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December 31st, 2003

	The HSC would like to wish all members and friends a Happy New Year 2004!
	In 2003, the HSC has welcome 19 friends of high speed keying as new members!
	Last call for the HSC Marathon: Only a few hours are remaining for the very last QSOs valid for the 2003 Marathon. Go on!

December 27th, 2003
The results of the HSC Contest from November 2003 are ready:

The winner in category 1 "HSC Members" are TA2DA (1597) (DX) and HA1CW (1744) (EU).
In category 2 "Non-Members" has won by OK1HX.
Winner of category 3 "QRP" is DK3UZ (1823).
The winner of the SWL category is one more time DE3JLU (1214). Therefore, OM Uwe again is the "HSC Contest Champion of the Year". Congratulations! OM Uwe receives a special award donated at the HSC member assembly to be held next spring in Erbenhausen, Germany.

Congratulations to all winners and participants! Everybody who has submitted the log to the HSC Contest Manager Lutz, DL3BZZ (1730) gets a special HSC Contest QSL Card via the bureau.

Only 58 HSC members out of 312 participants submitted their log to the Contest Manager. It could be more! We've logged stations of 53 different countries. See the detailed results in section Contests for download as PDF file. As mentioned earlier, the rules of the HSC Contest have been modified slightly, efdective 2004. See section Contest or download as PDF file for a detailed description of the changed rules.

Pirate: Martin, OK1RR (731) reports that his call sign is often pirated as OK1RR/QRP on 40 metres by a CW operator who gives "Jan" as his name and "nr Usti" as QTH. The genuine Martin Kradoska, OK1RR from Prague, is a 30-50 wpm operator and never uses QRP equipment/call.

December 24th, 2003

The HSC would like to wish all members and friends Merry Christmas!

The rules of the HSC contest have been altered slightly. Starting 2004, every QSO with a member of the HSC (founded 1951) counts 5 points. QSOs with nonmembers count 1 point per QSO. The result is the sum of all QSO points without further distinction of DX, EU or local QSOs.

December 15th, 2003
HSC-Marathon
Only two weeks are remaining for the HSC-Marathon. You have to work as much HSC members as possible within one calendar year. Complete your log by December 31st using the special Marathon tick sheet. You only have to fill in the date the QSOs took place. After that, send it to the Marathon Manager (Werner, DF5DD) by mail or E-Mail. Delete all blank lines and the file is getting much smaller.

The HSC welcomes as a new member OM Sico, YO6EX. Sico got membership number 1832.

November 29th, 2003
The very active OM Werner, DK6AP achieved the WHSC Sticker 7 MHz and ALLBAND. Therefore, he got all Stickers available for his WHSC Award No. 292. Congratulations!

November 6th, 2003
3B9C-DXpedition: Mid March 2004, a new DXpedition starts working from the Rodrigues Islands, 3B9. Participants are HSC members Jens, DL7AKC (1371) and Danny, MØGMT (1802). Their call sign 3B9C has been already assigned by the local authorities. The core team is just the same that has run the D68C DXpedition some time ago. For more details, see their web site at www.fsdxa.com/3b9c. We will keep you informed via our DX-Info site.

More news:

All participants at the HSC Contest and HSC Marathon will get a special QSL via the bureau. It shows the type of contest, your call sign and place.
The HSC membership list has been updated and is ready for download.

October 27th, 2003
HSC-Contest
Dear friends of morse telegraphy, on the 2nd of November the HSC-Contest will take place from 9 to 11 and 15 to 17 UTC. Please try to take part and motivate operators in your area to do the same! Since 1998 HSC rewards the "HSC Contestchampion Of The Year". To get this award you have to win both contests in the year. There is no need to stay within the same category. You may combine any categories (i.e. SWL in February contest and QRP in November contest). The winner receives a special award.

More news that came up in the past days:

Again, the HSC has grown: John, K1JD became HSC 1831. Welcome in the club!
OM Toni, DF9GK, has worked WHSC Award No. 365. Congrats, Toni!
Next Saturday, November 1st, HSC club station DLØHSC again transmits the monthly HSC-Bulletin. Listen at 15 UTC on 7.025 KHz (bulletin in english language) or at 21 Uhr UTC on 3.555 KHz (bulletin in german language).
The HSC membership list published on the Membership List section on this web site is being updated quarterly, only. If you'd like to get an up-to-date list containing really all new members (by now, up to HSC 1831) feel free to make your own incremental update by extracting new members out of the News section. Alternatively you may ask Alf, DL1TL (18) for a printed list, provided suitable postage is enclosed (SAE or SASE). Please send any inquiries to DL1TL via the HSC e-mail address shown on the lower left side.
Our e-mail address is no longer "clickable". Please write out the address. We have some troubles with spam, may be this helps.

