52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2026 - Week 2: Make a QSO in a mode you are unfamiliar with!
Challenge for 2026-01-05 - 2026-01-11
Category: 📻 - Difficulty: ðŸŸ
Make a QSO in a mode you are unfamiliar with!
Try and find an uncommon digital mode or maybe make a CW-QSO on 2 m? Use your imagination and get on the air!
Toots mentioning this challenge
| Date | User | User Score | Status | Toot Summary & Link |
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| January 05, 2026 19:37 UTC | DK1BOU@mastodon.radio | 1 | Working on it... | @hamchallenge working on HC02. Finally got VARA HF and VARAC running with WINE on Linux and recived some stations on 20m. But no QSO yet. |
| January 07, 2026 12:36 UTC | g7kse@mastodon.radio | 2 | Success! | @hamchallenge 2 different modes for HC02S FreeDV on 60m so a weird band for me as well. The other being a 'successful' AX25 HF connection with 3 nodes.
FreeDV was especially odd. Barely any signal and clear audio that went a bit choppy at times.
Packet will need a bit more effort to get it right. Once I get a better handle on it all it should be more fun |
| January 07, 2026 17:09 UTC | DK1BOU@mastodon.radio | 1 | Success! | @hamchallenge HC02S. Had a VARA QSO with IU7LVA (thank you very much). We did not properly disconnect, though. VARAC with WINE crashed. That is what I call foreshadowing ;) |
| January 26, 2026 16:37 UTC | DJ3CE@social.darc.de | 2 | Success! | #hamchallenge no 2 was a good motivation to use RTTY, which so far I had only been decoding. Except for the one time I *thought* I would be fast enough to use the memos of an Icom rig to have sth like a RTTY-QSO (dr op pse excuse my unpolitely short answers…). Now I made a sked for a 2m RTTY QSO, using fldigi, answering properly. Faszinating mode, but it feels a bit weird not being able to hear the received content. We later switched to BPSK, which turned out to be more reliable :). HC02S @hamchallenge |
| February 08, 2026 13:27 UTC | davekuk@mastodon.radio | 3 | Success! | @hamchallenge @hamchallenge HC02S. Completed Made a contact on HF 20 meters with W7KMJ using VARAC. Interesting mode. Used windows for the easy install. (Linux box gave me missing Font crashes) |
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