Whew, what a weekend, I operated in the ARRL June VHF Contest from two locations as WG3K/R and it was a learning experience to be sure. My first operating location was from Cunningham Falls State Park (FM19GP20) and second was from home (FM18rp). I learned a lot and had …
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Plans for the ARRL June VHF Contest
read moreThe 2024 ARRL June VHF Contest is quickly approaching and I’ve been working hard to get my station ready to deploy. So far, it appears I’ll be on the air on 6m through 23cm (except 1.25m and 33cm) using a Kenwood TS-2000X. I’ll be trying out …
2015 August UHF Contest Results
Opened the mailbox today and was
surprised to see an envelope from Newington waiting for me. Looks like
I placed third in the Atlantic Division (SOLP) and first (out of two) in
the MDC section!Missed all the VHF+ contest this year but I'm hoping to get my antennas back …
read moreActivating Apple Orchard Mountain (W4V/RA-001)
On Saturday, 16 July 2016, Dave KB3RAN, Steve N3IPN, and I hiked up Apple Orchard Mountain (SOTA W4V/RA-001) to activate it for the Appalachian Trail Golden Packet event. While we were there we took advantage of the altitude and activated the summit for Summits on the Air (SOTA), National …
read moreA non-contester's results of the IARU HF Championship
Unless you were asleep at the dial you probably heard a lot of yelling, begging, and contacts being made on the HF bands yesterday. From 1200Z yesterday to 1200Z today stations were on the air doing what contest stations do - making contacts. Ahh, yes, it was the weekend for the …
read moreARRL Sweepstakes contest and LoTW
The ARRL Sweepstakes contest (phone) took place last weekend and I spent a few hours on the air making a few contacts. Although I didn't have much time to spend on the event I did add twenty new contacts to my log. Since I'm working on my WAS from my …
read moreAmateur Radio Contest logging software for Linux
I've been looking for a good amateur radio contest logging program for Linux. Little did I know that the solution was right under my nose!
fldigi is a great amateur radio program that will encode and decode almost any digital mode you can find out on the HF bands. This …
read more2010 CQ WW WPX RTTY Contest is complete!
After thirty hours of listening to "diddles" the 2010 CQ WW WPX RTTY Contest is over! Band conditions did not let me down, this year. I had excellent results from all bands and even scored a New Zealand contact!
read moreStatistics:435 Contacts47 DXCC Entities47 US States17 CQ …Proposed Rover Operation for ARRL UHF Contest
I'm considering doing a rover operation for the ARRL UHF Contest this August. I'm still trying to figure out where I want to operate (Shenandoah comes to mind) but I should have my 1.2GHz (23cm) transceiver up and working in addition to the 432MHz (70cm) so it should be …
read moreSeptember VHF QSO Party is over...
ARRL September VHF QSO Party in progress!
I meant to post this last night but I'm up and active on 6m and 2m SSB for the ARRL September VHF QSO Party. I can almost say that I've worked everyone that I've heard but AA4ZZ in Boone, NC is going to make me a liar. In my defense …
read moreNovember Sweepstakes
It appears that I'll be working the November Sweepstakes with friends this year. Ed, KN4KL, will (hopefully) be sponsoring us at his house for the contest and will be joined by Jeremy, KO4SJ, and Jason, N4ZBE. There was even a rumor about Amanda, KI4IWS, joining in the fun. I guess …
read moreQSLs from CQ WW RTTY DX Contest
Would you believe that it hasn't even been 24-hours since the end of the CQ WW RTTY DX contest and I've already have 22% of my QSOs confirmed? I just checked the ARRL's LoTW and noted that I have 52 of my 240 contacts confirmed from over the weekend. Those …
read moreCQ WW RTTY DX Contest FINAL
A man can only take but so much and I have gone well beyond that. I have figured out where I stand in the ham radio community, I am not a contester but rather a DX chaser. The CQ WW RTTY DX Contest goes for 48-hours and it is quite …
read moreCQ WW RTTY DX Contest - Day 1
Well, actually it is day one plus four hours or so. I haven't been really "competing" but I have been grabbing the QSOs that I could. So far I've racked up 160 QSOs on 4 continents, 42 countries, 28 US states, 7 Canadian providences, and 16 CQ zones. Not bad …
read moreCQ World Wide RTTY DX Contest
The CQ WW RTTY DX Contest will be this upcoming weekend (29-30 Sep 2007). This will be the first contest I will be participating in since moving into the new shack. I'm not expecting a lot of good DX results at the moment due to the past experiences with the …
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