October 20th, 2003
The news just reached the editor's desk:

Once again an OM has worked the WHSC Award. No. 364 has been issued to Norbert, DJ3TU (1789). Congratulations!
If you would like evaluating your HSC contest results with the LM software from DL8WAA (1391), you may use the special LM HSC contest file. It contains all HSC members LM formatted. Thanks to Ric, DL2SD (705).

October 14th, 2003
The HSC Award Manager issued WHSC Award No. 363 to OM Karl, DL1JFM (1816). Congrats, Karl!

By the way: It is only the fifth award that has been issued this year. But, indeed, the regulations for obtaining the WHSC Award are quite simple: Work 100 different HSC members of at least 10 DXCC countries using 3 different amateur bands. CW only, of course. Contest QSOs are valid, too! So come on guys, take a look at your logbook. More details see the Award section.

October 10th, 2003
Last call: The HSC-Marathon is a challenge to every active friend of morse telegraphy, to work as much HSC members as possible within one calendar year. The log must contain the members worked, his HSC membership number, QSO band and date. We are offering a special Marathon tick sheet (MS Excel formatted) for download in which you only have to fill in your QSO data. After completing the sheet, send it to the Marathon Manager (Werner, DF5DD) by mail or E-Mail. Delete all blank lines and the file is getting much smaller. See the The Marathon section for details.

Here are the most recent call sign changes:

After changing his call sign to YU1BL, Bano, ex YZ1MB (799), now uses YU1CC.
As you probably red in the guest book, OM Ebs, ex DL3KWA (1329), changed his call sign to DJ2EB.

September 22nd, 2003
See the fresh news we've just received!

Again HSC growths: OM Giuseppe "Joe", I2AZ became HSC 1829, and as member no. 1830 we welcome OM Jan, DL7JV. Welcome to the HSC!
Edi, ex-DJØZM has moved to his home in Austria. He plans to be QRV from there with his original call OE5OEL signing HSC membership number 663.
An updated Excel tick sheet is ready for download in section Marathon.
Fabian, DJ1YFK (1754) wrote us a small JAVA applet enabling you to search online for HSC members in the HSC membership database. Your browser should be JAVA-ready. See the Membership List section for more details.

September 11th, 2003
"Let your fingers talk..." might be the credo of two OM who have joined us just now: OM Steffen, DL4AKW becomes HSC 1827 and OM Mike, DL7UGN, is member no. 1828. Welcome to the club and have fun with morse telegraphy!

September 9th, 2003
New HSC member is OM Klaus, DL2SWN, 1826. Welcome to HSC! WHSC-Award No. 362 was granted to DL2PA (1788). Congrats! Kurt, DJ7ER (493) has been a silent key for a while, but we unfortunately got that information just now.

Here are some more changed call signs: Ex-PA3AAM, (862) is now PA3A, ex-PA3EYZ (1247) is PA4A and ex-PA5AX (569) holds now PA5V. Please let us know if you're considering about changing your call sign for that we can keep our files up-to-date. Membership lists can be requested from the HSC Secretary (SASE provided) or you can download the list from our home page.

August 18th, 2003
Here are some changes to the HSC membership list:

GØFJT (1581) holds also GWØFJT. LA5HE (194) hold also OZ8RO. SMØJHF (423) holds SO5JHF, too and also K6JHF, but he is no longer AA3DA.
OM Thomas, DL4NCM (1538) told us his new call sign DJ4NM. OM Jaap, PBØAJA (1632), wrote us, that he got the new call sign PC2J and PAØDIN (999) informed us, that PA4TU (1100), OM Joop, holds the new call sign PG4I.
OM Jozef, OM3HM / VE3HMD (158) and OM Peter DL5EBO (1284) are silent keys.

All changes are implemented in the recent HSC membership list.

July 21st, 2003

The HSC welcomes OM Scott, KA2ETG as member no. 1825. Welcome!
We recently could expand our HSC Oldtimer picture gallery. Thanks for digging in their QSL collections to Adi, DL3SZ (141), Eddi, DK3UZ (1823) and Alf, DL1TL (18). We are now looking for the QSL cards of 9 more HSC Oldtimers: DL3GP, HB9EL, G3EDA, DL1CS, DM4BH, DL1CX, DL5AR, DL3RM and HB9ET. Please contact us, if you can help via e-mail!

June 20th, 2003

This year's HAM RADIO in Friedrichshafen, Germany, will be held from 27th to 29th June 2003. Again, the HSC will be at the fairground. You'll find us in hall 2, booth 302. There you can meet HSC members and officials, get new membership lists, HSC stickers, pins and HSC mousepads.

