ARRL and Open Ukraine RTTY Contest

In the weekend from 7 and 8 March i was again active in a few Contest.

In the "ARRL International DX Contest" and the "Open Ukraine RTTY Championship".

The propagation wasn't very well in my eyes.

During the ARRL International DX Contest in SSB,i made 61 QSO's.It was not easy to get the QSO's.Just with 25 watts of power.....and then between all thoose OM's using 100W-1KW.

I was also active in the ARRL DX CW Contest,a few weeks ago.CW is for low power as i use,easier.The tones from the CW are much harder then my voice and much more clear as well i think.

The result was 61 QSO's with 24 multies (states+provinces) comes to 4392 Points.

During the Open Ukriane RTTY Contest,i was only active on the 20M band.

Made just 50 QSO's in this periode of the contest,between 08:00 - 11:59 UTC.

Got 8 DXCC's in my log and 28 domains.Total of points 378.

Links:

www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2009/intldx.html

www.uarl.com.ua/openrtty

ARRL DX Contest

The past weekend was the ARRL DX Contest in CW.

I also took a part in it,but just with the small power i have,just 25watts.

Sometimes it wasn't easy to get the QSO good.I was active on 20M and a small part at the 40M as well.

For 20m i can use my 3elm Tribander,FB33 from Fritzel.

For the 40M i did use just a simple 2x 10M wire dipole,just haning as inverted V.The top hangs at 5 meters and the ends at 2 meters above the ground.

This simple setup works better for me then my Fritzel FD3 windom.This one is also hanging higher,top at 9 meters and the ends at 4 meters above the ground.

Soon i will let the 2x 10m dipole in the same way as the FD3,just to test how that will work then.

Later this year,i will get a 2elm PKW up for 40M.

The first day of the Contest went very well.Got 134 QSO's logged that day.

The second day was not that well.I did found alot of OM's that i did work already the first day.

Also no propagation to the West Coast of the US,so also no Multies from that area.

Total came to 179 QSO's with 47 Multies.

These QSO's are made with only 25 watts and also by use of computer and MixW.

So alot of weak signals couldn't be worked because of this.

I'm very happy with the result and hope to work you guys again soon,in other contest.

Links: ARRL Dx Contest 2009

: MixW

LOtW

Not many OM's are using the system on LoTW.
It's a shame,because it's a very nice system for collecting DXCC's and also Awards.

I'm using it now for some time.All my QSO's will be uploaded via a special *.tq6 file,that will be made by a special small programm that will be used from LoTW.
This *.tq6 file will be used in the database and for your DXCC list and QSO's.

LOtW is under the wings of the ARRL.This means,that all DXCC'sconfirmed by LoTW will count for ARRL Awards.

It works like this....
If i work for example XX1XX,i will upload my log to LoTW.If XX1XX is also user of LoTW and he also uploads his log,the database on LoTW finds the match between us.It find our QSO and will show up.If something is wrong with the QSO data,for example the mode,date or so...it won't show up.
This was just a small explaining of how it works ofcourse.For more info,look at the ARRL homepage.

Here you see my results till now:

Above is my DXCC list

Above is my WAS list

ARRL: American Radio Relay League, the US national organization of Amateur Radio operators
Link: http://www.arrl.org/lotw/
Link: http://tobbe.net.au/lotw/ Dutch explaining for using LoTW by VK2GWK,Henk