Traditional CQ World Wide DX contest CW 2025, the largest telegraph competition in the world, again brought exceptionally high-quality results from operators from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Preliminary scores show that both countries fared very well in the global competition, with several stations achieving multi-million point totals.

Slovakia – strong multi-op and single-op performances

Slovakia's top results (preliminary assessment)

The highest performance from Slovakia was traditionally given by the station OM7M in the category Multi-Single High, which achieved great 16,579,080 points.

He dominated the single-operator categories OM7K (OM7RU) with a total score 3,827,240 points, which sovereignly leads the category Single-Op High All Bands among Slovak participants.

Single-Op High Power – All Bands

• OM7K – 3,827,240

• OM8A (OM2ADM) – 2,635,959 (also the winner of the Slovak CLASSIC HP category)

• OM5R (OM5WW) – 1,275,846

• OM6AL – 853,497

• OM3CPF – 672,672

• OM3CFR - 292,842

Single-Op Low Power - All Bands

He achieved the best result OM5JA – 648,528 points, followed by OM3ZU and OM2DT.

QRP - All Bands

• OM3CUG (C) – 46,400

Powers on individual bands

He achieved the most impressive result at 10 m OM3CGN – 140,100.
At 20 m in LOW POWER, it impressed OM5TX (C) with 72,900 points.
At 40 m, LOW POWER dominated OM0EE – 78,546.
At 80 m LOW POWER scored significantly OM5NL – 146,000.

Assisted category

• Assisted High All Bands:

  • OM7LM – 1,057,752

  • OM5CM – 1,017,868

• Assisted Low All Bands:

  • OM7RM – 187,040

  • OM2MM – 183,806

Multi-op categories

• Multi-Single High:

  • OM7M – 16,579,080

  • OM4Q – 4,517,500

Thus, Slovakia can boast of a strong representation, especially in the high-power and multi-op categories, while several stations consistently achieve results in the millions.

Czech Republic – strong traditional teams and growing number of QRP operators

Czech stations once again confirmed their high competitiveness. The best Czech single-operator high-power result is performance OK2EA – 1,157,520 points.

Single-Op High Power – All Bands

• OK2EA – 1,157,520

• OK1EP – 425,415

• OK1FZM – 108,100

Single-Op Low Power - All Bands

This typically very strong Czech category was dominated by:

• OL0A (OK1CZ) – 765,776 (also CLASSIC winner)
  Followed

• OK2MBP – 708,000

• OK1BM – 530 334

QRP - All Bands

QRP traditionally strong in the Czech Republic:

• OL3M – 474,810

• OK1KDN – 245,458

• OK2HIJ – 80,586

Powers on individual bands

• 10 m HIGH POWER: OK1DRX (C) – 49,383

• 10 m LOW POWER: OL2C – 109,278

• 15 m QRP: OK2VWB – 66,500

• 20 m LOW POWER: OK2HBR (C) – 72,240

Assisted – All Bands

Czech stations are extremely strong, especially in Assisted categories, where they achieved several multi-million dollar results:

Assisted High All Bands

• OL0W – 5,224,220

• OK1PI – 3,981,830

• OK5WA - 3,431,481

• OL7D – 3,104,214

Assisted Low All Bands

• OL5Y – 4,328,390

• OK6Y – 2,015,429

• OK2WY – 670,760

Multi-op categories

The strongest multi-op results from the Czech Republic:

Multi-Single High

• OK5Z – 11,763,756

• OK7O – 9,103,392

• OL7T – 6,361,310

Two-transmitter:

• OL3Z – 14 014 709

• OL3A – 10,619,887

Czech multi-op teams are traditionally among the strongest in Europe, and the results clearly confirm this this time as well.

Summary

CQ WW DX CW 2025 confirmed the very high level of telegraph traffic in both Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Slovakia was particularly interesting with high-performance multi-op stations and stable single-operator results.
The Czech Republic dominated especially in Assisted categories and in strong multi-op teams. Both countries thus prove once again that they are among the telegraph powers of Europe. Complete preliminary scores can be found at https://cqww.com/raw.htm?mode=CW