Unfortunately this contest is held at an inconvenient time of the year. Propagation on HF at this time of the year is not that good and there is lots of noise all around. Besides that there are many chores in and around the house, mostly garden work and maintenance of the house. So, I didn't want to spend much time in this contest. At saturday I had the radiomarket in Beetsterzwaag and when I came back my sister visited us when she juist arrived back with her camper in the Netherlands after she spend a long time in Hungary. After all that I was tired and didn't want to setup for the contest. Sunday morning I managed to setup N1MM for the WPX CW contest and immidiatly got intimidated by the high speed CW calls. But I managed to make a few QSOs after all. Then other chores needed to be done and I returned late in the afternoon just before dinner. I decided to make it till 75 QSO's after dinner and stopped. Overall propagation was not to good. It was difficult or impossible to hear any cluster spots at all so I went back to tuning by hand, real S&P. DX was rarely heard, most of the contacts were inside Europe. I think it was a good decision to spend limited time at this contest.
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| All the contacts made. After all some DX was workable. |
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