I had a lot of fun in #cqwwcw on Sunday. Due to family commitments I could only operate for 2.5 hours out of the 48 so I decided to get as many countries (DX by preference) as possible.

I had to break through pileups which was a learning experience for me but it went quite well. I snagged 7 new countries which I was very pleased with, along with a few dxpeditons.

Would have liked to play longer, but not every year your daughter is 21 😃

Definitely enjoyed this year's #cqwwcw although we ran into a number of problems. Downside:
- One linear damaged, had to use one lower power linear
- An IC-765ProIII is not a good contest radio compared to an IC-7610
- Relay for 160/80 vertical not working properly on 80m. Decided to not switch and stay on 80m
- Looooots of storm and rain during the WE (40h straight)
- Had to take a 30min break on Sunday due to too much lightning. Better safe than sorry

3B8M Team from Mauritius Is.
It was a blast! Thanks for all the QSOs from #Mauritius. 🇲🇺
#CQWWCW 2022
@3B8M
- M/M HP
OPs: G0CKV, K0AV, KX7M, W6NV, M0SDV, DK6SP

More stories and pictures later due to ongoing antenna dismantle. WARC bands 12/17/30m will stay up as long as possible.

Summary WWDXCW contest:

544 QSO's (easy to do with so much activity). FTDX101D, 100W, slinky and Chameleon Ampas extended whip. 10, 15 & 20m only.

Interesting to see FT8 activity died out before CW 😃

#cw #cwcontest #cqwwcw

Final score #cqwwcw

Thanks to the 10m Moxon antenna which worked amazingly well.

Entirely forgot it was #cqwwcw today. Glad I chose 30m for my #SOTA activation earlier. No wonder it felt busy on there 😅

Made about 175 contacts on CQWW CW contest (~62000 points).

#cqwwcw

#cqwwcw is alive and well in the far north. I couldn’t join the team at KL7RA this year, but I certainly enjoy doing my bit from home handing out zone 1 to folks.

The amount of dupes in this year's #cqwwcw is amazing

Skimmer experiment update: in 24 hours I’ve spotted around 36k transmissions from 159 countries. CPU utilisation is quite low - but there was a definite uptick as Europe came online for #cqwwcw - average is around 25% utilisation. I’m decoding around 2K CW spots every 30mins. I need to adjust frequency calibration; spots are about 100hz too high. I’m not skimming on 160m, 60m or 30m yet…I may setup a 2nd RX/VM tomorrow for the missing bands. Overall not bad from an indoor antenna in metro London

Put up a D3 dipole for the #CQWW CW DX Contest. So far, so good. It is only up about 25 feet. Being a bit rusty, I am operating hunt and pounce, and mostly on 15M. #CQWWCW

I am getting ready for the #CQWWCW, work me if you can hear me. Good luck!

20m 2 element Vertical Array firing East<>West and Broadside north<>South - all the radials 😃#CQWWCW

Any other Radio Toots doing #CQWWCW this weekend?

Here 20m SO not sure on Assisted or not yet, LP to 2 ele switched verticals 🎉

Set up a new virtual machine to run WSPR, FT4, FT8 & CW skimmers over the weekend whilst #cqwwcw is on. Software stack is Win10; Skimmer Server(v1.6.0.145); CWSL_Tee; CWSL_Digi(v0.85); CWReporter(1.1); WSTJ-X(2.6.0rc4); HermesIntf (v21.7.18). Hardware is a Red Pitaya 122-16 & Wellgood loop (setup in a bedroom). The VM has 14 cores, 8Gb memory & 32Gb of disk - probably oversized…but the CW spot rate will be greater over the weekend. Next job is set up 2nd VM to talk to 2nd RX on Red Pitaya board.

Good morning (before #cqwwcw )

Getting ready for the flight to the contest destination. Hope to work many of you during #CQWWCW . May post a couple of pictures 😀 #hamradio

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