Recent contest activities

I participated in a couple of contests again over the past two weekends. One was the CQ Worldwide RTTY Contest and the other was the VHF UHF Contest.

CQ World Wide RTTY Contest:

The CQ WW RTTY contest always takes place on the last full weekend in September. Since this is one of my favorite contests, I naturally took part. Unfortunately, I am still limited in terms of antennas since my antenna for the lower bands fell down in the spring.

Here are my results:

Band   QSOs  Pts Zones Contries
3,5          3         5       2          3
7             4         8       3          4
14         28       71       9         16
21         31        78      8         14
28        24       70      11        13
Total   90      232     33       50

Score : 25.520

And as usual the QSO map:

 

Region 1 UHF SHF Contest:

Last weekend, the Region 1 UHF SHF Contest took place. I participated on 70 cm and 23 cm. Unfortunately, conditions were not so good on Saturday, and on Sunday afternoon, when there is usually a lot of activity, I had another appointment.

Nevertheless, I managed to make 19 QSOs with 3402 QSo pioints. The Km average was 179 km and the ODX 641 km (G3M) on 70 cm.

On 23 cm i had only 1 QSO with 167 km.

 

 

 

The QSO map also shows the usual gap from northwest to east. I see this gap in every contest, but I have no explanation for it.