his is what my WSJT-X looked like:

It has been really fun to work 6 meters in the last few days and today I have almost as many QSOs in the log as in the whole of 2024. And this despite the fact that conditions on shortwave are anything but good. We’ve had a lot of turbulence in the atmosphere recently.

Source DXHeat 14:30 UTC June 3rd.

These stations heard me this afternoon:

Source: https://pskreporter.info/pskmap.html

Band QSOs Pts WPX
14        20      32   18
21        20      34   19
28        20      50    19
Total  60    116    56

Score : 6.496

As usual here the QSO map

In the year 2024 i made 2194 QSO on shortwave and VHF / UHF from my home QTH. Thats much more than the year 2023.

I made

Band    Number of QSO´s DXCC

160          239                               34

80            163                               32

60             59                                10

40           132                               36

30             61                                32

20          310                                58

17            25                                 12

15          377                                 54

12           102                                48

10         633                                  79

6           87                                    29

4            10                                      5

2          23                                       4

0,7      17                                       3

0,23     2                                        1

Distribution of modes over all bands:

CW     1055

SSB     379

FM     0

FT4    2

FT8    444

RTTY  313

SSTV 0

DSTAR 1

According to my Clublog statistics i worked 118 different DXCC Entities

So, thats my result:

Band   QSOs   Pts   S-P   DXCC
28          67      268   18        12
Score : 8.040

As usual here the map with the distribution of QSO´s:

I even managed to work a new QRP DXCC! ZF Cayman Island.

Here is my result:

Band    QSOs    Pts    ZN    Cty
1,8        10         9       3         8
3,5        20        21      3        15
7            10        14      4         9
14          50        99    11       22
21          50        90    11       17
28         50       113    15       19
Total   190      346   47      90

Score : 47.402

Sad fact: i missed a KL7 station on 10 meters witch would be an new band point on 10.

Here is the QSO Map:

The map was created with http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/.

Here is my result:

Band QSO QSOs Pts
14       23         23    24
21       21         21     26
28       31         31     32
Total 75          75     82

Total Score : 6.150

As usual my QSO map:

So sad i still missing my LW antenna for 40 and 80. But i guess there will be no chance to put it up again for the WW CW test.

On Saturday, November 9, 1974, I went to the Oberpostdirektion in Frankfurt to take an examination for the amateur radio license. I passed the exam and was assigned the call DC6ZF. I was 18 years old at the time and that was the age required to get an amateur radio license.

So that was the moment it all began. I had my first QSO that very afternoon with Joachim, then still DC0ZJ, (now DF3FF) on 144 MHz in SSB.

As far as i can remember this picture should show my first rig:

At the very back was the Heathkit HW-101, which I already had at the time, and in the middle was the Goetting HG-70 A, with which this first QSO was made. I can’t remember what the radio in the foreground was for. The table on which the appliances stand is still in my shack.

With my C license at the time, I was only allowed to operate on the VHF and UHF bands. I started on 144 MHz and later also became QRV on 432 MHz. Most QSOs were made in SSB mode. It’s a bit hard to keep track of but in the 8 years under DC6ZF I made about 3250 QSOs.

In February 1982 I was back at the OPD Frankfurt to take my CW exam, which was a prerequisite for working on shortwave. My current callsign DL8ZAJ was assigned to me at that time. So im am on shortwave for 42 years now. Since then I have made more than 61000 QSOs from home under DL8ZAJ.

For information about activity outside my shack please see my QSZ.com place:  https://www.qrz.com/db/DL8ZAJ

Here is my result:

Band   QSOs    Pts    ZN    Cty
28      100      219    13     30
Total  100      219    13     30

Score : 9.417

As usual my QSO map:

The map was created with http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/.

Here are my results:

Band   QSOs   Pts DXC
3,5      11          15     3  Antenna was only a short peace of wire matched with my SG 230 smarttuner

14        20        48    14

21        20        70    15

28       20        76      9

Total  71     209      41

Score : 8.569

Here a map of the QSO´s:

The map was created with http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/.

So here are the results I got:

Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty SP
3,5       4         7     2    4
7           2        4     2     2
14       35       89    8    16  12
21       22      56    13    12    5
28       45      131  14    12  16
Total 108    287  39  46   33

Score : 33.866

Here is the corresponding QSO map. The map was created with http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/.

I am happy with this year’s result considering I was missing two antennas.