Category: Contests
November 25, 2019
I've been working hard on my CW skills. I took the level 2 prep class in the CW Academy and we've been meeting every week in the time between sessions. I've been putting a lot of time into and it's coming together. I figured I'd try this contest without the decoder and see how I did. I was able to…
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November 18, 2019
This is a contest I was looking forward to. The goal is to try and work all the sections in US and Canada(83 total). I decided to do it unassisted (without the aid of internet spotting networks). I worked more contacts than last year but less sections(53 of 83), probably due to the spotting…
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October 28, 2019
I spent some more time on this contest than last year and had much better results. All sorts of DX. Map of contacts - CW WW SSB 2019 I had quite a few contacts on 15m which is new to me, usually it's pretty dead. I had my typical troubles on 40 and almost none on 80m due to the low height of my off…
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August 26, 2019
I've been traveling a bit and haven't had much to report in the radio dept. I brought my radio on my last trip expecting the AirBnB to be on the top floor but it turned out to be on the 2nd floor and surrounded by buildings so I didn't even bother trying to setup the KX2. When I returned I had a…
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July 21, 2019
I teamed up with Rich AA2MF and Tom W4CU from SPARC and FCG for the North American QSO Party RTTY July contest. Our team name was THREE-FIFTHS, since we couldn't find the 2 others to fill out the team. Turns out those missing two were smart, Rich emailed after the contest and said it was the worst,…
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July 15, 2019
This past weekend was IARU HF Championship. This is a mixed mode contest (CW & SSB) where you try to contact all the different countries radio associations. Lots of them have special callsigns ending in HQ. I ended up with 300 contacts over 15.5 of the 24 hours of the contest. I was pretty beat at…
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July 9, 2019
Besides the GB13COL I had a pretty easy time with this event this year. I got into it right at is was starting and got a few stations. I struggled to hear K2Z but finally had a clear signal from him on the sixth. I got a few of them on CW which was easy. GB13COL was a mess though. When I could hear…
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July 4, 2019
I joined the Florida Contest Group (FCG) and also subscribed to the National Contest Journal magazine. In the latest issue they have an article about how they won't be printing the entire contest results in the magazine anymore yet my callsign still made it to print for the February RTTY contest.…
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June 23, 2019
This weekend was ARRL Field Day. This is also my 100th blog post, Yay! I was on the committee for Field Day this year. We had conference calls and did a dry run to make sure we had all the connectors and accessories we needed. Quite a bit of planning is required to make this event go smoothly. It…
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June 11, 2019
Dan K1TO sent a post to the Florida Contest Group about how to do the ARRL VHF contest using 6m so I figured I'd try it. I mostly worked on my app and just flipped back to WSJT-X to check to see if there were any new callsigns available to work every once and awhile. Most were in Florida. Dan is…
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