Merry Christmas and happy New Year to all my readers de Fiorino/i3fdz
The CQ WW CW 2023, the most important contest of the year is goes. The log is already sent to the committee. It has been an exciting contest indeed. I operated for eight hours in the Single Operator Single Band, 10 meters, High Power, cattegorie. I concacted 98 countries, 31 zones with 261 qso.The propagation was excellent, all six continents was on the air and contacted.
The statistics and summary will follows. I used the logger QARest.
This year Peter John DL7YS, WAEDC contest manager, pubblished rushly the WAE CW 2023 results in the DARC web site. I’m happy because I succeeded to comfirm the ninth place in my cattegory reacing the objective to to get the top ten area.
I show you the top ten of Single Operator Europe Low Power
About one week to WAE CW contest 2023. It will take place the 12 and 13 august. Save the date and prepare your setup.
The WAE CW contest 2023 is organized by the german radioamateur association DARC. There is a round for CW only taking place the second weekend complete of august, there is a round for SSB only taking place the second weekend complete on september and there is a round for RTTY only taking place the second weekend complete of october of each year. In this contest are allowed qso between european stations and non european stations only, there are also two differents classific for european and non europena stations. In this contest, the unique on the world, where the non european stations will send back to eupean stations packets with informations datas regardin previous qso with europen stations. Such packet are called qtc.
For complete contest rules included the qtc messages, please follows this link on the DARC web site.
The ARI Dx contest 2023 claimed scores has been just published on its web site.This is the link to reach them. Dx stations claimed scores follows the italians one on the list, cattegory by cattegory. As usually, the ARI international Dx contest committee, shown it quickly.
More than 1400 stations sent their logs to the committee a sign that our HF contest performed better than last year.
I’m particularly satisfied because my call is first on my category, Single Operator CW Low Power. I hope to keep such position on the final results too.
The next post, with comments, about ARI Dx contest, after the publication of final results. I hope early.
73 a lot to all, de I3FDZ
YAESU FT101E VINTAGE TRANSCEIVER UPDATE.
Part one.
It was the workhorse of the Yaesu from 1970, year of start of production to the 80s. It seems to be the apparatus, in the various versions, more produced by Yaesu. I bought it in a duty free shop of Panama, Canal Zone, in 1974, in that time I was working, in those places. I paid it 500 US $ and the serial number is 5L 310554. More historic info about Yaesu FT101E in this link.
YAESU FT101E VINTAGE TRANSCEIVER UPDATE PART TWO
It is assumed that the radio is in good condition and works perfectly, at least in reception mode, otherwise the installation of the filter does not make sense.
For this installation I helped myself, following the advice, of the instruction manual of the Yaesu FT101E which is available for reading and download here.
La mia attività di Radioamatore consiste nella caccia al dx, partecipazione a Contest nazionali e internazionali in HF, ricerca e restauro di apparati storici Vintage.