Finally, after many attempts, received QSLs from #4U1UN and #4U75UN. The reason for success this time, at last, is that I asked Adrian, KO8SCA, how to shake the cards loose from the manager -- and he did it for me.
For the first time in many years, I won't be QRV in the #REF #CW contest.
My shack computer won't boot (despite having RAID, and only one drive having failed); and the direction in which the yagi is pointing is suddenly no longer correctly matching the pointer on the control box.
It's much too cold and snowy to deal with the rotator problem quickly, and the computer problem needs careful thought.
So this year I'll be sitting the contest out.
Logs for the 2025 Worked All Germany contest have now been added to this repository of public WAG logs:
Cleaned and augmented versions of the public logs for the #cqwwcw and #cqwwssb contests are now available for the period 2005 to 2025:
http://drevans.blog.enginehousebooks.com/2026/01/cleaned-and-augmented-logs-including.html
The public logs for the 2025 #CQWWCW contest are now available in this directory:
The public logs for the 2025 #CQWWSSB contest are now available in this directory:
10m endorsement for my #SKCC Worked All Continents has been approved. The new certificate is now on the shack wall.
Down nearly 800 QSOs from last year's #cqwwcw contest. All the runs here were thin, until the last hour or so of the contest on 10m. Like almost every contest this year, down around 30% from last year: the solar peak is definitely over.
@DF4WO Thank you. The next batch of cards from the buro should get me close to the 300 DOKs on 20m, I hope. I'm at 576 on 10m, so I'm trying to hit 600 there before the sun goes back to sleep.
@DJ5CW Tnx, Fabian. I'll send him an e-mail next week if I don't receive any other ideas. Maybe see you somewhere this coming weekend; I'm planning to be around, as long as the sun co-operates.
Does anyone know how to get a #QSL for QSOs with #4U1UN? Officially, HB9BOU is the manager. But over the course of several years I have sent cards to him via the buro, direct (multiple times, and with more than the requested number of dollars, per the 4U1UN info on QRZ.com), direct requests via Clublog, with payment via Paypal, and sent multiple follow-up e-mails to his e-mail address... and never received any response whatsoever.
I am now out of ideas.
#5V7RU signals reported by the #RBN. Apparently, the "focus on the 160m and 80m bands" did not occur. :-( #cw #hamradio #dx #dxpedition
#OK-OM contest (all #CW) this year down a bit from last year (60 QSOs in 2024, 46 this year). At least a few QSOs were possible on 10m; probably there won't be any by next year.
I listened on 40m, expecting a few QSOs there, but the only station I could hear at all was OL26WRTC, and he was in and out of the noise.
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