Arrl dx contest this weekend

CW: Third full weekend in February (February 18-19, 2012).

Phone: First full weekend in March March 3-4, 2012).

Contest Period: 48 hours each mode (separate contests).

Starts 0000 UTC Saturday; ends 2359 UTC Sunday.

http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx


SEE YA THERE 73

 

See you on the air merlin.

 

Ok, this weekend I try to work the last two states for the WAS-TPA. So I would like to know the callsings from known Lotw users from Oklahoma and Montana.


73 Oli

 

I was surprised how few European stations were heard. Lots of South American stations, and many Caribbean, plus a few VK and ZL. I met my personal goals for single-op low-power non-assisted and had a lot of fun.

 

I worked quite a few European stations on 20 meters, I also worked 10 and 15 meters and only managed a handful of contacts on 10. On 15 meters I worked a lot of South America and Oceanic stations in fact I had commented in a FaceBook group that I had no problem working a station that was 10,200 miles away but had a difficult time working a station that was 2,500 miles away.

All in all I had a good time operating, I wish that I would have had my amp in line and more time to operate. Maybe next year I will be able to operate much more time but I will definitely have my amp in line long before then. Thanks to all the stations that I did work, sent out confirmations by eQSL and LoTW last night.

 

QRM to Health & Welfare

Well contest are ok but when some so called contesters
Who run splits on 40 meters fail to check the freq they start
calling on. It makes for a lot of problems at and around 7.200mhz
on sat. night some were passing Health & Welfare in storm area.
They were QRMed to no end by contesters running splits freq.
Also down on CW end of the band Many complaining about.
Phone on that part of the band? Please check before calling CQ!
and Health & Welfare needs to get pasted!!

Al / N3IZR

 

That was a great contest!
I worked all 48 US states on 10m. Only missed a few VE provinces
2 states missed on 15m and a few more further down the frequencies.
Thanks guys
Holger ZL3IO