Archives: 2023
December 31, 2023
This was a much lighter year for blog posts, things have become traditional, went to the Florida Contest Group Contest dinner in Orlando for Hamcation, I won a HT Heil headset. I got 1st place in WCF for the RTTY Roundup somehow, I've done much better other years and not gotten first. I did…
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November 27, 2023
Was shooting for 700 Q's, once I realized that wasn't gonna happen I slowed down a lot. I need to spend more time on 40m on Friday night, my 40m stats were much lower. I got a few new ones, hadn't ever worked China and got two China stations in 5 minutes, also South Korea and Kazakhstan which I…
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September 20, 2023
I didn't get a ton of contacts but ended up with a 1st Place in the section in the 2023 RTTY Roundup contest.
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July 9, 2023
Put in a casual effort in the IARU HF Championship for 103 Contacts. This was also WRTC but I was only able to work 2 of the station for that. I worked quite a few of the HQ station for the different countries' amateur radio organizations.
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May 5, 2023
Saw the stats for CW WW CW 2022, came in 6th in Call Area 4. Got credit for 671 contacts out of 675 logged, pretty good I think. /2022/11/28/cq-ww-cw-2022-675-contacts/ Contest post
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February 20, 2023
Only managed a little over an hour with the ARRL DX CW contest this weekend but made 57 contacts. Added some new DXCC's on 10m with Greenland, Kenya and Mexico, probably some others as well.
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February 12, 2023
Hamcation fell on the 2nd weekend in February again this year so I was able to attend both Friday and Saturday since the club meeting is on the first Friday of the month. I picked up a N3ZN CW key to add to my collection of expensive CW keys. I also attended the FCG contest dinner where I won a…
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February 4, 2023
I've been thinking about a 2nd antenna since I've got a Flexradio with a lot of antenna ports and only one connected. I came across a receive only antenna called a Loop on Ground. It's like a poor man's beverage antenna as it is only 15'x15' square. Matt Roberts KK5JY has a great write up on it at…
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January 15, 2023
Was on team W1YL Memorial-8 with the Florida Contest Group. This is a new personal best in this NAQP CW contests with 24,687 points. Though I might have less than that officially because I'm not 100% sure I got South Dakota on 80m because a lid doubled on the op. Didn't operate for 5 hours while…
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January 9, 2023
RTTY Roundup 2023 Didn't go hard on this one but it was fun. Got The Gambia on 10m, pretty sure that's a new one for me.
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