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Category Archives: Contesting
P4ØXM in ARRL DX CW this weekend
All antenna work finished. 😎 Even built a small beverage today and renewed the 160 m dipole, too, so well prepared for doing M/2 in ARRL DX CW this weekend. Only have a bit of interstation interference between 80 and … Continue reading
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Contester’s dinner on Aruba
We had a great dinner with some well known contesters tonight. Interesting talks (all these secrets 😎) and a very enjoyable time! Good luck in the contest, everybody. 😉 Left to right: Tom, DL5LYM/P4ØXM, Paul, P4/DL5CW, Olli, DH8BQA/P4ØFA, Ben, P4/DL6RAI, Andy, … Continue reading
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Antenna work on Aruba
Quite good progress on antenna work during the last two days. Pictured left are Ben, DL6RAI (left), and John, W2GD (right), on two of the towers. They both arrived Monday evening here on Aruba to take care of the antennas. Ben is … Continue reading
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Meeting THE guy of RTTY contesting fame on Aruba
Enjoyed a nice after-contest dinner in Arubaville Sunday evening with Ed, WØYK/P49X, and buddies Paul, P4/DL5CW, and Tom, DL5LYM/P4ØXM, who are accompanying me on this trip. Ed’s done a great job again during the contest running up 3.800+ QSOs in just 30 … Continue reading
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CQ WPX RTTY from Aruba
Had to change plans for several reasons so “just” an SOSB15 entry by myself. Sorrily only had one working Tribander pointed fixed to Southern Europe. Mid and western USA & JA were not workable on that one. So had to improvise a bit, … Continue reading
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Arrived on Aruba …
DL5CW, DL5LYM & myself safely arrived on Aruba. 🙂 Unfortunately DL9USA couldn’t join us on short notice due to health problems. 🙁 Keeping fingers crossed for a quick recovery, Andi! Already met with Cristina, P43C, who’s taking care about the … Continue reading
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QRV from P4 – Aruba soon!
Finally some holidays! 😎 Will be travelling to P4, Aruba, later this week to participate in WPX-RTTY and ARRL-DX-CW from the Caribbean. Will be joined by good friends DL5CW, DL5LYM & DL9USA. Rented the P49V rental shack. Should be great fun! … Continue reading
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CQ WW 160 CW 2016
Despite being on a birthday party Saturday evening and having a bit of QRL to do, too, managed to hand out a few QSOs every now and then this weekend. Condx not too good. CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW Call: DH8BQA … Continue reading
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First 6 m ES this year & a few ARRL-RTTY-RU contacts
Our station was reserved for DL3BQA to operate in the ARRL-RTTY-Roundup last weekend. While he enjoyed some great runs on 15 m Sunday afternoon I had some fun on 6 m as there was a great winter E-skip opening into EI, signals … Continue reading
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SARTG-HNY-RTTY 2016
Good start into the new contest year 2016. 😉 Never did SARTG’s New Year RTTY contest before so was eager to learn what it would be like. Well, it was great fun, very good rates over the three hours duration and it has … Continue reading
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CQWW CW Contest Audio
Added a page where you can lookup our QSO (if we had one 😉) in CQWW CW 2015 and listen to how you sounded in Northern Central Europe last November. Have fun and wishing everybody a Happy New Year and all … Continue reading
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STEW PERRY TBDC 2015
After being at the station anyway I decided to take some time to also install my RRC-Micro again which was just laying around after some initial tests and a review in FUNKAMATEUR magazine a few years ago. I really do … Continue reading
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ARRL-10M 2015
Condx not very good so did not plan to put in a full effort and had some other weekend duties, too. Spent some time Saturday morning but except a few UA9’s there was nothing to be worked on the north-eastern … Continue reading
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ARRL-160M & 10M-RTTY
Not much time recently but managed to do a few QSOs in these two single band contests on the opposite ends of the HF (contest) spectrum this weekend. Seems condx were quite nice Saturday morning during ARRL-160M judging from cluster spots … Continue reading
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CQ WW CW 2015
Condx sucked, especially on Saturday. Worked just 35 JAs in the morning and barely half a dozen zone 3 stations in the afternoon, to name results for the two most difficult path’. A bit better on Sunday with 100 JAs and … Continue reading
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WAE-RTTY 2015
Part time participation when-ever I had a few minutes time. Condx could have been better but QTCs sure were fun! 😎 More serious entry during CQWW CW planned … WAE DX Contest, RTTY Call: DH8BQA Class: Single Op HP QTH: … Continue reading
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Marconi Memorial Contest … and QRV on 2 m again
Just seeing I didn’t report on this blog that my 2 m PA used for remote ops had failed. 🙁 It happened right after the early October tropo. Returning from taking a nap on 4 October when switching on the amp … Continue reading
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CQWW SSB 2015
After condx went up dramatically during the last few days my decision to do the contest on 10 m was quite clear. Of course I did not expect to do as many QSOs as during the last few years but … Continue reading
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Upcoming WWDX-SSB and choice of bands …
As you know Uwe, DL3BQA, and myself share the station during the bigger HF contests doing single band entries (two guys is just not enough for a serious multi op entry). As written in my WAG report below we wanted … Continue reading
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WAG as DKØWRTC
I took the chance to activate the DKØWRTC special call during the Worked All Germany contest last weekend. Focus was on maximizing QSO count thus not paying any attention to multipliers. Certainly not the right strategy to win a contest but … Continue reading
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