I'm not doing any contests but I am hooking up my TS-930 I haven't used 
since last spring today and going to give that a little bit of a workout. 
It's harder here to swap radios out because I need to put one away to make 
room for another one but I figure I"ll run the TS-930 this weekend, then put 
it back in storage downstairs, in the box but anyway, I'll be around today, 
first region nts net as always and scanning the bands.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone doing CQ WPX SSB Contest This Week-end?


> well, I had some small success working the contest on 20M tonight from my
> home qth.
> I logged 15 contacts using my 20M ham stick mounted out on the balcony 
> rail
> and 100W.
> Some notable contacts were D4C kape verde, CR3a madeira island off the 
> coast
> of morocco, a brazilian station and a hawaiian station.
> I was hunting and pouncing and was listening for dx only for the most
> part...not considering the US or canada as dx.
> Considering my antenna, power level and S8 noise level across the whole
> band, and the 1 hour that I devoted to it, I think I was fairly 
> successful.
> It's nothing compared to even a medium sized properly set up ham station,
> but still I'm happy things work as well as they do.
> If only I had access to the club station, I could probably work my own 
> pile
> ups with their big beam and height and so on.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX