I called CQ a bit on 40 and 80 and though the rates weren’t very high and it was mostly US stations they helped with the totals.
20 seemed to do well into the evening so I popped back there for any new ones. As dusk approached I started to move to 40 and switch between 40 and 20. Almost any 10m station I could hear seemed to have no issue hearing me so it is obvious I am weaker on the receiving end of 10m on the G5RV. I couldn’t hear them but I could hear some others. Saturday I checked 10m a few times and didn’t find anything until later in the day when HC8GR on Galapagos Islands said they were on 10. I kept popping over to 15m where it was quieter and more manageable. Before long it was wall to wall noise on 20m. I did hear a Kuwait station but the pileup was huge. After scanning through 40m I went up to 20m and started working there. I started on 40m and was able to shortly log Japan and Australia on the 1st call to each of them and within a minute of each other. Saturday I woke up and put some coffee on to get things going. After working the stations on each band I spent time moving between the 3 bands and ended the first evening with 121 Q’s at 12:30am / 0430z. At 0000z (8pm local) I got rolling on 20m for 1.5 hours and then 40m for 1 hour and then 80m in S&P. A single op can work 36 of the 48 hours so I figured the easiest way was to look at being off those 12 hours between about 12:30am local time and 6:30am local time Fri/Sat and Sat/Sun and that is what I pretty much did.įriday after a couple long weeks (and weekend) at work I sat down and recorded some audio on the computer to use in the contest when calling CQ. I felt the overall conditions this weekend were good and provided for a lot of fun and a reason to stay on the air. One specific example though there were a few is when KT6YL in the middle of a good pileup she had going stopped and said hello and how nice it was to hear the voice of someone she has made many RTTY contacts with. A few times the op even took a moment out to have a short conversation. A quick ‘Hey David’, ‘There’s s familiar call’ or a ‘Nice to hear you’ always makes me smile.
The weather was pretty clear all weekend but a bit chilly and there might have been some light rain Sunday afternoon but nothing that would impact operating.Īn extra enjoyable tidbit in a phone contest is being able to, even just for a moment, speak with ops I so often make CW and RTTY contacts with.
The WPX is very enjoyable because it is an everyone can work everyone contest providing good DX opportunities as well as US contacts. It is now the next day and the noise from this past weekends very active phone contest is still in my head.
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