After a long break, I will restart to share some updated info from my hamradio activities. Currently the Olympic Games 2024 are running in Paris. I managed to work one of the RadioOlympic awards, by contacting various special stations from France, who are active during the Olympic Games only.

WAEDC-RTTY contest 2018 #1 in Hessen …

Nice certificate just before end of the year. It was the 2nd time that I did submit a log to the WAEDC-contest team. After some successful trials, it was fun to hand out QTC during the WAEDC-RTTY contest. Activation time was limited and bands used 40m and 20m only. Yes! #1 in district Hessen 😎

DP6T/p winning the 2018 IARU1 CW fieldday (fixed class)

Unfortunately we couldn´t do the real fieldday-style setup for this contest. So I decided to go as single OP for the FIXED class in the CW leg of this contest. With the call DP6T/p I managed to win this class from our contest QTH in Wittgenborn. Thanks for all the QSOs. 

WHSC65 Jubilee Award High Speed Club CW

The Radio Telegraphy High Speed Club HSC is celebrating its 65th anniversary in 2016. During the month of March they were issueing a special award WHSC65 for working members of the HSC and special commemorative event stations DP65HSC, PA65HSC, PB65HSC, LZ65HSC and SQ65HSC. It was a nice evening chase, mainly on 40m CW, to collect all the required points for the award.

Active in 2015 ...

Yes, there are also activities in 2015 ... In March we were quite active in the CQ-WPX SSB contest with our station DP6T. Our claimed score is showing #1 in the Multi-Multi class for Germany.
In May there was a participation in the Hessencontest with our clubcall DL0YY and the special DOK 50F31, celebrating 50.anniversary of our club OV Nidderau . The results have been published recently: #1 in the section 80m-SSB and #2 in 40-SSB.
In June an entry as DL3FCG into the King-of-Spain Kontest (SSB) resulted in an overall #10 Single Operator 20m DX (#1 DL).

Upcoming contest events will be IARU1-Fieldday as DP6T/p and WAG contest and CQWW-SSB in October again as DP6T.

See you in the contest !

DR50RRDXA - 50. anniversary of Rhein-Ruhr-DX-Association

In 2014 the Rhein-Ruhr-DX-Association is celebrating the 50. anniversary of the club. A special award is available by contacting the event station DR50RRDXA and other members of the RRDXA. You can find your current point standings on www.rrdxa.eu.

Gunnar DM6KG and myself, DL3FCG have activated DR50RRDXA on 21./22.August for several hours from the conteststation DP6T. In the afternoon and evening hours we logged 600 QSOs. Many more activations from ths site of DP6T will follow in the next weeks. Stay tuned !

ARRL Centennial QSO Party

The ARRL CQP is a nice challenge! Throughout the year the special event station W1AW is activating each of the 50 US states, plus territories KG4, DC, KH2 and KP4. By working each of the 50 states with a station signing W1AW/1, W1AW/2 ... you can work towards the special award "W1AW WAS". For that, a special award and a plagues wiill be available. All QSOs and award applications need to be done with the ARRL Logbook-Of-The-World LOTW database.

As per beginning of August, I have already confirmations from 47 states with 230+  QSO band/mode slots with W1AW/x on LOTW. Contacts with stations from Delaware, Maine and West Virginia are missing for the time being. It will take until November to get the last QSOs done: DE will be active starting November 26th, ME will start on August 27th and WV on October 22nd.
You can find more information about the Centennial QSO Party here: ARRL website. Good luck hunting for W1AW.

RAEM - Activity Days in Honor of the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of E.T. Krenkel

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Krenkel, the legendary polar radio operator RAEM, the first President of the Federation of Radio Sport of the USSR and a Hero of the Soviet Union, the Amateur Radio Union of Russia (SRR) is organizing the RAEM Activity Days. 21 special event-stations will be on the air from various regions of the Russian Federation, plus a number of event stations from Bulgaria, Hungary a.o. Example of event callsigns will be RA110RAEM, RB110RAEM to RZ110RAEM.

If you like, you can work as many special event stations as possible. For each contact you can count points towards achieving the RAEM award program. The awards will be available free or charge in mixed or single mode. After 3 weeks of  operation, the russian team already issued more than 5.000 awards digitally.

Challenge #1000

It was XT2TT from Burkina Faso ! The QSO dated March 5th 2013 on 12m CW set the magic counter for my DXCC Challenge award to #1000.
 
Since my first DX QSO in 1990 I uploaded 13.000 QSOs to the LotW database and I got approximately 4.500 QSL-matches in the database to reach this fantastic award.

9M4SLL - Spratley Island ... new bandpoint

Yesterday I had a short contact on 12m CW with the team on Spratley Island 9M4SLL. Within 24hrs after the QSO, the confirmation in LotW was already in ! Great job from the team. Thank you!

It wasn´t only a very quick confirmation, but it was also a Big Point: it was my bandpoint #999 for the DXCC Challenge in LotW. I am waiting for only one more confirmation to reach the magic threshold of 1000 challenge points. Who will it be?

WAE TOP is top !

Applied for the WAE TOP award from the DARC e.V. and got the award plaque in the mail after only a few weeks of turnaround time. After yeras of collecting points for this award, the German DCL ("Deutsche Contest Log"), a database platform for QSO confirmations, very much comparable to LotW and eQSL, is offering a smooth way to get the many many points and confirmations from all the European countries well sorted. The WAE-Top plaque requires 70 WAE countries and 300 bandpoints. And this is, what it looks like ...

By the way: the DCL platform is open for usage for hams all over the world, not only for members of DARC. If you want to get rid of sending 300 QSL cards to an award check point: go with the DCL !

Diamond DXCC Challenge is there !

September got a nice paper in the mail ! The Diamond DXCC award is there. 154 DX entities worked in 2012 so far. The year is not over !

...some 20+ DX entities might be reachable until end of the year and closing of the celebrating period. More about the DDXCC is here ....

WAS from EA8/Tenerife

Last year in October we were again active with a small HF station from Tenerife. It is one of the Canary Islands, northwest of Africa.. As EA8/DL3FCG we had a QSO with the last 5 missing of all 50 US states:

DDXCC - Diamond DXCC award. I did it!

Today I applied for the Diamond DXCC award of the ARRL. I submitted my application with 151 worked entities. I guess this number of entities is a good result for a modest equipped radio station.
We´ll see how long it takes to receive the printed paper form the ARRL.

Diamond DXCC - #150 worked! Yess!!

Working on the 75th anniversary award of the DXCC program, I was lucky to get my last 3 DX stations int the log to achieve the #150 endorsement of the DDXCC award. Nice to work BX4AD from Taiwan, 5H3ME Tanzania and RI1ANF as #150 from the South Sandwich Islands/VP8. Btw: all those three worked again in CW ...

Challenge 900

Starting 2005, the beginning of my LotW account in the ARRL Logbook of the world database, I am working on the DXCC challenge award. The goal is receiving 1.000 different band confirmations for each DXCC entity. Per band only 1 confirmation counts (either SSB or CW or DIGITAL...)!

USA in a triple play...

Job well done!

Today I  applied for the TPA award of the ARRL. All 50 US states confirmed three times each. In total 150 QSOs and confirmations from all US states.

This´how it looks like ...

See also mor info about the WAS and TPA program here in my blog.