This years PA-contest (PACC 2026) turns out to be a special one for me. The first semester of 2026 I am a CW Academy student in the Intermediate class. I challenged myself to participate in the PACC 2026 contest in the QRP-section (5 watt max) and copying CW with only my ears. So no decode-tools…
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PACC 2017 report
This year we participated as PA9G in the PACC 2017 contest. We operated as The Three Musketeers (Rob PA3X, Gerald PA9G and me PA8E) as multi-op, single transmitter. I practically moved my entire shack over to Gerald’s cabin in the woods. The big antenna plans we had before turned out to be a little too…
Contesting
Last weekend I did some contesting. Not like 2014 (my top-contest year) when I made over 3000 contacts. This time in a more sober way. I only got a view hours to spend. Two major contests going on last weekend: PACC and CQ WPX RTTY. My favorite contestmode is RTTY, but I feel a little…