52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Status for DL6PL@social.darc.de

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DateUserChallengeStatusToot summary & link
2025-01-01 13:21:10DL6PL@social.darc.de1Progress update...Since the new design for the QSL cards of my personal callsign won't be designed by myself, I will create a card for my trainee callsign DN1UFO as part of the #hamchallenge. I already have a few ideas... πŸ›ΈHC01 @hamchallenge
2025-01-01 19:37:21DL6PL@social.darc.de1Progress update...And here is the first draft. I am not 100% satisfied, I think I need a better flying saucer. (I'm currently using a SVG of the emoji for Android devices).HC01 @hamchallenge
2025-01-05 21:34:20DL6PL@social.darc.de1Success!Finally found a nice UFO on DeviantArt (CC BY 3.0): https://www.deviantart.com/annamae22/art/Flying-Saucer-UFO-PNG-Stock-Photo-0040-Annamae22-F-476002309HC01S #hamchallenge
2025-01-10 18:17:53DL6PL@social.darc.de2Progress update...QRL (and today cw training as well) kept me from even thinking about HC02 this week. But lets see, what the weekend brings. #hamchallenge @hamchallenge
2025-01-19 19:18:11DL6PL@social.darc.de4Success!I took the information on the history of German callsigns from the German-language homepage of DL4NO, really worth reading: https://www.dl4no.de/thema/rufzeich.htm HC04S #hamchallenge 5/5
2025-01-28 20:11:12DL6PL@social.darc.de5Progress update...My qrz.com profile is pretty much up to date, except for the "Recent POTA activations" image gallery. June 2024 is not recent at all… I could rename it into "POTA impressions", which would make it technically up to date, hi.I think I will not mark this week's challenge as success yet and update my profile with more interesting images. #hamchallenge HC05 @hamchallenge
2025-03-02 22:13:34DL6PL@social.darc.de8Progress update...Regarding HC08 @hamchallenge: It's a tough one, because I have high standards in this case. I motivated at least 2 persons to take the ham exam last year. One took the foundation license (class N) and upgraded to full (class A), the other one took the foundation as well and has the intermediate license now (class E).My goal is to mint another ham this year, until then I won't mark this challenge as a success.
2025-04-22 18:51:41DL6PL@social.darc.de16Progress update...I also couldn't activate anything last week, so I can mark HC16s and HC29s as successful. Honestly I could have done that on January the first, but I don't want to complete challenges before the actual week. #hamchallenge
2025-04-22 21:24:51DL6PL@social.darc.de291Success!I also couldn't activate anything last week, so I can mark HC16s and HC29s as successful. Honestly I could have done that on January the first, but I don't want to complete challenges before the actual week. @hamchallenge #hamchallenge
2025-04-23 10:45:33DL6PL@social.darc.de16Success!I also couldn't activate anything last week, so I can mark HC16S and HC29S as successful. Honestly I could have done that on January the first, but I don't want to complete challenges before the actual week. #hamchallenge
2025-07-30 18:27:52DL6PL@social.darc.de29Success!I am a notorious #POTA activator, so I completed HC29S in 1st of January this year. But I wanted to wait until the actual challenge is due (now overdue):I did an ATNO activation of IT-1233 Biotop Tartscher BΓΌhel as IN3/DL6PL. What a beautiful spot, I can't believe that nobody has been activating it before! #hamradio #amateurradio #Amateurfunk #hamchallenge @hamchallenge
2025-07-30 18:31:52DL6PL@social.darc.de29Success!I am a notorious #POTA activator, so I completed HC29S on 1st of January this year. But I wanted to wait until the actual challenge is due (now overdue):I did an ATNO activation of IT-1233 Biotop Tartscher BΓΌhel as IN3/DL6PL. What a beautiful spot, I can't believe that nobody has been activating it before! #hamradio #amateurradio #Amateurfunk #hamchallenge @hamchallenge
2025-09-23 11:19:34DL6PL@social.darc.de38Success!Had a really nice standard #cw QSO with YL3AD as YU/DL6PL on 17 m last week. It was my first QSO with Latvia, so I was very happy, that he offered a QSL card via bureau. #hamchallenge #HC38S @hamchallenge
2025-10-04 23:59:51DL6PL@social.darc.de40Success!I send physical QSL cards via bureau only, because I don't want to publish my address online. But OPs may ask for my address privately, if they want to QSL directly.Otherwise, I only use LoTW as a method for digital QSL, because – afaik – it is the only type of digital QSL that is accepted by most awards. Random JPEGs via e-mail feel pretty pointless to be fair.#hamchallenge #HC40S @hamchallenge
2025-10-06 17:47:09DL6PL@social.darc.de41Success!He does not listen like a kid,Shouting his callsign, God forbid,Into the other's conversation,Producing nothing but frustration,So he is rightly called a lid!(Not that easy as a non-native speaker, but at least I tried)#hamchallenge #HC41S @hamchallenge

Summary of completed challenges

βœ…: Completed (7)
🚧: In progress (3)
βŒ›: Not started (42)

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