The Big Thaw...

Another quiet few weeks as the great winter thaw continues here in Eastern Canada.  It's pretty muddy in most places where the snow has melted, making it difficult to move around and do any portable operating.  It's quite frustrating really, but hopefully another week and we can get out and do things without getting filthy doing it.

I did get a nice catch yesterday from the home shack, ZF1DJ in the Cayman Islands operating from a POTA site, Park ZF-0015. Managed to get him on the first call, and while I only received a 55 signal report, I was pretty happy with that. The propagation yesterday was not the best and the QSB was very deep with S9 stations disappearing in seconds - never to be heard from again.

The bands should be pretty busy this coming weekend, the CQ World-Wide WPX Contest SSB starts at 0000 UTC on Saturday, March 27th, and runs till 2359 UTC on Sunday, March 28th. Hopefully the propagation will be much better than what we had for the ARRL DX Contest on the first weekend of this month. 

The Rules can be found HERE.

Stay safe out there!!