I participated in the UK/EI DX Contest CW / 2023-04-30

I was looking for an opportunity for morse contacts and saw the UK/EI DX Contest CW 2023 in the calender for this weekend. So I participated, with some last minute additions to my contest logger.

My original idea for this contest was that this would make stations from all parts of the United Kingdom active in Morse, including entities I still want to get in the log. From the parts of the UK I don't have Guernsey and Jersey in morse and I'd like to get Northern Ireland confirmed.

That plan did not work out, from the UK I only heard stations from England and Schotland. Checking the Reverse Beacon Network confirmed this, very little activity from those parts of the UK. I made 68 contacts total, 48 on the 20 meter band and 20 on the 40 meter band.

What did work out is that all the practising I did in morse at contest speeds seems to help, I had less trouble decoding callsigns and serial numbers. I regularly practise contest morse with the Contest trainer by Hanz YL3JD.

Update 2023-05-04

Results are in: 1 exchange I copied wrong and 1 case of not being in the other log. 100 QSO points, 39 multipliers giving 3900 points result. Rank 416 combined, rank 302 EU stations, rank 256 low power stations, rank 36 the Netherlands. I am happy about this result!