During the last weekend of October a group of youngsters successfully participated in CQWW SSB 2017 contest from A44A station. After arriving on Thursday morning in Muscat we immediately headed to the station. Together with the team, we started to prepare the location for the contest including tuning antennas to SSB etc. The next step was to create a well thought out operating plan. The contest started at 0400 local time. During the entire 48h we experienced amazing teamwork and hospitality even though we have been in a very tight race with A73A in Multi/Multi category from Qatar. For the time of our visit we stayed at a villa next to the station and the beach at Oman sea. Unfortunately, we did not plan enough time for visiting places around Muscat. Still the team did a great job to show us the must sees, e.g. Jeep tour in the omani desert, Muscat city, traditional places and many more. Furthermore we had the great opportunity to meet up with two good friends we met at YOTA 2015 in Italy and spent some quality time together. At the end it looks like our competitors from Qatar may have worked some more stations … but we will see after logcheck.
We would like to thank the Royal Omani Amateur Radio Society (ROARS) as well as all team members of A44A / A47RS for making this beautiful trip a real success.
73 de Philipp, A45VG (DK6SP) – Flo, A45VH (OE3FTA)
