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With computers well entrenched in DXing and amateur radio in general the underappreciated QSL managers that work in the background are the recipients of thousands of e-mails (mostly all inquiring - sometimes complaining - about one or more missing QSOs), an untold number of snail mail pieces containing even more snail mail pieces, currency, IRCs, postage stamps and one or more QSL cards, even some with QSL cards for multiple DX stations or DX operators.
There are many bakeries in the main city of the Greek island Crete. But there is only one with a large HF antenna on the roof.
I arrived at the site of the 2017 SN0HQ 14 MHz CW position merely minutes before the contest commenced. The host, Maciek, SP2XF, had not shaved for a week.
In the winter of my sophomore year of high school, my best friend and I were studying for our 13 WPM CW exams and we were blessed!
The summer in Europe is the period when many brave people visit the small islet called Märket, located between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic Sea. The locals know this part of the Baltic Sea as Ålandshav, the Sea of Åland.
Video. S21ZED / S21ZEE - HAM radio DXpedition to Bangladesh from March 14 - 26 2017.
E51LYC operated from Pukapuka Atoll between May 12 and 23. Located about 1200 km north of Rarotonga, in the North Cook Islands, this remote atoll counts toward the IOTA group OC-098, which was confirmed by only 8% of the IOTA members prior to this operation.
After successful activation of VU7AG in 2013 and VU7KV in 2014, and presenting about the trip at many a meetings, folks in the DX community have asked for an opportunity to go there as a part of the team.
Sergey, R4WBF in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 27 - 28 May 2017.
Video tour EW6W Amateur Radio Contest Station Belarus.
Maciek, SP2XF is probably better known in the contesting circles as Mac, SN2M. He is relatively new to contesting with plans and appetite for more.
On the southeastern coast of Crete, facing Egypt and Libya, there is a medium-size town called Ierapetra. This is where the island is narrowest.
The CQWW CW results has been published almost three weeks ago and I needed a few time to decide to publish this open letter to the CQWW Contest Committee just during the Dayton Hamvention 2017.
An old photograph from November 2000. Left: Manolo, EA8BYG and right: Waldemar, SM0TQX work together helping Pulu, D44AC to erect an antenna tower at his new home in Mindelo, Cape Verde.