I received this beautiful plaque in the mail today, sponsored by the Northern California Contest Club for winning USA Zone 3 in the 2018 edition of...

160m open around the globe. Another fun contest even though our current sunspot count remains at zero. Low bands were good with 160m open around the...

ARRL DX CW is less than a week away, and our typically mild northwest weather has turned cold and snowy with no end in sight! Accumulations...

Wasn’t sure about starting on 15m, but glad I did. Once the opening bell rang, the band opened nicely and it was off to the races....

  WOW! The low bands left me speechless after what was a record breaking weekend from my humble QTH. Amazing conditions on 40m, 80m, and especially...

First full-time SS effort in a number of years. Oddly, this is also my first full-time CW bravo entry. Nothing like jumping head first into the...

First full-time SOAB HP effort since 2015. Back then 10m and 15m were very much in play – ah, the good old days. This year, I...

CQ WW SSB, in my mind, rings the opening bell of contest season. As I write this article, a week a half before the contest, my...

The Washington State Salmon Run, or the Washington QSO Party, starts September 15, 2018 at 16:00Z, Saturday through 07:00Z Sunday and then from 16:00Z – 24:00Z...