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The last month of our hamradio event began on May 1st. There is the possibility of workining a graphically redesigned series of SPRINT diplomas (bronze to gold).

The crowning achievement is the MASTER award, which will only be available for download from June 1, 2024. This is a completion certificate for every OP and SWL who has successfully earned at least one of our 100FK awards. It documents to the person (without carrying out additional activities) the number of QSOs made under the call sign, the number of diploma points calculated from them and the placement in the ranking. The MASTER is available in the MIXED, PHONE, CW and DIGITAL modes.

The graphic designed on the MASTERS remains a surprise until it is downloaded… (possible from June 1st to December 31st, 2024)

No additional achievements are required for a MASTER, as it is a special final award (certificate). After May 31, 2024, the end of our 100FK event, this group of so-called MASTER awards will be available for download. With these we would like to thank every hamradio partner and SWL who has worked at least one of our 100FK awards for their activity and cooperation.

The MASTER awards are offered for the MIXED, PHONE, CW and DIGI modes. They document the number of QSOs made per mode, the award points achieved and the placement in the ranking. Since the master’s awards are not numbered, the download can be carried out easily until December 31, 2024.

The graphic designed on the MASTERS remains a surprise until it is downloaded… (possible from June 1st to December 31st, 2024)

When we started on January 1st, we had no idea how long we would be able to maintain interest in the topic of the German Funk-Kartell and especially, of course, in the award program. But none of us could have imagined this QSO number that we have now achieved on the 110th day of our radio event a good three months ago.

We are all the more pleased to have struck a chord with many QSO partners and award hunters. This is the only way to interpret the jointly achieved QSO number of a quarter of a million, which is also supported by the fairly stable number of visitors to our website.

Until the end of the event, we promise to continue to meet all callers with commitment, care and joy and to prepare ourselves operationally with a lot of empathy for our counterparts and to keep our ears sharp so that as many callers as possible can successfully participate in the award program! And we would like to see continued fair calling conditions on our frequencies for the last 42 days – to the delight of all of us! Cuagn!

… And for everyone who has worked at least one of our awards, we have a little surprise at the end of the event (more on this) … soon

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Later in the evening of April 12th (19-20 UTC) we were still able to make connections to South America on 10m as well as to DL stations, although these were of course much quieter and with a pronounced QSB. A lot of patience and longer calls are always required in order to be able to wait for the “loud” phase!!

DL100FK was with SSB on air and DF100FK tried CW a little bit later. Tony PY1AX sent us promptly this “Video-QSL” via email.

Tony had already accompanied us in a similar way at the event celebrating 90 years of “Aunt Ju” and thereby attracted attention to 90TJU in South America.

https://dl2swr.afu-wismar.de/90tju.html 

 

For many years, DKØMIT goes on April 1st  on “DXpeditions in a special way”. The expedition destinations included (and this is not an April Fool’s joke!) America, Cameroon, Samoa and other distant-sounding regions. This year the team is following their wanderlust to Nassau…

This year, the special call sign DM1ØØMW will be taken to the DXpedition to Nassau (not the one in the Caribbean, but the one in Saxony). The activity is scheduled from approximately 09 UTC to 15 UTC (note the daylight saving time change!). The exact start times depend on the specific conditions on site. The dQSLs (downloadable QSL via 100FK.de) for QSO from Nassau will have a separately adapted QTH entry.

April 1st this year falls on Easter Monday. This is convenient because the day is a holiday. But the day is also inconvenient because some of the Top-OP are traveling with their families. This means that the club station can only travel with a smaller crew. For some, this will be the first time the OP has faced a pile-up like this. We ask for your understanding if things get a little bumpy in the pile-up.

Today, March 24, 2024 – on the 83rd day (of 152 day in total) of our radio event – we completed our 200,000th QSO!

The 83 days means:

• a QSO every 36 seconds
• one award download every 9 minutes
• …

Many thanks to all actors, qualified hunters and QSO partners!

So have a lot fun in the remaining 69 days.

Radio Amateur Club Swissair (RACS) is celebrating its 50th anniversary!

more in https://hb9vc.ch/racs/start.htm and https://www.qrz.com/db/HB50VC

Award from March 18th to December 31st, 2024

• For this reason, the board has launched a special award.
• The award is available to all licensed radio amateurs worldwide. The same criteria apply to SWL (Short Wave Listeners).  To SWL LogIn-Request. 
• All logs are summarized in a central database and are then available for retrieving the individual award. No QSLs of any kind need to be submitted for the award application.
• The organizer is not liable if a QSO is logged incorrectly.
• Award will be numbered consecutively according to the time of receipt.
• To the award point query.
• The award must be ordered by September 30th, 2025 at the latest. The award is free of charge.
• All QSOs will also be published on LotW and QRZ.com at a later date. Special dQSL  (downloadable QSL) can be downloaded from the website itself. No paper QSL cards are provided.

Rules

Valid 2-way radio connections with HB50VC made between 18th March 2024, 00.00 UTC and 31st December 2024, 23.59 UTC count for the award. We try to be QRV on as many amateur radio bands as possible.

The IARU band plans must be adhered to. Connections on the same band and in the same mode [CW, Phone (Voice), Data (all digital modes)] only count once. There is only one award class. At least three QSOs must be created.

Further information can be found on our club website or on qrz.com under HB50VC. We look forward to adding you to the log.

The board of the Radio Amateur Club Swissair.

On April 18th, on World Amateur Radio Day, we remembered the founding congress of the IARU in Paris in 1925. A German group of the IARU was founded less than three weeks later on May 5th, 1925.

Perhaps it was this return of Germany to the international stage that accelerated the long-overdue abolition of the Audion-Versuchserlaubnis. When this became apparent on September 1, 1925, the end of the German Funk-Kartell was sealed, because the purpose of the cartel, the pooling of all forces to qualify registered broadcast listeners was history… What remains sensational, however, is what the protagonists of the broadcast and (ham)radio associations in have worked in Germany these 18 months: (Continue by clicking on the graphic)

… and of course the over 850,000 officially trained broatcasting listeners!

The end of the cartel purpose of the German Funk-Kartell led to a reorientation and thus to the merger with the Radio Technical Association (F.T.V.) in Berlin to form on July 28, 1925 the German Radio Technical Association (D.F.T.V.) / the forerunner of the DASD and thus today’s DARC. But that would be a new hamradio event…

It was on this day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed by 27 nations (Source: Magazine Funk, 1925/Issue 18, Site 215) in Paris.

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