ARRL 10M Contest

The past weekend was again the ARRL 10M Contest.This contest covers the whole weekend,48 hours.

I was a little afraid about the propagation.The 10M band was for a few weeks ago better then it was the week before the contest.But everyone who knows how the 10M band can be,there's always hope,hi.

Saturday morning when i put on the radio it was very quiet on the band.Nothing in SSB and very low signals on CW.So it didn't look very well.

Kept monitoring the band and also an eye on the Cluster...Saw in the Cluster that other parts of Europe had very good openings.Some of the best DXCC's for DX/propagation are for sure EA8,5B,ZC4 etc.

My best DX was ZS6BRZ.The total qso's came to 26 in the log.

Yesterday i got a very nice suprice by the post.Award from the ARRL 10M contest 2009.

I was 1st in the Netherlands in the Low Power section..

TARA Melee and EPC Ukraine DX Contest

The past weekend i was active in two contest.First the TARA Melee (RTTY) and later the EPC Ukraine DX (PSK63),

The TARA Melee started Saturday at 0:00 UTC till 23:59 UTC.

I was active from the start in an early contest...but that time there wasn't much to work.So i was only active from the morning 8:00 UTC.

I worked total 84 QSO's logged under who 2 Japanese stations.

Band QSOs Pts Cty

14 84 84 51

Total 84 84 51

Score: 4.284

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After that i went to PSK63.

Using for the digimodes MixW..so was easy to turn the modes.

Got a total of 156 QSO's logged....good for 68222 points.

QSOs Points OBL DXCC

40m 61 357 17 18

20m 94 527 20 21

10m 1 2 0 1

Total 156 886 37 40

Score: 886*(37 + 40 ) = 68222

eQSL's images download

Till some weeks ago i was able to download the eQSL's that i had received.

I used a small programm for this and it worked very well.

For almost 2 months ago this changed.When i start the downloading i get an error.It tells me that it's not en eQSL 2.o Adif file.If i read the forums about it,it's possible that eQSL did change it because of high server CPU usage.

For me the beauty of the eQSL is the image you see with it.If we want just the QSO confirmation we could do it with LoTW only.

They talk about going to the eQSL and then downloading them....

I have over 1100 eQSL's waiting for me,if they have to be done one by one....

If i was able to download them at once,the amount wouldn't be this big.I would have getting most in then already.I did check normal once a week...once a Month.

I hope that one day we get the downloading back.

See here a few of my received eQSL's...