A small picture gallery showing the HSC Oldtimer is online again. The gallery contains scanned QSL cards from OPs of the HSC's very first beginning back in 1951. For some OPs, pictures are available, too. But unfortunately we do not have scanned QSL cards from all these OP. If you can help, please let us know! Here are some more news that came up in the past days:

Marek, VK6DXI (830), noticed us, that he holds the following valid call signs, too: VX2DXI, VK3DXI, 9M8DX, 7XØDX and SP5IXI.
The HSC regrets, that YO2BU (488) is a silent key.

May 29th, 2003
The HSC welcomes OM Kevin, MØAGA as member no. 1824.

May 27th, 2003
HSC Bulletin: Every first Saturday of each month, HSC Club Station DLØHSC broadcasts the monthly HSC Bulletin. The broadcast starts at 15 UTC on 7,025 KHz. After it is finished, ZAP traffic will take place. This gives you the opportunity to work the special DOK HSC, valid for German DLD Award. Take a look at the new Club Station section for learning more.

Next HSC Bulletin is on June 7th, 2003. At this date, IARU Region 1 CW Fieldday is on the air. Take the opportunity and let us hear from you! Here's some more news:

OM Julian, ex-YO9AGM (684) has moved to Canada, his new call sign is VE2AWW.
The Board of Directors of our French UFT telegraphy friends was reelected. Our member Norbert, F6AXX (1216) was elected for Vice President of UFT. For more details see their web site at http://www.uft.net .

May 15th, 2003
We have some news regarding the HSC Contest: Some logs sent via E-Mail to the HSC Contest Manager obviously didn't arrived. Contest participants have wondered about that they didn't appear in the results list. As a prevention to that, we have implemented new regulations:

The HSC Contest Manager (Lutz, DL3BZZ) confirms via e-mail every single log he reveived via e-mail. Only confirmed e-mail logs are valid for the contest results evaluation!

This gives the participants the opportunity to make an inquiry if an e-mailed log fails. The same rules apply to the HSC Marathon. Please have in mind, that this does not affect logs sent by snail mail. By the way: In the past, the HSC Contest Manager has reported the incoming logs on his home page including those sent by mail.
Here's another topic: We have added some call signs to the recent Erbenhausen 2003 Picture Gallery. This is possibly interesting for those who didn't attend the meeting. Take a look at the eyeball QSO partners you've missed...
May 7th, 2003

OM Eddi, DK3UZ, has become HSC member no. 1823! Welcome to HSC.
It was already one year ago, that QSL.NET has hosted the HSC Web Site. We would like to thank the guys around Al Waller for granting us the web space as well as the work they've done in the past to keep the system running.

May 1st, 2003

Heinz Peter Niksch, DL4FCH (1792), has worked the WHSC Stickers 3,5 + 7 and ALLBAND. Congrats!
In section Picture Gallery you'll find some pictures taken at the CW-Meeting 2003 in Erbenhausen, Germany.
Uli, DL2HBX (1205) told us, that he currently lives in Detroit, MI (USA). There he's QRV as KK8I.
HSC-Marathon: The HSC has been asked to change the HSC Marathon rules that way, that contest QSOs are not valid for the Marathon log. After some discussions (member query via E-Mail and Erbenhausen meeting) a vast majority of members stated, that the rules should be left unchanged. Therefore, contest QSOs are still valid for the HSC Marathon.
WHSC Award : The HSC Award Manager announced, that electronic QSL cards (i.e. via E-Mail) are not valid for the WHSC Award.

April 24th, 2003
Here are the winners of the HSC Contest of February 23rd, 2003:

HSC member category: DF5ZV (1765)
DX category: EA8/DJ1OJ (368)
Non member category: DL8KWS
QRP category: DF6AR
SWL category: DE3JLU

Congratulations to the winners! Every participant, who have submitted his log to the Contest Manager Lutz, DL3BZZ (1730), will receive a special confirmation card containing call sign and place via the bureau. For the results in detail, you may take a look at the website of the Contest Manager or just in section Contests.
Here are some more news of the past weeks:

OM Hans, DL9SUB, became HSC member no. 1822. Welcome!
Fabian, DJ1YFK (1754), have won the Deutschen Telegrafie Pokal (DTP). The competition was held on the CW meeting in Erbenhausen, Germany, from April 11th to 14th 2003.
In a couple of days you will find a gallery showing pictures taken at the Erbenhausen CW Meeting. By the way, in 2004 there will a CW weekend, too. Date is April 16th to 18th 2004.

April 1st, 2003
You may take a look at the new HSC Webforum. It has been installed as an additional offer according to the HSC guestbook. You may ask questions, give some hints and kinks, start discussions or anything else you would like to mention. Please have the unwritten laws of ham spirit in mind. Here are some more news:

DL2MEH (1579) got his new call sign DJ5MW.
OM Bero, Ex-YU2KR (361) was inactive for a couple of years. From now on he's back on the air with his new call sign 9A5KR. We have restored him in our files as member no. 361.

