Processing all 75FREE QSLs

It took a while for the fourteen thousand 75FREE QSL cards to be printed but at the beginning of August the boxes arrived. As you can imagine they form a considerable weight together.

The printer we worked with was able to print the QSO details based on our log data - very convenient. This saves us the time we spent after previous operations when we used printed stickers. Applying a dozen stickers is not an issue but when you have to process thousands of cards it take a lot of time.

We have dropped off all the bureau cards at the Dutch QSL bureau and sent off most of the direct cards. The last few will be sent this week.

We hope you appreciate the card and look forward to working you from our next activity.

75 FREE event - top chasers and awards

The P*75FREE event has ended. It was fun to organise. COVID-19 limited us in team events but the activity level was high - much higher than 5 years ago. Sporadic E in late May helped to increase the fun.

We logged 25.000 QSOs with 13.000 different stations in 137 DXCC. This has resulted in more than 400 awards. OH2YV secured the first place early on and went for an almost theoretical maximum. However the final weekend was exciting with all the top chasers scoring 10 or more points to try to claim a higher spot. 

The following operators deserve a special mention for working all ten different FREE calls:  IK2TTJ, F5NEP and M0ILT.

Well done all! It was a pleasure seeing so many familiar calls on the various bands and modes.

Final awards have been generated and can be downloaded below - including the special awards for the TOP 15. We will now order QSL cards and send them out as soon as possible.

The P*75FREE team thanks all chasers for joining the event. Stay FREE!

Top chasers 

Final update (June 1):

Overall			Outside EU
Pos	Call	Pts	Pos	Call	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 11 12 13 13 15 15	OH2YV IK2TTJ 9A6W F5NEP EA1LT OM1AX 9A3KG IK2ULS YO6CFB IK6IHU R6AF DL1EJG OZ1BUR SP2PBY HB9OAU F6COW	117 104 98 97 74 69 68 59 57 57 55 50 48 48 46 46	1 2 3 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 12 12 14 14	4Z4DX PP7DX N4MM VE3XN W9OO RX9WN EA8WU K2VV KF2O W9RF UN7IT KB1EFS VE3AT 4Z5UY RY9C	43 31 28 28 27 26 25 21 20 18 18 16 16 15 15

Apart from the top 15 the following operators reached the gold level (in scoring order): IW2OGW, IK2UCL, OE6WIG, OM3CND, MI0GOZ, M0ILT, ON4CB, OM5KM, YO3JW, OM5CM, IK2YXH, EC1A, HA6VH, SP4NKU, DL5BK, F4VSD, SP8BJU, YU7NW, OK4RQ, M0BMX, EA3IM, SP3J, OH3GZ, E77O, F6HIA, HA5KY, SP2EWQ, OK1MTA, OK1DSN, IW2KIC, 9A1WW, OK2PDE, 2E0MNG and ON4LN.

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Awards

If you managed to reach an award level (bronze, silver, gold), you can download an award here by entering your base callsign (without "/"). Single awards will download as JPEG, multiple awards as ZIP.

To request an SWL award please check our SWL rules.

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Event data

The database contains more than 25.000 QSOs with 13.000 chasers from 137 DXCC.

LX44FF plan, award and QSL

The LX44FF operating plan as executed:

• Saturday: LXFF-0049 - LXFF-0050 - LXFF-0059 - LXFF-0045
• Sunday: LXFF-0022 - LXFF-0052 - LXFF-0029

Special LX44FF Awards are only valid for the activity by YNOMY on May 20 & 21, 2017

Info about the awards: click here

Special LX44FF QSLs can be requested through ClubLog OQRS. Logs have been uploaded. To check if you are in the log and to request a QSL card, enter your call here:
https://secure.clublog.org/logsearch/LX44FF

If you have any questions, contact us via ynomy.dx@gmail.com

A successful PA45FREEDOM activity

The whole month of May we operated a series of special call signs commemorating 70 years of freedom with WW2 ending in May 1945.

The series consisted of 8 calls running from PA45FREE up till PH45FREE. We also used PA45FREEDOM during one weekend (refer to our previous post).

The team consisted of PA1WBU, PA3BAS, PA3FYG, PB7Z, PD7YY, PE1BVQ, PE4BAS, PG8M and PH0NO.

We managed to log more than 11.000 contacts with almost 6.500 different operators in 117 DXCC.

This is more than we expected and means we have a lot of QSLs to send out. The QSLs arrived this week and will be processed by the station manager of PG8M.

PA45FREEDOM QSLs

QSLs being stamped

Ready for transport to the QSL bureau

PA45FREEDOM - a weekend at Winssen

The weekend of May 16 & 17 we planned to gather most of the P*45FREE operators in Winssen on a camping place we already used before during the PACC contest this year. 

The idea was to activate a special group call PA45FREEDOM on several bands simultaneously during the weekend.

YNOMY was present with PD7YY (PD45FREE), PG8M (PG45FREE) and PH0NO (PH45FREE). We were joined by PA1WBU (PA45FREE), PA3BAS (PB45FREE) and PA3FYG (PC45FREE).

Temporary shacks of  Hans PC45FREE and Bas PB45FREE (to the left of the picture)

Bas PA3BAS had not been able to work a lot of stations using his own special callsign (PB45FREE), so he used that call from Winssen. The others operated PA45FREEDOM.

Main shack with two running stations 40m-6m

We used up to five different radios in parallel. Hans PA3FYG and Bas PA3BAS operated from two different corners of the field, the others were operating in or (weather permitting) around the mobile home we rented for the weekend. We used wire antennas, a 6m beam, a 2m beam and a hexbeam.

Even with band filters we did have to fight some interference between the stations but during this weekend PA45FREEDOM managed to log 1331 calls from 1237 different operators in 69 different DXCC.

Although the weather was not as we hoped for (cloudy with some rain) - we did enjoy the field-day-mandatory-BBQ. 

PG8M providing the necessary food

Celebrating 70 years of freedom with Special Event Stations

Within the YNOMY DX Group an idea was born at the beginning of this year to place special attention on this year's WW2 liberation celebrations as we have been living in peace here now for 70 years. 

70 years ago the allied forces liberated The Netherlands from Nazi rule, ending the second world war five years after it started. The southern part of The Netherlands was liberated in the autumn of 1944, while the northern part was only liberated in the spring of 1945.

On May 4, 1945 the German forces formally capitulated to the British Field Marshall Montgomery. The capitulation was effective the next day.

We therefore celebrate the end of WW2 for the whole of the country on May 5 every year ("bevrijdingsdag").

We were thinking of activating a range of special calls during the month of May with a group of operators. The range P*45FREE (PA-PH) was chosen after some debate. We also planned a group activity in the middle of the month with a special group call PA45FREEDOM.

We asked around and were able to organise a team of 9 operators that were supportive of the idea and willing to play a role in it by applying for and activating one of the special calls. The team consists of PA1WBU, PA3BAS, PA3FYG, PB7Z, PD7YY, PE1BVQ, PE4BAS, PG8M and PH0NO.  

So we are moving from an idea to a whole range of special event stations that will be active during the month of May 2015.

In the mean time we have designed a special QSL card and are in the process of designing an award. This electronic award can be obtained free of charge when an OM or SWL has collected 45 points. Each P*45FREE counts for 9 points and the PA45FREEDOM call counts for 18 points towards the award.

Hope you will have a chance to work several of our stations.