After a long wait, here is finally results for Pirate Hunt 2024 - DX-Contest! Thanks to everyone who participated. Diplomas will be sent by email in the next few days!

Results:

Pirate hunt 2024 will be held during Easter 2024 (March 29th – April 1st).

We try to keep rules simple:

• This contest is "Just for fun"! No need to argue.
• SDR's included remote receivers; Kiwi etc. are allowed!
• all bands are accepted but only stations without license are counted (no relays by legal stations) Stations with many names shall be counted only once.
• log as many PIRATE stations as possible between March 29th 0000 UTC and April 1st. 2359 UTC
• ID has to be heard or identification should be otherwise confirmed. QSL or recording is not necessary.
• post your full logs on forum (http://bbs.fmdx.tk/index.php?topic=636.0), PirateHuntDX Facebook group or by e-mail piratehunt @ radioaktiiviset.info, during or after the contest (but until May 21st, 2024)
• participating is free for anyone and all participants will receive a diploma later
• results will be published in end of May
• Arguing about the contest rules will automatically result in a disqualification


Pirate Hunt 2024 is organized by a local radio club Sisä-Suomen Radioaktiiviset (Radioactives of Middle Finland)
Like Our Page in Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/PirateHuntDX

Twitter Community: https://twitter.com/i/communities/1641702888484360192

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Radioactives/Radioaktiiviset

After a long wait, here is finally results for Pirate Hunt 2023 - DX-Contest! Thanks to everyone who participated. Diplomas will be sent by email in the next few days!

Results:

1. Jouni Kilpinen, Finland 51
2. Lars Jeppesen, Sweden 50
3. Klaus Fuchs, Germany 46.
4. Risto Harjula, Finland 44
5. Mikael Sjöberg, Sweden 39
6. Kari Kallio, Finland 31
7. Konstantin Barsenkov, Russia 28
8. Luis Alejandro, Mexico 26
9. Pekka Sorjonen, Finland 21
10. Hugo Matten, Belgium 20
11. Hans Gosdschan, Germany 16
12. Jan-Mikael Nurmela, Finland 13
13. Stéphane Morice, France 12
14. Hans-Joachim Pellin, Germany 10
15. Patrick Robic, Austria 9
15. Janne Heinikangas, Finland 9
16. Robert Kipp, Germany 1

Pirate hunt 2023 will be held during Easter 2023 (April 7th – April 10th).

We try to keep rules simple:

• This contest is "Just for fun"! No need to argue.
• SDR's included remote receivers; Kiwi etc. are allowed!
• all bands are accepted but only stations without license are counted (no relays by legal stations) Stations with many names shall be counted only once.
• log as many PIRATE stations as possible between April 7th 0000 UTC and April 10th 2359 UTC
• ID has to be heard or identification should be otherwise confirmed. QSL or recording is not necessary.
• post your full logs on forum (http://bbs.fmdx.tk/index.php?topic=634.0), PirateHuntDX Facebook group or by e-mail piratehunt @ radioaktiiviset.info, during or after the contest (but until May 21st, 2023)
• participating is free for anyone and all participants will receive a diploma later
• results will be published in end of May
• Arguing about the contest rules will automatically result in a disqualification

Pirate Hunt 2023 is organized by a local radio club Sisä-Suomen Radioaktiiviset (Radioactives of Middle Finland)
Like Our Page in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PirateHuntDX

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Radioactives/Radioaktiiviset

Reception of 10 BROADCAST stations from 10 DIFFERENT countries. Excluding: unlicensed, meteorological, DRM or other digital, military, spy, pirate, time etalon, amateur contacts and other technical receptions. It is strictly prohibited to use WEB SDR, internet radio and other remote controlled equipment. The receiver antenna has to be attached to the radio physically and directly. One country can appear in the log only once (Country=where the transmitter can be found).

The enabled frequency range: from 2300 kHz to 30000 kHz.

Full contest rules (in English and Hungarian): http://www.topdx-radioclub.com/top10dx.html