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DX and other challenging Skips |
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"Calling the AMs and MMs is nothing but a waste of time", one of my DX-friends recently declared, "They do not even count for DXCC!" Right, they do not even count for DXCC (and many other attractive awards and diplomas) - but is that really of so much importance? Compared with the rareness of entities on the DXCC Most-Wanted Lists, aeronautical-mobile stations (amateur-radio operators in airplanes: callsigns followed by /AM) belong to the so-called rare and maritime-mobile stations (amateur-radio operators on ships: callsigns followed by /MM) at least to the semi-rare category. Moreover, having a QSO with the two species is a thrilling event, and a lot of fun anyway. I think, contacting /AM- and /MM-stations is something out of the ordinary. A pity that only scarcely more than half of them send a QSL - as sort of a reward for enthusiasm. I'm eagerly collecting their QSLs since I started my amateur-radio activity. In this QSLhibition I'd like to show you a selection of the /AM- and /MM-cards so far received. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Be surprised by the variety of ships and vessels from where radio amateurs sent out their calls to contact their "terrestrial" friends: cargo and container ships, tankers, training ships with and without sails, simple sailing boats, ferries, destroyers and rocket cruisers (on peaceful mission, hopefully...), or simply a chartered boat to go on a far-away DXpedition in the South Atlantic and a river boat bound for an ecological expedition in the Russian north! Not to forget those maritime stations that are not really mobile at all... And those serving or having served the maritime-mobile service, and the many museum ships bearing testimony of a great past. By the way, the colours of the needles on the map (thanks to the DX Atlas software which made the maps possible!) correspond with the background colours of the QSLs and its description, and show the aircraft's or ship's approximate position during the contact. This collection will be continually completed. Hadi Teichmann, DJ2PJ |
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Abbreviations: C/S=Container Ship F/S="Feuerschiff", light vessel FT=factory trawler I/B=ice breaker L/S=light ship L/V=light vessel M/F=passenger ship M/S=motor ship M/T= motor tanker M/V=merchant or motor vessel P/V=polar vessel R/C=rocket cruiser R/S=research ship R/V=research vessel S/S=steam or sailing ship T/B=torpedo boat |
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| (A) Aeronautical-mobile Stations (/AM) |
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(B) Aviation History and its Pioneers - Astronauts and Cosmonauts
(C) Maritime-mobile Stations (/MM)
(D) Maritime - but not really mobile - Stations
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TM1SME and TM2SME |
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| QSO in 2006 on 28 MHz and 2007 on 18 MHz | ||
| Name of ship: E. E. "Maillé Brézé" (destroyer) | ||
| Flag: France | ||
| Position: Nantes Harbour (Museum Ship) |
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| DAØFX | 7SØSFJ | GB3RN | 8S8MTB |
| QSO in 2006 on 7 MHz | QSO in 2007 on 18 MHz | QSO in 2007 on 14 MHz | QSO in 2006 on 3.5 MHz |
| Name of ship: M/V Dresden | Name of ship: L/S Finngrundet (built 1903) | Name of ship: HMS Hood (Royal Navy) | Name of ship: T/B T26 |
| Flag: former German Democratic Republic | Flag: Sweden | Flag: Great Britain | Flag: Sweden |
| Position: 54°08.5N 12°05.2E (Museum Ship) | Former Position: 61°04N 18°41E, now in Stockholm | Position: IO9Øju (Museum Ship) | Position: Galö near Stockholm |
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| DLØFFF | 8SØHRA | UE3LAN | CS8DFG |
| QSO in 2007 on10 MHz | QSO in 2009 on 10 MHz | QSO in 2009 on 14 MHz | QSO in 2008 on 10 MHz |
| Name of ship: F/S "Fehmarnbelt" | Name of ship: I/B "Sankt Erik" | Museum of Admiral Nakhimov, born in 1802. Under his command the Russian fleet completely destroyed the Ottoman fleet in Sinop | Amateur radio station onboard the "D. Fernando II e Gloria", the last sailing fregate to serve in the Portuguese army in the 18th century |
| Flag: Germany | Flag: Sweden | ||
| Ex-Position: 54° 35'N 11° 09'E (now Museum Ship) | Position: The Vasa Museum, Stockholm | Position: Smolensk | Position: 38°12'N 009°09'W |
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| GB1ØØMSC | SN1ØØDP | SB56EN/MM | DFØMF |
| QSO in 2009 on 10 MHz | QSO in 2009 on 7 MHz | QSO in 2009 on 14 MHz | QSO in 2010 on 14 MHz |
| In commemoration of Jack Binns, wireless operator onboard RMS Republic, whose actions saved the lives of 1600 passengers in 1909 | Celebrating the 100th birthday of the "Dar Pomorza", one of the most beautiful tall ships in the world | Name of ship: Eric Nordevall II, a replica of the original Eric Nordevall, a paddle steamer sunk in 1856 in Lake Vättern, Sweden | Name of ship: L/V "Amrumbank", now serving as a lighthouse museum in the old harbour of Emden |
| Flag: Sweden | Flag. Germany | ||
| Position: Marconi Wireless Station, The Lizard, in Cornwall (IN79) | Position: The Polish Maritime Museum, Gdansk | Position: Motala Harbour | Ex-Position: 80 km north of Heligoland, later in the Deutsche Bucht (Heligoland Bight) |
(E) ... and those (once) serving maritime-mobile stations
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DLØDAN Club Station of the DARC celebrating 100 years (1907 - 2007) of the famous Radio Norddeich (commercial callsign DAN), which provided a 24-hour service on MF, HF and VHF in CW, phone, and teletype. Radio Norddeich was shut down at the end of 1998. |
GKB4 and GKB5 (Portishead Radio) | |
| cross-band maritime/amateur radio QSOs (GKB4: 7/8.5 MHz and GKB5: 14/12.8 MHz) on 29th April 2000, the last day of operation | ||
| "The World's Premier Maritime Radio Coast Station" | ||
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