Zaterdag 2 september 2023 was het zo ver. Eindelijk was het weer velddag. Voor mij was het de allereerste keer dat ik erbij was. Voor anderen was het alweer de zoveelste keer. Aanwezig waren leden van Veron afdeling a04 - Amsterdam. De locatie was een stukje terrein van de golfclub in Zaandam. Zo ver buiten de stad zouden we nauwelijks last moeten hebben van QRM.
We verzamelden om 10 uur om op te bouwen. Er werd een legertent opgebouwd, een drie-elements yagi in elkaar gezet, en nog diverse draadantennes opgespannen.
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).
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.
