Sunday, November 25, 2012

I have started to slow down in the CQ WW CW contest

The action on 15m this morning
I am now in day two of the contest seeing I did not turn the radio on Friday night due to spending time with Julie and the first evening I find things to be a zoo and hard to make a contact as QRP. Saturday was just great with lots of action on 10m, 15m and 20m. I was wanting to give 40m and 80m a go but I had to go into work for an all nighter. I did have high hopes of getting more DXCC's added to my ARRL diamond award......but you know what they say "dreams are free" up to this point I have rounded up about 2 new DXCC's. There could have been more but the pileups were out of this world. I did try but was not able to break the pileups. Some highlights up to this point are C5A in Gambia, KH6, T40C Cuba to mention a few. I have heard some very rare DX and some popular DXpeditions but the pileups as I said have been HUGE!!! It's Sunday afternoon here and with working all night I am starting to drift off at times...........but I am going to see how far I can go!!!
Contest on......well easier said than done...

6 comments:

Dick said...

What's the old expression, Mike? "Not if you win or lose but how you play the game". Hope you played nice. 73 Dick


Paul Stam PAØK said...

Hi Mike, wow, what a stations! Yes, I missed that contest. Next time... 73 Paul

VE9KK said...

Good afternoon Dick, oh no worries here I understand fully that this is all in fun...and that I did have.
Mike

VE9KK said...

Good afternoon Paul, yes it sure was a busy contest and the P3 screen sure does lay witness to that. I had a great time not able to spend as much time at the radio as I would had like too..but I did get lots of satisfying time in for sure.
Mike

IZ3NVR - KD2BGM said...

Hi Mike...conditions were just great. i operated SOAB (A) QRP and had tons of fun. You may find my declared on 3830 reflector. Did also my very 1st QRPp QSO at 500mW with RT6A using a power attenuator I built few days before the contest under a project of PA1B.

Just great :)
Hope to QSO with you soon.
Stefano
IZ3NVR

VE9KK said...

Good morning Stefano, great to hear about the first QRPp contact it sure is a great feeling to have your small amount of power go such a great distance. Nice to hear about the conditions as well, I was shocked how long 10m was open for. Bert's attenuator is a great project and he did a fine job of outlining it with diagrams. I too hope to soon contact you over the waves!
Mike