ARRL 10 M Contest Report Dec 14 2025

[Jeff Rinehart]

Perhaps it was the wind that blew my signals all over the world???  - especially Sunday - but I had fun anyway!  The ham shack was a good place to be.  

It was great to have Sandy K4PZC (formerly from Rockingham Co. area) join our little group and take part too.  Apparently Butch N5SMQ was TOO BUSY to spend the time he wished he could on the radio - sorry Butch - we all understand competing responsibilities!  It took me till Sunday afternoon to catch David AD4TJ.  Just when I thought I had caught up with him, he showed up and worked a few more stations while I watched football with Patsy.  Hi 

Since my big Tri-bander is still stuck in an easterly direction, I found I had to depend on the Extended Double Zepp wire dipole for most of my contacts.  I think I have a replacement rotor lined up, so getting the broken one replaced will happen.  Until then, I will depend on the EDZ.  I didn't spend much time on SSB as reflected in my scores.  Phone is too much like "work".  I even used the digital voice recorder for the CQ-ing part.  Lots of competition on phone so I didn't spend much time there.

Time on: 12hr 21min

I worked lots of good countries though - even got Hawaii on phone.

Coming next weekend is the one day OKDX RTTY contest - OK DX RTTY: 0000Z-2400Z, Dec 20  Scoring is variable - per Continent - N1MM figures out the points per Q for you.  OK DX is very popular with lots of activity.  Then Jan 3 and 4 is the ARRL RTTY Roundup - always fun too.  Lots of good stuff coming soon.

See you down the log,

Jeff W4PJW

Jeff Rinehart   W4PJW

https://www.qrz.com/db/W4PJW

[Ray Albers]

I spent some time in the contest over the weekend - with lots of time-outs for the important stuff like cocktail hour. So great to see ten meters open so much!  I found it interesting how propagation shifted - by mid morning the sun had been blasting electrons off the oxygen atoms high above the Atlantic for a few hours, and the Europeans were coming in strong. Mid-afternoon, the sun had had a few hours to make ions over the Western Hemisphere and I was working US and Carribean stations- even Hawaii.

I wasn't using any CW decoders except the old one between my ears. Almost all my CQ-ing was wasted time - probably no more than half a dozen responses. Meanwhile, I could listen to the speed demons send their calls three or four times to get it right, and then call them multiple times thru the pileups and finally get a response.  I qualify for the "simple antenna overlay" bit, using my Vertical. That may be why I had more instances of other guy not hearing me (or at least not deigning to respond) than I  usually have.   I enjoyed it, despite lack-luster results.

153 CW  Q's, claimed score 34,884

73

Ray K2HYD

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