Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EESFeb 17, 2025

Graphical summary of my participation as EE5E in the ARRL CW DX contest. Ninety-one contacts on 10, 15 and 20 m, most in the east coast of North America and Great Lakes area. I was using a 5-metre vertical wire with a 49:1 and #5W of power, with a BaMaKey paddle attached to my #XieguG90 (20 WPM). Used Not1MM+Flrig for logging and CAT. Sat for about 14 hours in total.

#ARRLCW

P.S. The shortest valid ham call sign in the world is not EE5E, as I thought, but rather I5E if it were ever issued.

Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EESFeb 15, 2025
Using my brand-new contest call sign EE5E (possibly the shortest call sign in the world in Morse code) in the ARRL CW DX contest. Searching and pouncing, I see that it is a hard call sign for calling stations to hear, particularly if running just 5 W.
#arrlcw #cw
Show threadArnie the DXman | HF4Feb 18, 2023

But the most shocking development is that... 10m is still open 😱

Well, this recording is from 1851z, and by the time I'm writing these words (1906z), signals had faded down a lot, so perhaps the doors are finally closing. OTOH, 15m is still VERY busy 🙂 #shortwave #hamr #hamradio #amateurradio #ARRL #ARRLCW #ARRLDX #ARRLDXCW (whichever hashtag applies best lol)

Show threadArnie the DXman | HF4Feb 18, 2023
And same on the 50deg KAZ. None of them is really designed for 10m, each being made of 42m of wire and terminated with 1000Ohm, but they work nevertheless 😅 but which one does deliver more North American contesters? #hamr #hamradio #amateurradio #ARRL #ARRLCW
Show threadArnie the DXman | HF4Feb 18, 2023
A few minutes' worth of #ARRL #ARRLCW International DX Contest on 10m on the 290deg antenna. CW Skimmer listens to 28040-28046 kHz #hamr #hamradio #amateurradio