Last weekend was the IARU HF Championship. It’s a 24 hour contest with HQ stations in the different zones. My new call is a zone 7 call but I am in zone 8. Some logging software automatically populate the zone number so I had to correct quite a few people. I was wondering if that was going to be an issue. A couple other people said they really liked my callsign as well so it evened out. Some people heard the first A in AA0O as Papa or Delta, I think I might have missed getting a full contact with LC5K in Norway because of this. He faded out pretty…
13 Colonies Special Event
There’s a 13 Colonies radio special event celebrating the 4th of July. I’ve enjoyed it so far, there’s 13 stations, one in each state with short K2x calls and a couple special event stations. They’re on all different modes and they all have pileups going, some really deep(Rhode Island). I’ve got 9 so far. http://13colonies.net/