CQ WW WPX Contest Phone Participation

I participated in the CQ WW WPX Contest Phone on March 24-25 in Inami Town, Hyogo, Japan.

My individual result was total 302 QSOs. I reduced the number of QSOs from last year's 325 QSOs. It was very tough contest for me because WX was heavily windy. I won the first place in JA3 in the last contest, but this year I aimed at many QSOs anyway.

Really SSB contest is more difficult than in other modes. It is very difficult to make QSO stations understand collect callsign and contest number once. They often mistook my callsign JF3, JH3, JG7 and so on.

It is very hard to understand on phone mode weak signals which we can hear on CW mode. Phone is begginers' mode because we can start ham life without any technique. But it is the most difficult mode in the respect that we need high technique for exact QSOs.

(Individual Result)
Total 302 QSOs from 55 DXCC Entities
AS: JA,HL,BY,BV,VR2,XX9,JT,HS,XV,9M2,9V,UA0,UN,UK,5W
OC: VK,ZL,DU,9M6,V8,YB,KH2
NA: W,VE,KH7,KL
SA: PR,LU,CX,ZP,CE
EU: UA,UR,LY,ES,YL,SP,HA,OK,OM,LZ,YO,S5,9A,YU,Z3,OH,SV9,I,DL,OE,HB9,F,EA,ON
Rig: YAESU FT-450M(50w)
ANT: 80m: 20m Long Wire (0mH), 40m: Vertical (0mH), 20m: Vertical (4.5mH), 15m: Vertical (3.9mH), 10m: Vertical (2.9mH)
Log: 5M Contest made in Ukraine

Russian DX Contest Participation

I participated in the Russian DX Contest on March 18 in Ikeda City, Osaka, Japan.

Last year the third Monday of March was national holiday and I could participate in the contest on full time. But this year the next day of contest is working day, so I had no choice but join the contest only on Sunday.

My individual result was total 180 QSOs. Because I gave up participation at 0830UTC to avoid traffic jam, I missed QSOs with stations in the zone 14.

WX was rainy and log software 5M contest didn't work well. I had much trouble during the contest, but QSO pace was better than last year.

(Individual Result)
Total 180 QSOs from 34 DXCC Entities
AS: JA,BY,BV,XV,HS,9M2,9V,JT,VR,UA9,UN,EY,TA,4X
OC: VK,ZL,KH2,DU,YB,V8
NA: K,KH7,VE
SA: LU
EU: UA,UR,9A,E7,YU,YO,S5,OM,HA,I
Rig: YAESU FT-450M(50W)
ANT: 20m: Vertical, 15m: Vertical, 10m Vertical
Logging: N1MM

CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest Participation

I'm sorry that I was late to show my latest contest reports.

I participated in the CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest on February 11-12 in Inami Town, Hyogo, Japan.

My individual result was total 307 QSOs. I got the first QSO with station from 9N(Nepal). The signal of this 9N station was very beautiful.


(Individual Result)
Total 307 QSOs from 44 DXCC Entities
QSO Entities:
AS: JA,HL,BY,BV,VR2,JT,XV,HS,9N,UA0,UN,EX,EY
OC: VK,ZL,DU,YB,KH2,T8,9M6
EU: UA,UR,LY,SP,OK,OM,HA,LZ,YO,S5,9A,YU,Z3,OH,OZ,I,DL
NA: W,KL,VE,KH6
SA: LU,CV
AF: CT3
Rig: YAESU FT-450M
ANT: 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m: Vertical, 2nd Ant for15m: Inverted V Dipole
Logsoft: 5MContest made in Ukraine