Contest Participation Trends¶

Year-over-year participation data from 469,969 Cabrillo log submissions across major HF contests, 2008–2025.

Updated 21:00 UTC 2026-03-13

Entries by Contest and Year¶

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Year	Total	High Power	Low Power
2012	1	1	0
2013	1	1	0
2014	1	0	1
2015	1	0	1

2008 CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST, CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2008	1	0	1	0	0

2013 CQ WPX CONTEST, SSB¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2014	1	1	0	0	0

2018 WRTC Y83P¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	1	0	1	0	0

2018 WRTC Y83U¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	1	0	1	0	0

ARRL-10¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	1,900	692	1,089	119	51
2019	1,857	716	1,027	114	53
2020	3,844	1,387	2,237	220	72
2021	3,038	1,113	1,751	174	85
2022	5,699	2,041	3,354	304	150
2023	3,531	1,261	2,051	219	112

ARRL-160¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	1,389	800	537	52	53
2019	1,612	920	619	73	58
2020	1,669	912	680	77	43
2021	1,561	870	626	65	49
2022	1,233	670	501	62	33
2023	1,110	573	477	60	27
2024	1,189	658	483	48	34

ARRL-DIGI¶

Year	Total	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2022	1,426	1,336	90	2
2023	939	866	73	15
2024	919	831	88	17
2025	972	874	98	23

ARRL-DX-CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	3,968	1,963	1,834	171	135
2019	4,122	2,053	1,900	168	163
2020	4,270	2,087	2,017	166	137
2021	4,701	2,335	2,196	170	132
2022	4,747	2,240	2,311	196	146
2023	5,179	2,325	2,617	237	143
2024	5,415	2,371	2,751	293	157
2025	4,717	2,058	2,415	244	158

ARRL-DX-SSB¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	2,800	1,443	1,294	63	147
2019	3,043	1,558	1,434	51	159
2020	3,443	1,757	1,616	70	155
2021	3,650	1,857	1,726	67	120
2022	3,897	1,864	1,944	89	146
2023	4,722	2,113	2,491	118	163
2024	5,088	2,237	2,712	139	198
2025	4,568	2,041	2,419	108	171

ARRL-RTTY¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2014	1	0	1	0	0
2018	1,609	588	995	26	80
2019	2,642	647	1,943	52	77
2020	2,055	626	1,362	67	64
2021	2,322	762	1,473	87	63
2022	2,329	747	1,490	92	55
2023	1,792	639	1,084	69	69
2024	1,953	693	1,197	63	65
2025	1,833	636	1,126	71	62

ARRL-SS-CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	1,277	544	636	97	44
2019	1,289	510	687	92	42
2020	1,438	575	755	108	29
2021	1,413	558	735	120	43
2022	1,325	510	692	123	40
2023	1,226	481	642	103	38
2024	1,166	453	627	86	44

ARRL-SS-SSB¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	1,712	684	969	59	146
2019	1,568	606	925	37	115
2020	2,029	758	1,198	73	88
2021	1,682	651	971	60	123
2022	1,639	609	957	73	116
2023	1,496	566	870	60	108
2024	1,442	548	836	58	92

CQ-160-CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2023	2,236	1,191	933	112	107
2024	2,084	1,092	885	107	91
2025	2,035	1,051	871	113	96

CQ-160-SSB¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2022	1,084	540	506	38	59
2023	1,144	566	530	48	65
2024	1,114	580	483	51	44
2025	979	451	484	44	50

CQ-WPX-CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2008	3,026	1,178	1,627	219	141
2009	3,511	1,412	1,880	218	175
2010	3,450	1,329	1,876	245	170
2011	3,727	1,432	2,029	266	152
2012	4,133	1,619	2,205	309	170
2013	3,928	1,475	2,132	321	175
2014	3,870	1,381	2,161	328	194
2015	4,008	1,507	2,164	337	189
2016	3,977	1,461	2,214	301	167

CQ-WPX-RTTY¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2012	3,218	1,152	1,950	116	105
2013	3,080	1,148	1,813	119	111
2014	2,721	957	1,643	121	89
2015	2,803	996	1,649	158	101
2016	3,179	1,163	1,874	142	139
2017	3,181	1,148	1,882	151	140
2018	4,783	1,762	2,790	231	206
2019	3,007	1,066	1,796	145	134
2020	2,973	1,116	1,718	139	125
2021	3,721	1,354	2,225	142	103
2022	3,351	1,235	1,966	150	120
2023	2,869	1,003	1,716	150	100
2024	3,158	1,091	1,912	155	116
2025	3,107	1,062	1,886	159	116

