CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| NE5A | ASSISTED LOW | end fed wire 203 feet long at a height of 32 feet. |
| NF5P | SINGLE-OP QRP | CQWW160CW-NF5P-2026 |
| NF8M | SINGLE-OP LOW | Transmit: Inverted-L, apex at 35 feet. Receive: shielded loop at 20 feet. |
| NJ3K | ASSISTED LOW | Conditions were poor to say the least. Thanks to all. 73 |
| NN5T | SINGLE-OP LOW | Very limited antenna - Butternut HF-2V in the back yard with ice building up, a lot of snow noise too. |
| NO9E | ASSISTED HIGH | Perhaps the worst conditions that I remember. No WA, WY or NV. OR and MT the last morning. Small participation, with very few signals over 1845. Strong but deaf PP5 the first evening and always present KH6AQ. I set up a bent vertical to a 120' tower with just 8 60' radials. A week earlier that vertical was a few db better to EU than my 100' shunt tower so I had high hopes but the EU propagation was short. Due to very dry weather lots of powerline static this time. Upgrade of Flex 6600 from version 3 to 4 was a big mistake as the new version has a galore of bugs. A few crashes, frequent interlock and "reduce power messages" and weird key. Also untunable APF and NB that creates many false signals. |
| NQ4Y | SINGLE-OP LOW | 160 meter inverted l antenna at 50 feet |
| NT9M | SINGLE-OP LOW | Antenna is an inverted U shaped wire in a tree fed at ground level. |
| NY5B | ASSISTED LOW | Most enjoyable contest. Snow and temp in teens made it a perfect weekend radio event. Also first 160m contest ever (licensed since 1976). Equipment: Icom IC 756pro and OCF dipole at 30'. Didnt get to operate a lot but enough to bring me back next time. |
| OE8TED | SINGLE-OP HIGH | TS590SG + PA, TX Ant: InV-L 20m, RX-Ant: phased verticals Went to bed too early in the first night and missed the only NA opening... Thanks for the QSOs and patience. |
| OG6N | ASSISTED LOW | Terrible conditions. I got CQed in my face many times when even trying to call a nearby European station. Using 100 W and an inverted vee dipole with apex around 45 ft and the tips of the dipole maybe at 20 ft height. |
| OH9VL | SINGLE-OP QRP | Horizontal loop |
| OK1ATP | ASSISTED HIGH | I have new TCVR FT-710 and in contest 160m problems with contest log tr4W |
| OK1BM | SINGLE-OP HIGH | L ANT |
| OK1DOL | ASSISTED HIGH | FT1000MP MarkV, PA Acom 1500-1kW, dipol, beverage |
| OK1DST | SINGLE-OP LOW | invL antenna |
| OK1FKD | SINGLE-OP QRP | Elecraft K2-5W, LW 42m, 15 m UP |
| OK1FUK | SINGLE-OP LOW | LW 40 m |
| OK1OA | SINGLE-OP LOW | TRX: FT857D, ANT: slopping wire 34mtrs long, top at 8 mtrs |
| OK1TRJ | ASSISTED LOW | endfed 24m long @ 8m agl |
| OK1UKC | ASSISTED LOW | IC-7610, LW 42M, MFJ-993B (68) |
| OK2DM | ASSISTED LOW | G5RV 75W IC735 |
| OK2IW | SINGLE-OP LOW | OCF 84m long 14m up |
| OK2KRT | SINGLE-OP LOW | longwire 41m@15m |
| OK5D | SINGLE-OP LOW | LW 41m |
| OK5ET | ASSISTED HIGH | FTDX3000, Vertical 21m, 4 small RX ANTs |
| OK5WA | ASSISTED HIGH | Taking part after 40 years gap. A different world indeed, yet the enjoyment was the same. Thanks for organizing the Top band event No. 1. Unfortunately the CONDX were very poor on Saturday night, crossing the Atlantic was almost impossible. |
| OK7SE | SINGLE-OP LOW | ANT LW (EFHW for 80m with removed unun + counterpoise), very bad ANT for this band, but better than nothing! |
| OL0A | SINGLE-OP LOW | RIG 100W, ant sloping quarter wave wire, 13m high |
| OL1R | MULTI-OP | In recent years, we have pretty much always participated in our Favorite CQ160 contest, and this year was not different. Its CW part was held last weekend. A week before the CQ 160, we were diligently building antennas throughout all weekend. On Saturday, the weather was not good, foggy with strong wind in gusts. It really was not very pleasant to run outside in the meadow, but we still managed to build everything on Saturday. On Sunday we only stretched the coaxial cables, tuned the vertical and completed all the detailed preparation for the test. The transmitting antenna was a vertical 27m with a capacitive hat and several beverage 320m of length. Double beverage for W/VE direction, single for JA and Indian ocean directions, and bidirectional for PY/VK and Pacific/Africa directions. During