The major CW contest of the year, CQ WW CW takes place this coming weekend. Tuning around the bands last night, it was clear that some expeditions to far-flung parts of the world are already in place and making contacts to raise interest in their contest activity.
I was listening to a fairly big pile-up on the bottom end of 7MHz - which was actually a classic illustration of why I don't play much contesting or Dxing these days! The DX station didn't send a callsign in about 10 minutes of listening - just punctuating the end of each contact by 'NA/SA'. And the idiots were in force transmitting 'LID' and various other charming phrases. Hey, whatever, but I'm not going to get involved....
More interestingly, up on 14MHz which had all but closed, I was listening to a KP4 station from Puerto Rico making a contact with an Australian station, who I couldn't hear. And on 3.5MHz I could hear European stations making contacts into Japan.
So, there's plenty going on of interest - whatever conditions are like - you should be able to find some good contacts to make over the weekend.
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