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Finally I worked my first USA and that was Bob N7UA at around 04z. In the first 5 hours I had over 350 QSOs in the log from 13 zones and 56 countries! With a short vertical, 700W TX and no RX antennas! I was fevering! I couldnt wait till the next round.

I wanted to publish this summary later, but finally decided to do it now. Although ARRL DX CW 2009 will take place in more than a month, many contesters are already concerned about "where to go?". I believe that this information will help them to make a final decision.

From Scott Robbins (W4PA) article "The 2005 ARRL International DX CW Contest. Is now the "good old days" of contesting?"

HK3CW, K5UO, WF5W will be active from San Andres and Providencia Islands from 24 to 30 of january 2009

Peter NO2R will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest from Cambodia.

Champ E21EIC will be active in CQ WW 160m Contest 23 - 25 january from Laos as XW1B.

Al CE1/K7CA will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest 24 - 25 January and in ARRL DX International Contest 21 - 22 February 2009.

As a good teaching aid I used the recording of K9PG operating ZF2MM in ARRL SSB. Very much usefull listening. Of course I do not appeal to copy somebody's style exactly.

OM3BH and OM3GI with some local CT3 operators will be active from Madeira Island in CQ WW 160M 2009 CW Contest as CT9M.

Yasar, TA3D will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest in Low Power category

Alfredo,WP3C will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest 23-25 january from Pedro NP4A station in Single Op High Power Category

RK2FWA team will be active in CQ WW 160M DX Contest 23-25 january

E70R, E70T, E74AW, E76C, E77DX and E77E will be active in coming CQ WW DX

Richard, K2WR will be active in CQ WW DX 160m CW Contest 23-25 January 2009

Juan, CO8TW will be active in coming CQ WW DX 160m CW Contest 23 - 25 January 2009.

Val, RD3AF will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest 23-25 January

Well known contester Willy,UA9BA will be active in coming CQ WW DX 160m

Eric, K6VVA will be active in coming ARRL DX CW Contest 21-22 february from BVI

Nodir, EY8MM will be active in CQ WW 160m CW Contest 23-25 january in Single op High Power category

Dimitry, UT5UGR will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest 21-22 February 2009 from Martinique Island in Single op all band category using special callsign TO5WA.

RV2FW, 4Z5TA, 4X6ZK and 4Z5KJ will be active in coming CQ WW 160 CW Contest 22 - 25 January 2009 from Israel with contest call 4Z5J in Multi Single category.

LA5IIA will be active in coming CQ WW 160 CW Contest 23 - 25 january from 4U1UN United Nation Heaquarters Station

XE1RCS team will be active in CQ WW 160M CW Contest 23-25 january 2009 in Multi Operator category

Ozer, TA2RC will be active in coming CQ 160M CW Contest 23-25 january 2009 in Single Operator Low Power category.

A71BX will be active in coming CQ WW 160m CW contest 23-25 january 2009

N7OU and W7YAQ will be active from Tuvalu Island from 17 february till 2 of march

This year of 2008 was very hard, I was very busy at my work. I failed to put into practice part of my plans of improving the station and installing new antennas. So there were no any serious projects for SSB contest. Entering SSB on LF bands from my QTH seems to be prospectless. I mostly wanted to work missing US states to complete 5BWAS.

K8DD, AC8W, N8LJ, KB8TXZ will be active from Nicaragua from 17 - 24th february 2009

Steve, AK0M will be active from British Virgin Islands till 24 of february 2009 as VP2V/AK0M.

Val, RD3AF and Alex, RZ3AZ will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest 2009 as EF8M from Canary Islands in Multi Single Category.

Girts, YL2KL will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest as D4C from Cabo Verde.

Ashraf, 3V4-002 will be active in ARRL DX CW Contest 2009 from club station 3V8SS Tunisia.

Axel, DL6KVA will be active from Azerbaijan from 4K9W station from 19 till 25 of March 2009 as 4K0CW.

Siggi, TF3CW will be active in ARRL DX International SSB Contest 7 - 8 march 2009 in SOSB 20m category.

Dez, G0DEZ will be active Jersey Island (IOTA EU-013) during the CQWW WPX CW Contest 30-31 may 2009 as GJ3WW.

What an incredible experience from one of the world’s premier stations and locations! Great contest with a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating moments and more than few “others” in the downside column.

Colin, G3VCQ will be active as J38CW from Grenada from 12 to 26 March 2009.

A full 48 hours all-band contest effort with no sleep was not appealing to me, so I chose a strategy to enter the 20 Meter Single Operator Single Band category.

CQ WW 160m CW was a very promising event this year as we stuck an the bottom of the solar cycle so the low bands were good and the DX-activity in the contest was very high.

Val, RD3AF will be active in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30 - 31 may 2009 from Canary Islands as EF8M.

JH0IXE and JA0FOX will be active from Palau 4 - 12 April 2009 as T88CW and T88NF.

JH7IOS will be active from Micronesia 11 - 16 may 2009 as V63CW.

EA8AY, EA8NC, EA8QP and EA8TT will be active from Canary Islands in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30 - 31 May 2009 as AN8R.

AH2Y and WX8C will be active from Guam Island in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30 - 31 May 2009 as AH2Y.

LU3CT, LW9EOC, LU8EOT and LW8DQ will be active in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30 - 31 May 2009 as LS1D.

OH1JT, OH1RX, OH2XX, OH5DX, OH6EI and OH6GLE will be active from Aland Islands in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30-31 May 2009 as OH0Z.

VE3NE, VE3TA and VE3CWU will be active from Canada in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30-31 may 2009 as VC2A from CQ Zone 2.

Eric, K9GY will be active from Nicaragua in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30 - 31 May 2009 as YN2GY.

Vakhtang, 4L8A will be active in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 30 - 31 May 2009.

OH2MM, PY2ZXU, PY2YU, PY2NDX, PY5EG, PY3DX, PY2BW, PY2EX, PY3VK and PY5KD will be active in CQ WW WPX 2009 CW Contest 30 - 31 May 2009 as ZW5B.