CQ WPX at F6KOP – March 2024

I and many other have been invited by Jules (F4IEY), to come and participate to the CQ WPX SSB contest of March at F6KOP, one of the biggest contest station in France.
The CQ WPX (CQ World-Wide WPX Contest) is an international amateur radio competition organized by the CQ Amateur Radio magazine. This competition takes place twice a year and is open to amateur radio operators around the world. The goal of the contest being to contact as many amateur radio stations as possible, with importance on distinct call signs.

The journey started by travelling with Manoel (ON6RF), Bastien(ON4BCY) and Fred(ON4PFD), we went from Rixensart to Provins.

We arrived in the late afternoon and where directly welcomed by Jule and others who have alredy arrived.

While waiting for the team to be complete we started to speak about the specifications of the contest and the shedule:

We worked the station in shifts 24h daily, a shift being 2h30 using the special callsign : TM4Y.
F6KOP had enough stations for a one operator per band permanently, even if sometimes the band wheren’t at they’re peak, anyone could operate the radio.

We where housed in the special sleeping container, and had dinner in the main container.

picture: 4K6VS Valia,EA1JAY Mario,EA1MZ Dario,EA4HQF Santi,EI5LA Megan,F4IEY Jules,F4ILV Paul,F4IQN Maxime,F4JJZ Pierre,IU0RBC Tsuf,IU5LVM Amelia,LY3FOX Tomas,ON3MKO Marko,ON4BCY Bastien,ON4PFD Fred,ON6RF Manoel… whole operator team.

We finished the contest with a total of 14,966,226 points and 4,791 QSOs, thus ranking us 9th in the multi-multi mode in this years Mars edition.

Thanks to Jules, Frank and all other F6KOP’s members who have supported us.