Category Archives: Contesting

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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July VHF Contest ’19

Posted on July 7, 2019 by dh8bqa

Another July contest in the books. Condx were rather average most of the time. The night hours brought some nice DX so the average per QSO was 420 km which is unusually high. Around 400 km/QSO is quite normal for … Continue reading →

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AGCW VHF June Contest ’19

Posted on June 15, 2019 by dh8bqa

When doing the AGCW VHF contest last year after stumbling across it by coincidence I had so much fun I put a marker on the calendar for this year’s date to participate again. Had a late start, i.e. 20 min … Continue reading →

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My third world win this year? WPX-CW claimed scores :-)

Posted on June 4, 2019 by dh8bqa

Boy, that was fast! WPX-CW claimed scores have already been posted on the CQ WPX website. I never would have thought I could ever win the 10 m category from Germany! Usually it’s either the South American guys who take … Continue reading →

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Some normal VHF DX this weekend

Posted on June 2, 2019 by dh8bqa

Well, still no Sporadic-E on 4 & 2 m overhere. 🙁 Peter was quite active on 6 m but even there only very patchy openings. Luckily there were a few smaller VHF contests this weekend that allowed to work some … Continue reading →

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CQ WPX CW 2019

Posted on May 26, 2019 by dh8bqa

Boy, THAT was fun, what a weekend! We had continous Sporadic-E on Saturday for over 16 hours straight, very wide-spread, open to almost everywhere all the time, no matter where the antenna was pointing to! I had set a new … Continue reading →

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No VHF May contest this year … at least for me

Posted on May 9, 2019 by dh8bqa

Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to the guys last weekend as I was bound in QRL. Must have been a first in over 20 years. 🙁 Thus no story nor results from me this time but Uwe, DL3BQA, wrote a … Continue reading →

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CQ WPX SSB 2019

Posted on April 2, 2019 by dh8bqa

Travelled the 2 x 700 km to and from our contest station last weekend again to take part in this year’s CQ WPX SSB contest. Uwe/DL3BQA and Peter/DM5DX had done a small multi OP activity during Russian DX two weeks … Continue reading →

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BCC QSO Party

Posted on March 21, 2019 by dh8bqa

This year the Bavarian Contest Club (BCC) which I’m a member of wants to activate more than 80% of its members in the main contests with club competitions. One part of this year’s program was/is also two BCC QSO parties. … 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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March VHF Contest ’19

Posted on March 3, 2019 by dh8bqa

Trying to escape the Cologne carnival activities 😉 the VHF contest this weekend was a welcome opportunity to drive the 700 km to our JO73 QTH once more and meet with our local guys Heiko, DG1BHA, Uwe, DL3BQA, and Peter, … 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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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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V37DX from Belize, too!

Posted on February 4, 2019 by dh8bqa

Besides my V31FO callsign Belizian PUC just confirmed usage of V37DX as a special callsign, too. 🙂 As far as I know the V37 prefix has never been QRV before so it should give some additional dB of callsign gain during … Continue reading →

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CQ WW 160 CW and BARTG RTTY Sprint January 2019

Posted on January 27, 2019 by dh8bqa

I was really looking forward to do this year’s CQ-160 seriously again (even with still no RX antennas, hi) after having had lots of fun last year. Unfortunately short-term QRL duties prohibited a serious effort so rather spent Friday night … Continue reading →

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QRV from V3 – Belize soon :-)

Posted on January 23, 2019 by dh8bqa

Looking forward to this year’s holiday! 😎 Frauke and I decided to go to Belize this year. We’ve booked one of the two Maya Hill Lodge huts for rent by Andre, V31DL, of German origin, who decided to emigrate to … Continue reading →

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ARRL-10M 2018 – or – another VHF contest ;-)

Posted on December 9, 2018 by dh8bqa

I think I mentioned over and over again on this blog and in my contest reports that I’m a real 10 m addict. It’s as fascinating a frequency spectrum as 6 m which is called the “magic band” for a … Continue reading →

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