| Date | User | Challenge | Status | Toot summary & link |
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| 2025-01-01 17:26:47 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 1 | Progress update... | Let's give it a try @hamchallenge First challenge to design a QSL card as HC01 #hamchallenge Nice opportunity since my current cards display an outdated address. I probably will again go for a photo layout with landscape from my region or city. I still like to receive paper QSL cards. |
| 2025-01-04 20:05:03 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 1 | Success! | HC01S Used the QSL designer of URE and will give it a try with a small batch of cards. |
| 2025-01-06 00:03:52 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 2 | Progress update... | Started listening to the NCDXF IARU beacons via WebSDR at http://kiwisdr.com/public/ as preparation for the #hamchallenge HC02 Let's collect the data |
| 2025-01-12 20:26:47 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 2 | Success! | Final day of the #hamradio #challenge to monitor as many NCDXF IARU beacons in one week as possible.I remember having used the beacons very early to detect possible band openings. This has been very useful especially in times with low solar activity and low MUF. Hearing a beacon on 10M or 12M helped detecting the higher band openings.HC02SThis week I used the WebSDR from http://kiwisdr.com/public/ but I remember also FAROS as windows application. |
| 2025-01-19 22:07:32 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 3 | Progress update... | Ok, #hamchallenge HC03 update. Not yet achieved so will keep this open. @hamchallenge |
| 2025-01-20 22:05:00 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 4 | Success! | #hamchallenge Week 4: Research the history of your callsign!To the best of my current knowledge, my two call signs DD1MAT and previously DO4ZN have not been in use before.Quite a rabbit hole but spent last night with reading about the history of national callsigns and #hamr #hamradio in our country.The prefix DD was introduced for amateur radio callsigns in Germany back in the 1970s. HC04S |
| 2025-01-27 12:38:46 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 5 | Success! | For #HC05S I did some minor updates to my QRZ.com profile and integrated the QRZ.com logbook sync with my log software.I am working on my radio blog which is not yet online, but apart from these two, I don't update any further websites.#hamr #hamradio #hamchallenge |
| 2025-02-10 15:10:36 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 7 | Progress update... | Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 7: Find out which DXpeditions are active this weekMy primary source for DXpedition information is https://www.dx-world.net and its featured DXpedition timeline.Second source is the DX MB of DARC (https://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/en/dxnl/).A quite useful tool I recently started to use is HamAlert (https://hamalert.org/) where I configured missing DXCCs and DXpeditions I don't want to miss.Let's see how many of them will be on my list after this week HC07@ha |
| 2025-02-16 18:46:47 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 7 | Success! | Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 7: Find out which DXpeditions are active this week #hamchallenge How many of the DXpeditions can you hear or work?Busy week with little time for radio so I might missed some opportunities. NILV73WWSWLTZ1CE S21ZNC5DX DU3/F4EBK9J2FIWKD9X2AMHC07S |
| 2025-03-14 10:22:18 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 6 | Success! | The BCC spring QSO party was a nice opportunity to meet many of the fellow BCC members.Thanks @DJ5CW for 80M #cw contact.Regarding the #hamchallenge, time to tick off the challenges HC06S, HC30S, HC33S and HC38S @hamchallenge |
| 2025-03-14 10:46:39 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 30 | Success! | The BCC spring QSO party was a nice opportunity to meet many of the fellow BCC members. Thanks @DJ5CW for 80M #cw contact. Regarding the #hamchallenge, time to tick off the challenges HC06S, HC30S, HC33S and HC38S |
| 2025-03-14 10:46:46 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 33 | Success! | The BCC spring QSO party was a nice opportunity to meet many of the fellow BCC members. Thanks @DJ5CW for 80M #cw contact. Regarding the #hamchallenge, time to tick off the challenges HC06S, HC30S, HC33S and HC38S |
| 2025-03-14 10:46:53 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 38 | Success! | The BCC spring QSO party was a nice opportunity to meet many of the fellow BCC members. Thanks @DJ5CW for 80M #cw contact. Regarding the #hamchallenge, time to tick off the challenges HC06S, HC30S, HC33S and HC38S |
| 2025-04-15 20:05:05 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 16 | Progress update... | 📡 #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. |
| 2025-04-19 01:28:08 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 16 | Success! | HC16S Made my first two actively chased #pota contacts today with EI6IF and M1DDD. Uploaded my log to pota.app to verify the P2P contacts.#hamradio #HAMChallenge |
| 2025-04-19 01:46:10 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 13 | Success! | Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 13: Make a QSO from an unusual location and post a picture!HC13S #HAMChallenge #hamchallenge2025 Unusual Location for me was the visit to ED1R for the CQ WPX contest. A Special Location and a great engineered station. We did 4895 QSOs and ranked 5# World #3 Europe #1 EA |
| 2025-04-21 18:15:59 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 17 | Success! | Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 17: Which VHF/UHF repeater is closest to your location?DB0HBG is the closest repeater, run by my local club. We use wind power and solar energy to operate the repeater independently.HC17S #HamChallenge #amateurradio #hamradio #amateurfunk |
| 2025-06-21 23:58:20 | dd1mat@mastodon.social | 32 | Success! | Wow, that was interesting. 2025 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on 5960 UAE, 9575 Ascension Island and 12065 Woofferton (UK)#BBC #AntarcticMidwinterBroadcast #shortwave #swl #HC32S #hamchallenge @hamchallenge |