Date | User | Challenge | Status | Toot summary & link |
2025-01-03 08:36:21 | mike_k@mstdn.social | 1 | Success! | My new QSL card! Inspired by Dieter Rams' RT20 radio, but a few steps starker than that. White instead of cream, the red frequency indicator but no soft green buttons. I was trying for the minimum number of lines that still suggested a radio, while still having the info I wanted on there. Haven't done a back. The cost of postage means this would likely only ever be emailed, but you never know. I used metric A6 dimensions in case I ever afford to print & post it. |
2025-01-13 00:08:31 | mike_k@mstdn.social | 2 | Success! | Which is success. πHC02S for the bot |
2025-01-19 22:28:34 | mike_k@mstdn.social | 3 | Progress update... | Going to revisit HC03 in the southern hemisphere winter, maybe with longer radials. 80m may be out of reach for DX for me, but weβll see.@hamchallenge#hamchallenge |
2025-01-19 22:31:34 | mike_k@mstdn.social | 4 | Success! | HC04S is easy. VK1OMG, first of that name.An advantage of living in a tiny prefix region.@hamchallenge#hamchallenge |
2025-02-01 00:12:44 | mike_k@mstdn.social | 5 | Success! | Updated my QRZ.com page, & I'm not on HamQTH.com or elsewhere AFAIK, so, success.If I did more I'd have more to say. Better do more I guess.#hamchallenge HC05S |
2025-02-09 23:02:40 | mike_k@mstdn.social | 6 | Success! | Single QSO made last night, deets submitted. Guaranteed last place in the CQ WPX RTTY Contest. πFun to get RTTY working, glad competitions (& the challenge!) get people on the air. Stuff that gets people on the air is good.HC06S #hamchallenge |
2025-02-16 01:31:15 | mike_k@mstdn.social | 7 | Progress update... | A few, bleak is too strong, empty weeks for me for the challenge.Dxpeditionsβ¦ look, if you enjoy it cover your ears, but rich white guys going to places they think the natives arenβt up to using the modern steam powered wireless, or to some abandoned rock in the Atlantic is all a bit 19th Century, even for me. HC07Iβve cajoled everyone Iβve ever met. Twice. If I meet someone newβ¦ HC08And 10m repeatersβ¦ nearest oneβs 350km away. Hmm. Next chance is HC09.#hamchallenge @hamchallenge |