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,…
RTTY Roundup 2024 – 117 Qs
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.
CQ WW CW 2023 – 347 QSOs
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 missed last year.
2023 RTTY Roundup 1st Place WCF
I didn’t get a ton of contacts but ended up with a 1st Place in the section in the 2023 RTTY Roundup contest.
IARU HF Championship 2023 – 103 contacts
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.
CQ WW CW 2022 6th place District 4!
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. https://aa0o.radio/2022/11/28/cq-ww-cw-2022-675-contacts/ Contest post
ARRL DX CW 2023 – 57 contacts
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.
NAQP CW Jan 2023 – 211 Q’s
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 hosting a show with my other hobby, and cut out 50 mins before the end.
ARRL RTTY Roundup 2023 – 132 Q’s
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.
2022 Year in Review
I did a lot of stuff with the radio club this year, I wrote a Year in Review about it on the club webpage. My big radio things this year were going to the FCG Contest Dinner at Hamcation, usually it’s on the same day as the club meeting. I got to meet quite a few people I knew from on the air and online only, also I won a power supply in the raffle. Hamcation is on the 2nd weekend in February for 2023 and I’ve already got my tickets to this year’s dinner. I also drove up to Dayton this year and did POTA camping on the way….