In case you haven’t been paying attention, 20m has been open more in the past couple of days. Today, for example, I made 7 20m contacts, including several in Europe. I don’t think this is a long-term trend, but it’s nice to make some contacts on 20m.
I copied the special bulletin for Field Day this year. My original plan was to copy the first Friday evening CW transmission at 20 wpm. So, just before the transmission was to begin, I tuned to 7047.5 kHz (I wonder how they chose that particular frequency?) and set up my digital recorder.
It’s a good thing that I set up the recorder because I found that I couldn’t actually write that fast. I quickly fell behind and then just gave up. I could copy the message easily enough in my head. I just couldn’t get it down on paper.
After the bulletin ended, I played it back and copied using a text editor. That was very easy. I should have started off doing that. In any case, I scored 100 points Friday evening before making a single QSO.
Saturday night while operating 40m CW, I worked VE7SAR. The very next contact was K5SAR.
And, finally, another operating oddity. On June 20, 2019, I worked VE3 BXG. My previous QSO with Mark was on June 20, 2018.
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