CQWW SSB - M0YKS DXCC's

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Another fantastic CQWW SSB weekend with more stations active than ever, 

I was having so much fun operating alongside Elsie M7ELC and we were both making plenty of DX operating short shift patterns as we kept the hot seat hot with my FTDX101MP and Cushcraft MA5B antenna. I did reasonably well as you can see my QSO footprint for 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. I made 500 QSOs, in total worked 21 zones and 87 Countries across the globe. Saturday was the best day for DX but day two was still quite good in some directions. M7ELC was very patent and waited, called, waited again called some more and persisted. In the end she racked up 20 zones in her log. A pretty good effort once again and a lot of fun seeing her get mad at times when she struggled to make the contact. Her high pitched tones certainly assisted her signal well as she punched through the ionospheric layers. Thanks to everyone that we managed to work during the contest. 
See You Next Year! CQWW SSB.


I listed the 87 Countries (87 DXCCs) below.there are a couple of good ones in there.

3V     Tunisia                          HZ     Saudi Arabia                    YL     Latvia                                                                   
4L     Georgia                          I      Italy                                    YO     Romania                                                                  
4U1U   UN New York             JA     Japan                                YU     Serbia                                                                   
4X     Israel                           KP4    Puerto Rico                      Z3     North Macedonia                                                          
5B     Cyprus                           LA     Norway                           ZF     Cayman Is                                                                
6Y     Jamaica                          LU     Argentina                                                                                                        
8P     Barbados                         LY     Lithuania                                                                                                        
9A     Croatia                          LZ     Bulgaria                                                                                                         
9H     Malta                            OE     Austria                                                                                                          
9K     Kuwait                           OH     Finland                                                                                                          
9N     Nepal                            OK     Czech Rep.                                                                                                       
A4     Oman                             OM     Slovakia                                                                                                         
A6     United Arab Emirates    ON     Belgium                                                                                                          
A7     Qatar                            OZ     Denmark                                                                                                          
BY     China                           P4     Aruba                                                                                                            
CE     Chile                            PA     Netherlands                                                                                                      
CN     Morocco                      PJ2    Curacao                                                                                                          
CO     Cuba                             PJ4    Bonaire                                                                                                          
CT     Portugal                         PY     Brazil                                                                                                           
CT3    Madeira                        PZ     Suriname                                                                                                         
CU     Azores                           S5     Slovenia                                                                                                         
CX     Uruguay                         SM     Sweden                                                                                                           
D4     Cape Verde                      SP     Poland                                                                                                           
DL     Deutschland                     SV     Greece                                                                                                           
E7     Bosnia and Herzegovina    TA     Turkey  AS                                                                                                       
EA     Spain                               TI     Costa Rica                                                                                                       
EA8    Canary Islands              UA     Russia  EU                                                                                                       
ES     Estonia                          UA0    Russia  AS                                                                                                       
EU     Belarus                          UA2    Kaliningrad                                                                                                      
F      France                              UK     Uzbekistan                                                                                                       
FM     Martinique                     UN     Kazakhstan                                                                                                       
G      England                           UR     Ukraine                                                                                                          
GD     Isle of Man                      V2     Antigua and Barbuda                                                                                              
GI     Northern Ireland               V3     Belize                                                                                                           
GM     Scotland                         V4     Saint Kitts and Nevis                                                                                            
GW     Wales                            VE     Canada                                                                                                           
HA     Hungary                        VK     Australia                                                                                                        
HB9    Switzerland                  VP5    Turks and Caicos Islands                                                                                         
HI     Dominican Republic        VR     Hong Kong                                                                                                        
HK     Colombia                         W      USA                                                                                                              
HR     Honduras                         XE     Mexico   


                                                                                           

Comments

PE4BAS, Bas said…
Well done Simon and Elsie, the CQWW SSB is always a lot of fun. Really great to contact you on 40m. I had great fun as well. We did take part with our contestgroup but linked through internet. It is the new "explorer" section. You can find a report on my blog. 73, Bas
6:59 am
MØYKS Simon said…
Sorry for the late reply Bas, I have had an eye infection and have minimized screen time. It was a great weekend for sure.I noticed the Explorer section and wondered what it was about. Hope you all had fun. Keep up the blogging! Have fun and 73 to you and your family
2:18 pm
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