52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 16: Make a contact with a xOTA station.
Challenge for 2025-04-14 - 2025-04-20:
Category: 📻 - Difficulty: 🟢
Make a contact with a xOTA station.
Make use of the DX cluster, the POTA website, SOTA Watch etc. to find stations!
Toots mentioning this challenge
| Date | User | User score | Status | Toot summary & link |
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| 2025-03-01 21:15:42 | DM4EA@social.darc.de | 10 | Working on it... | HC16s participation in the MOTA-activity provided this as an add-on, QSOed DL4ZZ, DH0BRO & DH1BUZ on that occasion. Will add a more common S/P/COTA later in the course of the year ;-) |
| 2025-03-01 21:35:45 | DM4EA@social.darc.de | 10 | Success! | HC16S participation in the MOTA-activity provided this as an add-on, QSOed DL4ZZ, DH0BRO & DH1BUZ on that occasion. Will add a more common S/P/COTA later in the course of the year ;-) |
| 2025-03-19 15:57:18 | n8dmt@mastodon.radio | 16 | Success! | Been having fun with #HamChallenge2025 https://hamchallenge.org/HC16S Make a contact with a xOTA station. Ran across AB9CA on 20m CW. Heard CQ POTA so gave him a quick call on 14.053 MHz. Was not sending park info, so checked POTA app and found him listed at US-1095. Conditions fair but completed contact. 2017 UTC, 3/18/25. ~17 WPM CW. @hamchallenge |
| 2025-04-15 07:14:47 | mischk@bunt.social | 10 | Working on it... | this weekend is Parks on the air Spring Support your Park Weekend. A great opportunity to pack your gear and activate the nearby park. HC16 #hamchallenge |
| 2025-04-15 14:43:32 | g7kse@mastodon.radio | 12 | Success! | Currently attempting to contact an xOTA using FT8 for but not having much luck. It's not a mode I usually use but it's try something different day today. I'll give it a bit more time before I go back to other modes just in case. My log is filled with SOTA chases but very few POTA or WWFF, so I'm still going to say it's a success, even if I can't get the common types in the log todayI will no doubt be out activating at the weekend anyway HC16S |
| 2025-04-15 20:05:05 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 9 | Working on it... | 📡 #HamChallenge2025 Week 16: Make a contact with a xOTA station Just worked VP2VI 🇻🇬 on 12M #cw with my vertical and barefoot 100w. Consider the IOTA NA-023 as HC16s but will try to find SOTA or POTA on 40M later. |
| 2025-04-17 22:53:17 | ei7ijb@mastodon.radio | 5 | Working on it... | For the 16th challenge, 'Make a contact with a xOTA station.’, I will be keeping an ear out for any stations calling. #hamchallenge HC16 @hamchallenge |
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