I didn’t seen his call anymore, but this morning I read his blog update and it seems he did see me in QSO with NR5M! Ah well, maybe more luck in the next contest.
I worked NR5M and afterwards I wait a little to see if Jim arrived. When I tried to work the next calling station, K5ND again appeared on my screen! So Jim was Search & Pouncing just before me down the band! I figured if I skipped one or two calling stations and call the third, maybe Jim would arrive at that station just when I was working it. I switched antennas from vertical to horizontal to copy Jim’s signal but I couldn’t. I was in line to work another station when I saw Jim work him just before me. We have an ongoing saga to just work each other once in a contest. Saturday I ran around 250 Q’s and Sunday was good for another 350! Weird propagation (an A-index of 23!) on Sunday which was noticeable.Ī fun moment in this contest was the very close encounter with my friend Jim Wilson, K5ND. When I logged 100 Q’s in the PACC I immediately switched back to RTTY for the WPX. I switched back and forward from CW S&P and SSB and collect a poor 100 Q’s. But for this one contest I want to make an exception and plug in the microphone. In CW I’m not yet able to be in running mode and SSB is far from my favorite mode. It’s a unwritten rule to always participate as Dutch amateur, if only for a few Q’s.
Because the Netherlands is small country, this contest is only successful if there are enough Dutch amateurs participating. PACC-contest is a 24-hour contest where you only work Dutch amateurs (PA) to collect all the Dutch provinces which are handed out as exchange. There was only one catch: in this same weekend the PACC-contest is organized. I think the current personal record stems from a PACC-contest a few years ago and was around 450 Q’s.
This weekend I entered the CQ WPX RTTY contest with target to improve my personal total QSO-record in a contest.
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