World-wide amateur radio contesting has each year some top contests belonging to "Grand Slam" category (when speak of tennis fans is used). During last weekend (26.-27.Sept.2009) was held CQ World Wide RTTY contest attracting thousands of RTTY contesting freaks to 48 hours long match. Solar activity was very changing during these days bringing some suprise and disturbances as well. With much of endurance I got the best result of my last years contesting with 570 QSO of which 50% were first-time contacts at all.

The situation nowadays on radio amateur bands is still generally marked with long minimum between two solar cycles. Only lower bands are active (and crowdy) and long distance DX for many operators are difficult to make. Last weekend during EA King of Spain contest again many QRM on 14 MHz band and mood not the best. On next Tuesday I received bunch of new QSL cards from around the world. Here were many nice and for me rare QSL cards which routed me to memories when DXing is more joy. Inbetween of received cards were some cards which I found most interesting and here they are :