Indonesian Pileup on 40M

I wasn't sure what comp this was for, sounded Indonesian and some DX spotters mentioned a Gold Trophy comp (????). Interesting to see the caller ask for quiet amongst the bedlam and then call in a few individual stations for contacts before departing the scene, and the bedlam recommenced. Not a place for QRP ;-)

Clip from the Oceania DX contest

I entered my first Amateur Radio contest last weekend. The Oceania DX contest was good opportunity to try out the contest side of amateur radio. I learned that I can still work the other side of the world with my foundation licence and gear. Most of the contacts were made on 40m but I also had a handful on 10m. I also learned that manually entering your contacts becomes a pain after a while as you have to try and manually screen out duplicates. Ham Radio Deluxe also gave me some grief when I entered them in there after the contest and I couldn't get the correct info in the log for submission to the contest owners. I was pointed in the right direction by the good folks on VKlogger and used VKCL to again manually enter the contacts and that gave me the correct log format for submission. Next time I'll cut to the chase and just use VKCL and then import the log into Ham Radio Deluxe so I still have one source of the truth for my log.

Good talking to Japan, Indonesia, Finland, Russia, various states in Australia, New Zealand and America. A mishmash of the QSOs is on my youtube channel including my overzealous use of "QSL" on nearly every over ;-)