WPX CW Contest May 2026

Last weekend worked the CQ WPX CW Contest. During the contest, I clearly noticed that the sunspot numbers are on the decline. The last peak was in October 2024. I was only able to make a single contact with North America, and I didn’t make any contacts with South America at all. See also the QSO map below.

Here are the QSO´s I’ve made:

Band QSOs Pts WPX
1,8          5      8      5
3,5          5      8      4
7              2     4       2
14          20   34     19
21          17   33      14
28         11    11       11

Total    60  98      55

Score : 5.390

I still have trouble to work on the 40 meter band.

Here as usual the map shoing the QSO

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.