Tag Archives: contest

CQ WPX SSB M/S at G6PZ

The weekend has passed and the bands have returned to the usual semi quietness after the WPX SSB contest took for 2 today’s of contest activity, this year instead of taking part with the Cray Valley Radio Club I was invited to go down to G6PZ , the last time I had been to the [...]

BARTG HF RTTY Contest

This weekend was the yearly BARTG HF RTTY Contest, and even though propagation is pretty poor there was still plenty of stations to work. This was also the first time I got to try the Yaesu FT-950 properly with the new firmware and it preformed brilliant the DSP and filters made stations transmitting close together [...]

Twitter Contest Alerts via @DXAnywhere

Last weekend I coded up a simple contest calendar system for DXAnywhere the idea for this is to allow people to filter alerts if it was a contest weekend, but after a while I thought with all this information it would make a good web service.
Tweets get sent out every Wednesday at 13:30 UTC I [...]

CQ WPX RTTY Contest

This weekend was the yearly WPX RTTY contest, and I managed to put in a couple of hours on Saturday conditions seemed pretty poor and didn’t pick up any real DX.
Seemed to work a good section of Europe and into the USA, ending up with 102Qs on 20m.
Equipment: Yaesu FT-950, 80m Windom and MixW