I didn’t operate in this contest, but I took a video with my iPhone for about 20 minutes or so. I uploaded the video in three parts to YouTube, from my iPhone, so excuse the jumps at the end / start of each video. I know they’re not timed correctly, it was a visual approximation from the small screen of the phone. What you hear is a station calling “CQ,” which can be thought of as “Seek You,” and is a way of calling for any station listening to respond. Usually you can’t hear both ends of the conversation, but sometimes you get lucky and you can. The stations exchange a serial number (the running total number of stations worked) and signal report (usually five by nine, signifying five, or best, readability, and nine, or best, strength). See if you can follow along.
For more information on the CQ WPX Contest, visit their Website, http://www.cqwpx.com/.