ARRL cw dx contest resultPosted in Contesting on August 28, 2010 by Ton, PA1CC Disappointing result in the ARRL CW DX contest 2010... I did a single band 15m entry but ended up in the single op assisted category. Would have made 1st place in The Netherlands otherwise but something went wrong when submitting my log. So, better luck next time and another lesson learned: check our submitted logs, hi! Ton ARRL ssb dx contestPosted in Contesting on March 08, 2010 by JP, PFøX I worked as single operator high power entry in the ARRL SSB DX contest this year. I chose to operate 15 meters because of the recently improved cndx on this band. Wrong bet! Only got a few W's in the log on saturday afternoon so I went to 20 meters to have at least a few qso's in the log. The problem was that this would put me in the SOAB class and that was not what I intented. So I decided just to have fun a make a couple of hundred qso's on 20. Great opening till late in the evening! The next day some more qso's on 20 as 15 was still dead to NA. At 3 o'clock local time I called it a day. Better luck next time. Ironically I worked more stations during this weekend outside the contest including some really nice DX... Even had to work split on 17 meters cw to work my way through a large JA pile! Some dx wkd Feb. '10Posted in DX on March 08, 2010 by Ton, PA1CC
ARRL cw dx contestPosted in Contesting on February 22, 2010 by Ton, PA1CC I worked as single operator, single band high power entry in the ARRL CW DX contest this year. I chose to operate 15 meters because of the recently improved cndx on this band. And...it was almost like the old days! I worked all states except ND in 2 afternoons with my new SteppIR and 400 watts. The cw part of the band was completely packed with stations which made it difficult to get a good balance between cqing and s&p. After a couple of hours I got 596 QSO's in the log and that's not too bad. I am certain tis is not a top position in PA but it's not a loser's score either. In march my friend PF0X will try to put up a good score in the ARRL SSB DX contest on 15 meters. Some dx wkd Jan. '10Posted in DX on February 01, 2010 by Ton, PA1CC
Some dx wkd Dec. '09Posted in DX on December 25, 2009 by Ton, PA1CC
Some dx wkd Nov. '09Posted in DX on November 30, 2009 by Ton, PA1CC
CQWW CW 2009Posted in Contesting on November 29, 2009 by Ton, PA1CC I didn't have enough time to prepare for the contest and had a very busy week at my QRL. So I decided not do do a full contest but focus on working new bandpoints and some dx. Here a some of the results:
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