{"id":1403,"date":"2006-10-29T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2006-10-29T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T00:48:00","slug":"417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/29\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"… From The Shack"},"content":{"rendered":"

2006 CQ WW DX Contest<\/a>: It has been a learning experience so far. Much more intense than Field Day. It seems as if the bands are jam packed – nothing but “CQ Contest” from 80M to 10M. I started last night a had contacts mostly on 80M, but also a few on 40M – mainly South America and the Caribbean. Today contacts are about even between 15M and 20M… more Caribbean island stations, Africa, and Europe. Not much heard from the Pacific. I did hear a KH6 station on 15M buried in noise.<\/p>\n

When I wasn’t on the radio I was finishing the QSL cards from the W4M<\/a> special event station. I now consider my QSLing activities for W4M complete.
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I’ve also been cleaning up my log. As of right now, I’ve logged 1069 QSOs since I upgraded to General in Nov 2005. Of those, 102 are CW QSOs (the first was back in DEC 2005). I need to go back and look up FISTS<\/a> information and see if I’m close to their basic award<\/a>. I’ve contacted a total of 86 DXCC<\/a> entities – maybe I’ll be able to get 14 more during the remainder of the contest. The total towards the Worked All States<\/a> award is 47. I’m missing Hawaii, Alaska, and Wyoming. I’m also probably close to the basic award for Worked All US Counties. The basic award<\/a> is for 500 counties, I think.<\/p>\n

Best news this weekend – I got the ICOM CT-17<\/a> working!. It’s quite slick, I can now click on a DX cluster spot in my logging program and my IC-706MKIIG automatically flips to that frequency. Or, if I’m hunting and pouncing, the log will automatically grab the freq and mode from the radio and place it in the log. I wish I had done this earlier.<\/p>\n

I also had a short 30M QSO with Bill, WD8RTW<\/a> over in WV. The QSO was going well, but then he disappeared. He came back briefly but we ended the QSO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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