The IARU Region 1 Field Day (SSB) Amateur Radio Contest is a great idea for a joint club activity, with friends or individually. It is a chance to test yourself in many areas: field work, emergency power supply, design, antenna construction. Above all, it is good fun and often new experiences. If the contest is […]
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How to achieve better results by analyzing contest logs
One of the presentations given during CTU Contest University (https://www.contestuniversity.com/) in 2016 was titled: Improving Your Contest Scores Through Log Analysis. The presentation of this topic was prepared and delivered by Valerie NV9L – an American YL, passionate about amateur radio contests. The presentation is available on the CTU website in the Files section. While […]
HF5L/p in IARU SSB R1 Fieldday 2023
It was not possible to gather a team for the CW part in June, but there were several volunteers for the SSB competition on September 2-3, 2023, including: Marcin SP5ES, Andrzej SP5DDF, Mirek SP5GNI and Adam SP5UFK. This time, we chose a fallow, forested plot of land owned by one of our colleagues as our […]
HF5L/p in IARU SSB R1 Fieldday 2022
After a compulsory covid break, the HF5L Club reappeared with the Fieldday 2022 SSB contest in the forests of the Bolimów Landscape Park near the Rawka River. This time we organized the stand in a version with a minimum amount of equipment, based only on the FT991 radio, battery power, dipoles on the surrounding tall […]
CQWW DX Contest SSB 2021 on QRP
Hello everyone! As you know, I have been promoting QRP for many years, also in competitions. Unfortunately, until 2019, working in low-power competitions did not make sense due to propagation on the upper bands. In 2020 already I returned to QRP at CQWW. Usually, I choose one upper band to sleep at night. And what […]
SO4M contesting
For many years I have the pleasure to work with Mirek SP4MPG and compete in his contest station located near Olsztyn. I met Mirek thanks to the SN0HQ Team and joint, annual starts in the IARU HF competition. This year, on the last weekend of May, I decided to start in the CW part of […]
HF5WIM in 2020 SPDX Contest
Congratulations to all my colleagues for great achievements in SPDX 2020! Particularly touching is the photo of Kamil SQ5JRN (I also heard him) with a baby on his lap 🙂 My story: Saturday, getting closer to the contest. I walk around the garden and look at my wires and 2 element beam. I wonder in […]
HF5L/p in IARU SSB R1 Fieldday contest 2019
On the 7/8 September weekend, the HF5L team took part in the Fieldday SSB contest organized by DARC. This time in the preparations and the contest took part (in alphabetical order of call signs): Ewa SP5-1593, Andrzej SP5DDF, Mirek SP5GNI, Sławek SP5ICS, Marek SP5ISZ, Marek SP5IXS, Zbyszek SP5JSZ and Maciek SP5LCS. The place of installation […]
Activation of the SOTA summit – SP/KA-002 – Wielki Szyszak – 11/08/2019
Andrzej SP5DDF and Mirek SP5GNI on Sunday 11 August 2019 activated the SOTA SP/KA-002 Wielki Szyszak peak in the Giant Mountains (Karkonosze) under the callsign HF5L/p. Wielki Szyszak peak (in Czech Vysoké Kolo, in German Hohe Rand, Hohe Rad or Hohes Rad) with a height of 1509 m a.s.l. is the fourth highest peak in […]
HF5L/p in IARU CW Region 1 Fieldday 2019
Participation in Fieldday is our tradition. We could not leave 1-2 June 2019. The following were contributed to the success of the event (in callsign alphabetic order): Ewa SP5-1593, Andrzej SP5DDF, Mirek SP5GNI, Sławek SP5ICS, Marek SP5ISZ, Marek SP5IXS, Zbyszek SP5JSZ, Maciek SP5LCS and Piotr SQ5JUP. This time the station was located near Brok, Poland. […]