===== 2024 ===== \\ //Work in progress.. will show exceptional contacts and write about experience// Pretty leisurely affair. I worked for two or three hour periods at random times as allowed by family. Most work was done in the early mornings and in the afternoons. All hunting. I tried calling CQ a few times on different bands but didn't have the patience for more than five minutes - no one was calling. I have a feeling that the bulk of my DX was with big gun stations having huge and high antenna arrays. So many islands on 40m, to include some I didn't have: Bonaire, Curacao, Turks/Caicos, Cayman, St. Kitts/Nevis, Antigua/Barbuda, Barbados, Jamaica, T&T, Montserrat, etc.\\ And then this beauty: {{:about_me:hi_40m_khj6.jpg?direct|}} //40m to Hawaii is amazing to me. I almost didn't call, as I thought it was impossible!// Some other interesting connections on 40m:\\ Mexico, Honduras, Columbia, Portugal, Spain, Cape Verde 20m and 15m was awesome. Many many European countries and a few Oceana/AU. 10m was a bust for me. I couldn't get out at all on the horizontal random wire, but heard everything which made it hurt more. When I put up the vertical, the noise floor was extremely high. One morning, a few days before the contest, I checked on random WebSDRs, around the world, and I was making it pretty much every where with that vertical.. real shame. I only managed a few contacts to EU Russia, one to Latvia, Mexico, Belgium, Italy. Maybe ten total for 10m. :( ====RAW==== \\ CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB\\ CALLSIGN: N3DMV\\ LOCATION: FM18KA\\ CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP\\ CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED\\ CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE\\ CATEGORY-POWER: LOW\\ CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED\\ CATEGORY-BAND: ALL\\ CATEGORY-MODE: SSB\\ CATEGORY-TIME: 24-HOURS\\ CATEGORY-OVERLAY: CLASSIC\\ CLAIMED-SCORE: 74892\\ \\ {{:about_me:cqww2024-raw.jpg?direct|}} \\ ===== 2023 ===== {{:about_me:kc3nlt_cqww_2023_ssb_certificate.JPG?direct|}}\\ Call Year QTH Zn Category Score QSOs Zn Cty Hours KC3NLT 2023 W3 5 SO LOW ALL (C) 5,238 46 23 31 3.9