| January 26, 2026 16:37 UTC | 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 |
| January 28, 2026 19:52 UTC | 5 | Success! | Since I saw this years #hamchallenge s I was awaiting this week: From my QTH I have a good LOS to DB0FLX and had set up a Ubiquity device together with a Raspberry Pi for routing into the Hamnet from my local network some time ago.
For HC05S I looked at some tracroutes to see the involved links and used APRS, DX-cluster and MQTT via HAMNET(-Servers) and right now think about using MQTT as a chat…
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| June 16, 2026 08:52 UTC | 23 | Success! | @hamchallenge For our clubs 'field-day' (think 'summer party') we laid out a 80m foxoring (ardf / "fox hunt") with 10 transmitters and one 'mystery transmitter' where you could find chocolate.
For newcomers we have some receivers to hand out and at the end of the day we had 23 participants in two different categories.
If you're interested let me know: We think about another activity this year – and of course we'll have a field-day-foxoring next year :).
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| June 16, 2026 09:51 UTC | 25 | Success! | One of the very first CW activities I took part in on my cw journey, was the AGCW VHF/UHF contest (144/432 MHz, see https://www.agcw.de/contest/vhf-uhf/ ) and what I'd call 'summer edition' took place again last saturday.
Throughout the last times my efforts for taking part grew a bit and this time I took the chance to also activate the #SOTA entity DM/HE-053, Neunkircher Höhe, and get some points for this years 2m SOTA-challenge.
Given the luggage going by bike was not exactly the very best idea, but weather was nice and I had a fun time meeting well-known(*) ops in cw from the mountain top, especially given I know that one op has had his very first cw-qso with me.
No computer, just a paper-log, IC-705, small Yagi (5/9 Elements) and a #BaMaTech TP-II paddle. And next time I'll bring earphones… :)
Big thanks to all ops in this activity and the #AGCW for organizing!
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(*) well-known as in "have worked them in cw mni times before" :) |