Please note the date for the RRDXA Spring Meeting 2010.
Saturday 13th March 2010 from 10:00 local onwards
Location as usual in the Gaststätte Dorfquelle, Ickenerstr. 160, Waltrop.
AGENDA
1. Begrüßung
2. Gedenken
3. Ehrungen
4. Bericht über das vergangene Jahr (sehr kurz)
5. Rechnungslegung, Referent Horst, DK1QH
6. Webauftritt Portalseite
7. Aufgabenverteilung
8. Zertifikate
9. Contest-University auf der Ham Radio
10. Verhalten bei Contesten, Bandpläne
11. RTA
12. Vorträge, z.B. Expeditionen, Bericht vom CQWW RTTY als CR3L
13. Verschiedenes
Falls es noch Änderungswünsche gibt, bitte melden.
Hans-Jürgen, DL1YFF
(Vors. RRDXA)
PacificDXpedition 2009
Written by DF1LON
Dear Contester,
we are QRV in the CQWW CW 2009 Contest with A31A. Please keep our call in mind and please have a look for us as we will especially try to call for EU on the lowbands. But this will be a big challenge to get through the european contest QRM. But we hope that at least some QSO's will be possible.
At the moment we are QRV as 5W0NM, mainly in CW. EU is good to work at grayline on 40m and 30m.
Sunday 30.08.2009 from 09:00 until 18:00 in Waltrop, Büscherstrasse 116
As usual Walter, DJ6QT, will be responsible for food and refreshments. Breakfast, delicious grill meats, salats, cake for the "tea-time" and drinks will be ready for you. The all-inclusive-package is available for 17,50€ per Person. Friends and company are wellcome. Please contact Walter, DJ6QT, to place your firm barbecue booking in advance. Payment may be done on site.
CT9L (M/M) wins ARRL CW 2009
Written by DF1LON
The Madeiras station of CT9L operated by Germans DJ6QT, DK7YY, DK9VZ, DL5AXX, DL5LYM and DL8WAA was the top entrant in the DX Multioperator, Multi-Transmitter category. Their score of just over 4.9 million points was enough to set a new Africa record and to top Croatia’s 9A1A with operators 9A5W, 9A5E, 9A8W, 9A6A, 9A4WW, 9A7R, 9A9A and 9A2DQ and third place HG1S operated by HA1TJ, HA1DAC, HA1DAI and HA1DAE.
Continental records for the DX side were set in the Single Op Assisted category for Africa by D4C (YL2KL, op), Single Band 20 meters for Oceania by KH7XS (K4XS, op), Multioperator Single Transmitter for Africa by EF8M and Multioperator, Multitransmitter for Africa by CT9L.
Team CT9L is preparing for CQWW-CW in Multi/Multi category this year. The team is already active as CS95A before and after the contest. During the contest we'll take of as CT9L as usual. We appreciate any call/qso!
This year the team is constituted by: DK3QZ, DL5XX, DL3QQ, DL1XW, DL3HAH, DL2OBF, DJ7IK, DJ7JC, DF1AL and PA0R.
Some good news from ARRL: in the ARRL Newsletter from July 25th they announced to drop rule 5 of section III of the DXCC rules. This means that open logs are are not any more subject to possible disqualification from the award program.
I think this is good news since internet logs have already become state of the art and best practice in radio sports. We will continue to provide our RRDXA online log to all members all will enhance the service in the future.
From my point of view there is just one thing to consider: if a log is opened with all QSOs details, QSL managers should stop correcting QSO data on request like "....I worked you at 09:21 on 21 CW but you got my callsign wrong..." since these kind of requests are obviously too easy with open logs. So please don't change logs unless you are 100% sure about the request. Most DXpeditions do online logs so it's easy for everybody to check whether you got in the log.
4 SQ-antennas by DF6QV
Written by DF1LON
Nachdem bekannt wurde, dass Franz, DF6QV, die so erfolgreichen 4 SQ-Antennen von TS7N, 5A7A und VP6DX konzipiert und die Steuerung samt Phasenschiebern dafür selbst gebaut hat, wurde immer wieder der Wunsch geäußert, nähere Einzelheiten von diesen Antennen zu erfahren. Daher hat sich Franz dankenswerterweise entschlossen, seinen Vortrag beim diesjährigen RRDXA Frühjahrstreffen über seine Erfahrungen mit dieser Antennenform allen Interessierten auf der RRDXA-Webseite zugänglich zu machen
After it became known that Franz, DF6QV, had designed the 4 SQ-antennas for TS7N, 5A7A and VP6DX and built the phasing- and control-boxes himself, a lot of hams wanted to learn more about this type of antenna that yielded such outstanding results on the low bands during these DX-peditions. Therefore we owe Franz thanks that he has offered to publish his script about a lecture at this year's RRDXA spring meeting on his experiences with this successful type of antenna on the RRDXA web page.
Hans-Jürgen, DL1YFF has created a new RRDXA badge as you can see on the photograph. Size is 8.5 x 5.5 cm (like a credit card). Material is PVC with anti-UV-coated strong magnetic clip.
Looks very nice! Many affirmative comments on the Ham Radio!
Activity is over for now! The last ordered badges arrived at July 23rd and they are ready to be requested (see below).
If you have not been to Ham Radio, but if you have ordered, please, send me a letter (according to what I had written via our reflector) to get the ordered badge.
So, die letzten Nachzüglerbestellungen sind auch abgeschlossen. Bitte fordert auf dem bekannten Wege Eure Schilder an. Bitte keine Banküberweisungen. Ich kann das nicht über Konto laufen lassen.
Danke und best 73
Hans-Jürgen, DL1YFF
RRDXA Spring Meeting 2008
Written by DF1LON
At the 12th April 2008 the RRDXA Spring Meeting 2008 took place in Waltrop, Germany. 44 RRDXA interested YLs/OMs from DL, including our friends from LX, ON and PA, followed DJ6QT's invitation.
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