Ham Radio Amateur Radio Contesting Page 59

Many of us are in the process of preparation for this contest, but some contesters have already lost their chances for participation. For example, Radio-Sport website reports some losers from Russia, Ukraine and some other countries.

This article has been written earlier, but I decided to publish it after the january 15 th, the CQWW DX CW 2008 log submission deadline. It has been discussed for a very long time that the logs should be submitted in a short term period after the contest, but nothing has been done yet.

Here we go, as promised, a brief review of the CQ WW DX 2008 results. Of course, not all of the results and categories are here but only a few.

Eduardo, CO8LY will be active Santiago de Cuba, IOTA NA - 015, Cuba in ARRL DX CW Contest, 18 - 19 February 2023.

Tom 8P5A gained a victory in SOAB category with 20.533 million points, leaving behind the nearest rival FG/OM3LA with 16.105 million points gap.

CQ WW DX SSB 2008 as all the other contests was full of intrigues. I would like to take up the points which are the most interesting to me.

A fairytale is a lie (not this one), but has a lesson for the youngsters!

UA9PC/RZ9OZO Contest station equipped with 3 el wire full size yagi on 160m.

CQ WW WPX SSB 2008 Contest results received from open internet sources

I think its better in this situation HK3CQ stay quired because his private interest is showed in this subject very openly

Peter NO2R will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest from Cambodia.

As a good teaching aid I used the recording of K9PG operating ZF2MM in ARRL SSB. Very much usefull listening. Of course I do not appeal to copy somebody's style exactly.

There is an excited discussion now in CQ-Contest reflector, sometimes turning into opposition, concerning "open logs".

Ray WQ7R will be active in CQ WW 160m 2009 CW contest from Honduras with call sign HQ9R

I wanted to publish this summary later, but finally decided to do it now. Although ARRL DX CW 2009 will take place in more than a month, many contesters are already concerned about "where to go?". I believe that this information will help them to make a final decision.