CQ WPX SSB Contest

Since my old computer took an unreasonably long time to boot up and was no longer compatible with Windows 11, I bought a new one. After installing all the necessary programs over the past few days, it was time to put the PC to the test in a contest. The CQ WPX SSB contest, which took place last weekend, was the perfect opportunity.

I had the low-band antennas available again for this contest. However, I felt that the conditions weren’t the best. This was most evident in the fact that I managed to make only a single QSO with North America.

Here are my results:

Band QSOs Pts WPX Pt/Q
1,8       10      18     7     1,8
3,5       12      20    8     1,7
7           20     46   18    2,3
14         30     38   27    1,3
21         21      45    21    2,1
28        22      66   18    3,0
Total 115    233    99    2,0

Score : 23.067

Here is the map showing the QSOs made, as usual:

A nice bonus of this contest was that I managed to work a new ATNO with S09S across all modes. I hadn’t worked Western Sahara in all those years.

The map was created with https://qsomap.cqgma.org/ADIF_to_Karte.php and the text was translated with Deepl. DeepL translates the text much better than I could, even though I like to think I have a pretty good command of English.