Category Archives: Contesting

CQ WPX RTTY ’20

Posted on February 9, 2020 by dh8bqa

Second contest this year and again RTTY. Hope I’m not getting old. 😉 Motivation was not that high. As our temporary 80 m Groundplane is still up Uwe, DL3BQA, was going for a serious 80 m single band entry from … Continue reading →

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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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ARRL RTTY Roundup

Posted on January 5, 2020 by dh8bqa

The ARRL RTTY Roundup is one of the favourite contests of Uwe, DL3BQA. So he’s usually taking part for a serious entry from our station. Unfortunately he couldn’t make it at all this year so I took the chance to … Continue reading →

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ARRL-10M ’19 … or a Meteor Scatter Contest ;-)

Posted on December 17, 2019 by dh8bqa

One would think it’s total nonsense to struggle through a 48 hours contest for only 250 QSOs. Except, you are a bit crazy and/or a total fan of the 10 m band. Well, I’m probably both! 😀 On the other … Continue reading →

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Final WPX-CW results :-)

Posted on December 1, 2019 by dh8bqa

CQ Magazine published the final results of this year’s CQ WW WPX CW contest in it’s November issue. This officially confirms my 4th world-win this year. 😎

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CQ WWDX CW ’19

Posted on November 25, 2019 by dh8bqa

As our groundplane from Uwe’s 80 m entry in last month’ WWDX-SSB was still up I decided to go for 80 m in this year’s WWDX-CW, too. I haven’t done so for a few years and there was nothing to … Continue reading →

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CQ WWDX SSB ’19

Posted on October 29, 2019 by dh8bqa

Uwe, DL3BQA, was going for a serious 80 m entry as DMØY in this one. For me it was only a part time activity. Travelled the 420 km from Hamburg to the station after QRL on Friday and had to … Continue reading →

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WAG ’19

Posted on October 20, 2019 by dh8bqa

Part time (remote) activity this year only as I was attending a funeral on Saturday and had my mom visiting over the weekend. The FLEX played quite well remotely in general. But it seems the foot switch PTT through a … Continue reading →

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Makrothen ’19

Posted on October 13, 2019 by dh8bqa

Just a few QSOs while playing around Sunday afternoon (i.e. much less effort than last year). Really like the format of distance based scoring as well as exchanging grid squares. Must be the VHF genes in me. 😀 Some nice … Continue reading →

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CQ WW RTTY 2019

Posted on September 30, 2019 by dh8bqa

Uwe, DL3BQA, was going for a serious 80 m effort. The guys had installed our 80 m GP antenna behind the 15 m beam again so a bit of distance to the 40 & 20 m antennas giving me a … Continue reading →

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Another world-win confirmed :-)

Posted on September 18, 2019 by dh8bqa
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IARU VHF Contest ’19

Posted on September 9, 2019 by dh8bqa

Took part in the VHF September contest a.k.a. the IARU VHF contest last weekend as a small team from the club station again. Equipment played well, lucky with the weather (just some drizzle Saturday evening) and good company, what else … Continue reading →

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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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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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