With Varying Frequency – Amateur Radio Ponderings

Half way through Contest University.

A very good day to be inside, windy, storms and just plain not nice at the start. Fantastic that I could spend this time learning more about contesting. Saw some familiar faces and some old friends. Great to be here!

Opening session on Ethics was well received, and from there I was off to two back-to-back RTTY sessions where I learned more about RTTY, RTTY Contesting and RTTY Advanced Techniques in a few hours than years on the air could have provided. I was keyed for the subject and well rewarded! Ed W0YK did a great job! Thank you!

A following group session “Logging & Logging Accuracy and Why it Matters” was really a history of contest log checking, and unlike the earlier sessions didn’t leave a person with anything “actionable.” Perhaps it was the use of that session’s time to cover only the first half of the prepared slides, unfortunately the history rather than skills-to-use slides were the only ones covered. Personally I am so much more interested in gaining the knowledge, skills & tools to be an effective & ethical contester that for me the whole history part could have been skipped.

We’re on a short box lunch and back to the afternoon sessions momentarily!

73 from Contest University 2009

Steve
K9ZW