Tromelin Island QRV - Incredible Pile-up for FT4TA

The last hamradio activation from Tromelin island was in 2000- more than 14 years ago. Many DXers, almost everyone of the younger generation, are looking for one QSO with this absolutely rare DX entity. In November 2014 a team of french operators is QRV for 10 days, bringing this DX country on the air as FT4TA. Right from the beginning of their operation, the pile-up of calling people for FT4TA was incredible. I have never heard a simliar pile-up in the last years. The split range for QSX was more than 25kHz up of their CQ frequency. Incredible.... Thousands of callers where looking for at least one QSO.

I am one of those lucky guys: QSO on 12m SSB and 10m CW - already confirmed at Logbook-of-the-world ! Thank you guys! What a DX ... and an All-Time-New-One for me!

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 ....

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 ...