It looks like conditions are finally getting better, hi. Low bands were fine, especially 40m was great at my QTH. High bands started to be alive again, with nice runs of NA pileups on 20mthe whole story…

The first SSB contest with two radios + two PAs in HP category. Low bands in good shape on Saturday, then nicely opened 15m and 20m to NA. 10m with good activity, but I wasn’tthe whole story…

I have PAs in good condition, but I decided to run LP due to high temperature problem, hi. Outdoor temperature was between +20°C during the night and +35°C during the day. When I imagined temperaturethe whole story…

My the first completely High Power SO2R assisted contest ever.The problem with ACOM 2000A, which had bothered me few years was solved. In addition I also got second PA for Radio 2. Surprisingly, the interferencesthe whole story…

First time as Low Power and unassisted. But since I’m one of the guys, which didn’t read rules carefully before the contest, I run first few hours as unassisted, hi. Conditions weren’t good, but Ithe whole story…

First fulltime participation on RU DX. I usually run as Non Assisted, so RUDX concept is interesting experience. Again in LP category, since my PA is not ready to work. But I immediately found out,the whole story…

It looked like the 1500 QSOs are going to beat after first 24 hours. Not bad in LP category, even though with 100 watts. Fake. Day 1: Low bands in good shape, nice runs, notthe whole story…

I participated just for fun and to give some points to other RTTY contesters. Plus to test RTTY skills. In fact, RTTY contests are the only one chance to use RTTY mode. Also to testthe whole story…

Low Power after many years of HP. Unfortunately in bad time. Conditions were far away from those year ago. I had a lot of time for preparation. I wanted to built Half Sloper, but itthe whole story…

I decided to try run Low Power, so completely new experience in one of the major contests. My ACOM 2000A is in poor condition and repairing is complicated, so I decided that I won’t fightthe whole story…

This time the contest of two different days. Saturday from minimum of Cycle 24 and Sunday from started (all we hope) Cycle 25. I decided to run CQ WW SSB full time in August, sothe whole story…

This time I decided to run Low Power after long long years of HP only. I have troubles with PAs, so I didn’t want to sprint with repairs just before the contest. Good reason tothe whole story…

I hope that conditions will start to improve soon. I’m tired spending high bands openings in low rates CQ. On the other hand – good opportunity to train SO2R. I see, that it was goodthe whole story…

A bit better conditions, but still in deep minimum of sun activity. HW and SW worked fine this time. So somebody else had to be bothered by Mr. Murphy, hi. It was hard work forthe whole story…

I wanted to try Russian DX for the first time for full 24 hours. But I had PA with bad relay and I had to choose: run LP or HP with just only S/P. Sothe whole story…

As ususally, SSB leg only part time participation, just for fun. Most of QSOs were S/P. Only few minutes of nice pileups, then replaced by crying for rare QSOs. I have still the same setup,the whole story…

Another nice Low Bands contest, hi. Also good time to improve my SO2R skills. Low bands of very nice conditions. Nice pileups on 40m but conditions moved few times between good and average. 80m alsothe whole story…

My first real touch with RTTY ever. In fact, I discovered, that this contest is running just during Saturday day. I decided to setup my station, because the contests are the only oportunity of RTTYthe whole story…

I think this was one of the best TOPband DXconditions I have ever experienced during this contest. My the very best CQ WW DX 160m result ever from all points of view. Really outstanding conditions!the whole story…

This year it was next step to apply SO2R, but still very far from what SO2R is about. I didn’t have time to built set of more antennas to have enough choices to run effectivethe whole story…