I’m normally a CW only operator, but as I was still in the 14 day travel quarantine on return from the UK I had little else to do and so decided to spend some time in the NAQP RTTY Contest to support the PVRC club score. In total I spent 4:15 in the chair, plus […]
Category: Contesting
IARU HF Championship 2020 – AD5XI
After spending a little while in the UK I now find myself back in W3-land and what better time to spend the first weekend of mandatory quarantine but to enter a contest. I’ve only really entered the IARU HF Championship contest when I’ve been operating as part of the UK team GR2HQ, but this year […]
CQWPX CW 2020 – G9V
As I am still in the UK I decided to put some time in using the Vulture Squadron CG club call G9V. The idea being that G9 is an unusual prefix for England and I may be popular on the bands. Conditions didn’t seem all that great on Saturday, but I worked a few NA […]
The King of Spain CW Contest 2020 – M0PCB
I’ve never done this contest before, but I managed to find a couple of hours on the Saturday evening to play. Only a few QSOs on 20m but I had a decent run on 40m for a while before bed. Just running 100W and an Aerial-51 404-UL OCFD antenna at around 25 feet Inverted-Vee. Keying […]
ARI DX Contest 2020 – M0PCB
Like a few contests recently I haven’t entered this one before, but as I had some time on the radio while this contest was on I decided to work a few stations. While temporarily in the UK again I’m using my back-up station, which is a K3 with an Aerial-51 404-UL Off-centre fed Dipole antenna […]
Ontario QSO Party 2020 – AD5XI
I didn’t actually expect to work this contest, however I ran across some VE3 stations while hunting for CQMM DX participants. I decided to switch between the two contests to maximise use of my time on the air. Band QSOs Pts Mul Pt/Q 3.5 7 22 7 3.1 7 16 48 13 3.0 14 2 […]
CQMM DX Contest 2020 – AD5XI
I’d heard of the CQMM Contest before, but I’d never known what it was and had never taken part. This year due to the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown I decided to distract myself for a few hours in this contest. I spent 4.5 hours in the chair, though I did flip back and forth with the […]
Yuri Gagarin International DX Contest 2020 – AD5XI
To be honest I’ve never paid this contest a lot of attention in the past. However, finding myself in the midst of a COVID-19 related lockdown, as we all are, I decided to give this one some time. I didn’t find conditions all that great, but I did manage to work into Europe, and I […]
Georgia QSO Party 2020 – AD5XI
There were in fact 3 state QSO parties running on the same day. The most activity was from Georgia so I decided to see how many stations I could find on CW. Looking at other peoples scores a lot more activity was present on SSB – I was always going to miss out on that. […]
Russian DX Contest 2020 – AD5XI
I decided to have a short play in the Russian DX Contest this year from home. That put me in the Single Operator, All Band, Low Power, CW only category. In the space of 4 hours and 20 minutes I made 100 QSOs on 40m, 20m and 15m. Only a single QSO on 15m with […]