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!

Log uploaded to Clublog.org

I am working DX ! Here are my latest QSOs...

EA8/DL3FCG is calling CQ ...

I will be QRV again this year from Tenerife AF-004 on the Canary Islands. Starting at July 7th I

will be there on a holliday style operation for 3 weeks (July 27th). In the morning hours (8:00 UTC +/-) I will be looking for openings specially to JA and Asia on the higher bands 10m/12m. During last years operations from La Orotava (northern part of Tenerife) I managed to work even weak and QRP stations from JA on 10m/CW.
Although I am using only a modest station setup (FT857/100Watts) with G5RV antenna, it will be easy to work into EU an NA with good signals.

An entry into the IARU HF Championsship contest is planned as single operator/Low Power CW.
QSL is available via eQSL, LOTW and buro to my homecall.

Hope to work you as EA8/DL3FCG this year !

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.

Monthly DXCC challenge points - September

Another 20 bandpoints added to the challenge counter in September. Some nice DX confirmed via LotW:

CU3AN Azores, TY1KS Benin, UA2FR and UA2FL Kaliningrad, 3DA0PW Swaziland, RI1ANF South Shetland, E51WP and E51M from South- and North Cook, HL2WP South Korea, FO4BM French Polynesia and many more.

Hope that some of those will confirm paper cards as well :-)

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 ....

Monthly DXCC Challenge points - August

20 points within the month of August were added to the DXCC challenge counter. Not bad...
The highlights of August in my LotW account: CY9M, VP/VA2WA, HK0NA, ST0R, 9M4SLL, E51NOU, V44, VK7, VU2, AL9 and some KH6.

NewOne on LotW - RI1ANF South Shetland Islands

Got a NewOne in Logbook of the World: RI1ANF on King George Island - part of the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic.QSO on 20m CW. Thank you Oleg !

QSL from A5A - Bhutan

Surprise in the mailbox. Got my QSL cards from the A5A dxpedition to Buthan. Thank you to the team for 10m, 12m, 17m and 20m confirmation.

Thanks to the service of the German DX Foundation GDXF www.gdxf.de I got my QSL card from a rare DXCC entity in the mailbox already. 12m, 17m and 20m CW. An alltime New One for me :-)
  

HK0NA - Malpelo Island

Meanwhile the QSOs are confirmed on LotW and eQSL as well ...