King-of-Spain Contest SSB - Concurso Espana

Last weekend of June. King-of-Spain contest SSB. I just did a spontaneous entry in the single-op/single band 20m class. It went well and I had a lot of fun. Many stations from EA called. Did also work the famous station EA0JC - former King of Spain, Juan Carlos - station operated by URE and the special event station EF6 - celebrating the new King of Spain Felipe VI.

Operating time  : 7h59
Band: 20m...QSOs: 320 ...DXC: 34 ...Provinces: 43 .... Total points 49.434

Final results: 1st place Germany , 5th place DX

DL0YLF zu Gast bei der Contestgruppe Wittgenborn DP6T

Die YL-Clubstation des Distrikt Hessen wird am Sonntag 18. Mai 2014 als Gast bei der Contestgruppe Wittgenborn DP6T am diesjährigen Hessenkontest teilnehmen. In der Zeit zwischen 6:00-10:00 UTC besteht die Möglichkeit, Punkte für das DL-YL-33-Award oder für die Hessentag-Plakette-2014 des Distrikt F zu sammeln. Die Clubstation DL0YLF zählt für den Hessenkontest gleichzeitig auch als Multiplier in der Ergebniswertung. Die Contestcrew von DP6T stellt dem Damenteam eine voll ausgestattete Konteststation für die Bänder 40m und 80m zur Verfügung und kümmert sich im Vorfeld um die Vorbereitung der Antennen und der Transceiver. Das Team freut sich auf viele Anrufe aus Hessen. Wer den Kontestern gerne mal über die Schulter schauen möchte, ist am Sonntag auch gerne als Besucher in Wittgenborn gesehen. Weitere Informationen über die YL-Aktivitäten in Hessen findet man auf der Webseite des Distrikt Hessen www.darc.de/f und über die Contestgruppe Wittgenborn bei www.dp6t.de

ATNO 2014

ATNO = All Time New One. First time QSO with a rare DX country! In 2013 I was lucky to add T2 Tuvalu, CE0Y Easter Island, 5W Samoa, KH9 Wake and KH8 American Samoa to my list of the ATNO.

The year 2014 already began very promising: In January I worked FT5ZM from Amsterdam Island on a couple of bands in CW and SSB for an all time new one. Looking forward, I can´t wait to work Mellish Reef VK9M, VK9L Lord Howe Island and FR/T Tromelin this year. For all these rare DX countries, an activation is announced for 2014.

See you in the pile-up !

IARU Championship 2013 - winning on Canary Islands

Yippie. ARRL has published the results of the IARU Championship 2013.

I am the winner in the category SINGLE OP/LOW POWER CW on Canary Island as EA8/DL3FCG.

SOLP CW EA8/DL3FCG (1st EA8, 3rd AFRICA, 24.World)

I am happy! After the winning of JARTS RTTY contest from EA8 in 2012, another success in the respective entry class.

Log uploaded to Clublog.org

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

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.

Claimed score submission CQWW-DX-CW 2013

Operator(s): DL3FCG
Mode: CW
Category: SOSB15, assisted, HP
Active hours: 16
Club:Rhein Ruhr DX Association
Summary: Band 15m - 629 QSOs -126 DX multis - 39 zones = Claimed Score:  255.750

Working some 16 hrs from Wittgenborn in the CQWW CW contest. This time a single operator, single band entry on 15m. With the YAESU FTdx5000 and a Mosley TA54 it was fun to work the worldwide contacts. As the 15m band is only open during daytime, the stress was limited to work that contest.

The highlight contact was a QSO on 20m on Sunday morning with N8S from American Samoa. An all time new one for me !