Over the weekend I enjoyed some of the fantastic openings up on the 10 meter band during this years WWCQ Contest. I managed to work some excellent DX for the first time in a long time up on 28MHz. The last time I heard conditions as good as they were, was back in the 80s when I was an avid 11 Meter DXer as well as a spotty faced teenager. My old President Adams at the time brought exotic signals to my early radio days. I still have some old chicken box kit from way back which includes a couple of 40 channel AM rigs, an original colt as well as a little president AR7. I also have a Ham International Multimode II. This years WWCQ contest was worked mainly on 10 Meters for me using my FT1000mp MKV field and Carolina Windom antenna (CW80). I exceeded my previous total of 15 Zones by spending my time up on 10m more or less throughout the contest and working a total of 21 World wide zones. This is the best I have done since getting on the air during WWCQ and I am pleasantly surprised how well my humble station is working for me at my relatively new QTH. I made many great contacts into 25 different DXCC during the 2011 CQWW contest and had a lot of fun doing it. Countries I worked include: 1 The USA 2 Argentina 3 Cyprus 4 Iceland 5 Uruguay 6 Montenegro 7 France 8 Kazakhstan 9 United Arab Emirates 10 Asiatic Russia 11 European Russia 12 China 13 Japan 14 French Guiana 15 Turks & Caicos 16 Costa Rica 17 Bermuda 18 Brazil 19 Surinam 20 Dominican Republic 21 Turkey 22 Canada 23 Greece 24 Morocco 25 The Gambia As usual I made sure that I caught some of this years WWCQ contest on video whilst working up on Ten meters. The video shows lots of fantastic signals booming in from various World wide zones. I hope you enjoy it. 73! |
