DX&DXCC
Worked 38 new DXCC, currently have 249 DXCC worked and 235 somehow confirmed. In the year 2023 worked 156 DXCC which is exactly same amount like last year.
From the top DX I choose FT8WW Crozet Island one man show expedition. Digi QSO on 15m took good over one month to work. Going through wall of stations was pretty hard. Another rare entities were W8S Swains Island on 15m SSB, ZD9W Tristan da Cunha, a weekend expedition PR0T Trinidade, I am also happy to finally work H44WA, Solomons Island.
There were some nice QSOs to Asia, Yemen on 17,15 and 10m is done.VU7A and VU7W gave me chance to work Laksadweep on 17 and 10m.
There was many new contacts to Oceania and Pacific, Tuvalu, Palau, Niue, Chatham Isl., Polynesia etc. Very nice contact with TX7L to Marquesas was done via long path,SSB on 15m and digi on 20m.
Of course number of nice contacts to Africa were oportunity for some new DXCC, 9U5X Burundi, TJ9MD Cameroon or our czech huys in Congo or Uganda and number of others.
Good DX year!
Contesting
Not a great deal in 2023. Still some nice contests done.
UBA DX Contest SSB low power, 6th place.
EU DX Contest, SSB low power, 6th place.
South American 10m, SSB low power, 8th place in Europe
Holyland DX Contest - results not ready in Dec 2023
IOTA Contest,, SSB low power,12h, 2nd place
9A DX Contest - results not published
I am of cours participating favourite OK competitions OK Maraton and OK1DKS Memorial in various categories.
In the company of OK1RDO club:
OK OM DX SSB Contest, 2nd place
I. Subregional (IARU VHF), 144 MHz low power, 1st place
433 MHz low power, 7th place
II. Subregional (IARU VHF) 144 MHz, low power, 2nd place
"Field Day" (IARU VHF) 144 MHz, low power, 2nd place
IARU VHF Contest low power, 7th place
IARU UHF Contest low power, 2nd place
IARU VHF & Up Trophy not yet published
2m in 2023:
Awards
Finished All Japan Districts Award (still waiting for mail), Islands of Croatia Awarad - chaser (also waiting for letter).
UKW Europa I. Achieved.
IOTA 100 achieved.
Keep working SOTA, GMA and new one - POTA.
VHF&SOTA
What a magic year for VHF! I never did so many amazing contacts. June was memorable due to fantastic tropo conditions, I made QSOs to England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Bretagne, some even SSB. It happened 2nd June.
Just a week later Tropo was back in a bit southern directon, which allowed me to make EA6, EA and even CT9/OM3RG!
I played with meteors as well and did contacts to G, EU, R, OH.
19 GMA activations / 13 SOTA activations. There was memorable QSOs from non GMA/SOTA mountain Latiborska Hola in Low Tatra mountains with S5/9A2NB and even on 70cm
OK1KAD, OK1RDO
SWL
Experienced some nice DX tropo, heard alegerian ond spanish stations on VHF here in Czech republic. Also from holiday on Tenerife heard distant stations from Morocco / Western Sahara. I also heard some Saudi Arabian stations on holidays in Egypt - Makadi Bay.
Thank you all for the amazing time on the air and see you in 2024!
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