Category Archives: Contesting

You Can’t Lose If You Aren’t Trying to Win

This past weekend was the ARRL DX CW contest.  I have been attending the CWOps’ CW Academy and have been steadily progressing in CW skill and speed.  One of the tools used in the class is RufzXP which provides practice copying calls at high speed.  Another tool, MorseRunner, similarly provides contest-like practice.  After using both… Read More »

Trying Contesting

I am fairly new to Amateur Radio, first licensed in January 2019. The great thing about the hobby is how absolutely broad it it. “The hobby of a thousand hobbies” as oft cited on The Ham Radio Workbench Podcast) There are so many aspects to try out. My interest in getting my license was focused… Read More »