PA1JIM » CQ-WW-SSB http://www.pa1jim.nl Dutch Ham Radio Amateur Blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:52:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 CQ WW SSB http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/11/cq-ww-ssb/ http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/11/cq-ww-ssb/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:17:27 +0000 PA1JIM http://www.pa1jim.nl/?p=437 Two weeks ago I switched on the transceiver on saturday and listen around on the bands. I couldn’t believe my ears! There where incredible conditions. 40, 20 15 and 10 where completely open! It wasn’t hard to hear there was a big contest going on. I wasn’t into the contesting lately so I had to pull out the contest calender to check which one was on. It turn out to be the CQ WW SSB contest. After I read the contest rules I started to make some contacts. I was even able to make a qso with South Africa on 10 meters! Finally I’ve got a change to test out my Antron 99 which I installed for 10 meters. It worked very nicely!
At the end of the weekend I’ve made 77 contacts in the contest. Not extremely much, but okay for me. Especially if you bare in mind that I was totally unprepared.
If these conditions are a sign of what is possible in a high sunspot cyclus, I’m gonna have a very nice 6 years to come!

I seem to be unable to convert my HRD-ADIF-log into the needed Cabrillo-format for the contestmanager. I send him the file anyway. A few days later I received an email that my log was processed! Now that’s what I call service… Thanks Bob, K3EST.

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