Over the weekend of Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th March 2022, the 2022 ARRL DX Contest was held. The aim of the contest is for DX stations to make contact with W/VE stations.

Although I didn’t specifically compete in the contest, I did manage to make a total of 159 QSOs to the USA and Canada. The map below shows my contacts.

I made contact with the following USA states:-

1. Alabama
2. Arizona
3. Arkansas
4. California
5. Colorado
6. Connecticut
7. Delaware
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. Hawaii
11. Idaho
12. Illinois
13. Indiana
14. Iowa
15. Kansas
16. Louisiana
17. Maryland
18. Massachusetts
19. Missouri
20. Montana
21. Nevada
22. New Jersey
23. New Mexico
24. Ohio
25. Oregon
26. Pennsylvania
27. Rhode Island
28. Tennessee
29. Texas
30. Utah
31. Virginia
32. Washington

I worked the following Canadian provinces:-

• British Colombia
• Ontario

The majority of my contacts, a total of 116, were made on Saturday morning on the 10m band. Conditions on 10m into North America were brilliant.