the test we have realized something wrong on BID BEV AF/NORTH.....In completely dark with headlamp me and Milan OK1IW have fixed the wrong Back-Back on 75coax...That is pretty much “the weak” point on it.. For the first time, we had the opportunity to try out the YAESU FTDX10 and FTDX101 radios. It was a big step forward in quality. We used to use an ICOM 756PROIII and the transformation to the new digital device was very nice. On the Monday before the race, a strong "solar wind" hit the Earth and a strong aurora borealis occurred. This phenomenon always has a negative impact on the conditions of propagation of HF signals. We feared the worst, the 160m zone would not work. On the Friday before the race, we met together, made the last preparations and in the evening at 22:00 UTC kicked it out. In the first night, there were 566 Qs in the log, of which over 50 DXs were W/VE/Carib/SA. We expected it to be much, much worse. The second night was miserable on DXs. We saw hundreds of spots in the DX-cluster, where American stations spotted each other. Almost none of this was heard by us even on our quiet double US beverage from what we heard, we made half of stations on Band map. On Sunday evening we were able to do only one JN1ILK of big surprise and surprisingly, VK2BJ with super nice signal on my CQ Freq. I could not understand to work a Barry on the PY dir. That always make a BIG surprise and shaking my head.... A big thank you to everyone who participated in the event. We are looking forward to the SSB part. We would also like to thank the Hodkovice nad Mohelkou Aeroclub, which has been accommodating us for many years and providing us with space for these sessions. SETUP: FTDX10 MULTI, FTDX101 RUN plus PA. TX ANT: 27m VERTICAL with capacitive hat plus 100 pcs ¼ radials RX: 320m double US BEV, Middle East SINGLE BEV, PY/VK BIDI, AF/PAC BIDI. Ops: OK1NY, OK1MV, OK1HGM, OK1IW Support TEAM: OK1FJX, OK1DIU, OK2MTW, OK1HGM Jun, OK1FPD See you in SSB part on March. 73. Take Care! MV |
| OL4W | SINGLE-OP QRP | KX3 5W LW33m |
| OL6D | ASSISTED HIGH | Flex8400 + RF-KIT - 900W Antennas:Inv-L 10m up (86deg. Elev.Angle - NVIS) |
| OL7P | ASSISTED HIGH | Setup - FTDX10, vertikal, PA 1KW, 3x200m Beverage. My QTH is 600m asl, very bad conditions, fog, inversion and icing, snow on Sunday afternoon and evening. I'm looking forward to CQWW 160m SSB, hopefully it will be better. |
| OL9R | ASSISTED LOW | Dipole,SUNSDR DX2,N1MM |
| OM2DT | SINGLE-OP LOW | ts590 sg, lw |
| OM2XA | SINGLE-OP LOW | Elecraft K3/100, Loaded vertical 17m, K9Ay array |
| OM3TBG | SINGLE-OP LOW | TRX DRAKE TR7 80W - ANT Windom 42 m long |
| OM5ALL | ASSISTED LOW | FTDX3000, slooper, 2x DHDL |
| OM5R | SINGLE-OP LOW | Deltaloop 162 m long - 15 m up - and 85 W. |
| OM7AG | SINGLE-OP LOW | Delta Loop 84 m, 15 m up |
| OM7AT | SINGLE-OP LOW | TNX, 73! |
| ON6FC | ASSISTED LOW | CQ WW DX CONTEST 160 M Antenne "inverted L" |
| OO4M | SINGLE-OP HIGH | Just one night trying 160m, no DX worked but had a great time |
| OP3T | SINGLE-OP LOW | TRX: Elecraft K4D+KAT500+outboard HPF+ATT Tx ant: 17m inverted L downto 12m Rx ant: 2 short orthogonal Beverages |
| OY1CT | ASSISTED LOW | Multiband Alpha Delta dipol up 10M |
| OZ1KZX | ASSISTED LOW | 2x42m Dipol 30 Feet above ground |
| OZ3SM | ASSISTED LOW | CQ160 CW Year 2026 Rig: Elecraft K3/P3 Ant: 80 m vertical loop high point 14 m Tks QSO ! vy 73 de Steve, OZ3SM |
| OZ4MM | ASSISTED HIGH | Only little more than 2 hours operation, but real fun. |
| P40AA | ASSISTED HIGH | The first night started with good conditions, and big EU stations showed up early. Then, after approximately 4:30 AM, suddenly no more EU signals came in and the expected EU sunrise peak simply didn’t happen. At least there was a small highligh The next night was horrible. I struggled to get heard even by US stations, and only a handful called in. After 04:30—ironically the exact time when EU conditions died on the first night—a few more EU stations made it through. But again, no re As many others have already said, these were the worst conditions ever. In years like this, with such poor condx, locations like Aruba are not exactly favorable. But new year, new luck! |
| PA0O | ASSISTED LOW | K3 inv.L 25m up |