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PG33EUDXF

11th December 2019

The PG33EUDXF was my first serious activity as a new full licence HAM operator from the Netherlands (upgraded in september 2019), so I was happy to be able to be active at more bands then before. Operated before as a novice HAM with the PD..EUDXF callsigns.
Propagation as expected, was not great, but I could manage to make nice contacts outside of Europe, so I am satisfied.
Thanks to everyone who joined and made the contact with us and hope to hear from you next time again.

vy 73 de PG7M Robert ( PG33EUDXF )

33EUDXF Awards issued

10th December 2019

The first batch of 33EUDXF Awards have been issued.
In total 178 awards to 106 different stations are sent.
A special achievement is made by SM4IED, OM3CND, R4AN, E72A, HA1ZH, VO1SA, SV1AJO and HA7XL by obtaining the Platinum status of the award.

PC33EUDXF

4th December 2019

As a fairly new EUDXF member (#967) I volunteered to activate one of the Dutch special event stations for the 33th anniversary of the EUDXF. I was curious to see what a special call can do compared to my ‘ordinary’ call.

When I signed up, I already indicated that my activity will be CW only, and with somewhat limited time due to the fact that I work 5 days/week and have a long commuting distance. This would mean only activity in the evenings and in the weekends. At night, man-made noise is quite an issue at my location (80 and 160m hardly usable), so in a sense it was a bit of a challenge.

Anyway, in the first two days of November I had some time and I could start off right away. The first 250 QSOs were easily made. Demand was great and I could raise some nice runs. In the weeks after I witnessed the following things.

Demand gradually decreased
Demand for EUDXF is predominantly coming from European stations (not a real surprise I guess)
Conditions were not good. Made 23 QSOs on 18 MHz, and never used a higher band
Number of QSOs were in the end nicely spread over 80, 40, 30 and 20m. This was more like a coincidence than a planned thing …
Made a 30 minutes entry in the one hour UKEICC 80m CW contest (29 QSOs). A long callsign, albeit a special one, is not an advantage in such occasion …
CW rules, but for higher volumes of QSOs you have to be active in other modes as well (not my cup of coffee)

Given the ability of my station (Mosley minibeam @ 10m, 30/40m vertical, 80m inv.L) I think I delivered the call to those who were really looking for it (in particular the 33EUDXF Award hunters). I had a few openings to North America and was called by some nice DX on 30m around grayline time. With a gross number of 1083 QSOs (35 dupes) I am quite satisfied. I recommend this activity to anyone who wants to play around with a special callsign. Next year’s Px34EUDXF stations will provide the fun again.