This weekend at work I had a major platform launch so other then 4 quick contacts I made Sat morning, I didn’t operate until Sunday.

Sunday morning I worked from home and made contacts in between calls that were wrapping things up. I am glad I did as I was able to log a contact with YB0PAH in Indonesia for a new DXCC. Now I just need for it confirmed. I was able to really start operating after things were wrapped up with work after noon local time.

I was stuck inside the past few days and it has been beautiful out so I also took a walk for a while and enjoyed the nice weather. I took a much needed 2 hour nap after a few 18 hour days in a row dealing with work. But, it was great to get on the radio and make some RTTY contacts! Most of the time I was on 20m hopping to 15m from time to time but there wasn’t a lot of activity I could hear and work. I checked 10m twice but didn’t hear anything there.

About 40 mins after making my first contact with a station in Indonesia, I heard a ZL3 station on Tokelau Islands which would have been another new one, but I wasn’t able to make a contact before I couldn’t hear the station any longer. I did make a nice contact with New Zealand and it is always good to log at least 1 Japan station in any contest. I also logged 2 South Africa stations, one of which is a special event station for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, so I will be sending for a QSL card for that contact.

I ended up with 248 contacts but more importantly ham radio contesting is a great way to end a hectic but successful week of work. Here is the score summary:

Band    QSOs     Pts  Cty  Sec  Cnt
 3.5      20      20    2    9    0
   7      61      61    6   14    1
  14     146     146   40   14    4
  21      21      21   11    5    1
Total    248     248   59   42    6

Score : 150,288

73 and happy diddles,
K2DSL