The 2017 CQ World-Wide DX Contest
CQ WW DX SSB: October 28-29
Starts 00:00:00 UTC Saturday Ends 23:59:59 UTC Sunday
CQ WW DX RULES
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: RS report plus CQ Zone number of the station location (e.g., 59 05).
Read all rules in several languages on official CQ World Wide DX Contest Page
This edition will adopt the recent CQ WW Rules 2017 Changes
Contest Software
A selection of contest programs taken from our Contest Software links page
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 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+ is one of the most popular contest logging programs for Windows and it is the evolution of the N1MM classic. N1MM Logger plus is fully free to download and to use 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. Download N1MM from the official web site with latest callsign files and updated.
DXLog.net is hamradio contest logging software for Windows. Currently supporting 200+ different contests and most popular digital modes