Croatian CW Contest and Russian RAEM CW Contest Participation

I participated two small DX Contest on this December--Croatian CW Contest on Dec. 18 and 19 and Russian RAEM CW Contest on Dec. 26. I enjoyed both contests at home in Amagasaki city, Hyogo, Japan.

I had only 8 QSOs in Croatian CW Contest. Acquired entities are BY,UN,UA,UA0,LY. I couldn't get 9A though we could hear signals from 9A.

And I had 28 QSOs in Russian RAEM CW Contest. Acquired entities are UA,UA0,UN,JA. I had difficulty in sending long long contest number--599+001+North Lat.and East Lat. I was repeated many times to give numbers. Contest rule says that we will be disqualified if there are more 2% miscopies of all QSO. I have possibility to be dropped of this contest...

In this season High band condition gets worse in Japan and it is very hard to have QSOs with DX stations with my poor facilities. But I'm very happy to have the opportunity of QSOs at home.

TNX FR FB QSO!!

CQ WW DX Contest CW Participation

I participated the CQ WW DX Contest CW between Nov.27 and 28 as JO3PSJ/3 in Inami Town, Hyogo, Japan.

This is the first participation in CW WW Contest for me. My individual result was totally 160 QSOs. I couldn't make full participation because of work. But I had many QSOs during the short time. QSO entities was totally 45 as belows,

AS: BY,BV,UA9,JT,VR2,HS,3W,ZC4,UN,EX,9K (11)
OC: DU,VK,YB,ZL,9M6,KH0,KH2,ZL8 (8)
EU: UA,9A,I,SP,UR,ER,YO,S5,DL,HA,OE,OH,YU,OK,OM,SP,4O,LZ,E7 (19)
NA: K,VE,KH6 (3)
SA: LU,CE,PY,CX (4)

Newly acquired entities are ZC4(The UK Military Base on Cyprus) and 9K(Kuwait). In addition I had a QSO with ZL8X(Kermadec Is.) luckily.

I used YAESU FT-450M with 50w output, and I used ground plain antennas for 20m, 15m and 10m and dipole for 40m band.

TNX FR FB QSO!

SRI for delay of renewal...

I'm sorry to renew my diary because I went abroad on the 1st and 2nd weeks of this December.