Tag Archives: contest

BARTG Sprint RTTY

This weekend was host to the yearly BARTG Sprint RTTY, I decided to spend a couple of hours in the shack working the odd station I could hear. What I was pleased to find was that 15m and I made a number of QSOs into North America, 20m was also reasonable maybe a sign of [...]

OK DX RTTY Contest

I’ve spent a couple of hours today in the shack operating in the OK DX RTTY contest, conditions didn’t seem very special I started off at around 10am on 40m working the usual European stations but soon came across P40YL in Aruba then K1SFA. then soon moved to 20m to work some more Europeans, Russians and North [...]

CQWW SSB 2009 at G6PZ

The weekend has passed and the bands have returned to there normal less busy state, after they we’re took over for 48hrs for the yearly CQWW SSB contest, this year I took the trip down to G6PZ in Weston-Super-Mare on the south west coast of the UK.
I arrived at the station Friday afternoon, and we [...]

JARTS RTTY

After getting my upgraded licence and callsign at the start of the week, I thought this would be a good contest to give it a proper airing, though I didn’t put in a full time effort I managed around 7 hours in the shack doing some search and pounce.
Conditions overall seemed reasonable considering the lack [...]