[ADXA] WPX contest

[Jussi Eloranta]

Hi,

Yes, 20m was apparently the place to be. My friend in OH land ran 1846 qsos and 1014 prefixes. And yet he was watching ice hockey on TV (Finland won the championship) at the same time.

And east coast seemed to have solid EU openings (even on 15m). JA direction was a big disappointment even on the west coast. But, anyway, I am happy if I beat my previous scores. I have been away from contesting for a long time and it takes some time to get back in shape.

Jussi (aa6kj)

Jun 1, 2026 5:03:36 PM Charles Korzendorfer <korzendorferc at gmail.com>:

> Jussie,
>    Thanks for the Q Sunday afternoon on 15M.  That is a great single band effort, as I did not think 15 was all that good, especially on Sunday.  Twenty meters was the place to be for this event.
>    Looks like our fellow ADXA member Kevin has one of the top scores in the all band category operating from his station VA1EET.
>      73, Chuck. KM5G 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 11:09 AM Randell Curtis, W5ZJ via ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> Jussie, it sounds like you did pretty good. I jumped on for a bit and made a total of 15 contacts for a total of 600 points. You are exactly right about the thunderstorms. It seemed thery would form just to the southeast of me and then slowly head NW right over the QTH. We haven't had the flies so far, but the mosquitoes have showed up with a vengeance.  I'm thinking I may need to go to the doc to get blood added, because I'm pretty sure I'm a quart low. 
>> Glad y'all made your trip and are back safe.
>> Randy/W5ZJ
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, 31 May, 2026 at 7:36 PM, Jussi Eloranta via ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>  
>> To: 'adxa'
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I worked WPX CW 15m single band this weekend. "Bad weather" pretty much
>> summarizes the contest for me. Both in the ionosphere and lower. Poor
>> propagation overall and thunder storms circling my QTH. The poor
>> propagation also drove people to other bands (except those of us who had
>> decided to do single band). Whenever the band opened slightly to some
>> direction, for sure there was a thunder storm in that direction and
>> terrible QRN. My ears are still ringing from those lightning crashes -
>> volume had to be turned up and APF on in order to copy stations. I do
>> not want to wear headphones for a while... One could argue that it must
>> be the lightning that fires up the ionosphere :-)
>> 
>> Finally, late on Sunday afternoon the band opened to EU but then the QRN
>> prevented me from working most of the stations. Nothing more frustrating
>> than hearing a bunch of people calling but I can't copy them. Then there
>> were some minor episodes like losing the power for a bit during the
>> contest, AC leaking condensed water into my ham shack and me being
>> attacked by a fly swarm while trying to work. The latter was very
>> annoying and distracting! They must have been attracted to my "contest
>> aroma" (sweating with the AC off and no shower). And when the contest
>> was almost over (1.5 hour left), I hear a loud rumble through my
>> headphones and realized that a thunder storm had just developed almost
>> exactly above my QTH. Turned off everything and pulled cables off. I
>> kept waiting for it to go away but no, it decided not to go anywhere
>> (game over). The timing of WPX is really bad for us due to the storm
>> season but what can we do?
>> 
>> But I still managed to get 1252 QSOs and 706 prefixes. However, I am
>> pretty sure that there are tons of copy errors because of the QRN and
>> poor band condx (very weak signals) but that's life...
>> 
>> Jussi (aa6kj)
>> 
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