I saw the CQ WW CW Results were available and I got 9th place in call area 4, out of 85 so not bad. If I had got the 700Q’s I was aiming for I may have gotten 3rd. https://aa0o.radio/2023/02/20/arrl-dx-cw-2023-57-contacts/
I received the TX5S QSL today. I have so many Q’s they had to send me a supplemental card(there’s 1 10m CW contact on that one). This was a really fun one, some contacts were easy, some were hard, or I just needed to come back later when the pile up was gone. I even broke out the mic for some SSB.
Started just as a casual entry but it was fun so I kept going. I mostly searched for new multipliers to get my score up. On Thursday I received the parts I was waiting for to hook up my CW skimmer full time (I’ll be doing a write up on this soon). Since this contest doesn’t give points for US/Canada contacts the skimmer made it easy to skip over those, increasing how fast I could find new stations. I was just under 8 hours so that’s 47 QSO/hour which is pretty good for search and pounce. Sometimes I’d just catch the last part of the call and respond then verify the skimmer after the Q,…
Not the typical contest ones I usually get from the bureau.
Another casual contest entry, it went really fast the last couple hours of the contest since there wasn’t as much competition. I tried to run a few times but would quickly get to 5+ minutes with out a Q so I went back to search and pounce which was faster.
