IZ3NVR – KD2BGM

In today’s mail there was a nice surprice. Got a package from ARRL and inside there was my QRP DXCC Award !!!!

While I was waiting for it I grabbed few more entities so now my count is higher than the required 100 to achieve the award. Anyhow this certificate is not endorsable as it is stated in the ARRL DXCC QRP award page. I know that endorsement such as achieving more than 100 entities are quite unuseful but it is always nice to have your own work rewarded.

Surfing on the net I found out a great idea from ON5ZO (OQ5M on contests) blog. He “printed” himself his own 5Band DXCC. This led me to think about some possible endorsement self-assigned once I will reach some targets such as 125, 150 and so on.

So my QRP DXCC challenge is not finished yet by the way thanks to all the OM that kindly heard my little signal on the bands allowing me to earn such a great recognition.

There we go, the deadline to send in the logs to the WPX SSB manager is over and now, in their website it is possible to view the claimed scores of all the participants (except for the Check Logs).

Here is the link to enter the claimed score page: http://www.cqwpx.com/claimed.htm?mode=ph

I took part in the SOSB QRP 15m (T) category and guess what….I figure in the top ten of the category

I’m very proud of this result even if it is only a declared for now. I really hope I did few mistakes. Anyway a 7th place World as a declared in a CQ WPX SSB contest means way a lot for me. Hope to make many more nice results.

See you next contest

There we go again, this weekend the SKCC WES will be on again and the theme of the “QSO Party” is very interesting. Below there are the rules appeared also in SKCC website: www.skccgroup.com

A radio, a code, and a rescue

When the RMS Titanic sank April 15, 1912, the already heavy loss of life could have been complete without the contributions from two men to communications technology: Guglielmo Marconi and Samuel F.B. Morse. Marconi and Morse were born at the end of April. April’s SKCC Weekend Sprintathon taps its key to the two inventors and to the event whose outcome their work influenced. Participants can earn bonus points by using letters from the call signs of stations they work to spell out the body of the final message the Titanic’s senior radio officer, John Phillips, sent before the liner sank: “We are sinking fast

passengers being put into boats” Each complete word is worth 10 bonus points. In addition, each station from Massachusetts (Morse’s birth state) or Italy (Marconi’s country of origin) you work is worth 10 points per band. Finally, and on a lighter note, as a nod to Spring Break, 50 additional bonus points to those who can provide the WES submissions page with the last name of a female singer whose rock band refers to Marconi in the lyrics of one of its songs! To recap: 10 bonus points per word for building as much of the Titanic’s final message as you can from calls you work; 10 bonus points per MA and/or ITA station per band; and a one-time bonus of 50 points for the only reference I know of to Marconi in rock-and-roll lyrics. Radio-literate, that band was!

 

“We are sinking fast passengers being put into boats”

I will definitely try to be active in such an event and give some points away. Will be active in the K3UK sked page to allow as many people as possible to make QSO with me.