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===== 2025 =====
//(work in progress)//

Great fun!  Like last year, I worked as allowed by the family (one of these Octobers, I'll have to go on a hamcation, to work uninterrupted and see how well I can do) but was allowed a bit more than last time and closed out early with a total of 210 contacts.  Majority on 10m, unlike last time with very few 10m contacts, and 15m. I logged a TON of Europe and South America (extra Brazil and Argentina for some reason) - Hopefully some of those countries I'm missing on QRZ will confirm.  I just hopped all over the place, back and forth between 40/20/15/10, basically tuning from one end to the other, over and over.  Didn't notice as much activity on 40m this year, aside from everyone being squished between 7175 and 7200 Khz. Last year, the Caribbean was all over 40m at night.

One gripe... I figured out why there is a "good sport rule" on the CQ-WW site about not taking more than three calls before providing your callsign.  Nobody wants to listen to you for five minutes before they realize they've already worked you.  At least do what some of the others do (say the damn thing so fast that it's almost unrecognizable) to at least give the hunters a hint! :)

Some highlights: 

Worked that same Hawaiian station (KH6J) on 40m again, as well as 20m and 10m!

Worked EU Russia on 40m (RU1A) - I don't get out far on 40m, probably not above the average stations noise floor.  As my antenna just generally isn't high or long enough... good at NVIS though.  Anyway, these guys have a pretty insane antenna farm:  ([[http://www.ru1a.mirradio.ru/viewpage.php?page_id=3]])
  
Five Japan contacts on ten and fifteen meters.  I don't think I currently have ANY confirmed SSB with Japan.  Hopefully that will change when one of these confirm!  

I may have worked every island in the Caribbean, this time logging Montserrat and Saint Barthélemy, which I missed last time.   Speaking of islands, I also picked up and logged Galápagos!!

Logged some new countries: French Guiana, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Balearic Islands, San Marino.

   

====RAW====
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB\\
CALLSIGN: N3DMV\\
LOCATION: MDC\\
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP\\
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED\\
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL\\
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW\\
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB\\
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE\\
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED\\
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: CLASSIC\\
GRID-LOCATOR: FM19lx\\
CLAIMED-SCORE: 96800\\

EF8R
J62K
LP1H
9Z4BM
RC9O
VA3MW
KP4PR
KI5GTR
PJ6Y
LN8W
RU1A
TO4K
KP2B
VP2MPN
K7ZS
KP4AA
NN7CW
8P5A
W4MLB
V47T
VE7BC
PJ4K
KH6J
VE2DXY
PJ2T
PJ2T
KH6J
W7VO
VC3Z
DF7A
S53MM
RL3A
YT8WW
IB9R
9A5Y
RU1A
HG6N
SQ5EBL
WB2ZAB
AC4VO
YP8T
OZ1ADL
J62K
E7OT
T7OA
OM7M
IP4X
CR6T
SP8R
HG7T
TM4ZZ
EI7M
SN2M
LZ5R
II2S
OH5Z
DL5RBW
ED8G
S57AL
ES9C
EA1DR
PJ2T
OK7K
DP6A
ZF1A
P33W
TO4K
HK1T
NP4VM
CR3A
HK1O
P49Y
P40W
KL7G
VP2VRX
PJ6Y
PP4T
PJ4G
EF8R
HP1XV
LP1H
TM7A
CT7BJG
OK7O
PA1AW
IP4M
PA9M
V26B
DP7D
IB9T
PJ6Y
GM5G
EF8R
TI7W
LU3DK
SP8R
CR6P
T70A
KV0Q
IP4M
CR3A
ED7W
AD4EB
IO5O
JA3YBK
JA5OVU
K7ZS
F8ADY
CR6K
SO9I
9A/W3WM
RL3A
CQ3W
IZ5CML
OT2A
IO6T
OT7T
SP8IMG
F4KMI
DM0Y
9A1P
II9P
DK5QN
LZ2VU
VE9XX
TM2Y
OM7M
IV3JVJ
IQ5PJ
IP4M
IZ5EKV
TM2BF
GE5E
DF0HQ
SP8R
M6T
PJ2T
KP4PR
K5TR
EA6MR
TK4TH
XE1AVY
FP5AC
CE2WK
XE2SSB
WP3C
CU2ARA
ZF2AA
HC5AI
8P5A
LW3EK
PR2A
EI9E
UA7K
S57AL
II9P
ED2X
VE4VT
AY7J
XE2W
OA4O
TI1K
PV2G
PZ5DX
FY5FY
DR1A
P40W
ZW5B
HD8R
PV2K
K7SS
PX2W
VE5UO
PY2WB
VP2MPN
CB4K
PR1T
PR2K
PY4JW
KH6J
V31VP
ED3X
CQ9A
JH1KRC
CA2EBM
V26B
JA7YRR
HI8JCD
XQ6CF
LW2DHD
PJ4K
HI8J
PX5X
CA6SNT
RU1A
VE3VN
TM0T
NP4VM
EB5A
KP4AA
PR1T
V47T
LU3WC
CN3A
LU5VV
8P5A
LP1H
JH7QXJ
KL5DX
JJ1MBU
LU3DX


===== 2024 =====
{{:about_me:n3dmv_cqww_2024_ssb_certificate.jpg?direct|}}
N3DMV	W3	2024	SO LOW ALL (C)	73,470	181	47	111	11.5	

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 was extremely high. One morning, a few days before the contest, I checked on several WebSDR stations, around the world, and I was making it pretty much every where with that vertical.. real shame about the noise. 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|}}\\
<code>
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 
</code>
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