This weekend I entered the Work All European RTTY contest 2013. Saturday morning I was up early (5:30 am) to first switch on the radio. Of course the first band to enter this early is 40 meter. Unfortunately my set-up isn’t complete RFI-free on 40 meter. So when putting too much power out (around 60/65…
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JARTS WW RTTY contest
This weekend I was all prepared for the JARTS WW RTTY contest. Propagation is great at the moment, around 9 am 10 meters is wide open. Saturday morning around 5:30 I was in the shack making QSO’s. Balancing between family time and contesting the whole weekend, Sunday evening at 10 o-clock I was done with…
Makrothen RTTY 2013
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…