CQ WW CW Contest 2025

The CQ WW CW contest took place last weekend. Since this is one of my favorite contests, I naturally took part. I chose “Classic” as my participant class. Classic means that you can only participate for 24 hours of the maximum 48 hours and the use of any aids (internet clusters, etc.) is prohibited. My output power was 100 watts.

Here are my results:

Band     QSOs    Pts    ZN    Cty
1,8         40         39      3       19
3,5         20         22      5       14
7            20          19      4       15
14           40         58     9       24
21           50         95    10      17
28           30        66    12      14

Total      200     299   43    103

Claimed Score : 43.654

Here, as usual, is the map with the QSOs:

I heard from various sources that conditions were so good in the contest. I can’t really confirm that. Not a single QSO with South America, hardly any with Southeast Asia, no QSOs with JA or VK. QSOs with the Midwest are also missing this year. So I didn’t find the conditions to be that good.

The map was created with https://qsomap.cqgma.org/ADIF_to_Karte.php and the text was translated with Deepl.