My Ham Radio Activities
After becoming a Radio Amateur in 2018, my life has changed in so many ways. Here is my ham review for the last years
All of my subscribers inspire me to take further steps in the Radio world and promote our hobby as much as I can.
It is not easy to condense everything that has happened in my life regarding our hobby but here are a few things………
Above all I have spoken to or met thousands of very positive OMs ("Old Man") and YLs ("Young Lady") around the world and I am now very fortunate to have so many likeminded friends!
I have travelled to many different countries in the world, it was exciting to attend the international YL-meetings in Friedrichshafen 2019 along with the special event in Czech Republic, OL88YL (an extremely well organized event run by Eva Thiemann HB9FPM) or Istra Contest Conference 2023 by 9A1P, where I gave a presentation on the topic "Ham Radio is not only for men".
I remember with great fondness being QRV at Club and Contest stations such as, DL0DM in Munich, RK1A in Petersburg, LZ9W in lovely Bulgaria or RC9O in Novosibirsk, Siberia.
Participating in the contests were a truly great experience, such as CQ WW 2019, CQ WPX 2019, CQ WPX SSB 2020 as single operator where I operated remotely from my flat in Russia! My best result (1 place) was in the Russian DX Contest 2022 as Single Operator All Bands.
I also learnt how to find Radio foxes (ARDF = Amateur Radio Direction Finding) and I have participated in competitions within this amazing, highly active kind of Radio sport in countries such as Russia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Finland and Norway!
As well as making QSO’s it has been a pleasure to design different QSL cards and the ELK Award, which I also manage. I will never forget my first Pile Up at the OH73ELK Shack in 2018, of course I was rather "confused" to start with when a lot of stations were all calling me at the same time but my guides Jukka, OH2BR and Boris, OH5ZZ helped me to manage this situation.
Ric, DL2VFR attracted me to portable operation and so I began a new aspect of Ham Radio, that being QRV/portable from many interesting outdoors locations, activations of nature protected areas, (OHFF-0091 was my first experience), summits (e.g. SOTA), lighthouses (e.g. activation ERU-007), castles... until my first real mini DXPedition to Maly Vysotsky Island (IOTA EU-117).
I dream of going on a real BIG DXpedition someday
