Also this year I participated in the infamous PACC contest. Very relaxed and good fun. My score was better than previous years I think. I made 401 QSOβs (I think one duplicate so 400) and a total of 88 multipliers resulting in a pre-evaluated score of 35288 points. Thanks to everybody who participated and hope to work you next year!
Conditions werenβt too good but also not terrible. 10m and 15m were closed but while I didnβt have any decent antennas for those bands, I guess that was in my advantage. Yesterday I hooked up a big 200 uH coil with three 22 pF silver mica caps in series (so 7+ pF) as an improvised trap for 80m and added some wire to get resonance on 1.85 MHz. I actually made 7 QSOβs on 160m which gave me 3 extra multipliers. 98 QSOβs on 80m, 142 QSOβs on 40m and 51 QSOβs op 20m were good for 53 multipliers. I had one duplicate QSO so total the total was 298 QSOβs x 56 multipliers = 16688 punten. Considering the fact that the conditions werenβt too good, Iβm happy with the results. Hope to hear you next year!
I will be participating today in the Dutch PACC contest 2021. Start is Sat 13 February 12:00 UTC, end is Sun 14 February 12:00 UTC. The contest is organised by Veron (click link below for rules and more information). I will be active on 80/40/20, maybe on 160m at night if I can get the 80m L/C trap working (will hook it up to the 80/40 HWEF).
The PACC contest mostly is a very relaxed contest so ideal for beginners. Dutch PA stations are sending report and province code, all other stations are sending report and sequence number starting from 001.