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PI4COM celebrates its 35th anniversary

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In 2025 Contestgroup Oude Maas (COM) celebrates 35 years activity as an official radioclub with the associated callsign PI4COM. Throughout 2025 the special callsign PI35COM will be used several times to celebrate this anniversary. COM is the “official” sequel of 8 years of activity by a group of radio amateurs in the period 1982-1990 where they participated in contests signing PA3ACA (/p), especially… Read More »PI4COM celebrates its 35th anniversary

PACC 2025 at PI4COM

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One of the fixtures on the PI4COM contest calendar is the PACC contest.As a Dutch contestgroup, we think it is important to make ourselves heard during the national contest and the duration of (only) 24 hours also makes it a contest with a low threshold for our members. We continue to find it difficult that the PACC coincides with another… Read More »PACC 2025 at PI4COM

CQWW RTTY 2024

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Our traditional kick-off of the contest season is the CQWWRTTY. Despite that we had a total new setup with new radio’s and computers we had unusual few technical issues. Having a multi radio conteststation on a limited footprint has always been a challenge so we are more and more experienced in solving, or at least reducing, the issues which come… Read More »CQWW RTTY 2024

PI4COM part of PA6HQ 2024

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After a few years of helping out on the hard-to-fill slots, there was again enthusiasm for a serious participation in the PA6HQ event this year. Due to the cancellation of two permanent participants, it worked out well this year and we were allocated 20CW and 40SSB. Putting together a team for a 24 hour contest is generally not such a… Read More »PI4COM part of PA6HQ 2024