I’m still not fast enough to decode contest callsigns in CW on the fly but I read an article about some guys who didn’t know any CW and participated in a CW contest using a decoder. The contest logging program I use, N1MM+ Logger has links to one so I tried it out. CW contests are super fun. It’s probably the fastest contacts you can make. I made 175 contacts. I definitely improved my CW skills and more importantly it’s invigorated me to keep working on it.
I checked cqcontest.net where people post their live contact logs. The claimed winner, LZ5R, had 8170 contacts. This is a contest club out of Bulgaria. They are in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, a place I visited last year on a vacation tour of eastern Europe. I googled them and found a drone video of their antennas. Plus some photos of their 80m antenna being installed. That is a big antenna. Congrats on the win.
