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In total I did about 10 hours of contesting. I'm satisfied with the results. However my most important goal was to make less errors. Not shure if that happened. Especially during the late evening and later Sundaymorning I went tired and not as sharp anymore. I remember I had a big problem to copy a S58 station, luckily he kept repeating his call and after at least 6 times I got it. There were also stations that kept keying at high speed. Probabely not realizing this costs time after all because I kept asking for repeats. But overall decoding CW went well I think. I see an big improvement in numbers copy which I do now nearly automatic.
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Some highlights J38TT on 10m and JR6CSY on 15m. I also contacted FR/UR9IDX on 10m but he was probably not in the contest, I worked him anyway. The station in Africa can't be right, SM5XU/5OO repeated his call several times so I put it in the log, strange. I realize I have it wrong. Could it be SM5/UX5OO? Most likely yes, UX5OO is an existing call. I will correct this. It is easy to mix up the X with a slash. Another error is something in the log I can't explain yet. It seems I have made CW QSOs on 27MHz???. Not possible at all....have to check out what this error is. Never had this before...
A total of 47 DXCC were worked. The PACC is not really a DX contest. Most participants are from Europe and Russia. There are a few from USA/Canada but most of them are in the WW RTTY contest which is also running this weekend.
I had a lot of fun again. And doing CW is still a big challenge for me. With morserunner I train to get the call in 1 time. But in reality I have to ask for at least one repeat before I have the whole call. I also am not really fast in typing in the calls. Some stations already made a 3 time repeat before I typed the call and hit enter. For the first time in this (and any other) contest I did 99% running. I did some S&P but this was only to find an empty spot to run. I have to write that I didn't have to call long to get a pile-up. And when someone was spotting me the frequency went crazy. But overall I kept cool and quiet, with some patience I did work everyone who was calling.
This year was not my best score. But I don't really care. I don't want to have a trophy, I just want to have fun and relax. Winning this section is not within reach for now. I keep training with CW and hope next year it will get better.
Good morning Bas and great job on the contest! As I read your post I saw many improvements in your CW adventure. The ones I noticed were, the time you spent running, all cw effort, the amount of cw contacts, autmatic or ICR on numbers and improvements in decoding. You hard work is now showing fruit. As for other areas such as tricky calls, asking for repeats, callers at high speeds and keying in the call as they keep calling. These are areas we all have had to deal with as we grow with contesting. These are steps we all have had and with practice overcome....but don't worry after you surpass these more in other areas will come. As for asking for repeats what I did when I was first running I had my CW decoder in the taskbar and if I was stuck I would use it. I found sometimes no matter what the other station sent my mind was just made up it was something else and that is all I heard. I too get stations coming back to me as very high speed. If I am calling at 34wpm I can get some at 40 plus. Sometimes I decode them sometimes not. I have done this myself when I was calling CQ at 34wpm then decide to go and S&P but forget to turn the speed down.
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73,
Mike
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Hello Mike, my decoding has improved. I don't want to use a decoder anymore. I did the whole contest just decoding with my own brain. Eventually I will get it and will decode calls without asking for repeats. My ICR is right but the automation is not fast enough. The time between hearing and forming a letter is too long although it is probabely a few milliseconds. Only practise will get me better so I will continue on this CW quest.
DeleteAlways appreciate you comments. 73, Bas
Hallo Bas, Ik heb even in het Log gekeken het station is: SM5/UY5OO. Mijn eerste contact ging de mist in door QRM. Later riep hij mij weer aan en konden we het QSO redelijk makkelijk maken.
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