Moving into February, we are presented with the Mexican and WPX RTTY contests, and of course, the 1st state QSO parties of the year, interspersed with the CQ-160 contests.
March brings us MORE state QSO parties, SPRINT contests and BARTG RTTY GiG Of course,
the WPX Ssb GiG is the climax of a radiosport month building up to it. Moving into April brings
more QSO parties, some ad-HOC RTTY contests, some European DX contests, and in the middle
of it all, the HAPANESE JIDX Cw contest that NX6T has been winning for many years in a row.
Every year, the San Diego Contest Club (NX6T), endeavors to win the plaque for the New
England QSO Party, something we've gotten into the habit of doing. In between shifts for NX6T (running remote from Anza) I run WQ6X as a mixed-mode QRP operation from KN6NBT's QTH
in Ramona. This year marks my 3rd 1st-place win outside of the 7th call area. I have NEVER encountered a QSO party that was able to report the final results, less that 30 days from the event weekend itself. "It's all done with smoke and mirrors" (and of course computers).
Littered throughout the rest of May was the CQ-M and the King-of-Spain Dx contests along with
the VOLTA RTTY GiG which turned out to be a DuD this year, largely thanks to horrible Space-WX. The month of June brings us the All Asian CW GiG and of course Field Day (FD).
For VHF enthusiasts, there is of course the VHF weekend. July starts off with the Canada Day
GiG and then the IARU HF championship - a mixed mode 24-hour event - you could almost call
it the "SPRINT" of Dx contests.
In November we run my favorite contest pair - The November Sweepstakes (SS). In between
we can operate the JIDX Ssb contest and the WAE RTTY - an incredibly challenging yet satisfying affair. December ends the year beginning with the ARRL 160 / 10-meter contests and ends with the Canadian RAC Winter contest.
Do YOU work multiple different kinds of radiosport events throughout the year?
What are YOUR Findings?
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