I participated in the CQWW DX SSB Contest this weekend / 2020-10-26

This weekend was the CQWW DX SSB contest, which is one of the bigger contests on the amateur radio calendar. I had planned to participate, I made sure to get my contest software TLF completely configured and tested before the contest. But I didn't get around much to it most of Saturday. I only started Saturday evening to make some contacts on 40 meters which wasn't very successful from my home station.

Sunday afternoon things got a lot better when I tried the 20 meter and 10 meter amateur bands. Yes, 10 meter was open during the contest. This wasn't completely surprising as I made a number of 10 meter FT8 contacts earlier in the week.

The claimed results:

Band   160   80   40   20   15   10
QSO's    0    0    5   31    0   25
Cty      0    0    4   16    0   15
Zone     0    0    3    4    0    3
Pts: 61  Mul: 45 Score: 2745       

The raw scores in the "Assisted low all bands" category put me at rankings #862 (of 997) for world, #510 (out of 566) for Europe and #46 (out of 54). Not bad for the time I had available.

Update 2021-04-08: Results are in: 1 incorrect call logged by me. Results:

Band   160   80   40   20   15   10
QSO's    0    0    5   31    0   24
Cty      0    0    4   16    0   15
Zone     0    0    3    4    0    3
Pts: 60  Mul: 45 Score: 2610       

Ranking number 47 for the Netherlands.