@hamchallenge #HC06S I guess this one _is_ mention worthy: Since the missus started her own club, I've participated in CQ WW CW under YO3KRM with some friends, under the multi-distributed category. More for fun than fame, since our score was abysmal 291k, 825qs in 48 hours - each of us from the comfort of his own home.

Try to catch up with the progress of my #hamchallenge @hamchallenge:
#HC06S : Took part of the german CW training contest on Thursday. First three contacts. Which I count also as success for #HC38S

Today we participated for about two hours in the VHF contest with my FT-818 and a HB9CV antenna. I made 11 contacts and the teenie made additional 8 contacts using my trainee call sign. #HC06S

Later today I introduced the teenie to the learning material available on https://50ohm.de/ #HC08

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📝 New #blost - "Jumpstarting my CW Journey"

Talking about getting back into Morse code, practicing, and getting on the air with the #SlowSpeedTest this week.

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🔗: https://ww0cj.bearblog.dev/jumpstarting-my-cw-journey/

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Putting @hamchallenge #HC06S in the "W" column. I managed 8 QSOs on the 20m band as part of this evening's #SST.

Counting the 4 #POTA hunts I managed in the hours leading up to the contest, that makes 12 QSOs in #CW. Not bad for my first day.

There are technically other week's challenges I could also count for this, e.g. "try a new mode" or "have a QSO in CW", but I have other goals in mind for those weeks.

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The #HamChallenge this week: Do a contest.

As a new ham, it's hard to imagine ever taking contests that seriously. I like that more people are on the air. I dislike communication as competition.

Nevertheless I had fun doing my first not-a-contest recently: Winter Field Day 2025!

I did all 8 highly contrived QSOs on VHF/UHF. I (unsuccessfully) activated a POTA spot and hunted (a successful) POTA activation.

#WFD2025 #US2755 #simplex #POTA #HamContests #EmComm #portable #HC06S
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@hamchallenge week 6 ("Take part in a contest") is not very easy for me. In an average week I take part in monday contests MWC and in every "important" contest in the weekend. But now I am on vacation far away from my antennas. So I have to setup a quite heavy portable station (10 kg) and managed 33 QSOs on 40m in MWC in the QRP section so #HC06S

@hamchallenge #hamchallenge week 6 ("Take part in a contest") is very easy for me. In an average week I take part in a few of the smaller contests (MWC, CWT, sometimes SST and MST) and every weekend I at least drop into one of the contests for a few contacts as well. With yesterday's quick participation in MWC, in which I worked @df7cb and @on5zo on 40/80m, CW, the challenge is fulfilled but my thirst for more QSOs is not quenched 🙂 #HC06S

Today, I participated in the 2m segment of the Winter Fieldday / Bayerischer Bergtag from my usual VHF hill which is also valid for POTA (#DE0315).

In two hours I made 15 contacts to German and Czech stations using my trusty FT-818 (6 W out) and a 4 element yagi.

With today's activity I accomplished three #HamChallenge|s at once:
• #HC06S (Contest)
• #HC29S (xOTA activation)
• #HC38S (Morse contact)

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