The re-designed Commonwealth Contest ran on the March 8-9th weekend. Conditions were less than ideal but nine IslandHF members toiled in the RF trenches putting in lots HF hours. They amassed 33,444 points. Congratulation to the members of both teams.
Nootka Sounders
Jim VE7ZO© 9,365
Brian VE7JKZ 2,715
Roger VE7AP 1,130
Les VA7RN 2,349
Keith VE7KW 3,960
Queen City Rollers
Don VE7AX © 1,630
Gabor VE7UF 8,965
Alan VE7UBA 1,685
VA7PK N/A – ill
Ralph VE7XF 1,645
The ARRL DX Contest SSB is great fun. I like to discover what exotic locations I’ve contacted.
I downloaded from LOTW to QRZ – I thought this contact was pretty cool. My first Galapagos Islands contact.
Any of the rest of you folks – What was your favorite contact?
73 Glenn
I was racking up the contacts in the recent ARRL DX Contest SSB at the Oak Bay Marina. Conditions were pretty darn good. I was pumped. Twenty-five contacts on 10m was my goal. Here’s proof that I’m not prevaricating. My Kenwood 480 transceiver can be seen just beyond my laptop.
Two local amateurs (living about 150 yards away) decided to drop by… and interrupt me. Arghhhh! These guys (Andy VE7PT and Roger VE7AP) are great friends and we had delightful face-to-face QSOs; but why weren’t they chained to their radios!? I was missing contacts in Spain, the Bahamas, Japan…. Arghhhh!!! Again!
To compound my agony, I was working one of the many Brazilian stations, this one around 28.315 MHz when my booming 50 watt signal was flattened by Jim VE7ZO up in Bowser! About 150 kms away. I couldn’t believe it.
Clearly it was all a case of SSB interruptus.
73 Glenn VA7HC
(And yes, I made my 25 contacts LOL)