Contest Season cometh.

…and so does the waiting! There’s no word yet from the Ohio QSO Party site on scores for the 2019 edition. (Way too soon). So like everyone else who devoted time and energy, we wait to see how the scores cracked out! Here it comes - fall contest season! The chill in the air, the reappearance of our stealthy wire antennas as the leaves fall. Fall signals the beginning of weekend hours spent in front of the radio. This coming weekend you can warm up with a few QSO parties, including the Collegiate QSO Party sponsored by W4DFU at the University of Florida, the Washington State Salmon Run, and New Hampshire, Iowa, and New Jersey QSO Parties. There are varying hours and exchanges, so check the rules. If the ether favors, maybe we'll hear some watery CW signals coming over the pole for the Scandinavian Activity Contest. These days any contact via the polar path is to be treasured. The weekend of September 23 things get serious with the CQ World Wide DX RTTY Contest. As I've written before, if you can operate FT8 or FT4, you're already equipped to run RTTY in AFSK mode. You just need to install and configure some software. Easy, right? -ARRL Contest Letter