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IARU weekend contest 2025
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This weekend, I took part in the IARU contest and entered the CW category. The solar conditions made the contest a challenge with G1 and G2 conditions along with a bouncing ball Bz. This made QSB an issue, along with very few DX contacts in the log. I pulled the plug for a while on Saturday, when on 20m, my signal was almost being treated as ground wave from the propagation gods. I did get on early Sunday morning Conditions on 40m were not too bad. I stayed with it until the end of the contest, which was 9 am local time on Sunday. On Sunday, I was able to make it to ZW5B and ZL6HQ on 40m, who both were booming in.
Final score
Overall The conditions made this contest a part-time effort, as I am not going to sit in the chair and endlessly call CQ contest. I hope that soon the Genvyshev gap (if that is what we are having) comes to an end soon. I am missing the great conditions we were having. What is the Genvyshev, you ask? Well, it is explained very well by fellow blogger Bas PE4BAS here
Mike Weir, VE9KK, is a regular contributor to AmateurRadio.com and writes from New Brunswick, Canada. Contact him at [email protected].
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