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Hartwig, DL7BC will be active in CQ WW WPX SSB Contest 28 - 29 March 2009 from Morocco as CN2BC.

Fellow contesters, The YLs within the Bavarian Contest Club BCC have become more active and visible recently in major contests with decent results.

Recently CQ WW DX Commitee has explained their ruling with regards to yellow and red cards in CQ WW Contest of 2010. An explanation appeared on CQ WW web site

XE1RCS will be active from Mexico in CQ WW 160m SSB DX Contest on 27 march - 1 april 2009.

His Highness CQ WW DX Contest is approaching very fast. And thousands of us are making plans for operating in the event.

NR5M Super Contest Station near Houston, Texas Video.

G3TBK will be active in ARRL International DX SSB Contest from St.Vincent Island 7-8 marh 2009 as J88DR

PI4W crew-members brought a visit to PI4CC contest station, located in the dunes of Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands.

I do not want to divide my contest travel into the highlights and Lowlights. For me the whole contest was the real magic and I'll remember it whole with its pluses(+) and minuses (-). It was a real adventure !

Before you start reading I want to apologize to all of you for the very big delay with the rest of the story and thank Steve N2IC and Nick NA3M for their help with the article translation and editing.

In the Golden Years of competing in the major DX contests: CQWW , ARRL DX , CQ WPX, to win the world as Single Operator/ All Bands, was considered by many to be "the" pinnacle of success.

I have been discussing contesting with some close friends and recent ways of winning the some of most popular ones like CQWW DX.

I have looked at the comments regarding open logs and UBNs etc etc and seriously feel that the Contestor of the Year wont get up and going -Contesting is changing to much and the honour has gone from the field - I will continue to Multi Op but wont waste time effort and energy on any other - its sad but I suppose all things must change..

On this episode host Ashley KI4MTU takes us on a tour of the K3LR superstation.

I4UFH, IZ4DPV, I4YSS and CT1DVV will be active from Cabo Verde in CQ WW WPX SSB