| Date | User | Challenge | Status | Toot summary & link |
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| 2025-01-01 17:35:31 | ian@mastodon.radio | 1 | Success! | Week 1 of the 52-week Ham Radio Challenge is to design a QSL card! I've never done real cards before, but would like to in the future - and what better than a rainy January day to do some designing. Here's my first attempt.HC01Shttps://hamchallenge.org/ |
| 2025-01-08 21:28:24 | ian@mastodon.radio | 2 | Success! | 52-week ham radio challenge, week 2 as complete as it's going to be. HC02SI gave up on trying to listen the beacons by ear - by evening, the transmissions were all down in the noise and not much fun.Spotted a post by @PA3DSB about the Faros software and left that running during the day instead. Decent daytime Rx of CS3B, OH2B, 4U1UN, 4X6TU. Very occasional Rx of RR90, VR2B, ZS6DN & LU4AA on certain bands only. |
| 2025-01-08 21:34:25 | ian@mastodon.radio | 2 | Success! | 52-week ham radio challenge, week 2 as complete as it's going to be. HC02SI gave up on trying to listen the beacons by ear - by evening, the transmissions were all down in the noise and not much fun.Spotted a post by @PA3DSB about the Faros software and left that running during the day instead. Decent daytime Rx of CS3B, OH2B, 4U1UN, 4X6TU. Very occasional Rx of RR90, VR2B, ZS6DN & LU4AA on certain bands only. |
| 2025-01-15 17:55:46 | ian@mastodon.radio | 3 | Progress update... | Listening in on 80 & 160m, sadly the antenna at home is not up to transmitting on either band and I am not up for building huge antennas in the forest in the middle of the night :)HC03The band is definitely still "local" at the moment, largely westcountry accents talking about lawnmowers! |
| 2025-01-20 07:52:19 | ian@mastodon.radio | 3 | Success! | Finally "completed" Ham Challenge week 3 but only scraped through on the most meagre technicality: I had to not only use a WebSDR but also resorted to *WSPR* to finally receive some 80m DX.Got W1TKO @ -25dB, W3USR @ -25dB and NI5F @ -18dB around 0630z this morning using G8JNJ KiwiSDR.HC03S |
| 2025-01-20 19:21:34 | ian@mastodon.radio | 4 | Success! | Week 4 of the 52-week Ham Radio Challenge is to research the history of your callsign, and unfortunately there isn't any. At least, nothing significant.The full detail, along with the write-up of how I fared in weeks 1-3, is now up on my blog: https://ianrenton.com/blog/52-week-ham-radio-challenge-roundup-weeks-1-4/HC04S |
| 2025-01-31 14:53:51 | ian@mastodon.radio | 5 | Success! | Nothing really to do on my QRZ.com and HamQTH profiles as I last updated them in December, but I did add a POTA widget to the bottom! HC05Shttps://www.hamqth.com/M0TRT |
| 2025-02-08 18:52:16 | ian@mastodon.radio | 6 | Success! | It's been a cold rainy day, so I've been stuck inside and decided to fit the CQ WPX RTTY contest around the chores and cooking for this week's Ham Challenge. My first time on RTTY so sorry to everyone for all the times I messed up!HC06S |
| 2025-02-14 22:21:04 | ian@mastodon.radio | 7 | Success! | Pretty easy week for the Ham Radio Challenge. I used https://ng3k.com/Misc/adxo.html to see which DXpeditions were ongoing. More than I thought! I doubt I'll have chance to contact any of them this weekend but we'll see. HC07S |