Today, when we enter the WWDX Contest, our team is composed of over twenty operators subdivided into work groups, groups for pile-up, section for runner station management, multiplier search, local PC network and data entry management group.
A must for a station like IQ4A, which operates out of an rather common country and which certainly has no specific advantages as regards propagation, is to absolutely never miss any multipliers.
In fact, for our multiplier search purposes, we today use at least 2 operators with 2 RX and 2 antennas on each and every active band!!

Our contest management software handles informing and authorizing the search operators involved in compliance with the 10-minute rule.
The checks are also made on the eventual schedules of the skeds in order to further optimize their timing.
Even the runner station operates with multiple antennas pointing in different directions.

Great emphasis has also been placed on the dependability of the station, the antennas and the use of single-band yagis and quads set up at different heights, with a technician constantly on duty to handle the checking and substitution of anything which might result defective, so as to avoid distracting the operators from their concentration on the contest itself.

These are just a few, simple examples of how a team can optimize its performance and make the best use of the main interests of each member of the team to achieve good overall results -- with the real glue being the harmony and team spirit built up together in so many contest participations.

We begin preparing for the contest at the beginning of April, overhauling and setting up the antennas, installing new antennas and spending a lot of our weekends throughout the year to accomplish it.
Notwithstanding all the work done both for voice and CW, luck and propagation conditions actually favoured us on only four occasions:
- WWDX 1980 (I4RYC)
- WPX 1980 (9A1ONU)
- WWDX 90 (IQ4A)
- WWDX 94 (IQ4A)

this last, first ever CW in Italy.

The above refers to contest participations since 1978, the year in which we first took part with this team in the WWDX in the multi-operator category.

Over the years, experience and continuous work to improve the conditions of the station have made us competitive today in Europe -- and propagation-permitting, also at a world-wide level.