I participated in the UBA PSK63 prefix contest / 2023-01-16

Like a bit of a yearly event it was time for the UBA PSK63 prefix contest last weekend.

On Saturday propagation on the higher frequencies was not cooperating a lot so I went to the 40 meter band late in the afternoon. On Sunday things were better, I even got one whole contact on the 10 meter band. A lot of the contacts were in search and pounce mode. On Sunday I ended with the last half hour of the contest calling CQ UBA PSK TEST and managed to get a few new stations in the log. Some of those contacts came at a fast pace with even a small pile-up where I had to ask only one prefix to answer.

I ended with 111 contacts logged, which is a good number for a digital mode contest.

Update 2023-02-08

The UBA is always reasonably fast with the results compared to ARRL or CQ magazine contests, and at the same time the UBA contest manager asks for some patience because part of the processing is done by hand.

Anyway, the results are in! 110 valid contacts, 94 multipliers, 10340 points. Ranking #83 worldwide, #13 the Netherlands and #81 Europe. A good number of multipliers this year, I hunted for Belgian stations on the 40 meter band.