Conditions weren’t too good but also not terrible. 10m and 15m were closed but while I didn’t 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 QSO’s on 160m which gave me 3 extra multipliers. 98 QSO’s on 80m, 142 QSO’s on 40m and 51 QSO’s op 20m were good for 53 multipliers. I had one duplicate QSO so total the total was 298 QSO’s x 56 multipliers = 16688 punten. Considering the fact that the conditions weren’t too good, I’m happy with the results. Hope to hear you next year!

73 Pleun (PA3HHO)

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.

The Dutch province abbreviations (multipliers) are:
DR= Drenthe        NB = Noord-Brabant
FL= Flevoland      NH = Noord-Holland
FR= Friesland       OV = Overijssel
GD= Gelderland    UT = Utrecht
GR= Groningen     ZH = Zuid-Holland
LB= Limburg         ZL = Zeeland

See if you can catch ‘m all from the air waves HI.

Have fun, goodluck es 73 de PA3HHO