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

LZ DX and EPC PSK63 contest

In the past weekend,21-22 November,i was active in 2 contests.First the LZ DX and sundays the EPC PSK63.

LZ DX..
It started at 12:00 UTC on saterday till 12:00 UTC on sunday.
I started at 14:20 UTC.Before that time i was visiting the European Championship Cart race for dogs.As we have three Husky's at home as well...we ofcourse wanted to have a look there as well.

I was active in the contest in Mixed mode,so CW and SSB.CW i do with MixW.
Started in SSB...but didn't hear much,so went to CW.There where more stations active.Also propagation to LZ was also very good.Could work many from them.It was also nice to see VQ9JC in the contest and giving away CQ zone 41.
In the evening i had to stop because i had problems with my 40m PKW dipole.Due the strong winds,it gave me bad SWR....
Today,24th of Nov.,we did fix the problem.A screw was damaged.
Sunday morning i started again in the contest at 8:30 UTC.
At 12:00 UTC i got 174 QSO's with 49 Multies.
N1MM came to 35.574 points.

EPC PSK63...
After the LZ DX i started in the EPC PSK63 contest.Can't do it all at the same time :)
PSK63 is a very fast mode and sometimes not easy to decode.I also use MixW for this contest and did use the software RA3BB Victor made for this.
Nice to see so many PSKers active on the freq. and so many EPC members active as well.
Some years ago i did join the EPC Group,i got EPC number 3647.
In the contest i saw high numbers like 9229.
Worked total of 183 stations in 33 DXCC's.Most where stations from EU.
Total points came to 50193.

Contest weekend

In the past weekend,i was again active in a few Contest.

It started friday evening with the Russian PSK Contest.In this contest you could use three kinds of PSK modes,or better to say,three different speeds.PSK31,PSK63 and PSK125.
The last one,PSK125,is very fast,even faster then in RTTY mode.
You could work all stations in all modes,but not direct.There must be 10 minutes betwen the contact before you could change mode with the same station.
Result was 113 QSO,with some nice ones as:
E21YDP and 9M6XRO.

Saterday was the UBA CW contest,but i was till around 18:00 UTC busy collecting PSK QSO's.After that,there was not much active anymore in the contest.Made 7 QSO's and started again on sunday morning.I stopped with 100 QSO's.All made on 20M.
Also not one Belgium station in my log,because i live to far from them for that and too close for the propagation we have in daytime.

After the Russian PSK contest on saterday,i did hear alot of signals on RTTY.
I did look and saw alot of stations from NA.They where active in the NAQP Contest.
It was a very big suprise to see and work NA stations this late in the evening.
Last made on 20M was at 21:16 UTC,22:16 Local time.
Most of the days the 20M band is closed at this time.
Worked 31 Stations in that Contest,23 on 20M and 8 later on 40M.
Here you see the log from this:

Start date UTC TX kHz Mode Call RST S RST R Exch S Exch R Dxcc
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28-Feb-2009 18:32:46 14078.5 RTTY N4IQ 599 599 Bernard Bill SC K
28-Feb-2009 18:49:35 14087.3 RTTY W4GKM 599 599 Bernard NICK TN K
28-Feb-2009 19:36:53 14089.9 RTTY K4TD 599 599 Bernard RICK AL K
28-Feb-2009 19:37:42 14090.5 RTTY WX4TM 599 599 Bernard TOM AL K
28-Feb-2009 19:38:35 14088.5 RTTY K2MK 599 599 Bernard MIKE NJ K
28-Feb-2009 19:46:29 14102.9 RTTY KE4KWE 599 599 Bernard TOM AL K
28-Feb-2009 19:49:37 14114.3 RTTY N4IG 599 599 Bernard DAVE FL K
28-Feb-2009 19:53:36 14114.9 RTTY AF4OX 599 599 Bernard BOB SC K
28-Feb-2009 19:57:00 14097.4 RTTY VE2SB 599 599 Bernard DANIEL QC VE
28-Feb-2009 19:58:57 14094.0 RTTY VA2UP 599 599 Bernard FABI QC VE
28-Feb-2009 20:00:42 14082.9 RTTY KE4UNA 599 599 Bernard JEFF AL K
28-Feb-2009 20:05:56 14080.3 RTTY K1ZZI 599 599 Bernard RALPH GA K
28-Feb-2009 20:08:59 14074.5 RTTY KK5OQ 599 599 Bernard JR MS K
28-Feb-2009 20:13:11 14083.6 RTTY NA5Q 599 599 Bernard ROLAND LA K
28-Feb-2009 20:15:29 14082.4 RTTY AA3B 599 599 Bernard BUD PA K
28-Feb-2009 20:17:51 14088.0 RTTY W1UE 599 599 Bernard DENNIS MA K
28-Feb-2009 20:20:30 14111.8 RTTY AE1T 599 599 Bernard PETER NH K
28-Feb-2009 20:30:28 14082.7 RTTY K4REB 599 599 Bernard JOE NC K
28-Feb-2009 20:44:11 14092.9 RTTY K1SFA 599 599 Bernard SUNNY MA K
28-Feb-2009 20:46:32 14127.5 RTTY K4FCC 599 599 Bernard DOUG FL K
28-Feb-2009 20:59:17 14093.7 RTTY VE1MC 599 599 Bernard BRIAN NC VE
28-Feb-2009 21:00:06 14093.2 RTTY N1SV 599 599 Bernard LES MA K
28-Feb-2009 21:16:42 14095.6 RTTY KS1J 599 599 Bernard ERNIE RI K
28-Feb-2009 21:46:55 7084.7 RTTY K2PAL 599 599 Bernard ALEX NY K
28-Feb-2009 21:48:31 7085.2 RTTY AA3B 599 599 Bernard BUD PA K
28-Feb-2009 22:11:10 7092.7 RTTY W4UEF 599 599 Bernard RICK NC K
28-Feb-2009 22:13:55 7092.3 RTTY AF4OX 599 599 Bernard BOB SC K
28-Feb-2009 22:17:08 7081.1 RTTY K1ZZI 599 599 Bernard RALPH GA K
28-Feb-2009 22:25:03 7081.4 RTTY N4IQ 599 599 Bernard BILL SC K
28-Feb-2009 22:28:08 7075.9 RTTY WW4LL 599 599 Bernard FRED GA K
28-Feb-2009 23:02:20 7080.8 RTTY W4GKM 599 599 Bernard NICK TN K

Links:
http://www.ncjweb.com/naqprules.php
http://mixw-contest.narod.ru/Files/RusWW.htm
http://www.uba.be/hf_contests/rules/ubatest_dx.pdf