I am not a contest op nor will I ever be one. \u00a0I tried my hand at working a few stations in the 2022 ARRL DX contest. \u00a0Not properly reading the exchange required and then not paying attention to the other stations when they asked for the required info, created confusion. \u00a0(Since I am running 25 watts into an attic antenna, when I hear a question mark during a contest, I assume they are asking for a repeat.)\u00a0 What got my attention was when one station dropped down from 30 WPM to ask for my state when I realized something was not right. \u00a0I was ready to pull the plug as I felt no one could hear me, but when I started sending the correct information my success rate improved.<\/p>\n
I guess in the future during big contest weekends I should head to the WARC Bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am not a contest op nor will I ever be one. \u00a0I tried my hand at working a few stations in the 2022 ARRL DX contest. \u00a0Not properly reading the exchange required and then not paying attention to the other stations when they asked for the required info, created confusion. \u00a0(Since I am running\u2026 Continue Reading ‘Once again – proof – I am not a contest op’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-operating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}