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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Last weekend was the JARTS RTTY contest, so I decided to have a dabble and see what I could work in-between decoding and processing International Space Station passes. conditions to my surprise were reasonable and managed to work 9M2 a couple of times on 20m although I never managed to log any JA stations perhaps [...]
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