Wednesday June 19, 2013 (local)

Tonight was the NAQCCCC Milliwatt sprint. It is amazing what can be done with 900 milliwatts of RF power.  I worked 23 stations in one hour. I wish I could have stayed awake for the last hour but I wanted to be able to get a good nights sleep and be alert Thursday morning.


14061 CW 2013-06-20 0037 N1IX          599  NH 1130  WG8Y          599  NC   4405  
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0038 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K1QO          599  NH   1143
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0040 N1IX          599  NH 1130  WB8LZG        599  MI   1444         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0041 N1IX          599  NH 1130  AC8LJ         599  WV   6261         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0042 N1IX          599  NH 1130  W4DUK         599  VA   617          
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0043 N1IX          599  NH 1130  KB4QQJ        599  NC   2086         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0045 N1IX          599  NH 1130  N5GW          599  MS   5353         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0051 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K4ORD         599  VA   904          
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0052 N1IX          599  NH 1130  WA4ZOF        599  AL   5748         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0053 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K8NU          599  OH   5822         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0054 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K0EUN         599  MN   5813         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0056 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K4JPN         599  GA   841          
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0057 N1IX          599  NH 1130  KB9ILT        599  IL   5588         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0058 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K4BAI         599  GA   544         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0106 N1IX          599  NH 1130  WF7T          599  TN   3333         
14061 CW 2013-06-20 0108 N1IX          599  NH 1130  WD4OHD        599  TN   522          
 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0112 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K1QO          599  NH   1143   
 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0114 N1IX          599  NH 1130  KD2MX         599  NJ   1091         
 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0117 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K4DXV         599  TN   1234         
 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0118 N1IX          599  NH 1130  W2JEK         599  NJ   1135         
 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0119 N1IX          599  NH 1130  KB9ILT        599  IL   5588         
 7041 CW 2013-06-20 0123 N1IX          599  NH 1130  VA3RKM        599  ON   982 
 3562 CW 2013-06-20 0130 N1IX          599  NH 1130  K1QO          599  NH   1143 

Monday June 17, 2013

The All Asian contest was held this weekend. In this contest the Asian continent is worked by the rest of the world.
I didn't have much time to participate due to father's day and my eldest daughters birthday. I was able to get on the air for a few hours. Friday evening, Saturday early morning and evening and Sunday morning and evening. Condition to Asia were great on Friday evening. I worked a bunch of JA's (Japan), some Asiatic Russia and even a couple of mainland China stations. In total I got 110 stations and 74 multipliers. Total was 8,140 points.

The results of the ARRL DX contest were posted on the ARRL website this weekend. I did much better than I had expected. I got fourth place in the US for the QRP category.

CQ Test de N1IX - I have CRS!!

I am having a really difficult time remembering various events so I have decided to keep a journal (blog). This became very apparent to me recently when the results of the  ARRL 10 meter contest were posted. I could not find my call among the list of participants., Did I participate? Did I forget to send in my log? I had no idea!!
Sorry, this blog will contain only my ham radio related activities so don't expect to read anything juicy :)

Monday June 10, 2013

I participated in the NAQCCCCCCC sprint. Conditions were fairly good and I made quite a few contacts on 20 meters. My totals were:
                 Qsos   Members  Mults

N1IX     52   47  99   27    2673      2673 

I entered in the "gain antenna category" with 0 bonus multiplier (I used a computer keyboard).

Wednesday June 12, 2013

I finished building one of the Nanokeyers today. This one is a birthday gift for one of my ham radio buddies. It is a really cool keyer based on the arduino nano processor. I installed the driver and powered it up via the USB port. It looks good so far. The green power LED lights up. Next step is to set up the arduino environment on my laptop and then compile and upload the code.