BARTG Sprint RTTY Contest

In the weekend of 23-24 Januar i was active during the BARTG Sprint RTTY Contest.

This is a 24 hour contest,from saturday 12 utc till sunday 12 utc.

I started at 12 utc at the 20M band.Propagation looked ok.

I got 40 qso's logged in the first hour.Also a few stations from NA already.

At 1447 i took a break to walk with my Husky's.At this time i got 94 qso's logged.

Also LX1EA was logged,always nice but difficult for me to get LX.

At 1538 back at the radio.

Very big suprise to see and work FR5GS.He was calling CQ when i worked him...after that the mess came to his freq.

At 17:50 i had a diner break...160 qso's logged now.I was already on 40M,as the 20M band closed around 17:30.

I was active till 23:40 UTC.Did work alot of EU and also some NA stations.

The next morning i did start again at 7:40 UTC.First looked on 40M again.P40YL was very strong and i could work her as well.

At the end i had 327 QSO's logged...something i was happy with.

Total points given from MixW where 115.758.

Ofcourse this will be lower after the crosschecking of the logs.Not everyone sends in their logs and also possibe that something went wrong with the numbers given.

500Khz WSPR...

Last night i had my TRX on 500Khz with a simple vertical antenna.
Just curious what i could receive...

PA3FNY -20
SM6BHZ -21
G4JNT -27
PA0A +10

PA0A is only 46km from me.
Farest station is SM6BHZ with 629km.

Contest 10-11 Januar

The weekend from 10-11 Januar where again some contest i wanted to join.

First started the PODXS 070 contest in PSK31.This did start at 0:00 UTC saturday morning till 23:59 UTC in the evening.I wasn't active in this contest and didn't know if it was a big one or not.

When the contest ended...i had just 7 QSO's logged.

Not too much activity was seen here at my end.But still i was happy to have worked 2 stations from NA on PSK.This are new DXCC for me,as i didn't work the US before on 40 in that mode.

Also in the same time on saturday was the Mongolian RTTY DX Contest.

In this contest there was more activity on the bands.Also got logged one station from Mongolia,JT1BE.Saw him calling CQ all the time and did try to work him...but no luck in the start.Few minutes later i did try again and bingo.

Total of 151 QSO's into 34 DXCC's.