ON4CAS 1st Belgian in Polish Contest
Very happy to be the first Belgian in the SOAB CW LP class of the 2023 Polish SPDX Contest. See here for details about this contest.
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Celebrating 100 years of radio communication history between Indonesia and The Netherlands
Several special event stations are being activated throughout May ’23 to commemorate the event. An award is available as well. Needless to say, ON4CAS has been lurking around for these stations. See this link for further info.
DA0HQ Award updated
The DARC advised the HAM community that the updated DA0HQ awards are now available for download. So far, ON4CAS made 177 contacts with DA0HQ, the DARC headquarter station which is active every second weekend of July during the IARU HF…
QSL via GDXF
Thanks to the German DX Foundation (GDXF) QSL service, I received these two great looking cards in the mail today.
May ’23: bureau QSLs
Another batch of QSLs arrived via the UBA QSL bureau.
New eQSLs – May 2nd, 2023
Time to download some recently received eQSL cards. Again many stations keep on using default designs… fortunately, some guys have better inspiration.
Spain: Picasso Award
Early April ’23, some Spanish special event stations were active to commemorate Pablo Picasso. Today, I received the bronze award in CW mode in the mail.
W1W World Amateur Radio Day
3,141 Amateur radio operators worldwide managed to contact the special event station W1W aired at the occasion of the 2023 World Amateur Radio Day. ON4CAS was among them and a handsome certificate commemorating this contact was just received.
EBBR to EGLL
Another day, another virtual flight. Just a short flight from EBBR (Brussels National) to EGLL (London Heathrow) on the IVAO network.Cruising the Airbus A319 at flight level 240 (24,000 ft) for a non eventful trip.
KJFK to TNCC
Time for another virtual flight. Taking the Airbus A319 from JFK Airport in New York to Hato Airport on Curaçao. A flight of some 4 hours on the IVAO network.