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Joined the ARRL

Peter — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:30:00 +0000

During the RSGB Convention, I decided to join the ARRL not because they had a slick stand at the convention (because they did), but because it will be interesting to read the different articles and hopefully learn some new stuff.

ARRL RTTY Roundup

Peter — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:06:18 +0000

This weekend I did a S&P effort in the ARRL RTTY Roundup with the aim of just having some fun, Saturday night 20m was poor only worked a couple of stations then the band faded out so spent a few hours on 40/80m before going to bed I did manage to work 2 NA stations on 40m but took a couple of trys.

On awaking Sunday somewhat later then expected I got a cup of tea and headed back in the shack and worked a good few stations on 20m and a few on 15m I did find stations found it hard to copy me on 15m so guess the 80m windom isn’t up to much on that band.

I stopped operating just after 2pm Sunday and then had a go in the RSGB AFS.

Summary:

	QSOs	DX	States	Provs
80m	7	4	0	0
40m	54	19	2	0
20m	52	16	3	0
15m	17	6	3	1
Total	130	28	5	1

Score: 130*(28+5+1) = 4420 points

Equipment

MixW
Yaesu FT-950
Antennas
- 80m Quarter Wave L
- 80m Special Windom

ARRL RTTY Roundup

Peter — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:50:21 +0000

Last weekend was the yearly ARRL RTTY Roundup, which I decided to have a dabble in, I found conditions very poor at best although managed to work 9M2 and E21. I was pleased that I managed to work some stations on 80m as the Windom seems to preform very poorly on this band.

Total operating time was around 4 hours give or take and summary below shows a very poor effort in my view.

 MODE   QSO S/P DXC DUP  POINTS   AVG
--------------------------------------
   80     3   0   2   0       3  1.00
   40    51   1  19   0      51  1.00
   20    48   0  10   0      48  1.00
   15     0   0   0   0       0  0.00
   10     0   0   0   0       0  0.00
--------------------------------------
TOTAL   102   1  31   0     102  1.00
======================================
         TOTAL SCORE : 3 264

Equipment: Yaesu FT950, 80m Windom, MixW for logging.

ARRL DX 10m Contest

Peter — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:11:20 +0000

This weekend was the ARRL 10m contest, I knew well in advance that this was in no way a serious contest with conditions in there current state, but even so I had a tune over 10m Saturday afternoon to see what I could hear there was a couple of weak EAs on SSB, but lower down the band on CW was EA4TX and EA4KA who both came back first call.

So I was at least pleased to get two QSOs but I wont be winning any awards for this one.