Over the weekend I took part in the 2024 ARRL International DX Contest. The ARRL website describes the contest objective as:

“To encourage W/VE stations to expand knowledge of DX propagation on the HF and MF bands, improve operating skills, and improve station capability by creating a competition in which DX stations may only contact W/VE stations.”

I did not devote the entire weekend to the contest as I had other commitments, but whenever possible I slipped into the shack to work some of the USA and Canada stations.

I worked a total of 218 stations and have a claimed score of 46,434 points.

The majority of my contacts were on the 20m band. I had a nice run on 20m on Saturday evening, but this was not replicated on Sunday evening.

I ended up working 37 of the 48 mainland USA States. Hawaii and Alaska did not count as US States for this contest and participated as DX stations. The map below shows the States I worked marked in green. Those I didn’t get are in red.

Unfortunately, I didn’t work many Canadian stations.