Now we’d like to show one of messages from YCP participants at WPX SSB on this March.

YCP参加者（３月のWPX SSB）から送られてきたメッセージのひとつをご紹介しましょう。

Since this was my first DX contest to participate in, so I had got confused in many unfamiliar cases, but I could enjoy the contest thanks to other operators’ support. Some of them had never participated in this kind of contest just like me, so I was largely encouraged and I often sympathized with them.

I was ready to face the difference of callsigns and pronunciations among each countries (it was hard to catch correctly “eight” from some countries indeed.) However, from the viewpoint of a person who had only took part in domestic contests, I think I had an experience which expanded my view of the world of ham radio … good condition in a band which I hardly used (I came to think better of 20m), the difference of countries whose conditions are good depending on time in bands which I was used to, etc. I felt that I should operate in domestic contests depending on the difference of each bands in each time.

(21 y/o)

誘いを受けて初めて参加するDXのコンテストだったこともあり，不慣れな点が多くて戸惑うこともあったが，皆様のサポートもあって楽しく運用を行うことができた．私と同様に初めて参加する方も何人かおり，大変励みになったし，共感することが多々あった．

コールサインの違いや発音の違いなどは覚悟していた（『エイト』の聞き取りがとても難しかった）が，国内のコンテストしか参加していなかった身からすると，普段全然使わなかったバンドが大きく開けていたり(14MHzを大変見直すこととなった)，慣れ親しんだバンドも時間ごとに取れる国がはっきりと分かれたりし，自分の中のアマチュア無線の世界を大きく広げる良い経験ができたように感じる．国内コンテストでも時間ごとのバンドの違いをもう少ししっかり意識した運用をしたいと感じた．

(21 歳)