Looking back at last year's contest

Looking back at last year's contest, my results on WPX PH/CW, WW PH/CW, 15m band Low Power clearly improved after upgrading my antennas to a 20/15m dual band 5-ele yagi. 

And since upgrading to a 6-ele yagi antenna system dedicated to the 10-meter band earlier this year to accommodate the rising conditions on the 10-meter band, I have had satisfactory results on ARRL DX PH/CW, WPX PH/CW 10m band low power.

There are only CQ WW PH/CW left this year. I really want to win. Of course, my main purpose is to have fun at the contests.

See you at the 10m band in CQ WW PH/CW.

2022 antenna for 20/15m band

2023 for 10m band

Final results of 2023 ARRL International DX Contest Phone

The final results of the ARRL International DX Contest Phone are now available. I was able to win a 10-meter band award following the CW contest.

In addition, I also achieved the Continental Record for both CW and Phone.

The final results of the WPX contest SSB/CW may have been published in the US-CQ Magazine, but not on the web yet, so I can't wait to see them.

https://contests.arrl.org/scores.php

IC-7610 20mH 6ele Yagi N1MM

61617 443Q/47M

Raw score 63309 - Final score 61617 (error of 3%)

2023 WAE Contest CW

Participated in WAE Contest CW with single op low power. Since a typhoon was approaching just prior to my participation, I reviewed the 40/20/15/10 meter V rotary dipole system as a precautionary measure before taking down the antenna elevator.

The antenna review went well, and the horizontal placement of the V-shaped dipole resulted in an improvement in directivity, which was a bit broad. There was no SWR deterioration as a result of this.

The plan was to keep the 10m 6ele yagi and participate on 10m single band, but with limited time and number of stations open, I decided to participate on multiband since the conditions on 15/20m were good and the combination of 100W output and a dipole antenna was still viable for the run. I decided to participate in the multi-band event.

Since I was not planning to win any awards, I enjoyed the contest and the pileups despite the limited time.

As for the QTC, the logging software N1MM made it possible to send out the data smoothly and comfortably.

As a result, I ended up with 266 QTCs in 267 QSOs and only 1 QTC left.

IC-7610 40/20/15/10m RDP 10m6ele yagi and N1MM

See you next contest

2023 ARRL International DX Contest CW Award

The awards of this year's ARRL International DX Contest CW have arrived. This is probably the first time I have won an award in this contest.