Last weekend was the biggest SSB contest of the year, CQWW SSB. I can’t believe that means it’s been over a year since my mast was put up as my aim was to get that completed in time for the contest in 2011. I had a couple of aims for this year. Firstly I wanted […]
Category: Contesting
The CQ WPX RTTY Contest 2012 results are out
Back in February I blogged to say that I’d put a serious entry into the CQ WPX RTTY Contest 2012 and I’m happy to say that the results are now out in the July edition of CQ Magazine. I subscribe to CQ in the digital form and I’m always very pleased when the email comes […]
CQ World-Wide WPX CW Contest 2012
This weekend was the CQ World-Wide WPX CW Contest, the second largest CW contest of the year and I decided to give away a few points and perhaps try and pick up some new DXCC entities on the way. I’m still not fully proficient at Morse so this was never going to be a serious entry […]
Not a very good night at the Martello Tower
Last night was the April 144MHz RSGB UKAC contest and as usual we were at the Martello Tower to take part. Things started off slowly with only 15 stations or so worked in the first half an hour with just two of those being given a genuine five-nine report. Signals were generally much lower than […]
Looking forward to the AFD PSK contest this weekend
Since I got my IMD meter recently, I’ve been looking forward to the AFD PSK contest this weekend. It’s only the second time it’s been run and I gave away a few points last year. From what I remember, it seemed a lot more relaxed than some of the bigger contests. The contest runs from […]
What a difference a week (and a mode) makes
Last weekend was a bit of a disaster with just 41 QSOs in the Open Ukrainian RTTY Championship which was even more disappointing as I’d messed up the dates with the EA PSK63 contest. That particular contest was this weekend and so due to other commitments, I only had a few hours to play today with […]
The Open Ukrainian RTTY Championship 2012 – High Band
This weekend was the Open Ukrainian RTTY Championship which runs over three parts – The first two are “Low Band” which consists of 160m and 80m and the third part is “High Band” and that’s 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m. I’d managed to misread a contest calendar and had thought that the EA PSK63 contest […]
Cushcraft MA5B is broken – and repaired
Last weekend was the Hungarian DX contest and I decided a few days prior that I was going to enter it. I planned on a single band entry which would allow me to spend a few hours on the Saturday afternoon and then come back again on Sunday morning when the band re-opened. I worked […]
Days 351 and 352
Just in case there were problems putting my beam back up on day #351 I had a ‘banker’ 40m JT65 QSO first thing, I worked IZ2QPP, Ermes. All went well though and so I spoke to UA9CUA on 10m SSB followed by P39P on 15m. After that I had a chat with M3TUC, Tucker in […]
Days 344 and 345 – The ARRL 10m Contest
These two days were the ARRL 10m contest and I had high hopes for it. I had a mental target of 500 QSOs over the course of the weekend but things didn’t go as well as expected. I started off on Saturday morning and it was difficult to get a run going and that really […]
