Topband: CQ WW Contest

[Tim Shoppa]

A side note on the subject line...

All nine major CQ contests (including 160, VHF, and WPX) have official names starting with “CQ World Wide”.

Even the three WPX contests have official names starting “CQ World Wide WPX”.

Colloquially we would usually say CQWW when talking about the big HF contests each fall.

And strangely enough it takes four fewer syllables to say “World Wide” than “WW” :-)

Tim N3QE

> On Jan 29, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Kenneth Grimm <grimm at sbc.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 5:20 AM Roger Kennedy <roger at wessexproductions.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
> 
>> I just wish there was more Activity from NA on 160m generally.  There must
>> be at least ten times more 160m DXers over there than there are here in
>> Britain . . . but almost every night there are several of us on the band
>> calling CQ DX and getting very few replies ! (yet RBN reports confirm that
>> the band is open)
>> 
>> 73 Roger G3YRO
>> 
> 
> Roger,
> While this is just my opinion, I look at 160 as a challenge.  If I want to
> rag-chew or just rack up QSOs, I either go up to SSB or switch to 80 or 40
> CW.  When I'm on 160, I'm looking for a new country or even better, a new
> zone.  I have a feeling that this is how a good many 160 ops look at the
> band.  It's not as though we don't want to talk to G3YRO, it's because we
> are looking for JT5DX at the moment or 9M2AX or XV1X or whatever else we
> need on the band.  There are lots of ears in use on 160 when we are in
> darkness.  Keyers, not so much.
> 73,
> -- 
> Ken - K4XL
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