Category Archives: Contesting

Alpe Adria & BBT contests on 2 m

Posted on August 4, 2014 by dh8bqa

Spent a little time Sunday morning handing out points on 2 m during the Alpe Adria contest. Nice thing about that one is that the activity concentrates on Southern Europe thus you can work quite a bit of VHF DX … Continue reading →

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European HF Championship

Posted on August 3, 2014 by dh8bqa

Made just a few QSOs (not much time available) in EUHFC to hand out a few points. Did some running during the last contest hour on 80 & 40 m and had fun with a 110/h rate which is almost … Continue reading →

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New awards received: RIGA 2014 & WRTC Chase Award

Posted on July 30, 2014 by dh8bqa

The city of Riga, capital city of Latvia, is the official European Capital of Culture 2014. Therefor Riga radio amateurs founded the award series RIGA – European Capital of Culture – 2014. Three award categories Gold, Silver, Bronze are available … Continue reading →

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IOTA contest & YJ – Vanuatu as a new one

Posted on July 27, 2014 by dh8bqa

Just handing out a few QSOs/points while further beta-testing N1MMLogger+ this weekend … and working YJØUO on 20 CW caught me by surprise, it’s been another ATNO so 293 DXCCs wkd now. 🙂 IOTA Contest Call: DH8BQA Class: SO(A)24Mixed HP … Continue reading →

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DMC-RTTY & NAQP-RTTY

Posted on July 20, 2014 by dh8bqa

Did a few QSOs on RTTY during the weekend in DMC and NAQP contests mainly to further test N1MMLogger+. It’s a quite stable product already, only finding minor things still that do not harm contest operations. To be honest I … Continue reading →

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IARU-HF & WRTC 2014

Posted on July 13, 2014 by dh8bqa

I did not really plan to enter this year’s IARU HF Championship. We do some station sharing for the bigger contests between Uwe, DL3BQA, and me. In the past both RUSDX and IARU-HF were for the same OP (either Uwe … Continue reading →

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DAØHQ in July’s VHF contest 2014

Posted on July 6, 2014 by dh8bqa

We had the honor to activate DAØHQ on 2 m during last weekend’s VHF contest. DAØHQ is the German Headquarters station during next weekend’s IARU HF World Championship. So we used the call to be active on 2m, too, and hand … Continue reading →

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IARU 6m, Ukrainian DX Classic RTTY & All Asian DX contests

Posted on June 23, 2014 by dh8bqa

Spent the last weekend alpha/beta testing N1MMLogger+ in different contests trying to find bugs. Makes a very good impression so far (not many bugs found) and I really like all the new features! There was a nice presentation in Dayton … Continue reading →

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CQ World Wide VHF Contest 2013 certificate received

Posted on June 16, 2014 by dh8bqa

Another contest certificate in the postbox today. Was not aware they are now handing out the awards for winners per square. Didn’t do many QSOs in the CQ WW VHF 2013 as condx were rather poor. Besides this the contest … Continue reading →

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DRCG-WW-RTTY

Posted on June 15, 2014 by dh8bqa

I have not done any serious RTTY contesting in the past. Have been chasing a few DXpedition slots on RTTY lately using the built-in features of the K3 or IC-7100, i.e. sending RTTY from memories. Using this method I also … Continue reading →

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DM5ØPCK in WPX-CW

Posted on May 26, 2014 by dh8bqa

Another WPX-CW is gone. Used the special call DM5ØPCK of our local radio club to provide a unique prefix. As I had to attend a funeral Saturday afternoon I missed most of the best run time the first day. Defined this one … Continue reading →

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IARU-HF 2012 certificate received

Posted on May 5, 2014 by dh8bqa

Received the contest certificate for IARU-HF 2012 from our local club’s QSL manager. IARU contest certificates are usually sent along the national QSL bureaus. Maybe that’s the reason why it took so long or maybe ARRL, who is managing the … Continue reading →

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HA1YA transverter & DFØFA 2 m contest results May ’14

Posted on May 4, 2014 by dh8bqa

Condx were poor, lots of long and slow QSB, i.e. stations calling with s3 signals and vanishing into the noise, returning only 1-2 minutes later. Made it hard to work real DX, a lot of the usual suspects missing this … Continue reading →

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DFØFA from JO73CF on 144 MHz this weekend

Posted on May 1, 2014 by dh8bqa

It’s time for a another major VHF contest again. 🙂 So we will be active again with FUNKAMATEUR’s clubcall DFØFA from JO73CF as usual on 2m this weekend. Team will consist of the usual suspects, i.e. Knut – DGØZB, Heiko … Continue reading →

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ARRL-DX-CW 2013 contest certificate

Posted on April 28, 2014 by dh8bqa

Was wondering why I found this strange looking contest certificate for my participation in ARRL’s DX-CW contest last year in the mailbox. I ended up #2 in Germany SOSB15 and usually only #1 is awarded. Just checked the rules again … Continue reading →

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WPX-SSB raw scores published!

Posted on April 21, 2014 by dh8bqa

The WPX-SSB raw scores (i.e. before log checking) where published today. Seems my NT3S entry @N2MM will not only win the SOSB10(A) category for USA but is also good enough for a new NA record. 🙂 Of course I will loose … Continue reading →

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Strange 10 m opening

Posted on April 21, 2014 by dh8bqa

During Sunday in CQMM we experienced a very strange but welcome 10 m opening to North America. The band was quite bad during the last few days. Southern lines like Europe to South America worked (although I’ve seen better condx … Continue reading →

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CQMM – The CQ Manchester Mineira DX Contest

Posted on April 20, 2014 by dh8bqa

While waiting today for Heiko, DG1BHA, to arrive for the 15 m rotator care I made a few more QSOs in CQMM. Seems to be an interesting contest although activity was not too high. Did 50 QSOs yesterday, 100 while … Continue reading →

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Holyland DX contest & Happy Easter!

Posted on April 19, 2014 by dh8bqa

Happy Easter to everybody! Well, it’s not that happy overhere. My aunt passed away on Wednesday. So I drove 900 km to visit my grandma (87) and tell her the bad news. 🙁 Then took her with me to my … Continue reading →

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JIDX-CW & (bad) 10 m condx

Posted on April 13, 2014 by dh8bqa

Thought it might be a good idea to participate in this weekend’s JIDX-CW contest. I participated in the SSB leg in 2011 and had quite some fun. They make some nice contest certificates, too, see left. But condx are awful … Continue reading →

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