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PACC contest 2021


Our National PACC HF Contest weekend,  while the halve nation was out on the ice. 


                 Aa canal in city Groningen.   seen from my former QTH where i was active as PA0OOS   from 1972 in those day's we had cold winters but no-one was ice skating there

40m linear loaded/ foldback dipole 

PACC our national HF contest 24 hours February 13/14 is history.

After some doubts  i choose the A1 section CW  100W power 

Rather cold even in the shack at night i had to use an electric heather ..

During the quiet periods thoughts came up saying it makes no sense energy wise , switch off the heather and on the PA.. but i did not.



 Again top activity in CW many long time PACC friends seen on the bands thanks for giving out points. just a serial number and the obligatory 599 will do.
A pity that no easy  28 MHz local DL OZ ON G could be logged that could have made the difference between first or second  position. 
Also zero SA CW activity no PY LU in the log,  propagation was good enough.
Remarkable 160m USA seems to copy me well while the RX side was difficult the beverages did not help , possible frozen ground?

28 MHz CW YL7X  was the only exception in a "closed" band i did send a few CQ  but could not spend much time on 10m i am sure some openings did happen like ZD7 i red at PI4BAS blog.

Thanks to all PACC / CW friends

left me with the question where were those FT8 criticasters who told me they like CW so much... 


  

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PC5C said…
Mooie score Jaap. 73 Rinze PC5C
February 20, 2021 at 10:26 PM
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