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Contest Soapbox
2002 ARRL International DX Contest (CW)
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02/18/2002 | VE2OWL
I have a G5RV sitting only 35 ft above ground in a city lot and 100 W, so I'm not in the KW club, but I managed to make 422 QSOs and 179 countries with about 24 h of operating time shared with my young family. (That means I eat and sleep when THEY eat ... Read More
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02/18/2002 | K0BJ
Real nice condx, but 20 was fritzy. It was interesting how good 10/15 AND 160 were. With an inv. L for tx and rx, I sometimes struggle hard to log JA on 160, and they were armchair this time. For SS and general operating, my 80M dipole tuned for 40 see... Read More
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02/18/2002 | PA3EZC
It was again real fun joining the ARRL international DX contest (CW). I was amazed about the number stations I could work on 15m from Europe with my indoor antenne and 100 watts. And believe me that is not so easy blown away by European stations sendin... Read More
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02/18/2002 | PA5FN
I want to thank all the stations for the nice contest.
On 80m my signal was weak because i had a problem with the tuner
i could not run full power because if i used more than 40W the automatic tuner started to tune,i had to repeat things often
so thank... Read More -
02/18/2002 | KE4PIB
I think my code speed went up with this one! :) This was my first
real attempt at a CW contest. Thanks to short, formulaic exchanges,
I was able to handle the 20+WPM speeds of the folks calling CQ. I
didn't dare call CQ myself, however, as there wo... Read More -
02/18/2002 | LY2OX
I was never planning to operate ARRL CW this year,but when I got up early Saturday morning to give out few numbers for my US colleagues,I found bands sounding so well ,that inspiration increased.So I v'e spent c.a.23 hours in the contest instead of few... Read More
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02/17/2002 | WN2A
As a non-contester, I found it was a blast!
Ten meters CW was absolutely wall-to-wall with DX
and Stateside. With only 6 watts Homebrew into a
dipole, I was able to work more than my share.
If the contest stations would QRS just a little,
I think... Read More
