Category: Contests
January 15, 2023
Was on team W1YL Memorial-8 with the Florida Contest Group. This is a new personal best in this NAQP CW contests with 24,687 points. Though I might have less than that officially because I'm not 100% sure I got South Dakota on 80m because a lid doubled on the op. Didn't operate for 5 hours while…
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January 9, 2023
RTTY Roundup 2023 Didn't go hard on this one but it was fun. Got The Gambia on 10m, pretty sure that's a new one for me.
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December 31, 2022
I did a lot of stuff with the radio club this year, I wrote a Year in Review about it on the club webpage. My big radio things this year were going to the FCG Contest Dinner at Hamcation, usually it's on the same day as the club meeting. I got to meet quite a few people I knew from on the air and…
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November 28, 2022
I set out with a goal of 600 contacts, last year I got 371 and I wasn't very focused. Ended up with 21.5 hours according to N1MM+ out of the 48. After the Saturday night I didn't think I was going to make 600 but things got easier on Sunday and I moved right along. The only one I think I missed…
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August 7, 2022
Put in a minimal effort in the NAQP CW contest. Got two contact on 10m from Hawaii though which is a new one for me I believe. My ADIF mapper is broken so I used a different one: NAQP CW August 2022 QSOs
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July 31, 2022
Saw that there was a Feld Hell sprint contest this weekend and I never worked that mode before so I tried it out. It sends a fax style signal with the font embedded in the waveform. I only made one contact and it was a little cumbersome as I'm not familiar with the QSO flow exactly. I feel like it…
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July 12, 2022
Had a slow start but then things started to pick up in the afternoon. Ended up with 332 CW contacts from S&P. 15m worked well for a lot of the time. This is one of my favorite ones due to the easy exchange of the ITU zone. There's only a couple tricky ones, US and Brazil are commonly heard…
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May 31, 2022
Put in a solid 3 hours on this with search and pounce since I had some other events to go to.
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February 21, 2022
Put in about 8 hours on the ARRL DX CW contest this weekend for 212 contacts. This is my 2nd favorite after the CQ WW CW. Tons of people on the air, the rarer stations all had thick pile ups, I didn't get through to Kenya or Morocco. The pile ups didn't make a lot of sense, there would be 20 people…
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January 10, 2022
I normally get a lot more contacts in the RTTY Roundup but I couldn't get a run started at all. I'd call CQ for 10 minutes and get nobody. Search and pounce worked fine though so it wasn't a signal problem. It was super nice out so I smoked a nice cigar while operating from the garden hammock. Map…
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