The 2019 CQ World-Wide CW DX Contest

CQ WW DX CW: November 23-24
Starts 00:00:00 UTC Saturday Ends 23:59:59 UTC Sunday

The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world. Over 35,000 participants take to the airwaves on the last weekend of October with the goal of making as many contacts with as many different DXCC entities and CQ Zones as possible.

GOAL: For amateurs around the world to contact as many other amateurs in as many CQ zones and countries as possible.

BANDS: Six bands only: 1.8, 3.5, 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz. Observance of established band plans is strongly encouraged.

EXCHANGE: RST report plus CQ Zone number of the station location (e.g., 599 05).

Read all rules in several languages on official CQ World Wide DX Contest Page

CQ ZONE MAP

Contest Software
A selection of contest programs taken from our Contest Software links page

TR4W Contest Logger
UA4WLI
TR4W (TR for Windows) is a free and open source log book program for operating in ham radio contests. Based on source code of the TR LOG MS-DOS program, kindly provided by Larry Tyree, N6TR, supports 155 contests and SO2R

LM - Log Post Processor
DL8WAA
LM is a program to edit contest logs afterwards, a so-called contest post processor. With help of LM you can convert row data to many different file formats. Allow a quick input interface, and contest score for several contest. Can import & export a batch of logs and to create result lists.

N1MM Logger+
N1MM
N1MM Logger+ is one of the most popular contest logging programs for Windows and it is the evolution of the N1MM classic. N1MM Logger plus is free software featuring automatic CW generation, rotator and radio control, suport for So2R, cluster support, winkeyer interface, import export cabrillo and adif formats and many more features.

DXLog.net
9A5K Kresimir Kovarik
DXLog.net is hamradio contest logging software for Windows. Currently supporting 200+ different contests and most popular digital modes

SkookumLogger
K1GQ
SkookumLogger is a free contest logging program for Mac