![]() Heiko, DG1BHA, had already worked half a dozen stations from Belarus but when I switched on only EW7HA from KO53 was still there, nice DX nonetheless! Quite good activity in general, worked a lot of SP stations while beaming east. □ I was a bit late to the “tropo party” on Saturday. Seems we got a golden October again, just a few weeks delayed. It also took me a moment to identify Mike, DL2OE, who lives just 80km away: troposcatter signal, F2 backscatter signal and circulating echoes … three signal path’ at once, uhh. On the other hand, some stations had strong circulating echoes, and with a few stations I first had to turn the antenna away in order to weaken the signal and then get readable Morse code out of the “continuous tone” (i.e. Many of the spotted mults could not be heard at all … And despite having a QRM-free frequency (Uwe, D元BQA, checked a few web SDRs from time to time from the sofa at home with a laptop on his knees) there were somehow no real runs. Similarily bad was that North America was only open an hour later on Sunday and closed an hour earlier than Saturday, effectively leaving just over 2 hours for working NA (this is where the biggest QSO potential is for us). Sunday was a little better with 20 JAs in the log but still far from what I’ve been used to during the last sunspot cycle. Caught just one very weak JA on Saturday, hard work, but at least could log the double mult. South Americans were also untypically weak and affected by a lot of QSB (if I heard them at all) and that direction only opened late on Sunday. Holger, DL7AU, just 120 km south of me, spotted stations I couldn’t hear 75% of the time, even on the supposedly easier southern path’. I also found the north-south propagation gradient much more pronounced this time. Geomagnetics were severely disturbed at times, which is certainly more noticeable in the north of DL than in the south, not to mention Southern Europe. I can only partially understand the many comments about how great 10 m was. Using an iPad as TRX frontend and a Griffin PowerMate connected via Bluetooth as VFO dial. Called it a day after 150 QSOs in the log … CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022 Heard E2A from Thailand with an excellent signal (and in general had the impression our groundplane works especially well dir east but that might have been just due to propagation) but unfortunately they didn’t hear me. Had fun running although the “pileups” never lasted for very long. ![]() After all it now has Flexradio support and connects to the radio via network including CW keying! Did so playing around a bit as DMØY on 80 m using just 5 watts. Besides my 10 m single band entry I used some time Saturday evening to try out RUMLog in contest mode and dig a little deeper into all of it’s features.
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