73 may happen even minutes later. I have not corrected those although it is doable from ALL.TXT |
| OH3OJ | SO HP ALL | Thanks for the 1st WW DIGI |
| OK1CT | SO LP ALL | Elad DUO, 80W, AV-640 vertical |
| OK2FD | SO QRP ALL | Many long calls without QSO at any time |
| OK5NW | SO LP ALL | rig TS-590S, pwr 100W, ants sloper 41m and dipole 2 x 5.8m |
| ON3DI | SO QRP 40M | Horrible conditions, didn't had fun |
| ON8NT | SO QRP ALL | Nice contest, but bad condx |
| OT1A | SO HP 20M | Thanks for all effort to start this contest |
| PA1EJO | SO LP ALL | Thanks for organizing this contest |
| PC2F | SO QRP ALL | Nice contest but we need more flow to make this a competitive HF contest! |
| PD0SBX | SO LP 20M | NOVICE LICENSEE, MAX. 25 WATTS |
| PD7RB | SO LP 20M | 1st day, was oke, 2nd day, not. High power signals are killing the weaker as usual and I think not everyone had the right time configured in their pc's, so not answering |
| PE2K | SO QRP ALL | I am the best in QRP QSO, QSL by buro, 73 PE2K |
| PY2KK | SO HP ALL | Fun contest! |
| R0CD | SO LP 20M | Icom IC-706, ant RR-33 |
| R0JD | SO LP ALL | TNX 73! |
| RA7M | SO HP ALL | 73! |
| RG0S | SO LP 20M | Checklog |
| RV3DBK | SO QRP ALL | TX 5Watts, ant - Magloop indoor |
| RV3ZN | SO LP ALL | tnx73 |
| S50U | SO LP 20M | Worked few FT4 stations on 20M when bored on downloading huge OS upgrade |
| S53TM | Checklog | Wasn't prepared for this one, maybe next year! |
| S56A | SO LP 20M | Few QSO made on the lower bands shown for checkup purpose only |