I don’t often do RTTY contests, but I decided to join the team at WA3EKL/N3DPB for this one. We entered Multi-2, and as NAQP is deomestic there is a 100W power limit for everyone. Call: N3DPB Operator(s): N3DPB WA3EKL KB3VQC AD5XI AC3BU K3MTR Station: N3DPB Class: M/2 LP QTH: SEVERN, MD Operating Time (hrs): 12 […]
Category: Contesting
FOC Marathon 2020 – AD5XI
For the second time since moving to the USA I decided to operate the Marathon from home so I could dip in and out among other things during the weekend. I didn’t get chance to operate at all on Friday evening after work and the bulk of my QSOs came on Saturday, though I got […]
Winter Field Day 2020 – K3CUJ
This was my first Winter Field Day and I joined team CARA – The Columbia Amateur Radio Association who entered with 2x HF stations in the 2O category as K3CUJ. The original plan was 3O with a VHF/UHF satellite station, but various illnesses meant that we scaled back the station. In all we made 526 […]
NAQP CW January 2020 – AD5XI
I decided, like in 2019, to do this contest from my home station as there is benefit to PVRC from more entries rather than just being a team operator. It also meant I could dip in and out while getting some things done around the house. It seems that I missed the prime slot on […]
ARRL 160M Contest 2019 – AC3BU
I was able to operate in this contest for a few hours from the WA3EKL station using the call AC3BU. The 160m system at Alan’s station works pretty well and it was nice to operate on a band that I don’t have access to at my home station. Call: AC3BUOperator(s): AC3BU AD5XI KØOO K3MTR KB3VQC KC3KMF KC3MGX N3DPB ND3D WA3EKLStation: WA3EKLClass: M/S HPQTH: MDCOperating Time (hrs): 37Location: […]
CQWW CW 2019 – W3LPL
I didn’t really think I’d ever operate from W3LPL’s station, though I had met Frank a few times through various PVRC events. One weekend I went over to help survey the receive antenna array that he builds up for the contest season. For this contest I was the 20M CW operator overnight. Although the band […]
FOC QSO Party September 2019 – AD5XI
I was lucky enough to find a seat at the WA3EKL station, which is nearby. The team were competing in the WAE SSB contest, but as it’s a M/2 station and they weren’t able to muster enough folks to keep the 2nd station going I was allowed to take it over for the QP. The […]
ARRL Field Day 2019 – W3AO
This was my first experience of Field Day in America, and it’s certainly a very different event to Region 1 Field Day in the UK. I was invited to join the team of W3AO by Dan K2YWE who was leading the 80m CW station, though I also belong to the Columbia ARA who provided a […]
CQWPX CW 2019 – NG3K
For this contest I was back at the QTH of Alan WA3EKL and Susan N3DPB to join the team for a M/2 entry. This is always a fun contest and being NG3K was great as it was an unusual enough prefix to be popular throughout the 48 hours. I’m still getting used to these contests […]
ARRL DX CW 2019 – NR4M
Just around December 2018 I was voted in a member of the Potomac Valley Padio Club, PVRC. Since then I’ve been operating contests from a variety of PVRC member stations. At a PVRC event just before Christmas I got chatting to Dan W0CN and he invited me to head on down to The Goat Farm […]