#hamchallenge week 38: Make a contact in #Morsecode. Well, so far this year I have about 11800 CW QSOs in my log (and 5 on FM, 261 on SSB). Most of those contacts were in contests, but I get on the air almost every day and enjoy rag chewing at any speed. What gives me the greatest satisfaction? Making contacts with my "CW students", i.e. users of https://lcwo.net/. #HC38S @hamchallenge
Had a really nice standard #cw QSO with YL3AD as YU/DL6PL on 17 m last week. It was my first QSO with Latvia, so I was very happy, that he offered a QSL card via bureau. #hamchallenge #HC38S @hamchallenge

This week I did two #POTA activations. The majority of contacts were in #CW, so also #HamChallenge #HC38S completed.

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@hamchallenge Since the week in the US is considered to start on Sunday, my 10 CW POTA QSOs on Sunday definitely count as #HC38S within the week.

At the beginning of this year, I had not finished learning all the morse symbols. Now ¾ of my QSOs have been CW, I hunt POTA at 20WPM, run POTA at 15WPM, and am progressing towards my goal of conversational CW at 20WPM by the end of the calendar year. (I may or may not succeed, but it's nice to have a goal!)

@hamchallenge #HC38S Made CW Contact during POTA QSO

@hamchallenge The condx were terrible and I really, really hoped for a 6m qso, but nothing happened. I did hear F4JRC, about 2000 km away, on the magic band #HC28S.

Contacting other xOTA stations wasn't as easy as the usual P2P or P2S, but I did get ~15 in the log, not counting multiple parks and multiple ops setups. #HC16S

I even had some CW qsos with other hams with whom I share this instance #HC38S, but I couldn't find someone for #HC30 #hamchallenge

Let's try a 10fer for @hamchallenge :  

I went out today for POTA RO-0109 #HC29S in front of this communist mammoth #HC13S, operated all day on 36Ah #HC36S (ha!). I worked one DX, the ITU HQ, out of today's DXpeds PJ4M, VP8DPD and V73MT #HC07S, 14 DXCCs #HC37s, plus all xOTA #HC16S I heard. I had 20 contacts on CW #HC38S including @YO3AX and @G0TRT. I even heard F4JRC on 6m #HC28S. I fixed my audio card #HC45S and used the antenna I built with the YL #HC33S.

Details follow.

Try to catch up with the progress of my #hamchallenge @hamchallenge:
#HC06S : Took part of the german CW training contest on Thursday. First three contacts. Which I count also as success for #HC38S

Today, I participated in the 2m segment of the Winter Fieldday / Bayerischer Bergtag from my usual VHF hill which is also valid for POTA (#DE0315).

In two hours I made 15 contacts to German and Czech stations using my trusty FT-818 (6 W out) and a 4 element yagi.

With today's activity I accomplished three #HamChallenge|s at once:
#HC06S (Contest)
#HC29S (xOTA activation)
#HC38S (Morse contact)

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