Date | User | Challenge | Status | Toot summary & link |
2025-01-02 21:01:21 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 1 | Success! | My #hamchallenge week 1 QSL design. The front side is very similar to the card I am currently using. It shows me during my visit to the Woodpecker radar site in Ukraine in 2018. The back side is a recycled/updated version of my old LaTeX QSL template I made in 2008 or so. HC01S #hamradio |
2025-01-06 17:08:24 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 2 | Progress update... | HC02 NCDXF beacons right now on 20m at SO5CW: 4X6TU 1W, OH2B 10W, CS3B 100mW, 4U1UN 1W, VE8AT 10W, W6WX 100W, VK6RBP 10W, VR2B 100W (not sure?), ZS6DN 100W, 5Z4B 10W. VE8AT has very lovely polar flutter and multipath, the "V" almost sounded like a "4". #hamchallenge @hamchallenge |
2025-01-10 17:19:47 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 2 | Success! | NCDXF beacons 16:00-16:15 UTC @ SO5CW (KO01MW), after sunset:10m: CS3B 100W, LU4AA 100W, OA4B 10W, 4U1UN 10W12m: CS3B 100W, OA4B 100W, 4U1UN 1W, W6WX 100W, OH2B 10W15m: ZS6DN 1W, 4X6TU 100mW, OH2B 10W, CS3B 100mW, 4U1UN 10W, W6WX 10W17m: CS3B 100W, 4U1UN 1W, VE8AT 100W, W6WX 100W, VK6RBP 10W, ZS6DN 10W, 4X6TU 1W, OH2B 100W20m: CS3B 1W, 4U1UN 1W, VE8AT 1W, W6WX 100W, ZL6B 100W, VK6RBP 10W, ZS6DN 100W, 5Z4B 100W, OH2B 10W#hamchallenge #HC02S |
2025-01-12 22:11:18 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 3 | Progress update... | Before bedtime, a few QSOs on 160m to see how conditions are for #hamchallenge HC03 - not bad but no DX tonight for me (according to https://www.reversebeacon.net/). I will check again when I get up tomorrow! @hamchallenge |
2025-01-14 06:05:10 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 3 | Progress update... | @pg4i Similar for me: Last night R9IR, RU9CZD and even UA0S heard me on 80m, this morning W1NT and WZ7I from the West, but no DX QSO. I will get up early on Thursday to catch the end of the 03Z CWT, I guess. Also in next weekend's HADX there is a good chance to catch some DX on 80m... #hamchallenge HC03 |
2025-01-14 20:19:08 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 3 | Progress update... | Barry, VK2BJ is solid 539 on 80m CW now at his sunrise but no chance to make him hear my 100W 🙂 HC03 #hamchallenge |
2025-01-15 05:46:11 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 3 | Success! | WWA station N1W just worked on 3518 kHz CW, big signal at my remote station SO5CW. https://www.qrz.com/db/n1w #hamchallenge HC03S (I wonder if I can still manage a DX contact on 160m...) |
2025-01-19 14:01:35 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 4 | Success! | But it took me 23 years to convince myself to change my callsign, and I picked DJ5CW - because I love Morse code (CW) and it matched my Polish call SO5CW very well. The callsign was previously assigned to someone called Oskar from near Ludwigsburg but except for a photo from 1959 I could not find any information about his radio career. It appears that he was not really active in the last 30+ years, so I felt it was OK to pick a re-assigned callsign. And I love it! #hamradio HC04S |
2025-01-28 20:43:16 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 3 | Success! | A map of my #morsecode contacts in last weekend's CQ 160m CW #contest. Best DX was R8OM (Novosibirsk). 100W to a top loaded vertical (16m long, see https://social.darc.de/@DJ5CW/113730049445445190). By working IG9/S51V and CR3Z (Africa) and R9DX, R8OM, UN0L, 4L5O, P33W, TA3NE (Asia) I finished #hamchallenge HC03S also on 160m. On Sunday evening I heard several JA and HL stations, but no chance to get through. I slept during the times when conditions to North America were good... @hamchallenge |
2025-01-30 21:24:41 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 5 | Success! | For #hamchallenge week 5, I updated the QRZ.com profiles of DJ5CW and SO5CW. For the former, I added a link to Mastodon. For the latter, I added a link to Birdweather to show off my BirdNet node. Tomorrow I will take care of my HamQTH.com profiles, too. HC05S |
2025-02-04 07:28:37 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 6 | Success! | #hamchallenge week 6 ("Take part in a contest") is very easy for me. In an average week I take part in a few of the smaller contests (MWC, CWT, sometimes SST and MST) and every weekend I at least drop into one of the contests for a few contacts as well. With yesterday's quick participation in MWC, in which I worked @df7cb and @on5zo on 40/80m, CW, the challenge is fulfilled but my thirst for more QSOs is not quenched 🙂 #HC06S |
2025-02-12 07:35:24 | DJ5CW@social.darc.de | 7 | Success! | I just sent out the DARC DX Newsletter / DX Mitteilungsblatt for this week. Being responsible for the technical side of the distribution (email list with 4k recipients), I also get to look over the contents of the newsletter, so #hamchallenge week 7 is done for me. I am not much of a DXer but from today's newsletter I learned that Alan, G4DJX will be on the air as C5DX again, from where I worked him previously on CW. Hope to work him again. #HC07S @hamchallenge |