Today I participated in the Makrothen RTTY 2013 contest. I didn’t want to sit upstairs for several hours, so I walked the transceiver and all other stuff downstairs and enter the contest from the dinning table in the living room.
My initial plan was to enter the contest for a hour or so and make 30 or 40 QSO’s. But propagation was quite good and my brand new FD-3 wire antenna on it’s new mast performed very well! Even on 10 meters I contacted one American after another. Got two new DXCC: Guantanamo Bay and Republic of the Congo! After about six hours I made 100 QSO’s.
PA8E
Dutch Radio Amateur Station
Great score, Jim. I was on as well but missed you. Maybe next time.
Thanks for your comment Jim, you did a fairly bit better then me. Unfortunately I didn’t hear any JA’s, that’s probably why I lacked some points… Hopefully it will go better next weekend in the JARTS WW RTTY (http://jarts.jp/)
We finally will meet on the air, right?! 😉
Hoi Jim, heb geen tijd gehad voor de contest. Het was hier nl. prachtig weer dus andere dingen buiten te doen. Ben wel heeeeel erg jaloers op die 2 DXCC. 73, Bas
Hoi Bas, dankje voor je reactie. Bij ons was het noodweer, ik ben lekker binnen gebleven. Zonde dat je niet on-air kon zijn! De condities waren geweldig te noemen (SF:128, A:5). Op 10 meter werkte ik de ene na de andere Amerikaan tot aan Argentinië aan toe! Zelfs Nieuw Zeeland op 20 ging zonder enige moeite!
Any idea when the contest scores will be posted on the official website.