July 31, 2022

First Feld Hell contact

Saw that there was a Feld Hell sprint contest this weekend and I never worked that mode before so I tried it out. It sends a fax style signal with the font embedded in the waveform. I only made one contact and it was a little cumbersome as I’m not familiar with the QSO flow exactly. I feel like it could be a fun contesting mode if I can get the UI sorted out. Here’s what it looks like:

July 12, 2022

IARU HF Championship 2022 – 332 contacts!

Had a slow start but then things started to pick up in the afternoon. Ended up with 332 CW contacts from S&P. 15m worked well for a lot of the time. This is one of my favorite ones due to the easy exchange of the ITU zone. There’s only a couple tricky ones, US and Brazil are commonly heard callsigns that have more than one zone possibility. Even got a contact with Kazakhstan.