Category Archives: Expeditions

IOTA final results

Posted on September 14, 2022 by dh8bqa

Final results are out! 😎 Now eager to see what the trophy looks like. 😉

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MM/DH8BQA: 6 m opening from IO75kk

Posted on July 31, 2022 by dh8bqa

Marc, DO4DXA from JN58, asked during the contest if I could come to 6 m as it was open to Scotland. Did so after the contest was finished and easily worked him on CW with the KX3 matching the ZS6BKW … Continue reading →

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MM/DH8BQA: IOTA Test from EU-123, Isle of Arran

Posted on July 31, 2022 by dh8bqa

Actually, the IOTA contest would have been a non-event for me this year. Since my wife and daughter only got vacation for the last 2 weeks of July, I had already written off the contest in my mind. The plan … Continue reading →

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MM/DH8BQA: Visiting Jim – GM4FVM in Scotland

Posted on July 28, 2022 by dh8bqa

Summer time = holiday time! This year the three of us decided to spend a week in London, then move on to Edinburgh for another week together with a few friends making it a group of seven. Had a very … Continue reading →

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PJ4/DH8BQA: Holidays & Makrothen Contest ’21

Posted on October 15, 2021 by dh8bqa

My second time on Bonaire! This time as a family holiday with a bit of radio, too. Been there for the first two weeks of October after we had to postpone the trip three times due to all the Corona … Continue reading →

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CQ WPX RTTY 2019 Plaque received :-)

Posted on May 12, 2020 by dh8bqa

Another very nice surprise in the post box today! 😎 Many thanks to Sid, NH7C, for the plaque sponsorship!

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ARRL DX CW 2019 Plaque received :-)

Posted on January 23, 2020 by dh8bqa

Very happy opening the post box today! Brings back very nice memories immediately and looks great on the wall, too. 😎

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Two world-wins confirmed :-)

Posted on August 28, 2019 by dh8bqa

My V37DX world-wins in this year’s CQ WPX RTTY as well as the ARRL DX CW I took part in from Belize are officially confirmed now. 😎

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IOTA on EU-057

Posted on July 30, 2019 by dh8bqa

I was invited to join the DK3R team on Rügen Island, EU-057, during this year’s IOTA contest again – an invitation I happily accepted although it interfered a little with our move to Hamburg. 😀 But I somehow managed to … Continue reading →

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V31FO/V37DX QSL designs finished & first cards sent

Posted on March 8, 2019 by dh8bqa

Finished designing the QSLs for our recent trip to Belize and got the first batch of cards from the printer. Made a few adjustments and out of the 5 different motives test-printed decided to use these two for all the … Continue reading →

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V31FO/V37DX – QSL Requests

Posted on February 20, 2019 by dh8bqa

Back home, what a pity. 🙁 😉 I’ve just uploaded the 6.000 QSOs made in total to Clublog and configured OQRS. Feel free to click on the calls V31FO and/or V37DX to search the respective online logs and request your card(s). … Continue reading →

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ARRL-DX-CW World Win?

Posted on February 20, 2019 by dh8bqa

F8DBF/TM5Y posted his results today. From the raw scores I’m leading by about 6,2 % which is not that much. He worked 2 mults more, i.e. 62 out of the theoretically available 63 which is superb, congrats Sebastien!Haven’t seen any other … Continue reading →

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CQ-WPX-RTTY Raw Scores

Posted on February 17, 2019 by dh8bqa

Ed, WØYK, Contest Director of the WPX-RTTY, posted the raw scores of last weekend’s contest this morning. Seems I have reason to be quite happy with the result! 😎 I’m leading worldwide by 8,6 % compared to second place with … Continue reading →

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ARRL-DX-CW Contest V31FO/V37DX

Posted on February 17, 2019 by dh8bqa

This one is in the books now, too. And what a great experience! I decided to put in a serious effort into this one on 20 m, too. And I took last year’s World winning score of TM5Y as a … Continue reading →

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Adding TG – Guatemala to my DXCC by Feet

Posted on February 14, 2019 by dh8bqa

Made it over the border to Guatemala today. Good for another point on my DXFC journey (just a small pistol there). 😉 No radio activities there but a day trip only anyway, just to visit the Tikal Maya ruins. It … Continue reading →

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Big Rock Falls

Posted on February 13, 2019 by dh8bqa

Exploring the Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve today we got the tip to visit the Five Sisters Falls. To be honest I was rather disappointed, there’s not much of waterfalls to my mind. But as chance would have it we saw … Continue reading →

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Eighty meters from the rain forest

Posted on February 12, 2019 by dh8bqa

Well, the “rain forest” speaks for itself, we had quite some rain during the last few days. Luckily it’s mostly during the night and not hindering day time activities too much. 😉 I took the chance to be on 80 … Continue reading →

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Pileups vs. Sightseeing … and the winner is?

Posted on February 11, 2019 by dh8bqa

Was QRV on 20 & 17 m this morning. As mentioned in my contest report condx are worse now than a few days ago so didn’t work too many QSOs on 17 m. Twenty was more reliable but the pileup … Continue reading →

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CQ-WPX-RTTY ’19 from Belize

Posted on February 10, 2019 by dh8bqa

Contest started local Friday evening 18 o’clock which is a nice time compared to in the middle of the night at 1 or 2 o’clock local in Europe. 😉 Decided to go for a serious 20 m single band entry … Continue reading →

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V31FO QRV – safely arrived in Belize

Posted on February 8, 2019 by dh8bqa

After our flight from Frankfurt to Dallas/Fort Worth and staying a night in Texas we safely made it to Belize City Airport on Wednesday afternoon. From there it was just an 1,5 hours drive to the Maya Hill Lodge in … Continue reading →

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