Three cheers for you Mark! Glad to hear it! Welcome to the CW ranks, and best wishes on improving in the mode!
Don K5DB
Wow, that’s fantastic, Mark! Most of the operators are pretty fast and if you’re copying your own call and sending with a memory keyer, you’re right in there with the big guns. I heard you in at least one of the pileups.
Good deal Dennis. CY9C has just become my first ever cw contacts. Was able to work them on cw on 15, 20, 40 and maybe 10 and 80. Still waiting for the final log update to confirm those. I used the memory keyer to send but only my ears
to try to extract my call coming back at machine gun speed. I’m hooked…
Got KH8T on 10m cw last evening also. Great fun. 73
On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 8:29 AM, Dennis Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
I finally got CY9C on 80 CW last night. He was working one European after another and it didn't seem that I'd get a chance but finally he worked a few US stations.
I never got them on 10 CW or SSB. For some reason, I had trouble hearing them on 10 CW and when I could, they were working only EU. Yesterday, they had an amazing EU pileup on 10 SSB. The op was on 28.490 and the pileup stretched well above
28.6 at times. There were very few other signals on the band when I tuned around. I suspect there were more SSB signals than FT8 during that time.
I was happy, got CW on everything but 160, 60, 12, 10 and 6M. Made at least one contact of some kind on every band except 60 and 6M.