Excellent propagation with east coast USA and Canada. Unfortunatly still PSKreporter is missing some DX spots. Saw several HK stations, HC2FG and VU2CPL only RX.
Excellent propagation with east coast USA and Canada. Unfortunatly still PSKreporter is missing some DX spots. Saw several HK stations, HC2FG and VU2CPL only RX.
I just wanted to try this small local CW contest without using the DX cluster and without a CW decoder on the computer. Just decoding with my own mind. And it went reasonable well. Even that well that I found the courage to run for the last 5 minutes ;-). Participation was only the last hour of the contest.
But it was confusing at times. I really had to adapt on some stations. Why calling with CQ PA DE PA... etc. or CQ PA PA.... The double PA is really confusing. In my opinion just send CQ TEST.
Another panic situation was when neighbourstation PA0O wanted to direct me to his 40m frequency. Oh my, this went way too fast for me and it was unexpected. I didn't know what to do. Alle went well in the end...
Tomorrow is the SSB part of this contest in which I will participate the whole contest. I hope to have time next year to participate in the CW part as well for the whole duration of the contest. I think I really like CW contesting. If only I get faster in decoding CW.
Unfortunatly missed the RR73 from 4G1G. Will see if I'm in the log after all? However I was not really satisfied with this contact.
Todays heard DX: JA (Japan), UN (Kazakhstan), EX (Uzbekistan), VK3 (Victoria, Australia), DU (Philippines), BA (China), VU (India), VK8 (Northern Territory, Australia), XV (Vietnam), N1 (USA), VO (Canada).