Rejected ham radio award ideas:

- Worked All States via Walmart Parking Lots on the Air.
- VHF/UHF Century Club with a first-revision Baofeng UV-5R or other non-brand name radios (communicate with spurious emissions only).
- Worked All Germany via DAPNET paging.
- International CW DX Contest (mobile, must be driving)
- ARRL DXCC (Brandmeister Worldwide talkgroup endorsement).
- QRZ World Radio Friendship but you’re both drunk (extra points per mutual drink)
- Changing Rooms on the Air SSTV Contest
- World Wide Award (SSB, Pig Latin endorsement)
- Worked All Diseases and Ailments (all contacts must be made on 7.200 LSB)

#amateurradio #hamradio #radiosport

#CQWW assisted and unassisted logs.

#cqwwcw #cqwwssb #hamradio #radiosport

Evolution of the percentage of run QSOs in #CQWW, 2005 to 2025.

Says quite a lot about the state of things, doesn't it?

#cqwwcw #cqwwssb #hamradio #radiosport

These are probably better indicators of long-term activity than the raw number of logs submitted for #CQWW.

#cqwwcw #cqwwssb #hamradio #radiosport

Number of entries in #cqww over time.

#cqwwcw #cqwwssb #hamradio #radiosport

CQ WW video maps, 2005 to 2025:

SSB:

160m: https://youtu.be/Rhs7faK8ivU
80m: https://youtu.be/ucy-5BOLP-g
40m: https://youtu.be/LC-UbfxPrQ8
20m: https://youtu.be/xVRee8XNKq0
15m: https://youtu.be/XrJ0Bs7QT8U
10m: https://youtu.be/sA9bawWmpgE

CW:

160m: https://youtu.be/q6ZH5TbDODQ
80m: https://youtu.be/QXzuUg48uIE
40m: https://youtu.be/MJLuIq_Bjn0
20m: https://youtu.be/HPd05DK9k1Y
15m: https://youtu.be/Tmn-p0IyPDA
10m: https://youtu.be/RJkXGYxThXw

#hamradio #radiosport #cqww #cqwwcw #cqwwssb

Example frame:

For the first time in many years, I won't be QRV in the #REF #CW contest.

My shack computer won't boot (despite having RAID, and only one drive having failed); and the direction in which the yagi is pointing is suddenly no longer correctly matching the pointer on the control box.

It's much too cold and snowy to deal with the rotator problem quickly, and the computer problem needs careful thought.

So this year I'll be sitting the contest out.

#radiosport #hamradio #refcw

Logs for the 2025 Worked All Germany contest have now been added to this repository of public WAG logs:

https://www.adrive.com/public/dnhz4B/wag

#wag #darc #hamradio #radiosport

Cleaned and augmented versions of the public logs for the #cqwwcw and #cqwwssb contests are now available for the period 2005 to 2025:

http://drevans.blog.enginehousebooks.com/2026/01/cleaned-and-augmented-logs-including.html

#hamradio #radiosport #cqww #cw #ssb

The public logs for the 2025 #CQWWCW contest are now available in this directory:

https://www.adrive.com/public/Ws5CQw/cq-ww

#hamradio #radiosport #cqww #cw