As I promised earlier, I'm currently QRV from Herøy, Norway. Locator JP66ca, IOTA EU-062. As a personal challenge, I didn't bring any antennas with me this time. Instead, I brought some wire, a couple of nice toroids, a 4:1 balun, and a five meter long telescopic fibreglass pole. "No problem", I foolishly thought to myself. …
My club, LA2T, attended the CQWW SSB contest this year as LN2T. We were six operators working shifts on two stations, and kept the stations occupied almost 20 hours per day. Like before, we didn't bother to work at night time, since there's not too much activity at those times. Also, our 80m and 160m …
LA2T, my local amateur radio group, once again attended the Scandinavian Activity Contest in October, 2023, using the special call LN2T. We had five operators working shifts on two stations, and we also beat our previous high score in this test. This contest is a 24-hour test running from 14:00 UTC. We didn't bother to …
This Sunday I attended the DARC 10m contest on SSB as LC1R. This is a two-hour annual contest, and since the openings on 10m have been great lately, I decided to give it a go. The first hour was great, I was able to call CQ and working a pile that seemed to keep giving …
I decided to give CQWW CW a go, despite being a complete noob when it comes to CW. At the current speed of 10-15 wpm I'm completely useless in a contest like this, but with a little help from skimmer software I managed to secure a few. Or, at least, that was the plan. Prior …
No wonder my cup isn't empty yet. I went on family vacation in a hurry and I left behind one imporant item. A case containing the antenna tuner, power amplifier, multiple cables, baluns, power supply, and pretty much everything I need to operate the radio except for the radio, about 5 meters worth of coax …
Okay, let's both ignore my horrible attempt of a wordplay in the title, and rather dig into what's happened, and up for the upcoming month. It's been a few busy months with very little activity. I'm still a bit bummed that the JX Jan Mayen expedition got cancelled, but I'm on a constant lookout for …
The CQ WPX RTTY contest was held a few days ago, and despite being occupied with other duties that apparently are, quote, "more important than sitting infront of that radio all day", I logged 100 contacts on low power. This should ideally be tenfold that number, but I'll get there next year. The antenna used …
This was my first contest weekend of 2022, and I was taking it easy with the goal of attending the Baltic SSB contest only. This is a 80m/40m contest, and since I don't have a good antenna for 80m at home I used the LA2T club shack and used the opportunity to QRO. The Baltic …
2021 is over, and let's take a look at what happened, and what we have ahead of us for 2022! Looking back through my contest QSOs, I found that I'm just shy of 10k QSOs from various contests, for my own log, and my club's. I have no intentions of letting my foot of the …
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