Category: Contests
November 29, 2021
I had a good time with the CQ WW CW contest this year. This is my favorite one as all the contacts are DX and there's really no exchange since it's just the CQ Zone of your country. Only the US has callsigns were you can't be certain which zone it is so I just need to copy the callsign. There were…
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November 9, 2021
Did 10 hours of the ARRL CW Sweepstakes. Ended up with 76 of the 83 zones. Missed the Northern Territories of Canada, and PEI, plus Eastern Washington State only had one guy calling(I did all S&P). I entered this one as assisted. I setup the CW Skimmer program on my shack computer and had it feed…
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July 13, 2021
This is a fun contest because the exchange is really easy. I ended up with 293 contacts. I tried to run for a bit but didn't have much luck so it was all search and pounce. This contest has a big dupe penalty so that made me doublecheck a few times to make sure I had their call right before I sent…
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June 30, 2021
I received my CWOPs CWT Bronze Participation Medal. Even though it's a participation medal it's not easy to get. It is award for completing at least 10 contacts each in at least 60 weekly CWT morse code contests in the year. There's 3 hour long sessions every Wednesday. I'm going for Gold this…
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June 14, 2021
Super casual effort on 6m FT8 for the ARRL June VHF Contest, made 27 contacts with quite a few being with people in the club. Map of where my 6m signal was getting heard.
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May 31, 2021
Made a minor effort in the WPX contest this weekend. Worked a station in Crete, I'm hoping he reports to LOTW as I don't have that one on CW and I'm at 99 for my DXCC. Map of contest, CQ WPX CW 2021
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April 26, 2021
Had some unexpected guests for the weekend so I didn't get to put in as much time as I would've liked, still managed 205 contacts in the little time I was on.
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March 23, 2021
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March 1, 2021
Spent some time on the NAQP RTTY contest this week as part of the Aardvarks Wireless Group team. Ended up with 193 contacts, still didn't get North Dakota. That's the last one I need for Worked All States RTTY. My vertical antenna works much better on 80m, I got 53 contacts there. I really enjoy…
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January 4, 2021
Spent a good chunk of the weekend doing the RTTY Roundup. With the lower RF noise level at my new house I was able to get more contacts on 80m (91). Someone mentioned in the last club meeting that the underground power lines make for a quieter experience, I think that is the case here. With RTTY I…
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