SP DX Club
The Long Distance Radio Communication Club of Poland
SP DX Contest 2009. Final Results. The final results of the SP DX Contest 2009 were during the annual Meeting of the SP DX Club. The results are published at http://www.spdxcontest.info/.
SP DX Club Meeting 2009. This year the annual SP DX Club Meeting took part on September 25 - 27 in "Ameliowka" - a hotel placed near Kielce. As we were celebrating our 50th Anniversary we had a very special guest - Roger Western G3SXW.
50th Jubilee of the SP DX Club. In 2009 the SP DX Club is celebrating 50th Anniversary. It was founded in 1959. The first statute of the SPDXC was approved on June 9, 1959. The founders were: Roman Izykowski SP7HX (SK), Julian Jarzombek SP3PL, Edward Kawczyński SP8CK (SK), Krzysztof Słomczyński SP5HS and Alfons Strzelecki SP2AP (SK).
Special event station SP50DXC (SP fifty DXC) is active on May 28 - June 30 on all bands/modes. The operators are: SP7ASZ, SP7CVW, SP7IIT, SP7LFT and SP7TF. QSL via SP7DQR. All QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW.
The SP DX Contest 2009 takes place on April 4 - 5. It is a 24 hours event: starts on Saturday at 15:00 UTC, ends on Sunday at 15:00 UTC. Stations from outside Poland work only stations located in Poland. We do hope to hear your call in the SP DX Contest 2009!
SP DX Contest Rules have not changes since the last year. But please read the rules (they are translated into many languages) before the contest. Traditionally there are special awards/plaques sponsored by Polish HAMs. Please visit http://www.spdxcontest.info/ for details.
The final results of the SP DX Contest 2008 were presented on October 18 during the annual Meeting of the SP DX Club. The SP DX Contest 2008 was a Jubilee Contest. We were celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the first edition of the contest. Thanks to all participants for being a part of our very special HAM radio event. The results are published at http://www.spdxcontest.info/. All awards and plaques as well as special awards were sent to the winners. The last batch of award was sent in the middle of March.
The SP DX Contest was organized for the first time in 1933 and was called The 1st International Polish Amateur Radio Union Contest that time. It gained over 1000 participants - stations which appeared in the contest. In the final results there are 344 calls from 36 countries outside Poland and 36 Polish stations. The organization of the first edition was provided by the Amateur Radio Club of Lvov (Lvov, now in Ukraine, was part of Poland that time). In 1963, the contest officially changed its name to the SP DX Contest. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of organization of the first edition of the competition, one of the oldest HAM contest events, a special award will be issued: SP DX Contest - 75th Anniversary Award. The award is issued by Polish Amateur Radio Union and SP DX Club in co-operation with the Amateur Radio Club of Lvov. Visit http://www.spdxcontest.info/ for details about the Contest and about the Anniversary Award.
Slawek SP2JMB is flying to Mauritius on 25th March and then he is moving to Rodiriguez and he will be active on bands as 3B9/SP2JMB (SP DX Contest included). Starting from 9th April he will be active from Mauritius as 3B8/SP2JMB. QSL info is via home call SP2JMB.
Witek SP9MRO and Marian SP9CTT are going to be active (17th April - 5th May) as respectively 6V7K and 6V7J from Senegal. Activity on CW, SSB, PSK and RTTY on HF bands. They will be using 500W power aplifier, 3 element beam for 20/15/10 meters, Titanex on 160, 80 and 40 meters and wire antennas. Other members of this expedition are Danusia SP9SX (SP9MRO XYL) and Chris - SP9MRO's son, who is also a doctor of the expedition. QSL for 6V7J via SP9CTT. QSL for 6V7K via SP9SX.
Leszek SP3DOI and Robert SP5XVY were active from Papeete, French Polynesia (FO/SP3DOI, FO/SP5XVY) on their way back home from the VP6DX DXpedition. Leszek was active for a week, Robert for about two weeks. Now they are both back home.
Chris A45XR (SP5EXA) started his activity on 30 meters. The band became available for HAMs in Oman at the begining of February. Chris is very active on 30 meters, every day giving "new one" for many HAMs. He receives many "am I in the log" e-mails. As he is not able to answer all of them on-line log was published at http://www.a45xr.spdxc.org/. This log includes 30 meter contacts only.
From June 25 to July 6 Wojtek SQ4MP and Michael G7VJR will be active from Jan Mayen (JX). They are going to take Elecraft K2/100 and backup TRX, two 10m high verticals for 40 - 12 m, Yagi for 6m, vertical for 40m and 30m. Activity on CW and SSB. More info at http://sq4mp.republika.pl/ and http://www.jx08.eu/.