CQ-WPX-SSB¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2008	3,586	1,463	1,988	134	283
2009	3,944	1,670	2,127	147	294
2010	4,594	1,835	2,562	197	308
2011	4,944	2,038	2,726	180	340
2012	5,151	2,045	2,905	201	326
2013	5,224	1,975	2,995	254	291
2014	5,278	1,954	3,062	262	357
2015	5,573	2,090	3,227	256	352
2016	5,058	1,756	3,045	257	286
2017	2,275	873	1,309	93	151

CQ-WW CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2008	1	1	0	0	0

CQ-WW-CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2008	4,982	2,263	2,446	273	315
2009	5,518	2,465	2,728	325	289
2010	5,825	2,542	2,926	357	305
2011	6,399	2,652	3,362	385	308
2012	6,899	2,911	3,531	457	306
2013	7,092	2,949	3,640	503	324
2014	7,338	3,013	3,821	504	321
2015	7,202	2,962	3,761	479	312
2016	3,466	1,451	1,785	230	138

CQ-WW-RTTY¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2009	2,248	923	1,305	20	118
2010	2,596	1,032	1,550	13	142
2011	3,116	1,205	1,894	17	142
2012	3,146	1,173	1,882	91	148
2013	3,257	1,195	1,929	133	154
2014	3,102	1,153	1,817	131	147
2015	3,199	1,203	1,850	146	156
2016	2,966	1,127	1,699	140	156
2017	3,052	1,169	1,742	141	150
2018	2,964	1,118	1,702	144	170
2019	2,991	1,162	1,706	123	146
2020	3,549	1,367	2,027	155	120
2021	3,448	1,320	1,982	146	134
2022	3,077	1,103	1,800	174	124
2023	3,231	1,186	1,876	169	128
2024	3,324	1,193	1,945	186	138

CQ-WW-SSB¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2008	4,728	2,172	2,419	137	473
2009	5,702	2,568	2,941	193	494
2010	6,175	2,721	3,238	216	524
2011	7,097	3,019	3,831	247	523
2012	7,847	3,287	4,271	289	529
2013	8,104	3,371	4,408	325	559
2014	7,919	3,240	4,335	344	576
2015	7,904	3,197	4,387	320	544
2016	7,266	2,847	4,102	317	589

CQ-WW-WPX-RTTY¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2013	1	1	0	0	0

CQWW SSB¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2011	1	0	1	0	0

E IN A WHILE.¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2009	1	0	1	0	0

IARU-HF¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	4,987	1,643	3,071	250	233
2019	4,339	1,504	2,624	211	218
2020	5,522	1,813	3,398	311	176
2021	3,497	1,156	2,142	199	147

TIMES BECAUSE UNABLE TO CATCH ANY SIGNAL. SORRY FOR THE MANY REPEAT¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2014	1	1	0	0	0

WRTC¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	5	0	5	0	0

WRTC 2018¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	2	0	2	0	0

WRTC-2018¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2018	6	2	4	0	0

WW 2010¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2010	1	1	0	0	0

WW-DIGI¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2019	1,286	303	914	69	31
2020	1,663	368	1,212	83	48
2021	1,401	295	1,039	67	36
2022	1,768	280	1,395	93	34
2023	1,389	224	1,074	91	31
2024	1,356	213	1,023	120	36
2025	1,464	255	1,079	130	42

�CQ-WW-CW¶

Year	Total	High Power	Low Power	QRP	Multi-Op
2015	1	1	0	0	0

Notes¶

Total counts all submitted Cabrillo logs for that contest and year
High/Low/QRP from CATEGORY-POWER: header (not all logs include this)
Multi-Op includes MULTI-ONE, MULTI-TWO, MULTI-UNLIMITED, and MULTI-DISTRIBUTED
Some years may be missing if contest logs are not yet available for download
Checklog and SWL entries are included in totals

Analysis powered by IONIS — 496K Cabrillo log headers from 15 major HF contests, 2005–2025.

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