Always a very nice contest,but.....as the band is not always open....also difficult.
The question was if it would be open for the contest weekend.
I was also active in 2008 and want to try to get a better result this year.
I started at 9:00 UTC.Got my first station logged at 9:17.This was 9H6A on CW.
So it seems that the band is ok for Europe.As i can use the computer for CW mode,i always try to do mixed mode in the contest,so also this year.
Propagation wasn't very good,i got 10 QSO's logged till 11:12 UTC.Mostly EU,besides C4N.
At 11:16 i did copy ZS6GF on SSB with real 5/7.After worked him i got 3 more stations from South Africa,ZS6JPY,ZS6BRZ and ZS9X.
Very strange to get the propagation to ZS,but not less happy with it,hi.
Wasn't active the whole afternoon and last station logged on saterday was at 17:37.
Still not bad...had now 26 QSO's logged...
Sunday i started at 8:30 UTC.
Started to listen on the CW and worked H2E at 8:34.
Was active till 10:00 UTC,because we had to go somewhere.Still worked 14 stations in this time.We where back at 15:45,worked 3 stations and then it was diner time.
After diner again to the radio and.....propagation was open to SA.
Got very strong stations from Brasil,Argentinia and also Uruguay.They where sometimes 5/7-9 but with strong QSB.It was just a job to work them fast,before the propagation would drop again.
Did work:
PY5KA,AY4D,LR2F,PY1BMB,ZX5J,LU1HF,CX5BW,PY1NB,PY2SEX,PQ5B,CW5W,PY5RB,
PY0FF and PY2LSM.
I did work PY2SEX on CW and on SSB.
At 19:00 UTC i had to qrt and thought that later the band would be closed.
But when i looked at 21:54 i could still hear 3 stations very loud.They where European stations,but i didn't have them in my log,so i worked them.
Very strange propagation on the 10M band in this weekend.
Total i got logged 74 stations.
On CW 29 qso's and 17 DXCC's
On SSB 45 qso's and 15 DXCC's
Total points in N1MM where 6592
My goal was again made.I got more QSO's logged as in 2008.Also more points then ofcourse.
It was very nice to see that the band was open with nice openings on saterday to ZS and on sunday to SA.
Also it was strange to work UK stations in this time of the year on 10M.
Also nice to work PE4BAS in the contest.
I hope that in 2010 propagation will increase and that the ARRL 10M Contest will be even a bigger succes as it was for me in 2009.
Hallo Bernard, ik voel me vereerd. Goede resultaten vooral zuid amerika. Het waren betere condities als vorig jaar. Of dat door de meteorieten en toenemende zonneaktiviteit komt? Wie weet, hopelijk is het volgend jaar nog beter. 73, Bas
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