[Moon] Contest weekend at SM6CKU

Ben - SM6CKU ben at sm6cku.se
Mon Oct 29 14:15:08 CET 2018


It was many, many years since I took part in this event so I was looking forward to work as many as possible, CW only.
Pre contest I worked I5YDI, SM4IVE, IK3COJ, DL6SH and VK4AFL but forgot to work some of them again in contest time....
Missed the first few hours of Saturday morning and got away at 0538 with SM6PGP some 5 km apart. S9 on terrestrial and a good 559 via moon. Then OK2DL, LZ2US, 9A5AA, RA3EC, F5KUG, DL7UDA, OH1LRY, SM4GGC, VE4MA, PA2DW, IK5VLS, K6MG, G4CCH, KL6M, G3LTF, DK5YA, DL3EBJ, EA8DBM, PA3FXB, LA3EQ and VE6TA. Saturday evening OE5JFL, OK2ULQ, SP6ITF, SP6JLW, UA9YLU, VK2JDS, IK3COJ, JH1KRC, DF3RU, VK4AFL, RA3EME, UA3PTW, OK1DFC, IK1FJI, OH2DG, F6KRK, F5FEN and OK1CA. Sunday morning SP3XBO, LZ1DX, WA9FWD, RA3AUB, UA4AAV, VA7MM, K2UYH, DK3WG, F5JWF, IW2FZR, DL7YC, NC1I, VE6BGT, WA6PY, OZ9KY, ON5GS, SM3JQU and OZ4MM. Sunday evening VK5MC, VK2FLR, JA6AHB, VK4CDI, IK2MMB, SM4IVE, OZ6OL, DF2VJ and finally ES5PC. All together 67 QSO's and some 25 initials.

Looking at the digi-band there were plenty of stations that would have been easy to work on CW. Some agreed to get down the band for a CW QSO, thank you! Some refer to bad CW but I tell you, I am pretty good at reading any keying and I can go low speed myself. My wish would be separate classes, analog vs digital, and I would post my log. Let me be clear, I have nothing against digital modes (except deep search) and one day I might be there too....

73 de Ben
SM6CKU with 8m dish and 400 watts at feed
JO67CK


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