During the year I noticed good activity on all bands with the special *EUDXF calls from many EU countries. Since I am also a member of the EUDXF foundation and were sponsored with DXpeditions of the Rockall DX group (9Q5ØON and EP6T), I felt responsible to help in any way to activate Belgium with the special call ON3ØEUDXF. I requested the call in October, but had to wait until 2 December to get the license in my possession after many phone calls… I could only get a permit for one month, so I choose December. First I had to prepare the QRZ.com page with prepare upload to Clublog. Every ending days of activity I uploaded my log. I must say Clublog is the master in handling QSL requests! The activity was high in the first days. I was mainly QRV on 17, 20, 40 and 80m because the activity was higher on those bands. After I was spotted, hell broke loose. After about 300 QSO’s I switched mode to regain my pile up. After work a mostly worked to the west (USA and SA) before 17 and 20 was closing down. Than I had to stick to 30, 40 and 80, due to bad propagation. In the weekends I could be active early, but 10, 12 and 15 was a disaster, as many others could agreed with. So I had to start on 17m to have good pile ups towards the east. In total we (ON6CC & ON7RN) worked 4366 QSO’s. We counted 132 dupes. Eric, ON7RN who is also a member had about 160 QSO’s during the last days. Thanks Eric! It was my honour to have been working you all as part of the 30-thirtieth anniversary of the EUDXF foundation!

Hi,

I am Robert, PD7RB and I did celebrate the 30th anniversary with the callsign PD30EUDXF.

Despite of the bad propagation, the daily job (except the last week of
december) and the
limited HF frequencies, which I am allowed to use with the PD-callsign, I could manage to make almost 1000 QSO’s in a few weeks on 40/20 and 10 meterband.

It was fun to be active for some weeks with this callsign and to promote the EUDXF, so I like to thank those who gave me a call.

Wishing you and yours a happy 2017.

Hope to meet you again on the bands,

PD7RB Robert (EUDXF #901)

There was a total of 11.244 QSOs in the logbook when OE30EUDXF went QRT on 28.December after nearly 3 months of operation.  It was an enormous challenge when applying for the special call sign for such a long period, and without the help of Dom, DL5EBE it would probably not have been possible to get the permission from the Austrian authority, again thank you very much Dom.

The whole activity has been a lot of fun and some pile ups were enormous.The QSL cards are printed and will be send to the bureau soon. I also had the pleasure to design the 30 EUDXF awards, which I hope you like.At last I wish the EUDXF we will get many new members cause of this super activation. Happy New Year and many DX!

73 Jo OE4VIE  ( OE30EUDXF )