CQ WPX CW

The past weekend was the CQ WPX Contest in CW.Last year was the
first time i joined this contest.I'm not able to operate CW with a key and understand all,i
make use of my computer and MixW for this.A combination what can work very
good as well,only not the weak signals.


Last year i got a certificate from CQ,i was as Rookie low power, #1 from Netherlands, #5 from Europe and #6 from the World.Total points 187.110.
As i have just a simple setup,i am proud to get results like this.
Just working with 25 watts,3elm Tribander at 6 meters above the ground and windom FD3 for 40M.Also only 3 bands allowed here and not even the whole bands.
40M we,as Novice HAM,can only operate between 7050 and 7100.So the CW section isn't for us.But with big contests,many will also go above 7050...good for me :)

The goal this year was,to get more QSO's/points then last year.
I was very happy to see that also the 10M was open.This got an extra band for me as we have only 10,20 and 40M on HF.Both days the 10M was open.Saterday even to NA and SA.Worked 2 stations in NA and 1 in SA.Also whole Europe was open on 10M.
Propagation on 20M wasn't that good in my eyes.Got some nice QSO's,but didn't see as much NA as i did last year.
Got also a new DXCC in CW,TU2CI.

My results:
I made 501 QSO's and came total to 299.280 points.

EU PSK DX Contest,King of Spain and 10M

In the past weekend i was again active in 2 contest.The EU DX PSK Contest and the King of Spain.

The PSK contest is nice to do,not only for the contest,but also to get some stations from new area's as well.The propagation was ok for Europe and also got some NA and SA stations logged.
But it's strange that i can work DX better then short distance.
Many stations till 1500km did ask me several times for my callsign and the nummer.
But stations on larger distances mostly went in one time ok.
Maybe it was too much QRM from active stations here in EU at the other sides?
Got 150 QSO's logged in the contest.

The King of Spain was in CW.Also some more contests where on that time in CW,so wasn't that easy for me,as computer CWer.
Came to 55 QSO's logged in the contest.

I was hoping for the 10M to open up during the contest,but nothing at that time at my side.
As we,Novice HAM in the Netherlands,have just the 10 and 20M for using CW.In big CW contest,sometimes CW is done in the section of the 40M where we can operate.
After the contest the 10M did open up.I did word several EU DXCC's in SSB,PSK,RTTY and CW.
Around 17:30 i did hear a PU station in QSO...it was PU2WDX,Celso.When he finished his QSO,i did call him and got respons.My First SA station worked on 10M this year WOW!!
Celso was here 5/7 and got a 5/5 with QSB back from him.Many thanks dear Celso for the first SA on 10 this year.
About 30 mins later i saw that PY2CX was spotted on 28430.After he finished his QSO i also called him and got my second QSO into SA on 10M.PY2CX,Maur,was here 5/7 and also got 5/7 back from him.
Nice to see/hear that 10M opens up more and more.Hope that everyone keeps an eye on that band,because it's a very nice band for DX.Not easy....but nice :)

Windmills On Air !!!!!!

Hi all,We will be on air at the windmill "The EENDRACHT" te Gieterveen,Netherlands.The QRA Locator is JO33ka.

We will be active with our personal calls with /p.

So PD7BZ/p and PD5JFK/p.

We will be active on the 9th and 10th of May between 8:00 and 15:00 UTC.

Our TRX are: Yaesu FT847,FT897 and a 2m FM set.

We will be active on 10 , 20 , 40 and on 2Meters.We will also try digimodes.

Hope to work some of you guys.

This will be our first time we are active with this kind of event.It's for us also to show it to other people,as we have in the Netherlands this weekend Mill weekend.

The Mills are open for people to have a look around.

We are sitting inside the mill itself.

More info can be found at: http://www.pd7bz.nl/mill

Propagation and 10M open !!

Yesterday started very well for me.

Propagation was in the morning very good to Hawaii and Alaska over the Northpole.

Could work KL8DX on CW,new one on this mode,and KH6MB on RTTY,also new in RTTY mode.

I was very happy to made this QSO's as it's not easy with 25W to make it in the pile up's.

Around 10:00 i did see and hear that the 10M was open as well.

My first QSO was made with 5F1ROM at 10:22.

After this i made several QSO's with I,EA,F and CT.

Sometimes with real good signals to 5/9++,good to see that 10M opens up.

I like this band alot,as it's not the easiest band to make DX/QSO's.

Propagation is not very good yet,but stil alot of nice QSO's and good DX can be made.

My counter of DXCC's for 2009 of worked stations is now 185.