Played a bit in this year’s WAE-SSB last weekend. Getting used to the new QTC mode in N1MMLogger+ was really easy and I have to admit it’s great although I found a few small bugs. They got corrected already during the contest after reporting them on the NL+ mailing list. The developer team around Tom, N1MM, is really doing a great job on the new logger. Although still in Beta I cannot imagine ever going back to N1MMLogger “Classic”. 😉
Did just a few QSOs now and then (100% S&P) and concentrated on working QTCs for beta testing the logger. So the result is not too big but was fun anyway. Also had a nice 2 h opening on 10 m into the U.S. on Sunday afternoon. It’s only been the East Coast, only the big guns and only very selective but nevertheless good to see the band opening up. Listened a while to the guys in Southern Germany – you really do get jealous here in the North! Heard just about 10% of the stations they worked on 10 m! Yes, location, location, location … Anyway, still keeping fingers crossed for another good season on 10 m this autumn! Here’s my tiny result:
WAE DX Contest, SSB Call: DH8BQA Class: Single Op HP QTH: JO73ce Operating Time (hrs): 18 Summary: Band QSOs QTCs Mults ------------------------- 80: 2 0 8 40: 30 56 51 20: 52 125 52 15: 123 366 104 10: 75 237 82 ------------------------- Total: 282 784 297 Total Score = 316,602 Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Also took some time to do some audio recordings again. Thought it might be interesting to record a few QTCs for those of you who never heard of or know about that specialty in the WAE contests …
Carol, N2MM, with QTCs and small pileup on 10 m:
VE3AT (15 m):
VY2ZM (15 m):
WX3B (15 m):