CQWW RTTY contest September 2009.
Well it came and went and I dipped my toes in the furious contest waters but nothing new or exciting for me this time. Over a total of about 2 hours operating in 4 sessions I worked some 40 stations in 21 different countries - Armenia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Rep, Denmark, Estonia, European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Morocco, Serbia, Slovak Rep, Slovenia, Ukraine and USA.
What I did notice was that conditions on both 20m and 40m were much improved over my recent excursions to those bands - most stations were worked after just one call, although I was selective in just which stations I worked.
Sadly the few expected rare ones either weren’t active over the weekend or were just not heard at my location. That said I enjoyed getting back on the bands and I’m happy with my little haul and even more so with the improved band conditions.