Had a pretty busy non-ham weekend with family around and my younger daughter graduating middle school so I wasn’t on the air much.

Friday evening we had a VE test session with about 7 people attending. 1 was a paper upgrade to General that hung around after he got his paperwork and chatted. Seems one of the parents I grew up with was someone he worked with for many years. We had a new tech pass and a couple successful upgrades to General and Extra. One upgrade to General is a teen in the club who passed his tech a few months back and has been very active with the club.  I think 2 folks didn’t pass their Extra upgrade but I’m sure they will be back for a future session.

I made a few phone contacts with West Virginia stations during their QSO party on Saturday. I also made 3 or 4 with DX stations in the All Asia CW contest over the weekend. I probably could have made more but 20m was noisy for me on Sunday when I had time to get on. I also made a couple misc phone contacts with DX stations I hadn’t previously had 20m phone contacts with before.

On Saturday I received a postal envelope with about a dozen QSL cards from the bureau. About 1/2 I had already sent QSL cards out for and the rest I wrote out QSL cards for and will get them to the clubs outgoing QSL manager this week. Most were from August or September 2008 for RTTY contacts. There were some nice looking cards in the batch.

That is about it for now. Looking forward to Field Day next weekend!

73,
K2DSL