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VE9KK Blog
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2022 Q1 update
Posted: 02 Apr 2022 09:05 AM PDT
http://ve3wdm.blogspot.com/2022/04/2022-q1-update.html
It's hard to believe that we are 3 months into 2022, winter should soon be
on its way out and the warm summer breezes will soon be greeting us. I
ended 2021 with a year in review post. In this post, my 2021 goals were to
get less FT8 contact and more CW contacts. Not that I have an issue with
FT8 but I did find I was paying way too much attention to this mode and my
CW skills suffered. The plan was to shore up my CW skills, get into more CW contests and increase my CW contacts. As far as the past three months go
my CW contest copying skill has gone from an average of 22 wpm to 36 wpm
and 38 with some repeats. This was accomplished with daily practice of
about 30-50 mins. Taking part in weekly CWops mini-contests on Wednesdays.
In these contests I operate search and pounce as at this point calling CQ
in this fast-paced contest is not in the cards as of yet. On Friday
evenings K1USN radio club runs a slow-speed CW contest or SST as they call
it. It is a slow speed contest but practice is practice and in this
contest, I hold a frequency and call CQ SST for contacts. I am very
pleased with the first 3 months of 2022, my CW contacts almost match the
number for all of 2021! I am very happy with my increase in CW copying and
my move away from FT8 and more CW. In the chart above from Club log it does show for 2022 a certain percentage for phone operation. Well, I don't have
a mic in the shack and I am figuring my logging program logs the occasional
QSO as SSB. It has done this in the past and this year I may not have
caught this before uploading a log.
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