March 17th, 2003

The HSC welcomes again two new members: OM Ralf, DK9PS is HSC 1820 and OM Artur, SP3CW became HSC 1821. Welcome to HSC!
The HSC regrets that OM Jack, G3BKF (149) is SK.
The section FAQ was updated.

February 25th, 2003

UL7CT (509) has changed his call sign. His new one is UN5C.
Here is a little hint for our English speaking friends: If you would like this web site to come up with the English speaking pages, just click on this link and bookmark it!

February 18th, 2003
Take a look at the results of HSC Marathon 2002! The HSC would like to congratulate 9A5I (527), who has won once again the HSC Marathon. Also, DF4BV (1721) as second and DL4CF (1259) as third have done a great job. See the Marathon section (bottom) for more details or just click the link above. In 2002, 39 friends of high speed morse telegraphy have submitted their log to the Marathon Manager. This is more than twice as much, compared to the last years. As mentioned earlier, everybody who has submitted a log, receives a special Marathon-QSL as confirmation via QSL bureau. See bottom of section Marathon.
Please don't forget the upcoming HSC Contest next Sunday, February 23rd, 2003. As usual, the contest is divided into two parts: First part from 9 to 11 UTC, second from 15 to 17 UTC. For more information, see section Contests.

Last, but not least we have to announce some more news:

Growth in membership doesn't stop at all! As mentioned earlier on this web site, young amateurs find the way to morse telegraphy and, one more time, to the HSC: 15 year old "YM" Benny, DJ5BG, is member no. 1819. HSC also welcomes OM Minko, LZ1XL as member no. 1818.
The HSC regrets, that OM Franz, DL7AB (1433) became SK two weeks ago.

February 12th, 2003
Here's the lastest HSC news ticker:

OM Ralf, DK9PS has worked WHSC award no. 361. Congrats!
Vlad, UTØFT (1251), told us that he also holds call sign UW2F. He takes part in contests since May 2001 under this second call sign.
Our member Rudi, DK5OS (724) has changed his call sign to DL3FF.
If you like to work the WHSC award, here's some news: Our three club stations DLØHSC, DKØHSC and DAØHSC count per band and QSO on short wave 2 points and on VHF/UHF 3 points.

January 28th, 2003

Again the HSC has won a new fried of high speed keying: OM Clay, IKØXCB received membership no. 1817.
Hurry now and submit your HSC Marathon log to the Award Manager. Deadline is January 31st, 2003.
How to cover expenses for HSC awards, membership certificate and webshop items: Residents within the EURO currency area and those who can get EURO without major problems should send EURO for covering the expenses. US$ are considered for DX stations and residents who might have serious difficulties to get EURO. Please do not take this as an opportunity to get rid of your IRCs.

January 20th, 2003

Again HSC welcomes a new member: OM Karl, DL1JFM received membership certificate no. 1816.
Like the years before, we would like to invite you to the CW Weekend in Erbenhausen, Germany. The event takes place from April 11th to April 13th, 2003. Please read the invitation for more details (German language only).

January 15th, 2003

The first two new members in 2003 became OM Ove, OZ4OC, HSC 1814 and OM Palo, OM2NW, HSC 1815. Like many others before, they escaped from the usurper. Welcome to HSC!
Our member Piotr, LA9HFA (965) has moved to Sweden. He's QRV under his new call sign SM7YEA. Piotr keeps his norwegian call sign since he is QRV from there occasionally. So don't wonder if you hear LA9HFA giving you HSC no. 965!
A request to our members: If your call sign has changed or if you find errors in our membership lists, please drop us a line via E-Mail so that we can keep it up-to-date. We also appreciate a note, if you know someone is SK.
Our infoletters (Acrobat PDF) in section Versus "HSC e.V." are now available in Italian and Croatian language, too. Thanks to DF4TS and 9A8W.

January 6th, 2003

Dear friends, take a little time and make your exploitation of your 2002 log for the HSC Marathon 2002. For this long term contest you have to work HSC members in 2-way CW-QSOs within one calendar year.
Every radio amateur who submits his log receives a special HSC Marathon certificate. Logs must be submitted to the HSC Award Manager until January, 31st of the subsequent year. For details see Marathon.
WHSC award no. 359 has been worked by new member DL8COG (1813). WHSC no. 360 has been awarded to HSC Contest Manager, Lutz, DL3BZZ (1730). Lutz has submitted QSOs with 845 points. He did not only worked the basic award, but also all stickers at one blow. Congratulation to both OM!

January 1st, 2003
From now on, most content of this web site is also available in English language. If you read this, you've just found the way to the English speaking pages. Enjoy!

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