First time full time SSB High Power participation at WPX contest. This time was the contest more about CQ than about WPX or even DX. Start of the contest showed me prediction for next 48the whole story…
CONTEST STORIES
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CQ WW 160m CONTEST SSB 2017
Contesting just for fun and for full time contesters donation by few points. I was limited by my job – weekend working shifts. I decided to run this contest to feel SSB contesting after verythe whole story…
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST CW 2017
Another contest affected by the sun activity minimum… Quite good conditions on low bands, I enjoyed of nice pileups from time to time. High bands were only about 20m and 15m. I thought, that atthe whole story…
CQ WW 160 m CONTEST CW 2017
Another nice 160m CW, but minimum of Sun activity is comming. „Unfortunately“, I have good TX, but bad RX. No RX antenna built for this winter. Really hard conditions this year. So-so 11 K/VE multipliers.the whole story…
CQ WW DX CONTEST CW 2016
This year I participated with limitation of my antenna farm. Half of my Cushcraft A4S boom (half with just reflector mounted) crashed and new large Multibander has arrived just two days before the CW leg…the whole story…
CQ WW WPX CONTEST CW 2016
My plan was SOAB HP category for this contest. But I changed to SOSB 80m after tribander crash 3 weeks before the contest. So I decided to run in holiday style – to enjoy, tothe whole story…
CQ WW WPX CONTEST SSB 2016
This contest shows picture of definitive „good bye“ from Cycle 24. I started on 40m, but deep night was time of closing of this band. I early QSY to 80m, and this was good decisionthe whole story…
Russian DX Contest 2016
Contesting just for fun between two weekend day shifts at work. Also to test of potential technical problems before next weekend SSB WPX. Fortunately everything works fine. Glad to giving some points to few guys.the whole story…
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST CW 2016
This year ARRL was one of most strange condx I have ever remembered. I started on 40m, but it was disaster, band closed, somebody forget switch this band on. 80m a bit better and 160mthe whole story…
CQ WW 160 m CONTEST CW 2016
I remember a lot of better dx conditions on Top Band. Sun activity is going down, so I again decided to build of TX3A receiving double half-delta loop at place of 80m far from anythe whole story…
CQ WW DX CONTEST CW 2015
Last years CQ WW CW conditions was probably last gift of sun cycle 24. I expected bad high bands conditions due to conditions few days before the contest. Quite nice pileups during the whole firstthe whole story…