Well that was Fun!
I volunteered to operate as one of the ZS9HQ CW operators. I
don’t have effective gain antennas and volunteered to help mainly on 10m
knowing full well that conditions most likely would be very poor at best, thus
leaving the prime bands 15, 20 and lower bands to the more capable stations.
I am pleased to report I was wrong; once again it was evident
that a contest can open a band regardless of the fancy solar numbers and supposed
doom and gloom of a CME wiping out all HF communications.
I used “Log Checker” to create the pretty graphic below. I
am fairly pleased with my performance, all things considered. Pity the program
does not have the associated file to do the statistics for this contest.
The 10m band did open nicely in the last hour and it gave me
the opportunity to “run” Truth be told I still get very intimidated by this and
I need much more practice and skills dealing with poor manners in pileups. I
will get there……
I am looking forward to see the logs of the other ZS9HQ CW
operators, but I am sure it will be much more impressive than my effort.
73
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| ZS6A - ZS9HQ - contest 2012 |
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