Category: CW
September 3, 2025
Ed N2TE found my reserve beacon network node and hit me up on email about doing a presentation on the RBN setup as well as CW for the Lakeland radio club. I had done a general CW presentation at a computer security conference a couple years ago so I added the RBN info to that. I drove up to…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 28, 2021
We had our 3-club joint field day this year at the Clearwater Fire Training Facility. We ran 3 stations plus a 6meter FT8 station. We setup 5 antennas including my hexbeam that I used to have on the roof of my old house. The hexbeam went together real easy and worked amazing. We have a triplexer so…
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