Monday 10 October 2022

2022 Oceania DX contest CW

 I participated in the OC DX CW following last week's SSB. 

Since I participated in 10m last week, I decided to change my mind and try 15m this time, so I loaded the antenna into my car the day before.

However, I was impressed by the good condition of 10m last week, so I unloaded the 15m antenna and loaded the 10m antenna just before departure.

Another reason for the change was that the world record for 10m LP was so low that we thought we could achieve a new record. I heard that a friend of mine in the same area was also going to participate in 10m, so I was also very enthusiastic about it, but although I achieved the all-time record, he seemed to have rewritten the new record.

My impression of CW was that there were many Oceania stations making QSO with NA at the time of SSB, but this time, I could not hear many stations. Were many stations participating on the 15m band?

The next morning, we took down the antennas early because of the expected rain and the fact that we did not expect to increase more QSOs.

I moved to the mountains for this contest, but the only highlight was being able to listen to the 6-meter CW beacon of VK6RSX/B with the mobile whip antenna.

VK6RSX/B

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

TS-480DAT 3ele Yagi

Location: Mt. Oidake 582m, Kumamoto


For your reference, here are the number of contacts by hour for Run and S/P and by DXCC.

JA6WFM 28MHz LP



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