Category: Contests
February 13, 2026
Skipped Hamcation this year and just went to the contest dinner on the way to my folk's place. Dave KM3T gave the speech. Amanda won a $100 DX Engingeering gift certificate. Sat at a table with some WRTC competitors so that was fun.
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October 29, 2025
DX trip to the island on Montserrat in the Caribbean for CW WW SSB contest
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July 24, 2024
I saw the CQ WW CW Results were available and I got 9th place in call area 4, out of 85 so not bad. If I had got the 700Q's I was aiming for I may have gotten 3rd.
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February 19, 2024
Started just as a casual entry but it was fun so I kept going. I mostly searched for new multipliers to get my score up. On Thursday I received the parts I was waiting for to hook up my CW skimmer full time (I'll be doing a write up on this soon). Since this contest doesn't give points for…
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January 7, 2024
Another casual contest entry, it went really fast the last couple hours of the contest since there wasn't as much competition. I tried to run a few times but would quickly get to 5+ minutes with out a Q so I went back to search and pounce which was faster.
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November 27, 2023
Was shooting for 700 Q's, once I realized that wasn't gonna happen I slowed down a lot. I need to spend more time on 40m on Friday night, my 40m stats were much lower. I got a few new ones, hadn't ever worked China and got two China stations in 5 minutes, also South Korea and Kazakhstan which I…
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September 20, 2023
I didn't get a ton of contacts but ended up with a 1st Place in the section in the 2023 RTTY Roundup contest.
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July 9, 2023
Put in a casual effort in the IARU HF Championship for 103 Contacts. This was also WRTC but I was only able to work 2 of the station for that. I worked quite a few of the HQ station for the different countries' amateur radio organizations.
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May 5, 2023
Saw the stats for CW WW CW 2022, came in 6th in Call Area 4. Got credit for 671 contacts out of 675 logged, pretty good I think. /2022/11/28/cq-ww-cw-2022-675-contacts/ Contest post
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February 20, 2023
Only managed a little over an hour with the ARRL DX CW contest this weekend but made 57 contacts. Added some new DXCC's on 10m with Greenland, Kenya and Mexico, probably some others as well.
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