Well, I don’t know if the ham radio contests themselves are small, but my participation in them this past long holiday weekend was rather small.

First was the RAC Canada Day Contest where though you can work anyone, it’s primarily a Canadian contact that gets the most points. It’s 24 hours and runs over their Canada Day which was July 1st (starting the evening of  June 30th). We had stuff going on at home but I was able to make a few contacts. I only operated SSB/phone and didn’t do any CW during this one. It was nice to chat with our neighbors just north of us. I didn’t hear anyone on 40m and didn’t work much at night when I would Here’s the score summary:

 Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
  3.5       2     20    1
   14      55    466   11
Total      57    486   12

Score : 5,832

The other contest was the DLDX RTTY contest which occurs over 24 hours starting the morning of  July 2nd and finishing the morning of July 3rd. I didn’t have a lot of time to work this contest either but got in some time on and off during the day on July 2nd (my birthday). Like RAC contest where working Canadian stations gets you more points, the DLDX contest gets more points for working station in Germany. I didn’t have an easy time early in the morning but late in the afternoon things were easier and I could work stations on 1 call. Running wasn’t very productive except for short bursts so most time I was S&Ping the band. Didn’t hear much of anything on 15m.

Here’s the score summary for the DLDX RTTY contest:

 Band    QSOs   Pts  Are   DXC
 3.5       1     15    1    0
   7       8     50    2    5
  14      71    800   21    9
  21       2     15    2    2
 Total    82    880   26   16

Score : 36,960

Had a nice long weekend which means hopefully a short work week too before next weekend. This week starts the JX5O DXpedition to Jan Mayen Island about 400 miles NE of Iceland. Hopefully I can snag them on at least one band and hopefully a few band/modes will be possible.

73,
K2DSL