The Year 2025 is a wrap!
The year 2025 was an exiting year again on the DX and Contest side. There are a few days left, but nothing major planned anymore. This is also the sum of 30 years in the hobby!
More than 30.000 QSOs made it int the log 2025:
On the DX end I made 1243 DXCC slots with 219 different DXCC’s.
The usual map:
My total DXCC Standings:
This is a plus of 26 DXCC slots towards the 2500 sticker. Still work to do.
Newest DXCC is Wake island – my number 333!
A new award from the ARRL arrived 200 DXCC on 3 modes:
More info on this – click here!
The wall of got some small upgrades:
More details on my WOF are here!
One of the greatest highlights of all time was the school project with a QO-100 contact to DP0GVN.
More infos on this event are here!
How did the contesting game go this year?
CQ WPX RTTY 2025 @ LX7I is World #13 in February
CQ WPX SSB 2025 @ CQ3W is World #1 Cassic in March
The Series CQ WW DIGI, CQ WW RTTY and CQ WW SSB have one thing in common! All three are not official yet, but it looks like I missd the world number one spot on all three by a very small margin!
CQ WW DIGI @ LX7I is Europe #1 with new blasting new Europe Record!
CQ WW CW @ DX Hotel is top 10 Germany and a lot of fun with 1.000 QSOs.
It was a fun year with a lot of great memory to be kept!
One of them of cours beeing on a Q5 Interview after Madeira.
I wrote all my memorys for 30 Years of Hamradio into one small book.
From CB to DXCC Honor roll in 30 years.
I wish all of you a great holiday season and a good start into the 2026 hamradio year!
Hope to see you on many contests 2026!
Already planned:
CQ WPX SSB @ CQ3W
CQ WW SSB @ CQ3W
CQ WW CW @ DX Hotel
Most Likley LX7I for RTTY and WW DIGI again
A BIG thanks to my family to let me escape 10x per year for contesting!
Thanks to the station owners CR3W and LX2A who let me use their stations again.
Thanks again for all the QSOs and hope to catch you again.
73
Helmut DF7EE . .
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