Archives: 2021
December 31, 2021
Overall a pretty slow year for ham radio for me. There weren't many DXpeditions, I enjoy chasing them. I did complete my DXCC for CW so now I have all 3. I also completed the Worked All States Triple Play. I made 10 or more contacts in 132 Wednesday CWT mini contests, which will earn me a Gold…
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November 29, 2021
I had a good time with the CQ WW CW contest this year. This is my favorite one as all the contacts are DX and there's really no exchange since it's just the CQ Zone of your country. Only the US has callsigns were you can't be certain which zone it is so I just need to copy the callsign. There were…
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November 9, 2021
Did 10 hours of the ARRL CW Sweepstakes. Ended up with 76 of the 83 zones. Missed the Northern Territories of Canada, and PEI, plus Eastern Washington State only had one guy calling(I did all S&P). I entered this one as assisted. I setup the CW Skimmer program on my shack computer and had it feed…
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October 9, 2021
We activated K-6700 Sawgrass Lake Park which is one of the newer added Parks, in St. Petersburg, with the St Petersburg Amateur Radio Club. We got quite a few park-to-park contacts and we'd have everyone send their callsigns out so we gave people quite a boost to their P2P contacts. Billy KN4LUZ…
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September 2, 2021
While I was in MA I had time for an activation. There's quite a few state forests next to eachother but I picked Mount Grace. This was a quick activation, I made 14 contacts with 2 park-to-park.
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September 1, 2021
On my way from the Adirondacks to Massachusetts it was a bit rainy but I had time for an activation. I was looking for a spot in the Green Mountains park to activate but the rain was coming down pretty heavy due to the remnants of hurricane Ida coming through. I passed a dam that was in Townshend…
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August 31, 2021
After visiting my old friends in my hometown, I had a week before I went to a wedding the following weekend in Mass. I spent the week camping in the Adirondacks. The first couple nights I camped way out in the woods and had trouble getting my signal out of the trees. I made one really clear contact…
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August 29, 2021
I visited my friends in my home town of Binghamton, NY and had to activate the first state park I'd ever went to while I was there. I spent a lot of time here over the years. I made 18 contacts with 4 park-to-park. This park was pretty crowded but I found a quiet spot to activate.
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August 23, 2021
I did a road trip to the northeast and stopped at Gettysburg on the way for an activation. I'd been to Gettysburg a few times with the Boy Scouts when I was a kid. I got there in the morning and there were very few people there, especially for the size and number of parking lots. I activated in one…
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July 13, 2021
This is a fun contest because the exchange is really easy. I ended up with 293 contacts. I tried to run for a bit but didn't have much luck so it was all search and pounce. This contest has a big dupe penalty so that made me doublecheck a few times to make sure I had their call right before I sent…
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