CQWW RTTY 2025

CQWW RTTY contest 2025 entry by Charles Darley de G4VSZ

I had a very enjoyable few hours in the contest working just a single band.

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20m Summary Zones worked

3 Western Zone of North America:

4 Central Zone of North America:

5 Eastern Zone of North America:

14 Western Zone of Europe:

15 Central European Zone:

16 Eastern Zone of Europe:

17 Western Zone of Siberia:

18 Central Siberian Zone:

20 Balkan Zone:

25 Japanese Zone:

28 Indonesian Zone:

33 Northwestern Zone of Africa:

Countries worked

3V Tunisia 9A Croatia C3 Andorra CN Morocco CT3 Madeira Is

DL Federal Republic of Germany EA Spain EA8 Canary Is EI Republic of Ireland

EU Belarus F France G England GM Scotland GW Wales

HA Hungary HB Switzerland I Italy IG9 Italy IT9 Sardinia

JA Japan K USA LA Norway LZ Bulgaria OE Austria OH Finland OK Czech Republic OM Slovak Republic OZ Denmark S5 Slovenia

SM Sweden SP Poland SV Greece TK Corsica UA European Russia UA2 Kaliningrad UA9 Uzbekistan UN Kazakhstan UR Ukraine VE Canada

YB Indonesia YL Latvia YO Romania YU Serbia (ex Yugoslavia)

States/Provinces work in America and Canada.

CT MA ME NJ PA TN VA LA OR IL CO MN

SD PE ON BC

Time periods worked

13:36 – 14:37 so about an hour

17:12 – 18:14 again about an hour

10:07 – 14:44 much longer 4 and a half hours

23:07 – 23:23 juts a few minutes to try different bands.

Equipment used

Transceiver ICOM7610

Interface HomeBrew

Computer Windows 10 running Writelog with MMTTY

Amplifier Acom 1000

Power run early on in the contest 50W from Transceiver but later 400W with amplifier and lower drive on Transceiver.

(Keyboard image from Image by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi from Pixabay)