Slawek SP2JMB flies to Mauritius on March 25. He will be active as 3B8/SP2JMB. Next he moves to Rodriguez Is. and will be active as 3B9/SP2JMB on April 1 - 8. On April 9 he comes back to 3B8 for the next a few days activity as 3B8/SP2JMB.
Slawek SP2JMB and Kazik SP2FAX will be active as EA8/homecall In February 12 - 19.
Team of Polish HAMs (SP3IPB, SQ3WN, SP6IXF, SP7VC) will be active from FS and FJ. Operating period: February 14 - 27, 2008. The first two or three days they will be active as FS/home_call (NA-105), and next they will move to FJ (NA-146) and will be active as FJ/home_call. Their website with on-line log will be prepared after the DXpedition.
Leszek SP3DOI and Robert SP5XVY are members of the VP6DX DXpedition (http://www.vp6dx.com/). It is going to be really great event - visit the webstite to read about the planned operation camps and equipment...
Members of the SP DX Club: WOjtek SP9PT, Marek SP9BQJ and Jacek SP5EAQ, together with Jozek SP9-3129 were active (CW, SSB, RTTY) from Chatham Island on October 5 - 18, 2007. The calls were: ZL7/SP5EAQ, ZL7/SP9BQJ and ZL7/SP9PT. They operated from the Awarakau Farmstays (http://www.awarakaufarmstays.co.nz/).
The yacht JOSEPHINE with the Polish Team 3B6SP had real problems about 17 nautical miles South from St. Brandon. On Wednesday June 6 one of the engines broke down. There were also serious problems with sails. Fishing vessel COVADIS had to help them to get to St. Brandon. It was decided they must wait 12 days to repair the yacht. Soon after that they got the permission to operate from St. Brandon and they got new call-sign: 3B7SP. So the place of the DXpedition suddenly changed. They are active as 3B7SP on bands right now. QSL via SP9SX. Their website: http://3b6.godx.eu/.
We have the pleasure to inform that Chris SN7Q (SP7GIQ) - member of the SP DX Club - won the first place in Europe in the CQ WW RTTY Contest 2006 (Single OP, All Band, HP).Congratulations!
We are very glad to inform that Kaz SN2B (SP2FAX) - member of the SP DX Club - is the world winner in the CQ WW WPX CW Contest 2006. He participated in SINGLE OPERATOR HIGH POWER 160m. His score, 323.140 points, is a new world record in the category. Congratulations, Kaz!
Chris SP7GIQ (SN7Q) and Kaz SP2FAX (SN2B, SO2R) were representing Poland during the WRTC 2006 in Florianopolis, Brazil. Their WRTC call was PW5B. Unfortunately the receivers in both their transceivers failed before the start of the contest. They were able to repair only one. So their score was accomplished with a suboptimal configuration. Their final score is 1.769.625 points which gave them the 16th place.
The SP DX Club station SP0DXC won the first place in the world in the CQ/RJ WW WPX Contest 2006 in Multi-Two category. The final score is: 7.554.326 points (QSOs: 2554, QSO points: 10019, multiplier: 754). The contest operators of the SP0DXC were: Krzysztof SP1DID, Donata SP5HNK, Witek SP5LCC, Jozek SP5MBQ, Tomek SP5UAF, Rafał SP7EKL, Krzysztof SP7GIQ, Krzysztof SP7MTF, Marek SQ5BPM, Jacek SQ5EBJ, Kasia SQ5NBQ. The operation took place from the wonderful QTH of Chris SP7GIQ/SN7Q.
We have many young operators, mostly members of WWYC in our team. Two members are YLs (SP5HNK and SQ5NBQ who are sisters). So we do hope that HAM Radio has promising future in Poland.
Members of the SP DX Club (Leszek SP3DOI and Jurek SP3GEM) operated from Andamans. They were members of the German-Polish team: VU4AN/VU3NZC - Leszek SP3DOI, VU4AN/VU3RWN - Jerzy SP3GEM, VU4AN/VU3RYB - Sigi DL7DF, VU4AN/VU3RYG - Janusz SP3CYY and VU4AN/VU3SIE - Manfred DK1BT.
Leszek SP3DOI (member of the SP DX Club) operated Ghana at the end March and first days of April 2006. The call-sign was 9G5LF. Leszek made 6500 QSOs during his 7 day long stay in Ghana. He took part in the SP DX Contest giving a lot of POlish Hams a chance to work 9G on new bands or modes or as a completely new country.
Robert SP5XVY was a memebr of the 3Y0X DXpediton to Peter I Island. The SP DX Club is one of the Emperor Level Sponsors of the DXpedition (more than 1500 USD).