May 20, 2024
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.
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February 19, 2024
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…
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January 25, 2024
Not the typical contest ones I usually get from the bureau.
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January 7, 2024
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.
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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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