My parents in law were visiting us today, after they were gone I checked 15 meter for CW contest activity. I read the good news that Roger G3XBM made a few contacts yesterday over the big pond with 5 watt. So I thought: I must check 15 meter today. I was running only 5 watt QRP. I worked the following stations: NR5M George from Houston, TX; W1GD Gerald from Wall, NJ; W1HQ contest station from Newington, CT - he replied with FB QRP TU. K1TR Edward from Windham, NH; VX3AT Ron van der Kraats (a very Dutch name) from Islington, Ontario. (New DXCC, because I never worked Canada before!) WO4O Richard from Ridgetop, TN; WE3C John from Fleetwood, PA; W6XR Natan from Freeville, NY; N5PO Marion from Weatherford, TX; W2FU Jeffrey from Webster, NY; W3LPL Francis from Glenwood, MD; W1WEF Jack from Glastonbury, CT; AA1K Jon from Felton, DE; K3LR Timothy from West Middlesex, PA; K1IM Thomas from Union, CT and on 20 meter: KB1H Richard from East Killingly, CT USA. It was great to work so easy with the USA with only 5 watt CW on 15 meter. Wow.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
ARRL int. DX Contest
My parents in law were visiting us today, after they were gone I checked 15 meter for CW contest activity. I read the good news that Roger G3XBM made a few contacts yesterday over the big pond with 5 watt. So I thought: I must check 15 meter today. I was running only 5 watt QRP. I worked the following stations: NR5M George from Houston, TX; W1GD Gerald from Wall, NJ; W1HQ contest station from Newington, CT - he replied with FB QRP TU. K1TR Edward from Windham, NH; VX3AT Ron van der Kraats (a very Dutch name) from Islington, Ontario. (New DXCC, because I never worked Canada before!) WO4O Richard from Ridgetop, TN; WE3C John from Fleetwood, PA; W6XR Natan from Freeville, NY; N5PO Marion from Weatherford, TX; W2FU Jeffrey from Webster, NY; W3LPL Francis from Glenwood, MD; W1WEF Jack from Glastonbury, CT; AA1K Jon from Felton, DE; K3LR Timothy from West Middlesex, PA; K1IM Thomas from Union, CT and on 20 meter: KB1H Richard from East Killingly, CT USA. It was great to work so easy with the USA with only 5 watt CW on 15 meter. Wow.
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Well done Paul, Excellent QRP contacts.
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show me that I must continue to try to re-learn my CW skills!
73 De Kevin
Wow Paul. That's truly fantastic! I am well impressed! That is incredibly exciting. New DXCC with Canada too. Well done. That's a nice afternoon's radio work! 73 Adam
ReplyDeleteCongrats Paul for the good job with those 5watts and the teriblle QRM.
ReplyDeleteI also worked some guys from USA ... saturday 0.00 UTC till sunday morning, than i made QRT. about 670 qso's on 80, 40, 20 and 15 meters. But i was "KW" this time, because this contest was kind of long needed hardcore training for me after many years of ham radio silence;
Adrian, YO5PBG (/QRP - usualy)
That's very impressive, Paul, on 5W. I had intended to work as many US stations as I could, but my XYL received some bad news during the Saturday afternoon so I had to stop, and I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to get back into it after that.
ReplyDeleteVery good Paul - that is superb on 5w, I bet you are very pleased indeed - I would be, I will be on the bands during tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck - 73 Peter
Fantastic contacts across the pond! Can only work 40 and 20 but sounds like it's time for a good 15 meter antenna. Keep up the great QRP work!
ReplyDeleteJohn N8ZYA
Wow, Great job. I heard on 20 meter yesterday evening a lot of US stations shouting CQ CQ. But it was too crowdy to get a single contact with my 2 watt's.
ReplyDelete72 de Wally PA3BTT