March Ham Radio Contest really heats up the airwaves … Carribean, Europe, contacts accomplished - KA4UDX

Europe Contacts by KA4UDX

ARRL SSB HF Radio Contest

Caribbean Contacts by KA4UDX

ARRL SSB HF Radio Contest

Mexico, Central America, etc. - Contacts by KA4UDX

ARRL SSB HF Radio Contest

A March Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) Single Sideband (SSB) Contest, described on this page: http://www.radio-sport.net/arrlssb10_pre.htm is really heating up the airwaves. Even giving the commercial shortwave radio stations a run for their money. Contacts to all over are occurring. 40 meters (7 Mhz band) has been hopping all day and night. As night fell on the east coast of the US 75/80 meters was buzzing as well with contest stations. You really get to see how congested the ham bands can get, when such a contest is going on.

The ARRL DX SSB Contest runs 48 hours from 0000z March 6 to 2400z March 7.




Video #1 of some of the SSB Radio Contesting at KA4UDX




Video #2 of some of the SSB Radio Contesting at KA4UDX

Alan Spicer, KA4UDX, has been participating a bit in this contesting. I’ve worked Spain, St. Maarten, Turks and Caicos Island, Hawaii, and more since yesterday. It’s a good time to make some DX contacts. It’s also very good for your geography knowledge of the world. I recorded a video … hopefully it’s not too long for Youtube. It takes a long time to upload a 10 minute video which is 100’s of megabytes. Note the March totals below, most of that was in the SSB contesting contacts.

Bands  2m  2 
     6m  6 
     10m  9 
     15m  45 
     17m  2 
     20m  54 
     30M  2 
     40m  45 
     80m  6 
  Modes  FM  7 
     PSK31  36 
     SSB  127 
     VOI  1 
  Propagation Modes  EchoLink  2 
     Internet  1 
  Dates  2009 December  2 
     2010 January  48 
     2010 February  57 
     2010 March  64 
  Countries
(Only includes cards to members of eQSL.cc)   3 
     ARGENTINA  1 
     ARUBA  1 
     AUSTRIA  2 
     BELGIUM  1 
     BONAIRE/CURACAO NETH. ANTILLE  2 
     BRAZIL  5 
     BULGARIA  1 
     CANADA  5 
     CANARY ISL.  1 
     COSTA RICA  3 
     DENMARK  1 
     DOMINICA  1 
     DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  2 
     ECUADOR  2 
     ENGLAND  1 
     FRANCE  2 
     GERMANY  2 
     GRENADA  1 
     GUATEMALA  1 
     HAWAII  2 
     HONDURAS  2 
     ITALY  3 
     JAPAN  1 
     LATVIA  1 
     MEXICO  1 
     NETHERLANDS  2 
     PORTUGAL  1 
     PUERTO RICO  2 
     SLOVAK REP.  1 
     SLOVENIA  1 
     SPAIN  1 
     USA  60 
     VENEZUELA  4 
     VIRGIN ISL.  1 
 

* Here’s a good one … worked a Honolulu Hawaii station on 3, yes three, seperate HF bands.

Action Callsign
1st  Date/Time
2nd  Band
3rd  Mode RST Comments
LIMITS  KH7X  -     
  KH7X  07Mar2010
10:54 80m  SSB  59 73 from Florida
  KH7X  07Mar2010
10:59 40m  SSB  59 59 florida. 73 and good contesting.
  KH7X  07Mar2010
19:04 15m  SSB  59 That makes a smooth 3 bands x 3 contest contacts. 73!

* Here’s another good one from the Beach Boys Music… I just worked Aruba “P40N” Papa-Four-Zero-November (59 Kilowatt - meaning my signal was 59 RST and he is running 1 Kilowatt. Not me though, just running 100 Watts here.)

http://lyrics.rockmagic.net/lyrics/beach_boys/still_cruisin_1989.html#s05

Kokomo 
 
Aruba, jamaica ooo I wanna take you
Bermuda, bahama come on pretty mama
Key largo, montego baby why don’t we go
Jamaica

Off the florida keys
There’s a place called kokomo
That’s where you wanna go to get away from it all
 
73 de KA4UDX, Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

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