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