Radio waves around the world

It finally happened! I had a radio contact with Australia!

I was participating again with the PACC contest. While searching up and down the 20m band for points to score I heard VK2YI. It really was, unbelievable. His signal was just as strong as many of the European stations I was working for the contest. When I answered his CQ he could hear me, and even gave me a 57 report! My 59 report confirmed the contact from my side and made the QSO official.

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PACC 2023 results

This year I partook in the PACC Contest. I even wrote a post about it. The final results were posted in Electron this month.

My claimed score of my submitted log was 1830 points with 61 QSOs. After the logs were checked against all other submissions it appeared I had a few wrongly logged QSOs. My end score was: 1537 points. With that score I reached place 116 in the category Single Operator SSB Low Power (<100W).

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PACC contest 2023

This year I cleared my schedule entirely for the second weekend of Februari so that I could partake in the Dutch PACC contest. 24 hours where all antennas of the world are pointed in my direction! This was my chance to make some QSOs.

I’m not a hard-core contester. My goal wasn’t to make as many contacts as possible. I just wanted to take advantage of being a wanted station and get the opportunity to finally contact some other stations. I have partaken in the contest a few times before. The first time by accident, a few years ago because I had some free time that weekend. This year I held off all other activities and appointments.