Contesting in an urban setting
amateur-radio
Recently, I (Joni OH2EWL) accidentally ended up participating in a amateur radio contest. I was checking in pskreporter.info how things looked like on 6-meter band, and noticed that there was an unusual amount of local (to Finland) FT8 activity going on. Intrigued, I set the station up in the balcony and tried to get into the action. Which didn’t work out right away because, although I noticed that the traffic didn’t look normal, it took a while to understand that what was going on was “EU VHF Contest”.
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