Category: Contests
November 9, 2020
8 contacts into the ARRL Sweepstakes CW contest I hit my 10,000th contact ever. It was with N4ZZ, I'll send him a card. I'm still in the process of getting my old house ready as a rental so my shack is mostly still in boxes. I pulled out the bare minimum of stuff to get my Flexradio hooked up. I…
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August 5, 2020
I put in 6.5 hours on the North American QSO Party CW contest over the weekend. I had similar problems with QSB during the day with signals faded out. Hopefully they didn't have the issue on their end and I got in the log. I made two contacts with Dr. Ted Rappaport N9NB who did the speech at the…
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July 21, 2020
I put in a part time effort (5 hours out of 10) in the North American QSO Party RTTY contest for July. I made 120 contacts, one was Hawaii. I was on Team Aardvarks-1, we had enough people to field 2 teams this time around with people from the SPARC club. Hopefully interest continues to grow. I had…
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July 12, 2020
I entered as mixed mode CW & SSB but most of my 300 contacts were on CW. I tried to do some SSB but it seemed like every station had a pileup going and I wasn't getting through. This contest involves a bonus for contacting the HQ station of each country's radio association, I ended up contacting 49…
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May 2, 2020
I saw someone else posted their CQ WW contest certificate so I checked and I had two, I got 1st Place Rookie - Low Power in North America in the CQ WW SSB 2019 contest! and 1st Place - Rookie in the #4 Call Area for CQ WW CW 2019!
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April 29, 2020
I had a great time with the Florida QSO Party over the weekend. Normally a bunch of us do the contest from the club station, and we won Top Florida Club the last two years. With the antenna damage and the virus we weren't able to do that this year so I used my home station. I ended up with 403…
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March 1, 2020
Map of QSO's for NAQP RTTY Feb 2020 I made a decent amount of contacts in the 5 hours I operated this contest. 2 contacts with Hawaii. I had a conference earlier in the day so I made a late start. 40m had a lot of QSB so I'm hopeful I was able to complete some of the contacts as I lost contact…
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February 16, 2020
I did this one remotely since I'm attending a wedding in Jacksonville this weekend. I brought along my old Windows laptop so I could run N1MM and Smart SDR for the Flex Radio. It worked really well remotely from the AirBnB. The only issue I had was I setup the "FL FL" macro for repeating my…
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January 28, 2020
Once again we had Winter Field Day at the Clearwater Fire Training Facility. It's a great location and they give us the run of the training areas. We setup a beam, a rotating dipole, 2 slopers and an off center fed dipole. We ended up with over 1200 contacts and covered every US section. It was a…
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January 12, 2020
I've started the CW Academy intermediate class and my advisors have asked us to set weekly goals and then report on them. For my first week I set a goal of 50 QSO's in the NAQP CW contest. I was able to get 79 QSOs. I found that I'm getting pretty good at copying callsigns, even the fast ones. I'm…
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