I haven’t been on the radio in a while due to many other family activities going on this month so it was great to fire things up and everything was working well. Downloaded the latest N1MM version and configured the macros for the SP DX ham radio contest and I was ready to start making contacts.

The weather outside was pouring rain and it was cooler than it should be this time of year. I’m not sure when spring will finally arrive here and it will start to get consistently warmer and sunny out, but Saturday wasn’t a nice day.

Got on 20m and spun around and worked a SP station for #1 and a few North America stations followed by a booming JM1XCW station. I checked 15m often and there just wasn’t activity there or I wasn’t hearing much.   There wasn’t a tremendous amount of activity on the bands so I took a bunch of breaks and came back to the radio after a while to work new stations. I repeated this often throughout the day. I worked a few SP stations but I thought I would hear a lot more from Poland than I ended up with.

Later in the day as the sun started to set I went over to 40m and spent some time there working stations, mostly in North America. Called CQ for a while and did pretty well on 40m. Check 80m but didn’t hear anyone (well 1 station) and I ended up shutting things down a little early and watching TV with the family so I didn’t spend any time on 80m to log more NA stations.

It was great to get on the air again if I didn’t rack up a large number of contacts. It is always fun. Here’s the score summary from a few hours on the air:

 Band    QSOs     Pts  Cty  Sec  Cnt
  3.5       1       2    1    0    0
    7      50     177   10    2    0
   14      81     517   26    5    4
   21      14      72    8    0    1
Total     146     768   45    7    5

Score : 199,680

73 & good DX,
K2DSL