Contesting

I used to participate a lot in most major contests but have retired from contesting in the last years. My favorite contest has always been the CQWW CW - operating either as Single Operator Assisted or Multi Single. And we operated the IARU HF Championship Contest for the HQ station DA0HQ from 2003 to 2013 (mostly 20m CW but 40m CW in 2006 and 2007) and again 2018/2019. There were guests or friends from time to time operating the DF3CB station.

We have achieved several top scores in various contests and categories. I held the German CQWW CW Single Operator Allband Assisted record and took part in several contest DXpeditions, e.g. at LX8A, LX7A (European Multi/Multi CQWW Record Phone and CW in 1989) and CN8WW (CQWW World Record Multi/Multi Phone and CW).

IARU HF Championship Contest 2009 DA0HQ 20m CW Bernd, DF3CB (left) and Mario DJ2MX (right)		IARU HF Championship Contest 2010 DA0HQ 20m CW Bernd, DF3CB and Fabian, DJ1YFK
Tobi DH1TW in WAE DX Contest CW 2003		Frequent visitors Tom, DL4MCF (left) and Mario, DJ2MX (front) operating WPX Contest CW 2003 each 20m and 15m single band