| Date | User | Challenge | Status | Toot summary & link |
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| 2025-01-05 16:16:56 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 1 | Success! | Although I am waiting for sample stock to arrive to decide which stock to use for my order, I believe I have a complete design (even if I further improve it later) so I'll count this as #HC01S completed.Like @stu I started the design this past fall, but completed it during the challenge week. |
| 2025-01-09 00:06:40 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 2 | Progress update... | #HC02 I tried listening around dusk while watching what beacons should be transmitting. I couldn't copy any call signs, and I mostly heard noise. I heard occasional gusts of code that might have been the following stations, or might have all been my imagination...From FM05 starting around 22:45Z:14.1 CS3B? 4U1UN-? RR90?18.11 OA4B? 4U1UN-?21.15 VE8AT-? RR90? ZS6DN?24.93 VE8AT?28.2 nothingIf any of those station IDs is wrong please blame autocarrot.Given that I couldn't actually copy any IDs I thi |
| 2025-01-20 18:08:26 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 4 | Success! | I find no records of my #AmateurRadio KZ4LY call sign having previously been issued. I don't see any digital records of it, and the last callbook has no KZ prefix call signs issued in any way. I know mine was regularly sequentially allocated (not as a vanity call sign); KZ4LN @stu upgraded to amateur extra and changed to an extra-only call sign about a week before I was licensed. KZ4AA was granted as a vanity sign on 15 February 2022 with no indications I find of a prior owner; KZ4AB was granted |
| 2025-01-20 23:44:11 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 4 | Progress update... | Anyone in the US having trouble tracking down the history of your call sign for #HC04 here are lots of details to help:https://www.w2zq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Finding-your-ham-roots.pdf |
| 2025-02-17 14:33:55 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 8 | Success! | I encouraged two family members to prep for a local test session coming soon. One was initially just going for Technician, but now is studying to take General at the same time and has passed a sample test. The other is seriously considering joining the test party. 🎉HC08S |
| 2025-02-20 03:51:07 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 5 | Success! | I finally updated my QRZ and HamQTH pages (same content in both places) with my newfound focus on learning and using CW. HC05S and yes I know that was a few weeks ago. I've never been very good at doing things in the proper order! ☺ |
| 2025-02-28 14:05:32 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 8 | Success! | An addendum to the HC08S — this week, my wife passed Technician and General class exams and plans to go for Amateur Extra, and my oldest passed Technician and is planning to take General in a few months. 🎉#AmateurRadio #HamRadio |
| 2025-03-12 12:59:02 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 6 | Success! | @magnus I discovered that I totally forgot to post over a week ago participating in SST, so I can also mark HC06S a bit after its scheduled week. 🎉 |
| 2025-04-01 00:54:39 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 14 | Progress update... | Thanks to at least @DJ3CE and @hb9hox for suggesting that I try #wavelog for my #HamRadio logging needs.Yesterday, I accidentally completed HC14 (which I had completely forgotten about) by implementing Wavelog in a docker installation running on top of local RAID on SSD in an AlmaLinux 9 VM on a Fedora 41 server, transferring all my various logs into it, and setting up restic to do daily backups of /var/lib/docker/volumes offsite about 1000 miles away. The restic encryption key is also backed up |
| 2025-04-01 03:30:55 | mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info | 6 | Success! | I previously marked the #AmateurRadio HC06S because I participated in SST, but now I've actually submitted Cabrillo logs to VA QSO party and CQ WW WPX (SSB) contests. Only to make sure that others get their points and for practice, since I had 5 CW QSOs in the VA QSO party and 12 SSB QSOs in the CQ WW WPX contest, but it's a start! I don't feel competitive about this so far, so I wouldn't be surprised if I never "win" anything more than the fun of playing radio, and that's OK by me! 🎉 |